Opinion

Editor: I am writing to commend Jenny Wagler for her column (Coast Reporter, April 2). We very much need to do more to keep our young people on the Sunshine Coast - in fact, we need to attract even more talented and motivated people.

Editor: In response to Wagler's Watch, (Coast Reporter, April 2), a superb column. Right on the money. Let's all go there, yet how? It's about the whole community coming together.

Editor: Jenny Wagler's column, "Where are the Coast's visionaries?" (Coast Reporter, April 2) struck a chord. She is absolutely correct about what is happening here on the Coast.

One of this province's most colourful and at times controversial politicians could be current Premier Gordon Campbell's worst nightmare. That's right folks, the Zalm is back and he's ready for a fight - a harmonized sales tax (HST) fight - that is.

Editor: If one was sitting on the patio in Dundarave, sipping a mojito, one might say, yes, the Sunshine Coast is evolving. However, as a Coast resident of over 25 years, I beg to differ.

Editor: The population of Sechelt is forecast to grow from 8,454 (2006) to 13,171 in 2021 if recent growth rates are repeated. The population of West Sechelt alone will be between 8,000 to 10,000 according to the official community plan (OCP).

As we creep up on the one-year anniversary of the start of the debate on the future of the Pender Harbour landfill, the level of discord in the Area A community is getting pretty tough to watch. The Pender Harbour.

Editor: Jenny Wagler's "Where are the Coast's visionaries?" column managed to say in the last five paragraphs of her dissertation in Coast Reporter's April 2 views column what the majority of Tillicum Bay/Tuwanek residents have been trying to say for

Editor: Thanks to Jenny Wagler for a great op-ed (Coast Reporter, April 2). The Sunshine Coast is a wonderful place to live at any age, but it can be lonely to be between, say, 20 and 40 here.

The following letter was sent to member of Parliament John Weston and copied to Coast Reporter for publication. Dear Mr.