HARMONIZING WHAT?

My politics are pretty clear.

However, you'd better get on the band wagon and try to stop this harmonization of the GST and PST. It's going to knock the hell out of small businesses in BC, and we (small business) are the backbone of the BC economy, say what you will.

Don't just be emailing or writing to your local NDP member of the legislature, direct your comments to the Minister of Finance. Or short of that, email Bill VanderZalm. Yeah I know, not a favorite guy in the Koots(bud) but still, a former (right-wing) premier, who is absolutely DEATH on this whole tax-grab thing by the Campbell government. Get online or snail mail, but do it. It's a load of you-know-what which for once, might be stopped by considered and thoughtful opinion. Better still, flood the Premier's office with your considered and thoughtful opposition to this tax grab.

I wonder why we can't have the Village of Kaslo budget enough money to cover the costs of street flushing/cleaning, by the Kaslo Volunteer Fire Department, with that bright shiny new fire truck, which according to Chief Larry Badry can pump all those gallons per minute? The truck can do it, the volunteer department could use the bucks for all the time it would take, and surely the village could shake a few dollars loose as part of all the taxes the downtown merchants pay annually. A thought, wrote TSS, after he swept the sidewalk and the street...

Guess this driver dropped a few dollars in our village...beauty, this Healy, a '61 I believe but I stand to be corrected!

Up the lake in ARGENTA, they came for the reunion of the Argenta Friends School. I never went there, but some of my family members did. Congrats to DEB BORSOS and all the others who put the reunion together. Hugh Elliot, Hugh Herbison, and a lot of other old timers were missing, but they were there in spirit. Bless both Hughs, for sure. (And my pal, Phyllis M, who I miss a great deal...and by the lord Harry, if Hugh H. had been around, he would have been dancing on the weekend!).

Oh yes, speaking of such mundane things as having fun and welcoming visitors to our village and enjoying the sunshine...

Apparently there is to be a dunk tank at the TSS/Kraft Foods/Logger Sports event. At least one restauranteur of note is planning to close the shop, to get cooled off. I hear it was a personal request from the organizers, that this person attend. The identity is withheld at the request of the next of kin.