Opinion

Editor: Laws for people recognize a difference between property crime and assault. If you attack a person, it is considered a more serious crime than theft or vandalism. This also applies to pets.

Editor: In the District of Sechelt council briefs (Coast Reporter, Nov. 12) you reported on Coun. Fred Taylor's committee resignations and quoted him saying that the Davis Bay project was lost through "catering to NIMBY-ism in that community.

Editor: On behalf of the Elves Club, I am writing to ask for your support to help with our Christmas Hamper 2010 distribution.

As news of Prince William's engagement to Kate Mid-dleton raced across the Internet and lodged itself firmly in the Coast's supermarket magazine racks this week, it took me awhile to remember that this wasn't just celebrity gossip.

Editor: In the District of Sechelt council briefs (Coast Reporter, Nov. 12), reference was made to comments by Coun. Fred Taylor at the Nov. 3 council meeting.

Editor: In recent days a story with international impact, national opportunity and local involvement has been taking place in the houses of Parliament.

Editor: Today I'm remembering. Imagining - memories that good fortune and the brave decreed were not to be my own. The momentous cost of moments lost to tyranny and time.

Editor: I want to extend my best wishes to the parents of Genoa May. They should not have to endure the pain they are experiencing, around the issue of parole for the person who took their daughter from them.

Editor: Anyone who has ever volunteered knows it can be a thankless task. Volunteer your time to help develop soccer on the Sunshine Coast, and you'll probably find this to be particularly true.

Editor: What are our Sunshine Coast accountable elected school trustees doing during these costly harmonized sales tax restraint times? Are they restraining themselves? No. On Tuesday, Oct.