4- Wednesday, August 12

HAVE. to
“otherwise you’re

Take the pool, for instance,
[Cis true that we have got a lot
of value-out-of it this summer.
Well, the kids: have anyway, and
that's
Suess. Lb
On balance, in’ fact! bo would
“say that almost-as much time-has
heen: putin playing in the-damin
thing a fas been. put .in: main-
taining» itv. if yous assume -kid-
hours to “be ‘the same value as
~ man-hours -—)-not an economic
truth at all.

«There was. the job of setting. it
up, first of all: This was a foolish
and unnecessary business because

“we had hired“a young ‘fellow to
do it for us the previous summer;
: and I had seen how dreadfully he

aged.in the full day that it took

* him,
‘So | definitely should’ have
known better: than to have the

what Jit's: mainly: about, f:

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take.a Zen: attitude toward recreation,
liable to be ‘driven out of your mind or
worked.to death trying to relax.

pool. ‘taken: down last fall.
Thought: it, would (fill up (with
debris and look unsightly.

You Anow how you mike the
rare decision. that is idiotic, even
though otherwise you consistent-
Ive perform ike a genius? Yeh.
well, me-too, ;

When it-came! time to put the
pool back ‘up. this summer. |
nappened to be in one of ny
budgetary-awareness phisess siCk
and tired of
were spending having these sim-
ple sort of tasks done by others.’

Asan example of> the new
spirit. (of: frugality aad
reliance around, -the Hunter
“household, 1. decided ia-set_the
pool up > myself .using’ purely
amateur, volunteer: help, Jie.
Mom. and. various offspring. 1
mean what's the point of progeny
if yourean’t draft then?

Heek, it only took four hours.

a veraging $80, 341

Van-
Heights :
averaging over.

LAND SALES sins North
“couver City’s Tempe
development itre
$80,000 .for each. lot, othe. city’s
purchasing and property director...
says, 7 :
City council accepted more bids
on city-owned property: Monday in
the Tempe Heights phase four-and
five, with; the “average price beitig

$20, 341 per lor
Total sales) to “date ‘trom the
development are $12,237, 577, with
“all the money going into the: city’s
Special inter t- earning reserve:

Reduce house
densities, ;
report says |

‘AN INDEPENDENT: “planning
“consultant has recommended hous-.
ing densities be. reduced, in part-of:
ethe “residential “area surrounding :
othe North Vancouver courthouse.’

- The. reduced “density, together ®:

ith a host! of: other.recommenda-:
“thong, was handed to. North: Van-":
‘couver City staff for’a report ‘July:
ly “marking : the.-end of) three ~
‘meetings conducted to -get resident
‘input “into “the future © of. ihe
: ‘neighborhood. :
has City ‘development and: ‘licensing -
“director + Fred “Smith would not
“comment on the recommendations: ‘
“until ‘he: presents © his: ‘report=:to
council in the next few weekss oe

The’: planning: consultant
‘recomniended stop signs at inter-"*
-vals along 23rd Street,’ considera;

“don of: resident-only ‘parking,’ bet- ..

“ter enforcement of speed limits,” a

pedestrian loading zone at the rece

reation. centre. and additional :
: crosswalks. é

i need® ‘review

“recommended.
Smith's : report,

: September

‘fund for late? use.
“ls

City
director Derwyn Owen... !

One, hundred and. seventy-three :

lots: out. of 238: lotsare. already
sold cand 2 the: new
phase will Ji ely Start over the next

two months, he

* structions.

all the. money we

self. ©

J part.

available’ for council: to.
‘designate in its) budgets. as. it. sees.
fit,t!) explained North Vancouver.
purchasing sand> property.

So what if Dad ‘screamed dike va
maniag at Willy, whose, attention
kept wandering?) What does it-
“matter anyway that. they all had
to putup with the spectacle of a
grown, man weeping? So what if-
the effort.to keep bad words out
of the family vocabulary got set
bach a Htetime!

See Dad mewling with rage.
See Chita cursing the: Queber
manufacturer “ho eft out Step

#3 in the English version of the.in-
See Dad threatening te
leave Confederation again,

oMery ugly stuff,

“Wee did get it up, though. A
moment. of. triumph after the
horror: “ ;

¢- [n-retrospect, that was the casy
After the first few minutes

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of-cutter: frustration, at feast you

have the adrenalin pumping and,

you are in “hot blood." as the
Spaniards ‘sav abour the. bull in

“the ring, You don’t feel the pain,

When the time comes to feure
out all the proper amountsjof Ph
UP or Ph DOWN and Sutisereen
and Shock, being careful jnot. to
Jip a finver into the wate at the
wrong chemical moment lest the
flesh peel away.) changing the
filter. on the pump everg. couple
of days, ar
around (and “around
with’ a net, scooping! out
zillions of dead bugs, priming the
¢leaned-up pump. or pushing a
sponge. across: the’ bottom to stir
up developing ‘ulgae, that’ s when
you. ‘réally begin 10, experience
martyrdom,

the thing

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oy difestyle.
want: to% po" =" being: found: one

volume

and = patiently) walking

the 8
‘ume,

* E hired somebody -2:

There's inherently.

nothing |

“wrong with martyrdom. °F know

people who have. adopted it as a
ft's just. not the way |

day beside the pool, -having diced

-of boredom while changing. the
» Ph

“That. won't, _ieally happen, of
course. The instructions ‘for :the
quantities: of deadly ‘chemicals -
involved “are . all: in. metric,
calculated on the). basis’: of
Milograms in| relation” ta) poal °
us measured in Ntres:

This gets at deast.a drip-drip-
drip from the adrenalin’ gland,
enough to keep: the old poal-
keeper, the bearer of the sodium
hydrogen sulphate, on his mental’
toes, seething at the memory of
Trodeau and his evil schemes:

Under ‘these: conditions, one
goes. primitive, experimenting
with throwing on-a smidgeon. of
this, a cupful sof that unul the
witch's brew. settles down ‘enough
toldip a toéin, and iff it doesn't
melt off immediately; in we got |

Pochink I've: been in the pool.
for a total of an hour this:sum-
mer. Tt was. as they say, quality.
with frolicking, squealing,
happy kids and all of that.

I just keep thinking there" S got
to be another way. ;

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