‘om 42 - Sunday, August 25, 1991 - North Shore News FRIENDS OF my heart, hunker down here beside me. We have to strategize. Don’t look around. Let me tell you first what's going on. We've been infiltrated. Tine young are reading this stuff, and ! don't mean pseudo seniors of 55 and 60. Those imita- tions think they qualify because they can go io seniors days sales, and get a discount at the Sizzler. We understand that — they may well be preparing themselves for what they think of as desuetude, and in their preparation they'll discover the hilarious, precarious truth. No. I'm talking 40-year-olds. Maybe even late thirties. And they’re quite bare-faced about it. Whenever they are challenged, as happens often when they confide this freakish behavior to me, | peint out that they are violating the rules — there’s a ‘‘best after’’ date on all these columns. Most of them immediately counter that they do it for their parents — Mum’s had a funny look on her face for some time now, they think she might be get- ting it here. And Dad, he’s a nice old chap, but he hasn’t kept up with life. They’re looking to help these poor old things, is what they say. But the other day one of them came right out with it. ‘‘We all read it,’’ he said, ‘‘all my friends read it. We think it’s like a good Get Your Honda In Shape For The Summer When your Honda needs a little render loving care, don’t trust your pride and joy with anything less than genuine Honda Parts & Service. © Factory trained technicians. © We fix it right the first time. ® Dollar for dollar you won’t get better value anywhere. © Open 6 days a week. Insist On Genuine Pants & Service 725 MARINE DRIVE _ NORTH VANCOUVER 9840331 S, PITCH-IN CANADA! LIFESTYLES ‘Other’ side expressing unexpected interest travelogue —- telly you the places to avoid en route, the things you absolutely must make @ detour to see, the kind of equipment best suited to the terrain, all that sart of thing is very valuable.”” He had tightly-packed arms and legs, this youth, all his hair, asd very likely his own teeth. He glistened with vitality. it was unexpected that he'd be researching the vintage years when he obviously hadn't yet had time to taste the whole roster of the many intoxicating nectars on life's long wine list. 1 have to confess I hung around longer than his outpouring justified, but how many times does an elderly lady get a chance at sipping muscles and sound wind? This wasn’t just the TV, you know, And then another nice thing happened. The telephone in- troduced the voice of a young woman admitting to less than 40, who yet confessed to a fascination with all of us on this page, and the ways in which we are dealing with the vicissitudes which con- tribute to the faltering of our convictions. Especially was she taken by the story of Charlie Kiff’s indomitable trudge through life, that has put Eleanor Godley ; THE VINTAGE YEARS him in sight of his hundredth year. Only a few more to go, he can see the peaks on the horizon already, and with any luck he'll make it, though broken in health. His mind's eye has never relin- quished the memories of his gardens, when he designed always to reflect the beauty of the English manor garden he knew as a boy, working for the family that owned it. And what she wanted to do, if I would tell her just how to find him, was to take him a bouquet of roses from her own cherished garden. ‘“‘He'll know the = dif- ference.” was what she said, “he'll know they are garden roses and not from the store."* Turns out she’s a rose fancier, instructed through the years by an interested older relative. She cultivates many varieties and despite the rotten spring and worse summer she has at the mo- ment a wealth of bloom. She used a most felicitous phrase — she said she had ‘‘a flush of roses.”’ So her plan was to pick one of everything, and carry the bouquet to his room so that he could lux- uriate in color and scent and her fresh youthful presence and recall the gardens he made and loved. All very flattering to us and our stodgy pursuits, this unexpected interest, but it lays a heavy trip on us, do you see? The crux is to discover what they think we’ve got going that’s worth emulating. We could offer a dandy set of tules, when you think of it. Stop smoking right now. Look after your feet. Don’t waste a minute of time that’s left you. Set a good example of wisdom and judicious affection and intellectual curiosity. Forge strong drink and switch your diet to roots and twigs and berries. Be hanest, especially emo- dionally. Albot which would reveal us as bare-faced and newly-whited sep- ulchers. We have eaten and drunken almost: everything. and we show it, alas. Even though we grew up within a network of prohibitions undreamed-of in these permissive times, yet look how we turned out! Fragile from the deliberate abuse we put upon our bodies, flabby-minded because we couldn't wait to do, rather than think. Victims of the same sloth and sloppy impulse we deplore in the young. We don’t have to come right out and tell them that, thank goodness, because they already know. How can they possibly still find us interesting? Our response can only be that we continue to show them the grit and the elegance and the soft under-beliy of life all together. That for as long as we have, we try to get the very most out of it. All our stuff is out of fashion, but what we have is style. Be old, OK, but be classy. We'll teach ‘em. ~ Look what's coming on September 2. will be substantially improved his Fall. we'll be setting off from Lonsdale Quay earlier than ever each morning. And well be introducing wheelchair accessible buses on three North Shore routes. Weill also be improving SkyTrain service. and reinstating our regular Fall service to UBC. Here’s what to catch this Fall: SEABUS SERVICE Earlier first sailing from Lonsdale Quay to Waterfront Station: 6:03 a.m. Monday through Saturday, 8:03 a.m. Sundays and holidays. #228 LYNN VALLEY/ LONSDALE QUAY & #229 WESTLYNN/ hi LONSDALE QUAY (8 PARK ROYAL These routes will provide earlier connections in order to meet the earlier SeaBus #239 LONSDALE QUAY/ sailings. Wheelchair accessible service will commence this Fall on the #239 and the #229. (Check your timetable for schedule details.) f b #230 UPPER LONSDALE/ $3 L ONSDALE QUAY Wheelchair accessible service will commence this Fall. (Check your timetable for schedule details.) #236 LONSDALE QUAY/ GROUSE MOUNTAIN Service to the W.E. Lucas Centre will be reinstated for the Fall. Seasonal service to Grouse Mountain will be reduced to every hour through Thanksgiving Day. ibe WEST VANCOUVER/ #286 NORTH VANCOUVER/ UBC With the start of Fall classes, peak period express service to UBC will be reinstated. A DOZEN MORE SKYTRAINS. We're adding 12 new vehicles to SkyTrain, so capacity There are |, SO many \ good reasons to GoTransit or Carpool. GoG reen poliution, traffic congestion, the cost of building and maintaining roads, the expense of parking downtown. Check to see how the new Fali schedule can help you make more trips on transit. Transit timetables are available free at your local library or municipal hall. Transit Information 261-5100. Old FareSaver tick be used with acash upgrade at time of travel until September 30. Unused tickets may be returned to BC ‘Transit for a refund after October 1. Cash Cash Upgrade Uperade One Zone 0c - Three Zone -25¢ Two Zone 25¢ Concession Se BC T-ansit 39 sere"