Opinion

Dear Editor: Today a concerned citizen witnessed more irresponsible pesticide spraying of knotweed by District of North Vancouver and the Invasive Species Council of Metro Vancouver.

B .C.’s senior conservation officers are taking a drubbing following a highly publicized refusal by one C.O. to euthanize two orphaned cubs. Online comments refer to the officers as “blood thirsty” or call them killers. Sorry, but that doesn’t wash.

Water conservation has been top of mind these past couple of weeks in the face of tinder dry conditions and the steady depletion of the precious resource from our local reservoirs.

Dear Editor: I want to relate the experience my wife and I had taking bus route 246 on Monday, June 29 to downtown Vancouver instead of taking our car. Since we are both seniors, the combined “cost” would be $11 for a return trip.

North Shore residents are shaking their heads in disbelief this week over the news that there have been a number of deliberately set fires in our community. It’s hard to forget that the province is on fire.

It looks like the weather is going to cost B.C. taxpayers dearly this year, but the provincial government is still only taking baby steps when it comes to dealing with what appears to be the chaotic effects of changes in climate patterns.

Dear Editor: I read with interest the article Cat Shot at Point-Blank Range, July 1. It must have been a slow news day for this story to appear on the front page.

Dear Editor: Amidst all this anguish about housing prices, we wondered where on earth we would go if downsizing after 60 years, and today there it was — Page A18 in the Vancouver Sun, a full-page ad for Hotel Georgia.

Dear Editor: Re: Cat Shot by Pellet Gun at Point-blank Range, July 1 news story. The article by Brent Richter raises a problem which may or may not be related to the injuries incurred by the “outdoor cat” of Ms. Jennifer Hill.

On Sunday, we woke with the taste of smoke in our mouths. The Lions Gate Bridge and downtown skyscrapers grew fainter behind a grey b rown haze.