Unclutier your Christmas

Dear Editor:

Powas delighted chat the
“big baxes” will not be com
ing te Park Royal.

Vhe last thing we need
down there is more stores. As
ois, We are shopping our
selves to death, burying our
selves in staff.

kverywhere Po go people
seem oto be “digging out”
and vet, as the holidays
approach, the shopping tren
av begins. Mavbe this vear,
before we head out to the
store, we could really: cheek
our lists twice.

Is there some other way of
giving besides buying vet
another new thing?

Here are a few ideas.

Give a service —- perhaps
massage, a haircut, a morning
of house cleaning, several
hours of dog walking.

We cas provide the ser-
Vices Ourselves if we have the
time and the skill or we could

i wilt certificate froma

Prekets fat comers, pha.
Sports CVenE or manic the are
make wonderful watts

Give donations ta a cause
in the name of our thends of
tamily members Choose
organiéations they would tike
to suppert peace er cays
TORPICH ae GhOUpS, shefters,
food banks. animal advocacy
groups, medical research,
churches,

There is no shortage of
worthy causes,

Make Christmas gifts. We
cAN give soups. jams, heme
made crafts (preterably trom
previously used materials),
our OWN poems oF paintings
to name a tow.

Shop at home. We all have
things that are in good shape
but we no fonger use such as
books, CDs, Knick: Knacks,
clothing, jewelry, plants,
tovs, gaines and on and en,

Ask people what they
need or would really like to
have.

One vear J got an iron tor

Chrispmas because Doasked ter
in Now thet was a welcome
gate!

Buy second band. Vhere
are dots of thritt: shops and
comsminment stores wath
ood quality raerehanddise

Gave the gatt ot ourselves
Make oa) vommutment ta
Spend time with friends and
family mavbe a walk cvery
other Saturday morning era
Kame of backsamimon cach
week.

PPowe cut dawn on our
Material possessions we
might find that our lives are
much neher,

The time we spend deal
ing with all ofour stot could
be better spent enjoying the
company of others, reading,
relaxing and) accomplishing
our goals.

bavish voua happy hobday
SC ASOTT.

Mav your tite
and uncluttered.
Pegyy Stortz
West Vancouver

be jovrul

Costly waterfront plan

Dear Editor:

In your Dec. 4+ Inquiring
Reporter feature your re porter
states “the purchase of
Vancouver Port: Corporation
lots along the shoreline could
bring the total cost for the
project to $1.7 million.”

Referring to the cost(s) of

implementing the Waterfront
Task Force recommenda-
tions.

Your reporter should
check her figures; the cost of
purchasing “strategic” water-
front properties (owned by
individuals, not the port) will
be significantly more, add to
this the costs of raking over
the kead leases from the port
corporation and “download-
ing” federal costs on to dis-
trict taxpayers and you have a
potential fiscal disaster.

The district is already fore-

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casting shortfalls over the
next owo years thar will result
in cumulative tay increases of
9.6% and this doesn’t include
any of the projected costs for
the WTF en”

Whenever the
cost is raised we're told that
the WTF is a 50-year plan,
the implication being that the
cost is irrelevant.

The truth is that the costs
ares extremely large with
potentially 70 properties
being targeted for purchase
which would place the costs
at $50 million, These do mat-
ter to taxpayers long term or
not.

Our district finances are
already strained and there are
many other needs in our com-
munity.

The last thing we need isa
grandiose plan with an unde-

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termined pricetag.

Hopetully couneil will
start assessing che true costs
— financial and environmen:
tal — before they approve this
vision.

The only consort that |
can find from your feature is
that 35% of people who said
that they wanted the plan to
vo ahead, based their
response on a totally inaceu-
rate picture of the true costs.

I find her conclusion that
35% approval represents
“most North Shore cesi-
dents” be surprising at
best. | hope that district resi-
dents will take the time to
look at the true costs before
approval of this plan.

Peter Dunsford

Chairman

Panorama Drive Ratepayers
Association

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Not all
men are
murders

From page 7

to ditest the internation
and make recommendations.

To be cttective, that pane
sabe polieian frees it wall
abo be municipal stant and
board stat tree

Ph has te roon: for polit
calor territorial agendas. Its
mandate is fo look atthe
advantages on both sides asa
whole.

Phere will be wins asd
losses tor both: there can't
be wins on all issues for bork
sides,

The idea is to get the
Most wins tor the most par:
ties — so that we might all
just get along a hitdle better

Sunday. Decamber 13. 19

And speaking of vet
dion the recent anane rs,
ice ot the TYSy ;
of D4 women atthe
MEeol Polytechnique in
Montreal deserves sombre
reflection trom all sides of
the gender tence,

But TL. tor ong, retuse to
wear white mbbors or ans
other figs that scream: men
are all viedent creeps at heart,

fastead, Psvow bere te
establish a Goodrellows
bratermtys.

The group will include
the overwhelming majority
of men who are not mays
murderers Or assaulters of
women, Whe are net motes
ters of children, who are ner
deadbeat dads. who are nor
dead weights on society,

fu will include, instead,
the vast majority of men who
are wood husbands and wood
citizens,

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Nurture wloldren
Ape proud tor dy

Wh shorts arg
tellaws im the best sense at
the word and who are regu
havh appalled and disgusted
by deviants tron the parh of
titherhood.

Remeniber the victims ot
the 1Y89 mrissacre, bv all
means; but remember that
such tragedies are the excep
von rather tha the rile and
that men, just dike women,
are committed to families
and avighhourhoods and
SOTO.

Good fellows all

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| CORRECTION NOTICE
in our B11-1 Christmas yer, 6-
piece kitchen too! set on page 3
May not he available in ali stares -
| will be substituted at the store GT
§ Collection: egg poacher set cn page
8 may not be avarlable in ali stores
+ raincnecks will be available at the
store
in our B11-2 Christmas flyer,
Christopher Rand lambswool
sweaters offer on page 74 shouid
have read “Save 30%. Our reg
B $34.99 to $69.99. Sale $24.49 to
$48.99 each,” Expression for Men
Merino woo! swealers offer on
page 75 should have read “Our reg.
$49 99 to $74.99. Sale $34.99 to
$52.49 each.” Fisher-Price lights &
sounds gym on page 83; Lego’
Prima Ride on page 87 will not be
available for this promotion.
Sorry for any inconvenience

this may have caused.

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