6 = Wednesday, August 21, 1985 - North Shore News Editorial Page Who to blame? wo teenage boys decide to check out the Advanced Light Rapid.Transit system close-up. A young boy decides to play in front of a.caged animal at a zoo. A pleasure boater is below deck despite being in the mid- dle of a busy traffi ic lane. |... Three separate occurances. .All end in ' tragedy. The ALRT. expedition: ends in the ~ death of one youth. The boy in front of the ‘a wife} a son and another son is missing and - presumed drowned. :. Kach instance. can be put down to one ‘ cause: an accident. « But the.media, the public and in some > ‘eases, those involved in the accidents are try- : ‘ing desperately tc. attach blame elsewhere. -. But» oftentimes - the blame belongs with : ourselves. °~ It’s: much ‘easier for all involved to blame . the big faceless corporation; the government is always an easy target, so is the anonymous ’“they’a malicious ‘group, always unknown ~ an ; unseen ‘who are out to harm the little : We can: "identify ‘and sympathize with the AL individuals. — that. family or child could be zy “but who “has” any knowledge or sanding ‘of the’ intricacies of B.C. Fer- t-be appropriate f for. Premier Bill Bennett: ‘to announce: a new home ‘ Display Advertieing ” 960-0511 ‘Classified Advertising 986. 6222 north shore ews. ’. Newsroom.” 985-2131 Peeneeenosy stay. » .Cireulstion 986-1337 Subscriptions 985-2131 4139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 Publisher Peter Speck — General Manager Roger McAfee Operations Manager Berni Hilliard Marketing Director Advertising Director - Sales Bob Graham Linda Stewart Circulation Director. Advertising Director - Admin. 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The pleasure boater loses - or the they’ behind the - ‘omorrow’s looking glass — . SOME DAYS, to read the newspaper is to wonder whether you've stepped through the looking glass ‘and found: yourself, like Alice, in a world of con- '- fusion and unreality. ITEM: Some school : ‘board workers in Toronto say they were offered too “much in ‘contract talks. The five ‘workers. want. less than the 4% per cent raise the board proposed. A 55-cent- an-hour’ increase is suffi- cient, they say, rather than “the 76: cents offered, _ Curious: "TEM: In- a national ref- “” erendum in Switzerland, that industrious nation’s citizens reject'a proposal for an extra week's vacation: for workers . older than 40. Voters in 14 of the country’s 24 cantons (states) oppose the idea which would have increased the mandatory annual vaca- tion to five weeks from four for those employees. ‘Make DONNA HENNYEY, the noted consulting dietician-nutritionist, was chatting recently to us about the benefits of water. “Et know a girl who drank so much water, her mother used to tell her she’d float away, ** she said. “But as she grew older, she drank it less and less, often: substituting other drinks. “Tronically, two of them — alcohol and coffee — have a diuretic effect, forc- ing the kidneys to excrete more water from the body. “She's now reacquainted By TONY CARLSO Curiouser. ITEM. Alberta’s union- ized electricians agree to a three-year basic wage freeze in a pact which includes a clause allowing’ the basic wage to be cut on certain’ jobs. The contract also pro- vides for Tenegotiations: if the province "§ economy im- proves’ and that, if a deadlock arises on a new wage rate, the. union will forfeit its right to strike and agree to binding arbitration. ‘. Curiouser and curiouser. . There’s an ever-growing trickle of stories such as these cropping up in the press in recent: months, bits. of evidence that suggest the with water and I recommend that people start drinking more of it more often, _ especially if they exercise."’ Hennyey, a former Canadian Olympic fencer, suggests you pre-load with a glass ef water before work- ing out and drink a little more every fifteen or twenty minutes as you go. That way, you'll replace the water you’re sweating away and stay cooler. You'll also reduce the risk of dehydration which can leave you seriously fatigued. ‘*You need about ten cups world is changing. On their way out, it would seem, are the days when jobs were plentiful enough so that workers could push for every cent and every day off they could get. Slowly, the realization is dawning. that’ compromise and flexibility are the keys to a new world which is emerg- ing. This new feeling of living within the realities of the day is reflected in other statistics, _ especially one which shows that Canadian workers settl- ed for average wage in- creases of 3.6 per cent last year, almost 20 per cent below the annual inflation rate of 4.4 per cent. That’s also well below the 1983 average of 4.7 per cent and marks the third straight’ year the average has declin- ed. There is much to be said for the reasonableness of the mine water, of water a day,’’ Hen- nyey advises. ‘‘The body itself makes about two cups, the food you eat contains another two, which means you should be drinking about six 8-ounce cups of water a day. “A good rule of thumb would be to drink one cup of water for every 200 calories you eat. But don’t wait till you’re thirsty to pour yourself a glass. Thirst can be delayed mechanism, not a very reli- able guide to your body's requirements."” NOEL WRIGHT cn vacation people who. are accepting these raises. We will. be ‘reading ‘more stories like this in the coming days, weeks and months. as we move more fully’ into a time. ‘when ‘our “ability to adapt in.the. workplace, and do it quickly;. will become an essential tool | of-. whatever irade we practise. ° G But while: ‘Alice: found Strange and at times danger- ous creatures ‘in her trip to Wonderland, we ‘need not fear the coming change. For every turbulent period of rapid change’ in “man’s history, from the Agricultural Revolution. on down, has produced more opportunities, created more jobs, than it has “made ob- -solete. Some people just adjust to the direction’ in which the wind is blowing more quick- ly. a : lease!’ All of us are 70% water. Losing only 20% of that total can be fatal. Besides, water flushes wastes and toxic substances out of the body. Some doc- tors believe’ water will help treat sore throats, colds. and flu. All agree you must drink lots of water to replace fluid loss if you suffer a bout of diarrhea, © “And,” adds Hen- nyey, who numbers a major food company among her clients, ‘‘all the fibre in ‘he world won't benefit you much unless you drink a lot of water!"* Cheers! Russ Kisby is President of PARTICIPaction, the Ca- nadian movement for per- sonal fitness.