Bay blasting not just a local

Dear Editor:

Hey, just another fetter from a “cevbaby NIMBY” in Horseshoe Bay, But to those British Columbians who think this is just another local issue — you are wrong!

Of course the people in the Bay are upset, we can see with our own eves that the space within the Bay area (water and land) is finite. (It's like jamsning a size 10 foot

Westview clean

Dear Editor: _ Re: Like, lose the litter, Friday July 21, letter to the ‘editor.

Trying to figure out haw the litter got onto the road, doesn’t solve the problem.

into a size + shoe.)

You cannet cram another ferry berth in, and instead of looking for long range solu- dons for the transportation issues of the entire region, (or even medium range like a reservation system, or bring- ing back the C-class ferries fully), the BC Ferry Corp is planning to blast our chou- sands and thousands of tons of rock from the face of the

Cleaning it up will make a difference for a cleaner and safer environment.

If each area in North Vancouver had a cleanup day, the North Shore would be an even greater place to live!

mountain (which carries the only road and rail link to communities such as) Lions Bay, Britannia Beach, Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton and north).

t mean, it’s only taxpayer money, so what the heck, and if they make a mistake (think fast. ferries), why they only have to say “Whoops!” and it is all pushed under the rug.

And why is the NDP's

Volunteers are needed on Saturday, August 12 at 9 a.m. to clean the area near the Westview interchange.

It’s a chance to meet your neighbours, enjoy a cleaner environment, be part of the

Columnists should reflect

Dear Editor: “., In- recent issues of the North. Shore News colum- “nist “Trevor. Lautens com- splains that: Alliance leader .. Stockwell Day has not. been “fairly treated by the national press (July 14), and colum- tist Leo Knight complains ‘about the low “level of debate in this country” (July v2.12). Coming from North < Shore News columnists, \ these complaints are about as “credible. as: Marty McSorley and’ Don . Cherry whining about gratuitous violence in ice hockey. : » Let. me-make it clear, I respect. the right of these “gentlemen, and other News columnists, to express their (thoroughly partisan). pro- Alliance views.” ; .. Roowever, what no citizen ‘on the North Shore should

‘accept.— Whether they sup- .

port the Alliance Party (or not —. is the fact that, the less refuses to provide fair -and equal representation for the. broad» spectrum | and diversity. of opinion in our “community. . : . Every one of your regular columnists .. takes Alliance: (anti-Liberal, ‘anti- NDP)...viewpoint.. There is

not one ‘columnist who tep- ©

spective. hs - This “is not only at odds with mainstream Canadian attitudes -and. values, it is unrepresentative of the peo- ple:’of the North Shore. (Consider, for example, that Reform/Alliance MP. Ted

¢sents.an alternative. per-

-.White received less than half...

the “votes cast in North 'Vancouver inthe last clec- ‘tion... Why does the News not reflect this?)

‘Your - newspaper presents itself as 4 champion of demo- cratic values, free speech and -the. open exchange of ideas. Appealing to these principles you have. seen fit to provide

space for extreme and bigot- :

ed-opinions, judged by any reasonable ‘standard (e.g. ~Holocaust denial).

“\- At’ the very least, there- fore, you owe this communi- ‘ty;some. effort to reflect all mainstream views: and _per-

pectives in a fair and bal-..

nced ‘manner. :

Ifa one-party state is bad, one-party media isn’t much etter, Until current policies

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- columnists ought to look

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closer to home when they want to complain about par- tisan, dumbed-down jour-

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it’s only natural

Crown Corporation changing, the face of the mountain, the highway system and beautiful Horseshoe Bay forever? H's to increase the space tor cars.

They probally used Joni Mitchell's song as their musi- cal theme — “pave paradise, put up a parking lot.”

So, you commuters, skiers, tourists, truckers, overbur- dened taxpayers, fed up resi- dents and environmentalists

up volunteers needed

community, and have a fun time.

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