Opinion

EDITOR, I have proof! Proof No. 1: While circumnavigating downtown on foot recently, I noticed that our local UHaul truck franchise is well stocked with moving vans. One-way moving vans! Proof No.

Wow, I can't believe we are almost at the end of September already! Fall is coming, and with that, time for renovations, home repairs, all that fun stuff we don't like to do when the sun is shining.

By Sept. 4 it had been a month since the last meeting of council, but it wasn't necessarily a month off.

EDITOR, Humans are curious creatures and every community has individuals who are passionate about some aspect of their environment. Many are obvious such as birders or Streamkeepers or trails society groups.

In the last two issues of The Chief, there have been excellent articles on the upcoming 20th anniversary celebration for the Howe Sound Performing Arts Association.

EDITOR, Just curious.... the Gran Fondo costs each person who enters $250. I'm not very good at math but even I know with approximately 7,000 participants, that is a lot of money generated, with no prize money offered this year.

EDITOR, Re. "The Fondo follies," Editorial, Chief, Sept. 13. I don't know what benefit Squamish received from the highway closure but if that is the support given to the bike ride, it is time we stopped it. Any local patience given was not voluntary.

The American labour leader Cesar Chavez said, "We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and progress and prosperity for our community our ambitions must include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for ou

EDITOR, In recent weeks the trials of the SquamishFood Bank have been prominent in the minds of those in community concernedwithfood resources. Tuesday (Sept. 25) at 7 p.m. at the Alano Club is the food bank society AGM.

My brother has always been one of those who, liked famed playwright George Bernard Shaw, believe that "it's dangerous to be sincere unless you're also stupid.