Opinion

Editor: We are at Stage 4 water restrictions. Last week’s issue had that headline. I have just, once again, bailed my “short shower” water into buckets to try and keep some of my precious garden specimens from dying away.

Editor: Dear Diary: So many questions, so few answers! I’m standing in my veggie patch filled with lettuce, kale, berries, tomatoes, beans and more, and their only current source of water is what we save from the kitchen sink and shower.

Editor: Nine things: 9. We stink! 8. We don’t ever water our lawn! 7. We don’t ever use a pressure washer to clean our house nor our driveway nor deck! 6. We don’t wash our car but once per year whether it needs it or not! 5.

Editor: I received the SCRD leaflet in my mail today. I was amazed to read the bold typeset: “Our water supply is at risk due to prolonged dry weather”! My reaction? Please finish that statement, SCRD.

Editor: August 11, 2021. Here we are again. Déjà vu from the summer of 2015, Stage 4 water restrictions. What’s changed? More houses being built without a plan for an ample water source. Tax increases. It’s an embarrassment.

Editor: As expected, we are yet again in a water crisis.

Editor: Mr. Trudeau has called a completely unnecessary election in the middle of a pandemic and a climate crisis only because he wants a majority in Parliament.

Editor: Here we go again. With the federal election campaign lasting 36 days, we can look forward to political hyperbole from all parties to dominate the media for that length of time.

Editor: As an 86-year-old, often cranky and unsociable resident of Sechelt, I thought of how we are dealing with life here – and concluded that we are doing very well! Having reached “the age of discretion,” I do not easily express

Editor: Just writing these words seems a travesty. For many of us on Keats Island, Jared Wanamaker, who passed away suddenly on Aug.