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Wrong road work

Dear Editor: The crash barrier on the

they recenily found the money to blacktop over a perfectly good fourth hairpin bend of the — surface between the works yard Cypress Bowl road is spotlessly — and the Upper Levels Highway. clean. During the past five years, | Gone are the scars of dozens have encountered vehicles com- of impacts of vehicles striking ing down the middle (wrong) the grey wall in the mist which lane on eight different occasions. so often hovers around the 3,000- 1 reported this as a problem foot level. Gone, too, are the — after the fourth, fifth and seventh black and white safety stripes occasions and suggested that that appeared briefly a week or arrows painted near the exits to so back — placed there by a film the lookout points might avoid company making an automobile — some of the confusion. commercial. They were told to They thanked me for the good sand-blast them off! idea and said they would look Incredulous, I called those _ into it. Nothing has been done. responsible for the maintenance Finally, | could not resist: of the highway and was told it Why the 60 km/h speed limit would cost too much to keep with no passing lanes for eight painting the barriers (a fraction miles? The answer was not, as I of what it must cost an ICBC suspected, to create a revenue claims, I pointed out). “source for an impoverished West While I had the supervisor's Vancouver municipality or a ear, I asked a few othe’ questions make-work project for under- which, as a regular user of that worked police officers, but road, had occurred to me. Why because of a danger posed by for example is there no barrier or _ wildlife. Why this should be any protection at the bend by the different from the Squamish municipal works yard? Cement Highway or indeed any other barriers would almost certainly B.C. highway, was not ex- have saved two lives that I know __ plained. of. John Dowd The answer was cost, though West Vancouver

Wild animals are victims, too

Dear Editor:

(t was disturbing to see the photo of the injured cat on the front page of the July 8 North Shore News. I empathize with the pain and concern of its owner. But in all the fear and hatred we are spread- ing for coyotes, bears, raccoons, cougars and whatever other wild animals are preying on our beloved pets, we have forgotten that we humans created this situation.

As we destroy more of the nat- ural habitat of these creatures, we annihilate the food chain that has sustained them. Are they villains now because they are seeking food to live? Should there not be an equal or greater outcry about the millions of cows, pigs, chickens, lambs and sea creatures we slaugh- ter to fill our stomachs?

I love animals, domesticated and wild. Because I lost a cat to raccoons this spring, | speak with experience of that sorrow.

As we invade more and more of the wilderness, we will have to accept that the wild beasts have a right to be on this Earth as much as we do and that we had better learn to cohabit with them. They are part of the web of life and to destroy them is to destroy ourselves.

Peggy Stortz forseshoe Bay

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LIONS GATE HOSPITAL A Caring Community

Advance Notice of

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING North and West Vancouver Hospital Society

Wednesday, September 21, 1994, 7:00 p.m. Lions Gate Hospital Auditorium

To vote at the Annual General Meeting, participants must join the Hospital Society or renew their membership by Friday, August 19, 1994, at 5:00 p.m.

For further information please call 988-3131, local 4201.

NOMINATIONS OF MEMBERS TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS North and West Vancouver Hospital Society

In accordance with existing bylaws, there are four positions on the Board to be filled on the night of the Annual General Meeting. Three positions will be filled by residents of the North Shore municipalities (City of North Vancouver, District of North Vancouver, District of West Vancouver). The fourth position is fora Member at Large, who must be a resident of one of the above municipalities or the Rural District of Bowen Island or the Village of Lions Bay.

As in previous years, there will be no nominations from the floor. The deadline for nominations to be received by the Secretary of the Society is Wednesday, August 17, 1994 at 5:00 p.m.

Nominees and nominators must be members in good standing of the Society. Each nomination must be accompanied by a signed statement from the nominee indicating their willingness to stand for election. Nominees may stand for one position only, and nomina- tions must specify which position the nominee is standing for.

Regional Health Boards will replace Hospital Boards once they are appointed in October, 1994. Dates for this changeover are unknownat this time. The existing Hospital Board will continue to operate in its present structure until transition plans are made.

For further information please contact Robert J. Smith, Secretary of the North and West Vancouver Hospital Society, at 984-5783.