Opinion

I have coined a new term – a label if you will – for people like me, of which there seem to be many in Squamish. We are “rippies,” redneck hippies. (I toyed with “hippnecks” and “redpies,” but those labels just didn’t have the same ring to them.

“The living city is not an island: its metabolism is interlinked to surrounding ecosystems and its people and culture networked to other viable urban cells to form a living and developing tissue, a net primary producer (of energy), not a parasitic sy

Re: “Oil and lube proposed for entrance to downtown Squamish.” First, I would like to say thank you to Councillor Susan Chapelle for standing up against this project.

The Woodfibre-LNG project requires three main things to succeed: the continued consumption of fossil fuels, fracking to extract the fuel, and for the majority of citizens to support the project.

Huge thanks to our volunteer firefighters. The recent events have been a true test of bravery, tremendous courage and true dedication to the people of Squamish and to our town and our homes. The pier fire is the biggest fire this town has ever seen.

I recently had the privilege of traveling to the beautiful Hawaiian island of Kauai for a much needed vacation.

It was eye-opening. We were handed gloves, pick-up tongs, a yellow garbage bag and given 20 minutes to pick up as much trash as we could.

In today’s television world, it’s doubtful that David Letterman would even get a second look. He’s not exactly cosmetically appealing, with his chipped tooth, gangly frame and hair some claimed was a wig.

A few months ago, the Squamish Chamber of Commerce held a panel discussion at Chances Casino on the topic of improving the local business climate. The key take-away message was that businesses need to work together to create a marketing vision.

She had promised that things would get better. Six years, she had said, let’s try to make it last six more years. But it didn’t last six months before she started in on us again.