© get this straight YES, IT has been a bit nippy of late, children. But nothing like the old days. So gather round while granddad tells you a few stories about when men were men and women were glad of it. We have to go back nigh on 40 years, when we decided to enter what was then a brave land. We knew nothing about the place other than what we had seen in the movies, which showed Nelson Ed- dy singing songs and other chaps yelling ‘‘mush’’ to their struggling dog teams. “That’s the place for us,’’ we said. For although there had been a war and all that, we were keen for more adventure. ‘‘But you'll need a fur coat,”’ I told Grey Eyes. So she got one. What it was made of I don’t remember. Mouse, probably, we not being into mink. I came wy freighter and Grey Eyes followed with the fur coat in a bigger ship, through very rough weather. (Yes, we are so old, children, that when we were young, people still travelled by water.) Our first winter in Calgary was chock-full of adventure. For three weeks, the temperature plummet- ted to between 40 and 48 below every night. Ice covered the storm windows. “Do you have a block heater?”’ asked a kind neighbor as the sky darkened. ““What's a block heater?’’ ! queried. We got a block heater. Good thing, too, otherwise the Austin A40 that grandded had brought with him on the freighter would have been a goner. We lived on Richmond Road, ar adjunct of the Bragg Creek Trail. OVERWE! Brage Creek Trail! That was Canada, all right. ‘‘Mush, mush!’ The cars were all parked on the street, which wasn't so much a Street as a track of frozen snow. It was smooth, though, so I wondered what was up when the A40 starting bumping along like a brick with a fit. It was the tires. They had frozen during the night, levelling flat to the surface of the road where the weight of the vehicle rested on them. Bump bump bump bump! After a mile or so (we still had miles, then) they thawed out. One evening, being green, Grey Eyes and I decided to go to the pictures, as we still called them. But we were a long way from the nearest bus and the car had gone on strike, it having decided it wasn't 4 dog team. We walked. Which is to say we started walking, the little woman wearing the fur coat and I being muffled up like Scott on his way to the Antarctic. Fur coat or no fur coat, muffies or no muffles, we soon began to feel a bit of a chill. A local native passed us in his car. He stopped, reversed, and asked us where we were going in the nice 40-below weather. 1 felt like saying to the North Pole, but told him about our deci- sion to go to the pictures. “Jump in,"’ he said. He gave us a friendly talk about how people like us were often found frozen stiff on the Bragg GHT? . i We design a personalized program that focuses on you, noton traditional weight ca | Daniel J. 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Mind you, going to the natives’ houses in winter was tough. The heat was always at 90°F. and after two drinks we newcomers went bye-byes. We survived in spite of everything. About that fur coat. The other day | asked Grey Eyes what hap- pened to it, it not having been seen by me for years and years. She said she still had it. “Why don’t you wear it?" “It's too heavy and too short,” she said. Well she ain’t getting another one. Not until we move North to meet Mush Mushe AEE Inatull new disc pace; renach trom 9 ~ Wednesday, February 8, 1989 - North Shore News NV District Council endorses traffic light recommendations NORTH VANCOUVER District Council endorsed recommenda- tions of its Traffic and Safety Committee Monday night to install new traffic signals on Mount Seymour Parkway at Roche Point Drive subject to Ministry of Transportation and Highways ap- proval of cost sharing. However a petition with 190 names and addresses on it re- questing traffic signals on the Parkway at Apex Drive was denied by the committee as the general consensus was that many of the residents would be able to make use of the proposed signals at Roche Point Drive, and that the new lights would create a periodic break in the flow of the traffic along Mount Seymour Parkway. Council also moved to adopt new national special crosswaik signals at three locations already approved in the 1988 budget: Queens and Mahon, Lilloett and See Traffic Page 10 Caregivers get support LEARN HOW to minimize the physical and emotional stresses of caring for an older family member at an information session spon- sored by the North Shore Caregivers Support Group. 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