Opinion

The following letter was sent to the Sunshine Coast Regional District and copied to Coast Reporter. Regarding your invitation to dinner and entertainment at the Cedars Inn on April 1: my partner and I will not be attending this event.

Editor: Paul Keyes letter (Coast Reporter, March 26) chastised the federal government for its upcoming G8 summit foreign policy initiative which focuses on maternal and child health care in third world countries, particularly Africa.

The following letter was sent to the District of Sechelt and copied to Coast Reporter. Just a short note to your parks department to thank you for mounting the dolphin stump on the Davis Bay seawall.

Editor: I welcome the harmonized sales tax, for it reminds and resolves me to spend and make do with less and less; to simplify; to revel in small is beautiful; to get it from Mother Earth instead of a store; to delight in making and growing it mysel

Editor: In June, Canada will be hosting the G8 leaders summit in Toronto.

Editor: Reading Ms. Rowan's letter (Coast Reporter, March 5) struck a nerve, and I must say I was surprised at all the negative points she stated. Ms. Rowan was a former occupational therapist with School District No.

Editor: In Coast Reporter, March 19, the story "SCRD confirms transfer station option" has some misleading information in it.

Editor: I was flabbergasted when I read our banana republic pre-emptively voted for the transfer station against the clear majority of Area A residents.

Editor: I think it is important to remind people once more that crossbow hunting of elk has been going on each winter since 2006. This is happening in DL 1647 right beside the golf course.

Editor: In 1949 on a closed public road near Santa Barbara, and with the blessing of the California Highway Patrol, North America defused the problem of hot rod street racing, and a remarkable new sport blossomed. B.C.