A2 - Sunday News, August 30, 1981

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out to be as traumatic as turning 30 was.

I vividly recall that event.

At 29 years of age, I had.

volunteered to sail on the
original Greenpeace boat up
to Amchitka Island to
protest the nuclear tests.

To make an incredibly
long story short, the boat
ended up 900 miles from its
goal, stuck in a little Alaskan
fishing village, while the
crew argued interminably
about whether to go forward
or backward.

Late one

night, after

weeks of hassle, there was a
meeting in the galley and a
vote was taken. There were
only four of us willing to
carry on. Thus, it was
decided that in the morning
the boat would turn around
and head home.

At the stroke of midnight,
I turned 30. Great stuff. Up
until that day, I'd been a
young guy in his 20s,
charging towards Amchitka
to help save the universe.

Suddenly, I was an old

by Bob Hunter |

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I'll be turning 40 this fall, I hope it doesn’t turn.

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man of 30, heading home in
defeat and shame. Trauma, 7

trauma, trauma.
Well, now, here we are, a
decade later, and the big

four and the big zero are ;

coming up.

Am I afraid? Nah.

The truth of the matter is
that there's been quite a bit
of grey hair in my beard for
years. I've been “old” as long
as I can remember.

A mid-life crisis holds no
fear for me. I think I had my
first mid-life crisis when I
was about ten years old. I've
been having them regularly

Fight to block Deep —
Jove project goes on

But plans for Gallant proceed

By PAT RICH
Some Deep Cove
residents are con-

tinuing to fight what is
proving to be a losing
battle

to prevent
construction of Phase
II of the Gallant

Redevelopments proj-
ect.

An appeal against the
Project to the Board of
Variance was denied
recently, but another appeal
is being planned.

A group of eight Deep
Cove residents had appealed

the interpretation of the
Chief Building Inspector
with regard to the un-

derground garage planned
for the building.

But in a hearing August
20, the board ruled not to
hear the appeal because the
group did not have ‘status’ as
they did not live adjacent to
the project.

At last) week's
meeting Alderman’ Ernie
Crist commented that this
ruling was based on a 1915
Supreme Court ruling. He
added that there were not
even any zoning bylaws in

council

existence in Canada at that
ume.

Plans for another appeal
by Deep Cove residents with
‘status’ is being planned.

The Deep Cove com-
munity association and some
other residents of the area
have been attempting to stop
both phases of the planned
residential/commercial pr-
oject since plans were made

public this spring.
The group has argued
unsuccessfully that the

proposed project is too
massive for the downtown
area of the Cove.
Meanwhile, at last week's
council meeting Phase II of
the project cleared two more
minor hurdles standing in
the way of construction.
Council gave the engineer
permission to authorize a
satisfactory creek diversion
on the land and permission

was also given for the
developer temporarily to
occupy adjacent District

land in order to carry out
construction work.

In addition, the developer
has decided to work around
the Deep Cove Community
Hall which was recently
discovered to be trespassing

on the site by a few inches.

The original offer by the
developer to demolish part
of the building and rebuild it
so it would not be
trespassing could not be
accepted because zoning
would not allow the building
to be rebuilt if even a portion
was torn down.

Approval for the creek
diversion also requires
permission from the Water
Management Branch and the
federal and_ provincial
Department of Fisheries:

Alderman Mary Segal said
she was very concerned that
the municipality be reim-
bursed if any damage was
done to the community hall.

Because of the zoning
restrictions, she said the
developer should have to
pay for an entirely new
building if the current hall ts
damaged in any way.

She said the District
should also be protected if

trees on Dhistnct land are
destroyed during = con-
struction.

Approval for the creck
diversion and the use of
District land were granted
with these safeguards
cluded.

ever since.

In: fact, if I didn't have a
decent mid-life crisis every
once-in-a-while, I'd get

' bored?

Iguess thé one’thing I'm a

bit ‘disappointed about is the ©

fact that I still haven't been
able totally to figure out the

puzzle of life-

When I was a teenager, I
understood — everything
perfectly. When I reached
my 20s, there was an-

element of doubt.
Existential despair, you
could call it.

During my 30s, the
existential despair had
mellowed into a sense of
blissful anarchism. There are

moments when the universe

‘is a conspiracy organized for

my benefit. We all have
those kind of moments, don’t
we? :

But I still tap my wife on
the shoulder every once-in-
a-while and ask plaintively:
“What is the meaning of
life?”

My wife remarked to my

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mother not long ago: “I don't
know ‘about Bob. He seems
so confused.” :

Quoth. Mom: “Oh, he was
always like that.”’ Somehow,
it’s comforting to know I
haven't changed a bit.

sone

What about male
menopause? Is that going to
be a problem? Well, maybe

I'm_ overconfident, but I
think I can handle it.
At a certain level, I

suspect that I’ve been ex- —

periencing male menopause,
on and off, since I was a
teenager. That is, if you
mean the main symptom is
an enhanced state of quiet
insanity. Which I'm sure it
is.

I have no intentions of
giving up being quietly
insane. I"ve become quite
comfortable with it.

There should be some
kind of ritual. Our society
really doesn’t cut it in the
ritual department.

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When I think about it,
there. wasn’t even a ‘decent
rite .of passage for
“becoming a man,” so to
speak-—unless it was finally |
succeeding in. undoing a ‘
brassiere in the back seat of
a car at a drive-in.

Gee. Haven't done that in

ages. Maybe I am getting
old.

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