Opinion

Dear Paul Edwards, Re: “Down to Earth talk about real farming,” Letters, June 2, 2017. I run a small farm and produce delivery business that supplies the finest restaurants and hotels in Vancouver, Richmond, West Vancouver, and beyond.

The Editor, Fake news is endemic in today’s world, especially if one does not get one’s way politically.

Open letter to Malcolm Brodie: Please spend a month commuting through the Massey Tunnel both ways during peak hours, and let’s see if your opinion on the bridge proposal is the same.

Dear Editor, Re: “Ticketed during bike to work week,” News, June 2, 2017. I am one of the many frustrated home owners who lives in the 3100 block of Francis Road. Mr Ribi needs to look at the other side of this coin.

Many of us don’t have the time or money to spend twelve months in the south of France as Peter Mayle did in 1989 with his best selling memoir, “A Year in Provence.

Dear Editor, Onni has again submitted a re-zoning application for the vacant ground level space in its six Imperial Landing buildings on the Steveston waterfront.

Where, you might ask, is The Old Country? Winnipeg, of course! Most of my family is from there, and since I have the excuse of attending a wedding in Winnipeg, I’m going to seize the opportunity to do a bit of sleuthing into my family history.

Dear Editor, We have just received our 2017 Richmond property tax notice and the $5,260.77 amount payable (after the senior’s grant) is an increase of 39 per cent more than last year’s $3,784.77 amount.

Dear Editor, I was all set to attend the Pioneer Luncheon. Then, Mayor Malcolm Brodie and friends voted for the farm castles, so I lost my appetite. I might have lost my lunch had I gone and been unable to avoid looking at them. Peter Smith Richmond

Dear Editor, Now that we have a tree-hugging, socialist provincial government in power, perhaps they or someone else can tell me how to make a decent living off one-third of an acre of land — growing a legal crop, that is.