Bellyachers of the world, Williams Lake awaits you WILLIAMS LAKE — Looking through the Williams Lake telephone directory, which is one of the best ways to meet people in any town, the eye cannot fail to be arrested by a private golf course which rejoices in the name Belle-E- Acres. So yeu drive out on the Chilcotia Highway, carrying the arrested eye with vou in your head and chere it spots it again printed chastely on a blue and white gov- ernment highway marker. BELI_E-E-ACRES GOLF, You find the proprietor under a truck, monkeywrenching. He comes out from under and in- troduces himself. Turns out he is Jim Mowery, a reformed school principal. He is hospitable, as befits a man who has made more money than most school principals, He is alse garrulous, as befits a fourth generation prairie stubble-jumping Irishman. We sit on the resort clubhouse veranda, looking at the customers whacking away at little white balls as if it were important. “Golf is a game (hat never in- terested me,"’ he observes. Some of us share this view of a game in which the poorest score wins. Then why is he here, running a private golf course in the jackpine lonely, accompanied only by wife, children, grandchildren and an English Otter Hound, a quiet old chap named Benjie? Paul St. Pierre PAULITICS & PERSPECTIVES whatever, but if you're a school teacher it’s different. “A neighbor and | got together and talked about it and we agreed there were three ways to make nioney. Entertainment, religion and drugs. | didn't want to get involved in celigion or alcohol so ! went for entertainment and now | just teach at school now and then, 44 Jim throws Krumbly Yummies or some other form of food at the fish and they boil to the surface and eat it just the way Jane Fonda or the president of Chrysler gobbie Breakfast Sawdust. 99 The reason is simple. So often the case, isn't it? When he mar- tied his French-speaking wife, Leslie d’ Amour (which if it must be translated for the barbarous unilinguals of British Columbia, means Leslie of Love), they agreed to one straightforward rule, easy to understand and easy to remember: No child of theirs would ever have to grow up ina city. They had three children and adopted one. He is now 53 and she 49. Some of the children have left for the great world outside, but Jim and Leslie kept the pact — no child grew up ina city. If they get addicted to cocaine, TV or religion, it will be something they pick up after leaving home. We walk to the Cariboo’s smallest fishing lake. It has the surface acreage of about six hot tubs. Jim throws Krumbly Yummies or some other form of food at the fish and they boil to the surface and eat it just the way Jane Fonda or the president of Chrysler gob- ble Breakfast Sawdust. They are good, deep rainbows. Jim invited people from the old folks home to come out and fish last year. At day’s end he learned that some had caught nothing. He is inviting them back this year to more rainbows, all of whom be keeps in happy ignorance of their destiny. The fish have nothing to do with the business. Thes are far fun. The business is golfing and selling coffee and candies te rolters. Being a schoo! teacher, taughy rothipk. dim thought about his before he started it. Most project efous coe chines wirk re thonurhe Without talking about net, [can tell you that I grossed in five months more than | earned teaching in five years."' So far we have not got around to the name of his establishment, but he is an [rishman and in love with the sound of a rounded vowel. Eventually he yodels about it. “This is a valley, right? Any- where you look from here is up. And we called it Belle Valley, Beautiful Valley in my wife's lan- guage. Also I’m a school teacher. School bell, right?" Wher told he’s so far given two different reasons he says ‘*Weli, look, it’s a bit of farm, and farm- ers bellyache all the time, and it’s a golf course and did you even find anyone who bellyached more than golfers?"’ At this point Benjie the otter hound, a mournful old potlicker, demanded that his psyche be ex- amined, cleansed and made whole again according to directions left us by the late Dr. S. Freud. While Jim Mowery was massaging Ben- jie’s ego seemed a good time to feave and look up another name in the phone directory. Directly under Belle-E-Acres is listed Bell, Ding. 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