Pentictonsa国际传媒 street without a name
Dear Editor:
I鈥檓 asking the City of Penticton to consider giving a name to a downtown street with no name. While I know theresa国际传媒 a process within the City to address my question and suggestion, I鈥檓 first bringing my issue to the attention of you and Penticton city councillors.
Theresa国际传媒 a 鈥渞oad with no name鈥 between City Hall and Gyro Park, commonly called the 鈥渓ink road鈥. Given the popularity of Pentictonsa国际传媒 downtown, particularly events at Gyro Park and the Penticton Farmers Market which runs for six and a half months of the year, I鈥檓 suggesting that this 鈥渓ink road鈥 needs a real name. As there are no buildings on this 鈥渓ink鈥 road, no owners have to change their addresses.
In considering giving an unnamed road a name, I鈥檝e discussed suggestions with the president of the Penticton Farmers Market, Joe Ciaramella and the market manager, Linda Van Alpen. They both like my suggestion, to call the unnamed road 鈥淢arket Lane鈥.
However, as a community-minded person, I would leave any possible name to the community and the City, but particularly the most frequent user of this road, the Penticton Farmers Market.
I look forward to any future discussion to give a nameless road a place in our community, particularly remembering that this market has been in the 100 Main Street block for decades and possibly has some squatters right.
Brigid Kemp,聽Penticton
A Penticton gem: lakeshore homes
Dear Editor:
Among Pentictonsa国际传媒 biggest assets are the lovely single-family residences along Lakeshore Drive, just south of Okanagan Lake.
Overlooked by many local residents, these homes -- several of which were built 90 years ago or more -- dazzle one and all with their permanence, grace, and beauty.
Their quiet elegance takes visitors back to an earlier era, and they鈥檙e a necessary, critical antidote to the motels and faceless apartment complexes found elsewhere on Lakeshore Drive.
Particularly in a town with Pentictonsa国际传媒 strong development potential, all possible efforts should be taken to bolster the importance of these homes and to encourage their preservation for the generations that will come after us.
Frank Norris,聽Penticton
Classic deregulation
Dear Editor:
鈥淒isaster waiting to happen鈥 (letters, Sept. 4) 聽
Absolutely accurate. Itsa国际传媒 classic deregulation. I am appalled that the NDP have bought into this. Stephen Harper labeled statisticians, scientists, environmentalists, anyone in 鈥渨atch dog鈥 positions, terrorists. Gag orders were imposed on all civil servants. It is fact that there has never been a more 鈥渢op-down government鈥 in Canada than the Harper Conservatives. Deregulation was the ticket to corporate stroking and political funding.
Conservative deregulation led to the Westray Mine Disaster, Walkerton, Ont. XL Foods, Alta... multiple 聽preventable deaths 聽in recent times. Not in some Third World 聽country. Here in Canada.
Unless you are totally obtuse you are aware of the Grenfell Tower Fire Disaster, 2017, in England, acknowledged to be a direct result of Conservative government deregulation.
Learn about it.
Free rein was given to developers of the 24-storey structure. One staircase. Unsafe building materials. Ceiling sprinklers not required or installed. Inspectors turning a blind eye.
There were 72 people incinerated and multiple more critically injured.聽聽
Can鈥檛 happen here?聽 Who do we hear touting deregulation? 鈥淕et rid of the gate keepers.鈥 鈥淭hey鈥檙e the elite.鈥 That Trump/Harper name calling clone. (i.e. Sellout Singh鈥).
Can you really countenance this? That self-entitled person who says, 鈥淲hen I was housing minister rent was $700 a month鈥 (not true, by the way.) Did he fall out of his high chair? On his head?
He is completely detached from reality, as are those parroting his words. When I entered the work force you could rent an entire level of a well-equipped house for $60. On a starting salary of $200 a month. I am not so naive or vacant as to suppose economic conditions don鈥檛 change with time and global conditions. Yet he assumes, as he circumspectly courts the elite, privileged, like himself, that the rest of us are foolish enough to believe him, and sadly, some are.
Ontario moves to provide open-wide access to gambling and booze, but not medical care, long-term care 聽or classroom safety for teachers and students. Their premier has been quoted as saying, 鈥淭he federal government is the biggest drug dealer in Canada.鈥 聽Strange words from someone with his past, who now chooses 聽not to finance mental health 聽measures 聽or addiction rehab and opposes everything that would benefit and enable the middle class, tomorrowsa国际传媒 taxpayer.
Our friend John Rustad, another wanna-be, mimics Pierre Poilievresa国际传媒 empty words. Scott Moe has starved health care and education in Saskatchewan, but spends taxpayer dollars 鈥渃onsulting鈥 Harper 聽and on junkets to India.
Corruption such as this, designed to eliminate the ill, the disabled, the poor, 鈥淟o, we have always with us.鈥
But must we? Stand up.
Elaine Lawrence,聽sa国际传媒
Wise words from Oliver
Dear Editor:
Perhaps this will please some people.
Bikersa国际传媒 Lament
I love all the sunshine,
I love all the red wine,
The Okanagan is so fine
Except for the puncture vine.
Dale Dodge, Oliver
Too much credit given to Falcon
Dear Editor:
I wish to reference the nicely-written letter to the editor by Amelia Boultbee (Sept. 6)
Though a nicely prepared letter, I find it a rather cheap ploy to wow BC United supporters to jump on board with and become supporters of her own party, without consideration to the priorities endorsed by the BC 聽United in difference to her own.
She, in this endeavour, offers a way too much credit and accolades to Kevin Falcon. 鈥淭he Political sacrifices the BC United party has made blah blah blah.鈥
In my estimation any 鈥渟acrifice鈥 was made only by and for the benefit of one Kevin Falcon. I have seen no party sacrifice, as he appears to have not even had the decency of informing the members of his party prior to sacrificing them.
As I hold no affiliation to either of the political parties remaining in the race for this fallsa国际传媒 election, I request only that each person, left disenfranchised by Mr. Falconsa国际传媒 sacrifice, look closely at what each of the remaining parties stand for prior to election date.
Tom Crawford, Penticton
Climate alarmism in mainstream
Dear Editor:
While watching Global National on Sept. 7, I witnessed the epitome of climate apocalypse hypocrisy.
Global being the No. 1 purveyor of climate doom ran a piece put out by Copernicus Climate Change regarding the fact that 2024 was turning out to be a quieter than normal hurricane season in the Atlantic, after it was touted as being an extreme, destructive season, due to the so-called record ocean temperatures.
So a bunch of European scientists, all paid in the six figures in Euros, whose only job is to sell climate change, had to explain why the apocalyptic hurricane season isn鈥檛 happening. Their explanation? Climate change. Something to do with African sand storms.
If anyone is wondering why thinking individuals are turning away from mainstream mediasa国际传媒 obsession with climate doom as well as woke governments push to sacrifice our middle class on the climate change altar, this says it all.
Andy Richards, Summerland
