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I enjoyed Anne Miller’s article featuring Dr. John Pollack in the recent Seaside (“Meet Your Neighbours,” January 2022). Having had several experiences with at home euthanasia, I totally support how comforting and respectful this is.
Thank you for the excellent article.
~ Pat Humphrey
Hello Seaside Staff. I receive your magazine in the Times Colonist and read most of the issues that come my way. While some information and advertising are definitely more specifically geared to those in Sidney, this Saanich resident enjoys the Seaside Magazine every time. Keep up the good work!
~ Trudy Trotter
Thank you for producing such an excellent magazine!
~ Judy Jillings-Scott
Thank you for a great Seaside to start the year. The centrefold is amazing for our Shoreline Medical and its contribution to the community, but also the article on McTavish Academy of Art (“Behind the Scenes,” January 2022) for their amazing contribution as well.
~ Beverly Lewis
First of all I would like to commend Seaside Magazine for their excellent articles and the information they provide to all citizens in communities around Sidney and on the Peninsula.
I have a concern about the way in which seniors are portrayed in the most recent issue of Seaside (“The Golden Years,” January 2022).
Seniors are adults that have only one thing in common, and that is more birthdays! They are as diverse as any other age group, with differences in lifestyles, lifelong education, perceptions, beliefs, shelter choices, cultural interests, and many, many more.
In the article, Sherrin Griffin is suggesting that seniors are a homogeneous group, and all come to this time with equanimity and grace. In writing articles about seniors, we must advocate for an understanding of older adults as they really are: diverse, autonomous and unique members of our communities. We should not pivot to an ageist approach.
~ Respectfully, Geri Hinton DStJ
Dear Sherrin Griffin, I like your list of things seniors have up their sleeves (“The Golden Years, January 2022), and I’d add one more: sense of humour without fear of “making a fool” of themselves, such as some people have in the younger years. There’s been a place throughout history for the “wise fool” in most cultures.
~ S. B. Julian
