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| stuotes of the week

7 ‘af you don’t learn the first
time, you'd think you certainly.

- Snug Cove Marina owner’

.: Norma Dallas, commenting on the

d like to emphasize how.

: ‘much a part the smoke detector .
played in waking him up and.

how he could have been toust.’:
West Vancouver fire’ prevention:

“Capt. Joe: Haggerty, after a smoke,

-alarm helped save the life of a man’
‘in a West Vancouver home, on the’
importance of smoke detectors and . .
“fire Safety. ie rom a Nov. 12 News:

ir

oT ea: Balor ‘njoyed the: anticle on:

the: “Beaver”: and Harbour Air in the
Senden Aug. 27, North, Shore,
we News..000

” During my university summer ‘of
i266, I'worked as a surface laborer
for Discovery Gold Mines (30 miles -

= north of Yellowknifé'and the ‘deep- '.

est single shaft ‘gold’ mine in Notth ,.
America at that time): :

For six meraorable. weeks, I was
‘on a powerline “cribbing crew” that
“flew! -island-to-island .. between

- Yellowknife and Disc ery, replac- -

ing the “cribbing” and. Feeping the

: “This chang ge will make it pos-

’ Fi sible to increase the chances that

we can stop the opposition from
. rolling back al! the accomplish-

ments we’ve made.”

North Vancouver-Lonsdale NDP
MLA David Schreck, on Premier
Mike Harcourt’s ‘surprise resigna-

“tion, and the benefit it will have for-

_ the rest of the NDP. (From a a Nov.
AZ News Story.)

“ We don’t want any monsters.

4 They would destroy our neigh: , Gi
"borhood.”, Pe r,

* Caulfeild resident John Lenic/ ;
“on keeping monster houses out of» :
* the West Vancouver neighborhood.
o (roma a Nov. 41S News. story. Z

© power + poles standing.”

only. on/in Beavers: with. all. ou
equipment “and .. our 75-year-old

cook - named Alberta (male, and :

named after the province, and proud

of it). We had a canoe ‘strapied ©
‘down to one of the pontoons and I'll -

never forget my experiences. .
Greg McDougall

-: President, Harbour. Air Lia,

‘Richmond |

PS. One of my main “duties”
when at Discovery base was:to oil
down the airfield for the three week-
ly flights of the DC3.

We (five of us) flew volstodiy :

. SPARE A tear for poor
‘Mike Harcourt — another.

, example of why I’d never .
"have wanted a daughter of
mine to marry a politician.

Not that I'd have minded her os

marrying Mike himself,’a thor-;:
oughly decent chap who simply.
. lacked the killer instinct ever to.
become a successful politician.

-For his own and his family’s sake

‘I'm glad he recognized that fact.
“with his surprise resignation
‘announcement fast Wednesday. .'
‘When the sharks gather, get back.
‘fast to’ the beach. aa

In fact, the sharks —: the “gang

_ of six” — had already been named |

in Vancouver's daily tab: --.
Employment Minister, Glen Clark,”
Environment Minister Moe Sihota,.
, Welfare Minister Joy’ MacPhail,
“\Forests Minister Andrew Petter, .:
Labour Minister Dan Miller and.
Finance Minister Liz Cull: They’ ry
‘reportedly plotted ‘to plunge the”
knife into Mikey’s back yesterday
at an emergency meeting of the &
_ NDP provincial'council. :

. |. For once the Premier beat them ‘
to it. But if you quailed at, the i:

thought of a second “Harcourt”,
goveniment, ‘the possibility of the.
‘above bunch of left-wing radicals”
_Tunning B.C: should make your -
hai ‘stand ‘straight on end. .

Fortunately, history’s ‘nasty :
“habit of: Tepeating itself for those:
“ who won’t learn from it makes

~ such @ catastrophe even move»:
~ unlikely than a week ago. The

. leadership convention to replace.
Harcourt may be held as late as.
next March, short months before
>the NDP.must face the electorate
because its mandate i is about to™

In the past foiir: years two other

: hone ottblished tuling parties.

forced to change leaders 'just as“
they were running out of time —

the B.C. Socreds in 1991 and the 1

federal Tories in 1993 — have :
both been wiped off the political

map. * e

“After the Socred debacle :
Harcourt got the NDP. elected.in «
199] by promising moderation, «
respect for. the business sector and =
“clean government” with no -
patronage or dirty tricks, 9.

It is to laugh: Thanks to the”
Premier's inability to control the
machinations and ill-discipline of

_ his hard-core leftist colleagues, : -

,

}

“the scandal-wracked NDP i ig now
backed by less than one in four of”
. the decided voters and so deeply.

-’ mired in the Nanaimo

‘ Commonwealth Holding Saciety

.“Bingogate” charity scam that a

. Tesounding defeat next year bya:
_ bitterly, disillusioned elec orate:
seems inevitable: :

So I guess you might call’ Mike
" Harcourt’ $s dramatic resignation ‘

“everyone ing hierarch;
rises to the level of his own:
4 incompetence.”

‘But that could alm ;
badge of honor, remembering:
damage done by all those politi-
: cians who — tong, ajter passing
~their level ofi incompetenc

; continue. to inflict themselves and

their misdeeds on‘us: Maybe Dan
Miller, the only: moderate i in:

‘SEA-T SKY Highway’s future ;
is the topic. Tuesday, Nov.'21;
7:30 p.m.'when West Van’ MLA
‘David Mitchell talks toa “town
hall ‘meeting" in, St: Monic
‘Church ‘Hall, Horseshoe Bay
. And many nares retums of:
North’

“WRIGHT oR WRONG The
road to success is “always under
‘construction. :

news s viewpoint _

AISE. A’ glass ‘to. the Lower
‘Mainland’s: water system, if you
.Wadares |: | :
‘Because the rains: of. November have

“delivered a disturbing message ‘to all

Lower Mainland residents that there. is
‘something very wrong with the. Nerth
“Shore's reservoirs. ;
“Residents need only look in’ tha
raised glass to see the problem: one
“ Officials’ at the. Greater Vancouver.

| Regional “District, which | oversees: the:

‘ distribution of . water from local ‘reser-
~-veirs, maintain that the. tarbid water, :

--though eile displeasing, i is 3 safe to.

2 drink.

a citagpsanneer

-But concern over. our. once highly.

‘regan ded drinking water remains.
‘The Capilano : reservoir, ° ‘a ‘major
source of local drinking water, has.been
closed since October after a serious slide.’
dumped debris into the reservoir and
‘raised its sediment level beyond the abil-

aly of chlorine to sterilize the water. Mi is

now ‘closed, indefi nitely. Zi
Residents’ receiving. Capilano water.
were ‘then switched” to the Seymour
reservoir, But ‘a ‘recent slide in’ the ;
Seymour watershed. has ‘soiled: ‘that |
reservoir, too."
The: remaining. Coquitlam reservoir :
t__supply__the. - entire. Lower

pe cn EN

Mainland region.
The resuit:, Lower, Maintand. resi

dents have run out’ of clean watel

options. Residents ‘in an area blessed
with. abundant water. resourc *
ask why.” Mey :

“Apart from being i in charge of wate
dis stribution, the GVRD | oversees logging’
in focal. watersheds, which its. ‘official
maintain is carried out as a forest main

‘tainance program. But logging ‘Was and:

continues, to disturb the fragile ecologi-
“cal balance i in, Jocal. watershed:
November’s ‘muddy: ‘water, is just

‘another example that, illustrate that.
.

reality.