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SLIDE SHOW OF AGRICULTURAL PROJECT

The Monday Nite Group is helping to sponsor an
experimental agricultural station in the. western
highlands of Guatemala and now has a slide show
describing the work carried out there. Any group or
organization interested in: seeing the slides, or
wanting more information, should contact, Ann Holden
866-6769 or Sue Boyd 365-5454.

HELP WITH IRONING

Need a hand with your ironing? We'd be glad to
help out—and our rates are negotiable. Call 365-3811
or drop in at the Adult Achievement Centre, 211
Maple St., Castlegar. We're open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
weekdays. \

“LOVE IN ACTION”

“Love in Action” is the theme for the 1977 World
Day of Prayer on Fri., March 4 at Kinnaird Church of
God, 804-7th Ave. S. at 2 p.m.

WOsEN'S AGLOW LUNCHEON

A ladies’ ‘:incheon will be held at the Community.

Centre on March 9 at 11 a.m. The speaker will be Mrs.
Larry Christensen on the topic “The Christian
Family”. Babysitting is available. All ladies are
welcome. For tickets, phone 365-7830 or 365-5449.

WILDLIFE BANQUET AND DANCE
The Castlegar and District Wildlife Association
will be holding its 15th Annual Wildlife Banquet and
Dance Sat., March 12 at 8 p.m, at the new Community
Centre. Tickets available to members till*March 5,
non-members from March 6. Please call Mrs. T.
Garrett at 365-3678.

LOOKING FOR AN UNUSUAL GIFT?” “

The Oxfam Crafts which were handmade in

various Third World Countries are still available. If

you are interested in seeing them, please phone Sue
Boyd 365-5454,

ROBSON WORLD DAY OF PRAYER SERVICE
The Robson World Day of Prayer Services will be
held in the Robson Community Memorial Church
tomorrow (Fri., March 4) at 2 p.m. A warm welcome to
all. Tea will be served in the Church Hall following the
service.

“THE HARMONAIRES" TO PERFORM
“The Harmonaires", a 19-voice choir from
Western Tabernacle Bible College in Abbotsford, will
be performing this Saturday evening (March 5), 7:30
p.m. at the Pentecostal Tabernacle, 767-Ist Ave. N.
Castlegar. Everyone welcome.

SENIOR CITIZENS BUSINESS MEETING

The Castlegar and District Senior Citizens will
hold a regular business meeting at the Centre today
(Thurs., March 3) at 2 p.m.

ICE CARNIVAL
The Castlegar Figure Skating Club presents
“Hop-Around-The Clock”. This annual ice carnival will
feature talented skaters from the Castlegar Figure
Skating Club, There will be two performances at 2:30
and 7:30 p.m. on Sat., March 12 at the Community
Complex. Admission will be charged at the door.

* CHILD CARE SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING
The- Kootenay-Columbia Child Care Society

Annual General Meeting will be held Mon., March 7.at .__

{1:80 p.m. at Hobbit Hill Centre for Children, 149-1st
Ave N., Castlegar. New members and interestéd
citizens welcome.

SAFETY ORIENTED FIRST AID CLASS

The Castlegar and District Homemakers Service
Assoc. will sponsor a safety oriented First-Aid class
particularly in relation to children and elderly people.
‘The class will begin Mon., March 14 at 7 p.m. in Room
11 at SHSS. Cost to the general public is $30, to
registered Homemakers $15. Please register’ early
(the class is limited to 14 people) at the Homemakers
Office or Selkirk College. For further information
phone 365-6341 or 365-6669.

CHILEAN PENA BENEFIT
There will be a benefit for the defense of human
rights in Chile on Sat., March 12 at: the old Castlegar
Arena from 8 to 12 p.m.

STAMP CLUB MEETING Rey
The David Thompson Stamp Club meeting will be
held on Mon., March 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Undercroft of
St. David's Church.

FOOD '‘N STUFF/COMMUNITY CHANNEL

This week’s presentation on Thurs., March 3 at 7.
p.m. compares the big to the small. The program was
prepared by Bob Ailman of Castlegar. Please watch!

ts of Castlegar and District non-profit
sean ions are listed here through the courtesy of
in Cellulose's Interior Pulp and past of

Speatins. Please submit notices directly to the-

Castlegar News by 5 p.m. Mondays.

