Letters

It’s election time again and it’s no surprise to see these letters appearing.

I taught for 33 years in the Vernon School District in elementary schools. Sixteen of those years were as a principal. When I started teaching in 1964, students with special needs were in separate schools with small groups and support staff.

Respectful names for the trail along Kalamalka Lake are Syilx ones. Anything else is a part of the fraught history of the Commonage, which is divisive, however, it is viewed.

I am so sorry for the young woman that lost her life and as well to the young woman so traumatized in that horrific accident. I am also sorry that a young mother has lost her life as well.

The Liberal government wants to build a new bridge over the mouth of the Fraser River. Why should that concern us here in the Okanagan? Here’s the story.

I had the misfortune of needing emergency attention twice this past year. My good fortune is that, even though I don’t live in Vernon, it occurred both times at your hospital. The last time was midnight Sunday.

The mayors of Salmon Arm, Sicamous, Enderby, Armstrong and Spallumcheen are wrong to support Greg Kyllo’s re-election bid for the Shuswap riding in the May 9 election.

The NDP’s Leap Manifesto, accepted by New Democrats across B.C. and Canada as a guide for our future, sets out a sweeping plan to re-engineer our economy and lives. It seeks to end the use of gasoline and all fossil fuels. It will stop construction of pipelines and new highways. The idea that government needs to control expenditure to keep taxes low will be abandoned.

After reading a third letter on April 12 about the unfortunate Lindsay Hauck accident, I feel obligated to include another perspective.

I’m continually puzzled by the lack of initiative to support college and university students, as well as those who work in the Okanagan 365 days a year. Consistent indulgent and illogical moves, such as the recent rail trail, show that municipal governments in the Okanagan have zero drive to improve infrastructure, and in turn, economy.