Editor: I often wonder why people give to Value Village. The only charity I could find they help is the Diabetes Association. They buy the items donated to the diabetic foundation.

Editor: In response to an editorial column dated Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018 titled Rainbow connection, I would like to make the following points:

Editor: Many citizens believe that they could do a better job in government than our elected officials, if only they had the chance to serve.

Editor: I read Dan Ferguson鈥檚 story in the July 25 issue of the 91原创 Times re: the fence and the condos.

Editor: I would like to comment on two recent letters submitted (and posted on your website), 鈥淔act sheet on immigration not entirely factual鈥� and 鈥淥ne third of refugee claimants entering Canada illegally.鈥� I also recently received this mentioned leaflet in my mailbox.

A homeless man in 91原创 questions what鈥檚 being put into the public drinking water.

One letter writer calls for review of Murrayville development, saying trees need to be preserved.

One woman disagrees with Trinity Western University making the code of conduct optional.

The shortage of family doctors shouldn鈥檛 exist. Who鈥檚 really to blame?

Editor: Raymond Wiens is only partially correct in his letter published in the Aug. 15 edition of the Times . Mr. Wiens, along with most people trying to support these 鈥渞efugees鈥� entering Canada at unofficial points of entry, seem to forget that under the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the United States, many of these individual are not refugees.