To the Editor:
By way of this letter, I wish every one a wonderful and blessed new year. We are truly privileged that we can live in this beautiful valley together with so many good people. Margot and I have lived for five years now in Crest View Village, together with other friendly residents. We can’t say enough about how well we are looked after and are thankful for the care people who do their utmost to make us feel at home and make us comfortable. We also thank the volunteers who come here to help people, entertain us with music and singing, and also to the churches providing their services.
Creston is a great town and gets better from year to year. The arts community has contributed so much. We have a good mayor and town council, and a great chief of the Lower Kootenay Band. It is a wonderful example to see the two communities working together.
The year ended on a great note. We and the whole world were presented with the best Christmas present ever when representative from 195 nations agreed in Paris on the action to be taken to save our beautiful planet from the destruction of the climate change. The hard work to put words in to reality comes now. The Pope Francis’s encyclical “Laudato Si”, and the appeal to the world community by the Dalai Lama and other religious leaders to stop the destruction of God’s creation, our planet and only home has sunk in.
It won’t be easy to wean society off fossil fuel and excess consumption addiction, but it has to be done. The creator has given us all sorts of renewable energy and that has to be the energy of the future.
It is now my New Year’s wish that the 195 nations of the world will create another miracle and come together again as a human family and agree on the action to make peace in the world, to put an end to greed, power hunger, poverty, land grabbing and killing each other, and end the suffering for so many, instead solving differences between nations through discussion and with good will to find a solution.
We must create a better world so we can look our children in the eye and say, “We did the best we could and solved most of the environmental problems that we created, please learn from our mistakes.”
Earth is a beautiful planet and the only home for all plants and creatures, including us humans.
Creston
