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Curb vested interests
on school board

Dear Editor:

I wish to respond to
School Trustee Burbidge's
letter of December 3, 1980
which expressed his impres-
sions of the November 19
Education Forum at
Brooksbank School.

I wish to strongly disagree
with his interpretation of the
briefs presented. I did not
hear one speaker who was
not courteous. Perhaps Mr.
Burbidge confuses criticism
with courtesy and abuse. As
the one referred to in his let-
ter as “one of the ore
vociferous speakers”, thight
1 ask, was I as a citizen not
asked to voice my concems?
Was I not courteous? Or

Concrete

Dear Editor:

1 am led to believe that
Mr. D. Lanskail is a firm
supporter of the developers,
who would turn West Van
into another West End. so !
am addressing this letter to
Aldermen Finlay and Hicks
in the hope that they will not
turn our lvely municipality
into a thighnse concrete
jungle.

It seems wicked that, on a
technicality, at a council
meeting where all the
members were not present, a
re-zoning by-law designed to
save our village from greed
gone rampant, was tured
down

The present council was
voted into office on the
presumption that it sup-
ported the endeavour of
kee ping our lovahty from the
further depredatioas of
developers of — highrise
buildings They are. on the
whole. dedicated to making
vast sums of moncy. and
they are backed, in| most

cases, by vast sums of

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more to the point, did the
criticism hit so close that
Mr. Burbidge has lost his ob-
jectivity?

I should admit to being
somewhat indignant as my
brief covered such subjects
as the District's refusal to
conform to the Public
Schools Act on pupil report
cards. This subject was
brought to our School Board
under the chairmanship of
Mr. Burbidge and Mrs.
Lynes. I have asked the
Mintster to “unplement a
process of appeal or conflict
of interest legislahon” that
would guarantee “a _ fair
heanng to our complaints
and concerns’ and

guarantee that “vested in-
terest groups cannot control
our School Board, our
children’s minds, and our tax
dollars.”

} must add, that I too was
impressed by the
Honorable Mr. Bnan
Smith. His questions concer-
mng my brief left many m at-
fendance with the impres-
sion that we might expect
greater enforcement of the
Public Schools Act and
significant changes in the use
of psychoanalysis im _ the
classroom.

Don Ingram
North Vancouver

forest in West Van

money, which makes
fighting them a difficult
business, but council has the
power to stop them. Do not
let the majority of people.
who love them community,
down.

If council is responsible
for turning the West Van
area into a forest of concrete
highrises. we will all face
higher taxes to take care of
much increased police
potection for msing crime (as
in the West End of Van-
couver) and for other

necessary amenities, and we
will have to struggle with
scarcer or non-existent park-
ing, not to mention trying to

year long

messy bags

See HOKY at

Make someone's life easier
The amasing HOKY
picks up yust about any hind of
litter from any kind of floor, quick
and easy No cords, hoses. of
HOKY just whisks
everyday messes away

get on to a bridge, which, at
rush hours, now § carnes
more than its theoretical
capacity.

As for the sellers of pro-
perty in the West Van area.
can any of them possibly lose
money today, with prices go
ing to ever more
astronomical heights each
month?

Iam wnting this, not only
for myself, but for a number
of lke minded people.

Please consider our views.

Margaret Turner
West Vancouver

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