Opinion

In Grade 6 (1983), my class was led into a room at the far end of a hallway on the second floor of St. Avila Elementary School. We were given a look at the two coveted Apple computers our school had just acquired. Look is the operative word.

It's amazing what a little, or in this case, a lot of snow will bring out in people. The first gentle snowfall tends to bring out the wonder in most of us. We stick out our tongues and revel in the cold crispness of frozen rain.

The lure of fresh powder the past few weeks on the South Coast has been very appealing to skiers.

It's hard to take a full year's worth of news, sports and arts and entertainment and condense it into a few pages in our Year in Review edition, but somehow we have done it.

The South Coast has been hit hard the past few weeks - bringing snow and lots of it. You would think that with this smack of winter, road crews would be out there clearing our streets, making it at least a bit easier to get around.

Many wanted a change, and boy, did they get it on Saturday night. Governments on the Sunshine Coast look a lot different following the municipal election.

The normally idyllic B.C. media backwater of the Sunshine Coast became a maelstrom of planes, bears and recounts over the past week.

Election fatigue has set in. This is irony at its best. I haven't lived here long enough to be able to vote, but because of this job, I know who all the candidates are and actually have a solid opinion on who I would vote for.

D-Day is Saturday on the Sunshine Coast and in communities across B.C. The municipal elections are finally coming to a conclusion. But there is still a major part all of us have to play - voting.

According to ICBC and the RCMP, drinking and driving remains the number-one criminal cause of death in Canada, killing an average of 116 British Columbians and injuring more than 3,100 more each year. Those are sobering statistics.