Opinion

In less than 25 years, more than 43 per cent of folks in New Westminster will be in the age group of 50 to 65 years old. And, to top it off, another 22 per cent will be over 65 - making New Westminster's senior population 65 per cent of the city.

Dear Editor: I would like to thank the local newspapers for providing such entertaining journalism.

In traditional medical language, patients present themselves with a "chief complaint," which makes doctors sound like they are working in public relations. It also makes our patients sound like a bunch of whiners.

Old school papers and notebooks can be a wonderful source of information on an individual. It can be fun to review and to compare them to current materials with similar topics and themes.

British Columbia has long been known as a polarized province, where public debate and discourse is characterized by everyone seemingly having opposite views on many things.

Dear Editor: Re: If it's not coal, it will be canola on the docks, The Record, Sept. 25. Don Hauka's article on Fraser Surrey Docks' coal expansion plan mentions that there are other, much bigger, coal terminal proposals in the U.S.

Dear Editor: There are two rail yards. The CPR/CNR yard runs from roughly the Discovery Centre to the Fraser River bridge.

It's been said that municipal government is the closest to the people. If the federal government were to disappear tomorrow - so goes an old yarn - it would take about a month to notice.

It's so nice to be back to the blogging world! After a maternity leave followed by a technical hiatus, I've been without a blog for awhile. But I'm back and ready to start again.

As a director on the New Westminster Hyack Festival Association’s board of directors, I have (unfortunately) been personally and intimately involved in Hyack's very public conflict these past two months.