Al0 - Sunday News, November 29, 1981

Ellsworth Dickson

Many people are upset about the provincial welfare cutbacks. It isa sad fact that with high rents, many single mothers are having a very difficult time: As Queen Mary Community School principal Claus Spieker- mann told the NEWS, children are fainting in the halls for lack of food. (See North Shore News last Wednesday, p.A3).

Today's question is:

“What do you think of the’ welfare cuthacks?””

Megan Metcalfe West Vancouver

The cutbacks are unfair to the children. If only adults}rere involved. the cutbacks might be justi-

fied, but why should the children suffer?

Allan McFarlane Vancouver

Just giving out welfare cheques freely is not very productive in the long tun, but there has to be enough money to buy food for the children. | don't see any easy solu- tion to this difficult situa- tion. I also recognize the difficulty welfare mothers have in finding dav care even if they could pet a jab.

Kathy Lucier North Vancouver

1 hate the abuses of the welfare system Right now, it as too bad some welfare children po undernourished. | would like to see some kind of system where a certain amount of the wellare cheque has to be spent on the children Maybe baby food stamps

Anne Rath North Vancouver

Everyone docs not like the welfare system to be taken advantage of. and some people stay on it for years But |} certainly dont like to see the children ol welfare mothers going hungry = | don't agree with the cut backs [na fact) the cut backs may very

cause more problems

well

Greg Layton North Vancouver

With the living and especsalty renting ftseems unfair to cutback wellarc Cheques at the time And Christmas is getting ncar Pdlon t bike to sce children deprived

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amazing. Water 4s flowing under the dyke road. also.”

He says of District's at- tempt to rectify the damage caused by the Halloween Day storm: “It’s not being given the priority I think it should be given.”

But District Engineer John Bremner says things can't go any faster, whether or-not it might create a threat of more charges being brought by Fisheries.

“If they’re going to charge - they're.

us, I guess,” fie says.

He = says the weather, |

which has kept the level of

the creek -high, has ham-..

pered work there. “We're

moving along but there is an-

awtul lot of work to be done.”

Emergency work to replace the dyke was done immediately after the

catastrophe and contractors have now started replacing the broken leachate line.

Once again. com- munications appear to have broken down District and Fisheries.

McKee has not even yet received a plan of the repair work which is already being carried out and Bremner says it should be forwarded to Fisheries via the Water Management Branch. Meanwhile. he says. the work is proceeding = as

reaching the unreached

Uniecet Canada (4)

Oing to charge

between .

verbally Fisheries. . The work is being carried out by Hubb. Contracting

agreed with

since District staff is primarily engaged in maintenance work and

Bremner says: “We don't have the resources to do this

with our own people.” Even after the two weeks time frame given by

Bremner, there will still be considerable - work to be carried out at the washed out area. :

District. will be blasting for

in protecting the dyke from the water flow.

Cleanup of the river banks strewn with garbage which broke loose from the landfill has not begun and Bremner says he’s uncertain how

District will even Bo about >

doing it.

He considers the present water level too high to be able to begin cleanup and says: “If water levels stay low in January and February it would be ideal to un- dertake it even then.”

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Bremner doesnt know where District will get the labor to do the Cleanup work as he says the garbage will have to be removed: by hand and will require “many. many people”.

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