Engineering destroys fish Dear Editor: The article by Pat Ric printed March 5th “Fish* versus clean waterway” is very disturbing to me and my fellow fishing partners. I feel that the Federal Fisheries Act is not used to its fullest strength, because if it were, we would not have only “20 fish” in our streams, but a much larger population of salmon and trout. . If engineer Tom Scott knew anything about our North. Shore streams, he would have realized that every stream and creek had salmon and trout entering them throughout the year, until engineers entered into the picture. We have lost many very productive creeks on our North Shore to engineers, i.e. Mahon Creek, First Mission and Second Mission, Browning, Mosquito, Lynn, Hastings, McKay and many more that flow and that used to flow through either the City of North Vancouver or the District. Mosquito Creek is one stream on the North ‘Shore that had very good runs of cutthroat trout, steelhead, coho and chum salmon until the engineers were allowed to move in and turn the upper portion of this stream into a cement culvert and the lower portion into a trench to prevent flooding caused by engineers who, in turn, built a small water reservoir on a tributary to Mosquito Creek which broke and flooded homes built along this stream, approved by engineers. Hastings Creek is another stream in the District of North Vancouver that was engineered for destruction by building an impassable culvert (to fish) at lower Hoskins Road. Lynn Creek is another stream that is being destroyed by engineers allowing the sanitary dump to be expanded and pollution to be fed into the stream, destroying not only water quality and fish habitat, but the scenery also’ with discoloured rocks and garbage remnants clinging to the bush and banks of the river. The small creek, known as Browning, was lost to culverts after being diverted to flow into Lynn Creek above the Keith Road Bridge. As a youngster I spent many hours of recreational time fishing, hiking and wandering along’ these streams and to this day spend many hours in working to enhance these streams and creeks by being involved in restocking, stream clean-up and building Loaded meeting? Dear Editor: On March attended a Burrard View School, sponsored by District Council, to receive direction from local residents in respect to zoning changes. This to facilitate the replacement of an existing 30-year-old school with a new, smaller one. My purpose is not to criticize any individuals who took part, but rather to question the objectives and ethics being used by the educational establishment in the obvious blatant power play displayed at that meeting. (1) Of the first 25 speakers, 18 acknowledged that they were either teachers, or directly or indirectly em- ployed by the school system. 12th last 1 hearing at (2) They brought into the meeting about a dozen specially made _ signs, displaying slogans to support their objectives (not unlike a political convention). (3) They displayed rudeness and if it had not been for the Psst! An assortment of quality print used and out ol titles in MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY Pacific Books 1135 Lonsdale North Vancouver 980-2121 excellent handling of the situation by Mayor Don Bell, the meeting could have been completely disrupted. I have since - made enquiries and have found that on Feb. 28th last, published in the North Vancouver Teachers Assn. circular, there appeared the following. I quote: “Please support your colleagues by attending a public meeting on Wed. March 12th. seven thirty p.m. at Burrard View School, 1475 Deep Cove Rd. The meeting is sponsored by the district council and its purpose is to discuss the necessary land re-zoning for the new Cove Cliff School. Consequently it would be helpful to have an audience who supported the proposal”. I ask you. Does this not offend your sensitivities? Do you not agree, something is very, very wrong. John Ingram North Vancouver DRAPERY CLEANING Let Roy's handle large volume no shrinkage. FREE PICK-UP & DELIVERY the specialists at your valuable drapenes Our lets us charge competitively low prices and we guarantee SPRING SPECIAL 20% OFF We take the ‘worry’ out of drapery cleaning. 987-3431 987-3233 ROY'S DRY CLEANERS 648 Queensbury Ave., North Vancouver fish bypasses (fish ladders) along with members of the North Shore Fish & Game Club and the Squaretailers Rod & Reel Club, two well- known active clubs on the North Shore. In conclusion, I feel we do not need concrete culverts, nor engineered ditches to destroy our streams. 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