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Dear Editor: rate) will increase by 20%. 31%. So FE would: be ing Van council: shosid Dr Colleen Git pe an Wiliams “CANUCKS. >

West Vancouver council If West Van increases 31% additional tax to live i be devoting its energies to a *. Gordon Wong and B.C.LIONS
has claimed that in the past — tax rate by 9%, which is one of — the same property as last year — reduction in the tax rate. Park Royai North + 921-1293 Beg Se
three years property taxes — the options being considered, — and politicians complain David A. Fitzgerald
nm sed by 0%, 0% and y faxes would increase by about landlords gouging! West Vancouver

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This is not correct.

Property tax assessments,
which are the basis for caleu-
lating property taxes, have
increased by mere than this i
each of the three
West Van has gained taxes
trom these increases!

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s is 8. . : a
micans that, with ee Bg:
no inerease in the rate of tax, oe i an sa e

the’ municipality will be

~iesonicg ff OF the season just got better!

considering oa tax rate
increase? Surely, in this time of
low inflation and (supposedly)

seal restraint, the council
should be able to make ends
meets with a revenue increase
of 8.5%.

I live in West Vancouver.
My property’ t ment,
which purports to indicate the
value of my property, has
increased by 20% for 1997
over 1996. The property is
exactly the same as it was last
year as no improvements have
taken place. As property taxes

calculated on the basis of
assessments, my ¢ for
1997 (if West Van municipali-
ty does not increase the tax

A good
example
to avoid

Dear Editor:

Open fetter to Mr. Doug
Collins:

Tam writing this letter tc
thank you for all the fine
work you have done for the
North Shore News and the
community at large.

You enabled me to teach
iny children a valuable lesson
about the freedom of specch

ds personal valu My
eldest son and ! were watch-
ing the news together and
the topic of “racism and
hatemongering” came up,
How grateful was I to have a
copy of the North Shore
News in my home. Your col-

umn gave me the example I :
needed to illustrate what a .
“hate mongering” was. “
My late father was a va
Second World War veteran an . ,
who raised me with strict ;
moral values and judgment. I Lo ;
do not believe that your :
“freedom” was the freedom .
he was fighting for. You - ZZ

bring deep shame to the men

and women who make this m Dee Saturday. April 412th
. _ 7

country great.
It is the people like you
that are forging our culture

ahead co spiritual doom BT ue T '
For shame Mr. Collins, ~ , EX RA SHOPPING HOURS!
Tam saddened that there :
are still people like you in
this world; yet at the same
time grateful. You have given
me a perfect example of
who/what I should teach my
sons to avoid in their li
times if they are to become
productive ¢ sand great a = foe —— a sconenenpeeue el
North Vat poe. Eaton’s, We want to be your store: ~

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