Opinion

Do we simply expect too much? I've been pondering that question a lot lately as it seems every time I turn around there's another news report about how some country is on the brink or how the economy has suffered another setback.

Editor: In 2012, London will host Canada's Olympic qualifying women's soccer team. What a great triumph for these women and for women's soccer as a whole.

Editor: I am outgoing president of the Tsawwassen Rotary Club. For fun I kept saying to our club that we were the best club on the planet. When you read on, you can not help but feel the same way I do.

Editor: A special thanks to a young man who helped our guest who was visit from Holland. On Thursday afternoon (June 14) on 55th Street in Tsawwassen, he saw an elderly man fall and injure himself.

Summer is finally here. I've been looking forward to this day ever since I received my property assessment in January. The end of June also signals the end of the school year for the kids as well.

Editor: As we are celebrating Canada's 145th birthday, replete with a veritable love-in of flag-waving self-congratulatory fervour, one cannot escape the uncomfortable notion that it is a slippery slope from patriotism to jingoism.

Editor: The Ladner Bandfest was the best ever! We would like to thank the Optimist and all of our sponsors for helping this to become the largest gathering of adult musicians in all of Canada.

Editor: Some people in this community can find nothing good to say about possible development on the Southlands. From my point of view, the benefits far outweigh any negatives.

It's too early to pass judgment, but the initial returns don't appear to be too encouraging.

This week the council opened up discussion of the 2012 Annual Report of the Corporation, recently published and made available to us either online or by requesting same at the hall.