6 ~ Wednesday, October 31, 1990 - North Share News CE a | a, ANA) INSIGHTS NEWS VIEWPOINT Trick or treat? sense and good luck to help ensure that the spirit of Halloween remains a treat rather than a tragic trick on the North Shore. I: WILL take equal portions of good The good sense of parents to accompany their young children on their rounds through local neighborhoods; the good sense of parents to check their children’s swag bags for the possibly dangerous tricks concocted by sick minds; and the good sense of parents to keep small children a safe distance from fireworks and away altogether from illegal firecrackers. It will also take the good sense of drivers to keep an especially wary eye out for the thousands of trick or treaters that will be excitedly running from house to house attuned to the magic of the night rather than the dangers of the street. But it will also take the good luck of reasonable weather (to keep youngsters from suffering from their special night of high spirits and haunted houses. And the good luck of good rather than evil spirits filling the Halloween night and helping common sense prevail over stupid- ity. Halloween has always been a_ specia! night to fill the souls of children and adults alike with the therapeutic spirit of fantasy. But it requires the combined awareness of children and adulis to help ensure that fantasy does not become iragedy. LETTER OF THE DAY Port’s environment stand challenged Dear Editor: [ was intrigued to come across the %-page ad paid for by the Vancouver Port Corporation in the Oct. 12 North Shore News beginning, ‘‘Our port is one of Canada’s most precious natural resources.’” I would like to add that there is precious little left of the North Shore’s former natural foreshore. All but five per cent of the estuarine wetlands habitat on the North Shore has been developed for marine harbor facilities by the Vancouver Port Corporation (VPC) and its predecessor the Na- tional Harbours Board. tf Dr. John Jordan, photographed in appropriately Publisher Associate Editor weicome but we cannot envelope .Peter Speck Managing Editor Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Advertising Director Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualitred under Schedule 111, Paragtaph ill of the Excise Tax Act. ss published each Wednesday. Friday and Sunday by Nortn Shore Free Press Ltd and drstrbuted to every door on the North Shore Second Class Mai Registraton Number 3885 Supscnplions North and West Vancouver, $25 per year Maing tates available on request Submissions are accepl responsibilty tor unsolicited maternal including manuscripts and pictures e whicn should be accompanied by 4 stamped. addressed outdoorsy garb against Burrard Inlet, was attempting to reassure the citizens of the North Shore that the VPC is ‘‘environmentally friendty,’’ then where was- the VPC’s commitment to protect the 130 hectares of wetlands and wild reclaimed foreshore known as Maplewood Flats? There was none. The fate of this last surviv- ing remnant of our once natural foreshore and current home to 200 species of birds and 12 mammal species, remains precarious. Although recently redesignated from commercial use to conserva- tion by North Vancouver District Council, after pressure by citizens in the form of a 4,000-plus peti- tion and other tobbving efforts, TNE VOICE OF MONTE AND WEST VANCOUVER SUNOaY + WEDNESDAY > pRIDAY 1139 Lonsdaie Avenue. North Vancouver, B.C V7M 2H4 59,170 (average, Wednesday Friday & Sunday)