Opinion

DEAR EDITOR: Paul Hundal's Sept. 18 letter on garbage burning (EFW) misstates my positions in my Sept. 4 letter, a disappointing tactic in addressing a current issue. I did not refer to any "environmental report," nor did I discuss particulates.

Dear Editor: Teaching and learning are supposed to go together.

Dear Editor: I completely disagree with John Hunter's Sept. 4 letter, Incineration Insinuation Burns Writer, promoting the incineration of Metro Vancouver's garbage.

IT'S astonishing that a North Vancouver man will likely have to knock down a brand-new house he has built on his property. Despite his pleas for leniency, district staff are currently headed to court to get an order for it to be demolished.

Dear Editor: I would be extremely displeased (in Canada we don't get angry) if a member of my family were to be injured, or worse, in an accident caused by these witless "children." At the least any licenses these "drivers" possess should be revoked.

"A group of knowledgeable physicians and a group of beautiful angels who work here as nurses provided me with the best care possible on this planet.

I'M uncomfortable sounding upbeat. It's so out of character.

Dear Editor: My family has lived on the North Shore for more than 35 years. We own the house with the model train on Marine Drive near 28th Street. The train was built close to 50 years ago and serves as our mailbox.

If geothermal energy is the answer to Canada's future energy needs, we should at least know that by now. But 100 years after the world's first commercial geothermal power plant was built in Italy in 1911, we don't.

Dear Editor: On Aug. 9, I tripped over shoes that I had left in the middle of a cement floor and fell hard on my left shoulder, dislocating and generally making a mess of it.