Opinion

This is an open letter to all those people who enjoy our local three-day Sea Cavalcade.

So much of our former four lane highway between North and Pratt roads is now lying uselessly fallow beneath bands of yellow traffic control lines.

In a recent editorial, we questioned B.C. Ferries and, more specifically, the provincial government and their apathy towards implementing recommendations to improve the ferry service contained in the comptroller's report from late last year.

We see the brilliant yellow patches everywhere in June - scotch broom along roadsides, each year in more and larger patches. Some love the colour and scent, others loathe it, but what matters is that it is a highly invasive and dangerous plant.

I am writing the Richter Scale this month from the driver's seat of my car. Not to worry, though. I am safely aboard the Queen of Surrey, heading back to the Sunshine Coast after a weekend in the city.

Cathie Roy called them "opinions posed as questions," Coast Reporter, June 5. Was, "what is your program success rate an opinion? No - it's a simple question that deserved an answer.

The residentsof Area E have serious concerns regarding a transition house on Pratt Road, as witnessed by thepacked Elphinstone Electors Association meeting June 10.

I was born in Iran and have lived in Canada for decades. One of the reasons I left was the systematic persecution my family and I were subjected to because we are Baha'is.

It's that time of year again - the time when all the Grade 12 girls drag the far more reluctant boys to buy their suits and a tie the exact shade of her dress; the dress she bought months ago in anticipation of the big night - graduation.

Re: Hearts of Hope (Coast Reporter, May 29). The Wilson family have done a wonderful job with three children. They are at school with my grandchildren and I admire Erin and Richard for their delightful family.