Opinion

I went camping this past weekend for the first time since I moved to Canada 23 years ago. Mind you, although we had a tent it was not like the camping I did when I was younger.

The physics world is celebrating this week's announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson particle, but UNBC physics professor Elie Korkmaz expects more people will rejoice when real-world applications are discovered.

Re: Letter to Editor from Tony Wedzinga, July 4 I have also had the pleasure of receiving a parking ticket at health facilities. As of late, they even charge the handicapped.

I have yet to here of any benefits for citizens of P.G. from the Enbridge pipeline. When they start to build the pipeline from Alberta with Alberta contractors are they going to stop at the B.C. border and start using B.C. contractors? I doubt it.

As reported in Thursday's Citizen by the Vancouver Sun's Gordon Hoekstra (still not used to that, since he was ours for 15 years), Carrier Lumber was one of at least 11 BC Interior sawmills that had hazardous levels of wood dust a week after WorkSafe

On page 17 of the July 4 Citizen, in the Hike of the Week column, Rob Bryce speaks of Major Franklin L. Pope who got lost on the mountain.

Thanks to the volunteer fire department, neighbours, friends and family, and everyone that donated or attended the benefit dinner held for us at the Alpine Pub. Thank you for all the help since our house fire on May 1. Ken & Vera Suter Prince George

Having just returned from a visit to the Northwest Territories, I was surprised that the price of regular gas at the pump was less than the price of the same commodity in Prince George. It was $1.31.9 litre at Hay River.

What is happening to our medical system or the hospitals of BC? My brother has had more than three heart attacks and has been in UHNBC for nine days and still has not been medi-vaced to Vancouver.

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