A Public Service.of Interior Pulp and
interior Lumber Operations.

Canadian Cellulose

Spice Dies

Spice, once recognized as
‘the world’s heaviest cat, is dead
at the age of 12.

Spice apparently died of a
heart attack, his owner, Mrs.
Loren Caddell of Ridgefield,
Conn., said recently.

About a year ago, Spice
gained attention when, weigh-
ing in at 43 pounds, he was
entered into the Guinness Book
of World Records as the world’s
heaviest cat.

Since then, Spice had been
ill and under a veterinarian's
orders went on a diet and lost
eight pounds.

Spice died Jan. 17.

Theatre Energy will per-
form its smash hit “Render-
ings” at a benefit performance
at Selkirk College today at noon
in the main lounge and on
Friday and Saturday this ori-
ginal play about life in the
Slocan will be toured to Pentic-
ton.

Renderings, originally per-
‘forined during December in
several local communities was
very enthusiastically received
and’ highly praised during its
week-long run.

Bruce Fraser of Selkirk
College commented: “I laughed
with you, I cringed with the
Abrasions, I was moved and I

was delighted at the accuracy '

of your perceptions’... In my
view it was an important social

_ Statement, that could give per-

spective to many who have
perceived only part of the
Slocan experience or who have
substantially misinterpreted it.
For me it was a powerful
reminder of our common
humanity and an antidote for
the accumulation of stereo-
types.”

Margaret Schmidt ina re-
view of the play on CKKC radio
reported that “the concept is
exciting and a good beginning .

- Theatre Energy is sure to
become an important addition
to the Canadian Theatre
scene.”

Doug MacDonald of the
Nelson Daily News called it
“fastmoving and exquisitely
blocked"; the direction “in-
novative and imaginative”; and
that the play “showed a level of
depth, tastefulness and smooth-
ness that a Vancouver pro-
fessional company might envy.”

Kootenay Artist

Community TV

Community Access-10
Schedule for Tonight.
6:30—The ‘Issue of Abortion.
Because of content of
program parental dis-—
cretion is advised.
7:30—Second in'a three part
series entitled Food and
Stuff. This week's pro-

Four Canadians Buy
Jimmy‘s Backyard

Four Canadians—two plas-
tic surgeons and two lawyers—
have bought 190 acres in Plains,
Ga., with the plan of picking up
the Carter tourist trade and
the hope of getting to know the

duction the
NFB film “Corporation”
with the Confluence Co-
op of Castlegar. |
8:30—The Purcell Wilderness
E Conservancy. Produced
by Selkirk ‘College.
9:30—German Diary (in color)
10:00—A Look at Southern
Africa. Produced by Sel-
kirk College.
11:00—Sign off.

Harmongires
Perform Here
This Saturday

The Harmonaires, a 19-
voice choir from Western Pen-
tecostal Bible College in Clay-

‘burn: (near Abbotsford) is
scheduled to perform this
Saturday evening at the Pente-
costal Tabernacle in Castlegar.

The repertoire of the choir
includes an interesting variety

_ of traditional and contemporary
numbers, with a special feature.
to be the performance of an ori-
ginal cantata, “The Plan of Sal-
vation”, composed and ar-
ranged by the choir. director
Miss Sylvia Pitts. Accompan-
ists are Rosemee Daher and
Peter Paluch, with drummer
Terry Janzen.

Pastor Graham extends a
hearty invitation to friends and
alumni of the college, as well as
the general public, to attend
this musical rally,

Alec Garner of Procter

The most famous artist in
the Kootenays in undoubtedly
Alec Garner of Procter, near
Nelson. is

The following story about
Mr. Garner, by Cam Conrad,
appeared in a recent edition of
the Trail Times.

s 8 «6

Several times a workday, I

+ look up from my desk at the S._

* S. Moyie steaming out through’
“the Balfour narrows and recall
an idyllic cruise on Kootenay
Lake aboard the last of our local
sternwheelers.

