Last week marked the 10-year anniversary of the first WestJet plane to land in the Comox Valley. Hundreds of local residents gathered in the parking lot of the old terminal to watch and cheer as the plane touched down. I was one of those people cheering because this inaugural flight had a personal connection.

The wildly successful Courtenay Rotary Club annual online auction is back, with a new and worthy local cause to support.

鈥淥 God, your sea is so great and my boat is so small.鈥� Long ago, the Breton fishers articulated this prayer that has since resonated with anyone who has encountered violent seas, strong winds and very cold water. The dangers inherent in operating a boat in the waters off Vancouver Island are obvious to anyone who has even briefly thought about the issue of safety on the ocean.

We have been advised that a letter intended for our Member of Parliament was delivered in error to the NDP MP from Edmonton with a similar last name.

Dear editor, it seems to me that the general public is uninformed about how a compassion club operates. Every club member has to be sick, be in pain, and has to have a doctor's note. The compassion club does not sell and will not sell to non-members or to youngsters.

The Comox Valley RCMP say they had good reasons to believe the North Island Compassion Club (NICC) had become a front for marijuana dealing. The Crown, which will prosecute the case, clearly thought so when approving criminal charges 鈥� using information gathered by police.

Dear editor, Four and a half million dollars of taxpayers' money plus over 40 years loss of salmon in the Tsolum river because of an abandoned copper mine.

Dear editor, OK, enough already. I find it hard to believe that while we see so many countries around the world struggling, suffering and fighting to establish some form of a democratic government, that we are involved in an action that flies in the face of our very own electoral process.

Dear editor, Two years ago I joined the provincial Liberal party and had the first-time experience recently of voting for our new leader in a regional and preferential voting system.

Dear editor, At numerous public meetings over the past few months, the question has been raised whether or not the proposed Raven Coal Mine Project near Fanny Bay is just the beginning of numerous coal mines being developed in the Comox Valley.