of? CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 26; 1979 PRIME BEACHCOMBING TIME Treasures tossed up ‘ jn the surf of winter By Shirley Olsen Guth Surf's up! No, not off Waikiki. Off B.C., where stormy breakers are rolling in the good times for winter beach hikers, collectors and seafood goutinets, {When the salt spray flies, when ¢ wind slaps roses into your + tehecks—that's the time to visit ‘a B.C. beach. Bundle up, sally out and see what the surf’s «dragged in. Flotsam-laden storm waves ~ along China Beach and Point-No- iS Point on southwest Vancouver *"Island, for instance, deposit fascinating and beautiful objects. Prod a heap of kelp stranded :."high and dry. Ensnared in the tangle may be an unusual shell that'll look great back home as a soap dish or ashtray. JAPANESE TREASURE Take a closer look before you tep over that bottle, It could be a sake bottle tossed from a Japanese fishing boat. Its pale green glass makes it an interesting decanter, ‘or pretty sitting in a sunny indow. _And, if you're lucky, you may ‘south as Point Conception in southern California, before being carried out to sea again. ; Thanks to the enormous ice <*packs which gripped, then re- reated from B.C. shores 10,000 years ago, the province boasts a coastline that, for beauty and variety, rivals Norway's. And with 28,000 kilometres of marine coastline, B.C. hasa winter beach to suit every mood. A clam = ager fall the tide out at Chinu Beach. where grey clouds tumble in and logs lie like jumbled pick-up- sticks. Or jog on the hard-sand tidal flats at Qualicum Beach or Parksville on the Island's gentle east coast. You'll give out before the beach does. Ifall that exercise gives you an appetite, a winter beach can give you a frce supper. Clamming is excellent through winter —butter, razor and little-neck clams are fleshier and tastier than in sum- mer—and between now and “When the tide’s out, the fable’s set," says one B.C, ‘naturalist. ‘Almost everything you find on abeach hike is edible, except the shells and some of the barnacles. " . BASS PLEASURES If it’s fish your eyetooth craves, unpack that rod. you stowed at summer’s end, because some of the most productive breakwater fishing is tight my “eay and fun to catch. Perch and cod hang out off. rocks at Long Beach. They are great tasting, filleted and fried over a bonfire. For the salad course, veteran beach foragers alittle Trovelng Nieowling You're going on a trip and you want to. take kitty along, Fine, put dost remember one 4 sure as birds fly and the sun rises, cats hate to travel. There may be a few ex- ceptions to this rule, but for the most part a voyage with a cat in tow is an experience. Once they have estab- ished their ownership on _ certain plece of property (did you know that your cat is your home's Hehitnt owner? Just ask him!), they see absolutely no rea- son to budge from this secure and comfottable lomi Besides, travelling is such a bore. And it's 50 adventure bumps’ and Jolts of .the road are so upsctting to appetites which at best are known as finicky. All in all, cats will rebel in every way possible agatmnst the indignities of even the shortest-of trips, ‘The histrionics that you will see at the outset of the journey — such wails and nts! — could rival a reeks tragedy any day! h patience the cat hay ene down...allt tle. But he or she will take advantage of every oppor- tunity to let you know that $l is is not a feline’s cup. f ten, o What ean be done about this uncomfortable situa- tion? Not much, unfortu- nately, Try to remember that your cat could not possibly be as miserable as he is trying to make’ you believe...” Child ‘suicides on i alll all om am a ‘hidden’ Children who take their own lives almost never leave suicide notes, thereby mak- ing it easier for adults to assume the deaths were sea lettuce, found growing at half-tide mark. Delicious, they say. For a visual feast, there are B.C.'s spectacular beach views—such as the one you getat twilight from’ Vancouver's Spanish Banks when the city lights wink over English Bay. Orthe one from the observation platform overlooking Victoria's Cordova Bay, where a carpet of conifers and madrona forests, the city, and ocean lie at your feet. Awinter beach holds no end of fascination for children. A long strand of bull kelp becomes a skipping rope, seagulls wheel and deal-for your toddler’s bag of day-old bread, and a starfish in a. tide pool is a joy forever—well, forachild-enraptured 15 minutes, anyway. So why nota winter's day at! the beach? Laugh at th Feeling hemmed in? Hik the Sturm und Drang of Van- couver Island's Long Beach, when the kelp has leading hot spot is the Victoria breakwater, where black bass is clouds, and let a smile be your umbrella. says a Dutch lawyer who has made a study of child suicides, Prof. Madzy Rood-de- Boer told the international conference on violence in the family in Montreal that child suicides are a “hidden” prob- lem which makes it difficult to determine how many child deaths.are, in fact, suicides. Adults find the concept of a child taking his or her own life so intolerable, said Rood-de-Boer, that they are prone to pass many off .as accidents or children imitat- ing something they may have seen on television. “Suicide is always a taboo,” she said, -"but chil- dren represent for us.adults the joy of living. They are the symbol of uncomplicated hap- piness par excellence. “If a young person should speak of dying or killing himself, we blame him for it.” From her study of sui- cides among children under Dear Friends an My invite all our C customers to our We cordial Grand F There will ing, as We d Customers, 1980 N Approx. ‘astlegar, Box 1870, Grand rors, 2 B.C. Sept. 26, 1 Trail & Nelson area friends ew CAR SHOWING 15 New Cars On Display SATURDAY. SEPT. 29 9g a.m. +0 5p-m. ntral Street Sead Forks orks CKOK Radio w be FREE corsagest its door prizes a il be with us on thi: fo the first 25 ladies on ne giveaways throughout and is annual event.. saturday morn- the day. and donuts problem 15, Rood-de-Boer found that children often commit suicide, because they are afraid to . show their parents a bad .school report card. She cited the case of a- 12-year-old German boy who hanged himself in a wooded area last year because he had received a bad report. Within 10 days, three other German schoolboys who had received bad marks committed sui- cide, she told the conference. Such a ph: was + total of $325.99, : The maximum Guaran- Increases in the Old’ Age Security pension, Guarante- ed Income Supplement and Spouse's Allowance, effective jn October, 1979, were an- nounced earlier this month" by the’ Hon. Heward Graf- ftey, minister of state for social programs on behalf of the Hon. David Crombie, minister of national. health and welfare. The basic Old Age Sec- urity pension will rise to $179.02 from the present . $174.82, The maximum Guarante- ed Income Supplement for a single person, or a married, person whose spouse is not a pensioner and is not re- ceiving ‘a Spouse's Allow- ance, will increase to $146.97 from its current $143.59. Added tothe basic pension, this gives a person receiving. both the OAS and the meximum GIS 2 teed Income Supplement for a married couple, both pen- sioners, will increase to 122.20 each from $119.84. 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