LAFF - A- DAY DRY CLEANER | : OWE REMOVE SPOTS’ f= Dear Ann Landers: Many years ago you printed a letter on Mother's Day. It touched my heart like no other letter | have ever read. y ‘ { clipped that column and carried it in my. wallet. It's time for a rerun. The column Is barely readable — and those whe do not remember It should have a chance to read It again. My thanks In advance, Ann, for all the people you get back on the track when they wander. For example — me. —A Detroit Faithful Dear Falthful: Happy to oblige. Dear Ann Landers: Yesterday was the saddest day of my life. | buried my mother. As | tooked at her lovely, kind face, for the very last time, many thoughts crossed my mind. - 1 recalled the times | meant to give her’a phone call and ask if there was anything she needed. | seldom got around to It. _ | recalled the evenings when our sitter folded out at the tast minute and'we had theatre tickets so we ‘‘drafted'’ Mom to ait. She naver once sald she had other plans although I'm sure she must have had. On those occasions | always promised -myself one day we'd buy an extra ticket and take Mom along, but we never did. |-recalled the day | ran Into Mom in the bakery. Her winter coat looked shabby and worn. | thought, ‘'Gee, I've got to take Mom downtown and buy her a new coat."’ But | was too busy. : {recalled her last birthday. We sent an azalea plant but - couldn't get over to see her. The East-West football game was on that afternoon and the boss was giving a party that night. : : t recalled the last time | saw Mom alive. It was at my * cousin's wedding. She looked so old. | told myself, ''| must send Mom to Florida to visit her brother and get a little sun." But | naver got around to buying the ticket. + Ifonly I coutd turn the clock back, Ann. I'd buy Mom that coat, take her to the theatre, spend every birthday with her and send her any place she wanted to go. But it’s too late and | am heart sick. Please print this letter. Maybe If 1 had Seen one like it | would have done things differently. ~ = Grieving Son + Dear Son:. Here's your letter — and on a most appropriate day. : _ 8 © Dear Ann Landers: | was divorced three months ago from a woman | never should have married In the first place. We were wrong for each other going in. But that’s not the fone I'm writing about. Actually, It's my 6x-mother- law. : She Is a remarkable person. | tiked her Instantly when we first met seven years ago. One of the saddest things about the divorce was knowing:she would not be my mother-in-law - any longer. - ‘ : "Now the question: Mother’s Day will be here soon. | would like very much to send my former mother-in-law flowers. | have not seen her since the divorce but | know she feels kindly toward me. What Is your advice? ~ — Still Devoted - Dear Still: — it won't be too late to make her happy. ~ self-pity. LE Showbiz by Joey Sisko CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: Audra Lindley, who plays the sex-starved housewife on ABC's hit sertes ‘The Ropers, became more than $1 million richer recently after divorcing her husband, actor James Whitmore: Audra. 54, and Whitmore. 57, ‘split more than $2 million amassed in their seven years of marriage. Whitmore is * famous for his one-man stage shows spotlighting the lives of former presidents Harry Truman and - teddy Roosevelt, and humorist, Will Rogers.. "It was a friendly divorce,” said Audra's attorney, Harvey Strassman. “They are still the best of friends. And there is no bitterness. They are both highly successful and highly intelligent actors. Any breakup of aimarriage is sad. and they feel the same as anyone else... . They asked her how she keeps her youthtul appearance at 62. And Dinah ~ Shore had her answers ready. "I stick to a sensible diet, and | play tennis, often and well," she told me. “I run for 20 minutes every day. 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He Is most important to the family . lust happens by the nature of things that mother la the heart. H : ighave both parents with hearts or there would be so much heabing aaa Riestng goin" on at nobody would get any work done around the house or aut {n the cruel world. of iti girls ke Cindy Louand Some the paremiearrars a aes a tk arente arou. (evel beat Hoe, house and home togater for all our sakes. piceae ef.are delna thelr I~ jer family doesn't have any of Its k community or terrorizing little.old ladies inthe frente MW oe ot Nencelzing the Maybe some of the meth my ald man will Kill me. Bombeck know you're all looking to me for leadership In the war’ of disappearing socks, but | can’t handle tt ¢ Last week, my husband confronted me with elght mismated socks that had gone into the washer aa happy couptes end emerged as swinging eingies and sald, ‘Tell me agaln how the Bermuda Triangle In the utility room works again. ie They don’t belleve us, you know. Back when | started doing family wash, | tried to keep from talking about It. too much, I'd gay, ‘The other sock probably fell behind the washer,'’ or, ‘Maybe you forgot and only wore one.” | wanted to belleve that. : When they continued to disappear, | found myself suggesting ways to compensate for the loss by wearing one foot In a cast or painting one foot.with an acrylic paint.that washed off In the shower. ‘ In time, | was forced to fevel with the family and tell them there were forces In’ a washer and dryer that were beyond human control. | equated It with the same force that makes a cake fall when you are having company. Or when you want your kids to play a song on the plano that they've - _ Parenthood {1s Mutual Men should share the responsibility of avoiding un- wanted pregnancy of their partnera, according to Dr. Jack Bashaw, medical director for Planned Parenthood Associa- ‘don of Northern Arizona, Yet there are three crucial times [n a woman's life when she needs help from her man to prevent pregnancy — the un- educated teenager who's ex- perimenting, the sexually ac- tive woman from 22 to 82 who may also lack sexual informa- tion, and ‘the woman 35 and older, for whom pregnancy represents a health risk. 1979 Heart Fund Your Heart Fund finances West Kootenay CONTINUOUS EAVESTROUGHS * Repairs and Installations *% FREE Estimates CALLCOLLECT — 364-2474 nation-wide programs of re- driven you up the wall with and they look at you and eay, "} search and eeeeee don't remember it.’