Commentary

And bad neighbours make bad fences I’m with you, my friend. [“Ridiculously excessive, unnecessary, and disturbing to the neighbours,” Letters, Sept. 21, p.5.] The Town of Pelham is in dire need of some bylaws that work for we, the taxpayers.

Fertilizer quandary As I read the interview with Fred Sarvis by John Chick, I was left with a few questions [Sarvis vies for Regional Council, Sept. 21, p.3]. Mr. Sarvis states that he is a “full-blown” environmentalist (I wonder just what this is?).

T here are many disturbing and bewildering aspects to contemporary conservative Christianity but one of the most troubling is the phenomenon of ersatz martyrdom.

T he annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes fundraiser for Gillian’s Place returns to the Pen Centre on Saturday, October 15, for the first time since 2019.

T he new Amazon Prime blockbuster, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which will cost in the region of $200 million dollars per season, making it the most expensive television series ever made, has just begun. Set thousands of years before J.

BY FRANK ADAMSON Candidate for Pelham Mayor W hat a year this has been shaking off the vestiges of Covid and returning to some sense of normalcy.

Doesn’t failing to show up usually get you fired? In the days when my dad was a councillor in Pickering, and then Chair of the Durham Board of Education, the paycheque was an honorarium.

I didn’t think I would feel this dark and sad. I never met her, I come from a working-class, East London home, and was raised as far from monarchy as it’s possible to be. Yet the death of Queen Elizabeth moved and moves me to the heart and soul.

W hen I was researching my biography of H.G. Wells in the early 1990s what shocked me was the man’s lifelong support for social engineering and eugenics.

W e just finished voting in the provincial election in June, and now we are facing municipal elections on October 24. It seems a bit early to be making the plea that people like me frequently do about “be sure to vote.