Opinion

The past month has been a trying one for many in our community. Suspected fire bugs have been deliberately setting fires up and down the Coast.

The Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) was formed more than 100 years ago to provide a common voice for local government. To bad it appears some within the organization are not practicing what they preach.

My favourite weekend of the whole year is coming up, beginning Aug. 14. It's the time when I get to meet some of the most talented people in Canada at the annual Festival of the Written Arts.

Potential disaster was averted again on the Coast last week by the brave actions of the B.C. Forest Service and our Coastal firefighters.

If the last eight months were a battle for Blair Wilson, his family and supporters, imagine what the next few months are going to be like as he tries to restore the faith and trust of the voters of this riding? Wilson, the member of Parliament (MP) f

City raised, but rural in heart and mind, my dad's life work was spent as an agri-banker working with farmers, livestock producers and ranchers, which took our family to Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.

Some people in this community just don't get it.

We have a wonderful community that can pull together at a moments notice when there is a crisis. Case in point - last Thursday's forest fire in East Porpoise Bay. When we arrived on scene shortly after 2 p.m.

Sunshine Coast residents use twice as much water per household as the average Canadian with more than 50 per cent of that water consumed during the summer to water our lawns and gardens. It's a distinction we should not be proud of.

The nabobs that know all insist that most memories are triggered by smells.