Opinion

Editor’s note: this letter was sent to the District of Squamish and copied to The Chief. Long-in-tooth Squamish residents will remember when dogs were permitted in Garibaldi Park.

I was riding my bike along a trail on Saturday morning when I turned a corner and almost ran straight into a 40-something man kneeling on the ground. He appeared to be shooting up. What he was doing wasn’t disturbing to me.

‘Never, ever, ever leave your pet in a hot car’

It was just meant to be a fun post to engage The Chief readers over a weekend, but it turned into something more profound.

Let me propose an idea, many will not agree with it, but it could be good for Squamish.

On Friday July 6, I was biking to BC Cancer Agency from my parked car at Park Royal for my third CT scan after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer two months ago. I caught up to a couple, also on bikes.

Summer is the season for development. The more time we spend outdoors soaking up the sun, the easier it is to forget the cold. But the damp, dark winters and long, wet spring floods return every year.

"Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions.

Editor's note: the Rev. Donald J Lawton is a retired priest of the Anglican Church of Canada and a recent resident to Squamish. Like many people in the U.S.

The end of Greyhound bus service in western Canada come November creates a regional transit crisis that is hard to overstate. Locally, many depend on the Greyhound to get to medical and other appointments and events or to visit family and friends.