Opinion

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.

Did the Bard get it right when he penned the immortal words "All's well that ends well"? Not if you talk toBellingham resident Frank Choltco-Devlin, whose pickup truck containing his snoozing dog was snatched from the parking lot at the Stawamus Chie

For a couple of days last week, Squamish was in the Lower Mainland media crosshairs, and not necessarily in a good way.

Bonjour from Paris. My family and I are at the start of a month long vacation in France and what better city to beginour travels than Paris.

EDITOR, I read with concern today an article in the Vancouver Province that said federal Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield recently said that the proposed changes to the Fisheries Act in the recent budget Bill C-38 were necessary to "offer new tools

The confetti rained down and a sellout crowd roared its approval at the group of athletes beaming at centre stage. The announcers waxed poetic on what a life-changing moment this could be and how much it meant to the competitors.

(((((Ital precede))))) "Pa don't even like the word writin'. Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im.