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Friday, August 26, 1994 - North Shore News - 7

Hyper parent frets over Kraft Dinner

AS I dumped the box of
seemingly harmless small
pasta tubes into the briskly

- boiling water, and then mixed

the apparently innocuous

© orange powder into the

cooked tubes, I asked myself:
Is this the slippery slope? Is

, this the beginning of a life-

’ tong addiction for my family?

: Later, watching my two young

: sons devour their portions of Kraft

Dinner with alacrity, I thought: Why

’ do Thave a fear of Kraft Dinner?

! Why do I have a pang that I've fal-

“. tered as a parent by serving it?

: W's not as if KD (as I've decided

*. to cail it for clinical purposes) is

“hazardous to your health. As the
. package claims, it’s “a good source
. of protein,” and the side of the box

. 1, does have one of those handy nutri-

- tion information charts, listing ener-
gy, protein, fat and carbohydrate
counts. Gosh, in the days when the

. pasta sub-culture consisted of

spaghetti and elbow macaroni; my ~-~"

mother, ever vigilant in matters of

' Dear Editor:
-’; As someone who was a long-
itime resident of Liverpool
'. (England), I have a suggestion
“engendered by Noel Wright's
emarks about the “complexities”
- of a proposed tunnel as replace-
_ ment for the Lions Gate Bridge.
In 1934, 60 years ago, King
‘George V opened the Mersey

nutrition, served us KD, Apart from
the usual childhvod diseases of that
era, afflictions like measles and
mumps, | can think of no physical
affliction that could be traced back
to KD ingestion.

After much mental wrestling
with the KD question, Ive decided
the disdain in which many women
of my ilk hold KD (men seem to
have no problem with it) cannot be
scen in isolation, Our attitude
towards it is indicative of a whole
range of responses that make up the
Hyper Parent Syndrome common in
the late 20th century.

Other symptoms of HPS include:
recoiling in horror when your three
year old calls someone “a poo poo
head”; lying awake at 3 a.m. won-
dering whether your child's fibre
intake is at recommended levels;
squirming in embarrassment when
your child belts out the theme song
from Batman in public; and falling
into a minor depression when your
child wants to wear a hand-me-down
faded pink sweatshirt instead of a
designer number in bold primary
colors.

Catherine
Atyeo

io

JUST ADD WATER

Seen in the context of the Hyper
Parent Syndrome, it’s casy to see
why the sight of KD ona grocery
store shelf makes women like me
avert our eyes and push the shopping
cart past with yet greater resolve.
You see, the essence of HPS is that

tunnel copy is easy

Tunnel and named it Queensway.
Its diamond jubilee has just been
celebrated.

Sixty years of adequately fill-
ing the needs for which it was
designed and constructed. If
answers are sought to “compiexi-
ties’ the M.T. would provide
them. .

Close to identical in its length

Paving The Way -

to what is needed here. Dense
urban cities each end. With such a
successful enterprise resulting so
many years ago, with today's
technology surely a copy would be
as “a piece of cake!”

Visit Liverpool. The answers
are there.
Bert Griffin
North Vancouver

As part ofthe 4) mprovement {nitiative (Municipal Act - Section 656), TAKE NOTICE THAT the
Council of The Co: ,uration of the City of North Vancouver intends to construct seven paved lanes and

ditch enclosures.
@ Description of Lanes

1. Lane North of East 16th Street bounded by Sutherland Avenue and William Avenue.
_2. Lane North of East 14th Street bounded by Sutherland Avenue and William Avenue.
. Lane North of East 16th Street bounded by William Avenue and Rufus Avenue.
. Lane East of Bewicke Avenue between Larson Road and West 19th Street.
5, Lane North of West 23rd Street bounded by Larson Road and Jones Avenue.
. Lane North of East 9th Street bounded by Moody Avenue and West Grand Boulevard.
7, Lane North of East 5th Street between Sutherland Avenue and Hendry Avenue.
The lifetime of the work is 10 years.
The total estimated cost of the work is $338,000.
The share of the total cost which will be specially charged against the parcels benefiting or
abuiting from the work is $172,463.
The City’s share of the cust is estimated to be $165,537.
The Property Owner's portion of the cost of this project, without speed arresters, shall be an annual
charge of $8.30 for each metre of taxable frontage to be specially charged against the parcels
benefiting from or abutting the work.
The Property Owner's portion of the cost of this project, with speed arresters, shall be an annual
charge of $8.50 for each metre of taxable frontage to be specially charged against the parcels
heneliting from or abuuing the work.

All persons desiring to petition against the undertaking of any ofthe above constructions must do so on
or before SEPTEMBER 26, 199-4, but more than 50% in number of the owners (representing at least 50%
of the assessed value of the kinds involved) must sign such a petition before Council can be prevented from
proceeding with any of the works. In the case of joint ownership, both owners must sign, and where two
or more persons are the owners of the property, a majority of them must sign the petition. Where the
property is registered in the name of a limited company, an officer of the company must sign the petition

and show his or her position in the company.

Bruce A. Hawkshasy, City Clerk

parenting has to be tough — sort of
like competing in a decathlon, but
doing it every day, 24 hours ad ay.

Perhaps even subconsciously, we
sufferers of HPS view KD with sus-
picion and hostility because it's sim-
ply too easy — too easy to prepare.
serve and eat, HPS sufferers believe
that unless they spend al least one
hour preparing a healthy and visual-
ly spectacular meal for their chil-
dren, they have “under-performed”
as a purent. Never mind that the
child gives two hoots that you've
served him something eligible fora
menu ina five-star restaurant.

flove one friend's quintessential
KD story. After slaving away to pre-
pare a dish for her young son that
incorporated one of those odd-
shaped, esoteric pastas with three
types of cheeses, shaved ham and
snow peas, she asked him whether
he liked it. He replied: “It’s okay,
but can we have those bright orange
noodles grandma gives me?"

_ Another aspect of KD that cre- -
ates problems for the HPS sufferer is
that it doesn’t lend itself to lingering
at the table, enjoying the ambiance

and the company. With other pasta
and various accompaniments, you
can regale your child with the intri-
cacies of rural Tusean cooking or, if
you're not up on that, why the
Italian political system just doesn't
work. With KD, kids and adults just
want Lo tuck into those smooth,
cheesy tubes, enjoy the sensation of
them sliding down their throats. and
jump up from the table with a com-
fortably full feeling.

As part of a self-administered
therapy program, I've decided to
post a few key messages (printed on
blank recipe cards) on my refrigera-
tor. Some of these messages are:
¢ KD Is Not A CIA Plot.

* KD Has Cheese In It.
* Decent People Eat KD.
* Many Athletes Have Inevitably
Eaten KD.
* Mom Served KD.
¢ Serving KD Doesn’t Mean Having
To Say You're Sorry.
Since I'm always looking for

-ways-to make more moriey, I'm

thinking of running workshops for
parents who have the KD problem.
(Perhaps Kraft will finance them).

YATES SERS LEP EE OTE EE
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