Opinion

While waiting for Peter Wohlleben’s book The Hidden Life of Trees to arrive at Richmond Public Library, I glanced at the library’s other books on the subject and found one that intrigued me: The Tree.

Dear Editor, The Friends of the Richmond Library held one of its most successful book sales ever last weekend. We want to thank Thompson Community Centre for providing such an excellent venue for our sale.

Dear Editor, Re: “Investigation: Inside one of Richmond’s growing number of illegal hotels and guest houses,” News, Sept. 30.

Dear Editor, Re: “Investigation: Inside one of Richmond’s growing number of illegal hotels and guest houses,” News, Sept. 30. Thanks to reporter Graeme Wood for his exposé of Richmond’s booming illegal house hotel business.

Dear Editor, Re: “Raising flag raises irem,” News, Oct. 5. I completely disagree that any level of Canadian government should celebrate other countries’ independence days.

I admit, it’s bizarre that I should feel so uplifted from an evening marked by depression and mental illness. Call me perverse, but such was the case, following the annual Pathways Clubhouse fundraiser Tuesday.

Dear Editor, Re: “Canadian values lacking in some speculators,” Letters, Sept. 16. The letter writtern by Rustom Dubash was very well said and true to the point.

Dea Editor, The Richmond Board of Education would like to recognize World Teachers’ Day on Oct. 5 and thank all teachers within our district for the tremendous contributions they make every day.

Open letter to Richmond city council, We are suffering here in Steveston with the foul stink of the compost facility. Please fix it as soon as is possible — it is dreadful, it wakes us up at night and it’s almost constant now. It never lets up.

Open letter to MLA John Yap, I voted for you and the (B.C.) Liberal Party last election. I voted expecting that you would lead and represent the Richmond-Steveston constituency. So far, you have failed.