Opinion

How many people reading this column could go 20 weeks without a paycheque, without seriously depleting your savings account or cashing in a significant amount of RRSP funds? I suspect not many people could, but that bleak scenario is precisely the on

Dear Editor: Ten kittens from two separate litters were found taped shut in a cardboard box and left behind a GVRD garbage bin on a sweltering sunny July 3.

Dear Editor: Congrats to the West End Business Association and Chuck Puchmayr for a successful 12th Street Music Festival. I was only able to attend in the afternoon, but the lesismore, Wendy Biscuit and T.

Dear Editor: Re: Plans on track for train silence, The Record, July 16. I suppose we should be encouraged, after more than 11 years of waiting, that now city hall is finally trying to do something about “whistle cessation,” especially downtown.

There’s nothing quite like the August long weekend to inspire some serious warm weather enjoyment.

We’ve been sitting here in the newsroom, arguing about the First World War. Gads, I love irony. Stupid arguments is exactly what got that whole thing going.

Dear Editor: Many people think I’m crazy for deciding to remain on Front Street after the devastating fire that destroyed half the block in October 2013.

Dear Editor: Please tell me I am jumping the gun and the city of New West plans to do more than what I see now on Royal Avenue. Our building is on Royal Avenue.

You go away for a couple of weeks of rest and relaxation. You return to find your home has been burgled. That’s one surefire way to kill the post-vacation buzz pretty much instantly.

This one is written in honour of my editor, Pat Tracy, who's currently enjoying a well-earned stint of rest and relaxation on the East Coast - and who so graciously entrusts her office to this "working mom" during her summer vacations.