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orbid all backyard burning

Dear Editor:

Your April 14° edition
carried a letter from a Mr.
A. Hutchinson concerning
burning in residential areas.
He referred to an earlier
letter by a_ resident who
appeared at City council
claiming that smoke from
the burning caused
breathing difficulties for

some people, and _ he
described this as “a lot of
nonsense”.

It is too bad that there are
unthinking, uncaring people
like Mr. Hutchison around.
He is no doubt one of the
many inconsiderate
residents of the North Shore
who think it is their God
given right to start a smudge

Stoker Farm
ideal RV park

Dear Editor:

Stoker Farm is truly one of
the most beautiful pieces of
property in North Van-
couver, and it saddens me,
and I am sure, many other
citizens of the North Shore,
to see it becoming neglected
and overlooked in the
overall plan for this area.

My husband and I have
travelled many miles in our
camper van and enjoyed
staying in so many RV parks
thru’out North America. A
lot of them were right in the
residential part of the city we
were visiting, and were run
efficiently and with no
disturbance to the
surrounding homes.

WHY couldn't it be the
answer to the Stoker
property? Just think of the
drawing card it would be for
the North Shore. The only
one now is so packed ALL
year, how many do they

have to turn away? Water
and electricity are already
there, portable bathrooms
could be put in place, and it
would give much needed
work to people to put in the
individual services and flat
surfaces needed to level the
RVs. The barns and out-
buildings would be able to
stay, for the return of horses,
and the big house could
make a great restaurant and
craft building, with lounge
and tourist info. This type of
operation ts needed very
badly in the Lower
Mainland: it’s shameful that
we don't provide it. I do
wonder if the hotel and
motel operators are keeping
it out. So Mr. Frank Mormis
at City Hall, what about it?
Why not and when can we
begin?

Mrs. B.R. Smith
North Vancouver

NEWS is not ‘silly’

Dear Editor

1] take exception to
Trustee Kihag’s remark of
April 4 suggesting that the
North Shore News 1s being
suily about North Vancouver
education

Perhaps Mr Kihan might
be interested in a few facts
himself | would hardly call
teachers aides expenditures
of one and a half milhon

dollars per pear. or crossing
An

guards sal s and benefits.

cg dental. totalling

$137 610 per year (this job

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done entirely by students in

Vancouver City). or
resource centre (hbrary)
costs of $325,300 per year
silly!

1 think these kinds) of

expenditures are senous and
should be examined re
expense and necessity!

Hats off the the North
Shore News and to Mr Noecl
Wright) for their fair

coverage — of
school affairs
Mrs Lb. P Dawson
North Vancouver

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4837 Lonsdale,

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in their backyard whenever
they have a few grass or
garden clippings to get nd
of. Never mind that that
smudge fills his neighbours’
homes for a quarter of a mile
down wind with smoke.
Don't be concerned with the
fact that people with
allergies or asthma in fact
have breathing difficulties,
to the point where some
people are forced to take
oxygen and move out of
their homes for hours unul
the smoke passes. Don’t be
bothered by the fact that for
some people, even a few
whiffs of smoke leave their
nostrils and sinuses plugged
for hours.

It is unfortunate that there
are people who are severely
affected by smoke, whether
it comes from Mr. Hut-

chison's backyard smudge or
from the cigar at the next
table in a restaurant. Their
problems are worse than
average. Even those people
physically

who aren't

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bothered by the smoke have
the right to enjoy their
backyards, patios and
balconies on a Sunday af-
ternoon without having to
put up with a column of
smoke simply because Mr.
Hutchison and other people
like him don’t want to be
bothered with mulching
their garden debnis.
Hutchison is correct when
he refers to pollution from
all sources being’a problem
in society; he is dead wrong

when he downplays the
effect of backyard burning,
both from its. overall

negative effect on the air
quality in the city and its
particular effect on those
people directly in line with
it. It’s time that the North
Shore municipalities woke
up and in the interests of
everyone passed a total
prohibition against backyard
burning.

Stephen A. Hynes
West Vancouver

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