Opinion

Editor: For isolated seniors living in Pender Harbour, losing your driver’s licence can be a death sentence. Over the next several years, B.C. is replacing all care cards with photo identification and chip technology.

Editor: As if there were not enough unaddressed concerns about the impact of barging coal in our adjacent waters, now comes another.

Editor: We wish to give our heartfelt thanks to Sunshine Coast search and rescue, RCMP, volunteers and many neighbours and friends for their support and determination to locate our “Uncle Andy” (Hansen).

Editor: Thank you to the “Red Serge Ladies” for creating such a flawless and successful Cops for Cancer fundraising event. And thank you to the Sunshine Coast RCMP, paramedics and firefighters who so dashingly served us.

Editor: In 2006, voters in Area E (Elphinstone) and Area F (West Howe Sound) voted against restructure, which would have incorporated the rural regional districts into a municipal government with Gibsons.

Editor: As an outsider looking at the upcoming 2014 Sechelt municipal election, I’ve come to the conclusion it should be very interesting! There’s a lot at stake for the electorate. This is going to be a four-year term, and on Nov.

Editor: “It’s déjà vu all over again,” said the famed ballpark philosopher Yogi Berra, and so it seems in Sechelt as another civic election looms.

Editor: The Union of BC Municipalities recently released a report they commissioned on the impact the increase in ferry fares and schedule cuts has had over the last 10 years.

Editor: I am writing to update your readers about the new sailing schedules that were implemented in April of this year.

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