Opinion

As the recent Telus vote showed, every vote does count. So when the municipal election day arrives Nov.

Next to Christmas, Halloween has always been one of my favourite days. Growing up as a kid in Saskatchewan, Oct. 31 was always circled on the calendar.

B.C. Ferries is currently reviewing security measures with all its operations. It's a great idea and one that we applaud, but there are some flaws to the plan. At the recent AGM for B.C.

My life has been a series of hospital visits and tears lately. For a while I even lost my sense of hope for a new day, but when I gave up, hope found me.

Conserve and protect. Those were the buzzwords echoed over and over at the water forum held last weekend. Canadians are notorious water guzzlers. We, as a nation, take our water, both the quality and the quantity, for granted.

Around the office we're starting to get election fever. It's exciting to have such a diverse group of people vying for public office on the Coast.

It struck me as I interviewed Ann Kershaw the other day how much I'm going to miss her being a part of Sechelt council. And while I don't reside in Sechelt, I do a lot of living here. I work here, shop here and occasionally even play here.

We have many student achievements documented in this week's edition.

For the past three months, mental health patients on the Coast have had a safe place to go for treatment in their own community during times of crisis. Those involved in making St.

Growing up as a kid in Saskatchewan, I remem-ber many weekends during the winter spent in curling clubs. My dad was an avid curler. He took up the game in high school and played for many years until he stopped when we moved to B.C. in 1988.