C6 - ~ Wednesday, September 1, 1982 - North Shore News

FUN IN SASKATCHEWAN

When

“WHERE HAVE you been lately?” is the question

I often am asked, with the person looking at me

hopefully for an answer like “
I recently replied,

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ji” or “Tunisia
‘Melfort, Saskat-

chewan,” I earned peals of laughter.

“Broke like the rest of us,
eh?”

Many ‘people tell me that
they have met marvellous
peopie. on vacation —
however, the friendships
have lasted five minutes
longer than it takes to
unlock their own front door
on their return. [ve been
luckier than that as a good
many of my travel friend-

couples from California and
one from Melfort. What is
odd, too, is the age range
between the eight of us —
one couple is late 20s, one
late 30s, one mid-forties and
the fourth 60ish.
Over the year, we've kept
in touch. Phone calls, visits
and letters, in a connecting
network from the U.S. to
Canada. Six of us got
together in Melfort. Must
add that a marvellous time
was had by all, with the same
Conversations and
belly-laughs as last year.
Wait had his guitar and we
yowled along, late into the

solved ail
probiems.

Whenever

the world’s

you get

Canadians and Americans
together, certain differences
arise. Some are laughable —
especially when the
Americans get to saying
“Eh?” as often as we do.

Some aren’t quite so funny
— our American friends felt
downright naked without the
handguns that they pack
‘around as a normal course of
events down South. “I never
leave the house alone
without mine,” announced
Nancy.

Both she and her husband
work in professions that call
for a lot of evening meetings
(she’s a supervising teacher
for the learning disabled;
he’s a social worker). They
had considered hauling
along a trusty snake-shooter
but learned that Canadian
law is quite specific on the
subject.

Canadans don't find the
average American very
knowledgeable about
Canada. These friends of
ours have such an en-
cyclopedic knowledge of our
country that it kept us on our
toes. Doesn't do to show
your ignorance of your own
country! But, something
worried me. They consider
that Canada is everything the
United States SHOULD be
~— idealizing to an unrealistic
degree. “Lock our truck?
Hell, no. We're in God's
country.”

by Barbara
McCreadie

I grew. up in Southern
Alberta, but after many
years in B.C., I've lost a lot
of my “wheat farmer's kid —
prairiefied” outlook. I find
screen doors a pain in the
butt but so necessary to
Canada’s mid-west.

They raise flying insects
that tear chunks out of
human hide. -F'd_ also
forgotten the speech pat-
terns of many of the farming
folk of our prairies. It was
fun to listen to some friends
of our hosts, speaking like
people I grew up with. An
accent, faintly mid-
European and the word
“already” laced into every
third sentence — as in,

Heading for the hills

IT seems that people are
flocking to “Beautiful British
Columbia" to spend their
holiday:‘money despite the
general economic gloom.

Tourism Minister Pat
Jordon, in Fort
Nelson, said business on the
Alaska Highway is better
than at any time since 1977.
This report confirms the
minister's previous belief that
visitors are venturing deeper
into B.C. and are taking
more time to explore the
north.

“The highways up here are
in excellent shape and the
weather has been simply
glorious so far this year,”
said Mrs. Jordan. “Our drive
lo give visitors a fair cx-
change rate and first class
service is working and
proves that nothing attracts
like superb scenery and a

square deal.”

The minister was in Fort
Nelson for the naming of
Andy Bailey Lake. Bailey.
who died last year, was one
of the original B.C. pioncers
who, as a community leader,
worked so hafd to promote
the north and organize its

now well above average
facilities.
Jordan made her trip to

‘northern B.C. to conduct

discussions on the tourist
potential of the area with
local businessmen and of-
ficials.and to gain input from
these groups.

You Are invited to Attend

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“That's enough, already.”
or, “I quit,

If I'd stayed long enough,
ld have probably heard two
of our famous colloquialisms
— “Alright, already!” or
“Already, yet so soon?”

Yd never seen central
Saskatchewan as a_ kid.
Southern Albertans get to
know Maple Creek, Moose
Jaw and Regina. A bit like

Want to know the modern
answer? PAM SPRAY!

Sprayed generously over
the front of a car — not the
windshield, for obvious
reasons -—— prairie farmers
can rinse their cars clean
with a quick spray of the
hose. One caution: After
spraying, get indoors fast.
Pam attracts bees, wasps and
hornets.

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"the barn is painted and the

Medicine Hat only more so
(already!) I was prepared for
dust, dry flat fields and
horrendous drinking water.

I wasn’t prepared for
lovely rolling farms, many —
trees and an enviable air of
prosperity everywhere. —
Melfort is in the wheat belt .
and those folks aren't _
hungry.

In Alberta, we have a ..

But it beats a-wire brush
any old day.

FE oe

house isn’t —” :

Around Melfort, it’s hard -
to tell. All the houses and all .
the barns are first class. |
Driving north, the stands of ©
trees are lovely, the small
towns neat as pins. Lots of -
screens on the doors and |
windows!

And, here is my tip for the .
day:

As you drive along prairie ©
roads, bugs glue themselves .
to the front of your car. By
the time you come to suds |
them off, it's like you at- -
tached the corpses with‘:
crazy gluc. Some cars still -
have wire mesh radiator .
screens, same as the one I .
used to have to scrub clean _
with a wire brush and the -
hose to carn my allowance.

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Mini Pocket Fan, battery operated. ideal —
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