* Dear Editor:

‘Thank you for the excellent |

"‘geporting of the Bridgman
‘Park/North Shore Winter

- Club fiasco i in your: February
m ISthi issue. ee
The ‘District taxpayers

. should be asking very serious
~ questions as to why private
citizens are able te supply
“Council with additional facts
and figures when the:-muni-
‘cipal manager and the highly
paid department heads seem
unable ‘to do so. ‘Somewhere

en oe Rete

4
mong t the line, someons isn’t.

doing his job.

I agree with the aldermen |

‘that a public hearing is the
time and place to present-all
available information, BUT

Pane RA awe
BPUGA AABILUE «

At the district. council.
meeting February 13,

Aiderman Baker and Daca

SeeeNe BAW

voted to defer the by-law.

Concerning Bridgman “Dark

‘until February “27, 1978.
They did this because
envisusiy they both heave
done their homework.

The whole issue has been

badly handled from the first

public hearing October 11,
1977. ;

Some points to consider:

1. The Winter Club has

stated they will go broke if .

they can’t expand. If that is ,
the case what happens if they
don’t attract the new mem-
bers they are counting on

2. The Winter Club claim
they can’t expand without
some of the parkland. Yet
Mayor Bell said they could
expand without the parkland.

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- more. often. ‘than. ‘not,

- ~ hearing itself” ‘suggests. new
avenues worth investigating.

_ Thus, many opponents of the .
parkland landswap keep: dig.

o arduously. - “in order to: ‘find

the ‘

‘Council any. facts and figures —
; available,’ about. + any. bylaw.

‘continuing

iS7&, .

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tors.

ging - sometimes long ‘and. .

more answers and facts. If...
“opposition’”. can find
vitally relevant: ‘date, surely . |
the municipal ‘staff dept.
heads could do the same: --

but they don’t. It’s the moral :
_ obligation of every taxpayer — .

to give the Mayor and»
at anytime they. ‘become
The - , mCaC episode in. ‘the

7 Saga Zo
Bridgman Park/Winter. Club

hobble will take place in the ©
‘Council - ‘chamber.
ruary 27th. Be there! .

on. Feb- =

(Mrs. ) Lettie Whiting
North Vancouver

a What ramifications will 2

we vv sseee

building of - approximately |

‘69,000 sq.ft. have on the
park? ‘The butiding will
about 50.

fact | fam the

aww (ab wae

‘riverbank so it definitely will

affect the privacy of the nark, ,
What of the parking lot to be
placed to the east of the

. existing building?

4. The Winter Club has been
advertising since September,
1977. They have colored

brochures which advertise —

expansion. They have used
newspaper and radio and
large billboards to let us
know they are expanding.

The Ist public hearing did .

not take place until October,
1977. The 2nd public hearing

"was January 3, 1978.

‘5. Alderman Almas ‘stated
October 11, 1977 that. ‘‘Time
was of the essence’”’. I would
like to know why he was in
‘such a hurry to sell off .6 of
‘an acre of Bridgman Park.
Also, Alderman Lakes only

seems concerned with selling

unisex

up an

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the oe

“the. :

rd: meeting is te to’ ‘suggest

- | that perhaps th supposed
“The issue simply: stated i is: at pe © 4

should North Vancouver | par- .
ents. of Mndeteacien age

enlightened community be
North. Vancouver has:

_ ‘closet bigots: who are afraid
o to speak their true: feelings.

They. ‘waffle’ around “non-

ar ‘issues. and~ ‘whenever the
- subject gets.down to the real.
.. issue, French in North: Shore”.

noe “public -schools,’ ‘they ™ deny

with the costs footed by. the that that fs the issue being:

oe considered’ and equate it to

The enthusiastic turnout ats canoe-carving, Piccolo play-..

“the school. board ‘Meeting
onee gs eople ;

federal government? ao

» consideration.

- have the copeatinity fren me

- asecond language’ consis-: .

'. tently out:perform 1 those’ ‘that
do. not.” eS ;

I | hecome totally ee

ae hae ine a ee

“public. school ‘system, '

=e ‘don’t really. feel I’m
‘‘using my children ‘as ‘pawns

. itva.mad political orgy. "Tam.
: nue - concerned that I may be

would. be ‘derelict in their
duties if-they..didn’t provide.
» educational alternatives. for.
‘The federal
government: ‘dribbles: money .
- away. on” much ee With. Freni ch tan ght in: the .

raising them i ina community

‘that | has “a small lunatic

fringe of bigots. -

‘For those residents truly
‘concerned about real esiate
values, I have a- solution.

the”
bigots. will probably move,

Z North. Vancouver » will be a
. Nicer place to live and real
estate ‘values will go up. 0

. ASC. Turner,
So cot! - North Vancouver.

cwith Mr. French’s logic. TE. 5

_though ‘he was anti-French, *
but he says ‘that French iS noi -

the i issue ree

The only answer ‘iy can’ -
come up. with to explain Mir.
French’s incredibly confus-:

ine position and the equally

‘garbled speech made by..a.

Mr. Evans at the. school

.or trading eff. Why are they

“both so. anxious to get the
whole thing over with?

Once again we have been !

_granted. a small reprieve on

the: park i issue.

council - "let them know we
care.

Ms.) P. E. Neufeld
North Vancouver ._

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‘Dear Editor:
West \

representative. Gary Armour
has. criticized th the © accuracy or
the reporting. at-the recent:

- West Van meécting on the

school. board budget... Mir.:

Armour should remind him-.
self that he'gave his: ‘approval.

for the use of a tape: recorder’
during his interview with this

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May ‘1 offer: Mr. _ Armour

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: Newspapers, radio and Tv |
- have concentrated: and given
_. complete: ‘coverage to. the | f

‘wonderful pensions our MPs. - ts ae payer yer tha
~ Myave- Jegisiated for ee Eee

seives.,

- ‘There has beenn no mention oo, Ever

about pensions for rank-and- CIV". Set :
file civil servants fs and-senior “kn own. to “th cir MPs - _ - Our

: “woleey ‘in | Ottawa. wae 7
. “No one can. “deny. that our’ a
senior citizens, the pioneers |.

‘of Canada, are entitled © to

citizens...

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The rank and file OF civil

~ servants ‘have made - their —
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~ fund. and indexing. of their —

pensions in view of inflation Tr
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