Just send cash to Texas

Dear Editor: Government sends cargo plane loaded with humanitarian supplies to Texas for distribution by Salvation Army. Why not just send cash to buy supplies on Amazon? The U.S. is not a Third World country. Terry Tyne Penticton would indicate to the City how many stickers should be provided.

Figures skaters from outside city boundaries should be expected to pay for parking as well as recreational hockey or any other sporting facility they use. The costs do not belong on the residents of Penticton.

Over the past few years the City increasingly has gone to a user pay system. This is the only system that is fair to everyone.

Wayne Llewellyn’s letter in Tuesday’s Herald is an excellent example of that principle. Economic Development belongs in the hands of the businesses that benefit most from it. The City’s role should be limited to support of in kind benefits that allow these events to take place.

Keep writing, Wayne, I admire your depth of knowledge and clear-sighted vision. Elvena Slump

Penticton aliens. Now they’re coming from among the 58,000 Haitians who’ve been in the U.S. on special status for the past seven years and whose time is up.

We can also expect an unknown number of the 300,000 Salvadorans and Hondurans who are also in the U.S. on temporary status.

The major cause of this problem is the eager virtue signalling by Justin Trudeau in response to the U.S. travel restrictions last year.

He foolishly went on Twitter to take a juvenile, passive-aggressive swipe at Trump by announcing how welcoming and open we are to all comers.

Now we’re working for Trump by taking in a substantial portion of the illegal aliens in America who took Trudeau’s statement as an invitation. And we’re footing all the bills too.

There’s also been an unhelpful “pull” effect from our Haitian and Somali immigrant communities and meddlesome Montreal Mayor Dennis Coderre who declared Montreal a sanctuary city for illegal migrants.

We’ve seen quite a Kabuki show by various Federal and Quebec politicians to explain their response to the asylum seekers, including assurances by the Transportation Minister that the situation is under control. But the numbers and images of tented camps and the overflowing Olympic Stadium say otherwise.

Now Trudeau is urging people who want admission to Canada to follow established immigration and refugee processes.

It’s too late for that as the migrants have decided otherwise. He’s calling these asylum seekers “irregular entrants” instead of the illegal migrants and economic opportunists that they are. But at least he isn’t calling them refugees.

Haiti suffers from chronic poverty and misgovernment in spite of decades of international assistance to improve things. Even the UN is finally getting out.

It’s unlikely that any Haitian migrants will qualify for asylum because they can’t plead oppression after spending the past 7 years in the U.S.

If poverty and misgovernment were grounds for asylum then most of 11 million Haitians would qualify, as would millions of Canadians.

We’re in dire need of some responsible, adult leadership on this. Twitter is a great place to showcase one’s ego, but it’s no place to develop coherent government policy. John K. Thompson Kaleden the right to have or Club’s name on one of the rooms in the new tower – it will be a lasting legacy and we are proud to have been able to work on this project.

Our regular meetings are every first Sunday of the month from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Downtown United Church (Blue Church) and all are welcome to attend.

Some months our meetings are on the second Sunday as the first is a stat holiday. We start gathering around 1:30 to view what will be in the auction and have fellowship with fellow members.

Membership in the club is $15 per annum and the club year runs from September until the end of May.

One does not have to be a member to attend and even buy during the auction. In order to sell we ask that a person belongs to the club.

Those who need further information may attend our meetings and if you like the privacy one can call or visit with Gus Boersma, 250-492-3875, gboersma@telus.net or visit at 2600 Cornwall Drive, Penticton, B.C. V2A 6X3.

We thank our print media for allowing us to inform the public of what is happening with our club and how they can help us to help the community at large. Gus Boersma

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