I would like to bring your attention to an ongoing battle between the City of Courtenay and Valley View Elementary. It seems like Valley View Elementary may lose the new kindergarten modular that was to come to the school and possibly lose the Wee Care service that is currently at our school.

The Comox Valley is a great place to call home, and many organizations, businesses and community partners have helped to reduce the stress to military families when they are posted here.

Dear editor, I cannot for one moment imagine that building a shelter for the homeless in the heart of the business district of downtown Courtenay would be in the best interests of anyone other than the migrating vagrants that it will attract, because if 'you build it they will come.'

Dear editor, Who is the guardian of our wild spaces and species? Monday, May 9 I'm riding my bicycle home from work and at the Tsolum Bridge I encounter four biologists who are wrapping up an assessment of the river they've done with 48 School District Explore students.

Re: Questions, opposition persists to coal mine overlooking Baynes Sound (Record, May 31). There is a significant error in the above noted article in the sentence "Additional public hearings on Raven Coal will be held Thursday at the Port Alberni Athletic Hall and Friday at the Union Bay Community Club."

Dear editor, Re: Corporate bailouts in Canada.

Dear editor, Contrary to what some have recently tried to claim, BC Hydro’s proposed 32-per-cent rate increase over the next three years is not the result of electricity purchases from independent green energy producers.

Dear editor, I am writing to inform the Record's readership of the journalistic code of ethics that we should be able to expect our local media to uphold.

Dear editor, I would like to draw your readers’ attention to the increased amount of signage posted on utility poles.