earning about the world of the watershed WHEN WE came down from the mountain I had the feeling I'd been far away, a long way from home and in another country. As though time had taken a vacation. This was strange, for we'd been gone only three hours or so, in a very practical bus on a very practical mis- sion, to see the Seymour wa- tershed. But we came down the mountain feeling like people who’d been on a kind of crusade — scparated from or- dinary concerns and regimens. We were surprised to see sun shining over all and people walking about in ordinary fashion. We thought they ought to know that we were changed. ‘Certainly we'd been im-- pressed. .We’'d also been challenged, and a lot of us weren’t quite ready to say what we felt about it because it was so big, awesome in places, and we felt like pygmies. We also felt that attitudes we'd © Eleanor Gx THE VINTAGE YEARS long cherished needed further reflection. We live here in the tremen- dous largesse of this Greater Vancouver Regional District taking it for granted, because it’s home, that’s all. We know we’ve got a priceless site, with Looking for the Dead ahead From page 23 show revels in free-flowing music, it afforded Sting a chance to get away from the typical four- ‘minute-song-style concert typical rock audiences demand. With modern-day religion of- fering little to the searchers of to- day, many who follow the Dead across the country are simply looking for some form of spiritual adventure. Another piece of baggage thrown on the Dead is that. all their ‘concerts represent is a major drug-fest. Without a doubt, LSD and other hallucinogenics abound at a Dead’ show, but the trip-savvy _ audience rarely degenerates’ into a '. football game crowd. | I've seen 17 shows, and. not a . single time: have I encountered a fight or a confrontation. On hand atthe Vegas shows was .the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic medical staff, in cay=' their _ experienced services were neede4, The most serious problem they dealt with the entire weekend was a girl who had cut ‘her. foot on a.’ broken bottle. A call to the Vegas police department revealed that two ar- rests were, made during the . weekend. connected to the shows; © | + the average al a football! game is. 47, ; For. first- timers, a. Grateful Dead concert is unique. The sight of 17,000 Deadheads dancing —a kind of lightning-quick version of sf | CORRECTION NOTICE | 1 In our B4-3A Summer Sale flyer, FT Minolta Memory Maker Camera on - _f| page 13 will be late- rainchecks wil) | 1 be available at the store. In our B4- ‘} 3. Summer Fashion flyer, Silk | Blouse ‘and Tank top in Petites on A page 2; Sitk Ottoman Shell on page ‘A. 4; T-shirts in Petites on page 13; . Bodysuit #5 in Petites on page 14 will be ‘tate - rainchecks will be {available at-the store, Gold -f Jewellery on page 5.should have’ ‘] read “Decor. Gold’. Eyelet and | Chambray Blouses on page 6; Tie :f Front Blouses and Denim Shorts § 1 with floral trim on page 11 are not available in all stores. 7 Sorry for ‘any inconvenience this ‘ may have caused. | ws Tai Chi — immediately breaks down inhibitions. The shaman lurking somewhere within us all bursts into the ‘light of day, screaming and kicking. Before you know it you are caught up in the kinetic energy fuelled by the music,and time slips away. A typical Dead show Jasts about three hours, and all you can think about when it ends is when and where is the next one. And when do we leave. To the uninitiated, the adven- ture seems like madness, But to those who have bought the ticket, the ride is a journey in- to a place seldom reached in the ‘day-to-day life of modern times. As we headed out of Las Vegas towards the City of Angels after the three-day Vegas adventure, we were caught. up in’ a convoy of ff ‘satiated searchers, all of us bound by the commonality of experience. Little is certain in life, but to us on that dark desert highway, one thing was. Our paths wil! cross again. sea and mountains embracing fertile delta land; we tike it when strangers tell us how lucky we are, and we’ve got not just one source