Opinion

Editor: What does Friends of Delta Hospital want for our hospital? A fair funding formula for community hospitals. An acute surgical program appropriate to community hospitals.  A stop to the excessive cutback to Delta Hospital.

The ballots should start arriving in the mail for the transit referendum next week. Hopefully the person in charge of the referendum is more capable than the person in charge of the Compass program.

It’s that time of year again. Garden season is beginning and we are all anxious to get outside after a long winter. Do you have a brown thumb? Many people don’t want to fail at gardening but there are easy ways to get started.

In mid-March Metro Vancouver residents will receive mail-in ballots to vote on a proposed 0.5 per cent hike to the provincial sales tax in order to ease traffic congestion.

Editor: I listened with interest to the presentation to Delta council on Feb.

Editor: Re: Inland terminal given a boost, Feb. 27 As a logistics professional who runs a warehouse described in the article, I can tell you that in my community there is absolutely zero interest in doing business in Ashcroft.

Editor: Would you sign a document with the following words or wording that gives someone the ability to spend your money? POSSIBLE improvements, LIMITED transit, REDESIGN, PROVISION of, WORKING WITH senior levels, HAS ASKED, HAS REQUESTED, In PREPERA

At its essence, it's a referendum on improving the region's transit system, but the debate has become so much more, which doesn't appear to be good news for those championing the "yes" side of the equation.

It's becoming readily apparent that those who live here look at Delta Hospital just a little bit differently than those on the outside controlling the purse strings.

Editor: The referendum on the proposed hike to the PST to fund TransLink is nearly upon us. The "yes" side claims that you have to vote "yes" or all manner of evils will occur. Wrong! It claims a 0.