Herald takes a trip to the East Coast

Ross and Sonja Lillie took The Herald on holiday this summer to Canning’s Cove on the Bonavista Peninsula in Newfoundland. We’re always amazed at the places readers take us. Email your “Herald on holidays” photo to editor@pentictonherald.ca.

Imagine the filth accumulating in new digs as a look at the homeless camps paints the picture displaying the truth.

Open up or build structures like Essondale to house these mouthy individuals who used to be referred to as bums.

Instead of moving the homeless into fancy digs with a ticket to a life of needles, dogs and laziness just watch them run with nowhere to hide.

Place the healthy in a work camp where they earn their keep and perhaps self-esteem?

Perhaps once a month on payday charge a fee for a controlled shoot-up or perhaps allow a joint or two two as anything is better than the broken system in place today.

The answer to get rid of many so-called healthy homeless has been blowing in the winds for ages: Get a job and earn some self-respect.

I said it before I grew up homeless as you can see by visiting pier21.ca Follow the links to story by Tom Isherwood then keep your flack to yourself as I have done the walk and have earned the right to talk. Tom Isherwood

Olalla

The urn slowly disappeared beneath the flat calm sea with the heads of the roses pointing upwards; neither of us were religious types, but it all seemed so serene and tranquil.

Between sobs, I told Cathy and Peter how Susan and I met at a mutual shipmate's place in her native Trinidad almost a halfcentury ago, when both of us had been working on different ships. One of those stories of love at first sight that was not made in Hollywood; this was the real deal, but there was a Hollywood ending to our private funeral service when Peter spied a whale spout to the southeast in the direction of Ballenas Island.

While we waited patiently, two or three humpback whales made their way along the Strait of Georgia passing a few hundred yards away from us with several impressive displays of their tail flukes. What a truly majestic send-off for Susan, as these other creatures of the ocean paid their last respects. Bernie Smith Parksville