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THE CROWD of concerned passers-by, gathered around
the injured cyclist, heaved a collective sigh of relief when
one of the ambulance attendants at the scene joyousiy
cried out: “It’s all right, folks, he’s wearing clean

anderwear!!!”’

March, 1990
Dear Betty:

Hi Betts! Bob and I — you
remember, the real rad mover
with the dimple in his chin; we
met at Sally’s New Year’s Eve
tumble, where you got stinko on
Sal’s homemade grape and threw
up on the cheese tray — well, Bob
asks me during our dinner out
what I think about Meech Lake,
and I says, all sweet and nice, that
Pd never ben there, but if he’d
like to go there this summer, it’s
okay with me.

Well, Bob started to laugh, and
when I asked him why, he laughed
even louder, I felt really angry
and stupid then, like when Sally
told me why you were all laughing
at my colored balloon (I didn’t
know they made those ‘‘things”’ in
colors!!!).

But | shut up and said nothing
so he wouldn’t think I was a
dork. Anyhow, I heard Bob say
something to this bad waiter (he
was the baddest!) about the
Meech Lake Chords, so I got to
thinking maybe this was a new rap
group, aad since I know you're
wired up on all that, you could
tell me. So, how's about it?

Love yah forever,

Shirl.

April, 1990
Dear Beity:

Hi Betts! So, howsit going,
kiddo? Everythings five and 10
with me. I wrote to Twila — you
know she’s not only fab pretty but
rad smart too; Twila knows
everything! — and told her how
you weren’: clued in to this new
rap group, the Meech Lake
Chords. Well, Twila papers me

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right back how it’s the Meech
Lake Accord, and sone dumb po-
litical thing about old senators
and yucky stuff like that.
YECCH! BOR-R-RING!!
FORGET IT!!! So, Betts, let me
tell you about my new main man,

Love yah forever,
Shirl.

May, 199)

Dear Mother:

Hi. Sorry for not writing
sooner, or more often since I
moved here. But I’ve been busy.
I’m also upset. ] had lunch with a
couple of friends from work, and
they were telling me how this
Meech Lake Accord thing attacks
women, and maybe threatens to
take away our rights, and stuff
like that.

Well, anyway, that made me
really angry. We women have all
got to stick together on this,
Mother. A group of us are getting
this petition together, so I was
wondering if you would

Your loving daughter,

Shirley.

June, 1990
Dear Daddy:

1 hope there are no stains on
this paper, as I have been crying
while I write. Daddy, I’m scared.
Really scared.

The Prime Minister says
Canada is going to die if we don’t
pass the Meech Lake Accord.

The newspapers and the TV all
say the same thing, that his coun-
try is going to blow up and fall
apart, so it must be true, or they
wouldn’t say and print those
awful things, would they?

Daddy, I don’t want Canada to
die. Daddy, you’re a lawyer. You

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party last year, so couldn't you
write to him or something. Please,
Daddy? Please?

Your ever loving (but scared
and sad) daughter,

Shirleykins.

July, 1990
Dear Betty:

Hi Betts! Howsit going, kiddo?
Everything’s just great with me.
Yes, it’s true. Bob and I are one
again. That Darren dork was a
creep. Never date a waiter.
They’re ail gimps!

Anyway, Betts, let me paper
you the latest. Bob and I were
eye-balling the boob the other
night and they showed pictures of
this Meech Lake place. Wow! You
wouldn’t believe how pretty it
looks. So guess what? Bob and I
are going to take a summer fall
there afterall. So how about that,
eh?!

Love yah forever,

Shirl.

DEAR READERS:

If I could guarantee each and
every one of you that for only one
dollar each you would never, ever
again in your entire lifetimes have
to hear the words, ‘‘Meech
Lake,”’ I just bet I could retire a
wealthy man, find me a great
woman like Pamela Martin (with
that captivating smile and even
greater laugh), and live happily
forever after under the tropical
sun in the South Islands some-
where. Oh, well. It’s the thought
that counts, right? Right!!

9 ~ Wednesday, June 27, 1990 - North Shore News

Parents call for
a high school on
Caulfeild Piateau

CAULFEILD PLATEAU should
be the site of a new secondary
school, several parents told the
West Vancouver School District
45 fuard at a recent public
meeting.

By PATRICK RAYNARD
Contributing Writer

Trustees plan to address the
Caulfeild issue and other issues in
school superintendent Doug
Piayer’s Facilities for the Future
report in a vote next Sept. 25,
having held three weil-attended
public meetings this spring and
received numerous letters from
parent groups on the report.

But the June 18 board meeting
was dominated by the issue of a
new secondary school on a !3-acre
site District 45 owns across the
street from the Cauifeild Village
shopping centre.

Jill Mingay, in a lengthy pres-
entation, said that 90 per cent of
her Caulfeild Parents’ Group want
to see a secondary school on the
site, along with a community rec-
reation facility.

“It makes no sense to have
three high schools within one mile
of each other in the central part
of the district when the growth is
in the west,’’ Mingay told the
board.

“Parents want after-school ac-
tivities for their teens that are
closer to their homes,’’ she added,
emphasizing that ‘‘a lot of people
have moved into the (Caulfeild)
area on the understanding that a
high schoo! would be built there.”

Both Trustees Michael Smith
and Barbara Howard told the
parents that the issue of com-
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Council.

Said Howard: ‘tht is a matter of
joint discussion between the board
and the municipality,’ and ‘‘!
don’t think you should expect any
immediate solutions.”

Smith, who lives in Gleneagies,
said the ‘‘political reality’’ is that
nothing will change until citizens
in the western half of the
municipality start to make their
voices heard effectively at district
council,

Smith pointed out that property
taxes in the western part of West
Vancouver are in many cases far
higher than in the east, but that
westerners don’t even have a
sidewalk along their major traffic
artery, Marine Drive, making the
road highly dangerous for pedes-
trians.

Kathleen Matthews told the
trustees that 100 per cent of her
Gleneagles Parents’ Group sup-
ported the building of a secondary
school on the Caulfeild site.

Matthews, who speaks frequent-
ly at board meetings, has been
saying for several years that the
both the school board and
municipality should spend tax
monies wherever they are
geographically collected.

At the June 18 meeting, Mat-
thews said that just because
parents wanted community facili-
ties attached to a school at
Caulfeild, they should not have to
plead their entire case before
district council.

She told trustees that the initia-
tive should come from the schooi
board and that it was the trustees’
duty to take up the fight on
behalf of students and their
parents.

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