= aia ses eet eS See THIS IS about a man who, in his jate fifties, became a statistic, one more skilled worker displaced by owners and operaters closing up shop. ; Eleanor fae the A851 vintage years - And it’s also about the man who insisted there was life after the job ' was stolen. Bob Scullion was one of those many men on the payroll at * Versatile Pacific Shipyards when it shut down. He'd been with them for 23. years. He'd got into the Jast half of his fifties, true, but he was hale _and hearty and needed to work. :. His friend Fred Thirkell, taking " the long view, suggested that his salvation lay in a complete change “ of- how he earned a living, pointing “out that he’d soon be too old for “What he’d always done, so look at ._, this change as an opportunity to * = join the new. world. Get a computer, . “man. Scullion did. When he- -enrolled in a course that would teach him the skills he needed to “get into desktop publishing he found himself with a bunch of - - “youngsters, in their twenties, if that, and was very hard on himself for sbeingafool: oF. ~~ But it came together, and so did ‘he, and Fred's acuity provided a * ee most interesting focus for this hard- won new talent. Since boyhood, Fred's had a bent towards postcards, ali kinds, commercial, social, reli- gious. He has a really enormous collection in his sunset years. He's been itching to do something with them, but his own life’s work, as an Anglican minister, left him fittle time to tackle what is a serious task. Here was a ready-made opportu- nity for the exercise of Bob’s new skills. If you see The Vancouver Sun’s Saturday Review section ona regular basis, you've surely noticed a feature at the top of the left hand page, close to the middle of the folio, before you get to the book- reviews. It’s been going on for some time now, and features an oid photograph which is accompanied by a block of text that informs . about time and place. Sometimes it’s a building. Or a parade. Or old ships at the docks. It’s always iltuminating. Those are Fred's postcards that you see, and it is Fred who writes the descriptive part. Every postcard that is published elicits calls from- readers, some of them with intimate knowledge of the photo scene, some with postcards of their own they want to share or have identi- fied. Both men are very generous. They've made up their own view- - ings for interested groups — Bob tuns the projector and Fred informs. Next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. you could enjoy one of these shows — “samplers” the men call them — at : the-Vancouver City Archives at 1150 Chestnut Street. You are invit- ed to bring any postcards of your own that you might like to have identified, or that you’d like others: to see, ; : _ Fred’s got the true collector’s knowledge of his passion. He can tell you how postcards came about occupied in our early communica- tion networks. Before newspapers - found out how to put photographs in their text in those long ago times, postcards did it for them. and it was astonishing to learn that at one time postcard makers did cards on the spot when out-of-the- ordinary events occurred. People used postcards as we now use the telephone. Remember? The mail used to come twice a day and you could send a card across town morning or afternoon. Thirkell is a native son, bom here in Vancouver, educated at King Edward and UBC. When he finished his theological training he looked after parishes in Nova Scotia as well as our own province. History excites him and he’s been of service as a director to both the Maritime Museum and the Vancouver Museum. He and Bob have been friends for many years, a rather unlikely team on the face of it, since Bob's ‘and what an important place they“. -B- big passion is lawn bowling. ; though he was hot in soccer in his younger days. Bob was bor in Glasgow and played soccer there, but he also learned to play and love lawn bowling as a teenager. It was a popular kid sport. . He deplores the current attitude towards it as an exercise for the old and spavined. His skill as a lawn- bowler got him into Canada’s National team for a number of years in the 1980s, right up to 1991. He’s bowled for us all over the world, in Australia and Fiji and Hong Kong and New Zealand, plus surrounding territories. : As you can see, they’re two dis- parate men, totally different in their. ° backgrounds and pursuits, but the postcard thing enriches both their lives. Just now they've produced their second postcard calendar, done for . them by The Sun, using their choic- est old photos. 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Bennett, Dave Barrett, Bill Bennett. and all our premiers before Open Letter to North Shore Socreds them stood firm and protected British Columbia's constitutional position. 8 Our Constitution has certainly not changed in this respect - perhaps the strength of our leaders has changed. : Yes, British Columbia must be at the negotiating table. The government . of this Province has an obligation to represent the best interests of all ‘British Columbians — protecting our Province’s interests, not giving them away. oo f What can you do to help? ; j..* I need to be elected in my home constituency ~ West Van-Capilano & * Come out and support my nomination — October 24, Tuesday evening. ~; 7:00 p.m., Canyon House Restaurant. 3950 Capilano Road “On Cctober 24th, learn about Land Claims and Cand Claims Solutions. ff : Many thinks, 7 ve Larry Gillanders You’ve seen her on. Oprah, don’t miss her North Shore appearance! 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