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NEWS VIEWPOINT _ Prepare for quake

remier Mike Harcourt has’ got it dead

wrong when he says we're as prepared oas.we'll ever be for the big earthquake

that experts. say is overdue for the B.C. coast. ‘ Monday’ 3L.A, shake brought heme a pre- “carious reality’ coastal British Columbians ith daily:. we can expect a massive rihquake, afvany time. Seismic hazard researchers examining the local quake record ‘are puzzled by the lack of quakes off the west’

eoast of Vancouver Island.

oy They cal it'a seismic gap. Immense pres: “-“sures.are building underneath the Pacific as. he-Juan de: Fuca oceanic plate squeezes the |

; northwest ‘coast,

“The plate face between: the continental | “slope and the outer continental shelf is

: Hecked.

‘Sooner or. r later something will snap. When’

Richter scale.

it does, we’re in for a subduction quake in the order of magnitude of 8.0 to 9.5 on the -

‘Do. not look to politicians for help on this one. We must look after ourselves. The North and West Vancouver Emergency program is at work helping North Shore residents work to prepare themselves.

While governmental agencies will play ‘their part in responding to disaster, the hard . truth of the matier is that we must collective- ly adopt a survivalist attitude in planning for, the impending upheaval.

The emergency response: planners advise ; that we must be prepared to be self-sufficient . in the wake of a major quake. -

_On Feb. 12 North Shore Emergency Sorta

Services is holding a volunteer orientation

seminar, Call 987- 3086 to register.

"LETTER OF THE DAY ter trash limits needed j in W V

Dear Editor: ; ~ “As a resident of Bowen Island, |

cam ‘appalled that, West Vancouver - ~has only just imposed a limit on the.

“number of garbage ‘cans per house-

* hold per week’ and that. ‘the limit is

“three, « ‘ Residents on Bowen Istand had ‘a limit of two cans per houschold ’ for. many ‘years up until last year “when we switched to a user pay per __ean system. We now have to pay $35 for'an “annual permit. for the first can and

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Publisher : Managing Editor . ‘Associate Editor

Peter Speck .. Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright

$75 for every can after that. + As.a result, most households put out only one can per week.

+ What do we do if we occasional-

_ly exceed the limits of our one can?

We can buy a one-time- -only permit

for $2.50 for each extra can or we .

can take it to the transfer station and pay there.

- Many families of three or more frequently put out less than one full

~ can per week. They do this by recy-

cling, composting, evaluating their

purchases in terms of amounts of

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packaging and recyelability of™

materials and using their own bags at the checkout stand.» -. / While [applaud putting a limit on the numbers of cans, three seems excessive. Perhaps a system

similar to ours where people have .

to pay specifically for each can of

_ garbage will make them more responsible toward the amcunts of’

garbage they are creating.

Sheila Haggersfone Bowen [sland

986-1337

contains

985-3227. § pal recycled libre +

Two crossings

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DON’T RUSH to swallow the large red herring served up by Victoria’s environmen- tal consultants on the Lions Gate Bridge problem.

Acres International Lid: are pro- noting a new five-lane bridge — a Proposil already aired by their client, the government itself —- as though it were a done deat. It ain't.

The Community Focus Committee chaired by sports tycoon Arthur Griffiths and other study groups are still working on all 10 or so options before making

recommendations to'the Highways - ;

Minister.

The simplest option being to fix the bridge’s rotting deck, put cyclist and pedestrian sidewalks outside the cables and hope that the lowers — certified as “sound” —. will last another half century,

With work done at night it would mean no daytime hold-ups for commuters, no new savaging of Stanley Park, a modest $85 million bill and the preservation of Vancouver's most famous land- mark.

A Cadillac-style upgrade costing up to $240 million would see the towers heightened fora cable-, ‘stayed Structure like the Alex ‘Fraser Bridge, carrying four lanes

and possibly double-decked. That

/ would make commuters a tittle hap-

pier and everyone cise LESS happy. . ; * Environmentalists would fight the needed widening of the Stanley Park causeway and heritage buffs

. would bewail the change in the > ©

bridge’s appearance, Ditto when we move upscile into the $320-$360 niillion estimate bracket for a NEW four or five-lane bridge adjacent to the existing one, which would eveniually be tom down. -

Finally, there are the tunnel options, ranging in price from $360 million to $1 billion, all environ- mentally suspect but at least avoid- ing any disruption for commuters during construction.

The most attractive comes from’

‘the engincers for the George.

Massey Tunnel in Delta, Hans

* Bentzen and Kurt Hellin — one

key reason being money. -

The price tags for all the other main proposals mean tolls would likely be inevitable. But the : ” Bentzen-Hellin tunnel plan would

“use fill excavated from the seabed

to crenie a 100-acre island in Coal. Harbour, with sale of the resultant real estate paying fcr. virtually the’

solution to growing cro:

e price_ of fixing one? —

HITHER AND. YON .

whole $l billion cost of the project. “So'if Messicurs Bentzen and

Hellin can guarantee their math,

why not go for'a twin solution?” - Fix the Lions Gate Bridge deck,

and stay optimistic about its towers. .

At the same time build the tunnel as a long-term — and cost-free —

Inlet tral fic. *. 4 » -By the year 2000 we'd have over (wice the capacity ofa new’ -

five-lane. bridge, with minimal , inconvenience meanwhile to com- muters, and all for a paltry $85 mil lion with probably no tolls, .

Can anyone fi gure outa better

. deal, Arthur? fe moos

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SCRATCHPAD: Latin and jive

ballroom dancing sessions run from’

today until March 9 at West Van. Ree Centre — phone 926-3266 for i ‘Neighbourhood House.

’ Craft Circle (next meeting Friday,

Jan 21; 1-3.p.m.) needs volunteer insiructors and supplies — call 987-8138 if you can help ... Learn the how-to of technical writing. i Cap Coliege’s Communication

250 program, Tuesday. évening: . Jan. 18 to April 19.—— for info.-con

tact 986-1991; local 2585 or. 25%

.. Tomorrow, Jan.:28, wish happ birinday to Hoilywood’ s indestruc- tible George Burns at 98°-:. Ditto. to the NDP’s Grey Eminen ‘¢ Bo Williams who's 61,2. And ye! again to 63-year-old former.Socred fi inance minister Mei Couvelier:

jawbone of in ass is just as ‘danger- ous a a weapon today.a as i in : Samson’ s

Sales & Marketing Director Linda Siewart Comptroller Doug Foot

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