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‘Standing amid. a small.’
mountain of oyster shells, the *
Barkley “family had to be :
mighty proud ‘of what must be

the best shucking family in the
world,

The scene was the Denman
Island world championship
oyster shucking contest, held
on this small island about 60
miles west of Vancouver. The

‘Barkley family of Union Bay

ran amok through the molluscs
as usual,

Brother Len finished first,
breaking his last year's record,
and thereby establishing a new
world record; sister Pat fol-
lowed brother Ken—second last
year and winner two years
ago—knocking him back to
third; and Ms. Barb Barkley.
took a solid fourth, ‘

The 21-year-old Len, who
is a professional shucker for
Snowcap Oysters Co. in Union
Bay, actually shucked fewer
oysters than last year when he
stipped 62 of them from their

* shells.

Last year, however, he
wielded the razor-sharp oyster
knife a trifle too quickly and
culled 12 of the chubby squish,
leaving a net total of 60.

, oI decided to, goa little
slower this year and 1 guess it
paid off,” ho said shortly before
nicking up his $100 cheque.

A little, but not much, Len

pried open 61 oysters in the |

five-minute time perlod without.
nicking a single one.’

Although he claims there is
no fraternal rivairy, Len said he
was a little surprised his older
brother Ken fell to third with |

63 shucked and no culls,

“He started work at an

, auto body shop, I guess he lost

his touch,” said Len.

Sister Pat has been im-
proving steadily each year and
her 56 shucked, one cull, for 65
total, was a strong second
place.

Pat works for.a competing
company—Mac's eens of
Fanny Bay.

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chine has yet to be invented, so

Like ae son. Lone

mother Barb works for Snow-
cap. This year she pried open 47
oysters with two culls for a 45
and fourth place finish.

Speed, precision and a de-

gree of caution are needed to

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pry open tl of the
oysters, sae the family.

‘The special knife is care-
fully scraped along’ one half

-inside the shell to cut one

muscle to make.the shell pop
open, and then it’s: simply a
matter of running the knife
under the other muscle and
dumping the treasure into the
bucket.

The: first step is crucial,
says the-family. It takes a fair

-bit of pressure to get the knife
in and, although there were no .

mishaps this year, there have

been festivals in the past where -

a rubber glove full of blood has
been a. competitor’ 's only

for: the Barkley ‘family and
hundreds of others on the coast,

- the only thing they-can do is

just keep on shucking. bes

In Search of Honest Answers

This week, | am perplexed by
several questions, and I turn

for possible answers to the ..

only people in the world I can
trust for honest answers: my
faithful readers, all four of
them,
For example. By what ed-
itorial inanity does the Globe
* and Mail, which grandly calls
itself Canada’s National
Newspaper, run on its front
page a five-column by tight
inches Photo of. Pierre
Trudeau getting his hair cut?
What is the symbolism, the

hidden. meaning, .the secret -

code, the deep, interpretive
analysis, behind this picture?
Can anyone help?

Is Mr. Trudeau symbol-
ically trimming his sails fora
fall election? Is it to show
that the P.M. is mortal, after
all, and that his hair grows,
like that of us lesser beings?
Perhaps it’s a secret warning
to Margaret that, despite talk
of a reconciliation, he’s not
going to let his hair grow and
become a flower child. I dun-
no, but it sure has me baffl-
ed

Next question. Where do.
things get lost to? It seems to

me that my wife and I have -

spent more time this: past
summer looking for things
than we have'sleeping. Look-

ing for things that were ©

“Right there, right on that
counter yesterday."”

Looking for things is one
of the most frustrating, ir-
titating pastimes in’ this
materialistic society of ours.
It has brought many a mat-
riage to the teetering point,
and if the union was already

Perplexing
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teetering, pushed it over. the
brink.

Acouple of weeks ago, she
lost the keys to the car. After
a 12-hour non-stop search,
no keys. Oh, we had keys for
the other car, the battered
old Dodge. Only one catch.
It was in the garage, and the
keyless car was sitting right

"behind it, immovable.

Twenty-four hours later, I
called a lock-picking spec-
jalist. He was out of town,

but would call me when he |

got back. Just before he did,
and [I had to fork -out
eleventy-seven dollars, the

. old lady found the keys,

without looking. They were

in the vegetable bin, with a -

turnip, a butternut squash,
and a bag of cooking onions.

ft was certainly the logical -

_ Place for them. |

Then my new black: $10
belt went missing. It was the
first belt I'd bought for 12
years, and I was rather proud
of it, 1 knew it wasn't really
lost, because I always hang it
up with my ties. It was ob-
vious that my wife, in her
eternal tidying, had stuck it
away somewhere, as she so

There are only two possi-
bilities. One is that a pantless
burglar crept into our bed-
room, snatched my trews and °
crept off into the night, once
more modestly attired. The
second I don’t even like to
dwell on.

The last time I had-worn
those pants, that belt, was to

’ a party. It wasn’t a strip

poker party, but it was a fair-
ly lively one.

Did 1 do a strip tease and
forget to redress my little
pecadillo?

Did I tear them off on the
way home from the party
and ‘throw them out the car
window? Sounds -silly, but
the other morning 1! went out
to get the morning paper,
and thereon my back walk.
was a pair of brand-new blue
shoes, with thick white rub-
ber'soles, in a shoe-box, with

Only the lid missing. Only the

Lord knows, who, for what.
mad reason, in what tem-
porary mental abberation,
flang them there, But they
are just my size and finders
keepers.

and this whole probe —~

brings up the Case of the
+. Missing Socks. What in the

shaken, into the interiors of
, those machines, No socks.

They can’t*go down the

drain, or it. would. be plugg-

ed. Do they doa reverse San-

ta Claus and go up the spout
of the dryer with the hot air?
It’s a little frightening, as
though someone were trying
to tell me something. About
my feet?

‘Just one more question.
Where were all the editorial
writers who are now scream-
ing about the stupidity of
changing highway ‘signs to
kilometers instead. of miles,

* when. was lambasting the

“awhole metric-Celsius " non-
sense almost a ‘Year ago?
Can you, gentle reader, do
a fast bit of arithmetic in
your head when you encoun:
ter a.road sign announcing
_the speed limit is 45 kilo-
meters per hour? When your
speedometer is marked in

miles per hour? And will be :

for years to come?

Will you happily. pay your
fine when the cop puts the
big-blue arm on you and
claims you were exceeding
the speed limit by seven
k.p.h.?.. Must we all. start
driving’ with: a calculator-
computer in one hand? a

Now. these questions may
not be as’ ‘important as some:

How old is God? How hot is ~

it in hell? How: long is a
straight line? How far docs a
rolling stone?: Whither the
Flat: Earth - Society? Why

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often does with things that I
then cannot find. But she
swore, as she always does,
that she hadn’t touched it,
mentioning in passing that
she was sick and tired of
-looking for things that I had
lost. Naturally, words: fol-
lowed, in which the phrase
“car keys’? inadvertently
popped out several times.

But the mystely of the mis-
sing belt was readily solved
when I decided to wear my
new, blue, -fit-like-a-glove
summer trousers. I couldn’t
find them. High or low. Then
with a flash of intuition, 1
knew where my, belt was. It

name of. all ‘that is-unholy
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are put through the washer
and dryer? .They never’ go.
missing in pairs, always
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was with the pants, because |
never unbelt,. just hang the
whole works ona hook.

It was quite: a: relief. to

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know that the pants..were
with the belt.; But ‘it was
slightly dampening to admit
. that both were lost. They still

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