WOW! THIS IS VICTORIA! TM GONHA MOSEY DOWN TOTHE PEACH ROB A Suit. Do SOME SHOPPING, MMBBE BUY SOME NEW SHoRTS... PAYING THE GsrON ALLYOOR FUROHASES.. 6 - Wednesday, August 28, 1991 - North Shore News SWELL ILL GO AN SEE meat ha YOUROLD FIAST-¢ReMITH msi ortem =| ¥| CARESS, CANT WAIT D SEE THEO NTS fl NEWS VIEWPOINT Canyon sense HE LATEST Lynn Canyon Park tragedics again underline the un- LT esessie nature of the wild en- vironment that surrounds us. The tragedies will also raise the cry for solutions to stop the carnage; but solutions are easier ordered than delivered. A young couple drowned Aug. 22 after a 21-year-old Caquitlam man dove into Lynn Creek; as he was being sucked under by pool currents a 17-year-old Burnaby gir! jumped into the creek to try to save the man. The two died locked in an apparent em- brace. It is a tale that is both touching and tragic, and it is a tale that has been preceded by other tragic tales — over a dozen people have died at the canyon over the past 12 years — and will be followed by future tragic tales. The grim reality of the Lynn Canyon situation is that people are going to dic. If you give urbanites access to « wild and unforgiving environment, add ai good measure of foothardiness and disregard for past tragedies and present warnings, injury and death are bound to occur. Emergency service workers are now racking their brains to come up with ways to stop deaths among cliff divers in Lynn Canyon. They will consider everything from increased signage and fencing to user fees for Lynn Canyon rescues. All have been considered before. But signs get defaced, fences are climbed or vandalized, and user fees are just another aspect of authority to be flonted. Death and injury in Lyan Canyon could be minimized through common sense and respect for nature, but neither quality can be legislated. LETTER OF THE DAY All housing needs must be addressed INSIGHTS Dear Editor: . chase here when prices were still In tesponse to the recent articles relatively affordable; however, contained in your publication people today in similar cir- concerning North Vancouver District’s failure to act on housing strategies, I felt compelled to offer my opinions as 2 long-time North Vancouver resident. I currently reside in a strata- titled townhouse which happens to suit my lifestyle. From discussions with my neighbors this obviously is a lifestyle choice made by saany families. | was fortunate to pur- cumstances are unable to find af- fordable market townhousing in North Vancouver. I am in agreement with the arti- cles’ statements that development growth must address all forms uf housing and must be controlled to safeguard the environment and the liveability of a community. Notwithstanding this, the lands to create this housing are available now and the safeguard systems are in place. Why, then, does the bu- reaucracy bog down and delay project after project? It would seem obvious that the losers under this scenario are the eventual purchasers who absorb the increased costs caused by delays, and also the North Van- couver taxpayers who are shouldering a tax burden that could be shared more equitably. Terry E. Forbes North Vancouver Publisher __. .. Peter Speck Display Advertising 980-0571 Distribution £66-1337 North Shore Managing Editor... Timothy Renshaw Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Subscriptions 986-1337 manages Associate Editor. . 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UN rmoae s SOA DIVISION venue, Bo 61,582 (avetace circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) <3 1991 North Shore Free Press Ltd All rights reserved NVD ALD. aidermanic duty obstructed. Manners - not at root THE STORM in a beer mug over the Sikh who was barred from a Legion hall because he wouldn’t remove his turban is typical of today’s screwed-up thinking — fostered by Ottawa dimwits — about ‘‘racism.”’ First, however, the basic facts. Every Legion branch in the land has the same .ule about headgear and it’s perfectly justifiable. After all, the few white males who still wear hats are expected to remove them when they're guests in private homes. Just one of those odd western customs. And Legion branches, being private clubs, are entitled to have their equivalent rule observed — by EVERYBODY. That's ‘‘equality,’’ isn’t it? One of the reasons why people from countries that don’t have much of it immigrate to Canada. Ah yes — the turbans are not “‘hats.”’ [ know. They’re religious symbols. Devout Sikhs are for- bidden by their religion to remove them on pain of heaven-knows- what. And the Charter guarantces freedom: of religion to all Cana- dian residents, doesn’t it? Certainly. But what it DOESN'T guarantee is freedom to practise your faith in ways that offend other Canadians. Other- wise, why can’t Archbishop Douglas Hambidge launch a cam- paign calling upon Sikhs to aban- don their ‘‘heathen”’ rites and convert to Christianity? Racist? Nonsense. I’m sure Sikh cabbie Gurdip Sahota considers the White Rock Legion members who shut him out to be ‘hea- then'’ --- as to any good Sikh, in- deed, they are. But while we're talking about equality, just try visiting a Sikh temple here in B.C. with your shoes on and (if female) with your head uncovered. Yet surely there’s a very simple answer to such problems. You're a non-European im- migrant. You've left your homeland and settled in a very different society to seek a better life. You find it here — otherwise you presumably wouldn’t stay. In addition, you’re officially en- couraged to remember the old homeland and to keep the values you brought from it. The assump- tion, of course, being that you won’t ram them down the throats of the other 95% of Canadians. So on the rare occasions when your imported values collide head-on with values equally cherished by your chosen country, why not just quietly bow out? It’s your right and duty to refuse to take off your turban. But why ERNIE CRIST... HITHER AND YON does this also give you the right to change the Mounties uniform or, as @ guest, to ignore the rules of your host? That's not racism. In our funny western culture it’s simply called good manners. . SOUR SMELL DEPT.: North Van District's new policy preven- ting aldermen from attending mectings of council committees on which they don’t sit, except by permission of the committee chairman, has Ald. Ernie Crist mad, and understandably so. Surely EVERY alderman has a duty to voters to acquaint himself or herself — merely as a silent observer in this case — with all the fine details of council issues, which most often emerge first at the committee level. Committee chairmen can now deny this right to a fellow aider- man simply because he may be critical of a policy their committee is dealing with. That’s not how municipal democracy is supposed to work. The new ruling has an unpleasant odor. It should be kill- ed. ece SIGN-OFF: Calling all ex-Navy and wartime Merchant Navy veterans for three days of old friendships, feasting and other fun galore at the Vancouver Naval Veterans Assn. reunion Sept. 20- °22 on board HMCS Discovery. Call 980-7625 pronto for details and registration... Settling into their new home this week after years at Klee Wyck are West Van Community Arts Council and its exec. director Lynn Flipse. The new arts centre is at 1570 Argyle, next to John Lawson Park — phone number (922-1110) un- changed... Many happy returns of today, Aug. 28, to North Van Capilano MLA Angus Ree... And today, toc, happy birthday wishes to former North Van City Clerk Ran Gibbs. WRIGHT OR WRONG: The next best thing to solving a problem is finding seme humor in it.