22 — Sunday, October 29, 1995 ~ North Shore News

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IT WAS the kind of party I
didn’t think anyone could
have any more, we've ail got
so sophisticated, |
. But here we and they are,
milling around on the concrete
apron outside the Highway Tire
Store, and the big pot's plugged in
for. the wiener water, the other huge
- pot full of chili,
.’ buns on the
- warmer. And
over there are
the soft drinks
on ice, and milk, .
and people all
over the place,
some of them
with their bicy-
cles, and a bunch “
of the local kids
up against the
far wall, helping,
with their saxo- |”
phones and.
drums and trum- ;
pets, to make ‘a
heck of a row.
‘It’s for an anniversary, you see,
four years in that place doing busi-
ness with the travelling public and
the haulers and loaders; time for
.. Emie and his son Jim and their
helpful.wives to say “thank you” in
the plainest and most straightfor-
ward way possible.
So the party was right there at

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is still a nice rural
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the shop, tires looked after in the
back, gasoline in the front, and
accessories in between. We all were
milling around, looking for familiar
faces, the place was rampant with
kisses and hugs, everyone feeling
lucky just to be there — it was a
lovely day in Duncan — and a lot
of us had come quite a long way to
say “good for you", “keep it up".

All kinds of rigs showed up,
some came by accident and stayed,
many came on purpose because
these are good people. Some of the
locals arranged to add to the plea-
sure and entertainment of anticipat-
ed visitors by organizing a show of
vintage automobiles, a very suit-
able addition to the wide open
space between the shop and the
highway. There was amongst them
a shiny red roadster with a rumble
seat, oooh, That was my favorite,
and there were also some lovingly

tended big old road kings that sure
took you back,

An unanticipated but warmly
welcomed
addition to the
company was a
group of |
cyclists. Not
your average
covey of bikers
by any means.
These chaps
belong toa
competitive
bunch of
mobile seniors

“one of them
in his nineties,
honest! — who
go for pedaling
practise of a

hundred kilometres on a regular
basis, Great legs they all had. A bit
ropey, maybe, but heck!
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ber this too, you could have that
kind of party in a lot of places.
When we were kids, and someone
brought a real band from some
place, and the whole town would
show up, that kind of thing, Even
as late as when we first came to the
North Shore, for instance, in 1948,
to the sparsely occupied Highlands,
the local real estate outfit and the
Homeowners group arranged stuff
like that. None of us were rich, and
professional entertainment scarce.
They still might be able to do it
in, say, Deep Cove. [ don't know,
though, probably not, the Cove's
been getting a lot of attention lately

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from city folk wanting to escape.
They're probably past that kind of
hometown stuff. -

And lots of people never had it,
of course, Any little town in the
Fraser Valley used to be that has-
pitable, simple and open to each
other, but [ think it’s unlikely you
could pull it off many places now.
Even in the Interior. Seen Kelowna

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lately? Kamloops?

But our little journey-to
Vancouver Island showed us ther
is still, despite the massing of old
age retirement homes and facilities
in the Parksville area and there
abouts, still a nice rural feeling o
the Island, a lot of just quiet coun

See Feeling page:2

- Senator Perrault
together with
Mayor Loucks, City of North Vancouver:

‘Conon cf ihe Cannas
Victoria Park East on
Friday, November 3rd, 1995.

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