Editor: Re: Porkchop the stray pig (The Times, Oct. 30). How times have changed.
Back in the day when the school where Porkchop travelled to was called Topham Elementary School, and was located in an area known as West Langley, a hog wandering onto the playground would have been no big deal.
Most of the kids could have told you where it had come from and some of them would probably have known its name, and a few might even have been from the farm it came from. A couple of the Grade 6 boys would have gotten some rope for a halter (Grade 6 boys always had access to rope) and led it back to its pen. No “Code Yellows.” No RCMP. Isn’t progress wonderful?
Brian Johnson,
Willoughby
