6 ~ Friday, December 30, 1994 ~ North Shore News 3 en lop f i if Spats ae fo, Garth R. You know?" Reacting , waiting ; aRihmetic, and Rabid’ . Day sales just that — ef dary, unreal? , «four, and I sallicd. forth on the” most recent Boxing Day to: (a) “have lunch‘at McDonald's, which: “they, enjoyed far more than the we had at the Hyatt Regency, and | “to (b) buy the’ last; last. Christmas alleged Boxing Day Super-sale.: ‘t . merely | van out” of time before a ‘pr ssumed-I'd stumble ‘Consumers i ina ‘mad ” re; thing is perpetually on sale if the "glaring ‘signs are to be believed, : and only shopping fonatics can + detect ‘actual barening. Business : 7 dishes cost $35. I bought the same set maybe’ eight: months’ ago — at $22. Christmas rip-off? The topper was at'one of those ‘warm, fuzzy, knowledge-and-sci- . * ence-an and-environment-sensitive ° - stores. «In about six “seconds my chil: en, with the'child’s genius for detecting parental vulnerability, goods than on’an eee day, Be pa found’ ‘and bought a mad ‘collected a few evidently cheap lit- : _ tle trinkets from boxes convenient- . Chris Johnson Operations Manager 985-21 31 (141), ‘Doug Foot | Comptroller eared (101) 998-2191 (193) - ing her first adult theatre — . / * Timothy Renshaw ".. Managing Editor i 4 ATLA LMCI RE BEDS LARA ae OR TENN PE SS TRAV EL TELA ARRON MEUS IS DEI BTML A EEN BG OR RE AE LUIS TA PLOTS PLEO REL EIR Ps Turkey trou SHE REAL turkeys in the Poisoning Affair of 1994 behind the spurious Animal Rights Militia. The group claimed to have injected rat poi- son into turkeys saat Lower ittets. A threat note distributed to media outlets and grocery stores alerted “meat-eating scum” to the’ Safeway and Save-Gn-Foads ot action. It seems. likely now that it was ul an absurd hoax. Federal health inspectors have found that it is impossible to inject a frozen bird. The upshot of the stupidity? About.25,000 _ turkeys, once destined for Christmas dinner tables, have died for nothing as a result of the recall. - Whether by the action of a loony bunch from within their ranks or by a devious car- ly at their height. -They were: A clear rod filled with thick fluid in which some eye-catching green and glittery ‘muck was suspended. Similar, but shorter, with a key chain. One of . those click-click.view things you » look into ‘and see, in this case, ' dinosaurs,'also with a key chain. A “marble” that in fact is a super-_ “bouncy ball, A smiall rubberized . elephant. And a pencil... . The children naturally had to - get exactly the same thing. So - there were two of each. To placate my absent third .. i ‘child, who, aged nine, was enjoy- Charlie's Aunt — I'chose a color- ful notepad stack, absurdly $11 bu: reduced 50%. Still way over- -.’ priced. ‘Thadn’t looked at the other ' prices. These. were obviously The bill v was over $58, Yep ¥ $58 plus. : >. And the checkout fern - them in three small (environinent-- saving?) paper bags like you' used to get penny candy in. The long rods poked out far above them. ~’. They were so hard to hold and * handle without imminent fear of -. something dropping out or the bags tearing that we marched’a long way brck to the car and put them there, ‘marching back again to continue shopping. Well, experienced parents will, 985-2134 (116) * over March i): How about a New, Year's resolution to look hard at _ acquiring Hillside school as a West Linda Stewart : Sales & Marketing Director e nivorous clement, the animal rights move- ment has been discredited. 5 2), The nation’s food distribution,system has shown itself to be precariously’ vulnerable to potential mischief or (errorist action. - . ‘Controls over who handles food as it pass-* es along the way from-supplier to consumer should be revisited and reinforced to mitigate the potential for such tampering.“ The good news is that all concerned acted decisively to avert possible tragedy. The relative merits of meat-eating versus the vegan way can be expressed more. effec- . . tively by: personal example or within the larg- er forum of public debate... ye Let’s focus on educating ourselves about’ this important health and: environmental issue and make informed personal decisions about it. ; "5 : Fear-mongering i is for the birds. areat Turkey are the idiots Mainland mailbox | Vengeance “scold me: “Stupid, don’ t you ‘know a n id vom it you never let small children run around a store grabbing anything ©. they can reach? Ever heard of mer- -\: chant cunning?” ; Yes, Lam a slow learner, but not’ that slow. The ethics of this situa- tion are‘clear, Could a father deny his own flesh and blood a few baubles — in addition to the stacks of toys. they'd received barely 24: - hours earlier — at Christmas time? hy , cheapness. ‘Monster! You probably believe in.” ‘orphanages and workhouses too! So I nurtured my own revenge, | which, as the saying goes, is best: eaten cold. Goodbye, store. And 'p il take the Boxing Day myth with. _ | a large grain of sodium chloride, |." Dear Editor: mo, The Sunshine Girl Song . nthe tune of Silver Bells): ; - City. Newspapers, ‘North: Shore newspapers, ‘ * they’re dressed i in many skimpy - styles 8." fous And ‘in the. air there’ s an aura aot ine when seeing smile after smile. : > And: in vevery’ North, Shore : News you Ws See. f : As the year ends: One of the few tangible ‘platform planks in West Vancouver’s 1993 municipal * . elections was Coun. Andy «-Danyliu’s vow to try,to get ‘council and school board meetings on dif- ‘ferent nights... The groups met. Nothing, A year has passed.‘ Both still meet. Mondays, frustrating democracy. ~For shame! “ee he actresses, cree but it’s just a ‘wanna-be sce . And they take pleasure i in me: : ingless things... - Kerry McDowall ° Beckie Onofrey | - Sentinel Secondary Dr. Greg Lee, president-in-wait- ve ing of Capilano College (he takes . Van satellite of the college? 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