Reportedly reluctant to take the job as B.C.’s finance minister, Kevin Falcon is now feeling Colin Hansen’s pain. Gordon Campbell is gone, but the troublesome offspring he birthed with the federal government is now Falcon’s responsibility.

Dear editor, Last Thursday, I was awarded the Comox Valley Home Based Business New Business of the Year Award. I’m humbly grateful to be the recipient of this award and I would like to thank the members of the HBBA for their friendship and their support.

Dear editor, In response to the letter, Sixty per cent of us did not vote Tory by Kathleen Woodley, let’s have a second look:

Dear editor, Re: Harper rewarded, not punished (Record, May 6). Anne Bauman’s assertion that the Canadian electorate must be stupid to have voted for a Conservative majority government would be laughable if it wasn’t so ridiculous.

Dear editor, A Vancouver Sun article by Stephen Hume is titled Tiny town runs up huge bill suing a taxpayer who blogs with sarcasm on political decisions.

Dear editor, I think the regional district was a little too hasty in purchasing the Cliffe Avenue property for a possible homeless shelter.

Dear editor, My wife and I moved to this area some three and a half years ago and from the beginning have been hearing of the need to restrict water use.

Dear editor, The Area Planning Commission of CVRD Lazo North/Area B has read with interest the May 6 coverage of the exchange between Mayor Phelps, Coun. Ambler and director Jim Gillis.

Dear editor, I just got an E-mail from the Revenue Canada Agency saying they recalculated my income tax and I was getting an additional $410 refund, and all I had to do was 'click here' to get to the site where I was to fill out a form with my social insurance number and bank info to get it.