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“a means to an end, we have
© sympathy with those Bay residents who

Acti

RRY sailings delayed are three
words that summer travellers and
commuters in this province have

come to dread.

So the threat by some Horseshoe
Bay residents to consider somehow dis-
rupiing sailings if BC Ferries refuses to
amend its current plans for terminal
expansion is a potent one.

The call to the placards, barricades
and dinghies came at a mecting
Tuesday organized by Citizens Against
Ferry Terminaj Expansion (CAFTE).

~ And while CAFTE itself is not, at this

time, considering civil disobedience as
a lot of

have suffered through summer after

mitted to moving the mid-Island ferry
route out of Horseshoe Bay and
Departure Bay. The Duke Point termi-
nal has provided only a partial solution
for the Nanaimo end of the route but
Horseshoe Bay, a village of tony non-
NDP West Vancouver, has received ne
consideration whatsoever.

The problem the locals face in get-
ting, BC Ferries to pay them scrious
attention is this blatant lack ef provin-
cial direction. The NDP government
could recover some of the political
ground lost in the Fast Ferries debacle,
if it was to insist that its Crown corpo-
ration do some meaningtul long-range
planning before spending 30 million
dollars of your money on blasting and
concrete to make an unsuitable termi-

_their own hands.

summer. of endless traffic tie-ups and
are angry enough to take matters into

The NDr government of 1973 com-

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mailbox
UV no lise against ‘nasties’

Dear Editor:
*~ Councillor, Doug Mackay-Dunn’s request that UV

‘should: be -considzred as an alternative to ozonation for

water treatment, is very misguided, UV will inactivate (kill)

“many of, ‘what i in ty “yman’s term, Leall the “nasties” in the

water. Butvit is marginal! ally effective against Giardia and

 Cryptosnoridium. UV is a:light. If the water has not been

“thoroughly filtered, to the’smallest particle, a particle of a

leaf of ‘something, would obscure the UV from reaching the
nasty” it was meant to inactivate,

- I'my opinion, ozonation is slic only way to go, if we are

to avoid a disaster like Walkertown. The work on our water

: quality must not be delayed. ;'°

Reading, P.Eng.
West Vancouver

Cheap shots bounce back

i Dear Editor: =~. :
- Re: Councillor blasts ‘MP's Victory Ship stance (June 18

‘letter to the News editor).

It. is. amusing. to’ witness (North Vancouver City)
Coincillor-Rill Bell sticking his foot in his mouth time and
again. 1 would also like to ask why it seems necessary to try
to gain “Brownie points” using cheap shots. Where (Nort!
Vancouver MP) Mr. (Ted) White was born has very little to
do with his function as an MP...

at. Mr. Bell; would: do his homewerk . as well as cur

Member of Parliament, he would not have to wipe eggs off -

his face that often. Not only that, he would have been bet-
ter off and d we, as voters, would take him seriously next time
we tik to the polls. :

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nal marginally more suitable.
Write them a letter in Victoria before
you write those placards.

FOR evidence of how deeply the
self-wielded knives stabbed the
Alliance Party during its leader-
ship race: Watch healing of
wounds here on
the North Shore.

The test, it says here,
will be the immediate
future of our two once-
Reform-now-Albfiance
members of Parliament:
John Reynolds and Ted
White.

They put their
money on different
horses. And thus gam-
bled with their political
future.

So, as the heat of the leadership race

“cools, and che party gets dawn to a lot of
“unglamorous business, watch the direc-

oy these tvo move in Alliance’s hierar-
chy.

Up. Down. Or sideways.

- Reynolds, MP for West Vancouver: a
Sunshine Coast, is a sz2soned pro — the
very picture of a rough? | handsome old
Es —— whom Preston Manning chose as

Ontario organizer, and who backed

anning’s bid to lead the new party.

Mai Vancouver MP White a some-
what elfin figure, was a pioneer in voicing
doubts about. Manning’s leadership. He —
got a swat for his candour.

Coincidentally or not, White support-
ed upstart Stockwell Day — the eventual

. winner..

Throw into the mix that it’s been

‘rumoured for some time that White is

mulling retirement. (As of last Sunday.

* when we talked, he was still mulling.)

_ Day will need ail the dexterity, and -

Terry Peters.

CANLENGE
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indeed answered prayers, that he can
muster to keep all the troops happy.
Manning, Tom Long and Day, and
the interests and warm bodies each
brought to the table, vowed they were in
the Alliance for the long
haul, whoever won.
Day ‘has to make sure
his competitors are as’
good as their markers.
More than anyone
would have predicted, _
the Alliance leadership

race turned out to be ©

much less of a genteel
game of political cro- -
quct in a nice family,
and more like the high- .
sticking, NBL-style
brutality of the “old” parties’ races.

So watch Day. How and to whom he’
hands out the (limited) favours that the”
leader of the Opposition has at his dis-
posal will be an early litmus | test of his -

teadership.
at will play out here on the
North Shore as weli as anywhere. 1/°
Reynolds’ status quietly descends, and
White’ 's perceptibly rises, it will look like
political: business as usual: Reward the .. .
onside, punish the offside. No way to sell.
the Alliance as a real alternative to .
Ottawa’s Tweedledum and Tweedledee
pare d Day’s electrifying deci-

Added spice:-Day’s elec jeci-
sion to run for Day's ln in B, C rather.
than Alberta. The plot thickens.

400 ;

Life i isn’t fair. As if you didn’t know.

‘Susan Falls can’t get a job. “I’ve been”
blacklisted, ”. she says flatly. She’s taking

steps to move to the US. -. :

Falls is the bus driver fired by. West

Van Blue Bus. Her sin? Demanding cor-

rect fare from pascen yers, some of them
career cheaters, and then going public
about fare evasion. - - :

‘Among her critics, indeed s some of the.
harshest, were other drivers. Including *.
union officials.

Some drivers assured me evasion was °
rare, that they rarely saw it, Falls ‘said that.
was easily explained; They fooked away, :

Can’t blame the drivers much. :
Confrontation with belligerent riders is“.
no fun (assaults on drivers reportedly ©:
average about one a day). Their bosses
“often don’t back them: in fare disput
Where’s the will to fight evasion?

"If George Puil and Greater
» Vancouver’s TransLink bureau
"declared war on the cheats, visa

posed 75-buck annual tax on every, Car
-and its really arrogant i Fi

0S
--on private parking lots: otha t

be passed on by malls and on to your,
. Brocery | bill by supermarkets.”)

‘After a long legal battle Falls go!
$27, 500 settlement from Bitte Bus,
’ including $5,000 kicked in b
with no admission of fault. lso’a |
of recommendation..Even her critical fo
mer colleagues admit that Falls —a tiny,
cute-as-a-bug lady. who scarcely looks :::
radical — was a very good driver.

She applied unsuccessfully to_get a'job:

at TransLink and at
Transit. Now she hope
year’ send. 3

» Last month her former, boss,‘T
‘Lorage, got a fine send-off ata retire
Bras party. attended by. ‘TransLink’s top:

t Mountain ©

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