Opinion

It's quite shocking really how quickly time passes. Just last week we were basking in the warm sun and savouring languorous, sultry summer evenings.

Editor, I have just read a letter from Brad Hodge ["No saving downtown," The Chief, Sept. 4].

Last week, the Campbell administration announced it would miss its 2009/10 deficit target by $2.28 billion, in part because of a dramatic decline in natural gas royalties.

New school supplies are bought and the promise of an exciting school year lies ahead. Everyone is getting back into the swing of the work and school routine, and down to the business of learning and growing.

Editor, Recently the Chief has received several articles on the issue of bullying.

After a long bout of digestive illness owed to the illustrious H.Pylori bug, I was prescribed a triple therapy of antibiotics. Unfortunately, in my case, the bug may have been eradicated but the terrible symptoms remained.

In 2005, Whistler's community wildfire protection plan warned of "extreme consequences" if a forest fire struck the resort municipality.

You got to hand it to the people behind Summer Break Music Festival 8 - they sure know how to promote an event. A website, a contracted ticket seller, top names in electronic music, four stages, natural surroundings. It all sounds like a dream rave.

Now that the kids are back at school it is starting to feel like fall. All the signs are here. The sign is up in Brackendale for the Fall Fair. The nights feel colder. Darkness arrives earlier.

This letter was sent to Conservative MP John Weston and copied to The Chief for publication. Mr.