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Honking at learners no help

Honking at learners no help

Dear Editor: Please don't honk at student drivers. The first thing student drivers do when they get honked at, is completely lose any concentration they had about the driving task and look in their mirrors, trying to figure out who is honking.
Share the road, rebuild community

Share the road, rebuild community

Dear Editor: I am writing to applaud Chris Kautzky's insightful letter Roads Are for All, Including Longboarders, North Shore News, May 15.
Bequeathing life

Bequeathing life

LIFE after death is a concept usually left to those with religious beliefs and Hollywood script writers. In any event, once we've done with our bodies they are usually burned or buried by those we leave behind. In some instances, that's a waste.
Densifying Lynn Valley will not 'improve' it

Densifying Lynn Valley will not 'improve' it

Dear Editor: As a current resident of Lynn Valley I must voice my complete dissent with any proposal for increasing the density in the town centre by adding highrise developments. Lynn Valley has always been a special community for families.
You said it

You said it

"A lot of birdwatchers, after they've been birdwatch-ing a number of years, they realize the environment is getting hammered." Naturalist Kevin Bell on why birdwatchers become environmentalists (from a May 26 story). . . .
Brave new economy going to pot

Brave new economy going to pot

I dreamed I woke up this morning and found a plastic me. - Len Chandler THE post-election lull with its pie-in-the-face consequences for fresh environmental thinking surely brings a heavy karmic burden.
Privileged families losing perspective

Privileged families losing perspective

Dear Editor: I read the story about "little kindergartners huddling under slides, freezing in the cold rain" with incredulity. Either kids go outdoors, or they don't.
Good cause

Good cause

THIRTEEN years ago, a group of environmentalists took the Vancouver Park Board to court, demanding an injunction to stop the board from cutting down any trees to widen the Stanley Park Causeway.
Inquiring Reporter: Have cellphones ruined peace and quiet for everyone?

Inquiring Reporter: Have cellphones ruined peace and quiet for everyone?

Dress correctly and play in the rain

Dress correctly and play in the rain

Dear Editor: Regarding your front page story on May 24, Open Playgrounds Anger NV Parents: As a retired teacher and a parent of three children brought up on the North Shore, I feel I must comment on the current concerns of many 21st-century parents.