WEST. VANCOUVER-Howe Sound MLA. John .
. Reynolds has become the second B.C. Socred to :
take complaints about the media to the newly- -

| Ellsworth
| PDFZAB formed B.C. Press Council.
Dickson Reynolds is asking the companied ‘the letter carried |:

ere. are countless beautiful “summer press council. to decide an apology for the two er-..

: whether a letter to the editor rors.
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Times-Colonist, pointing out

Inlet and saw the famous Chatterbox errors in two stories, should
Falls. Te owas. “totally awesome’. as. the. kids have been published on the

: front.” page | of that

a” oo | newspaper.

The letter, which ap-
peared in the regular letters

“As noted in my letter

both these misleading stories 7

were on the front page,”
Reynolds wrote in a letter to
press council chairman Ian
Greenwood. “My question
to the press’ council of
British Columbia is to see if

to the editor column of the you feel this is fair correc-

Egan A et aye Times-Colonist, took the tion.”
v) on spot?’ f Victoria daily. to.task for in- Earlier, ‘Labor minister .
HA celeb abel ad accurate reporting. Bob McClelland approached ; by \

; Reynolds said the paper the press council with. com-
was. guilty ‘of irresponsible plaints about; Vancouve
reporting in an-article which Province::- -columnist’. Allan:
‘erroneously. reported that
the government had cancell-

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gram. . 7 bee = ean 4
Michelle Storiot He also” chastized the Estimate |
North Vancouver newspaper for a front-page ~ ° a rhe se

. photo caption that identified You've heard about living with the mother-in-law (mine's:
ultus Lake is my NDP caucus workers as “de- great), and living with a monkey on your back, and-all those

‘favourite place. It's not fiant.civil servants.” other-cliches describing a somewhat less than perfect lifestyle.

‘too .. far... and we

Now Iii tell. you about the most uncompromising companion
of all, like living in tight sneakers for a lifetime, and that’s
living with the estimate. By this I mean eyeballing. the damage
on someone's vehicle and giving them a dollar figure for repair,
and ‘honouririg in ‘to the last bean. [ll tell you, it’s gotten so

every tine T pull my wallet out of my back pocket, my left eye
- snaps shut: >" -

Ez Cougar Manouever. Dept.
: -There‘once. was_a lady who came in with a Cougar. If this

sounds like the first line of a nursery. rhyme, 4d assure you it
. isn’t ... the-brute had leopard spots of rust everywhere, and I’

An editors note that ac-

. 5. fi Ochs Lage ' was just having:a long look at it when the owner told me I
Sr i Rice Pilaf ‘needn't bother, since I'd estimated it.a year and a‘ half:ago... »::.
Pkt ppcaiciesie ‘She had the exact figure, ‘written down, and there { was — 22

‘hours labour on the thing plus 2 rate Increase on labour &

| -material: A slight adjustment was needed, then everyone was

‘|. happy. Naturally, there was about a million times more rust
after'a year anda half, a fact not taken into consideration by .
the worthy customer,

Lowlife Lowball, Dept.

“Then there is the time-honoured tactic of chucking a low
estimate into the fray and waiting to see what.pops out. Often,
its the job. Recently we bid:on a damaged truck to an Alberta

» Insurance company, along with two other shops. Sure enough,

* someone lowballed it, revised up once the truck was in the shop

._ a “captive job”, as it is known. Even though it was an out-of-

. province insurance company tn this case, it can just as easily

‘happen to you.

| We Two in a Bath, Dept.

Considering all the weird estimates we've made, such as on
baby prams‘and apriplane ‘bodies, we're pretty ) gored at it.
“|. Every once in a while, we will soak ourselves though.

But, all in all we stand behind our estimates.

. Words of Wisdom from Ford

Uncle Henry had a good philosophy, “It it not the employer
- who pays wages, he only handles the money. It is the
customer who pays wages.”

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