Opinion

Editor: Congratulations to Andrea and Bruce Kerr for running a very successful Learn to Sail program this past summer.

Editor: On Oct. 1 I attended the public meeting on the George. After 22 years on the Coast I heard once again the same voices raised in opposition as I have heard opposing so many other excellent initiatives in the past.

Editor: Although I live in Victoria now, I remember as a child my grandfather Walter Boucher living in Granthams Landing feeding the seagulls from his window overlooking the coastal mountains.

Editor: Re: Designating the Dr. Frederick Inglis home, Stonehurst, as a heritage house. What a splendid idea and a well-earned tribute to an honourable pioneer family. Although not aware of it, I met the good doctor when I was three weeks old.

Editor: Re: “George Hotel blues” (Letters, Oct. 2). Really? The presence of the Gibsons Waterfront Defence Association at the George open house caused Mr.

Editor: Canadians are approaching what is likely the most important federal election in a generation. While in our system, unlike the American one, we do not directly elect a leader, our individual vote for our MP is a proxy vote for a leader.

Editor: Voter turnout fell to 59.8 per cent in 2008. The median voter turnout for a Canadian general election since 1867 was 70.3 per cent and the highest voter turnout was in 1958, 1962 and 1963 and was up to 79 per cent.

Editor: Several hundred coastal residents attending last week’s all-candidate’s early-evening forum at the Sechelt Band Hall were stood up by Conservative candidate John Weston. Again. Though this one was arranged to suit Mr.

Editor: I wonder why John Weston backed out at the last minute from the Oct. 2 all-candidates forum in Sechelt.

Editor: Re: “Mr. Weston finds a wedge issue” (Editorial, Oct. 2). One of the more frequent concepts bandied about by the “liberal left” is the term Canadian Values.