Opinion

Is one national day for health and fitness enough? June 6 is National Health and Fitness Day and it is a good idea, considering about 39 per cent of Canadian adults are self-reportedly obese. But it is not like Canadians don’t want to be active.

Environment key in election With an election soon approaching I find it astounding how little mention there is of the ever more perilous effects of climate change and acidifying oceans. Politicians seem to be riveted on the economy and jobs.

by Joyce Carlson When Powell River Festival of Performing Arts (PRFPA) was asked to consider hosting a provincial festival in 2014, the answer was “no can do, that’s an International Choral K athaumixw year.

It is said there is no such thing as bad publicity and BC Ferries’ recent experiment with crowd sourcing name ideas may bear that out.

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Traffic noise Promoting bicycle routes through town is a great idea [“Gear up for free-wheeling event,” May 20]. As far as Joyce Avenue is concerned we should ban motor vehicles there. Ha, ha, just kidding.

by Arthur Richards I was going to write about my fears of Stephen Harper’s Bill C-51 and how useless and flawed it is but everyone has already done that and the vote has been cast.

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Organizers of Powell River’s Bike to Work and School Week are encouraging more people to dust off their bikes and don helmets this year.

Closing of archery club I was surprised and saddened to read in the Peak of the closing of the Powell River Archery Club (PRAC) [“Archery club,” May 13].