Opinion

A controversial sewage plant build, sinkholes, lawsuits, massive staff turnover, a municipal employees strike and accusations of bullying - Sechelt's now on the map for all the wrong reasons.

Editor: It's happened again. Less than two months have passed since Vancouver Sun columnist Daphne Bramham's last castigation of Sechelt - and she's lashing out again.

This week was a big one on the Sunshine Coast - if you were a high school graduate, parent, grandparent or educator.

Editor: Is John Gleeson "Off the Beach" or off his rocker (Coast Reporter, June 21)? His views could not be filled with more inaccuracy and misconceptions thanif they had been printed in Pravda or Red Star in 1950.

Editor: This is my eighth Canada Day.I am a landed immigrant, one who is very thankful and happy to be here. Where I came from, we celebrated ourselves boisterously, desperately, even dangerously and then we realized there was much less to celebrate.

Editor: In Suzanne Diamond's letter advertising the recent march (organized with the assistance of the Knights of Columbus) protesting what she calls "gendercide," she asserted, "It may come as a surprise that it is legal in Canada to have an abortio

Editor: I spent 24 years with the District of Sechelt, retiring five years ago. I was a non-unionized, union and exempt employee through this time.

Editor: Mayor Henderson's airy dismissal of the municipal union's accusations of bullying simply by saying no grievances were filed clearly shows an apparent ignorance of the labour relations process (Coast Reporter, June 21).

Editor: This letter is directed at a small group of Sechelt (and non-Sechelt) residents who are intent on trying to undermine the Sechelt mayor and council by getting in the way of any and all plans for growth.

Editor: Each year our beaches attract thoughtless individuals who stack up wood, building precarious enticements for children to climb.