12 - Sunday, December 2, 1990 ~ North Shore News Anna Marie D'Angelo TAP WATER in many homes on the North Shore has ranged from slightly cloudy to deep brown for more than a week. The turbidity is attributed to heavy rainfall and snow melt which washed silt into local water sup- plics, notably the Seymour reservoir. Although water coming from Seymour has exceeded the national health officials maintain that drinkirg water is safe. But many residents aren't buying those assurances as sales of buttied water have skyrocketed. On Wednesday the Greater Vancouver Regional District approved $4.8 mil- lion for the initial phase of a $478-million project to clean up local water. GYRD logging practices in local watersheds will also be re-examined. recommended turbidity level Kelly Steele North Vancouver Our water is murky and fogey. I have bought purified water to drink. | boiling won’t drink the water even though they say we can because the color turns me off. Michelle Ennist North Vancouver No, we buy some water, and the rest we get by keeping it in the fridge. Water has been a brown color for won't drink it. by as much as 40 times, Are you drinking Joe DeBono tap water and is fore. two weeks. I North Vancouver We are using tap water for everything. Our baby 1 drinking his through a filter as be- The look of the water bothers me a little. Ted Baker West Vancouver haven't water people. tap water? We live in Caulfeild and noticed any’ discoloration. Our water, is clear, but I think we are getting it from a dif- ferent source than most Adeline Dedio Vancouver I boil the water and let it sit overnight, then pour it off in the morning and use that. I live in the West End and the water is just starting to get dark. Lynas lauded for years of school service DOROTHY LYNAS says she will have to build a new house around the art gifts she was given Tuesday night by grateful teachers and trustees at the last meeting of the current North Vancouver District 44 School Board. The meeting was Lynas’s last, after serving 31 years as a trustee. Lynas, 79, after whom an elementary school on Indian River Road was recently named, was presented with native wall carvings by outgoing board chairman Rev. Roy Dungey and North Van- couver Teachers’ Association president Linda Watson. Both carvings are by John Joseph of the Squamish Indian Band in By Patrick Raynard Contributing Writer North Vancouver. In a moving tribute speech, Dungey told the gathering that, if ever a school board textbook is written in B.C., Lynas could be the model trustee. Dungey recounted how Lynas was first elected to the board in NORTH VANCOUVER SCHOOL BOARD 1956 (she served continuously ex- cept for one term) and had also worked on the North Shore Parent’s Council, the B.C. Feder- ation of Parents, the Keith Lynn Ratepayer’s Association, Capilano College, the North Vancouver District Advisory Planning Com- mission, the North Vancouver Recreation Commission, North Shore Neighbourhood House, the North Shore Traffic Council and several daycare projects. Lynas NV firm distributes de-alcoholized wine From page 14 In January 1989, Crocodile Marketing Ltd., another North Shore company that was also im- porting de-alcoholized products from Australia, moved its business to the United States to avoid the comparatively high Canadian levies on those products. Gillis said he and his wife orig- inally decided to import de- alcoholized wine because they felt there was a need for it in Canada. “My wife quit drinking because she was pregnant and when we .went to restaurants there was price Y"p nothing else to drink other than pop and mineral water. When the waiter found out we were not go- ing to drink wine, they would take our wine glasses off the table,” said Gillis. ‘‘That affects the kind of service you will get.”’ Gillis said more and :nore peo- ple are drinking less alcohol for a variety of reasons and have swit- ched to non-alcoholic products. “The market is definitely build- without the alcohol,’’ said Gillis. **People don’t like to wake up with a hangover on Monday mor- ning.”’ Malinda Distributors now has exclusive rights to distribute Lox- ton de-alcoholized wines in Canada. ALTENT also served 28 years on the North Shore Union Board of Health. Watson, backed by dozens of teachers who attended the meeting, praised Lynas for her commitment to the quality of education and her recognition of the teacher's role. **You have always followed an unwavering vision of what schools and education ought to be about,’’ Watson said. ‘‘You have clearly demonstrated consistent confidence and trust in the teach- ers of North Vencouver to be car- ing professionals who share your vision of schools, children, and a good education. “Above all, you have faced every issue and made every deci- sion with the needs of the children foremost in your mind.” Lynas responded by saving that she had been a ‘‘teacher en- thusiast’’ from the age of 15, when, after years of poor school- ing in rural Saskatchewan due to overworked teachers, a particular teacher took time to nurture Lynas’s talents and encouraged Lynas to move to Moose Jaw to finish high school with honors. “Grade 10 was as far as we could go, out in the country,”’ Lynas said, ‘‘but that teacher taught me how to succeed. “Teachers must find a way to help students succeed, because it is teachers who hold the secret to students’ success.”’ Lynas, who came to the West Coast in 1940 and to North Van- couver two years later, said she had shared the board table with more than SO different members during her 31 years as a trustee. “T think we helped produce one of the finest school systems in B.C., and I am grateful for all the support of my fellow trustees. “Tl have done what I wanted to do with my life and from now on I will be on the outside looking in. I will chip in wherever I can in the future.’’ Lynas, who was visibly moved by the gifts and tributes given to her on Tuesday evening, also said that the opening of Dorothy Lynas Elementary School was “one of the most outstanding events of my life.”” N WOODWORKERS OLS LTD. is pleased to host a demonstration of Router ONE WEEK ONLY CASH’S Wl USED HOME FURNISHINGS 139 LONSDALE, NVAN zone 98O-1912 0 couches chairs, books clothing Techniques on Saturday, December 8th, 1990. Freud representative Bruce Jackson will demonstrate the mak- ing of raised panel doors, biscuit joining and sharpen- ing with benchstones. DEMONSTRATION H OURS: 1iam-3pm SATURDAY.