Alec Garner painted the
picture. It's one of about 150
oils he has executed featuring
the fleet that opened up the
Kootenay and Arrow Lakes to
settlement. His. magnum opus,
a set of 30 sternwheelers on 40-
inch canvases, is on permanent
display at the Glenbow Founda-
tion in Calgary.

Alec will soon celebrate his
80th birthday but looks and
acts 20 years younger. He was
born in Southhampton, Eng-

- land, and raised in Belfast,

Northern Ireland, and Mont-
real. Eventually the family set-
led in Edmonton where his
father worked as an upholster-
er for the CPR and where Alec
became a railroad mechanic.

In his spare time, Alec took
a’ correspondence course in
commercial art and decided
that, even if he had to spend the

- rest of his life illustrating

calendars, he'd be happier
painting than swinging a span-

+ per.

That ambition prompted a
move to Procter on Koot

support himself, Besides it gave
him the Sort of spare time he
needed to paint prolifically.

Since then he has com-
pleted about 120 canvases each
year. Most were scenics in oils
although Alec has worked in
watercolors, A few were por-
traits,

“My, best, portrait,” he re-:

calls, “was one I did of S. G.
Blaylock when he was'head of
Cominco at Trail. I imagine it
still hangs in the Blaylock home
onthe West Arm near Nelson.”

Alec paints from 10 in the
morning to 4 in the afternoon
“on days when I'm not away
sketching or playing golf or
both.” He’s a regular at the
challenging ‘litle: Kaslo golf
course and crosses the lake al-
most as often to play at
Kokanee Springs. In winter he
switches to badminton. e

The cold months are the,
best in which to catch the artist
in his studio. Unless -you're a
boater, take the little car ferry
across the West.Arm to Har-
rop, drive about five miles east
to Procter “then ask anybody in
sight where to find me,” Alec
says.

He welcomes visitors, But
be prepared to spend more time
there than you planned—and
more money. “I keep my prices
reasonable,” Alec says.

The result is that his

The Human Gamut

paintings hang in private
homes “all over the place—
Seattle, Spokane, © Vancouver
and you name, it in the Koot-
enays.”

He used to have five retail,
sales outlets but now supplies
only two, Bob's Signs in Nelson.
and the Redgrave Gift Shop in
Trail. ‘Each received a new
consignment five or six tiies'a
year. Many of-his paintings are ©
sold as anniversary gifts or
presentations to business: and
professional people who must
leave the region.

‘Asked what his favorite -
subject is, Alex doesn't hesi-
tate. “The Nasookin,” he says,
“and her sister ship, the Bon-
nington. They were the queens
of the sternwheeler fleet—the
best of the best. What a pity
they're gone!"

But my favorite, apart
from the S. S. Moyie-at the

. Office, is a small oil of Mount

Willet that. Alec. recalls
developing from a sketch of the
North Arm landmark as seen
across the autumnal Duncan
River delta near Lardeau.

It hangs on my. bedroo:
wall, a delightful little splash of
color especially at this colorless
time of year. Critics tell me it”
isn’t great art but I couldn't
care less. It cheers me up and
evokes pleasant memories.

Thanks, Alect

To Motivate Thinking:

“Cassava and rum for Com-. -

munion?” asks a headline in a
Caribb. “Wh

Lake in 1945. The magnificent
mountain scenery was a major
attraction, to be sure, but so
was a job driving the local
schoo! bus. It would support
him until he became well
enough known as an artist to

Bm. ni
WARNING: Occasional! violence.

import wafers, import wine?”
Managing editor , of the

United Church Observer, Jim.
Taylor, describes the sifong

reaction to such a

“It made them think,” adds
program host Nancy Edwards.
“It was a step towards self
reliance.”

Building A Better Carib-
bean Man is the aim of a group
made pup of 2B denominations

The Human Gamut radio ae
gram scheduled for next week.

