ENVIRONMENTAL MUSINGS

Write on Bob Hunter

OPEN LETTER TO BOB
HUNTER

Upon reading your column in
the Sunday, Oct. 1 edition of the
North Shore News regarding Ca-
nadian endangered wilderness
areas, I felt inspired to write and
commend both you for writing the
article and the News for having the
unparalleled and admirable sense
for employing you as a columnist.

Although your articles are not
always laden with resounding op-
timism, you do present the harsh
realities of a world in need of help.
It is from journalists like yourself
that we the public can learn.

I believe strongly that the role of

Spared tree

OPEN LETTER TO BRODY
DEVELOPMENT CORPORA-
TION

We are happy to see that at least”

one of the several townhouse de-
velopers on Tobruck Avenue has
retained a mature tree — a large fir
tree — near the sidewalk for all to
enjoy.

This deserves comment because
it is the only mature tree left out of
over 100 on the north side of
Tobruck extending to the south
side of i7th: Avenue. Congratula-
tions,

However, we are sad to see that

the media is to inform its audience
on the issues at hand, which your
column coes. Whatever distance
exists between issues, there is no
dismissing the fact that we are all
part of the same environment and
all must help protect it.

You are to be commended for
your articulation and communica-
tion of the idea that some things
are worth saving like: Temagami,
Clayquot Sound, Carmanah, the
Stein and Lynn Canyon.

So to you, Bob Hunter, I say,
thanks for your every effort. Write

on.
Bev Dusseault
North Vancouver

endangered

the fir is having a hard time surviv-
ing. Surveying spikes have been
nailed into it, and construction
spoil is being dumped and spilled
on the root system by unaware
sub-contractors.

Perhaps you can personally do
something to rectify this until the
City of North Vancouver Council
passes policies pertaining to con-
struction procedures to protect re-
tained mature trees, as other
municipalities have done.

Lena Warrington
Executive Director
North Shore Citizens for Trees

Equal coverage deserved

Dear Editor:

It seems that every recent issue
of your paper has a story, com-
plete with staged picture or photo
cut, of some activity of North
Vancouver City aldermen Bill Bell
or Barbara Sharp.

Whether this is due to pressure
from the Southam chain because
of their current love affair with
Mike Harcourt’s party, or an in-
ability of your staff and reporters

WW. Shore News

to recognize when they are being
manipulated, I do not know.

I suggest that there ere four
other aldermen and a mayor whose
primary concern is for the City of
‘North Vancouver, not to further
their political careers, and they
deserve equal coverage.

The squeaking wheel may get the
grease; it also gets replaced.
Denald M. Currie
North Vancouver

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