Opinion

Well folks, it appears we survived last month’s shop-till-you-drop mass purchasing ritual driven by Yuletide commitments and the theory that spending our hard-earned cash in close proximity to where we live boosts the hometown economy.

It is with great concern that I write to urge Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and MP Pamela Goldsmith-Jones to withhold the federal environmental certificate for the proposed Woodfibre LNG facility for Howe Sound.

I spent 50 years in the newspaper business in the western provinces, and throughout my career, I witnessed the disconnect between aboriginal people and the non-native society.

Dear Mother Nature: Ha ha, the joke’s over now. Please return Squamish to its usual milder and personally more preferable winter weather. Same bat time. Same bat channel. It was super-hilarious that on Dec.

The envelope was slipped under the newspaper office door after hours, a letter to the editor that appeared mysteriously. As editor, it was addressed to my first name, “Attn: Christine” even though it was from someone I had never met.

I read in the paper that there is another holdup in the sale of the Oceanfront lands. (“Oceanfront surprise ahead,” Dec. 31.

I have a snow blower. Every time it snows, I clear the sidewalk for our property and better part of the block, five or six or more properties on either side, and help neighbours with their driveways.

Ten years ago, shortly after the announcement of the 2010 Olympics, we bought a house in this unassuming town.

It seems that bad news is pervasive lately, so the good news that Squamish residents received in their mailboxes last week was welcome.

Many thanks to the Squamish Chief news staff for publicizing our unique Squamish Eagle Watch Volunteer Interpreter Program and its various activities during this wintering bald eagle season.