CLINT

| EAST WOOD-

THE OUTLAW
JOSEY WALES

SELKIRK,

United Artists
mes BURGESS MEREDITH - EILEEN HECKAAT

« BURNT OFFERINGS".
MONTGOMERY - nine. BETTE DAES «etre emo ¥AL MON re DADS

the. CG of
Churches, says ae Taylor.
“There are Catholics. on one
hand and Pentecostals on the

* other,” he says, “but they have

no difficulty working, together
because the vision of what they
want to do is so similar.” .

He speaks of a committee
drawing up a Christian Educa-
tion - curriculum ; for - Sunday
Schools which will be’ used by
all denominations: “Each will:
know what. the others are <
learning.”

The Human Gamut is a
Berkeley © Studio * production,

sponsored by Interchurch Com-
‘ munication and is heard weekly

on stations in the area...

Entertainment:
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5 p.m. Mondays

“Probably two shillion
people will go to this area, and
there isn't much to do there
after you've walked up and
down the main street once or
twice,” sald Harry Zahoruk, a
lawyer from Burlington, Ont.

For their entertainment,
he and his partners are con-
sidering installing a “creative
playground,” a rustic restau
rant, camping facilities and a
Canadian-American friendship
house possibly featuring Carter
memorabilia on the site which
adjoins Billy Carter's property.

They are calling it Jimmy's
Backyard.

Zahoruk, who says he feels
“Mr. Carter will make a great
president—he's vaguely ‘rem-
iniscent of Mr. Kennedy,” has
also bought an acre and a half
facing the president's property.
He is building a “Southern
colonial house” there in which
he plans to spend two or three
weeks a year vacationing, and
will rent the rest of the time.

The. larger property - in-
cludes a five-acre man-made
lake which the Canadians have
named Lake Amy, and Zahoruk
said he was pleased that the
president's mother has re-
quested permission to continue

Joy Keillor
Bridge Club

Nine tables, with an aver-
age of 108, took part in Monday
night's play at the Joy Keillor
Bridge Club with the following
resilts:

North-South

First, Joy Keillor and Rob
Wadey with 132; second, Judy
Sheppard and Dr. Kirby 0’-
Donaughy with 121-1/2; third,
Dr. David Kendrick and Libby
Weaver with 116; fourth, Ian

MacDonald and JoanCommand |

with 114-1/2,
~ East-West .

First, John Frame and
Lorne Musclow with 125; se-
cond, Bill Ahriens and John
Sokolowski ‘with 124; third,
Don and Lillias Poole with 119-
-1/2;fourth, Don Ellison and Ian
Glover with 118,

"Open pairs was won by
Rob Wadey and Joy Keillor.
Next week is beat the champs,
Don Ellison and John Soko-
lowski. *

First Aid
Course Offered
To Homemakers

A First Aid training course
for all persons currently em-
ployed at Homemakers, or wish
such employment, is being’

‘ sponsored’ by the board: of

directors of the Castlegar and
District Homemakers Associa-
tion.

The course is called Safety
Oriented First Aid and will give
emphasis to first aid in relation
to'the helpless patient especial-
ly in the case of children and
elderly people. 3

Al Clausen, a qualified first
aid instructor, will be teaching
the course which will be given
every Monday evening for
eight. sessions, beginning
March: 14 at’ Stanley -Hum-

phries High School.

It is a certified first aid

course-and will: give the suc-
cessful applicant a qualified
first aid certificate.

There is a cost to the
general public with the Home-
‘maker Service paying half of
that cost for employed Home-
makers,

‘The board feels that the
course will prove both inter-
esting and. enjoyable and will
help to give the participants

greater confidence’on:the job. <
‘The first aid certificate can also_

help with other future em-
ployment opportunities.

1976
: Chev. Caprice” Estate
Wagon, P.S.,:P.B., Air
conditioning, trailer towing
package, fully loaded,

fishing in it. Permission was ‘ ; Pst
granted, +1976 ,
The other ‘partners are Prowler Trailer 24% ft.
Walter_and Robert Sorokolit, carpeted, shower tub, ful-
brothers who are both plastic | ly self contained,
surgeons, and Paul Tokiwa, a Can ‘sell both asa unit
Japanese-Canadian lawyer. or separately,

They own six other properties
365-3980

together, in Canada and the

United States.
POEMS WANTED

The National Soclety of Published Poets is compiling a
book of poems, ‘If you have written a poem and would
like our society to consider it for publication, send your
poem and a self to:

