A reader’s
ransom note

Dear Editor:

A few days ago the rear
signal on my car burned
out. Just the signal lighr,
nothing more. So
thought.

Unfortunately Toyota
do not sell one light bulb
and one socket. It is neces-
sary to buy four sockets,
all packaged together. The
representative at the 1-
800 customer — service
number said they could
not do anything about it.
It was packaged that way
“because it can be done
less expensively.” Less
expensively to whom?

My indicator light bulb
and socket cost me an
unavoidable $47.07. plus
GST, labor, ete. Grand
total $74.87. 1 don't
doubt that manufacturers
find a greater profit mar-
gin in selling muttiple
items, packed together ina

lastic bubble than in sat-
isfying the customer’s
needs. But is the public
going to be held to this
-kind of ransom forever?
J. Wolstenholme

North Vancouver

rurore

Dear Editor:

The current furor over
developments along Mosquito
and Wagg Creeks is purely
political and has nothing to do
with whatever fish may be in
these streams.

Claims by the environmen-
talists, with the participation of
the Department of Fisheries
and Oceans (DFO), that fish
habitat in these creeks will be
affected cannot be proven.

The only structure that will
affect the passage of fish in any
stream is a dam, The Capilano
River had a good fish run for
many years, despite there being
a hotel on its bank as well as a
Jogging railroad. When the
Cleveland Dam was built, the
fish run died.

The same applied to. the
Seymour River, and it is only
since hatcheries have been
established below the dams
that the fish are returning. The
dams along the Columbia
River destroyed that major fish-
ery and now the Americans are
constructing fish ladders and
other facilities in an attempt to
rebuild the runs,

By contrast, the Fraser
River, which has no dam, pro-
vides the only major fishery in
our area, This despite having

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canneries, pulp mills, logging
and sawmill activities, and
docks on its banks as well as
railroads on cach side.

None of these has eliminat-
ed the tish returning to spawn.
If there is any part ofa river or
stream that should be protect-
ed, it would be the spawning
areas.

The areas being objected to
are not spawning areas. Wayg
Creek Park could conceivably
be one, and it already has park
protection. The Mosquito
Creek spawning area was bull-
dozed almost down to bedrock.
a few years back to prevent a
recurrence of the flood that
took place in the 1950s.

When a bulldozer was
working in the bed of:
Mosquito Creek preparing, the
site for the new bridge foor-
ings, nobody raised a voice in
protest.

Could it be that the envi-
ronmentalists, and the DFO,
felt it unwise to attack the fed-
eral and provincial govern-
ments over the widening of the
Trans-Canada Highway? Can
they only find the courage
when they feel they can beat a

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friends, to
Vancouver City to voluntarily
‘give away up to 30 metres of

small municipality?

DFO’s entry into this con-
troversy is purely for political
purposes,

their record on protecting
the cod stocks on the East
Coast is not one to be proud
of, nor is their record in some
areas of protecting our West
Coast salmon stock, The recent
news reports that criticize their
ignorance of environmental
legislation has made it impera-
tive they attempt to improve
their image.

Doing so by trying to
enforce a land grab of up to 30
metres of land on either side of
any stream that contains fish
because “it’s in the book,”
shows a complete lack of com-
mon sense. The book was writ-
ten by bureaucrats in Ortawa,
and bureaucratic intelligence,
particularly at the federal level,
is an oxyinoron. For the DFO,
their environmental
ask = North

land on each side of every
creek within its boundaries,
without at least offering com-
pensation, is the height of fed-

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The proposed martial arts
studio is a clean, non- -polluting
facility. “Martial arts” is an
Asian term generally misunder-
stood in the West. There may
not be any racism in the envi-
ronmentalists’ objection to this
faciliry, but the connotation is
there,

Their objection to the siting
of the adult day care centre is
harder to fathom. The people
using, that facility will be the
frail elderly, many of whom will
be blind, some will be deaf,
some will have mental prob-
Jems and many will be in wheel
chairs, To suggest that moving
everything five metres or more
from the creek bank will help
cither the fish or these people is
ridiculous. The blind cannot
see the fish nor the creek, the
deaf cannot hear it gurgling
past, the mentraily challenged
may be in another world, and
those in wheelchairs couldn't
get to it ifthey tried.

1 suppose if you are deter-
mined to be politically correct,
it docsn’t matter whe you hurt.
Instead of the negative attitude
these people have, Pd like to

suggest they:

@ take the time, effort.
lawyers fees you plan to spen
to negatively | impact these pro-
jects and split it four ways: ..

Bi spend some of it helping th
mardal arts studio teach: th
youth of North Vancouver th
kinder, gentler way. of. livin;
that it does;

@ spend some of it on ame
ues and care for those
need the help the adult day
centre will provide; .

@ spend some of it’ building
rebuilding and . refurbishing
actual and potential spawnin
areas on Mosquito, -Mackay,
Mahon and Wagg Creeks;
M spend some of it
school board develo:
hatchery aquarium: for the pi
mary grades in ‘each. schoc
with the resulting fry being p
into the streams, |: ~

‘The environmental . mi
ments have -had ‘their. negs
attitude long enough:
they. did . something - pos
rather ‘than: continuing
object to what others are
toda...»
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North Vancouver .

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