Opinion

Local farmers could be getting some much-needed help, thanks to a private members bill introduced this week by New Democrat MLA Nicholas Simons.

Editor: A group of residents and non-resident landowners of West Howe Sound have been debating the future of this community for the past year as part of the official community plan (OCP) review. Now it's your turn.

Editor: The booming, authoritative voice of the coxswain was clear in the dim emergency lights as they made their way to the life boats.

Editor: Reading Carole Rubin's diatribe against me (Coast Reporter, Nov. 13) made me feel that if I am ever ambushed by a wildcat, I will know what to expect.

Editor: When the Elphinstone Electors and Robert Corlett stand shoulder to shoulder on an issue, one needs to remember the friendly banter that has gone on between us. I have read the Oct.

It's mid-November on the Sunshine Coast, and that can only mean one thing - bazaar and craft fair time. I don't know about you, but those homey sales are something I look forward to all year.

Editor: What a day. Yesterday (Friday, Nov. 13) a bear tore the door off the duck house that was holding the bunnies. They are OK. And today (Saturday) a fair sized two-year-old male deer was hit by a car and died on my front lawn.

The Sunshine Coast lost a good one last week. After a courageous three-year fight with cancer, Reg Thomas passed away Thursday, Nov. 12. He was 75. Reg was a special, special man. His involvement in our community was amazing.

Editor: The recent felling of five ancient trees, in the range of 500 years old, was an act of senseless destruction. These trees, in Roberts Creek, had diameters of approximately 1.37 metres.

Editor: Last week at the United Nations, Canada voted against the Goldstone Report. This was a fact-finding mission commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate events in the Gaza Strip from Dec. 27, 2008 to Jan. 18, 2009.