Opinion

A warm welcome is extended to all those folks who are in town this weekend for the Woodfibre Reunion taking place at the West Coast Railway Heritage Park in the CN Roundhouse and Conference Centre tomorrow (July 23).

The expression to beat a dead horse, as many are aware, means to waste time on something that has already been attempted a definition I feel should nonetheless be clarified given recent occurrences at this years Calgary Stampede whereby two race hors

EDITOR, The Auditor General's recent report slamming B.C.'s Environmental Assessment Office for their inability to safeguard the public is noteworthy for us "glow in the dark" Howe Sounders. They are in charge of a few sites around here.

Panic-stricken, face distorted with a mixture of embarrassment and anger, my mother moved frantically, desperate in her attempts to wipe clean the man's expensive-looking gabardine. I had watched it all happen from my favourite window seat.

To the citizens of Squamish, With regard to the story about the docks in Cattermole Slough that began in the Dec 10th, 2010 edition of The Chief and continued in last week's edition of the paper ("Contentious Cattermole dock removed," The Chief, July

I've had a Ray Bradbury short story "All Summer in a Day" on my mind these past few weeks. The story is about a human colony on the planet Venus in which the sun shines only two hours every seven years.

According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction series by Douglas Adams, space is "big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind bogglingly big it is. And so on.

You can help the children of Caye Caulker, in the Central American country of Belize, by donating your used soccer cleats and shin pads as your donations will bring smiles to the faces of children who are less fortunate.

EDITOR, It can truly be said that it is the few nasty folks that we encounter in our life's circles that can often ruin it for the rest almost, that is.

EDITOR, Salt Spring Island has public transit. In June they initiated route No. 6 and service every day of the year. Lions Bay has 15 to 19 buses per weekday, connecting with Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver and Vancouver.