Opinion

Dear Editor: I have received a letter from ICBC regarding a refund for past overcharges, I assume there are thousands of these in B.C. clearing up some bureaucratic need.

Dear Editor: Re: WV Puts Brakes on Cedardale Bike Route, Sept. 26 What a miserable story. What West Van desperately needs is more bike routes and less hysterical NIMBY reactions.

Dear Editor : Re: City of N. Van Votes Down Draft OCP , Oct.

Dear Editor: Re: Bike Lane Not Wanted Here Either, Oct. 3. I was surprised to read that Melinda Slater did not know about the bike lane along the 1000-block of Keith Road. It is already there.

Dear Editor: Re: City of N. Van Votes Down Draft OCP , Oct. 1 "We've taken away property owner's rights to create revenue." Coun. Linda Buchanan as reported in the North Shore News, Oct. 1. Pardon me? I must have missed something.

In May, we wrote an editorial, warning City of North Vancouver council not to let this happen. After years of work, the CityShaping OCP is bogged down in a procedural rat's nest with just weeks before the 2014 municipal election.

Some time ago, the province announced the appointment of a new municipal auditor general, saying the watchdog position would ensure more financial accountability at the local government level.

Dear Editor: Re: District of North Vancouver council's dirty little secret. I take extreme umbrage at Trevor Carolan's latest malicious ramblings pertaining to the issue of "closed" or "in-camera" meeting regimes.

North Vancouver - Dear Editor: May I use your pages to make a heartfelt thankyou to the young man who picked up the bill for our dinner at the Cheshire Cheese Inn on Sept. 24. 'Twas my husband's 98th birthday and your kindness was truly appreciated.

"Having mental illness is kind of like being plopped into a small boat and cut adrift in a torrid sea." Dr. Allan Burgmann, head of Lions Gate Hospital's inpatient psychiatry program, describes mental illness (from a Sept. 28 news story).