Opinion

Dear Editor: I'm writing in response to the July 7th letter to the editor by Lynn Gordon arguing that we shouldn't put more resources into bike paths. I suggest that Gordon stop and think about cycling and its benefits.

Dear Editor: Your editorial comment (Ahead of the Curve, North Shore News, June 30) that Canada Day is a meaningful recognition of things that make us great is to be lauded.

THIS week we saw a shuffling of the federal cabinet. It was more a game of musical chairs than a real changing of the guard. More newsworthy however, was some of the apparently required reading for new federal ministers.

Dear Editor: I wish to address some misleading information that appeared in recent issues of the News ("Open Letter to Mayor and Lynn Valley Residents from Joan Birchall" and "Lynn Valley Densification Plans Questioned"), specifically Ms.

Dear Editor: It does not take a major catastrophe to discover there are kind people in this world willing to help. On June 31, my son dropped his little miniature pincher/Boston terrier off at our place to be cared for, while he was away.

"Fifteen or 20 years ago you'd need a steel-hulled icebreaker to get across. And now we're going to traverse it in a rowboat.

Dear Editor: The district's latest efforts to get residents on side with a substantial density increase by way of highrises in the Lynn Valley Town Centre appears to be getting quite a bit of opposition.

More than 1800 guns were surrendered to police recently as part of a province-wide gun amnesty. Among them were pistols, rifles, shotguns, semi-automatic weapons and more than 30,000 rounds of ammunition.

Dear Editor: On July 3, North Vancouver-Seymour MLA Jane Thornthwaite made a statement in the legislature about the opening of the seventh sound stage at Burnaby's Bridge Studios.

Dear Editor: When I see pictures of streets with vegetation growing out of the sidewalks and curbs, I think of the economic troubles of the rust belt in the USA.