Destiny was waiting

The other night, I had Peter Trower, the
logging poet, over for dinner, along with his very
special girlfriend, the great love of his life.

I don’t know if you've read
any of Peter's stuff or- not,

was ten years old. It was the
“Dunkirk-shocked June” of

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1940. His father was already
dead and his mother wanted
out before the Blitz.

Abruptly, Peter found
himself, a prep-school Limey
kid, thrust into Port Mellon,
B.C., immediately having to’
fight the local boys because
of his accent. For the first
time, he saw the “harped
forgotten forests”. where
“slugs move like severed
yellow fingers,” as he has
written.

He fell in love, in a
metaphysical way, with the
coast. He also fell in love,
during one of those first
summers in Port Mellon,
with a sweet saucy
darkhaired girl who came up
to him and said:-“Hi there,
big boy.” Overwhelmed by
her sophistication, he made
a stumbling, _ Blushing.

Peter survived the brutal
grind of isolated logging
camps, drifting in and out of
workingman’s 1950s
Granville Street scenes,
managing, despite fogs that
enveloped bunkhouses and
hung over damp beer tables,
to write 1,000 words a day
into his journals.

Out of this record’ of
smalltime bar hustler jive
and whistle punk jargon
came a kind of bebop logger
blues, which dwelled on the
mystery “of tough towns;-
mean streets, camps, docks,
pubs, and the pull of beauty
— natural or human.”

Through the years, as he
laboured and wrote poems,
he dreamed of “a wild girl to
walk the weathers with,” and
he remembered that swect
saucy girl in Port Mellon.

Well, to make a c ic
story short, Peter and that

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distant young girl met again,
and although she was no
longer young, she was still
sweet, no longer quite so
saucy, but wise. They fell for
each other like two tons of
brick.

On the 35th anniversary of
the year they'd met, they
took a trip together back to
Port Mellon, a classical
sentimental journey.

But when they got there...
The fumes from the

Park Royal
flags stolen

' Somebody around the
North Shore loves Canadian
flags — or hates them.

‘That’s the only conclusion
to be drawn from the theft
early Monday of 26 full-size
mapleleaf flags from Park
Royal shopping centre.

A spokesman for Park
Royal said the flags, each
seven and a half feet wide,
were put up last Wednesday
in honor of Canada Week.
They were flown. from
special masts erected along
the top parking decks of the
north and south malls.

Shortly after 3 a.m.
Monday a security patrol
discovered that the flags had
all disappeared. they had
been in place at the previous
check about an hour carlier.

“The thieves must have
worked quickly,” said the
spokesman. “Duc to the
height of the flags on the
masts it would have taken at

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lumber mill were pouring
over the ravaged forests Hike”

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were

of nature’s personal
vastness. It was one of those
moments when one aches to
have the veil torn away, to
have the truth about life
revealed to you.

Holding -. hands, _ they -

walked to the shore. There,
at anchor, lay a rusty old
tugboat. A gust of wind
turned it so that its name
came into view. It was
called: DESTINY. |

For the poet, it was too
much. “Like, if I put a scene
like that into something |

wrote, nobody would believe _

me” said Peter.
“I mean, that said it all.
Destiny, man.”

least two people, helping
each other up, to reach the
cords and snip them.”

Value of the 26 flags is out
at $725. West Vancouver
police are investigating.

A West Vancouver police
spokesman said that a
security company had been
hired to guard the flags.

But he said that at one
pomt the guard “disap-
peared” for half an hour and
the flags were stolen during
that time. ;

Despite the theft, Park
Royal did not have to suffer
a flagiess Canada Day as all
of the flags were replaced by
Tuesday morning .by the mall.

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