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Curbside compost a growing trend

Curbside compost a growing trend

Jim Starko's criticism of the city's proposed curbside compost collection system reflects a clear ignorance of modern waste management practices and antiquated environmental values. Curbside composting was not invented by the City of St Albert.
Separate schools should be abolished

Separate schools should be abolished

Re: ‘Former minister says axe separate schools,’ Dec. 11 Gazette. As a 70-year-old man who was subjected to separatism as a boy, I can say with experience that David King has a very good idea.
If you don't like the cash cow, don't feed it

If you don't like the cash cow, don't feed it

In her letter complaining about speeding tickets, Irene Tremblay makes a big show of supporting a democratic system to support peoples’ rights and freedoms.
Council should look around for tax examples

Council should look around for tax examples

Mayor and Council, I am writing to bring an interesting article to your attention in the Dec. 13 National Post that I would encourage you to read. It references in it someone (Ronald Jensen) who ran the public works department in Phoenix, Ariz.
New waste collection system doomed to fail

New waste collection system doomed to fail

I would like to comment on the City of St. Albert’s new proposed waste collection changes to be implemented in 2011. For a number of reasons, this new “system” is seriously flawed from the outset.
Season's Greetings far from amateur theatre

Season's Greetings far from amateur theatre

Thanks to Anna Borowiecki's review of Season's Greetings, the Alan Ayckbourn play, and the St.
Reader's hope rekindled after theft

Reader's hope rekindled after theft

Last month I wrote a letter to the St. Albert Gazette and its readers venting my frustration and disappointment when my work trailer was stolen along with a large percentage of my tools.
Front page photo was in bad taste

Front page photo was in bad taste

I am writing in regards to the cover picture of Wednesday’s Dec. 15 Gazette, showing a young man doing a moderate snowmobile stunt. As a safety professional and a father I found this picture disturbing and in bad taste.
Photo radar unfair to St. Albertans

Photo radar unfair to St. Albertans

Attention Mayor Nolan Crouse: I moved here in September 2010 but have lived in the area for 40 years. I am a mother and grandmother and I have driven in Alberta since 1974. I received on my front step my second photo radar ticket this week.
Flaherty resorting to half-truths

Flaherty resorting to half-truths

Bloomberg quotes Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, who said weak U.S. growth, not his country's strengthening currency, is the biggest threat to Canada's economic recovery. And the half-truths continue.
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