Here are your kicks and kisses for the week of May 12!
- Kisses to the three angels for your kindness when I was stranded for a lift home from the ferry to Sechelt. The ferry was late and I didn’t know if transit would still be at the Langdale terminal to take me home. I will repay your kindness forward when I can.
- Warmest kisses to the many caring people who came to my help when I tripped along the waterfront before Easter. The bruises are fading, the ribs are healing, I may get use of my badly smashed wrist, and amazingly, I didn’t break any teeth! (Or other bones!)
- Kisses to my new best friend! We kept each other company during the long, lonely hours at Sechelt Hospital’s ER. Thanks for sharing your vegetarian wrap, for getting me a warm sheet and your goodbye wave through the window when you left. I arrived home at 12:30 a.m. thanks to kindly ambulance paramedics Danielle and Mike and after care and snacks from Kiera.
- Kisses to Bob and Sue Hoy of IGA Gibsons for their continued sponsorship of the Sunshine Coast women’s Soccer League team, the IGA Blazers. You make our purple hearts happy year after year!
- Kisses to all of the Shorncliffe administrative professionals for all of the hard work that you do behind the scenes every day to make Shorncliffe a safe and positive community. Happy belated Administrative Professionals Day! From Shorncliffe ADP staff and members
- Kisses to the thoughtful gentleman who offered up his points card so I could get the discount...every little bit helps! Thank you, kind sir.
- Kicks to those who live along the Sunshine Coast Highway who place their bins in the bike path. It is dangerous enough trying to ride a bike on the Coast highway path without having to dodge your garbage, recycling and compost cans. Please use your driveway or the grass edge of the road and leave the path along the highway clear for walkers and cyclists. Thank you.
- Kicks to the gentleman in the white truck who turned right in front of me while I was on my bike, then drove so close to me in Davis Bay that he almost hit my rearview mirror with the one on his truck. Bicyclists cannot ride too closely to the cars parked along Davis Bay for fear of being “doored”– injured when an inattentive driver opens their door into a bicycle’s path.
Email your Kisses and Kicks to [email protected]. The deadline for submissions is 1 p.m. every Tuesday for a given week.
Coast Reporter will run kisses and kicks entries as space permits on a first-received, first-published basis.
Submissions must be accompanied by a name and phone number for confirmation by the editor. Names will not be printed in the column unless requested by the writer, for kisses only.
A kick is intended to be an anonymous critique between private parties and may in no way publicly identify an individual, group or business directly or indirectly.
Submissions must be no longer than 30 words. If your thanks or critique is longer, consider an ad in our classified section. The editor reserves the right to edit or refuse to run any submission.
