Less than impressed
I was less than impressed to read the front page of the recent Powell River Peak [“Grieving families speak out,” March 16], regarding the funeral service that failed to do their job uprightly.
I do not think bashing a now-defunct business and bringing this kind of thing into the public eye as a front-page article is the type of journalism we would expect here.
This lowers the paper to tabloid to me and many of my friends. A small article in the back pages perhaps, or none at all would have been sufficient.
Also, publishing incendiary and out-of-context remarks in your article [“Silver Atlas Shrugs,” March 16] about “old-man bands” is again, not the kind of thing that helps our local spirit or decent journalism.
Many older musicians have poured their lives into young musicians here, and I believe the young musicians are grateful for that, and there is mutual appreciation.
Please, try to maintain the kind of respectful journalism we have come to expect from the Peak.
Val Schuetze
Marine Avenue
Shocking treatment
What a shocking story [“Grieving families speak out,” March 16]. The problems and the way these families were treated is way outside the norm of what one might expect from a funeral-service provider.
Thank goodness for the empathy and compassion shown by Pat Gisle, owner of Stubberfield Funeral Home, and the action taken by him to help the Sharkey family, and by Toneff Funeral Services for helping the Dufour family.
Carmen Ward
Hillcrest Avenue
