Opinion

Events this past week left me wondering if maybe we haven't gotten just a little too attached to technological conveniences for our own good. On Thursday Aug.

Editor, A letter to Squamish: You have been my home for the last four years. In that time I have enjoyed your beauty, swam in your lakes, hiked your trails, and fueled your economy. It was with sadness that I am moving away this week.

This letter was sent to the Sea to Sky school board and copied to The Chief for publication.

Editor, I was having breakfast at the Brew Pub and whilst leaving noticed the deplorable condition of the Squamish, B.C. and Canadian flags flying over the Westmana Development advertising display.

In 1948, two newlyweds moved to Squamish, a rugged coastal community with only boat access. He was from Saskatchewan and had just finished his internship in medicine after graduating from the University of Toronto.

A memory drags me to itself. It's of me and my friend trekking years ago in the Shivalik range of mountains in Himachal Pradesh, a province of India nestled in the western Himalayas. A dense forest of cedar trees girdles us.

Public Eye has uncovered yet another connection between the Campbell administration and Vancouver-Fraserview MLA Kash Heed's controversial former campaign co-ordinator.

The eighth annual Cooper & Fire is the premiere summer event at the BC Museum of Mining that hosts visual artists who will demonstrate, display and sell their works as it relates to the themes of copper, fire, mined materials or materials "of the ear

Base jumping - the term is enough to send shivers down the spines of many less adventurous individuals, and understandably so.

I am sorry to have been remiss in my writing duties of late. My family and I are spending a month in the South of France and thinking about what to do in the garden isn't high on my radar at the moment. Of course there are gardens everywhere.