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Dear Editor:

During the open meeting
of the West Vancouver
council on Monday, Sep-
tember 29, the practical
requirements of local
boaters and the critica! need
for emergency services were
well and broadly stated.

But there is. another
reason to oppose rezoning
and that reason should

concem every homeowner
in West Vancouver. This
rezoning will undoubtedly be
the first of a continuing
trend to pack in more people
as the developer dollar
chases the highest return.

If we are short-sighted and

allow this to occur, if we
tolerate the rezoning at
Fisherman’s Cove, further

upward pressure on property

New ferry run

Dear Editor:

Another chapter in the
checkered life of the B.C.
Ferries motorship: “Queen
of Prince Rupert” is about to
be written. It will deal witha
new ferry run between
Prince Rupert and Skidegate
on the Queen Charlotte
Islands. Not only will this be
a highly subsidized operation
but it is doubtful whether
many Queen Charlotte
Islanders want this kind of
service anyway.

Known as the
Princess”, the “Queen of
Prince Rupert” recently lost
$2 million on the Seattle-
Victoria run. It could lose
upwards of $4 million next
vear serving the Queen
Charlottes. Why? Because

“Victoria

most Queen
Islanders want
Vancouver,
Rupert.

Also, because Hecate
Strait is such a rough body of
water that cars and trucks
(not people) should be
transported to the Mainland
by covered barge, much as
they are now.

The “Queen of Prince
Rupert” can carry 400
passengers and 80 cars and
trucks. It wul need a crew
complement of 50. Tl be
surpnsed if it carries more
than 5O passengers on its
average tnp and more than
30 cars and trucks on a
typical voyage’

A much
arrangement

Chariotte
to go to
not Prince

better
would be to

values is, in time, going to
force the single family
homeowner out of existence.

Profitability often serves
as a valuable indicator in the
decision making process but
I contend that we should

not accept that as the
determiner of residential
zoning.

We should recognize that
there are sensible limits to

supplement the present $1
million a year barge service
between Prince Ruupert and
Masset with air fares for
people. Each Queen
Charlotte Islands” resident
could be given one return jet
fare to Vancouver each year
for example. Most of them
will fly out anyway and the
annual savings on salaries,
fuel, maintenance etc. on
the “Queen of Prince
Rupert” would = still be
substantial.

The die, unfortunately,
may have been cast. A new
$4.5 million dock has been
built at Skidegate and the
recruiting of a “live aboard”
crew for the “Queen of
Prince Rupert” is under way.
This may be what the

a threat to all homeowners

growth and that we don't
have to accept a destructive
process of promotion which
reduces everything to the
dollar denominator.

If you share my concern,
please take the time to
advise our council of your
objections.

Ken Powers
West Vancouver

questioned

Directors of the B.C. Ferries
Corporation have in mind.
But do Charlotte Islanders
really want to travel on the
“Queen of Prince Rupert’?
And what about the tax-
payers of B.C.? They will be
losing between $2 and $3
millon a year in the process.

Perhaps we should look on
this

venture as an ex-
periment. Hopefully the
B.C. Ferries Corporation

will change its mind if the
numbers are as bad as I
suggest. This was done in the
case of the Seattle run and it
may be necessary in the case
of the new Queen Charlotte
Islands ferry service also.

Jack Davis, M.L.A.
North Vancouver-Seymour

‘There’s an H-bomb i in our block’

Dear Editor
1 noted with amusement

‘') im a recent paper that
Alderman Ball has asked
neighbours of the Hooker

Chemical Plant to report any

irmtating” odours. Please
imagine Alderman Ball
receiving the following
letter

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Maplewood area Well. my
neighbour was so irritated by
the odour of chlorine that he
has collapsed on his
has
breathe for twenty minutes
Now thats
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Live and let live

Dear Editor:

A letter written by
Michael Down recently was
an excellent) one which
spoke for so many of us who
beheve in, live and let hve.
The nose of the mechanical
age has depnved = many
people of nature's natural
sounds, and many are losing
touch with creation

It is reported that crows
are victou. birds which peck
eyes out of smaller ones .
these people appear to
overlook the fact that
humans cat their former
helper, the horse, and hunt
for fun

Tolerance is what this
pampered age lacks very
much.

Gaile V Campbell
West Vancouver

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