Opinion

Martha (Tuningley) Cook was born in 1922 on the family homestead near St. Walburg, a town in northwest Saskatchewan. Like many others back then Martha headed west to find work and eventually ended up in Sechelt.

Forest fires as news stories have always been popular. That has never changed. What has changed, however, is how the news media cover them. Not so long ago, the B.C.

On May 9th, there were discussions in this paper on whether or not Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) should continue to exist may need review. Mr. T.

Don Zwozdesky is there that night. He sees Glenn Roche emerge, his body seared by the flames. He hears his voice. "I'm still on fire.

While metro Vancouver ponders the impact of foreign ownership on real estate, some B.C. farmers are raising the alarm over what offshore buyers are doing with properties in the agricultural land reserve. The B.C.

Recently I was a guest of the local infirmary, also called University Hospital of Northern B.C. This letter is a public acclamation of the people there who provide our health care.

This is in response to Dean Soiland's letter to the editor about having a horrible experience in the gym. As the mother of two personal trainers I am very sad to hear that Dean was treated so badly at the gym.

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.