Dear Editor:
What’s the medication of choice for stress? When queried, the local pharmacists suggested any one of the following:
• escitalopram (Lexapro)
• fluoxetine (Prozac)
• paroxetine (Paxil)
• sertraline (Zoloft)
The pharmacist also mentioned that an unusual number of Summerland residents appear to be suffering from stress and sales for these medicines are good.
I’d like to hazard a guess as to who require these medications and why they have to resort to stress-relieving drugs.
If you drive the streets of Summerland, you are likely to encounter a pothole just about every 100 meters or less, unless you happen to hit one of the few stretches that have been paved within the last year.
Avoiding those potholes causes tension and fatigue. This trauma reflects not only on the drivers but their passengers and the people they must work with or those at home. So, you take Prozac or Lexapro, or a really stiff drink.
Hitting those potholes puts the same kind of stress on your vehicle and its trade-in value.
Summerland’s reputation as The Pothole City of B.C. is well earned. It seems our municipality is incapable of getting competent staff to fix the potholes so that they would last at least a week or haven’t got the maintenance staff needed to do it properly.
The solution of course is to get staff to prioritize road maintenance and paving, and to do a proper job in the first place.
You wish.
Frank Martens
Summerland