Opinion

Dear Editor: I would like to share with you a special Christmas gift. Three local grade 6 and 7 classes were recently given the opportunity to help families in need.

Dear Editor: At around 11 p.m. the other night we noticed this visitor sitting on the handrail of our deck. We established that it is a barred owl and it watched the stream below for about 30 minutes.

"He thought he'd have a power nap." North Vancouver RCMP spokesman Cpl. Richard De Jong discusses a man who allegedly took a snooze midway through a break-in (from a Dec. 21 news story).

What do you get for someone who doesn't understand this newfangled email thing? Apparently, the post of Minister of Technology, Innovation and Citizens' Services.

North Vancouver - Dear Editor: I am sure no one purposely disposes of plastic cups and lids for cold drinks in such a manner that they can harm skunks, but it does happen.

It's that time of year when night after night there seems to be a movie on TV designed solely to get all of us crying our eyes out. They're called classics for a reason.

North Vancouver - Dear Editor: Our parents and grandparents had the foresight to support the construction of a network of hydroelectric dams that now supply us with some of the cleanest, lowest costelectricity in the world.They electrified B.C.

West Vancouver - Dear Editor: How lucky am I? Heartfelt thanks to the kind person who returned my handbag accidentally left in a Whole Foods shopping cart. As I am unable to reward this Good Samaritan, I am making an extra donation to a charity.

North Vancouver - Dear Editor: This afternoon, around 3:30 p.m.

Dear Editor: Can we straighten something out once and for all? Modern trains do not whistle. Jeremy Shepherd's story NV City Silences Whistles at Forbes (Dec.