Opinion

Why is it that in the evening when it’s dark and rainy, not to mention foggy in parts, the lines on the Sea to Sky highway disappear? I checked during the daytime to see if they are actually still there, and yes, they are! The worst section for visib

Re: “Council supports rainbow crosswalks,” Jan. 21. It is nice that we in Squamish are such an accommodating community, with the District of Squamish council so quickly approving this new direction through crosswalk advertising.

I write this letter after dinner, during which we used a glass jug with the first initial of my surname engraved upon it.

Well folks, it appears we survived last month’s shop-till-you-drop mass purchasing ritual driven by Yuletide commitments and the theory that spending our hard-earned cash in close proximity to where we live boosts the hometown economy.

It is with great concern that I write to urge Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and MP Pamela Goldsmith-Jones to withhold the federal environmental certificate for the proposed Woodfibre LNG facility for Howe Sound.

I spent 50 years in the newspaper business in the western provinces, and throughout my career, I witnessed the disconnect between aboriginal people and the non-native society.

Dear Mother Nature: Ha ha, the joke’s over now. Please return Squamish to its usual milder and personally more preferable winter weather. Same bat time. Same bat channel. It was super-hilarious that on Dec.

The envelope was slipped under the newspaper office door after hours, a letter to the editor that appeared mysteriously. As editor, it was addressed to my first name, “Attn: Christine” even though it was from someone I had never met.

I read in the paper that there is another holdup in the sale of the Oceanfront lands. (“Oceanfront surprise ahead,” Dec. 31.

I have a snow blower. Every time it snows, I clear the sidewalk for our property and better part of the block, five or six or more properties on either side, and help neighbours with their driveways.