Opinion

July is a busy month. In addition to two major music festivals bookending the month (Smithers Midsummer Music Festival and ArtsWells Festival of All Things Art), there are three, fairly important, birthdays to plan, prepare and perspire about.

Having worked in education for over 30 years, I consider myself to be one of the luckiest people on the planet, and I look forward to continuing my work until I am in my 70s.

In light of the recent fire activity and the daily and sometimes hourly updates on weather you would think people would be smarter about smoking and open fires.

As usual you are to be commended on your research and presentation of the facts and your take on a particular subject. You were spot on relative to the points you set out to emphasize (editorial, July 11, "Don't let empathy make you a jerk").

Once again, more comments on topics leaving important facts out of the comments, which in reality is just plain propaganda which seems to be the norm these days. Firstly, Todd Whitcombe mentions the B.C. Place roof replacement.

Sure they lost the negotiations with the Greens, then lost the confidence of the house, then lost power. But some B.C. Liberals are determined to look on the bright side. "We have the most powerful opposition in B.C.

The emotional connection to the places people call home has been on full display this week, from the Cariboo wildfires evacuees in Prince George to Tl'etinqox First Nation chief Joe Alphonse to Quia Birch, the Prince George man who finally became a C

Canada is blessed with many natural resources and access to fresh drinking water is one of its greatest. Bottled water producers in Canada have played a role in protecting that resource and through leading innovation in packaging and recycling.

Well, I agree with both Neil Godbout and Bill McFarlin about RVs, but more needs to be said. There are really two issues we should be addressiing - how local, taxpaying RVers are treated and how stupid we are about how we treat out-of-towners.

You say that Prince George tap water is safe to drink, but did you ever stop and think how many people have wells in this area, rather than city water.