6 - Friday, February 26, 1999 -- North Shore News UR flag-fixated American brothers and sisters to the south must be having a jolly good chuckle by now over the story abeut a group of North Vancouver teens whe were pulled over and tick- eted by Vancouver cops for showing a little Canadian pride on Canada Day last year. The patriot driving the car on Robsen Street that day, 17-year-old Jeff Superle, fought his $75 ticket in a Vancouver court Wednesday morn- ing. Judge Zahid Makhdoom gave Superle a suspended sentence, but ordered the teen to write a two- to three-page essay on lawful ways to celebrate Canada Day. The essay is to be handed in by April 30. Love of country took a licking by north shore news VIEWPOINT hibits the tooting of a car horn unless for the purposes of giving a warning. Noise pollution is a real problem on Robson Street. It’s a favoured cruising strip for young people. There’s a double standard at play, however. For example, motorcycles daily get away with the roar of non- conforming or absent mufflers. Cioser to home, cn the North Shore thousands of jubilant Iranians took to the streets last summer when that country’s World Cup soccer squad beat the American team. Much honking and flag waving ensued. Police were tolerant. What fesson have the police and court taught Superle and friends? Are Canadian flags and national pride to be Kept quietly behind closed doors? TOP TEN NAME SUGGESTIONS FoR CANADA'S NEWEST POLITICAL PARTY 10. REFORMER MADNESS 7. REFORMATORIES 8. RETORICS 1 REGRESSIVE CONFORMERS 6. SATAN'S UROL ALLIANCE 5 Look! No MULRONEY! 4. AGAINST JOE'S BETTER TUDGEMENT 3. TAX BREAKS FOR ALL 2. MERGE RIGHT LIBERAL. way of a Vancouver bylaw that pro- masilbox Field would ruin NV’s Sunrise Park ’ Dear Editor; . : Re: Sunrise Park development concerns. Sunrise is an undeveloped park at the foot of Fourth Street where Fourth meets Kennard, beside Revy and Lions Gate Studios. In the October 1997 final draft Inventory of Environmentally Sensitive Areas by consulting engineers Kerr Wood Leidal Associates Ltd., Sunrise Park is listed as a highly sensitive area along with very few other areas that we have within North’ Van City. “High is defined as areas that provide salmon or trout habitat, or support large mammals such as coyotes anc! deer, Or represent unusual or scarce fandscape ivatures or support unique habitat or species assemblages are included ist this category.” Now the city council and mayor aloag with soccer asso- ciations from all over the Lower Mainland are putting their .. weight behind a proposal to put an all-weather soccer field with night lights and no washroom facilities on the zite. .. This is an outrageous propusal at a time when we are strugglirg to save areas like Burns Bog and have an admit- ted shortage of wild habitat like this, especially on the North Shore. : The proposal for a soccer field in a recognized environ- mentally sensitive area is irresponsible. It will adversely affect the habitat. Animals that move - during the night will be threatened by lights and the increased human presence. Without washrooms, human waste will be deposited in waterways, and the habitat will suffer. Development “yes,” but something more compatible with the recognized sensitivity of the area. __Let’s not continue the destruction of our environment; we need it and it needs us. Terry W. Long North Vancouver North Shore Mews, fourtied en 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and quaktied under Schacule 111. Paragraph 111 of the Excise Tay Act. es pubiched each Wednesday, Fraay ate! +