Opinion/Letters to the Editor

I would like to thank the city snow removal for doing such a great job of coming back and cleaning our parking area.

In response to Bevin Cardinal's letter in the Jan. 13 mailbox. I have no idea what the difference is between a teaching assistant and an education worker, but the old saying is, "Education starts at home.

I am one of those old farts who finds reassurance in the fact that the days are slowly getting longer and the world is unfolding as it should. Each day I record the rise and set of the sun that you so thoughtfully supply and relish the longer days.

What a bunch of wimps. If you don't like the snow on the roads move to Victoria. You actually think that the city can plow every street the second it snows, let alone during a record snow fall like we just had? George Willows, Prince George

With the mess in the streets on this weekend, this is a good time to remind people to offer help to anyone stuck. Sometimes even a little push will get a car out. Yesterday a lady was stuck on my street - no shovel of course. I went to help her.

The Canadian Press has been strangely silent about the last Trans-Alaska pipeline spill Jan. 8, which cut the Prudhoe Bay oil production by 95 per cent and raised the price oil to more than $90 a barrel.

The wife and I were absolutely in "stitches" over the caricature of Sarah Palin this morning. I'll bet she never even considered the consequences the public would consider after her, now infamous, posting of the "targets" on her website last year.

Chef Tony Rechsteiner Food For Thought Traditionally oxtails came from oxen, but over time they were harvested from any sort of cattle, including steers and veal. In culinary terms, oxtail refers to the tail of all types of beef cattle.

This is a response to two different subjects. One is the the brutal and unjustified slaying of a non-combative Native man from B.C. in Washington state recently.

On January 17 at approximately 9:30 a.m. a Japanese exchange student left her laptop on the bus as she traveled to UNBC. The laptop is a white and silver Sony Vaio, which is smaller than a regular laptop with Japanese lettering on the keys.