Opinion

Six weeks ago our dear reporter Jenny Wagler wrote her final column on the topic of all the planning that goes into writing your fabled exit column. Now it's my turn. Yes, starting Monday, Jan.

While it's not too surprising, the fact that the Sunshine Coast is becoming a haven for organized crime groups to set up shop for their drug operations is certainly unsettling.

I am very excited to be back behind a desk at Coast Reporter covering the community I love. For those of you who don't know me, a quick recap. I came to Coast Reporter in 1999 straight out of journalism school in Calgary.

Interesting - just one of many words to describe B.C. politics these days.

Welcome to 2011. So how was your holiday? As usual when Roy and recreation are in the same sentence ours was not uneventful. It started out easily enough.

Editor: I want to thank everyone at Coast Reporter, especially staff writer Jenny Wagler who first brought it to our attention, for helping us in Davis Bay and Sechelt.

The following letter was sent to member of Parliament John Weston and copied to Coast Reporter. We wish to congratulate you and your government for making Canada a signatory to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Editor: There are many Coasters who haven't heard of the devastating flooding in Bella Coola. Basically, all the agriculture has been wiped out.

Editor: The article on logging protestors stopping traffic on the B&K requires some clarification (Coast Reporter, Nov. 19).

The following letter was sent to member of Parliament John Weston and copied to Coast Reporter. My very "with it" 101-year-old mom alerted me to the advertisement in Coast Reporter (Nov.