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HAVE you got a
scrap-book?

I have one, or I should
say the beginnings of one.
Had it for years, but there
have been no entries for, oh
gosh, ages and ages. I'd have
been in my carly thirties
when I started it, we're talk-
ing more than 40 years ago,
now, and I started it origi-
nally to preserve all the out-
standing Cinristmas cards.

Then birthday cards got
into it, the special ones, fora
long time, mixed in with the
little pictures my daughter
drew with her crayons. She's
having a showing of her cur-

rent work the weekend that
Tam writing this, and nota

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crayoned job in che lot.
Some other stuff gradual-
ly made its way into the
book too — a column of
Erie Whitehead’s, for one.
It’s about a Stanley Cup
game in Montreal and about
the extraordinary lifestyle of
the opposing team’s coach.
He was what the hoods
would call an Senforcer"in
the off-season, There is no
date on the story, but the
car ad on the reverse advises
the shopper that the Hillman
Deluxe as shown cant be had
for $1,995, white walled tires
extra, Which indicates it was
some few years ago, eh?
There are several of Eric
Nicol’s columns, too, and
also of Mamie Maloney’s.
Another brown and crum-
bling page from the business
section in some Vancouver
paper shows a picture of my
new husband, just elevated
to a new job responsibility,
and over in a corner of that
page isa list of wholesale
prices for poultry and eggs
~~Grade A large eggs at 30
cents the dozen; and mature
Ontario cheese listed at 34

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Of course, with the new
job and all, his monthly
stipend was now $150. We
weren't going to have to
worry any more about
enough money for eggs and
cheese. We were in clover
now,

There are some letters,
too, one of them from our
supplier in Japan on the
occasion of my initial visir in
1976, which we hoped would
serve to establish a steady
source of used tires for our
retreading plant here in
North Vancouver.

This letter of welcome
was waiting for me in the
hotel in Osaka, listing his
office telephone numbers
and outlining his plans for
the time 7 would spend in
his city. It was my introduc-
tion to Japanese courtesies
and the first of many such
journeys. We kicked a lot of
tires together, over the next
10 years.

hye to scraphook

All this ancient history, J
wonder sometimes if I
shouldn’t just chuck the
whole lot into the nearest
trash can. There doesn’t
seem much point to hanging
on to it. Any heirs will think
it only a lot of sentimental
garbage -~ too bad one
can’t just have a jolly big
bonfire and dance around it,
watching the years and the
follies go up in smoke
together.

But not yet, I say, not
yet. Pve not looked at all of

it, maybe there are things
that ought te be cherished
stil?

Maybe there’s a column
or two in it. PH hang on to
it for a bit.

If fF were honest with
myself of course, | I'd admit 1
just can’t give it the hard-
hearted heave-ho — it’s
pieces of me in that book,
it’s part of who I am and
how I got to this stage.

Lcan’t bear to scuttle it
yer Maybe next year, when

Pm old.

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COLUMNIST Eleanor Godley will been honored by the West
Coast Railway Association with the club’s Annual Media Award
at their festive dinner Tuesday, Now. 26th.

Eleaner’s articles about train travel over the years, and her

most recent articles about the association’s nine- -day tour of

B.C., resulted in the recognition. Eleanor and husband Harry
took the garly autumn tour on BC Rail which the Association
runs through the Interior to the “end of steel” at Fort Nelson.

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