Opinion

Dear Editor: I am sick and tired of the North Shore News referring to Lower Lonsdale as LoLo. It's not even funny, it's not yuppy, it's just childish. Carla Karreman North Vancouver

Dear Editor : On an almost daily basis, I experience parking violations on my street - Duchess Avenue, West Vancouver (between 15th and 16th).

"Until they've dealt with their liabilities like concrete asbestos pipes. .. I'm not interested in talking to them." North Van City Mayor Darrell Mussatto rejects amalgamation with the district (from a March 5 news story).

Dear Editor : Anyone who has been to the City of North Vancouver council meetings has heard the mayor's admonition that, "A council meeting is like a court of law, so there will be no clapping, booing,cheering allowed from the gallery.

I've discovered a powerful weapon in the fight against the everyday annoyance of childraising, but I fear it may be one too devastating to yield.

Quebec Premier Pauline Marois is hoping to lead the Parti Québécois to a majority government on April 7, and she's planning to do it the old-fashioned way: by appealing to the fearful and those stuck in the past.

Roberto Luongo served both as a goaltender and as a topic of conversation almost as violently contested in Vancouver as bike lanes, and after years of heated speculation about his future as a Canuck, he has now made his way to Florida.

Dear Editor: I've lived in the City of North Vancouver all my life. I bought a home here to raise my family. This is my city.

Dear Editor: I find it interesting that on the same page of the Feb. 23 paper you have an article about someone illogically against liquor sales in grocery stores and at the same time, wanting lower sentences for drug offences.

Dear Editor: As co-ordinator of athletics for 13 of the public and independent high schools on the North Shore, I see first-hand the problems our schools have in accommodating their various outdoor sports teams.