Blessed hometown—The best in South Delta is not easily voted on
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Updated: July 23, 2009 1:48 PM
Caitlin Baird
Youth Columnist
Although most young people crave the opportunity to escape that which they know, we will be—when we leave—blessed with the memories of this place.
We live in a unique landscape. We see mountains even as we smell the ocean’s salt; we drive along highways while eagles soar above us and hawks perch on lamp-posts.
When we reach out to our big city neighbours for excitement, we still come home to a place where we can walk in the dusk safely.
My family travelled thousands of miles and chose this community. Though I may rage against my parents for a wide variety of reasons, their choice to bring our family here is one in which it is difficult to find fault.
We have a hospital in which many of my friends have received treatment, and which has a fabulous gift shop. We have a beach scattered with starry sand dollars, tiny fish and crabs. We have schools which offer programmes few are able to. We have a beautiful theatre.
The best things about South Delta are not those easily voted on: they are fluid, like our ocean, and personal to each of us.
They are inventing ice cream flavours in a friend’s kitchen; canoeing on the slough; laughing and exploring the muddy flood forests, sinking. They are having dinner, overlooking the harbour; swimming in a friend’s backyard with a view of the fields; rediscovering the world through the eyes of my small scientist sister.
It is in this community I have been taught, and I have learned; it is this place which is the background for my childhood; it is here that I made the best friends a person could hope for; this is the home that, even once I have left, will have a corner of my heart.
The best of South Delta, for me, is this: it is my hometown.
n Caitlin Baird is a Grade 12 student at Delta Secondary School.
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