all know: that hockey
sticks aren’t used exclusively
for slapping pucks.

How many Canadian men go past
knife drawers and grab hockey sticks
when they hear suspicious noises in
. houses ‘at night?. How many pesky
raccoons have been slap shot off a
deck with the same trusty weapon?

Severa! years ago in the Delbrook
- area, a resident used a hockey stick to

-. smash the back window of a stolen

vehicle taking off out of his driveway.
Two career criminals,‘one on federal
~ parole, the other infamous for being

. shot: by’ a cop, had just broken into.
~ the man’s home. They took off quick- .

oly with the stick-swinging homeown-
er in pursuit. So what was all the fuss

last’: Friday when -NHLer Marty”

Bi ‘McSorley got sentenced for. using his
. hockey stick as a : Weapon? The former

=== WIiEW POINT——

Boston Bruin got off lightly for
whacking Canucks’ Donald Brashear
into unconsciousness on Feb. 2],

- Brashear received 2 serious concus-

sion and couldn’t play for seven
weeks. For all this intentional hurt,
McSorley received 18 months’ proba-
tion. He will have no permanent
criminal record if he doesn’t breach
court orders. What McSorley did by
any criminal definition was assault
with a weapon complete with intent
to do harm. Just because he was in a
hockey uniform during a NHL game
does not absolve him of the crime. .
NHLers do not skate to different
criminal rules. Unfortunately, the
judge’s tepid sentence doesn’t rein-

force that message. It is doubtful the

sentence will deter another hockey
ape from taking another outrageous —
cheap shot.

A CAMPAIGN ON

CHRETNEN'S
GEARING UP To

TRUDEAU'S
LEGACY

|Teubeau = oe
Sy CONTROVERSIE
ry REMEMBERED. ED

ARROGANT,
REVILED BY THE
WEST, OVERSTAXED
HIS WELCOME,
PRACTITIONER

OF PATRONAGE

tre: Trudeau were: never ‘able to go. to Mt. Logan

: topeth climb to its peak | (“We had a plan, him and I, to

_ go there arid go.to the top...,” Jean Chretien, The Vancouver :
great journey for them,

“Sun; Oct. ). Te would have been.

x’ However, I would suggest to M. “Chretien that in liew of :
§ he should challenge another.”
idable peak: Blackstrap Mountain just south east: »-
Saskatoon: Although having been designed and constructed

scending Mt. Logan, : perhaps
ually formi

the City of Saskatoon’s Sanitary Engineering Deparment,
climbing..it represents no less 4 conquest than Mt... Logan.
From its ‘lofty heights he. ‘ould. view the. magnificent’ plains

etching out below him for as far as che eye can see...

In fact, and I may be jumping the gun here, but why’ don't.

frame’ Blackstrap Mountain — Mt: Jean’ Chretien’ —

Joquent really.’A fitting tribute to Mr, Chretien and his .

iberal : party,,and “something all Canadians could truly be

‘proud o

1d: In your’ Oct: 6 article about the ‘attack in'a Lynn Valley
You note that “the victim ‘and suspected assailants «
“: charming single-family houses.*:

parking !o!
ré divided ‘on racial hi

oe rh

”-(One had fo look in the Oct.'4
“a lone white: male?

“suspéct:. that,‘ were the’ siruation

the victim of four. Caucasians the

er Or not ract : c. was the sole niotive’ behind the attack, it |

_ Ambiesi

LIPSTICK and rouge for a
changing face:

West Vancouver, under the pro-devel-
opment administration that citizens vored
for (if in fact they knew
what they were doing)
last November, may be
heading for more than a
cosmetic change.

A change of charac-

ster,

Are you indifferent ;
that your unique and far -.
most expensive and
highly taxed B.C. =~
municipality might...”

. become just another
Vancouver suburb,

indistinguishable from the rest?”
'. Residents around the Hollyburn: ~ -
Medical Clinic on 17th at Marine Drive

‘aren’t taking the possibility passively. >
“They’re feeling the heat of that change’. a

right now, and are not happy about it —
the value of gone of their residences i is
sure to be crushed. ;

. That's in the heart.of Ambleside. Ir’ sa
“safe prediction that in the years ahead the \
“older area(s) of West Van will similarly be
under siege’ by, ‘developmental’ and politi

cal forées for zoning changes that will
destroy the present balance berveen the = 7

mixture of commercial development and:
low-rise apartment buildings, and small,

_. The immediate issue is TD-Canada

“Trust’s plan to tear down the. Hollyburn
~ Medic
; ‘development running from 16th to 17th,

‘Centre and replace it with a big

including a medical centre, a retail and

“condominium complex, and a three: level
; underground parking facility. «

~ The ignition point for. many residents

=]. Doug
General Manager *
985-2131 (133) -

Oc neeversesennenesseeracensceseevesnenssorenee |

: but would like the. density. reduce
.. the bunker-like look to the proposed
* medical building improved.”

_ is that council is going along — quietly
amending municipal bylaws to allow the |

complex to be four storeys high.
Residents argue that that’s nat only
bad for them; i it's a profound precedent

that others should fear.”

° Typically, one suite that -
“cost More than ;
$420,000. in a nearby
- building just three years
old, will lose its partial-
7 southerly’ view — and
~“‘doubdess scores of '

thousands of | dollars in J
. heart of West. Vaa into just another slick;
- Soulless Lower: Mainland suburb.

2, value. 2
Ata meeting last. week
between area residents
and a re resentative, of.
: ; the development, ove
“resident asked if they'd be compensated |
for their lost, vier

“That’s not an option,” the rep quick: .

“ly shot back.

The biggest was lowering the. buildin

. line by four and a half fee

- “We've wrung a few’ concessions from
them ... but it’s reaily just cosmetic
stuff,” said Helen Jane Kington, who
‘Hives on 16th’ north oF the proposed.

o development.: :
~ Mrs. Kington’s: take. on it is that
“sve’re not opposed to this develo ment :
an

She says part of the complex will be:
“shochorned” i ‘into the parking area north

- OF the Marine ‘and 16th Chevron station:

She also notes that 16th Street is a'main
route-for fire cepa and ambulance

~vehicles.-

Editorial Manager
985-2131 (160)

885-2131 ‘tz
“misocharansnests

-_ character ‘of the older areas of

But TD- Canada Trust has made ome
_ changes after complaints by residen

; N\
CHRETIEN'SE
OFF TOA -§

Good
START!

take four disruptive y years to co complete: :
’ : The doughty. Mrs. Kington writes: *.
one typical little ofe West Van lady who.
has been paying property taxes in West
Vancouver for over 50 ) years — I and my
neighbours are not going to sit still and «
let them jackhammer the heart‘and soit :

~of Ambleside for the next four years!”.’

But town ‘council semis eager to ©

“along with this not-so-thin edge of
~ wedge that, it says here, will ceentually

threaten the pleasant, safe, friendly. villag
leside 4;
‘and Dundarave, grad ally turning th

: The instruments of change are
Amendment Bylaws No:'4220; which.
would change the Official Commi

Plan Bylaw.to allow’ a building fo'

storeys in height, and No 4221;

ing the zoning bylaw. to allow, part of.
‘site to be rezoned for designated ‘use as'a
“medical centre.or, clini

“+ A petition” being c ci

” “These amendments:give, spe ial pri
_. leges and substantial

mic benefits to
Tb Bank; -Canada Ti

‘in not pep for an open, wide-rangi
public debate’o hat k kind: of future:
zens 8 want for We