Opinion

Our family recently took a two-week vacation in Squamish. Here’s what I noticed, as an outsider from the San Francisco Bay area, about your town: The Good: One day, we met a couple from Ireland, who are working in Whistler for the summer.

This summer, we received a letter from someone in the community about water use. Actually, we don’t know if the person is from the community because they never identified who they were or where they lived.

I t’s official. As of Aug. 3, five new sports have been allowed into the illustrious, velvet-draped halls of the Olympics. The new choices, the IOC declared, will bring fresh, youthful energy to the games.

As a mom, we’re programmed to worry.

I must comment on the article in July 21 edition of The Squamish Chief. The thing that poses a safety hazard on the whole of the Sea to Sky highway is moronic behavior behind the wheel of a “lethal weapon” a.k.a. automobile or motorcycle.

A few weeks ago police raced to a neighbourhood in Sooke on Vancouver Island after receiving reports of a group fighting with bats and pipes.

The reign of error ends soon. Actually, filling in as interim editor, or “Interim Glorious Leader” as I like to call it, has gone more smoothly than expected. As I’ve told people in the office, it has not come without cost for we editorial folk.

I am commenting on the recent document circulated in the Squamish area by the “Concerned Residents of Valleycliffe” (CRV), entitled “FortisBC Compressor station on Mount Mulligan threatens Valleycliffe.

G ot a smartphone in your pocket? A Facebook account? Congratulations – you’re a publisher, just like us. Well, not exactly. Hear us out.

Regarding the front-page article on Lions Bay: I drive the Sea to Sky daily for work and that stretch of the highway has always bothered me. I’ll slow down to 75km/h, and I constantly get passed by cars doing 90.