8 - Wednesday, July 12, 1989 - North Shore News NV DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT Park is a ‘precious place’ OPEN LETTER TQ NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT MAYOR MARILYN BAKER: The reverberations from the proposed development of Lynn Canyon Park have reached all the way to the suburbs of Philadelphia. When my son was accepted into the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver was simply a name on a map to me. Then I traveled 3,000 miles to visit this north western city and immediately fell in love vith it. Never had I seen such beauty, such grandeur, such pristine vastness. My son took me to Lynn Canyon one day. I crossed the suspension bridge with excitement and fascination at the beauty around me. | loved every minute of the time I spent there and returned te Philadelphia with a piece of my heart forever in Vancouver, B.C. 1 have made several trips to Vancouver and always found it as 1 did a? first. It is usthinkable you are considering destroying Lynn Canyon. | have no right to complain, I suppose, but I feel I must add my voice to the many voices clamoring for the preservation of God's beautiful gift to Vancouver. I quote from your own Beautiful British Columbia magazine, Spring 1989, ‘‘These are precious places. You can only love them.’’ Please eave them. Virginia U. Rudolph, Soringfield, Pennsyfvania NVD Council asked to be ‘visionary generals’ OPEN LETTER TO NORTH VANCOUVER DISTRICT COUNCIL There is a virtual war going on in North Vancouver — B.C. —' Canada — the entire world — be- tween the forces of preservation and those of development. The cone is a world view fueled by Those of its proponents — our natural enemies — would have us believe that as a district-wide community of many small! simple weighborhoods, North Vancouver District is hopelessly outgunned by the more formidable provincial, federal, and corporate movers and shakers who already have decreed how our natural environment and resources are to be utilized. Their propaganda war suggests that this is the price we must pay to become 2 so-called ‘world-class city,’ which is reafly only a euphemism for the enemies’ own ‘world-class greed.’ They would also have us believe. we must strike a compromise be- tween the forces of development and preservation. The word ‘com- promise’ in the enemies’ pro- paganda battle plan being that of “business as usual.’ . North Vancouver District Coun- cil needs to seriously rethink the entire concept of the Official Community Plan. Because inhei- ent within every OCP is the fatal flaw of ‘compromise.’ For all the hopefulness and giossy optimism of the many OCPs, they have built into them the gradual piecemeal destruction of the natural legacy we, as citizens of the North Shore, desire to leave to our future descendents. It is so not because there is a ‘conspiracy’ by any one specific group, bui more the conspiracy of an entire world view and the civili- zation that supports it. In short, it is us. What district council should have heard, therefore, at the Lynn Canyon Park public hearing. on May 30 is that they are being called upon to take'a much more bold, precedent-setting stance that will, This delicious meal is available every Thursday from 4:30 p.m. in any Bay Restaurant-Cafeteria. Available in seiected stores only. . he QS ay Park Royal - Capilano Buffet 2nd Floor if we possess the political courage “ and vision as a district-wide com- munity, most certainly put the North Shore on the leading cutting edge of a new consciousness that cannot but assert itself in the de- cades yet io come. A new consciousness that in- tends to go far beyond the present myopic western econom- ic-political-cultura! world view towards that which speaks to the sustainability of all life in our greater community of relations. We are asking you to be the vi- sionary generals in our new army that while at the presént.may only seem like ‘The Mouse That Roared’ is, in fact, the legions of a new future that beckons us forth. Jerome irwia North Vancouver All Sales Final SALE! SALE! SALE! Final Clearance Summer Steck CAPILANO MALL 985-4450 Helen’s Children’s Wear STARTS JULY 13/89 Featuring our Dress Sale — buy one § at regular price and get another up to the same value for $1 — Sizes 2-14 20-50% off Boys’ & Girls’ Sportswear 2-14 7 4142 E. Hastings North Burnaby } 298-5141 293-0715 4 : Parking at rear § Take a Slice off Doug! Friends of Doug Collins and the North Shore News invite you to attend a retirement roast. Saturday, July 21 at 10:00 a.m. Join us at the Centennial Theatre to give Doug | a grand retirement send-off. - Hosted by Pat Burns, you’ll have the opportunity to hear | ‘the community, politicians - | and the media pay tribute to Doug and the controversy only he can create! | | Tickets are available at the : North Shore News offices. $10.00 per person. , ‘north shore. 6 1139 Lonsdale Avenue . North Vaneccuver, 8.C 985-2131