Opinion

Dear Editor: Re: Waste to energy not a good plan, Letters to the editor, Nov. 18. Mr. Johnstone states that solid waste pickup has increased, which is false.

Dear Editor: Congratulations to the successful candidates elected to mayor, council and school board. I would like to thank and commend the unelected candidates who put their best foot forward and became involved in Election 2011.

Dear Editor: Re: New Westminster Mayor Wayne Wright breezes into fourth term, The Record online.

Dear Editor: My campaign is over now, and after a couple of months of door knocking, meeting and greeting and participating in all-candidates meetings, I can now look back on my own "win.

Post-election analysis in politics is a bit like post-game analysis in sports. It's a whole lot easier than election or sports predictions. The election Saturday in New Westminster was no different.

Once again, the status quo held fast as about one third of the electorate voted for municipal politicians on the weekend.

Dear Editor: As they do each year on the day before Remembrance Day, New Westminster Secondary School students paid tribute to our soldiers, past and present, at Massey Theatre.

Dear Editor, Re: Wasting away, Letters to the editor, The Record, Nov. 16. I would like to comment on Kris Taylor's letter criticizing the city's waste reduction efforts, mostly to correct the inaccuracies in that letter.

This is not a column exhorting you to get out and vote. We've done that (see above) - well, perhaps in a more benign manner than we have in the past. It is also not a column telling you who to vote for.

Every three years, right around this time, we usually pull out the soapbox, jump on top of it, and start bemoaning the consistently low voter turnout at municipal elections.