Opinion

Pretend for just a minute that you own a transportation company with many vehicles. Your profits are up by nearly half from the past fiscal year and you’ve identified the weakest links in your fleet: a couple of old jalopies that keep breaking down.

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Misleading information I read that we have a new pool lift [“Complex adds lift,” July 6] to assist handicapped people and I want to thank the city for its efforts.

I live on Texada Island. When I first arrived our local ferries were part of our highway system, although we did pay a “toll” for their use. At that time we had an active iron-ore mine, limestone quarries and logging operations.

Crime is usually associated with being a big city problem. When one thinks of the ugly underbelly of criminal behaviour, it is not usually linked to a small city like Powell River.

The new and improved amphitheatre [“Contest to name new civic venue,” June 15] at Willingdon Beach is a beautiful facility. It is one of the best, if not the best, logger sports venues in BC and will host many other events in coming years.

It appears that a mammoth conglomerate and the BC provincial government are conspiring to fulfill Captain George Vancouver’s dismal observation when he wrongly named Desolation Sound: “There was not a single prospect that was pleasing to the eye.

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Ask anyone in town this summer, whether it is choir members from International Choral Kathaumixw, riders in the BC Bike Race or backpackers hitting the Sunshine Coast Trail, and the consensus is clear: we live in one of the most attractive places in

Honorary sign I have noticed the erection of new signs [“New signs create gateway,” June 29] around the community, including one for trails on Marine Avenue near Willingdon Beach and the welcome/farewell signs at the southern boundary of the city.