Viore tips to cut
your residential
sarbage output

Dear Editor:

“3 Re: “Garbage rules are trash,
North Shore News Jan, 7,

Here are a few suggestions to

“

help Trevor Lautens salve his

garbage problems.

. Believe it or not. a family of six
can comfortably reduce ‘its garbage
output 40 one paper bag per week:

“Use the blue box/big program
for recyclabies faithfully and to the
: maximum.

Return beverage containers for

leet a

Compost: kitchen waste. This
will reduce your garbage by a
whopping third,

- Avoid all disposables und avoid
purchasing ilems that use EXccss
; Packaging,

ee Take ‘our Own bags on all shop-
: ping trips; ‘include small produce
- bags for vegetables, etc.

Get together with your neigh-

‘bors to share taking your mixed |

yaper to.the Vancouver Aquatic

Centre (rarking lot) on Beach.

"Avenue."

ye passed a: "white e Jeep vehicle :

arked RCMP s&s bs
ane “Glad [ wasn"t

vehicle- pull in behind me, with its’

circus lights. flashing frantically.
Vive: lived on Barking Dog
years, built my.own

pavehologist radio broadcaster. we AL.

3 Be my not a speeder, not a ‘criminal

fhen’ the ‘gendarme came to my
said it was Stupid to give

POSTERS
FRA

ed at the depot an Riverside Drive
and Spicer in North Vancouver.

Dairyland containers can be
deposited for recycling in the bins
outside Capers at 2496 Marine Dr..
West Vancouver.

Compost yard waste in your
own yard or take it to the North
Vancouver Transfer Station for

* composting. Remember to reduce,

Teus¢, and repair. And, presto — no
garbage! Well, almost.

By the way, you can take your
polystyrene block foam packaging
to Bean Bags International at 1845
Columbia in North Vancouver. Be
sure 10 phone first for directions:

‘985-3675. Foam packing peanuts

can.be taken to Packaging: Depot at
5525 Cambie St... Vancouver
(phone 325-9966), For more infor-
mation about reducing household
waste, contact the West Vancouver
Environment House, 926- 5079.
Good luck.

Karen Patrick, director
Worldwide Home
E nvironmentalists’ Network

patie raise driver’s dan

someone a speeding ticket for doing
:, 60 km/h on the open road.

os” There are no houses where f.was
° stopped. It is4% miles from the
"Bowen ferry to where I live.

>When
returned with the ticket, he accused

me of calling him stupid. Which

suggests, perhaps, the study-of

: -word meanings is indicated. . :

Sixty kilometres is 37% mph.

_ Apparently one is really expected to
‘travel only 25 mph aay here on’

Barking Dog Island.
‘It took me six years to realize
that. 1 wonder what that indicates.
I'm retired. The fine is $100.

Nobody likes to throw money away.

like that.
I hear there is also a three-point

loss as well. Thai means an inercase

NE D on OOF Upto 24580

922-5914

the .new policeman.

For Meavers sake,
Just tell me how

hig , the new

to.

pro operty assessmen’ {Ss

in ICBC premiums, 7 think. That’s |
a ‘heavier tap than some muggers
get. Or'even rapists. ;
They can‘t even catch break- .
and-enter criminals here. Do we

have dope pushers?

i think the speed limit is wrong,
three miles from the Village. If you
want evidence, just drive the seven .
or cight kifometres as hundreds do
every day each way, and try to
drive it at 25 mph. Which is 40
km/h. You would start.a long cara-
van.

Personally. 1 pull over every
chance I get ... usually while dri-
ving an illegitimate 45 or 50, and
invariably the following vehicic
charges by me doing 60, 70, 80 or
better. ,

“Pf haven't seen a speed trap on

er

my road since that twilight surprise.
There are as many laws being ;
broken as there are-laws. Some
really heinous and, disgusting
crimes are commitied every day. ~

» Thirty seven and a half miles per, o

hour, outside residential areas,

not one of them: :
Sitting in heated vehicles, hiding

with a radar gun, is unworthy of an

RCMP constable. Trying to catch

someone driving no faster than Ben .

Johnson ina sprint.

- To enforce 25 mph anywhere on.

this island is to bring disrespect for
the integrity of skilled people
whose motto is “To Serve and
Protect.”

Sometimes the law is a jackass.
Robert Jordan
Bowen Istand

| News columnists valued

Dear Editor:

As a visitor. [| would like you to
know how much. } enjoy reading
your paper.

North Shore News columnists
tike Doug Collins and Noel Wright
particularly appeal to my sense of
humor and way of thinking. ;

l used to be a fan of CKNW’s
Rafe Mair. but lately have been
turned off by some of his views and

KEN BAXTER

LAWYER
24 Yeors
Experience

his attacks on Doug Coilins.

The late B.C. premier W.A.C.
Bennett always said, “Nobody ever
shoots at a dead duck.”

Doug should be flattered by

these words of wisdom,

Florence Wilson
Victoria

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NORTH VANCOUVER

988-6321

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Stand

against
developer’
, applauded ©

‘Dear Editor: ©

‘Thave just‘read in your.
newspaper the article about a |
$45 million Whistler mega.
project. [ am amazed to see.
that there isa mayor and
council in B.C. who stood up
to the Larco group. me

T have been disappoitited
with the fence-sitting attitude
of West Vancouver Council,
in particular when the five-
acre parcel of trees:next.to =
the Park Royal bowling alley ,
was cleared, I have talked to .
friends .who own property ‘in -
Whistler and their awareness
of Mayor Nebbeling’s deal-
ing with Larco created a ..

‘strong feeling of community

pride because he - stood
against the pressures by
Larco to develop in Whistler
on their terms, rather than
develop to Whistler stan-:
dards. When will North =
Shore mayors do the same?
'S. Ferguson

North Vancouver

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