Opinion

Editor: White Poppies For Peace made their first appearance on Armistice Day 1933.

Editor: With respect to a recent article in your paper regarding the claimed non-pecuniary conflict I may have relating to a biosolids plant in East Porpoise Bay, some elaboration is in order.

Editor: Having just returned from a mental health healing farm in North Carolina, which will serve as a model for Cottage Farm, I would like to share my experience.

Editor: As the autumn unfolds, just a reminder to drivers to pay attention to the roadsides for deer - and slow down.

Editor: It was revealed at last week's council meeting that Mayor Inkster, on behalf of council, has written a letter to Coun. Keith Thirkell stating the significant impact that the proposed biosolids plant will have on East Porpoise Bay properties.

Editor: Unless you are involved with someone waiting to be admitted to a long-term care facility, you are unaware of the crisis concerning the abysmal lack of registered (approved) care facilities on the Coast.

Editor: The following letter was sent to Sechelt Mayor and Council and copied to Coast Reporter for publication.

Editor: There is no question that the stigma of mental illness still pervades every part our society.

Editor: A recent Coast Reporter article ("Coast stimulus projects to beat 2011 deadline") noted that the SCRD received just under $3-million in funding for infrastructure projects through the federal government's economic stimulus grants.

Way back, a million years ago, when I was a criminal justice and public policy student in university, my professors used to lament with the class what we perceived as mediocre to abysmal crime reporting by the media.