Spooky — the only word

INSIGHTS

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for Doug ‘s magic rocks!

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RAINING- ON-THE; PARADE DEPT.: A West Van min-
ing geologist friend, a-rock expert, swears it’s all.a fake, a
~ Shameless hoax with’ no scientific basis. But one can *t stop

4 wondering just a little.

We! te talking about Doug
Pederson’s Indian medicine rocks
(featured Jan. 29 ih this column).
The North Van computer pro-
gtammer and self-taught shaman,
who claims his rocks have magical
weuather-changing propertics, gets
mad when they are net shown in

' “major public exhibits of nalive ar-
tifacts. The first time was Expo,
which had rejected the rocks and

* wis plagued near the, start by a}
-solid month of rain. Expo finally

“+ relented. The rocks went on 2
_ display. ;The rain suddenly stopped ;

“and the! sun shone on the fair for ‘

its remaining four. months. .
{But Calgary's Glenbow Museum
held tough on its refusal to display

Doug’s stones during the Winter
Olympics. Doug vowed revenge by
doing a snow-niclting “Chinook
Dance" with the sacred rocks —
and the rest, as they say, is history.
Chinook winds wrecked the first’
10 days of the Olympics, which
had to shell out some $800,000 in.
ticket refunds.

Spooky, to say the least. A little
TOO spooky for me to risk a
publishing my geologist friend's
nanic. I'd hate his summer vaca-
tion to be ruined! f.

FINDING PAVING ST ONES
seems to have posed a real problem .
for,some long- -ago North Van
homeowner inthe 500, block i East

‘12th. The current occupant of the

property, Ted Mozvison, was
recently moving a number of ce- .

/ ment slabs embedded for over 20

years in his front yard when he
‘flipped one over to discover an
carth-encrusted marble plaque on

« the reverse side.

Careful cleaning revealed the :

; ‘engraved messuge which read: "IN
“MEMORY OF THE,MEN WHO .. -

GAVE THEIR LVES AT SEA * |

AND IN - THANKFULNESS FOR .
v THOSE WHO CAME HOME,
1914-1918 1939-194$"'. Nobody, it
"seems, has a clue where it original-

ly came from more than two de- >:

“ eades ago.

Ted donated the slab to North
Van Legion Branch 118, to be
relaid — this time right way up

and with proper reverence — on

the Legion's front lawn by Peter

Wallace and Doug Dowling.

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HITHER AND YON: cola to

Hillside students’ Ardavan Taher-
zadeh, Jessica Gibbs anid Cathy
Rigg, whose oratorical Skills
brought them four trophies at the
recent B.C. junior debating cham-
: pionships i in Kamjoops. Ardavan
and Jessica (Gra, ¢ 10) placed first
“and second respiectively,in the in-
dividual junioy clas and the pair
of them cam¢ first’in the junior © +
team event, Avhile Cathy took the |
top award jn the Grade 8 contest.
Future politicans, as likely as not! ,
. North/Van Legion (Branch 118)
notables will bite the whipped .

| cream tomorrow, Saturday, even-

ing in.aid of their fund-raising
drive for Conquer Cancer Week.
President Tom Donnelly and his
intrepid execy are offering
themselves as targets in a pie-

throwing contest at $5 a plate — -
‘make that $5 a throw . Calling
any alumni of Bigtown' 's McPher-
son Park Junior Secondary and
David Livingstone Elementary
who've emigrated to the North
Shore since their schooldays.
McPherson in Burnaby — closing
its doors this June after 37 years of
service — holds its farewell cele-
bration next Thursday through
Saturday (April 21/23), starting at
5 p.m. Thursday — call 433-0538
for details, T hre¢ weeks later
David Livingstone holds a week-
long party (May 16-21) marking its
751th bisthday — program info

numbers are 874-3392 or 7 435- 6991

. And it’s good news, still, from
Alberta University Hospital's out- .
patients residence in Edmonton,
where Ambleside Inn host Willi
Brueckel continues to convalesce
well ~- with lots of exercise —
after his Feb. 28 heart transplant. ;
He's looking forward to being
home by June.

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WRIGHT OR WRONG: Few
things are more delicate than the

line drawn between friendly
frankness and unfriendly rudeness.
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NEWS photo Tom Burley

CS?.. -Hitside * debating ‘champs: hr) Jessica Gibbs. Ardavan Tahertadeh and Cathy

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