Opinion

Dear Editor: I sincerely hope our local municipal engineers take note of your March 7 story, Twas a Dark and Stormy Night. This was an excellent article. I had to chuckle at the quote: "It's difficult to drive on a road here, it's hilly and twisty.

IS it art? That's a question that has plagued public officials for centuries. One person's portrait is another person's pornography. What's abstract art for one is asinine to another.

"When these business owners go home to the British Properties, to Port Moody or North Vancouver, we're left with the noise, the traffic gridlock and the mess, and a barrier from the seashore.

CANADA'S Senate is one of the strangest institutions that could exist in a modern democracy. It vastly over-represents some parts of the country and brutally shortchanges others.

DEAR EDITOR: I was sooo relieved to learn that the City of North Vancouver has finally managed to secure adequate funding for the sewage treatment plant, and other unavoidable infrastructure repairs and upgrades.

YESTERDAY, as usual, there were those who claimed to be mystified by the point of International Women's Day.

DEAR EDITOR: On behalf of the grad council at Handsworth secondary, I write as a student dedicated to seeing an increase of awareness in youth about the risk of indoor tanning.

Dear Editor: I write regarding your Feb. 29 website story Metro to North Shore residents: What should we do with your sewage? North Vancouver residents should be aware that under the B.C.

DEAR EDITOR: I was deeply saddened to see BC Hydro completely cut down six huge trees on private property in the area near the Upper Levels Highway behind my house.

THE collision between a longboarder and a resident in his truck in the run-up to Monday night's debate on a longboarding bylaw added yet more pressure to what was always going to be a difficult council decision.