Here are your kicks and kisses for the week of January 12!
- Kisses and huge thanks to the efficient and friendly Gibsons Post Office team who worked so hard to ensure delivery of our Christmas mail and parcels.
- Kicks to the garbage dumper who took two garbage cans full of white paper cups and takeout containers from a public event Dec. 14 late afternoon and dumped them on the ground on Mason Road.
- Kicks to all the family members that traveled across distances to visit their senior loved ones over the holidays while they were suffering from viral illness, spreading their contagions and sending them to hospital.
- Kisses to Thomas Heating & Electric. Thank you for the quick response fixing our family home furnace during the holidays on your days off.
- A thousand kisses for the serviceman at Glass Doctor in Gibsons for so kindly helping me with my wiper blades.
- Kisses to the kind lady and her daughter who went out of her way to help us jump start our car at Sunnycrest Mall on Jan. 2! It is people like you that make us grateful to be part of this community!
- Huge Kisses to Fortis BC workers who recently installed a natural gas to my place, much of the work done in the rain. The guys were pleasant, cleaned up necessary mess, and my gravel drive/parking space doesn’t have the puddles it did before they started. YAY!
- Kicks to the businesses that allow management to bully employees right out the door.
- 50 “special” kisses to the generous gentleman in the white pickup truck that took notice of our SCACL people that try to keep our streets less of litter. These two never thought that people noticed what they do but now they beam with pride. Thank you
- Happy New Year blessings to Tammie at Shoppers, who even through grief and adversity, always manages a smile and warm hug.
- Grateful kisses to the staff at Sechelt Pharmasave, to the paramedics, nurses, lab technician, and especially Dr. Jonathan Lim at the ER, who provided thorough and cheerful care. Hugs to my neighbour for driving my car home, and to my visiting friend from Toronto for picking me up from the ER afterward. Not the New Year start I had wished for, but many angels were surrounding me that day, for which I am forever grateful!
Email your Kisses and Kicks to [email protected]. The deadline for submissions is 1 p.m. every Tuesday for a given week.
Coast Reporter will run kisses and kicks entries as space permits on a first-received, first-published basis.
Submissions must be accompanied by a name and phone number for confirmation by the editor. Names will not be printed in the column unless requested by the writer, for kisses only.
A kick is intended to be an anonymous critique between private parties and may in no way publicly identify an individual, group or business directly or indirectly.
Submissions must be no longer than 30 words. If your thanks or critique is longer, consider an ad in our classified section. The editor reserves the right to edit or refuse to run any submission.
