4 - Wednesday, dune 19, 1985 - North Shore News Hyperactive insomnia 2s exactly the way it did the T DGESN'T happen very often, but when it does, it usually arrive other night. One instant Min zipping comfortably along through a Grade Bo dream, then, wham, Mim wide awake in tay bed and my mind is spinning like a silent alarm that won't turn off, Maybe it's a hyperactive form of insomnia, But more likely my nervous system has simply decided it's time to drop a load of angst. Get it out in the open, where it can ferment into active ansiety, I call it ‘‘probleming.”” A Czech friend of mine in- vented the word. Once you get into a full-blown pro- bleming mode, you can spin your psychic wheels for hours on end, sometimes days. (Would you believe a whole lifetime?) It wouldn’t be so bad, | guess, if the probleming oc- curred over cosmic issues. But to tell the truth, | hardly ever wake in the middle of the night probleming about the missile imbalance be- tween the superpowers. No, it’s whether my se- cond cousin Larry is mad because | didn’t send a card to his kid*s birthday. It’s about why the heck do we have to go to Sam & Petunia’s barbecue, especial- ly since Dick & Jane might show up? Also what am I going to do about that hole in the plywood under the mat on the carport deck? In my fully-realized mid- dle-of-the-night probleming state, [ am capable of amaz- EMPIRE FITNESS strictly personal Bob Hunter P| ing feats of pickiness. | re- examine imagined — slights that occurred 15 years ago. | come up with dozens of solutions to trifling problems that stopped me cold in my youth, thereby altering my destiny for the worse. | fret about how there’s never time to trim the knots of hair on the St. Bernard. re-experience mundane frustrations that came and went ages azo, managing to get into a tharld all over again. Tharid. word a another invented. That's friend CENTRE is TH LOCATING TO THE NOR SHORE WINTER CLUB. ” OPENING SOON EA * 8500 SQ.FT. 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Grand themes no doubt play, like deep percussion instruments, in the background of these little anxiety sessions, But they only trigger my semi-panic buttons if they touch direct- ly, like interest rates, on my equity position. (Ho, ho.) Or if I suspect, and | always suspect, that one or all of the governments are after me. A really good 3 a.m. anx- iecty rush invariably includes sparkling elements of pura- noi. Do the children really love me or are they just us- ing me for their own pur- poses? Did the dow. the Hite See Steep Page 11 Ronald J. Schmidt} Barrister Personal Injury Divorce & Family. Law Free Initial consultatio & fee estimate 925-1156 Goluboff Mazzei & Schmidt 4201-585 16th St. West Vancouver ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS {8{ablished a ‘reputation for being por Ss most popular fitness” . how more: ‘than 200 mempbers.. -the:B.t you’ ‘purchase’ ‘a regular, o Aerabics:;Gym membership. Metcalfe’s North Shore People When the human dynamo goes into action, he goes big. West Van's Expo Man, Jimmy Pattison recently held his three-day annual conference at Penticton’s Lakeside Ian for his 110-member management team. Friday night in the:hotel ballroom, B he announced that he has a special ‘thank you' for them for doing more than a billion dollars in sales in his various companies. With that. the 16-piece B orchestra struck up “Thanks for the Memory” and in waltzed Bob Hope. The inimitable Hope, who leamed everything he knows from former Hotel Van manager and Park Royal Towers’ resident, Art Cameron, did 90 minutes of hilarious one-liners to, as he stated dryly. “my smallyst audience in sixty years in a place called Penticton, Pen-tic-ton, the speed bump of Canada. But when Jimmy calls, you core. You all know Jrumy Pattison, of course, Lee Iacocca with i frostbite... Marilyn Heston, wife of writerdirector Fraser and daughter in ww of actor, Charlton Heston, called from L.A. to tell me that she’s now managing local singer, Andy Thoma, who has just recorded a new album there The news is that Andy will be in town this week to tape a new CBC-TV musical series’ pilot called ‘Groovin’ with Bruce Murray and CBC variety veteran Ken Gibson. {e's also been signed by m producer. dack Card, for the male lead in Card's y weekend news... razzle-dazele vue, Scandals '85', that’s slated to tour Europe for six months. They open in Madrid duly 4... spotted glamorous BCTV newscaster, Pamela Martin. rushing through an Ambleside supermarket last week. Seems she's taken some time B ooff of her daily grind at the television station for things maternal. She and husband. Jack Sykes, have recently welcomed their first baby and chosen son, Maxwell James, and Pamela wants to have some time to relax and enjoy him. Shell continue to do the Rumor around town is that not only will top’ balladeer, Julio Iglesias, work with West , Van's music producer, David Foster, at Little I Mountain Sound next month, there's a very good chance that former Beatle, Paul McCartney will do # the same in August... After a five year courtship, : Saturday was the Big Day for top talent promoter, . Bruce Allen, and his bride, Jane McDougall. The happy couple were wed at dane's mother’s waterfront home in West Van attended by sister. Nancy McDougall, and Bruce’ brother, Grant. The radiant bride wore white paper silk. carried Queen Elizabeth ‘roses from the garden and sported her gorgeous four i carat cornflower blue sapphire engagement ring. Then it F was off to the Napa Valley and the eastern seaboard for a long lazy honeymoon... Happy grandfatherhood to P popular pianoman, Pat Trudell . who played for years at Frank Baker's old attic. Daughter Susan, with a little help from spouse, Barr Turner, gave birth a few weeks back to little Brittany Lee at Lions Gate Hospital. Throughout the delivery, the nurses played Susan's just-released cassette, Rocking Horse Dreams, {ci wer and the other mamas-to-be in the labour room. The item is, that it was so successful in reducing stress and tension, that they plan to use it all the time... Still with The Stork Report, not only has West Van MLA John Reynolds become a new daddy — wife Yvonne gave birth to Christopher Sean in Victoria last week — hell also become a new father-in-law. Son : Paul will wed 21-year-old Nicole Ryan of North Van in an afternoon wedding July 20 at Holy Trinity Church. Their engagement was officially announced at a gala party at the home of the bride-to-be... Cheers... Need the latest on the North Shore Real Estate Market? Call your Community Specialists... Sussex Realty 984-9711