- - 6 ~ Sunday, September 24, 1995 ~ North Shore News | 1139 Lonsdale Avenue North Vancouver, B.C. - V7M 2H4 | ; > PETER SPECK = Publishers 7 985-2131 (101) Chris Jobson Operations Manager 518 (6 a Doug Fest : ¢ Comptroller. < Timothy Renshaw . Unda Stowart. ~* Managing Editor 3": Sales & Maskating Directs: “985-21 31 (116) 380-0511 (319) = ‘Petar Kvaratro im Yalerle Steahenson, “" Display Manager.” 5) ‘ Classilfed Manager! , 880-0571 (1 ~ Produetion Manager © a eer 805-2184 (ter “jcc Meth Shore News, founded in 1969 as an 2. independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111, Pasgraph tht of the “*.; Excise Tas Act, Js published cach Wednesday, ’ Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distnbuted to every door on the North Shore, Canada Post Canadian Publications Mail ©. Sales’ Pryduct Agtesment “No, OU872)8.~ © Malls rales available on meus, » Entire contents “," © 1995 North Shore Free Press Ltd. “All rights reserved. THE Figsr Successeut LAND CLAIM fe . ; quotes of tne week ee 2 We do have a serial killer ~and it is called fire.” ~ : Retired Vancouver Fire., = Department chief Don Pamplin, ° advocating the mandatory installa- .tion of sprinklers in North: ‘Vancouver City buildings. (From a 7 Sept. 20 News story.) , * wWhen you think about a war you think about tanks and that the (civilian) people need food, you don’t think about diapers.” | Jane Kwon, co-owner of North . Nancouver’s Diapers Naturally Cotton Diaper Service, on donting 6,000 diapers to war-torn Bosnia. “(From a Sept. 22 News story.) “You have just allocated “$100,000 to a lawn bowling club -;; e building that I have never been near.” a . mailbex. Pam Teenager Christie Cave, a mem-" ber of West Vancouver's youth —~ advisory committee, during debate over the allocation ‘of municipal funding, demanding to know the fate of a proposed Ambleside - skateboard park. (From a Sept. 20 News story) * “We are ‘not saying, MPs should ‘not get a pension, but what we are saying is that this “plan was too generous and smacks of hypocrisy. The rest of: Canadians ‘are suffering econom- , ically. and these MPs feel they 4 should get a better pension than’ * ordinary Canadians.” -' West Vancouver-Howe Sound -- MP Herb Grubel, on the decision’ by Reform MPs to opt out of: ) Parliament's pension plan. (From a. _ Sept 13 News story.) ‘North: Shore needs an LRT link. Dear Editor: 0 A Investment in én LRT extension to the North Shore would free up huge ‘sums, now/.used to cover-automobile subsidies, which, accarding to the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD), amount to R 400 per year ~ per car, 2! The ‘total ‘cost to accominodate the automobile in the :region, again’ , 4 ‘according to the GVRD, translates into nearly $10,000 per year for-every man, woman‘and child. Thut i is not counting the cost to public health as a. result of poisoning of the air, the water and the eco-system, not to mention: the strain and stress fictor plus cost to our livability. ‘Clearly, when we add’ up the true cost of a transportation system based on single occupant vehicles (SOV) the viability of public transportation, including LRT to the North Shore, takes on a totally different dimension. Ernie Crist, councillor’ * District of North Vancouver. GS 4 viewpoint He” SPECIAL commissioner’s s n ( TSEC YES PL TRE OM i EPA ECE ES PPacieenaromeroscota mente IN POLITICS a week can he eternity — or as short as a single hour. So will Mike Harcourt drop the election writ this month after all? As late as Jast Sunday. the | chances of the embattled NDP going to the voters before next, spring still seemed close to zero. Not that the premier — busily handing out transit and blacktop goodies — was failing to prepare for any eventuality. But the odds’ of winning a fall election contin- ued to look bleak.‘ Anger in the boondocks over,’ “NDP land-use policies had fuelled - talk of the party even losing all its 17 Interior seats, Broken election promises (‘ne special favors for political friends ... won't spend money we don’t have”) littered the government's four-year record. NDP “restraint” had seen’ taxes boosted by $1.5 billion. The stench of the Nanaimo Commonwealth fuind-abuse crook-’ ery refused to go away. Nor. would the scandals of Washington - spin doctor Karl Struble or dis- graced ministers Robin Blencoe and Moe Sihota.. Worst of all,:the Indian land » claims process, a centrepiece of: NDP policy, was in tatters —~ ° roadblock confrontatisns mush- . rooming, the landmark Nisga’a. .. treaty talks stalled and serious . Ve (CBRL) had at one point in the process loss of life looming’ ata standoff with armed rebel natives 1 near 100 Mile House.” - Are the ‘gods smiling at ‘last on Mikey and his gang? And if so, is’ “their smile for eternity. = or just for a single hour? ‘ JOIN BOWEN historians Lois’. , Meyers-Carter and Dorothy Lawson for an evening of talk, and video on the isiand’s history ‘Thursday, Sept, 28, at the.7 p.m. West Van Historical Society meeting in Cedardale Centre ... And happy birthday today, Sept. 24, to West Van's Peter Wardell. WRIGHT OR WRONG: It we saw ourselves as others sec us,” we'd never forgive them. nt park: to be managed by B.C. ‘Lands report on Cypress Park and ski: facility ‘released’ Wednesday. and -approved by. the B.C.- ‘government is a generally welcomed and judicious piece = of work. B Bryan’ Williams manages a tricky bal- “ance between commercial interests and | ~ thése: who. value the’ stupendous old-: be _ growth natural environment: to enjoyed at Cypress provincial park. : The report recommends preferred _ options for -cabinet and provides the basis fora realistic park and ski ill ‘master plan. ‘Cypress _ Bowl Recreations “Lia. sought expanded boundaries mong its wish list of possible outcomes. ‘Williams recommended that CBRL be allowed to upgrade within existing boundaries. . Expansion to the southwest slopes of Hollyburn Mountain. and the, south — slope of Black Mountain was hot sup- ported. - A genuinely bizarre proposal, a request, for, nordic biathlon shooting ranges, was shot down. |.° B.C. Parks and.CBRUL have been loggerheads for years. CBRL would like - its controlled recreation area within the ‘at. Williams said the move. would “com- pletely gut” Cypress park. Again, a good call. The park i is the most visi cial park in B.C. About LF 2 million visi-: tors take in Cypress annually, It must be protected. There’s one sour note to be heard: it séems the! government/has bought free’ public access through the ski:area by picking up a $2-million tab. for sewer and water infrastructure. User fees will : recover this. °° : 8 But. why subsidize a | private, prise in such a manner? tah ed provin-