Opinion

It's mid-November on the Sunshine Coast, and that can only mean one thing - bazaar and craft fair time. I don't know about you, but those homey sales are something I look forward to all year.

Editor: What a day. Yesterday (Friday, Nov. 13) a bear tore the door off the duck house that was holding the bunnies. They are OK. And today (Saturday) a fair sized two-year-old male deer was hit by a car and died on my front lawn.

The Sunshine Coast lost a good one last week. After a courageous three-year fight with cancer, Reg Thomas passed away Thursday, Nov. 12. He was 75. Reg was a special, special man. His involvement in our community was amazing.

Editor: The recent felling of five ancient trees, in the range of 500 years old, was an act of senseless destruction. These trees, in Roberts Creek, had diameters of approximately 1.37 metres.

Editor: Last week at the United Nations, Canada voted against the Goldstone Report. This was a fact-finding mission commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate events in the Gaza Strip from Dec. 27, 2008 to Jan. 18, 2009.

Editor: Have we all gone crazy and lost all common sense? B.C. Ferries wants to close the access gate on the south side by Langdale Creek. Why? We don't know.

A little game of chess between the provincial government and B.C. Ferries may have just got a bit more interesting with last week's release of the provincial comptroller general's look at B.C. Ferries and TransLink.

Editor: Howard White deserves a 'misappropriation of words' award. His letter to the editor (Coast Reporter, Oct.

Editor: This past week, Coast TV very kindly gave the hand painted banners project of Gibsonstime to promote this community-oriented project.

Editor: A small, but determined group of peace activists will hold the 150th consecutive weekly Bring Our Troops Home Vigil along the waterfront in Davis Bay this coming Saturday, Nov. 14 from 12:30 to 2 p.m.