Opinion

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.

There was something almost Hollywood-like about the sky that hung over New Westminster on Sunday night. The golden-red light that glowed behind the heavy haze was eerily beautiful, in an apocalyptic, beginning-of-the-end-of-the-world sort of way.

Dear Editor In response to “What’s with all the sirens at nighttime?” (Letters to the editor, the Record , July 1). Let me say how appalled I am at Mr. Bandzmer’s comments in his letter. First of all, the person that needs to “get real” is indeed Mr.