Opinion

Editor: I am writing today to congratulate the City of New Westminster gardening department for the wonderful work they do year after year and season after season with the planters on the Quay.

Editor: Re: Floralume added to Front Street staircase , Record , Aug. 16 I see the $70,000 was well-spent dressing up the abhorrent Front Street emergency escape stairwell.

One of the big stories last week in New Westminster was the announcement that two long-serving members of council were retiring. Lorrie Williams and Bill Harper said they will be retiring after a combined 29 years on city council.

In the aftermath of June’s long public hearing into the women’s modular housing project in Queensborough, people were speaking out about how changes were needed by New Westminster city council in how people interacted with it.

We can no longer claim not to have been warned. Climate change means drier summers and more wildfires on the West Coast. Metro Vancouver has had a running air quality advisory thanks to ground-level ozone and particulate matter readings.

A story came through my Twitter feed recently about Japanese workers. Some of them are literally working themselves to death. One woman was found dead with her cellphone in her hand – she had logged 159 overtime hours in a month.

“When you were a kid, what did you do for fun?” Nature Valley posed this question to three generations of “real families” in a hard-hitting commercial that aired in 2015 and has worked its way back into the viral video rotation on Facebook.

Re: Don’t view wildfires as an Interior problem, Record , Our View, Aug. 16. I appreciate your view that we can all be part of the solution in fighting climate change.

It is not yet clear whether the new political party promised by disaffected ex-Conservative MP Maxime Bernier will actually materialize, but if it does, it may very well strengthen Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s hold on this province.

Editor: Just want to recognize such gifted and generous people in our community. Recently a group from KIDS Child Care were given an amazing experience by the Vagabond Players, including a tour of Bernie Legge Theatre.