WILLIAMS LAKE — Come,

let us sit upon a stone and

speak of treason and plot, of intrigue, of grand plans gone
wrong and great men angry, of boldness and of death.

Of course everybody will say
that’s the government wl over
again, but everybody is wrong.
We speak of the affairs at Bell E
Acres Golf Club, where the meat
and sinew of legend are nurtured,

Bell B Acres is the creation of
one Jim Lowery, an Irish stub-
blejumper from Saskatchewan
who quit teaching school to build
the place.

Ht lies over the western bills
above Williams Lake, just out of
sight of the Lakeview Hotel and
the provincial government build-
ing.

On the Bell E Acre grounds

_ there is a pond, ubout 100 feet
long by a 150 fect wide or, as we
have learned to say, about 30.48
inetres by 45.72 metres.

On other golf courses it would
be called a water trap, but Jim
had Joftier thoughts. He put
goldfish in it, which thrived
despite winters where temperatures
drop to 40 below.

Encouraged by the goldfish, he
put two Japanese Coy in the
pond. Either the coy were not
male and female or they didn't
like one another, for zhey never
produced young. Their sex no
longer matters because a visiting
mink ate one of them.

Next Mr. Lowery introduced _
rainbow trout, undeterred by the
fact that the water hazard has no
inlet and no outlet. That is sup-
posed to discourage trout. They
thrived. .

Everybody at Bell E Acres

Paul
St. Pierre

PAULITICS & PERSPECTIVES

thrives: men, women, children,
fish, dogs and mosquitoes,
Because the Rainbows had no
running wate: in which to brecd,
Mr. Lowery had to introduce new
fingerlings cach spring to offset

. predation by Great Blue Herons |

and minks.

However, the pond is believed
to yet contain a few monstrous
trout from the very first planting
who lurk at the bottom daring
anybody to find thei,

Being so blessed by God and
nature, Mr. Lowery spread the
joy. In combination with the
Williams Lake Lions Ciub, he ar-
ranged a fishing derby for the old
people who live at Cariboo ‘Lodge.

About this time of year a Sun-

day is set aside for them and the
Lions taxi them out for hotdogs,
hamburgers, coffee, lying and
fishing in the water trap,

Usually everybody catches trout,
particularly since Jim stops the
daily feeding a day or so before
the pensioners come.

Enter Tyrant State, represented
by Jack Leggett, the region's
fisheries biologist.

He declared that the trout were
allright, the fishing derby was all
tight, but the Asians had to go.

All that was needed, he said,

vas fora couple of ospreys to
pick up goldfish, lose them over
Williains Lake and a horrendous
new pest as evil as the European
starling would be let loose in
Cariboo.

Jim Lowery opposed this on the
principle, developed by the Irish
race, that if government wants
sontething done it must be wrong.

“Jack,’' he said,“‘the osprey
would have to catch a male
goldfish and lose him, then he
would have to catch a female and
lose her.

“tn a lake as big as Williams
Lake, he would have to lose them
pretty close together or the'd
never meet, and even if they met
they might be like my Japanese
Coy and not like ong another,”’

This statement, which rises from
the yeasty ferment of Mr.
Lowery’s memary, sums up the’
battle of Leggett and Lowery as it
has been fought for nigh three
years. :

The Bell E Acres manager
agreed to poison all the pond,
trout, Coy and goldfish together,
with Rotenone, a fertilizer which

rush fires threaten WV homes

WEST VANCOUVER
firefighters were called to
the scene. of two bush fires
Aug. 19° in. the Caulfeild
area-of West Vancouver. °
‘- The fires. were ‘both in. the
4800-block of McKenzie Drive,
said Capt. Joe Haggerty of the
West Vancouver fire department.
“We had ‘to.call in the parks
department to give us a hand,” he
said. ‘They assisted. us a great

deal.’”’

Hageerty said the parks and
recreation employees turned their
hoses on the fires and cut bush to

" create fire breaks.

The bush ‘fires blazed about 60—
metres (200 feet) from houses, he
added. /

‘We're lucky the wind wasn't
blowing that.way,’’ Haggerty said,

‘Meanwhile, the West Vancouver
fire department responded to an
Aug. !9 fire in Park Royal Shop-

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ping Centre’ s parking lust. :
The engine of a 2991 Cherokee
jeep was on fire.
‘The fires are under investiga-
tion.

the Environment Department uses
to poison lakes where coarse fish
have taken over.

It turns out that Rotenone
doesn’t bother goldfish at all,
They like it. They can’t under-
stand why the other fish don't
gobble it up.

‘They say it's an acquired taste,
tike Danish blue cheese and some
forms of sexual intercourse.

Since Rotenone wouldn't do,

‘Mr. Lowery, who had reluctantly

agreed that Jack Leggett had a
bigger shillclagh than he had,
decided on heroic measures. He
would dynamite.

He found an experienced fish-
erman, whom he declines to iden-
tify, and told-him to bring some
sticks of Chileotin Wobbler lures.

They waited uotil the Cariboo
Frost King laid a full 18 inches of
ice over the pond. Holes were
bored. Three sticks were let go,
confined beneath the ice.

[t registered on seismographs in

eg baat

Los Angeles and pieces of the ice
overtook and passed the Mariner
spacecraft between Mars and
Mercury. Six people in Williams
Lake gave up drinking.

Mr. Lowery, who estimates the
fish population in the hundreds,
went to the massacre scene to
count,

“We found 12 dead trout and
24 goldfish which were dead or
distressed about things. The Coy
was fine.”

This is a casualty rate not much
higher than summer weekend
traffic deaths.

Mr. Lowery says that he will
cooperate with the government
people, damn them, and will kill
all those goldfish. His plan now is
to pump the pond dry and see
how they like living without water.

Meanwhile, the annual Cariboo
Lodge Fishing Derby proceeds at
the scene of the massacre, All is
well,

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1993 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
ADVANCE REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS

The Corporation of the District of West Vancouver will hold its

second Triennial election on 1993 November 20. Advance

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Tim Will MeMartin the PC candidate fo

NorthVancouver and | will be asking for your
vote in the upcoming Federal Election.

I believe that a fundamental role of Government is
to ensure that people can live, free from fear. The neigh-
bourhoods of North Vancouver are not as safe as we

want them to be.

Government has to find the courage to stand up for
cilizens against violent crime, toughen the laws that
protect our residents and ensure that our justice sys-
tem deals fairly but sternly with those who abuse the

tights and freedoms of others,

We must provide the necessary resources for our
police force and ensure that the priority of the courts
is to protect the rights of the law abiding citizens not

the criminals.

The issue is more than law and order, it is about

o@ Reinforce the ability of our local police force to
deal more effectively with violent crime. ;.
o Amend the Youth Offenders Act to ensure that .

Police and the Courts have more autherity to

deat with serious and repeat offenders.

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individuals accepting responsibility for their actions

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We must make our neighbourhoods “Free from Fear.”
@ Strengthen the Criminal Code and Parole Act
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office at 227 Mountain Highway, just north of Main
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