Opinion

Dear Editor: In 2010 I was hired by the District of North Vancouver to help implement recommendations from the Fromme Classification Study (2008) with funding from federal grant money (under the Recreational Infrastructure Canada program).

It’s been long. It’s been arduous. It’s been divisive. But the City of North Vancouver is well on its way to having a new official community plan following a public hearing and majority vote on Tuesday night.

Two issues have sprung to the fore in the opening weeks of the legislature that put the stingy (some would say miserly) ways of the B.C. Liberal government on full public display.

Dear Editor: I’m getting weary of all the scare mongering that we have to vote Yes. I have no bus service where I live in West Vancouver. There is not enough money from TransLink for this service.

“Emotion will trump facts every time.” — Keith Baldrey, North Shore News, Feb.

Dear editor: For nearly 30 years the West Coast Alternatives Society operated a substance abuse treatment centre on the North Shore.

We bring you a disturbing story this week about a North Vancouver traffic flagger who was struck by a vehicle during the nightly lane closures of the Lions Gate Bridge.

North Vancouver - Dear Editor: I feel compelled to comment on the appalling behaviour of the majority of North Vancouver's civic council members with regard to density. The latest example, another failed attempt by district Coun.

Dear Editor: No Turf War On These Mountains. Mr. Lautens is so far removed from the hiking /biking trails he knows not what he talks about. I wonder if he has ever even been on Fromme Mountain.

Dear Editor: A nine-bed drug recovery centre is hardly the equivalent of the Mongol hordes. Turning Point has an excellent record. About 75 per cent of those who attend are clean one year after discharge.