Opinion

Editor: You reported on Sept. 9 concerns from a number of Gibsons residents around the proposed affordable housing project (“Gibsons’ affordable housing plan faces opposition”).

Editor: Re: The Sunshine Coast Community Foundation and their full-page ad of Sept 9. In regards to Gordon D. Walker’s letter to the Coast Reporter (“Help the homeless,” Sept. 16), we want to make a few clarifications.

Editor: “Shake up the grey cells,” advises Cathie Roy, your former associate publisher (“New goals enhance old loves,” Sept. 16). I sure miss her. She used to shake us up every week at our Toastmasters Club in Gibsons.

Editor: Re: “Try arriving early,” Letter by Margaret Sinclair, Sept. 16. Define early? I have to get to the Lower Mainland for work. As a freelancer I can get called for work as late as the day of, on some rare occasions.

Editor: On the recent issue of priority boarding I would like to propose the following: Those travelling utilizing medical ferry “passes” should be afforded priority boarding ahead of reservations. This is common sense.

Editor: On Tuesday, Sept. 6 I had the misfortune to be ejected from my mobility scooter and suffered a serious head and face injury from striking the sidewalk. An ambulance was called and I was taken to hospital for treatment.

Editor: The logging of cutblock A87125, also known as the proposed expansion area for Mount Elphinstone Provincial Park in Roberts Creek, should be immediately stopped.

Editor: Are the “tree huggers” on the B&K road a nuisance or a sign of an important land use issue? The SCRD has asked the BC Forest Service to delay further logging above Roberts Creek until we sort out park plans for the lower slopes of Mount Elphi

Editor: About the water – or lack thereof. In mid-September we were still at Stage 3 water restrictions. Last summer we hit Stage 4. We are told when we can use water and when we can’t and what we can use it for – or not.

Editor: Re: Stage 3 water restrictions. I think we need to bite the bullet and solve the water issues. Spend some money on accessing or retaining the millions of gallons of water we get and have on the Sunshine Coast. Water meters are not the answer.