Opinion

In the past week - unless you've been in a coma, trapped on a desert island, or completely and totally disconnected from any news source (and somewhere else other than a desert island, because I've already used that) - you couldn't get away from news

Our society is rife with ironies when it comes to animal welfare. We routinely slaughter livestock for food, but only behind closed doors, out of the public eye.

Is it just my imagination or is the gathering storm of lunacy all around us yet another confirmation that we're lucky to be living where we are? Across most of the eastern half of the globe, American flags are being torched with reckless abandon, emb

EDITOR, Re. "Building more political walls," Reporter's Notebook, Chief, Sept. 20. Rebecca Aldous should bone up on her historical and current events in Iran.

EDITOR, I have proof! Proof No. 1: While circumnavigating downtown on foot recently, I noticed that our local UHaul truck franchise is well stocked with moving vans. One-way moving vans! Proof No.

Wow, I can't believe we are almost at the end of September already! Fall is coming, and with that, time for renovations, home repairs, all that fun stuff we don't like to do when the sun is shining.

By Sept. 4 it had been a month since the last meeting of council, but it wasn't necessarily a month off.

EDITOR, Humans are curious creatures and every community has individuals who are passionate about some aspect of their environment. Many are obvious such as birders or Streamkeepers or trails society groups.

In the last two issues of The Chief, there have been excellent articles on the upcoming 20th anniversary celebration for the Howe Sound Performing Arts Association.

EDITOR, Just curious.... the Gran Fondo costs each person who enters $250. I'm not very good at math but even I know with approximately 7,000 participants, that is a lot of money generated, with no prize money offered this year.