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: How do you usc up a good
supply of basil?, I offered these
vole tips regarding the herb

basil.
-If you have made pesto sauce
and don't want to use it right

lue Room, in the “Uplander Jounge,
if Mike Hamilton.

away, put it in a small jar, smooth
it with the back of a spoon, and
cover the top with a‘ bit of oil.
Pesto sauce like this will. keep
several weeks,

-To freeze your pesto sauce for
the winter, add all your ingredi-
ents but the Parmesan cheese.
Incorporate the cheese just before
serving.

-Do not cook pesto, it turns
dark and unappetizing.

—I sometimes make a sauce of
flour, butter and milk —
Bechemel, and after having
removed it from the heat; add the
pesto.

—To freeze basil, puree in your
food processor blender, two;cups
of fresh, washed and dried basil

leaves. i

Add to the basil i in a slow
stream, one-half cup Bood quality
vegetable oil: .

Process, Now. pour immiediate-
ly into ice-cube trays, cover with
plastic wrap and freeze. When
frozen pop out of trays and store
the basil cubes in a plastic bag,

Q. Can you come up with any
interesting and different ways to
prepare. vinegars for Christmas?

Susan G, Fort St. John

A.: Ihave an idea for two
unique vinegars.

Apple Mint Vinegar

Wash and remove the label
from a clear 750 ml wine bottle,
Fill the wine bottle with one tin
frozen apple concentrate, Now

packina one-quarter cup of com-
pact, washed and dried mint
leaves. Fill with vinegar and
cork, Let sit about one month,
then strain into two small attrac-
tive bottles, Label. ‘

Nastursium Vinegar

‘Wash and remove label from a
clear 750 ml wine bottle. Stick in
about one dozen well washed,
then dried nastursium blossoms,
Fill the bottle with vinegar, cork
and set-in dark closet. The vine-
gar will have a beautiful color
and peppery taste. Strain after a
week into two other attractive
bottles, then label.

Q: Ican’t get out much, and
by seeing where I live, you know
there isn't that much to buy any

To there a list that I could tefor
‘to for shopping by phone or mail?
Garret P,, Proctor, B.C. 7

A. ‘Ican do one better than a
list. A whole book has been print-
ed by the Pentax people called
“Catalogue Mart”. It has been
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It 850 Canadi

‘Understanding a little bit more about the human condition

uThe three shopping carts, filled
to overflowing with what most
people throw oui, wero parked in
a.commercial loading zone, hard
against the sidewalk,

Within easy eyesight sat their
proprietor, 79-year-old: John
Antoniac, It was a sunny. Septem-
ber Saturday moming and Anto-
niac was enjoying a Icisurely
breakfast — Steamed eggs on a
with some lettuce and

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tomato — at a small but trendy
sidewalk cafe.

One doesn't usually find a bag

(and shopping cart) person in
such surroundings. The food was
reasonably priced, but there were
more economical places.
» Antoniac was perusing a Read-
er's Digest condensed book of
unknown vintage and looked well
satisfied with himself. And
deservedly so, for he had just sold
@ small wooden folding laundry
tack to the waitress for $7, which
would also let him walk away
_well sati — both p

and financially —‘after settling his
$4.95 breakfast bill.

Antoniuc hadn't even had to
peddle his wares,' The waitress

to. $800 a month, which doesn't
leave much over after food —
“thank God I don't smoke" — and
his drycleaning bills. His clothes
— jacket, cap, white pants — were
all well wor but quite clean.

“I'm not a panhandler and no,
nobody has ever called mea bag
man,” said Antoniac when I had
the j fi

had spotted the rack atop the mid-
dle shopping cart and asked if it
was for sale. “Sure,” he had
replied. “I already have one in my
place.”

Antoniac's place, it tumed out
when I sat down to chat, is a
bachelor suite in the city for
which he pays $520 a month. His
hydro bill averages $20 a month
(he has no phone or cable) and he
pays $4 a month for a box for his
mail (“so when I move around
my mail doesn’t go astray”).

His gi

pensions come

's typical ity to

“I'm out from morning to
night. I’m an outdoor person. I
like to keep active. Going around
all day is like a hobby for me.”

Antonisc took pains to stress
that he hadn't taken the shopping
carts from any supermarket, but
had simply found them aban-
doned. He had started with one
cart, but when the postal disrup-
tions began and he became wor-
ried about delays in his pension
cueduchs he expanded to three

“Different apartment managers
get to know me,” he said. “They
save things for me rather than
throwing them out.” When Anto-
niac gets retumable bottles from
the ‘apartments, he takes them to
the store for a refund “or some-
times they pay me in food.”

