Opinion

In response to John French’s Dec.

Yet another successful winter eagle count is in the books and the dedicated volunteers who do the count each year have recorded one more historically valuable figure.

You can tell a lot about people by the way they react to a snowstorm. And it’s surprising how differently communities across North America cope with the white stuff.

She was heading out on vacation as I caught up with new Squamish Mayor Patricia Heintzman.

Should Olden Squamish be forgot and never brought to mind? A river vortex rife with life, a lush land lost in time, Of virulent forests fair, and wildlife there, a valley rich and so sublime! Long have we hiked, rode trails, skied slopes, oh tripped

There is a toxic relationship between the fossil fuel industry and too many of the world’s powerful people who protect a business model that has reaped billions of dollars in profit at the expense of the rest of us.

It isn’t so much the LNG (liquefied natural gas) port that is so environmentally bad; it is the process of fracking that seems to cause problems. It has been reported that the groundwater is effected big time – is this true? No one knows.

I would like to thank Keith Sones of Squamish for his well written letter to the editor in the Dec. 18, 2014 edition of The Squamish Chief newspaper. I thought that LNG Woodfibre put on a great presentation on Dec.

There is someone I know who has been suicidal six times in his life. We talked at length about naming him in this column; he said he can’t risk the exposure. And that is the problem.

The year 2015 will be a promising one for Squamish. We’re one of Canada’s most vibrant communities with new leadership and an emerging entrepreneurial spirit.