Opinion

The blame game is on after Cumberland council voted for the second time to deny permission for The Big Time Out to happen at Village Park.

Dear editor, The diatribe contained in the submission in your July 8 issue by a G. Reynolds makes a person wonder where this 'holier-than-thou' comes from.

Dear editor, The two-hospital non-solution for the North Island cannot do the job. Cannot provide acute-care services; emergency, surgical, ICU services that a 21st century $600,000,000 hospital should provide.

Just for the record, even if it is not important you, Obon had been going on at the Cumberland Japanese Cemetery for about 10 years now. In addition to this, the Issei ladies (first-generation immigrants) responsible have been having spring tea while doing the cleanup of the shrine at cherry blossom time.

Dear editor, The climate should be our No. 1 priority in the Valley.

Dear editor, I moved to the Comox Valley in 1970, and over the next 10 years, kept hearing about the "second crossing," which 12 or 13 years later became the 17th Street Bridge. In 1986 I returned and for the past eight to 10 years, I have listened to the rumblings of a third crossing — wherever and whenever?

Of all of the efforts to create low-income housing, relieve homelessness and help the working poor, is there one better than Habitat for Humanity?

Dear editor, I want to pay tribute to a group of young people who have, without fanfare or expectation of thanks, volunteered their time and their work to our community — the Food Not Bombs group.

The election of Elizabeth May as Canada’s first-ever Green Party MP was supposed to be a breakthrough for environmental issues. Too bad she blew it.

Dear editor, I would like to support the three Courtenay councillors who practised their own form of civil disobedience by standing up for those who voted them and walked out of the council meeting that was about to ram through a decision made in a closed door meeting of the Comox Valley Regional District board.