Opinion

EDITOR, The government is proposing to appoint a mediator to find a settlement to the teachers' dispute.

EDITOR, I want to write to you and tell you the kind of community we live in. I was diagnosed in 2010 with cancer. Since then I have only found love and compassion from the people of Squamish.

Following the media reports, one might be excused for believing that the youth in the province are being held hostage by a group of radical extremists bent on overtaking the government and undermining the very fundamentals of democracy. B.C.

EDITOR, I want to write to you and tell you the kind of community we live in. I was diagnosed in 2010 with cancer. Since then I have only found love and compassion from the people of Squamish.

EDITOR, Voter fraud? What next from our esteemed "Conservatives"? I hope all have been following the latest voter fraud shenanigans back east and are regarding it with some well-deserved suspicion.

Editor's note: This letter was sent to the District of Squamish. It was copied to The Chief for publication. Re. Recently altered parking arrangements at Brackendale General Store, post office and restaurant.

EDITOR, While Squamish City Hall and the chamber of commerce reassure us that the economy is improving, cold statistics tell a different story.

Many gardeners are growing their own food these days, with good reason. We've talked a lot about vegetables and herbs in this column, but lately I have been fielding some questions about growing fruit, particularly apple trees.

Type "sounder" into Google and the first thing that pops up is a reference to a 1969 book about the story of a young African-American boy living with his sharecropper's family.

EDITOR, Well said, David Burke ("It's not the road" Editorial, Chief, Feb. 24). It is not so much the road and though fewer, we still have error-driven crashes. Seventy-three is still many which mostly could have been avoided.