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Letters: Mar 29
Re: Northbrook's Most Wanted, Chris Evans
Re: Trespassing, Kathy Flagler
Re: Letters to the Editor, Ray Fletcher
In support of Scott Reid’s letters, Joan Wallace
Re: Northbrook's Most Wanted
As a local business owner and a local person as well, I just have to ask you this question: Why, if you're a local person, are you taking even a small bag of garbage to a local business? Doing business is tough enough as we all know, and up in this area any cost of doing business needs justification. Garbage disposal is an expense, and something that we as business owners can never recover. Sure, day-to-day operations like staffing, lights and fuel, be it propane or electricity, are incorporated into the cost of doing business. But garbage disposal most of the time is an expense that we can't get a return on. Most times the owner/operator is taking their garbage to the dump on company time and could be doing more constructive things rather than disposing of their own garbage, let alone other people’s trash. Even tourists in the area understand that their garbage is theirs until they get home or find a proper waste station to dispose of it. So you may be embarrassed or miffed that you had the OPP drop off YOUR garbage to you but I give the business person who didn't look the other way my full backing.
Just a business person trying to make a buck
Chris Evans
Re: Trespassing
To all of you who have snowmobiles and/or ATVs, snowmobile season is over and I have closed the gates on my property and would appreciate if you would respect them and the NO TRESPASSING signs on the property. I have had no one from the snowmobile club come in years and ask permission to use my property and someone cut the lock on my gate. I own this property and pay taxes on it. Maybe if you can’t afford your own property to 4-wheel and rip up, you should reconsider owning an ATV. I closed the gate last summer and the 4 wheelers tore up the creek bank to get around the closed gate. CLOSED gate, NO TRESPASSING signs - take the hint and stay off my property. ln case you were unaware, you are trespassing - even if there are no signs. You can be charged for being on my property without my permission. I am not the only landowner who feels this way. If you want to tear up my property, then send me your address and I will come and reciprocate. I don't know what else to say except I am tired of people who have no respect for other people's property and belongings. I was raised to have some respect for others and would appreciate if others could do the same. The bottom line: “If you see a closed gate or NO trespassing sign, please respect my wishes.”
Thanks. Kathy Flagler
Re: Letters to the Editor.
Congratulations on such an entertaining editorial page. Best read in a long time, and I have a few comments of my own:
1) PCs and abandoned landowners. Surprise, surprise!
2) PCs and unwarranted internet search? No, not Mr. Harper and his gang, y' think?
3) Scott Reid's constant barrage of self-serving nonsense = 0 advertising? Sure, and the tooth fairy is paying all your wasted income tax $s this year!
Ray Fletcher
In support of Scott Reid’s letters
To those who are opposed to Scott Reid’s letters – if you don’t like Scott’s response letters, why not write him instead of belly aching in this newspaper? If you feel you must destroy someone’s bridge, why not build another to replace it? Write to Scott with some constructive suggestions of how he could improve the requested feedback he is seeking. In my 76 years, I have seen many politicians come and go, and Scott Reid is one of the best (and he did not pay me to say this)! There is a simple solution to the problem some have with Scott’s letters: If you don’t like them, don’t read them, and don’t answer them!
About the Human Rights Committees: They are a bunch of kangaroo courts that should be eliminated. For proof of this statement, read best-selling author Ezra Levant's book "Shakedown". It is available in most libraries. This book will open your eyes to the flagrant disregard for democracy used in these committees.
If Scott in particular, and the federal Conservative Party in general, are doing such a poor job of governing our country, why have they been returned to power in the last three elections? Are the people in this riding who voted Scott into office in the last three elections just a bunch of backwoods know-nothings and a few disgruntled complainers who have written articles in this paper so politically astute? Why don’t they just admit they voted for the wrong party in the last election? We leave the answer to these questions to the observant readers of this paper.
Joan Wallace
