Opinion

Editor: Recent letters have mentioned cuts the Board of Education needed to make in order to balance the 2010/11 budget last spring.

Editor: If you are driving around Gibsons looking for a Christmas event to attend, try finding the Town's bulletin boards instead of looking on the usual poles that have in past posted events.

Editor: As a CUPE member working in School District No. 46, I remember the spring of 2010 very well.

The following letter was sent to Ministry of Trans-portation and Infra-structure Minister Shirley Bond and copied to Coast Reporter.

No family should have to go through the torment and anguish that the May family is going through.

Editor: In the District of Sechelt council briefs (Coast Reporter, Nov. 12), Coun.

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.