Commentary

L ast week I discussed some of the great things that a council can do to make a town a better place to live. However, there also needs to be a sense of realism about what a council cannot do.

T he Covid-19 pandemic has led to people considering mortality in a way they’ve seldom done before, which makes the timing of Richard Coles’ recent book, The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss , extraordinarily appropriate.

Call Short Hills deer hunt what it is Using the term “harvest” is just linguistic trickery. It’s just another level of duplicity used to get the public on board with having arrows fly through the park.

T he Town of Pelham has a new Town Council. This is the time when members of council feel pride at having been elected, and hope for all the great achievements that a new council will accomplish.

Lest We Forget Do you know where this quote comes from? I am first-generation Canadian. I have heard about war since I was a little girl. My parents were from northern Italy and were children during WWI. My mother, Elvira, lived on a farm.

I ’m not a fan of Jordan Peterson. I’ve always found his views to be surprisingly disappointing and sometimes downright harmful. Put simply, I just couldn’t see this emperor’s new clothes.

Disappointed with turnout As a relatively new resident to the Pelham area, can I state how very disappointed I am with the woefully low turnout at the recent municipal election.

Mayor Marvin Junkin I would like to thank the residents of Pelham for allowing me the privilege of being your mayor for another term.

I n a way I’ve been working on the front lines of poverty, pain suffering, and deprivation for some five years now. First as someone training for the Anglican priesthood, the last three as a deacon, and then as a priest.

Keep the farm animals on the farms When the ducks arrived on the street there were four, now there are six. If ducks are anything like geese, take a look at what they have turned Spencer Smith Park into, in Burlington.