Opinion

Dear Editor, “Letters to the Editor” are a true reflection of a community. This is more so in the case of a community newspaper.

Dear Editor, Richmond is home to many public trails, enjoyed by many enthusiastic users only to be abused by other users.

Dear Editor and Richmond City Council, I attended the recent council meeting regarding the home size bylaw. Thank you to Couns. Carol Day and Harold Steves for their progressive views in voting no to the proposed amendments.

Dear Editor, In the comment sections of a recent letter online, a party challenged me to run for city council. It read: “R.A. Hoegler thinks he knows best. He thinks that a group of enraged citizens knows best.

Dear Editor, Re: “Richmond’s broken, not racist,” Letters, July 31. I refer to the letter of N. MacDonald. I agree with most of her opinions.

If city hopes to embrace racial and cultural harmony in face of rapid demographic shifts, everyone needs to be on board

Dear Editor, We have been together for 30 plus years. You watched me grow up, buy my home, watched me get married, and was there when I found a great job. We’ve been through everything together. That is why I hate to tell you we need to break up.

Dear Editor, Re: “Councillor: Racist grafitti a sign of building racial tension,” News, July 21. How unfortunate that our Richmond has been marred by racist graffiti.

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Water, fire, air and earth — ancient philosophers considered these the four elements on which all terrestrial life is based. Aristotle added a fifth element — ether — which was celestial, breathed by the gods as we mortals breathe air.