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Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows Times
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
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Post office pride of Whonnock
cars zipping by… U-turn. Horrible! Yes, life Dear Editor, away from the shopping mall is rough! We in Whonnock are proud of our post office and of our postmaster, Sue Schulze, Fred Braches, Whonnock who provides the best postal services anywhere in the Lower Mainland. Sue goes Dear Editor, out of her way to help I feel for Mr. Jones. people. But it is Canada Post Rather than weeping he has the issue with. crocodile tears, Kevin I live in the middle Jones [Whole day lost of nowhere, as he puts to pick up parcels, it, and have no trouble Feb. 11 Letters, TIMES] speaking with my should have called neighbours and friends the Whonnock post to help me out. office, and he would Letters We have Mr. Jones have learned that Sue and Ms. Barker [Post hands out parcels on to Kevin Jones photo office joke, Feb. 13 Saturdays to people the Letters, TIMES] cutting who, like him, can’t go Whonnock Post Office. down our post office, to the post office durEditor but it’s a personal place to chat and run ing the official hours. She into neighbours. How about what the comwill also transfer the parcels munity wants and likes? – or any item – to another postal outlet, if asked to do so. Cathie Pii, Maple Ridge We are amused by Jones calling our Whonnock post office “a shack in the Dear Editor, middle of nowhere.” And even more about I suggest that Ms. Barker look past her him calling the place where he lives “someexperience and consider that the post office where.” is an icon in Whonnock, with service proMiranda Barker entertained us by definvided by staff who are friendly, courteous, ing our beloved post office as a “dilapiand personal – a throw-back, if you will, dated garden shed” [Post office joke, Feb. to a simpler time when people came to the 13 Letters, TIMES]. We understand that post office to meet and chat with friends in uninformed city slickers might see it like a rural setting. that, and we forgive both Jones and Barker Ms. Barker needs to slow down and take wholeheartedly. in the values and cultures of the area. This We in Whonnock keep that little buildplace is important to the greater communing in high esteem. Whonnock had a post ity, just as it is. She could buy one of the office years before Vancouver was even wooden post cards depicting the building planned, and the current building, dating to and send it on to someone who will apprethe 1920s, is recognized by the Maple Ridge ciate the ambiance of the area. Community Heritage Commission as a significant heritage building. Bruce Carrie, Maple Ridge Lastly, regarding the trials and tribula[Note: Fuller versions of these letters are tions of Miranda Barker at the Whonnock online at www.mrtimes.com. Click on post office: parking on the road shoulder… Opinion/Letters, or search the writers names.]
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Cheap homes no substitute for jobs
Dear Editor, Councillor Cheryl Ashlie wants to create affordable housing to stop the “brain drain” of young adults seeking cheaper housing and jobs elsewhere [Maple Ridge study assesses housing stock, Jan. 6, TIMES]. People come to Maple Ridge because the housing is the most affordable in the Lower Mainland, but they travel elsewhere to work because of the lack of jobs in Maple Ridge. The lack of vision in the planning department over many years has contributed to the development of a bedroom community, where we live here but work and spend our money in other communities.
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Young people just out of high school cannot afford to purchase a house at any price. They need jobs, and many would do quite well if there were any. Grover Telford, Maple Ridge
Youth leave for education, jobs
Dear Editor, Young people are moving out of Maple Ridge because there are no jobs for them. Young adults attend school outside of Maple Ridge because we do not have a college or a university. Those intelligent, innovative people move because they can’t get jobs here, not because of the over-abundance of cheap real estate in Maple Ridge. If there are no jobs in their own community, why would they buy real estate here? Sonja Ogden, Maple Ridge [Note: Fuller versions of these letters are online at www.mrtimes.com. Click on Opinion/Letters, or search the writers names.]
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Dear Editor, Thanks to Tim Tyler for bringing back a few memories [The day pop music changed, Jan. 30 For What It’s Worth, TIMES]. I was part of the packed Aggie Hall audience who came to see the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show on a big screen. Thanks to whoever thought of the idea, as they may still be around today. Beatles music still the best around. Annette Code, Pitt Meadows For more letters to the editor visit... www.mrtimes.com – Click on Opinion/Letters.
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