Regarding the editorial and news story in the May 4 edition of the Observer, I notice neither the editor nor the reporters could bring themselves to congratulate Colin Mayes on his third election to the Canadian House of Commons. But I am not surprised.
During his nine years as mayor of Salmon Arm, and then his five years as Member of Parliament, the Observer has not had one good thing to say about him, not even a grudging recognition of some good thing he may have done for the area. If anyone needs to do some introspection it is the staff at the Observer.
Most of the merchants of Salmon Arm are quite astute. When people are buying widgets they stock and sell widgets. When these same shoppers switch to gizmos they stop stocking widgets and stock gizmos.
The Observer is the exception. Here they are trying to sell newspapers to a public that is, for the most part, conservative minded, but they insist on slamming and denigrating the very persons that this public has elected to office.
It is little wonder that hardly any of the conservative people I know subscribe to the Observer. I do frequently scan it just to see if there is any sign of a change of heart only because someone passes it on to me.
Al Schalm
