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A7 - Sunday, March 27, 1983 - North Shore News

Dear Editor: *

I was disappointed and dismayed after reading a report in a recent edition of the North Shore News with reference to changes

contemplated for Ambleside Park.

As I remember the changes would close the through road at the

Children’s Playground and convert the grassy area west

NV City poorly served

by council

Dear Editor: To charges of mere political posturing,

Alderman Dean of North

of this to a parking lot. lam certain that the proponents of this idea are not familiar with the way the park is used. I use the seawalk almost daily for a walk and I am quite familiar with park usage.

Many people, even on rainy days, drive to the sea wall to watch the passage of boats and ships to and from the harbour. Many are elderly and: often do not

even get out of their cars to enjoy the view. The police make regular patrols both day and night which | am sure is quite a deterrent to vandals, although even with that service there is still evidence of vandalism i.e. public telephones disabled and shakes pulled off the picnic shelter roof on a regular basis.

I believe that the parking is presently as good as can be

Don’t change Ambleside Park

expected and would not be significantly improved by closing off the park road and eliminating parking inside. One aspect is that we would lose approx. an acre of

green, and seven ornamental >

trees.

Mr. Mayor and council, I hope you will reconsider your decision and allow the park to remain as if is.

A.J. Duncan West Vancouver

Seniors rap W.Van school closure

OPEN LETTER TO MAYOR HUMPHREYS We are all residents of the Kiwanis Apartment Com- plex for Senior Citizens located immediately south of Pauline Johnson school. We have just learned that the school is slated for closure this year..

We have enjoyed wat- ching and hearing the

children for many, many years. We think it is shocking and unnecessary to close this school which has so many children.

Surely there are better ways to save money.

We demand to know what will become of the school

building. As grandmothers and great grandmothers, we

wonder why the children would be required to attend a crowded school in a busy commercial area when Pauline Johnson School site is so Safe and open and they can be near their homes. Don't citizens and parents have any say in these itm- portant matters? Mrs. E.M. Smith and 35 other signatures West Van.

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Vancouver City has raised the issue of the impropriety of City council returning from its Committee of the Whole in-camera meeting and endorsing. that com- mittee’s recommendations before an empty chamber late on a Monday night.

f submit that the public is poorly served by such action and that, as servants of the

public, council should adjourn after the C.O.W. and act on its recom- mendations at the next regular council meeting before the full view‘ of the public.

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