Letters

According to your news report, the CSRD is giving away $7500 in funding to Tappen and White Lake for Halloween celebrations.

Sierra Club B.C. campaigner responds to Tom Fletcher column

Re” Killing bears, one way or another”.

Right now, the federal government is reviewing the Navigation Protection Act—that’s the law that should give all Canadians the right to paddle up and down this land’s waterways. That right is very important to me.

In Tom Fletcher’s Sept. 1 column, BC Education Minister Rob Fleming states: “… B.C. has an ambitious agenda for public education…”

I have been bothered by the ‘opinions’ of some who have advocated a continuation of the ‘grizzly bear hunt’ in the Aug. 23rd and 30th editions of this paper such that I felt that a letter to the Observer was warranted – something I have resisted for some years now.

The recent Observer letters of Mike Morris, MLA, Prince George-Mackenzie, and David O’Farrell of the Yukon, bemoaning the long-overdue legislated end to the overwhelmingly unpopular grizzly hunt, provide a nostalgic glimpse of the outdated Fred Flintstone-Barney Rubble era, where Fred and Barney, battle dire-wolves and cave-bears at Bedrock City, during the last Ice-Age, tens of thousands of years ago.

I noticed in your Sept. 1st edition the article about the fine for tossing a cigarette butt.

The initial firefighters should be loggers and first responders living in the same area as the fire

Urges the restoration of an elected school board in North Okanagan-Shuswap district.