NATIONAL SOCIETY .
OF FUBLIEHED POETS, INC.
P, 0. Box 1976
Riverview, Farida, U.S.A. 33569

Our Tip of the Hat -
this week goes to
Bjorn Edblad, who is doing
such a fine job organizing

you weren't the “10,000th,”

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SELKIRK COLLEGE

|, THURSDAY, Mareh 3°
© A lecture on Guerrilla Warfare, (one of, a seri 01
atenaude Hall, (NDU) Rm. 815.\7 p.m. (Free).*
THURSDAY, March 3 to WEDNESDAY, March 9

in the. Sky". Phone 865-2915,
Until FRIDAY, ‘March 4 ;
e Kootenay Behool 4 Art will exhibit. wood scilpture i
_ by Peter Oaks. KSA gallery’ open Monday. te Frigey, £ E
a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, March 6 .
e Selkirk College Film Festival presents “Swept Away
by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue. Sea of August”.
biases by Lina Wertmuller, at the Castle penis

MONDAY. March 7 to MONDAY, March I
@ Kootenay School of Art will retbits a ‘graduation
show of printmaking by Todd Frye. KSA gallery open
Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m,
TUESDAY, March 8
. ©, Tuesday Night at The Movies - Feature Film Series “:
presents Goin’ Down the Boat Rm. K10 {Gostleges.

Royal Canadian ‘Legion —,

invites you to Partcpete in these Funetions:

campus) at 8 p.m.
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NOTE SIL TEE

Dear Ann Landers: May I be the 10,000th reader to Saale the
statement of the Ph.D. in clinical.psychology? He said, “I have yet

to run into a male juvenile delinquent who wasn’t hit with a fist,

board, belt or’a piece of rope."
I would be happy to provide a dossier that will knock his
theory into a cocked hat. I can present 10 years’ di of

se World of Ghosts

WORLD OF GHOSTS, By
Alan C. Jenkins, Illustrated by
Virginia Smith, Chatto & Win-
dus, London.. (In Canada:
Clarke, Irwin & Company Lim:
ited, Toronto. $7.25.) 64 pp.

Book Review
By Perey Maddux

Here is a little book
iMust

the of our. well-loved and tenderly-raised

ted with

only son, who'never had a hand laid on him except in a loving
gesture and who now, at 21, towers over both of us and makes our
lives ‘hell with-his bullying, threats-and brutish behavior.

In an effort to educate that naive psychologist, ‘Iwould be
willing to show him, with school, court and psychiatric records,”
what our son has done to us these last ten years. The principal
viclim, of course, is himself, Nevertheless, we, his parents, are still.

: engiged in the never-ending search for “the answer.” Just sign us.

—Seething (And Suffering) In The Suburbs
Dear Friends In The Suburbs: Here is your letter—and although

express the same point of view:

There is no single explanation for delinquent children: But
perhaps your misfortune had something to do, with the fact that
you never ."laid a hand on him." While I'm violently opposed to
belts, ropes, boards, etc., very young children sometinies learn a

: great deal about the family “pecking order” when a well-placed
‘hand is applied to the seat of the problem. :

Permissiveness has ruined a whole generation of young:

} people. I'm happy to report that today’s young parents are relying
‘more on their inatinets and Jess. on the “expe:

Dear Ann’ Landers: Tam fed Pf with your all4 -purpose
answer—"Get some counselling.” You apply it to every situation.
“I.hate my father.” “Get'some counselling.” "Nobody likes me.”
‘Get some’ counselling.” “I was hit by a bus.” “Get some
counselling,"= \
Ladmit that last one is a little far-fetched, but so is your idea
of counselling. How many people can afford $50 an hour for a

}~ shrink?

sv: Don't tell me about those wonderful “free clinics". Show me a
free clinic:in a small town’and I'll show youa zebra with feathers.
‘clling a’ kid to see her: school guidance counsellor. is

: rediculous whenshe goes to a:school.that doesn't have.one. "*

Bosides, 18-year-old ‘girl like myself doesn’t want counselling.
She! wants your advice.: That's why she writes to you,

