Opinion

The founder of NYC Transportation Alternatives Fred Kent said, “If you plan for cars and traffic, you will get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you will get people and places.

Dear Editor: I have lived in the Dollarton area of the North Shore for the last 55 years and I have looked forward to reading the North Shore News for the last 50 years.

Sept. 7, 1968 – If you couldn't get a ticket, maybe you could stand outside the Pacific Coliseum and hear the guitar licks rolling out into the night. Jimi Hendrix, cranking out the solo to “Voodoo Child,” while the fans stared, entranced.

Dear Editor : I am writing in response to [the news story] North Shore Rescue Warns of ‘Pushy’ Black Bear , by Brent Richter, May 27 print edition.

For the first time this summer, people will be able to legally enjoy a glass of B.C. pinot or can of local IPA in some designated sections of City of North Vancouver’s parks. We say skoal, prost and gan bei to that.

As the horror stories continue to come out of Ontario and Quebec long term care homes, it is worth noting that B.C. health authorities made a series of critically important decisions back in March that likely averted similar outcomes here.

The B.C. legislature is set to resume sitting mid-June (starting on either the 15th or 22nd) and when it does it will have a surreal feel to it. That new reality comes with living and working in the middle of a global pandemic.

Retiring North Shore Bowl proprietor Richard Grubb helped make memories for generations of bowlers

June 1 marks the reopening of provincial parks on the North Shore. It’s about time. Earlier in May, a chorus of hurrahs went up from cooped-up hikers when B.C. announced provincial parks would be reopening.

This is the evidence. Chewed cables. Bits of debris. Droppings. A rat has been spending time in your engine compartment. Rats can cause tremendous damage, chewing through wiring, gnawing on hoses, plugging things up with debris.