Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the first week of October 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. 

Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjones@infonews.ca.

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'I lost $50K': An Okanagan summer without Airbnb

I am in my 50s and my folks had rental properties when I was young. It use to be you would make a bit monthly and save a bit to cover expenses, but in the end you get a paid for place to keep renting or sell. Nice deal. Now people are wanting big monthly profits as well as having others provide you with a mostly free chunk of equity. It’s too much and the only way to both keep it and increase it was with these Airbnb units. Sorry but you get no tears from me, as there are lots of other investments you can play with. These rules were created to protect housing for people who live here, not your easy come income. — Dick Dawson, via iNFOnews.ca

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BC Conservative Kelowna Centre candidate posted conspiracies, pandemic holocaust comparisons, and more

Holy. The BC Conservatives are hugely dysfunctional. Avoid voting for these examples of something horrific. Fill in the blank for that descriptor. — Greg Carr, via iNFOnews.ca

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Elections BC throws cold water on feud between Penticton candidates

Is it not time to get down to brass tacks instead of the Lilliputian nonsense we read about the antics of those seeking membership in the Legislative Assembly? This elector is concerned such antics are a smoke screen which masks serious issues we face. Such as? Such as the inadequacy of health services, the profligate spending and borrowing of the current government of BC with little or no disclosure, street violence, general crime and taxation to identify a few. — Gordon M Clark, via iNfonews.ca

Really, Amelia Boultbee, how petty. This has nothing to do with representing the people. — Loretta Scott, via iNFOnews.ca

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Vernon cobbler will fix just about anything to keep the trade alive

True story, they are sewing a bag out of a moving blanket to keep our portable BBQ covered in the back of our truck when we are on the road. — Bonnie Derry, via iNFOnews.ca 

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Rustad's major housing tax rebate plan overshadowed by anti-vaccine comments on video

Yup, this ended my curiosity in John Rustad. — Barb Krulitsky, via iNFOnews.ca

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Driver high on cannabis nabbed by North Okanagan RCMP

All my life I have seen people drive after smoking weed and never once have I seen someone mess up, unless they are new to it and still get the “cherry” high from using. I would love to see a 5-year smoker take a sobriety test to see what the effects really are. For sure people shouldn’t be smoking lots of grass while driving but I would like to see what the legal limit really does to someone. — Dick Dawson, via iNFOnews.ca

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