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Editor: This dry spell is very worrying and as I go about my daily routine I’m constantly thinking of ways to conserve water. Here’s a list of simple ways to ration this precious stuff during the heat wave.

Editor: Over the past couple weeks I’ve noticed children playing in sprinklers, playing with water coming out of the hose, even one child just standing watching water come out a hose.

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Editor: Tony Greenfield wrote in the 2015 Community Forest Annual Report that logging enhances biodiversity. He argued that open systems (i.e., freshly logged sites) possess greater biodiversity than closed canopy systems.

Editor: I very much appreciate your coverage of my recent presentation on my conservation report on the Elphinstone park expansion proposal (“ELF report finds major biodiversity,” June 19).

Editor: I had to read it twice! There it was, in the June 5 edition: the request by the Gibsons and District Public Library to add a second storey was declined, in part, because of “building height restrictions in Gibsons.

Editor: Almost 20 years ago, I was on the eternal Gibsons OCP committee that discussed “form and character.” Suggestions of a bylaw like Cannon Beach, Ore., requiring specific building form and character rules, were rejected.