Opinion

Re: Take care of your own kids, Citizen editorial June 19 In response to your diatribe against the $10/day child care plan... of course parents take care of their own kids and child-care services support families.

As the staff of Vanway elementary school we would like to publicly congratulate our teaching colleague, Neil Wolfe, in his role as director of our outstanding school choir. The Vanway Trebles Choir recently took part in Performing Arts BC.

Even under the clear, blue skies and the luxurious heat of the first day of summer, the anger and resentment over what public service employees are paid doesn't melt.

We live on a very kid orientated street. At most given times there is 10 to 15 kids out playing around. The drivers have complete disregard to the 30 km/hr sign as they do Mach one past all of the neighborhood kids.

The article written by Charelle Evelyn brought to light elderly abuse. Sadly this happens more times than naught and as I enter my late senior years, it certainly has crossed my mind of how I will be cared for in my later years.

I woke up this morning to read my Citizen and see the front page declaring Citizen struck by pickup truck.

The plea Wednesday from the organizing committee of the World Baseball Challenge for the community to cough up at least $60,000 in support or the August tournament will be cancelled is the equivalent of a desperate runner charging the catcher at the

What argument has this horde with our short little defenceless summer? That it would swagger forth, belly full of chloroplast, to steal the very air we breathe, and proclaim an early autumn while clothing our trembling aspens in fur coats! Phil Morri

My mother was a resident of the Jubilee Lodge from February 1990 until her death in August 2011. Visiting our mother two to three times per week for so many years gave our family a unique insight into the goings-on of the Jubilee staff and residents.

On the surface, it's pretty hard to understand why someone as beautiful, as successful, as wealthy and as sophisticated as British celebrity cook Nigella Lawson would tolerate for one instant the hands of her husband around her throat.