Opinion

It’s my parents 27th wedding anniversary this week. Not a bad record these days!

Last week I picked up a hitchhiker. This in itself was not abnormal. When I was living outside of Vanderhoof, I would often give rides to people from Stoney Creek on my way to town.

I don’t object to having a pool if that’s what everyone wants. I believe we are not getting all the facts though from our city council. I don’t see why we have to have a Hollywood style swimming pool for Vanderhoof.

When I started to write this letter it was to voice frustration (and to be honest, anger) with the conservation service, and the R.A.P.P. (Report all Poachers and Polluters) program as I felt they were not meeting my concern and report with the urgency it deserved. Let me start at the beginning.

The Vanderhoof RCMP, Volunteer Fire Department and BC Ambulance-Vanderhoof held our first annual Emergency Services Bike Rodeo at the Vanderhoof Arena on May 7, 2011 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The B.C. Liberal government, paid for by the taxpayer, given large salaries and pensions most taxpayers will never attain, continues to represent business. The same lineup; except for the substitution of Christy “The Cat Lady” Clark for Gordon “its not on the radar” Campbell; that ambushed us with the HST persists in spending taxpayer money like drunken sailors. Although this is an insult to drunken sailors, as they at least spend their own money.

It’s been nearly two weeks since the royal wedding and still the buzz it created seems to have remained.