Opinion

'adopt a patch'

I predict backwards as well as forwards. So stand by for a prophecy for the past. I predict that Ralph Sultan played a much bigger role in the B.C. Liberals' election victory May 14 than he's been given credit for.

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.

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

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.

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.

"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). . . .

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.

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.