Opinion

Canada, the United States and countless other countries have been living the multi-faceted international disaster that is the COVID-19 virus. Hopefully these individual national catastrophes will begin to come to a close one of these months.

I am a first-year nursing student in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program currently enrolled at CNC in Prince George. I am contacting you about the lack of response on the part of the CNC administrators to the pandemic.

There is a little cliché that reminds us that if we don’t stand for something, we’ll fall for anything.

The name change for Kelly Road Secondary is complicated and controversial. I followed the rules the school district set out. I provided an email submission. The email requested a place at the April 7 meeting.

I have watched with interest the debacle of the renaming of Kelly Road Secondary. School District 57 has admitted that they did not do their due diligence in canvasing the public about their feelings in the renaming.

I was a PE teacher and coach at KRSS for 31 years, from 1972 to 2003. Through those years, I became a large part of the community and school. I watched two major expansions. I am not in favour of any name change or addition to the name.

Milton Hershey, the founder of Hershey Chocolate, had a couple of failed attempts at business before he founded and built an empire of Hershey Chocolate.

Self-isolation in the era of Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp has had its ups and downs. Some of the memes have been hilarious. The chance to be in touch with family and friends has brought comfort to many.

Been swapping notes with friends far away on what’s been happening during the COVID-19 pandemic where they are and how their country has responded. A good friend from high school has been living in Auckland, New Zealand, for the past 20 years.

A virus hooks onto the outside of one of your cells. It pushes itself in or tricks the cell into engulfing it, and then it hijacks your cell’s machinery to turn your cell - yes, part of your body - into a virus factory.