Opinion

EDITOR, The headline in a recent edition of the Whistler Question (June 28) trumpets: "Muni staff costs down by $1.2 million in 2011.

We deplaned at YOW and were immediately swarmed. Like Hare Krishnas pushing carnations, Ottawans kept forcing themselves upon us just to say, "Thank you.

"You are what you eat." We often hear these words in the media. This month I'd like to offer a spin on that: "You are what you think." Every action, every decision starts with a thought. It's your thinking, i.e.

Just eight years ago, a natural food shortage and a subsequent rise in the number of human-bear conflicts resulted in the destruction of 27 black bears in the Squamish area in 2004 alone.

EDITOR, Our MLA, Joan McIntyre, "backs the resource sector" (The Chief, July 5)? Of course she does. An earlier Chief article (Feb. 17, 2012) reported that she owns Enbridge, Encana and other oil and gas stocks.

Summer is here and it is the season for our district work crews to be out and about working hard on projects throughout town.

Keeping kids happy and occupied on cold, rainy days - when they should be swimming in temperate local lakes and drying within minutes only to jump back in the water - is a challenge to say the least.

EDITOR, It has always distressed me to see families biking around with everyone helmetted except dad.

Now that students are on summer holidays I am sure many of them will be heading to a variety of camps. A new venture to consider this year is the Summer Railway Camp at the West Coast Railway Heritage Park and it is for kids seven to 11.

EDITOR, For the past month I have been taking pictures of the Stawamus Chief and Shannon Falls. They form the iconic view that I call Squamish. They are both visible from most locations between Murrin Park and the Tantalus Lookout.