14 - Wednesday, December 29, 1982 - North Shore News Me living cer Wacky moments brighten depressing year MOST Canadians may remember 1582 as one of the most depressing in decades. But the year had its wackier moments, too. In March, Yogi A.S. Narayana predicted in the Western Canada Concept Party would win two seats in the Alberta election and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau would retire by the year’s end. Narayana said Brian Mulroney would become Conservative prime minister, Jean Chretien would lead the Liberal opposition, Margaret Trudeau would become a TV evangelist andthe Canadian dollar would hit 72 cents U.S. Narayana also claimed the greatest accuracy among well-known psychics. He had a perfect record: wrong on all counts. Saskatchewan farmer Robert Kieling left an Ontario health center a changed. man after about nine months of psychiatric Makin By LOIS LIGHT — Writers must constantly beware of cliches, so I can't be trite and say, how the year has flown, but if I could, 1 would because, it has. No matter how good it’s been for you, I hope it'll be better in 1983. A good way to start the new year would be to learn a new way of ntaking yourself some money — and to this end, you are invited to at- tend lecture evening entitled Bed and Breakfast assessment. Kieling said he's given up his six-year, one- sided obsession’ for singer Anne Murray. It was a relief to Toronto courts, which had finally barred him from seeing the singer after seven arrests for pestering her join him on his Swift Current farm. Hartford Love is hoping for a more revealing 1983. Love, a _ professional wrestler, tried without success for months jto stage the Miss Nude Newfoun- dland contest. A Gander hotel canceled the Sept. 17 pageant because of church protests. The- hotel evenhandedly also canceled the church’s weekly bingo sessions. Love rescheduled the pageant for mid-November in a bar at Benton, but the liquor board stopped it. Love said he has 10 con- testants signed up and will try again in 1983 - in secret. Nelson Skalbania, the high flying real estate and pro sports baron who wooed several top National Football League players to to make — a new way money. You'll hear about the most efficient way to organize things if the idea appeals to you, and to many it will be appealing, as it’s a great way to meet new people, and to utilize that spare space in your home. Things like how to advertise, what about insurance, and what's the best way to start it all, will be discussed on Wednesday, January 26, at Sutherland, at 7:30. Fee will be 10.00 — and it can be the beginning of something really new and THE ATTIC AT FRANK BAKER'S LIVE BAND 6 NIGHTS A WEEK New Year's Eve 8-10 Smorgasbord Buffet 10-3 Dancing Tickets only in advance Marine at Taylor Way ‘West Van 922-3224 his Montreal Alouettes with big bucks, came down to earth with a thump. The socialite who made his fortune buying and selling properties, often within days or hours, held a “Pearl Harbor Party” for Van- couver's high rollers Dec. 9 where he made a tearful public pitch to save his second marriage and an- nounced he was facing bankruptcy over $39.1 million in debts. Calgary Mayor Ralph Klein said in January that easterners were behind his city’s increased crime in his city. In the ensuing furor, Klein blamed journalists for “the saddest and most vicious misrepresentation of a statement”. Klein had said: “Either we build more hostels for poor, misguided people who left their parents in Sept. Hes, Sault Ste. Marie and Don Mills or we Say to the police, let’s take action.” The entire police force of the small town of Strathroy, Ontario, was charged in January with criminad of- exciting for you. New Year's Resolutions have probably gone the way of the garter and button hook but if you do give a thought to what you'd like fenses ranging from grand theft to assault. But while the courts handled their cases, they stayed on the job because of “the necessity of proper policing”. A Vancouver” court, working under the city’s tough law to stop prostitution, ruled street- walkers should be kept off the streets, but parking lots weren't de facto streets. Police warned the city’s parking lots would turn into transient stops for mobile brothels. An Ontario court agreed to a Sault Ste. Marie man's. request his wife of 20 years be barred from his dén. The man an unpublished author, said his estranged wife would barge in to clean the den or talk to him while he tried to work. A judge agreed a man’s den should be his castle. And in Mattawa, Ontario, 12-year-old Chantal Michaud was walking to church in May when she saw a little boy drowning in the river. She hauled him to a bank and, using a at night schoo the 1983 to include for your pleasure, have a look through the new brochure which this very moment might be winging its way to your letter box, and decide resuscitation technique she picked up from an episode of the TV show “Three's Company’’, got him breathing again. Was she nervous? “Not once I started,”” said Chantal. “Somebody had to do something.” , A 60-year-old prospector with one arm was rescued after 22 days lost in the British Columbia wild near Fort St. logging truck operator spotted the man’s dog Bleue. , Gerald Boudreault Jost 28 pounds after a search for him had been abandoned by the RCMP and rescue of- ficials. “I only suffered for ° the last 18 days,” said Boudreault after the August rescue. Office worker Mark Paul had a closer than com- fortable encounter with a flying object in July. Paul, 33, was in the kitchen when an 180-kilogram airplane tire fell from an overhead cargo aircraft, crashed through the roof of his top floor Win- nipeg apartment and missed him by two yards. on something that sounds as if it was formed just for you. HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE AND SIN- CERE GOOD WISHES FOR 1983. QJIVIR HOBBYMATIC 807 REGULAR PRICE °799 Complete with carrying case CAPILANO SEWING CENTER Capilano Mall, North Vancouver 980-7915 Ot ET HEE eel Ae wc nae Bo ad an rede oy James when a_ “I réalized right away what happened. Something fell through the roof,” said Paul. It wasn’t just an ordinary Toronto robbery. The Ontario Science Center was burglared of 50 two-day-old silkworms from a China exhibit in July. “We don't think it was an inside job,” said biologist Lorraine Dumoulin. She ruled out escape by the baby silk- worms. “The petri dish was covered.” The 2-millimeter long worms had no monetary value. At luncheon aboard the Lake Winnipeg steamer, the MS Lord Selkirk, the ner- vous chef sampled too much cooking sherry and burned the Winnipeg goldeye. As Inter came to Manitoba, Paul Wukitzewitz said he was thinking of moving, after 44 years of living in a hole under a haystack. Wukitzewitz is 82 now and “I'm getting too old to be here alone.” TEACHING exo Bese MICHAEL A. WALSH B.Sc., (Dunelm.) St. Michaels University School's 1982-83 Senior Rugby team, coached by Mr. M.A. Walsh, recently won the B.C. Independent Schools’ Rugby Championship — the fourth time in five’ years that SMU under his coaching has won the Independent Schools’ Cup. Mr. Walsh played rugby for St- John’s School, Leather- head, England, for Durham University and County, and for the London Scottish. He was a reserve for Scotland's national team. A fine classroom teacher, with fifteen years experience, Mr. Walsh 15 also @ resident boording master and fn assistant coach of SMU's young but unusually promis- ing Grade 6 rugby team. He holds an Honours degree from Durham University. For information contact John Schaffter, M.A, (Cantab) St. Michaels University School 3400 Richmond Road VICTORIA, B.C. ~ V8P 4P5 » 592-2411 Phorm Kd hermingham