of free water but three. But we muck it all vp with exhaust fumes and smoke stacks and gum wrappers and general human detritus and think nothing of turning on the nearest tap full bore when cleanup time comes. But with the projection of a million more residents flooding in every decade of our future, we've got to get serious about those taps. We can’t just keep pointing to our friendly moun- tains at bath-time. There’ll have to be a plan for increas- ing the flow as it’s needed, and that means first protecting the source and extracting more from it. Which means it’s going to cost money. It also means further inva- sion of the heretofore sacrosanct watershed areas. There are presently three ways to go: expand and raise the Seymour dam, build a new dam below the present one, or expanid the man-made conve- nience of Rice Lake. Any of those decisions re- quires clearing and controlling and therefore changing the valuable wilderness we current- ly treasure. : We saw some of this renewal and repair actually going on. Some hillsides had been clear-cut and replanted; they call this ‘‘juvenile spacing.”' When the growth is maturing, it’s called a ‘‘juvenile planta- tion.’’ We watched as a crew worked its way sideways und up and down on a slope that looked freshly torn up. Great rocks and roots and stumps had been wrenched and dumped ail over the hillside, making it seem a highly im- probable nursery for the bun- dle of seedlings each planter carried. Acres of young forest that we were shown, though, testified to the success of the program. A lot of what has had to be cleared was the famous old- time cedar. We've all got-at least one old photo in the col- lection that shows 15 guys with moustaches standing on the butt of a cedar they’d just conquered with their cross-cut saw. Civilization was hard on “those trees; they succumbed readily to diseases that the hemlock and fir resist, and so a lot have been replaced. —. Red squirrels ruin the tops of some evergreens, looking for water, which adds to fire - hazard. Dry spars are danger any time. The “‘thinning”’ process is constant, and makes for unsightly messes until the cleaning up has taken place, then the area begins to look OPPORTUNITY! ! PRIME NORTH VANCOUVER INDUSTRIAL” “AsPresidont yourenora. . 8s, ops personality will make yourown Zusinewss. sasessful. 1f re “TION: 32"06, ‘and INVEST APPROX. $125, 000.00 Use our 20 years of experience to your benefit, let us teach you how to run your own successful Soup, Sandwich, and Catering Business. CALL RANDY YOUNG EDELWEISS INTERNATIONAL FRANCHISE CORP. . PHONE (604) 275 - DELt (3354): FAX 270-6560 Tuesday to Thursday — 9:00 AR - 4:00 Pi: -: Friday . 9: 00 AM - 12:30 PM ' NOTICE TO MOTORISTS PORTEAU BLUFFS ROCK SCALING PROJECT SEA-TO-SKY HIGHWAY 99 __ The Ministry of Transportation and Highways advises that there willbe 20 minutes delays on the Sea-To-Sky Highway 99 at Porteau Bluffs, 25 km north of Horseshoe Bay from Tuesday, May 25 to Friday, May 28. The delays are needed “for rock scaling, bolting and trimming work and will be in effect as follows: . For further information, ‘please contact the.24-hour Road Report at 525-4967 (Greater Vancouver); 938-4997 (Whistler); 855-4997 (Abbotsford); 371 4997... (Kamloops); 860-4997 (Kelowna); 558-4997 (Vernon); 380-4997 (Vi ctoria); “4097 (BC Cellular & Cantel). In all other communities, please cail 1-800-660-4897. Province of . British Columbia’ Ministry of Transportation | and Highways: - like a lovely remote park with the sunlight slanting through. The young men who escorted us talked about abundant wildlife, coyotes and mountain sheep and deer,: The tour is at this writing expected to be repeated in the fall. You’d enjoy it thoroughly, I know. Best to call for a reservation as scon :. as you set the time and day advertised — this one.was taken up in a matter of hours. Mind you, if the interest was expressed, I rather think they'll make a regular thing of it. Insurance - os of _- Corporation @ Park Royal Shopping ct 908 South Mall Ph. 268-5650 . Other restrictions a: Sea BOA insur Agent deta Phe RIO oe