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Helicopter laws need enforcing

Open letter to District of West Vancouver Mayor Don
Lanskail:

I was saddened but not surprised to read in the
North Shore News of the embarrassing, star-struck
enthusiasm with which you and members of council
approved the landing of helicopters at Park Royal
Shopping Centre for the purpose of filming a motion
picture.

Several of us who live in the eastern part of the
British Properties have been battling for some time
now with Vancouver Helicopters Ltd. and others to
prevent incessant overflights, many of them less than
the allowable height, which disturb our neighborhood
from morning till night during most summer
weekends.

Transport Canada supposedly regulates the mini-
mum height at 1,000 feet (except for landing and
takeoff) but upon investigation one soon finds that,
due to lack of staff and funding and political will,
they are entirely incapable of enforcing their own
regulations.

The City of Vancouver has authorized the heliport
from which most of these flights take off and the

District of North Vancouver has authorized helicopter
landings on Grouse Mountain.

Siace these two municipalities have authorized the
flights, it seems only reasonable to me that rhe
Department of Transport should order that all such
flights should take place over the municipalities con-
cerned and not over the Capilano Regional Park or
West Vancouver.

After all, but for the fact that these businesses are
operated in tie air, they are nothing more than a
sight-seeing/amusement ride business which would be
prohibited in our neighborhood under any other cir-
cumstances.

For reasons never explained, the Hon. Mary Collins
has declined to involve herself in this issue other than
to simply pass messages to the Minister of Transport.

Perhaps you and members of council will now take
the time to familiarize yourselves with the problem
and to do something to resolve it. Certainly, the hap-
py welcome given to Vancouver Helicopters Ltd. at
your recent meeting has done nothing to help.

Kenacth A. Dangerfield
West Vancouver

Directories add to junk mail problem

Dear Editor:

ff readers wish to reduce their
amount of junk mail and solicita-
tion phone calls, send a letter to
the B.C. Directories, 100 E. 4th,
Vancouver, stating that ‘‘absolute-
ly. under no circumstances is my
name to reappear in the directory
in the future.’’

Timely money-maker

These people come door to door
each year to check their statistical
information and tell you the
benefit to you is if someone from
out of town is unable to find you
in the phone book, he or she can
go to the local library and find you
through the directory there.

In fact, the directories are sold
to various and sundry businesses
for marketing purposes. That is
why we get both the junk mail and
the intrusive solicitation phone

calls.

It is too late to be effective for
this year and it will take a couple
of years to stop completely,
because companies use old direc-
tories. But we withdrew our name
four years ago and for the past
couple of years, both nuisances
have been reduced by approxi-
mately 90 per cent. And our out-
of-town friends still find us!
Beverly Collyer
North Vancouver

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Open letter to the District of North
Vancouver Engineering Dept.:

Shame on you for missing a
golden opportunity to reduce our
tax base.

Living in Deep Cove and having
to motor along Deep Cove Road
every morning with the inevitable
temporary traffic delays has given
me ample opportunities to ponder
the possibilities that the district
should, following the example set
by the Vancouver Firefighters,
publish a calendar of District of
North Vancouver Flag Persons,
Tesplendent, naturally, with the
obligatory hard hat, safety vest
and steel toe boots.

With such winning smiles for the
passing motorists I’m sure such a
publication would be an annual
success.

R. Haggar
North Vancouver

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