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Dear Editor:
! see the citizens of the princely municipali-
ty of West Vancouver are up in arms again. This
PV are shagging Keg restaurants sb ause

condone the
hborhood
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Vancouver, ar Bun ale or Richmond. or any:

where except he

A lor of the objections doi] down to one
thing, not in my neighborhood! Well, while |
don’t have strong feelings one way or another
for Keg restaurants, [ was never crazy about
their line-up-or-else attitude of the seventicy
anyway. T would weicome a Home Deport. |
don’t particulaity care for traipsing over to
North Vancouver or Vancouver every time |
need a sheet of plywood. And [don't see why

their citizenry should have this convenience
and variety of merchandise in the’* own back
vard, while [have to commute and pollute to
tind the same.

Ditto tor neigh. orhuads pubs. West
Vancouver has absolutely no choice when iz
comes to neighborhood pubs. My gawd, they
hardly exist here. C ‘oming from Ireland, where
pubs were invented, it bewilders me when I

alk through 4a delighttul shopping areca like
and Dundarave, and cannot find 3

; “treslake my thirst. And don’t give
me tne argument mali will be the raina
ton of the neighborhood. Thssige the result if

they were to shut down all the the
same delightful shopping areas in Irclan

Am Ff alone here? Or, as fF suspect. is th
Noisy Minority out-voicing the silent majonty
again
James Purity
West Vancouver

Just desserts won’t be sweet

Dear Editor:

As a stay-at heme Mum 1
suppose T should be delighted
at the prospect of a 350-a-
week payout to bring me in
line with working siums,

But 1 just can’t bring
myself to jump on the latest
special interest bandwagon,

clamoring, for their slice of the
remptin ly sweet government
giveaway pic.

Perhaps because 1 know
that in the end, we'll all be
getting our just desserts and
they certainly won't be sweet.

Lev’s face it, yovernment
has no money of its own to
keep giving, away. It has our

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money, increasingly heavily the couriers who are in the
burdened taxpayers’ money. process of winning a slice of
And this giveaway of our the pie for themselves, in
money has got to stop. order that they mav keep

Rather, why not climinate themselves nourished and
childcare tax breaks altogeth-
er, except for those whose
incomes truly need it?

Leveling the playing ficld
in this way might even
encourage a few more muins
or dads to stay at hume and
do the parenting job thar they
chose in the first place.

their work.
After all, T do consume
quite extraordinary amounts

my chosen job, trying to keep
up with my extraordinarily
busy young boys.

And with the price of cof:

Should my outrageous fee these days I must surely
thinking founder with no sup- qualify for some sort of tax
port, Ido, however, have an relief.
alternative plan... Gillian Konst

T guess PU join forces with North Vancouver

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