Opinion

Editor: I have just started reading your newspaper and find it quite informative. However, with respect, I am not happy about the cartoon of Don Cherry in your November 14 issue, on page 8.

Years ago, in that more trusting era when men wore hats and the planet was our smoking section, 20,679 physicians agreed that Lucky Strike cigarettes were less irritating to the throat. After all, they were toasted.

Editor: I wanted to say a big thank you to the New Westminster city workers who cleaned the parkade mirror on Front Street across from Army & Navy.

When Traft Teleske takes his dog for a walk, he braces for the worst. By “worst” I mean the garbage he finds strewn around his Sapperton neighbourhood, particularly around Royal Columbian Hospital.

Remember in the first Austin Powers movie where the arch-fiend Dr. Evil quite rightly vented frustration to his henchpeople over how the specifications for his torture chamber were not fulfilled? “I have one simple request.

The Attorney General’s Ministry said Tuesday it is carefully reviewing last week’s B.C. Supreme Court decision that overruled its attempt to block the Office of the Representative for Children and Youth from getting access to government records.

Editor: Re: We were shocked at the vitriol about our New West request , Record letters Like the Preovolos family, we live in a house about to be designated under the highest protection category in the Queen’s Park Heritage Conservation Area.

Even the Brentwood Bay man who put Don Cherry on Hockey Night in Canada figured he would get himself fired one day. But Ron Devion still thinks Cherry deserves the Order of Canada. Cherry finally went too far on Saturday.

While watching one of my go-to shows the other night, it came out that one of the lead characters was an adoptee.

Editor: Shame on mayor and council for continuing to move forward on shutting down our precious recycle centre at the Canada Games facility in the next few months. This is a horribly informed decision, and so poorly thought out.