The Editor:
I heard this today.
The latest statistics show more proof that British Columbians have a waning interest in visiting the United States.
Washington state’s Whatcom Council of Governments reports a 37 percent decline in B.C. plates driving south in October.
Ironically, I heard this immediately following receiving a speeding ticket for going 10 over from your sheriff’s deputy in Birch Bay at 7:05 a.m. this morning, while heading home from visiting and helping my elderly mother.
If you want Canadians back again, we’d appreciate a warning next time instead of a ticket. If I am just your average Canadian coming down in the current climate and receive a ticket whilst visiting – that would seal the deal for me and I would absolutely not be back.
That $150 ticket is well over $200 Canadian; times are tough. I was accelerating up a small incline right around the corner from my mother’s house. Whilst I don’t expect to get away with “crime” – a little warning would have sufficed and been appreciated from this dual citizen living in Canada. Disappointed.
Kara MacDonald
Blaine
The Editor:
The people of Blaine, Birch Bay and the surrounding region have a unique advantage over other developed areas. How?
Positive community. Positive leadership. Positive opportunities.
Blaine and Birch Bay appear to be thriving in many ways, but there is still much work to be done. Please join in this effort, so that we may all contribute in a positive way to a vibrant community where love, kindness and respect are felt by all, regardless of their position in life.
How can one person make a difference? By getting educated and involved. There are many ways to do so, if one is willing to make the effort. Service opportunities include, but are not limited to: food banks, veteran organizations, planning commissions, educational organizations, recreational organizations, youth sports organizations, senior service organizations.
Why?
So we can create a bright future for all. To unlock the huge potential of our area. To create living-wage jobs, growth opportunities and abundance for everyone willing to work for it. To show gratitude for our beautiful area, strategically located between Mt. Baker and the Salish Sea. To come to believe all people, no matter their position in life, have value. To show love and become willing to devote our time and resources to the improvement of our region in a responsible, environmentally safe way that balances sustainable growth while protecting the natural resources that makes our home so valuable.
Please stand with all who are motivated by love.
Love of community.
Love of people.
Love for all who choose to do good.
Please contact me for more information. A network of positive people serving in many different capacities needs your help to create the best community possible.
Dave Brudvik
Blaine
The Editor:
I want to thank all those who voted for me for the Blaine school board. It was a great experience to meet and hear from so many people who care about our students and our schools. Thanks as well to those who supported the campaign. I could not have come to this point without the help of so many people.
I would like to hear from those who did not vote for me. I want to understand your concerns and issues so that I can better serve our entire community. I encourage those individuals to contact me at bfeaster@sbcglobal.net. I would appreciate hearing from you.
Now our work begins. There are known and unknown issues ahead of us that could be emotional and perhaps divisive. We will need to be patient, listen, and keep our families, staff and students in mind.
Once again, thank you to this wonderful community for entrusting me to represent you. It is an honor, and I am humbled. Let’s listen to each other and work together to build a bright future for our students.
Bob Feaster, Blaine school board District 3 Director-elect
Birch Bay
The Editor:
I earned my Eagle rank in the Boy Scouts when I was 14, and I’ve tried to live the values of helping others and community service that were integral to that recognition.
My wife Cathy and I, between us, spent 67 years in the classroom helping children and parents learn to be creative, considerate of others, along with meaningful skills.
Our community service has earned two Blaine Builder Recognitions, two proclamations from the city of Blaine, along with Business of the Year from the Blaine Chamber of Commerce.
That’s the America we were raised in, and up until Trump, we thought we still lived there.
President Trump is a convicted felon who manipulated his political environment to avoid punishment, and his Cabinet members are unqualified ring kissers. Most of the Republican Party, from Trump’s very beginning, and to this day, are afraid he’ll split their party if they ever disagree with him; thus losing future elections. Most of the Supreme Court are actually courtiers to Trump and the Christian nationals that want to change America’s democracy into a theocracy. (Women, please read Project 2025 written by the Christian nationals. Are you ready to have no rights other than being a baby machine? That’s your only real value in any theocracy.)
Murder on the high seas, troops at the ready in every state in the union, a gulag in Florida, the Constitution trashed and ignored, all Democrats are considered domestic terrorists, and good folks like us, who are tax paying, contributing citizens are considered traitors because we disagree with a man who wants to be America’s Putin for life, and will do anything to get there.
MAGA members: Sooner or later you will disagree with your spouse or children. Do you beat your spouse and children, publicly call them names, or threaten them with violence if they disagree with you? Well, sooner or later you will disagree with Trump and he will punish you!
To President Trump, we send this advice from Jesus in Mark 8:36:
“What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”
Ron Snyder
Blaine
