Opinion

I don’t wade into politics too often in this space, hey, read the editorials on this page, that’s what they’re for, but there’s enough fodder this week to muse about......

The shocking story of 100 sled dogs being shot execution-style after the Olympic Games in Whistler last year is attracting world-wide attention.

The mayor's pitch for a prison has confused everyone by pushing an unpopular agenda and dividing our close knit community. Acton's prison is not a minimum security prison (a federal institution where long-term inmates serve the last part of their sentence). Acton's prison is a provincial jail with plenty of security, high fencing with barbed wire and/or other security measures and prison guards.

Lumby village council is about to make a decision on the most significant development in Lumby's history: the Prison. For better or worse, if a prison is located in Lumby, it will change Lumby forever. What scares me is the thought that such a huge decision will be made through a phone poll. A phone poll in which a person can register to be contacted by a pollster. If this plan is followed through with, the results will always be in doubt.

Apparently some members of Lumby council are starting to get the message about public involvement.

There has been so much misinformation published recently regarding a proposed correctional facility in Lumby. A lot of this information is of the negative opinion.

Not too long ago, I was watching my five-year-old child, well at least the top half of her, splashing and bobbing up and down at her swim lesson.

Celebrations and tragedies have a way of pulling small towns together like a family. But nothing’s uglier than a fight among loved ones or a close-knit community.

On the front page of the Jan. 14 Morning Star Bill Vander Zalm’s final quoted comment is “We never set out to get a premier fired . . . our intent is to get rid of the HST.”