Opinion

Editor: I was utterly amazed to see in your newspaper that the Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF) had a full page advertisement entitled the Sunshine Coast Community Forest Harvesting Plan (Coast Reporter, Nov. 2).

Editor: Where there is war, there is war rape - the widespread, sometimes systematic sexual violation by soldiers and related personnel against "enemy" women, both military and civilian.

The following letter was sent to the District of Sechelt, Sunshine Coast Regional District and copied to Coast Reporter. I am writing to request that the city provide lights on one of the fields after dark on week nights during the fall/winter.

It was ironic that on Oct. 12, as my column about my Ukrainian grandmother came out, I got a call at work saying my Irish grandmother, Grandma Yeomans, had passed away.

Editor: Paul Martiquet's column "Is organic better for you?" (Coast Reporter, Oct.

Editor: The Canada China Foreign Investment and Protection Agreement (FIPA) was negotiated in secrecy and signed by Stephen Harper and the Chinese leadership at the APEC Summit in Vladivostok, Russia. It was tabled in Parliament weeks later on Sept.

Editor: We were shocked to read, in two ads (Coast Reporter, Nov. 2) that the Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF) intends to proceed with logging what we have come to know as the Wilson Creek forest, Block EW002.

Editor: I notice that the noise bylaw is on the council agenda with a staff recommendation for enactment in due course. It seems to me that there are two specific changes that may be of interest to the public at large.

Editor: I was delighted to read in Coast Reporter, Nov. 2, that 11 electric car-charging stations are now being built on our Sunshine Coast. I feel sure that the 81 electric car owners in B.C.

Editor: I read with interest that the Sunshine Coast Community Forest is resuming its "harvesting" of the forest in Wilson Creek. The word harvest is used here to suggest a reasoned and caring approach to the management of our forests.