He also collects clothing,
shoes, furniture — castoffs to
some, perhaps, but a source of
cash or at least barter to others.

Antoniac carries a change of
clothes with him in one of the
carts ~ “some warm in

and then worked as a handyman.

“I’m still a do-it-yourselfer,”
he said. “Gihers ofien go around
in groups, but I'm happy to be on
my own. This life keeps me
young and I meet lots of interest-
ing people,"”

own particular devils. ‘ $
Here was Antoniac leading a
useful and enjoyabic iifc, yci I
could so easily have stereotyped
him. How misleading appear-
ances can be. And Antoniac was}
thanking me for being under-;

When I i d the life- |

long bachelor on being in tune
with the recycle-and-barter times,
he said: “Thank you for your
understanding.”

‘We have all seen at one time or
mother, especially in large cities,

case of inclement weather,” he
said. At night, he hides his carts
or gets permission to keep them
somewhere safe, ideally where he
can keep an eye on them.
Originally from Winnipeg,
Antoniac left school after Grade
8. He worked in heavy

the streets with
a asrplenen of what we might
dismiss as junk. And we might
also dismiss these individuals as
dwellers on the edge of or even
outside society.

Certainly, some do inhabit a
shadow world. But possibly no

tion, laying asphalt. In the ‘40's,
he joined the Merchant Marine

Nightsoil workers
earn big money

With his straw sandals,
patched trousers and a bucket of
human excrement strapped to his
back, Shi Chuanxiang was once
China’s “model socialist worker.”
“He rocketed to national star-
dom as a lavatory cleaner after
the communist victory in 1949 by
personifying the selfless ideal of
“Serving the People.”

Nowadays, Beijing's “night-
soil” collectors are called “envi-
ronmental hygiene workers.”
They wear blue overalls, white
gloves and drive their evil-
smelling cargo around the city in
modified gasoline-tankers.

It is still possibly the “world” 'S
worst job, but with a difference.
These days workers are in it for
money.

“No. I, it’s dirty. No. 2, it
stinks. No. 3, it’s backbreaking,”
said Oyang Bonian, leader of
Beijing's Westem District No. 5

sanitation .team, ticking off.the.-

drawbacks of the job. But he and
his men earn more than college
professors.

The days when China's urban
workforce could be inspired by
slogans have long gone.

Among the modem proletari-
at, nightsoil collectors are kings,
not for their dedication to social-
ism but because of the size of
their pay packets.

The message is simple: if the
people want service, they have to
Pay for it.

Chinese sanitation technology
has advanced in recent years.
Plumbing has improved and most
homes have running water. But
the sewage of China's capital is
Still used as fertilizer - all of it,
one bucket at a time slopped over
the cabbages.

The nightsoil collector, even
as China makes a technological
leap into the 21st century, is a key
state worker,

Every flush of a Beijing toilet
is another scoop of nightsoil for
the peasant farmers in the sub-

S.

“It’s a huge benefit for the
peasants,” said Oyang. “Grains
and green vegetables grow much
better with shit than chemical fer-
tilizers.”

According to the China Sta-
tistical Yearbook - a mine of
information on all subjects - Bei-

“, jing’s 10 million residents pro-

duced 1 +883,000 metric tons of
excrement in 1989, the last vee

ae
Income Tres

for which figures are available.
About half the city’s popula-
tion live in-high-rise blocks with
flush toilets, while in the teeming
inner city, grey-brick homes still
use chamber pots that are emptied
each morning, a ritual as old as
the ancient capital.
. Many prefer to squat over
open troughs in public toilets - a

higher a than that por-
tion of people in designer clothes
and fancy homes who have their

T felt like thanking him for!
helping me understand just a little}
more about the human condition,
and for brightening up that Satur-
day moming.

‘As Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”
says it so well, being true to your-
self and doing it your way can;
indeed pay off. :

Mike Grenby is a Vancouver-:
based columnist and independent,
personal financial adviser; he:
will answer your questions as
Space allows in his column =
write to him clo Alberni Valley,
Times, Box 400, Port Alberni,’
B.C., VOY 7NI.

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into one of thousands of under-
ground septic tanks dotted around
the city, where the job of a night-
soil collector begins.

“I was assigned this job,” said
He Xuming cheerfully, navigat-
ing his green tanker through rush-
hour traffic toward a septic tank.

He might have been a fireman,
or an office clerk, or a traffic
policeman. Instead, he was guid-
ed into ba paar collecting under
a,
scheme for scliool graduates. The
system has since been abandoned.

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septic tankers into his tanker. The
stench is eye-watering, but he
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