Opinion

If you ask wine lovers for their favourite B.C. winery, many would answer Black Hills Estate Winery. Founded in 1999, it produces wine exclusively from its estate vineyard on the Black Sage Bench, north of Osoyoos.

I got a fit of the giggles the other day, and not because I was smoking pot — but it was pot related. I was reading the numerous Facebook posts (and we’re talking a record number) we received on the subject following last Friday’s feature.

Dear Editor, Re: “Speed humps on way for River Road,” News and Letters, September and October. I feel like I have been violated. My life is going to get a whole lot bumpier now.

Dear Editor: Re: “Wrap up your scraps", Letters, Oct. 20 and “Let’s go green, without the flies,” Letters, Sept 12. There are huge benefits to wrapping or bagging food scraps before discarding them.

Dear Editor, Re: “Target real offenders,” Letters, Oct. 13 I read the letter from Laura Heroux with interest and am reminded of the quote by Otto von Bismarck: “Anyone who likes the law, or sausages, shouldn’t watch either one being made.” D. L.

Dear Editor: Re: “This Bud’s for you?” Feature, Oct. 20; “City council sticks by anti-pot position,” News, Oct. 25.

Dear Editor, First of all, your pot survey presents itself with a negative question. It should simply ask if you think marijuana should be sold in dispensaries in Richmond. The “near you” part of the question makes it sound threatening.

Dear Editor: Re: “This Bud’s for you?” Feature, Oct. 20; “City council sticks by anti-pot position,” News, Oct. 25.

Soon it will be my mother’s first Yahrtzeit, the anniversary of her passing, and I’m honouring her by writing a tribute in her memory. At her core, my mother, Estelle, was a beautiful, educated woman.

Recently, I heard a TED talk by Johnathan Rossiter, a specialist in soft robotics at Bristol University. He explained how he based his design for a pollution-fighting robot on an aquatic insect and a shark, using a process called biomimetics.