Opinion

O h, that lovely time of year. School’s back, and with it comes the opportunity to walk your kids to school.

A lthough they will likely miss their children, it’s still that time of the year many parents eagerly await. Kids in Squamish returned to school earlier this week after summer break.

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I could not disagree more with the letter “Taxpayers want a spray park” published on Aug. 24. We do not need another taxpayer-funded (water) hole to throw money into when we are at the terminus of nearly countless natural water parks called “rivers.

Editor’s note: The Chief contacted the District of Squamish to see which bylaw was being broken.

I always looked at her with admiration. She was always surrounded by a hive of activity. So stately, full of the strength in her healthy life. This living beauty was the tallest tree in downtown Squamish.

Growing up as a white, middle-class male with environmentalists for parents, I was consistently barraged with ideas of the wilderness as a place uninhabited by humans – a place where people could retreat for short periods of time and, in doing so, re

I t’s been 10 years since the doors of Quest University opened to a new kind of educational experience. During that decade, enrollment swelled from 74 to 700 students and the cutting-edge post-secondary institution faced a steep learning curve.

W e were lucky this week. The wildfire burning only 13 kilometres east of Squamish is now 75 per cent contained and, as of press time, it looks like the situation is under control. But the blaze was classified as “out of control,” growing to 3.

I met my neighbour at the end of the driveway on a sunny day late last month, my two-year-old daughter trailing on her bike behind me. He’s a retired accountant, in his 60s, who moved to Squamish with his wife and two children in the early 1980s.