Opinion

Editor: The new animal control bylaw currently under consideration by the District of Sechelt (Coast Reporter, Dec. 25) certainly gives pause for thought.

Editor: It's time to put out an APB on common sense. We already have a leash bylaw that isn't enforced and too often not respected. Interpretation is the problem. It's an easy fix. On leash equals no interpretation needed. Well, almost.

Editor: As someone whose close relative suffers from mental illness, I feel qualified to comment on Dr. Martiquet's latest column (Coast Reporter, Jan. 1).

Editor: My family and I went to Dakota Ridge right before Christmas to check out the snow and go for a cross country ski. As usual it was absolutely beautiful. But what was really great was the warmth of the warming hut.

Editor: We would like to thank Coun. Keith Thirkell and others (with the exception of two) for their hard work on behalf of us, the taxpayers, in creating a new bylaw that was badly needed.

Editor: Stop the presses! Sechelt council, are you going after cats for chasing birds next? How about children for chasing balls? If you pass this idiotic piece of dribble concerning the dog bylaw, whether it be with or without provocation, you deser

Editor: Your editor is a reasonable and intelligent person, so I find it surprising that he would write such an incomplete commentary about Sechelt's latest animal control bylaw (Coast Reporter, Dec. 25).

Editor: I am a volunteer driver for meals on wheels in the Sechelt area. On Monday, Dec. 21, I picked up meals to deliver.

What a relief to know the Sunshine Coast's clear and pressing need for a permanent sitting judge in Sechelt is "under consideration" by the Ministry of the Attorney General. And here we were thinking we'd been forgotten.

Editor: I couldn't help but notice the profound irony with which two seemingly unrelated stories in Coast Reporter (Dec. 18) were inextricably linked. In the one story ("Pro-gram 'just the ticket' for youth"), Const.