Opinion

Dear Editor: On Aug. 3, we were heading home after a two-week boating holiday. We cruised under the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Bridge and were surprised to see three Seaspan tugs heading in our direction from Port Moody.

Dear Editor: I write regarding the loss of resident-exempt parking for south end of the 1500-block of Eastern Avenue.

Abus ticket has always been a valid fare aboard the SeaBus. Until now. TransLink, the top-heavy money pit that has been the bane of nearly every mayor unlucky enough to sit on its impotent second board, now plans to introduce the Compass card.

Dear Editor: After a long vacation in London, I read the district happenings in your paper for an update.

Dear Editor: Stories of past tennis stars are never very far from any tennis event, like the Odlum Brown VanOpen at Hollyburn Country Club in West Vancouver, which ran from July 27 to Aug. 4.

"There is an emotional attachment that an old building has to the past. If you go up to a front door which was there almost 100 years ago and touch it, you can feel that people have been going in and out of that door for 100 years.

OUTSIDE magazine is making waves in local news outlets and social media for proclaiming the Grouse Grind one of the "10 Most Dangerous Hikes" in the world. The magazine cites three deaths on the trail since 1999 and roughly 80 rescues calls per year.

IT'S an annual event full of rides, concerts and of course, an endless selection of food. The PNE has been drawing crowds since 1910 and this weekend it will open its doors once more.

IF you read no further, the theme of what follows is: Why don't we keep our noses out of other people's cultures? Yes, that sentence usually ends "business.

ASKING Victoria to consider spending tens of millions of dollars for something that wasn't on the radar during the recent election seems like a long shot in a time when Premier Christy Clark is asking her cabinet to tighten ministry belts.