- Friday, July 12, 1985 - North Shore News

Really, things aren't that bad

newspapers, that the human race is a preity
weird species. Fanatics, perverts, monsters and

] t is easy enough to get the feeling, reading the at any rate especially after a

losers everywhere.

Yet, in the real, or at least
day-to-day world, almost
everybody ! meet is personal-
ly a fabulous success story.

I don’t mean, by any stretch
of the imagination that

everyone is wealthy, famous,
built like a Greek god or god-
dess, or even great hockey
players.

are facts of life, even in our
own charmed corner of the
world.

The wonder is that so many
people are as sane as they are.

Heaven knows we all have
perfectly legitimate reasons
for going bonkers. To people
from any age other than our
own, an average day in the

strictly
personal

by Bob Hunter

Simply, we take so much
for granted that we tend to
forget, most of us, that we live
lives a thousand-times blessed.
We could all be at a food bank
so easily. Just as easily, there
could be no food bank. The
water couild be poisoned, the
air unbreathable. It’s like that
in a lot of places, you know.

Surely, the wonder isn’t that
there are handfuls of mass
murderers lurking here and
there, or that X number of
marriages go down the tubes
every year, or that child abuse

and rape and unemployment

Saimon
studied

From Page 3
ing in the Gulf, ‘‘it was one
of those magical situations
where everything came
together.’’

As with the raising of any
animal in a confined space,
extreme precautions must be
taken to prevent an outbreak
of disease among the penned
coho, says Sewell. Though a
daily check of water salinity
and temperature coupled
with innoculations of the
penned fish with various
marine vaccinations are part
of such precautions, the

primary walls of preven- .

tative medicine are set in the
foundation of fish knowl-
edge earned through years of
involvement in the fish in-
dustry.

“I started working with
herring when I was five years
old,’’ says Sewell, ‘‘I
understand fish and know
what to look for as far as
diseases are concerned.”

Sewell says that the 30,000
coho will not add an incred-
ible amount to the overall
fish numbers in the Gulf,
‘‘but what really is exciting
for the locals here is that we
just might bring a run of fish
back to this area and in-
troduce coho to some of the
creeks around here.”’

According to Sewell, sport
fishing in the Gulf is of far
more importance to local.
economies than is commer-
cial fishing: ‘‘36 per cent of
tourism in this area is fishing
related. The potential of the
tourist industry is just phe-
nomenal. It’s time to make
some tough decisions, let’s
move the seine boats out of
the Gulf and work towards
rebuilding our tourist in-
dustry and sport fishery.”’

modern world would jook like
an Armageddon of some kind,
or at least an Apocalypse.

There are probably more lit-
tle wars going on now than
just about ever, the main dif-
ference being the quality and
quantity of the devices used
for shredding human tissue.
And it isn’t as if we can hide
our heads in the sand. The
media scream the news at us
all the time.

The ‘‘normal’’ stress levels
we have to cope with are
Outrageous. Against the
background of talk about
Nuclear Winter and/or the
Greenhouse Effect and/or a
massive Third World default,
there are all those little, nigg]-
ing problems that can add up
lo a nervous breakdown: the
national debt, Expo’s tender-
ing procedures, the Senate, the
state of the Lion’s Gate
Bridge.

Yet, amazingly, the vast
majority of people carry on as
though everything was hunky-
dory. Out here on the Coast,

go
yee

good solid week of sun, ‘‘quiet
desperation’? just doesn’t
seem like the right word to
describe life.

1 used to think that people
were apathetic because they
were too dumb to understand
what was going on. I am
beginning to suspect they are
apathetic because they are ac-
tually quite clever. They have
learned to deflect a lot of
background stress, the better
to concentrate on the essen-
tials: eating, sleeping, playing,
loving, working and searching
for the meaning of life. Right?

When you consider the big
historical picture, starting
yesterday and moving back to

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the first stirrings in the
biological soup at the dawn of
time, it is easy to see that
things have been getting
steadily better for the average
individual homo sapien. The
climb up from the swamp may
not have resulted in everyone
on the planet arriving at the
Golden Age of technology,
democracy and Medicare at
the same time, but for most
people, life is undeniably less
short and brutish.

Okay, given that things are
better now than ever, when
you also consider that of all
the places on Earth to live
(keeping in mind the lack of

well-organized governments)
the coast of British Columbia
has to score a ‘*10", eh? Well,
okay, a ‘9°’, then. No, we
won't go as low as 8! What do
you mean, “‘it rains a lot’’? So
what! Got something against
mist?

You live here? You're a suc-
cess, mate! Even if you’re not
particularly ‘successful’ here
(maybe you only own one con-
do), you are still highly suc-
cessful compared to the ‘‘suc-
cessful” guy with a chain of
condos in, say, Toronto,
because he has to five there,
after all. He might get out here
for a couple of weeks each

to your 365 days in paradise,
does it? ;
From an evolutionary point
of view, any creature who
wakes up on the sunny side of
a mountain, overlooking the
sea, and does not get arrested
or mutilated or eaten alive on
the way to work, who is pro-
tected by law from being
physically whipped at the of-
fice, whose big physical pro-
blem in life is controlling the
calorie count, and who comes
home at the end of the day to
a fridge, a TV set, hot water
and a cold beer, HAS to be a
success. Just has to be!
Congratulations all around.

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snakes, torture chambers or

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