B —Mad Teen
Dear Teen: Some problems can be solved by. saying yes or no, or,
“Tell him to get lost”, or “Forget it”. Other problems need to be
talked out.’ Just verbalizing your feelings can make you feel a
whole lot better’. ...and sometimes it:can help you identify the
problem yourself, which is better than having someone point it out

* to you. 4
+ Any j junior high school that doesn’t have at least one guidance

counsellor is short-changing its students. If they have money for
gym equipment they have money for a counsellor. The parents
should raise Cain. :
eee

“Dear Ann Landers: You'ye taken up for a pe many underdogs,
both individuals and groups. Now will you speak up for one of the
most gainst groups'of all. over 40?

I work for a large” insurance company. The ‘boss's asinine
excuse for not hiring women over 40 is this: “They aren't on the
job three months before they need a female- operation.”

Any.’personnel director will tell you this is a ridiculous ‘

statement. The truth is that the young swingers, both male and

female, have the worst absentee records of all. Monday mornings*

in most offices around the cquntry, about 25 per cent of the staff is
“sick". (Hung over, of course.)
“|, ‘The woman‘over 40 is the bist éniployés. Her family is just“,

"about raised. She doesn't have to stay home and take care of sick :

kids. Many are divorced these days, which means they pay. more
attention to the, job because they. have’ to’ work.» ~

“The question is, does the boss want “scenery” or does he want ;

efficient, loyal, mature and responsible people in his employ?
If you print this letter, Ann, Til send the old geezer a copy.
3 —Class of '38
Dear Friend: Here it is. Start ctippin’, class of '86

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by Virginia Smith
about ghosts. “World of
Ghosts” it is called, the author
Alan C, Jenkins,

It tells us that there are

people who believe. in ghosts, «

‘people who disbelieve in them,
and people who are not sure.
Many instances are given of
different ‘kinds. of; ghosts en-
countered -in various countries
of the world.

One kind is the nolay ghost
that throws things around—the
poltergeist, from two German ’
words; “polter" meaning rolse,
and “geist” meaning ghost.
There are even: ghosts of
animals.

‘This is harding a definitive’
book’ on ghosts but ‘it does

sprovide some interesting read-

ing.

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March 3 to 31—-"Four Seasons West”, a superb
photography show. from. the: Mendal ‘Gallery in
-Saskatoon featuring landscapes and visual impres-
sions of the Prairie, at the National Exhibition Centre
“in Castlegar. Open daily on weekdays from 1 to 4 p.m.
and on Saturday, Mar BG and. 19 from 1 to:4 p. me i

March“ i keotsusl > Hodtanal: Arts Couneil
Meeting i in Creston at. the Haclenda Motel at. 1:30 Pa Ms

Oh.
Canada!

Bill Smiley

By BILLSMILEY
WE have such a crazy climate
in this country that by the
time , this appears in “print
some dingbat will. have
spotted the first crocus peep-
ing its dainty head through
the snow.

But right at the moment,
any such croctis would have to
come from the garden of King
Kong.

This winter has been not a
litle unlike a sort of -arctic:
King Kong — a vast, uncon-
* trollable monster laughing

with fiendish glee at the pros-

pect of puny man trying to
cope with his whistling, frigid
breath, his frosty and.fickle
fingers, and his extremely bad

"case of dandruff. :

Around these parts we've
‘had 13 to 15 feet of snow,
depending on whom you are
conversing with. If you are
talking to mé, you'll learn
that we've had 18 feet. My
wife ‘would say: ‘About
twelveanda half feet,” in that
sickening, righteous tone of
hers that has made me hurl the
hatchet and the butcher knife
deep in the 16 feet of snow
right behind the kitchen door,
to avoid temptation.”

ough we have a pretty
good’ running — parfy-and-

finist on evening, from pea:

soup to politics, from,
garbage, we just:

-about the weather-: Until this’;

. winter: Now it’s hammer,and*
tongs-almost every day. ‘And
Tseem to have wound up with
the tongs.

