Opinion

Dear Editor, Re: July 15th, “Santa’s days may be numbered.

Dear Editor, The owner of Attention Barbershop lost his business last night, and the community has lost a safe space to go to. I’ve known the owner of the shop for the past three years.

It’s amazing how much a few stripes of paint can say. Take a walk down to Columbia Street and see for yourself. Just this week, city crews installed a rainbow-coloured crosswalk on the city’s main downtown street, just outside the Heritage Grill.

Dear Editor, Regarding Stephanie Sukkau’s July 21 letter, it’s astonishing to see that the old “TransLink executives should take a pay-cut” trope is still out there. First, in 2014 TransLink’s executive compensation went down by 5.

Dear Editor In response to a recent letter, the writer said that everyone who voted against the transit tax were money grubbers. But I don’t believe that to be the entire case.

Dear Editor As the white elephant of the Anvil Centre lumbers onto Columbia Street that old white elephant, the Columbia Theatre, is about to take its exit as it is now up for sale.

We’re finally getting a look at Plan B in the wake of the failure of the TransLink funding plebiscite. The B, it seems, stands for boondoggle.

Even though his budget last year went from projecting a miserly looking tiny surplus to becoming almost embarrassingly awash in riches, don’t expect Finance Minister Mike de Jong to start doling out new spending any time soon.

Question: I am worried about the health of my children as they are starting to gain weight and they are not as active as they should be, please help! Answer: Many think of weight issues as a problem for adults, but according to the World Health Organ

Question: When is the proper time to harvest Russian garlic? I have 600 bulbs planted in West Kelowna. The tops are drying out (greenness disappearing). In a single bulb the individual bulblets are not well formed.