(This letter was submitted to the Alberni Valley News on October 16, 2025) Dear Editor, I am a little stunned. This week, a vice president of Carpenter Media, the new American owner of the Alberni Valley News and other former Black Press papers, contacted me about a letter submitted a week earlier but not published. …
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Letter published Sept 15, 2021 – AVNews Dear Editor, I truly hope people are respectful at businesses now that the vaccine passports are in effect. Getting ID’d at a liquor store, pub, nightclub or cigarette counter has been common for decades. Showing proof of vaccination while we are in a pandemic is hardly any different. …
Dear Editor, Promoting active, healthy lifestyles, building paths and trails or walkways beside the water or railway. It is all a wonderful way to connect the community and public transit is a key, and very affordable, part of it so that you can go from A to B all by the same means no matter …
