Your Views

Now that Value Village is well established in St. Albert, I feel obliged to remind the residents that this company is just that; a privately held for-profit thrift store chain, not a non-profit organization.

I love our library. One can find so many interesting books and music. It certainly would be nice to have something like the Trinity College Library built here in St. Albert, but the reality is we cannot afford to build right now.

After having kids in the Sturgeon and (mostly) St. Albert Public school systems for many years now, we have been blessed to have many teachers speak so powerfully into the lives of our four children.

Thank you to the 2nd St. Albert Scouts for bringing Good Turn Week into the community with your Bee House Conservation project at the St. Albert Botanic Park. You remind us that small acts of kindness can make a big difference.

I haven't spoken to many people who are in favour of building a new library. Even old folks like me understand that with online books and apps, libraries are not as efficient and used as they used to be.

The Our View (Gazette, April 15) commented on the “Need For Transparency.” This specifically addressed the St. Albert City Council going in camera to work on the new Council Code of Conduct Bylaw.

Re: Twinning Ray Gibbon Drive remains a high priority (St. Albert Gazette, April 15). Ray Gibbon Drive construction was a controversial endeavour, and it was the appropriate resolution to proceed with construction at the City of St.

I have been a very happy member of the “Groovy Gang” choir that has operated out of the seniors’ centre for some 40 years. We smile at practice and we smile when we go outside to sing at all kinds of senior centres, etc.

While perusing Ms. Wrench Eisler’s contribution to the Your Views page (Gazette, April 19) I had to chuckle a little at her assertion that Flight MH17 could have been brought down by machine gun fire.

It’s great news that the twinning of Ray Gibbon Drive is finally on the provincial list. While this sounds very optimistic, it’s important to keep this in realistic perspective.