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Judge’s actions ‘disgust’

Dear Editor:

Like many of your readers,
especially those of us who know
Jan, Eugene and Nick Kiss, | am
filled with a sense of anger and
disgust at the actions of Judge
Kenneth Scherling in the matter of
the penalties to be paid by James
William Bergen who was responsi-
ble for the death of Anthony Kiss
last Feb. 18.

Tam even more disgusted when I
read on page five of the penalties
received by John Raumann (a 50-
year driving suspension for driving
without due care and attention)
and by Stephen Douglas Shea (12
months in jail for two counis of
break, enter and theft).

It is acknowledged that there
could always be more to a situa-
tion than can be concluded from a
brief news item, and therefore |
feel you would be doing your
readers a service if you were to
give us more information about
the three accused who were invalv-

Helpers got
meals through

Dear Editor:

The snow storm of Feb. 7 made
it impossible for many of our vol-
unteers to attend to Meals on
Wheels,

Service was cancelled in Deep
Cove and Horseshoe Bay because
of road closures, but there were 65
meals delivered in other areas of
the North Shore.

This was possible through the
wonderful cooperation and gener-
osity of the following:

e The City of North Vancouver
firemen and District of West Van-
couver firemen who transferred
our bulk food from the caterer to
the serving depots in North and
West Vancouver.

¢ Automobile dealers who supplied
vehicles and drivers to assist with
the delivery of meals, including
Specialty Motor Cars, 1234 Marine
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Norma Bean, coordinator

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NV District snow
removal defended

Dear Editor:

With reference to the letters in
the Feb, 25 North Shore News, I
felt I just had to write in defence
of the North Vancouver District
and the snow clearing.

We choose to live on the hilly
North Shore, so why can’t some
people just accept that for a few
days each year the roads are not
going to be kept completely clear
to all traffic?

We live on East 29th Street and
the district plows were always
there. Buses most of the time were
in operation on our route.

Mother Nature did us a good
turn. There were fewer cars on the
road and more people used public
transport.

Obviously, by the sound of it,
your readers are not conserva-
tionists. Will we ever get the
message?

D. Sandiand
North Vancouver

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ed: did any of them have any
previous convictions, were they all
of good character, did they come
from, as the courts sometimes like
to say, ‘‘good families'* or are they
victims of any of the ills and ine-
quities that plague our society, and
should that be taken into con-
sideration when sentence is passed?

[f we don’t know more of the
facts surrounding each of these
cases, then we might somehow
come to one of two cciuciusions:
either a life really is not worth as
much as some stolen property or
else the so-called justice system in
this province is in reality just a

myth, or if it does exist, it does so
for only a select and favored few.

At feast there is one redeeming
feature in this entire sorry episode,
and that is that the sentence ap-
parently is being appealed, and
well it should be. Hopefully, a
sentence more appropriate will be
handed down, and then we will all
have a bit more confidence in the
justice system.

Those of us who had the privi-
lege of knowing Anthony know
that he came from a good family,
too.

Julie Southerst
West Vancouver

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