Opinion/Letters to the Editor

As a followup to Tuesday's editorial, "Where's Dick?", Cariboo-Prince George MP Dick Harris was part of the Canada Day celebrations in Quesnel and then took in the Williams Lake Stampede.

On Friday June 22, a man in an old truck ahead of me in the Tim Horton's drive-thru in College Heights paid for my order. It was a random act of kindness from someone I didn't know.

Oil companies have us brainwashed to believe we should expect to pay world prices for our gas. Well then, the price of oil went to $100-plus, our gas went to 133.9 per litre. Now the price of oil is below $80 a barrel.

In all the numerous articles in local papers and ads for the public hearings now taking place, the question always asked is how can timber supply in BC's central interior be increased? The question should the timber supply be increased is not asked a

It seems like only yesterday that Matt Pearce and Susan Lambert, along with others within the BCTF, were condemning government on its choice to appoint Dr. Jago as mediator in the ongoing contract dispute.

The federal Conservatives ran a big full-colour quarter-page ad in Saturday's Vancouver Sun featuring the B.C. caucus and forgot to put in the chair of the B.C. caucus, Cariboo-Prince George's Dick Harris. This isn't Harris's fault, of course.

I would just like to thank Dr. Kingston, the nurses and the student nurses for making my three night stay in the hospital in late April a great experience.

Smart Money

A nice way to spend Canada Day is with a history quiz. Without further ado, please put your thinking cap on and get to work. Answers are at the bottom if no amount of headscratching helps. 1. What was the Canada Day holiday originally known as? 2.

The proof is right there on the front page of Thursday's Citizen. It was graduation day at Harwin elementary Wednesday and Citizen photographer Brent Braaten captured a group of Grade 7 students in a celebratory mood.