Haven’t learned from drug deaths

Dear Editor: Overdoses, overdoses, fatalities, neardeath experiences. Everyday news here and now across B.C., and increasingly across Canada.

Meanwhile, the wheel is springing, and spinning well, so we don’t have to re-invent it.

That wheel is spinning in Portugal, where they have only about 20 such deaths in a year in the whole country.

Why can’t we learn from them? There, the authorities don’t turn their users over to the law, but rather to rehab. Joy Lang Penticton

What if Penticton had offered enough incentives to the creator (not Noah, this time) to build here instead of Ole Kentucky. The city would currently be swarming with visitors ‚ from far and wide — willing to pay a premium for the rare opportunity to float around Lake Okanagan in the company of Noah, his family and all those interesting pairs of animals! There would be those happy to fork out for the full 40-day-passage package.

The Pyramids Park could be the new Mount Ararat. But it’s never too late to act on a good (and non-copyrighted, I assume) idea and Penticton — with a modest investment — could be ready to actually capitalize on the next round of flooding. Amongst many potential benefits to such a project, it would help keep Okanagan carpenters (and zoo keepers) fully employed for quite a while.

Perhaps a special berth could be donated by the Penticton Marina so that the little (by comparison) Sicamous would not feel too far outdone by Penticton’s newest aquatic attraction. Steve Bruce Penticton