Opinion

The following letter was sent to the Prime Minister's office and copied to Coast Reporter for publication.

Editor: I read with interest your article "shedding light on needs of young adults on the Coast Reporter website. Attracting youth to the Sunshine Coast requires high-speed Internet and blanket cell phone coverage. These two services are essential.

Editor: I would like to thank Cathie Roy for her moving, and in content, disturbing piece on the situation Ms. Howe finds herself in (Coast Reporter, editorial, May 28). I worked in therapeutic residential care for years, some years back.

I can't count how many times my journalism school professors informed us students that a reporter's responsibility is to "give voice to the voiceless.

Editor: I attended the May 11 and May 25 Gibsons planning meetings and wanted to comment, and perhaps further expand on Margot Grants letter (Coast Reporter, May 28).

Editor: And so it begins.

Editor: Editor's note: this letter was submitted by a youth as part of a resolution agreement developed during a Restorative Justice conference. This youth also completed 10 hours of community service and an essay on the effects of marijuana use.

By the time you start reading today's edition, phones will be ringing in Halfmoon Bay, Roberts Creek, Elphinstone and West Howe Sound.

Editor: I would like to thank the conservation officer (not a typo) for letting the bears eat my pet chickens. But according to him, bears do not eat pets.

Editor: Recently, 73 residents of the Creekside neighbourhood in Gibsons petitioned the Town to implement new zoning bylaws that would guide the development of new housing in Creekside.