Opinion

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.

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.

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.

Dear Editor: This letter is directed to the people who hike up the Grouse Grind (first timers and regulars). Now that the Grind is open for another season here are some things to mull over. There are no garbage cans on the trail.

Dear Editor: This Sunday I attended a lacrosse game of a close friend whose nine-year-old son plays for Burnaby. It was at Harry Jerome and having never been to a game, I took my nine-year-old son with me.

B.C.'s new municipal auditor general announced this week the first projects that will be examined by her office. Not surprisingly, those include looking into whether taxpayers are getting good value for their money.

Dear Editor: I can tell that summer is close by because the issues around skateboarding and longboarding are in the North Shore News again.

The world in general, and Canada in particular, recently welcomed Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's safe return home after a five month stint as commander of the International Space Station, a research laboratory orbiting nearly 400 kilometres abov

PROPONENTS of rock-em, sock-em hockey took a blow to the old kisser this week when Hockey Canada's board of directors voted to entirely eliminate body checking from the peewee, or under-13, level.