Helped by many
I was very pleased when I read the Peak’s story about the $1-million donation [“Thrift store sales add up,” November 21].
I was sitting at work and while I was reading the article I started to feel good. It dawned on me that I was one of the people who helped raise this money. I brought items there to be sold and I also bought there. A co-worker came in just then and asked if I had read about the donation. I laughed and said yes and I was feeling good because I helped raise the money. She looked at me kind of funny so I explained. Then she started smiling and said “Hey, I helped donate too.”
We were both proud of ourselves. Every person who walks in the door of the Powell River Health-Care Auxiliary Economy Shop should feel good about themselves. Surprisingly, many people don’t think about where their money goes. Congratulations, people of Powell River, job well done. Keep donating and buying.
Katie Cameron
Highway 101
Helmets fit all family members
As I was driving to work I saw a mom and two children riding bikes. The children had their helmets on—mom probably made them wear them—but she did not have one on [“Wear helmets,” July 11].
Why do parents do this? Can’t they see that if the parents are the one in an accident the children will be the ones who will suffer the most? They will have to deal with maybe seeing the accident, trying to save their mom, and maybe not having her for the rest of their life.
Parents, please grow up. The helmet is to protect the children and you, so everyone in the family is safe.
Cathy Logan
Chilco Avenue
It has been done before
We’ve been Merkel’d.
After the BC Ferries consultation meeting the (last) penny dropped [“Residents turn out for ferry consultation meetings,” November 21].
Greece went bankrupt because of its spendthrift ways and massive debt. The country got a new president. He needed lots of money, fast.
Everyone he asked said “stop your spending and reduce your debt, then we’ll see.” Finally Angela Merkel, head of state for Germany, said “do more and we will help you.” He did. Greece now has a severe case of Greekitus. Unemployment is over 20 per cent and for youths it is over 50 per cent. They riot, burn buildings, flip police cars and despair.
“Alas, alas too much, too fast,” Canada’s two wise financial men were heard to mutter. “You must slow down and create jobs as you cut.”
BC Ferry Services Inc. is bankrupt. It has a new president, Mike Corrigan. One of the company’s “principal accomplishments” was to pay down $45 million of debt. Now it wants us to save $26 million by 2016 in spite of some of our fares going up by nearly 100 per cent.
Did Corrigan do a Merkel on us? Did he only hear the strident voices of politicians and bankers and not the voice of the coastal communities? Did he cut too deep and too fast? Did he not listen to our two wise financial men?
Powell River has a more virulent strain of Greekitus. It is called bcferryitus.
Tom Hobbs
Butedale Street
