Skip to content

Editorial: Add to our editorial voice

A community newspaper is made up many opinions and views

Editorial cartoons have always been a way to express humour and comment on the goings on of the day. They are often misunderstood, especially when they are subtle. Some will “get  it” others won’t because they happen to have a different sensibility or sense of humour.

In last week’s cartoon the cartoonist was in no way taking any credit away from Carl Heinrich but rather dissing “Olga’s” qualifications. Olga is a character, not a real entity and not Britt Santowski the cartoonist. She is meant to be that one voice that sees things just a little differently. Which she does. She is not meant to be taken so seriously.

Like Olga or hate Olga, she is just a caricature and compilation of many women.

The Sooke News Mirror welcomes your comments on issues you feel strongly about. It has always been the aim of this paper to present many sides to issues and events happening in Sooke. We take the flak and the fury, along with the praise. If you feel strongly about something we have written or not written about, give us a call or e-mail the editor. We can’t be everywhere and some events will be missed. If we don’t know about something it is impossible to be there. We look to the people in the community to add to our editorial voices, after all, this is your paper and we hope it is reflective of the whole. The Sooke News Mirror has always been a sounding board for the community. Send in your photos of events and your ideas for stories and we will try to include them in the newspaper when we can. Follow us on Facebook and add your comments there as well. We appreciate hearing from you.