Opinion

This last week our green space suffered extensive destruction by a large excavator, hired by our city. This came out of the blue to the residents of this area. We have been informed that the area is now threatened to be rezoned residential.

"Just some good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm, been in trouble with the law since the day they were born," sang Waylon Jennings in Good Ol' Boys, the theme song to the Dukes of Hazzard.

Late in 1995 I got an unexpected bonus just for showing up at work. The branch bank manager slipped into my office, and announced that a local hockey hero's mom was downstairs with her son's recently acquired Stanley Cup championship ring.

There is only one thing that I know of for sure - we all die. That may sound a bit more morbid than I am trying to be but it is a simple truth. We are born, we grow old, and eventually we pass on.

For the past few weeks, the Opposition has been dogging the B.C. Liberals over another troubled information technology scheme, this time at BC Hydro.

We're calling on your collective memory again, Prince George, to help us solve another mystery.

For a left-of-center columnist, Todd Whitcombe writes well. However, his recent observation that, "In the early 1990s, the national debt pervaded the collective consciousness" leaves out a critical element.

This past week we had our recycling picked up or so we thought, but after they left my husband went out to bring in the containers and, to his dismay, we were left a notice stating one container was not being picked up.

Dear Prince George Citizen, thank you very much for your coverage of the Prince George Farmers' Market's opening of the outdoor season.

In the midst of the media blitz caused by the Orange Crush in Alberta and the surprise majority for the UK's Tories, it was hard to give the 70th anniversary of victory in Europe its due attention.