Opinion

The following letter was sent to Sunshine Coast Regional District board chair Donna Shugar and copied to Coast Reporter.

Editor: What is the mentality of the conservation office when they can display a perfectly healthy, dead cougar on the tailgate of a truck, like a prize (Coast Reporter, Feb.

I am frequently amazed by the lightning speed with which things change in our ever-evolving, high-tech world. What was the far-fetched stuff science fiction was made of a few years ago is now the norm.

Editor: At the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) infrastructure committee meeting of Feb. 11, the committee recommended closure of the Pender landfill site.

Editor: I was at the Davis Bay Community Association's monthly meeting Feb. 10, and what a memorable meeting it was.

Just as parents and students in Sechelt and Davis Bay were preparing for their schools to be closed, the board of trustees for School District No. 46 (SD46) pulled a bait and switch this week.

Editor: I am writing to let you know how upset and disappointed I am in your article about the Torch Relay and in Brent Richter's opinion column to go with it (Coast Reporter, Feb. 12).

Editor: Penny Allport is partly right about the wildlife being in their natural habitat (Coast Reporter letters, Feb. 12). The reason deer, cougars, coyotes, etc.

Editor: Bill Forst appears to endorse my private member's bill, for which I'm grateful, but regrettably, he misconstrues the effect of proroguing ("Prorogue: not a simple recess," Coast Reporter letters, Jan. 22). As Mr.

Editor: Sechelt council has been petitioned to allow bow hunting of elk within the urban area in order to "harass" the animals because they are a danger to both dogs and rose bushes. Apparently the kill rate of bow hunting is 20 per cent.