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We don't want 'world class'

Dear Editor: Just read the cri due coeur letter from Sharon Harsford, Ambleside Inertia is Deadly (North Shore News, July 17).

Dear Editor:

Just read the cri due coeur letter from Sharon Harsford, Ambleside Inertia is Deadly (North Shore News, July 17).

Her question regarding change is: "What are they afraid of?"

Well, there are some of us who have been here more than her seven years, and what we are afraid of is that the boosters and builders in their rush to transform Sleepy Hollow into Trickywoo-on-Sea will further erode the quality of life - fast disappearing - that brought us or our parents here 50, 60, 70 years ago.

Of all the horrible expressions which have come along in recent years, at the head of my list must surely be "world class"! If we had wished to live in Naples, Fla., The Hamptons, N.Y., or Carmel, Calif., we would have moved there long years ago.

Jas Derham-Reid

Sleepy Hollow (West Vancouver)