A7-Sanday News, June 8, 1980 mailbox 5 Dear Editor: “CRIME SHUNS LAW- ABIDING NORTH SHORE.” 1 can still recall the horror and terror I felt when I read those words on May 25. The huge headline, the bold, all- capital style. It was like some sinister message from the dark recess of a demented mind. Who were those people at the North Shore News to have the gall to upset my Sunday brunch with such appalling sensationalism? Just who the heck did they think they were? As a resident of the North Shore, and a reader of the News for the past 18 months, I had grown used to my twice-weekly diet of arson, robbery, rape and murder. A Wednesday or a Sunday just was not the same without some heinous cmnme being splashed across page of The News. I began not only to expect u, but to anticipate it. It grew into a habit, one with a sort of perverse, calming effect. As long as it was all happening to someone else, and happening so often to someone else, I felt the odds got better and better that it would never happen to me. But then, May 25th... The headline shattered every- thing: it threw me into a tailspin of doubt and un- certainly. If it were true that the North Shore was so law- abiding, then, it must be true that all those previous headlines were false. I reasoned. If so, and given the fact that much of my weekly routine included the absorption of those headlines into my sense of well-being, then, | reasoned the front Booze should help charity Dear Editor It was your photograph of a West Vancouver pohce Officer disposing con fiscated alcohol in the Sunday editon oof | your paper Firstly | disagree with the law banmng hquor in public places, as I don't think Uhal everyone who goes for a pieme in the great outdoors ts teatotal, however that ts by the by The most im pertant factor as Une sheer brainless waste by the authonties Phe booze has been purchased and the B ¢ fax has been paid on it thercfore ito makes a lot more sense to re sellat) cather by auction or tothe trade An even better idea is to use tl as pmzes in a weckly loulery, where the moncy collected would be in’ the order of 95% protit. and then give All to charnties various Judging by the amount of people knocking on doors asking for moacy ut seems they need every cent they can get So why don't you get the ball rollbng and stop pnnating sally pwtures of law en forcement offseers wasting the laxpayers time & moncy make them use the time in a good Cause Peter Nothard North \ ape Cuvee further, my sense of well- being was unfounded. I saw at once the drastic consequences of the next step in the logic. If, as postulated, my sense of well- being were unfounded, then it must be true that there was something terribly wrong in my ability to perceive events. And, it followed, if this flaw existed in me, then there -could be a myriad number of hke, or even worse flaws in my character of which I1 had no knowledge. Maybe I was a horrible person and did not know it! Depression set in. ] was near suicide. I _ barely noticed when The News carner dropped off the latest edition of the paper. ] dragged myself to the front door, willing to submit myself to the final torture — reading about more peace But. what’s this? “HOODS BEAT UP POLICE OF. FICER” screamed the paper. My heart leaped. So it was not true after all! Violent crime exists! PM NOT CRAZY! I fel to my knees to give thanks to The Abmighty for those wonderful ttle punks who preyed upon thal poor - Little police officer. They brought meanmg back to my life! So thank you, North Shore News, for making things nght agam. But promise me one thing. Let's have no more of those sensational abiding) citizens. Theyre enough to drive one crazy! Terence ONeill North Vancouver Happy with taxes Dear Editor 1 am proud to be a resident of the beautiful, well run Dnistmet: of North Vancouver and wu ow a pleasure to show iC off to out of town visitors Thanks to the goverament in Victoma and the council our have laxcs been kept down [he can be seen on the following statement back of the 1980 Distunct tax form “Last year, without Provincial Government Revenue Shanng., your general municipal § tases would have increased by 32.7 per cent to prowdc samilar levels of semice ~ In thes tame of inflabon we are fortunatc M Armstrong North Vancouver LIGHT AND COOL ‘Law-abiding’ headline drove him to the brink cg 7 se So DRAPERY CLEANING men You want protessonst at = SPRING SPECIAL Clearing Of yon vwahuaitie Grapenes. tme Orapery Specxakst OFFER EXPIRES JUNE 14 We take the ‘worry’ out of drapery cleaning. CALL FOR FREE PICK-UP AND DELIVERY 987-3431 987-3233 ROY’ S creancrs 643 Queensbury Avo.. 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