IT stagger out through the -

* blizzard every morning, brush
the snow. off the cas, scrape
theiceoff the windshield with
my fingernails, because. she
has lost the scraper, and. sit
there’. freezing .my poorly

padded bum for 10 minutes,’ .

warming the beast up.

Then} bomb the vehicleout
of the driveway, risking my
life every morning; because 1
can't see anything. coming,
from any direction. I park it
on the street.

On the odd occasion when
. she decides to shop, she
minces aut to the car, heavily
garbed, climbs into a warm
wagon, parks behind the,

2’supermacket. and walks 40
feet to the door. Every time
‘she goes out, it has stopped
snowing ‘for one. hour, the
wind has dropped for one
shour,; and ‘the.sun gleams

*\palely for one hour.

Sheleavesthecaroutonthe  .

street when shecomes home. I-

clean it off. again, buck it

, through a drift into the drive-

. Way,’ climb . through "more,

‘snow that ‘goes ‘in. over my’

boots,.and totter, breathless
~.and forlorn, into the house.

SWhy do’ you make such a

fuss?" she queries. “It’s been”
a.beautiful ‘winter day.” '’;

‘ Idon‘t mind her scoffing at
my golf game,.being able to
ski twice as fast and far as 1,

“or wondering aloud why any-”

body reads my column. But cy

» this winter she’s gone too far.
One of us has to break: either
the weather, of.me.

She won't beso dam’ smart
when she wakes upon the first
day.of the March break and
finds a note pinned to her.
pillow:.‘*Off to the Canary
Istes for 10 days. Hear they're

, loaded’ with © Scandinavian
girls in bikinis or (gasp!)
topless.. Why ‘don't you ‘go_

‘and visit Grandad for a week
or so, Love. Fahrenheit Bill."
She's a Celsius and it drives:-

“me nuts... i

But it’s not only my wife
who has helped, with the aid
of this atrocious winter, to -
depress me. It’s the cost.

This is rough’

-$50,00 VOUCHER TO BE: HELD ON SAT. MARCH 12, 1977.

ROUND STEAK vezscu one AST. 39
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SMOKED PORK PICNICS=== 69°
GAINERS BOLOGNA::::

HOME-MADE BEEF SAUSAGES: 10... $7.47

5%

but close enough. From. last
November the first, it has cost
me, approximately: $420 for »
fuel oil; $120. for driveway ~
plowing; $50 for the kid next
door, ‘snow-shovelling; - $60 >
for battery boosts, tow trucks:
and other winter items for
cars. That, my friends, is 650
bucks. for the. privilege of
spending the winter in the true
north, strong and. freézing.
-Oh, Canada!

‘You can well say that 1
didn't need to spend all that.
‘Well, I dang well did. 1 could
haye saved a bit on the oil bill;

pe Ce ane And.)

veda, biz on the

had been able to. quit my job” :
and shovel about four hours a’

day.: But “it. seems’ rather. a).

peculiar way to save money.
And of course,-by now I'd be
dead of a heart’ attack, so
where’s the percentage?

Tell me, some of my friends
who go south every. winter.
Does it cost more to eat down

“there? Less, you say. Does it

cost more to drivea car down
there? Less, you say. Does it.
cost more: for accommoda-
tion? Less, you say, and you
add that it can cost $52 for an
ordinary’ double room in
Toronto, “Montreal, Nan-
couver.
Butdon’t you sel sick of all
that fresh orange juice, and
‘ those ‘crispy. salads twice a
day? No, you saf.. 8
Don't: you feel you are
deserting the ship,

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-when your country needs you,
when it is the duty. of every.
+man and woman to’ put: his.
and/or her shoulder to the car: -
that’s stuck in the drift? No,
you say.

0,K.O.K. [haven't fi; figured

it out yet, but I'll devise some

> way of some day getting even”
With all you rotten rich who
are loafing around in the sun
‘while’ I battle with the Old

. ‘Battleaxe about the windchill

> factor.”

In the ‘meantime, it’s the. -~,

least you could do, some-

“+ body, anybody, ‘to ask me.

down; for, along «weekend.

From about the'fifteenth of’.

February to the Ides of March: *
+ would be just right. e

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