1981 - North Shore News

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headline — POPE:SHOT 3: TIMES — I- had ab- have.to be human to be part
solutely no emotional reaction at: all. Lo of this family. Lassie’s death

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. didn't it? And how about
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of myself... “
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‘them, we have ae and already you forget the
rit ‘all. them on CTY. | we., “Rave -name of.the man whom he
: "replaced, heart bene
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= young men “visitors - ‘like “(Council has resommended
.. honey attracts- flies,” claims “that. a aenmilies. ad-
“well. as the. mayhem owe letter. :

at a woman’ ¥ ‘was nog Prospect of ovine mer Speviees Res te, Mini ‘meet
red, and. _a: go back. into business. The regularly -to’ assess - the
house... ‘family's bei sold toa. _ Situation, she: said...

_ The. home ‘is. beinig con-
dered

‘if rot in
Lit won’ tbe

“must try, “WPS: Mimipossible to expect
i to service. our own children’ -everything’to run smoothly.

<ontintious_ “in our own community,” she But, the home will be wat-
said in an interview.

“The ‘home,’ “it. maintains, The proposed | ‘receiving’
was 4. “breeding ground’ for “and assessment. centre for.
trouble. © * " teenage. children: will be the.~

‘There were fr way - only: one of its” kind’on the *
drinking parties and’‘niude North Shore.

sun bathing by both inmates ee
and visitors. - for’ a maximum of three. .
Police, ambulance and months, professionals will be. '

fire trucks visited 1491 able to work: with the
Ottawa Avenue-“an unusual children and their families to
number of times”. hopefully return them to —
‘Several attem suicides" their homes.

are said to'‘have taken place “That's what I'm in-_
and one inmate, a young terested in — getting them
girl, “reportedly committed back with their families,”

suicide in ‘the Ridgeview said Hutchinson.

School playground.” And the home will be

Public hearing held

A public hearing was held Shore that are being rezoned
Monday on a proposal to ofotheruses. - ---
build three stores on the old
gas station site at 2075
Dollarton Highway.

Despite concerns about
how the development fits
into the Maplewood plan
currently being prepared, .
North Vancouver District
council voted to return the
rezoning bylaw to council
next week.. :

The project is the latest
of a number of gas station
sites throughout the North

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or decades, it is possible
nowadays for some human
beings to be - known by
millions, even billions of
other people.

And during that time of
being known, they became
aunts and uncles, fathers,
mothers, brothers, sisters,
cousins, in-laws to the rest of
us.

When one of them. is hurt
or felled, it hurts us all. It
doesn’t matter, after all,
whether you loved Uncle Hé
or hated him, you had an
emotional reaction to hini.
Well, the trouble with hav-

ing this global “family” out
there is that a lot of them
folks wind up suffering, and
you find yourself vicariously
sharing that suffering. ~

When they got shot, and
they lie there: writhing in
pain, your. mind writhes in
pain along with them.

Call it sympathy pain.

Whatever, it’s quite
powerful. And lately, it
“seems to me, I've been feel-

ched very closely, assured
Hutchinson.

Also, it will be run by the
North Shore Family Services
Society, she said. “The last
time I understand it was just
one person. This time the
running of (it) will be ac-
to a private

society.”

There will be 24 hour
staffing and supervision.

Hutchinson is waiting fora

- staff réport to verify the

- incidents mentioned in the

letter to council. Two such
incidents did not occur at

the foster home, and it is |

“unfortunate that that street

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ing an awful lot of sympathy

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,

pains. Hasn't ‘there been .

more collective grief in the’
air than usual?

see

I still haven't gotten ove!
John Lennon’s death. Or
really, over the attack on
Reagan. Or his heroic .

respomse.

So when I picked up. the
paper and saw the heading
about the Pope, and. felt
nothing, I was,. in
way, proud of myself. -

At least I was learning to

“It took an hour for
shell, to crack. We we
eating supper. My wif
looked up and said, in shoc!

You're crying!”
It was. truc.

Sure, I should learn tot

these remote media figures
gets hit - it’s going to happen.
again and again and again .
and again.
Learn to shrug it off.
Learn to be emotionless...

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_ problems,” shesaid. = ©
(The letter refers to a

drinking party at 1464 Ot-
tawa that became a “full

. mentioned was a _ woman

doorstep.)
The conflict is that while
citizens have the right to live.

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