Opinion

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.

This year is the New Westminster Public Library’s 150th anniversary, and as our gift, we’ve got 150 challenges for our Adult Summer Reading Club.

Last week we learned that another of New Westminster’s older businesses is closing: Harry Minuk Shoes, started in Sapperton’s commercial area in the early 1940s and then operating in two different uptown locations.

Dear Editor Now that Christy Clark has set a precedent by taking the decision making out of hands of the government and giving it to the electorate, as she did with the transit referendum, let’s hope she maintains this posture in the future.

Dear Editor It is mind-boggling that Metro Vancouverites are unwilling to spend 0.5 per cent more of their tax dollars to improve our public transit system.

Dear Editor My wife and I recently purchased a home on the Quay and had to visit city hall twice to pay taxes and complete paperwork to ensure things went smoothly. I have to say that the women at New Westminster city hall are all wonderful.

We’ve gotta take our collective editorial hat off to Andrew Weaver. Weaver, the B.C. Green Party MLA representing Oak Bay-Gordon Head, can always be counted on to remind us why we need to have some non-Liberal, non-NDP voices in the legislature.

Is B.C.’s fresh water the new oil? Given the near-hysteria around a foreign corporation’s plan to continue to extract a relatively tiny amount of groundwater from an aquifer deep in the ground, one might be tempted to make that link.

It looks like the weather is going to cost B.C. taxpayers dearly this year, but the provincial government is still only taking baby steps when it comes to dealing with what appears to be the chaotic effects of changes in climate patterns.