* The tamily didn't buy it. When other women shared thelr frustration with me, | started the firat New York Sock Exchange where we would all bundte up our miamated socks from all over the country and. try to resolve the differences. In saven years, we were not able to match up a single pair of socks. z This country Is wonderful at finding anawera to phenomena. We have theorles on where flying saucera come from. Theories on why the fish aren't biting, Theories on human behavior and why there are wars, We need an explanation on why socks disappear somewhere between ‘‘fill’ and ‘‘spin dry.'? Where do they go? Why? What Is trying to tell us? You're looking at challenge and exciting oppor- tunities in broadcasting, and B.C.1.1.’s Broadcast : United Church Release The B.C. Conference of the United Church has decided to participate in the Bates Inquiry on Uranium Mining. The church will emphasize identifying ‘the ethical issues that surround exploration for and mining of uranium. It also hopes to facilitate public edu- cation so that people can parti- cipate in the inquiry more fully. The United Church has, for a number of ‘years, had con- cerns about uranium mining and the nuclear industry. On both the national and provincial levels, church resolutions have called for it on fur- Bates _Inewiry. Take Part h to and development of uranium mining, and development of nuclear power until full-scale public inquiries have taken * place. For the last several months, John Moelaert of Ke- lowna has worked as a uranium mining educator for the United Church in the southern interior of B.C. Now the church wants to make its views known to the inquiry and encourage others to participate in the inquiry. The* church has ‘shared \ with other groups a concern about the long-term health effects of low-level radiation ther exploration for uranium Tourism Jump “Reflected ‘ffi Job Positions : Kootenay Boundary Visi- tors’ Association -has been advised that 18 new job posi- tions will be created for travel counsellors’ in the Kootenay Boundary region. © + The jobs for male or female persons between the ages of 15, and 24 were made available through the Provincial Youth Employment Program through a special arrangement between the ministry of labor and the fninistry of tourism and small business development. > Regional co-ordinator mana- ger, Denny Edgar, states that a course to train qualified travel counsellors has been set up with Selkirk College at Castle- gar. The course will begin on May 7 and will be completed on May 11. The one week course covers all aspects of correct counselling for travellers. The course has been designed by the ministry of tourism and will be taught by a senior travel counsellor from that ministry. = Those tourist information éentres which will be staffed during the summer of 1979 ‘under the Youth Employment Program are as follows: Green- wood (one person), Grand Forks {two persons), Trail (two per- sons), Castlegar (two persons), Nelson (two persons), Salmo (two persons) and Creston (two persons). Some other information éentres within the region will be operating under grants ob- tained through federal youth projects, 4 : Last year tourism jumped in the Kéotenay-Boundary re- gion by 15 per cent, adding $170 million in revenue to the East and West Kootenays combined and providing well over 5,000 jobs. ‘ + Barly indications reflect a trend that would indicate 1979 returns are again expected to tise. -, ; + So travel counsellors in the Kootenay Boundary region are going to be busy this summer. 1 Westera Canada School of ‘Aactioneeriag Ltd, ‘Conodo’s first, and the anty, completely -Eonodion course oltered onywhate, Licensed Jonder the Trade Schoals Licensing Act, R.S.A. ‘BITOC, 366. For particulars of the next course wiite. Bi Box 687, Lacombe. Alberto. of * iphone 782-6215, from uraniym mining and the wastes left by mining. This becomes a long-term con- cern ii so far as no known technology “can” “permanently” +4 prevent radioactive glemients in uranium.tailings moti entering... th 4 from the ethics of the end uses of uranium, primarily in nuclear power plants and nuclear bombs. _ A further ethical issue is the question of who should make decisions about the'min- ing of uranium. Mining com-- panies and a few local people may receive substantial ‘short- term financial benefits. Local agriculture and tourism may be adversely affected. Local citi- zens may have very long-term health and environmental con- cerns, The church Hopes to en- courage discussion on the ques- tion of who should make the decisions, Plans are now underway for a submission to the Bates aug concerning United urch.participation: in ;the jin: | quiry.. The church: expects-to tho the food chain. It is expected that the . church will also raise the issue that the ethics of uranium . 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