Letters

Good evening,

A lot can be done locally for climate change

The increase to property taxes in Kimberley for this year is as absurd as city council’s justification of it. A 5.58% increase combined with rising property values has personally resulted in a 24% increase to my taxes. The insert with the taxes that claims “A single-family home assessed at $426,770 will see an increase in approximately $136.

Congratulations to the East Kootenay Regional Hospital Joy Reduction and Cash Enhancement Committee for noticing that way too many patients and visitors were passing along parking tickets that had unused time left, and, by doing so, were creating an unacceptable atmosphere of friendliness, cooperation and comradery in the parking lot.

This letter is on behalf of the homes on the west side bordering the proposed Swan Ave. playground. Our esteemed mayor and council, in their wisdom, have chosen to bestow a legacy of noise and privacy concerns for the immediate future coming from excited children using playground apparatus such as zip lines.There is no thought of opposition to a playground. For many reasons the choice of the Swan Ave green space is the wrong location.

The old airstrip, on route to Tata Creek, is now the home to at least 10 firepits. Some of which are literally feet away from their neighboring pits. What once was a single lane, dirt road, has become an arrangement of corduroy ruts laid across the landscape.

My Response to a recent Letter to the editor about our flag

“People in our communities are still becoming seriously ill with COVID, lives continue to be lost”

We had a dilemma in the last few weeks. Do we keep flying our Canadian flag to show our pride in being Canadian or bring it down because it’s true meaning has been corrupted by the far right agenda. We say agenda as we are not sure what they stand for, except some form of anarchy. It is sad that we have become a nation of people suspicious of our Canadian symbol.

BC Wolf Slaughter: Talk about Sensationalism