Opinion

A year ago, new to the Coast and Coast Reporter, I was still enamored of ferry rides, petrified of bumping into bears by night, and trying to gauge if Coast culture was - as a Gibsons-born friend of mine wryly described it - "all fringe and no middle

Editor: I'm going crazy here worrying about the new cap on the oil, the fires consuming our beautiful province, the fires in Russia and the floods everywhere.

Editor: I wish to comment on Reg Armstrong's letter about the use of the bike lanes along Redrooffs Road (Coast Reporter, Aug. 6). I bike along Redrooffs usually at least twice a week riding a road bike.

Editor: It's a perfect day in Sechelt. Hundreds of dolphins are in Trail Bay this morning (Saturday, Aug. 14). Maybe they are welcoming the many tourists attending the Writers Festival. We do have a pretty little town.

We are in full festival swing here on the Sunshine Coast - and what a swing it has been so far.

Editor: I feel compelled to respond to the letter from the Coast Community Builders' Association (Coast Reporter, Aug. 6) in which they endorse the proposed bylaw changes affecting industrial zoning in East Porpoise Bay.

Editor: Re: Supply glut, HST slow real estate market (Coast Reporter, Aug. 13). I couldn't help but laugh at the headline of your article and the rationale presented by the experts quoted in your article.

The following letter was sent to the Sunshine Coast Regional District and copied to Coast Reporter.

Editor: I wish to comment on Reg Armstrong's letter about the use of the bike lanes along Redrooffs Road (Coast Reporter, Aug. 6). I bike along Redrooffs usually at least twice a week riding a road bike.

Editor: John Weston mentioned in your paper (Coast Reporter, Aug. 6) that he had received no emails criticizing the cancellation of the mandatory long form census. Well, I was one of those who never wrote to him.