The Korth Shore News is published by Mozth: Shore Free Press Ltd., Publisher Peter Spec, from 1139 Lonsdale Avenue Horth Vancouver, B.C., 7B 214 PETER SPECK -_-. Publisher 985-2131 (101) Prete barenen ci a gan Le Pees tater at Wc rs awe, fal I? mage sands dearibused to every dour on the North Shore, Canada Pret Canadien Pubbastions tail Sales Product Agreement No. CORTE Mating rites code on rmuest mailbox : ‘your ‘kind words of July 2 INFANT = cattLp TEENAGER ‘quotes of the “[ think all the families should be notified before they can’ get: ‘: permission to be in‘the cemetery. .. Isn’t it a sacred piace?” * Marc Harris doesn’t want to be - ~hassled by TV industry activity when he goes to visit his parents’ graves a the North Vancouver Cemetery. : rms an “Aug. 4 News story.) a “That area is s particularly treach- “erous as it funnels into several nar- row waterfalls and sheer cliffs. Any - missteps would have Ied to an “unhappy. outcome.” -Lions:“Bay - “Search cand Rescue spokeiman Owen Jones on the search ‘for three hikers recently lost iy dark- ‘ness while hiking in the Lions area. _ (From an Aug. 9 News story.) Dee Bditor: é é y way of accuracy regarding p ‘(Our ‘own: Deep in the Cove), it:would be better if your article suggested that I was but onc ainong a commit- ted group who took leadership in the community battle to save the - East Seymour greenbelt. 1 was hon- ored to work among scores of local citizens who shouldered the burden ST as sure as a proton is.attracted to an electron, we humans persist | gro ADULT Senmiag week tm eran Nag nanaeme NLt , “We would rather not receive any money. and have people slow down.” Motor’ Vehicle Branch spokesman Betty Nicholson com- menting Prior to the provincial gov- ernment’s controversial anti- -speed- ing program starting up just in time for a recent busy long weekend. (From a ade 31 News story.) The ae of the large stores, which have been in B.C: for about 11 years, is wearing off for con- sumers and the market is saturated, according. to _ Retail Merchants® Association of B.C. president Mark ‘Startup. Margins are thinner. and’ is slowing and big box retail- , ers are now fighting with each other . ' for market share. (From an Aug. 4 News Story.) estes tin tn inne Group effort applauded together, among whom none: labored more mightily than: Lisa Muri. Also, abour the sale: of ‘district land, it is my conviction that such sales have had limited local benefit, “not the complete lack of, which might have been incorrectly | per- ceived by your readers. Trevor Carolan North Vancouver -lion years ago. NOW it’s official — the announcement from Victoria the other week that any early action on the Third Crossing is on hold due to budget blues. So much for four NDP years of studying umpteen proposals to death and repeated promises of a final deci- sion within three or four months. But : this time is at least different. Now there’s no promise at al The commissars on the Island must have slapped their thighs’ as the chortled: “Let’s teach those North Shore snobs t doesn’t pay to four Liberal MLAs — let’s give ‘em permanent gridlock day and ii ‘til they learn how to vote properly!” It never scems to enter the commissars’ ointy ‘Titele heads thar th bite the'denizens of.No hs the Sap tracks. Half the new island would be be reserved as parkla developers to raise: the more than $1. billion:cost,o 1 The project would carry part of i its traffic directly nto: West:G — by-passing the Stanley Park causeway ~~. but'a:furth the downtown core, would carry other. bridges, thus relieving. much congestion in the downtown self, You’d think a,cash-scrapped government would jump ch: a: pai less solution to.2 major problem. But to Premier Clark and, his‘ Ma: xi socialist. buddies private enterprise on. ‘this'scale-is seen:a the, ‘of; the devil, as well as robbing the commissars of ¢! lime! The 20 of so readers replying to our July 2.1L invitation for: being coordinated by North Van's Ken Moir o} 0. were high on the Bentzen plan as the ideal ‘ans applause to swell to a deafening roar before Victoria will get off. its bu Wrife Ken c/o myself at the North Shore News (fax: 85-2104): unless, of course, you never battle the bridges and couldn’ gi damn! vie . ee ee "PETER MACDONALD is resigning ‘as. 7 der of th , Conservative Party. Since 1991 he's breathed new life into it wi “forums and his nationally acclaimed TAXCAP’ concept: for’ He'll be missed, too, as one of those rarest of birds 4 | gentleman: ‘ cian, is your expression. — The North Shore. News believes 5 strongly in freedom of 5 right of all sides in a debate to be heard, The columnists published inthe; lems present differing points of view, but those views are ot nee those oft the newspaper seself. ; collided with an asteroid ‘about 16 mil-"” ‘with the notion of life existing out there beyond the spherical boundary ’ of mother-ship Earth. . The soft skeptics amioiig us may hold ‘that the universe is so vast, the possibili- ty of any life form ever coming to visit us is precluded. And yet there was a hint of ‘just that very event having happened about 13,060 years 'ago when a .potato-sized meteorite crashed down in icy Antarctica, Scientists. surmise the chunk. was chipped off from Mars when that Planet Pe a TALS VITRO RY OVE Wwe earn ere Tereiarery Sutee pret ate This space rock has been found to con- tain PAH chemicals, iron compounds and carbonate rock, stuff made by living things on Earth. ; Add water to the mix — erosion, pat- .. ‘terns on the red planet point to a past - presence of the life-sustaining substance ~— and you have a pretty decent packet of circumstantial evidence for life on Mars. at some point in time. As is the case with all scientific i investi- gation pushing at the edges of inquiry, the path of exploration quite quickly fier Wate en oe ee resented: in its most ot simple of: single-celled bacteria. :' Life is tenuous. ‘Life is ‘persistent. Parallel evolutionary teps eche the universe. : _ It’s starting to look.