Opinion

T he Squamish Chief put out a Facebook alert for vaccinations after Vancouver Coastal Health issued a warning about several new cases of the mumps. Sounds pretty innocent and straightforward, right? Well, wrong.

T he provincial government is offside in its requirement that drivers in the Sea to Sky Corridor put on winter tires by Oct. 1. Rather than this early date, the rule should apply starting in November, at earliest, when the temperatures really drop.

I s this little patch of paradise heading to hell in a handbasket? That is the question some folks are asking themselves with each passing day. And they’re more than ready to share their opinion on The Chief’s website and Facebook page.

Editor’s note: This letter was sent to Squamish council and copied to The Chief. The Copper Coil Still & Grill has a four-star rating on Trip Advisor.

The front-page photo of The Chief on Oct. 5th, “Squamish Nation trailer park closes,” really touched me. I was drawn back to it a couple of times over the weekend. How quickly we can have the rug pulled out from under us.

If someone planned to con a large fortune out of your bank account, would you forgive them if they also gave some pocket change to your favourite charity? Why do I ask this? In the comments of a Facebook ad pitching Woodfibre LNG’s “Community Sponsor

Mayor of Pemberton Mike Richman’s words, “Easy is for another guy,” stuck with me last week at a gathering of politicians from British Columbia.

Regarding reporter Jennifer Thuncher’s Q&A with our mayor (Sept. 21), she uses as a yardstick of her job performance some statistics that were probably given to her that are irrelevant to any true analysis of her job performance.

Thank you, Michaela Garstin, for the article about the internment of the Japanese Canadians (“ The day they were forced to leave the Woodfibre pulp mill ,” published Sept. 21). I am third-generation — “sansei” in the Japanese language.

S quamish is booming, and there is no better proof than to look at Government Road.