: off” onto |.them: Sharing memories and recal GOOD news. I’m really tickled about it. I hope you will feel the same way. I’ve been doing a Jot of fashing, as my Scottish moth- -er-in-law would have said, and thar can warp your disposi- tion. Your outlook, too. This should fix that. Pve been fashing because my column seemed to have become more and more a, vehicle for reports from com- mittees and the agencies we need when we get old, and less and less a real exchange between you and me. An exchange that reminds us of life the way you and I lived it, all those years ago. We need those memories, they are what we were and how we got: to this stage, and they are priceless to us, they are the fabric of our lives, Whether we were rich or poor, _ Whether we lived in the city or .) the backwocds, there were rules we all abided by, a sort of "structure that we’ had been -taught ‘to accept as. the best : way to deal with the world: - around us. Those rules are still with us. It-is a pity, in-a, way, “that, they do ‘still ‘shape our’: actions and responses «toa * great degree, because they are no longer -current, -a lot of them, and increase the gap twixt us and the young. ~ We can ‘always ‘hope, of course, that some of it will rub Hah. The .. | change I'am applauding is the ao new: v Neighbothoods page — 66 People in : wheelchairs aren't often pictured with, J a watering hose, but he iooks to - be: enjoying oS it thoroughly. seeseesatere vintage years did you notice it in last Friday’s edition? You probably did because of the photograph of Herbie Hohlweg watering the patio garden at Evergreen House. People in wheelchairs aren't often pictured with a watering hose, but he looks to be enjoying it thoroughly and Layne Christensen's story tells you why. There is another story below that, about the man who called himself ‘The Improver. Both these elderly chaps are described as being responsible for making things better. On both edges of this Neighbourhoods page there are brief reports of other excitements — going on and coming up — and so it can be used for announcements of all the formal stuff aimed at us old folks, reminders about useful health fairs and that sort of thing, and that will free up my column for sharing memories and recalling how it was, We will be able to play “Remember When?” like right now, since I just stumbled on this old household record of money in and moncy out, dated March 16, 1951. That would have been pay-day, because it starts with 90 dol- lars in hand. On the paid side & lose ener high fibre, low fat, meal pian included z ‘Health Food - "Organic Vegetables . Vitamins . Count Lynn Valley Centre ULTRA CHROMATONE PLUS ' ‘Health 988-1515 Ob is firse the B.C. Electric bill, which came to nine dollars forty-six cents, then a call at the Doctor’s costing three doilars. Also one dollar forty- one for Broceries, if you can believe it, and 85 .cents for meat, The next day I paid the Eaton’s bill, 25 dollars, and two days later bought: bread tor sixty-six cents and vegeta- bles for one dollar five cents. Honestly. On the twenty-first of the month the Family Allowance kicked in six dollars — we had just the one child — and | bought milk for sixty-three cents, Groceries and meat on “ is . Stephen Wong Pharmacist CAPSULE | COMMENTS To reduce the risk of osteoporosis, women becween the age of 25 and Menopause should do weight- bearing exercises (walking’s great) for one hour 3 times weekly, eat a healthy’ diet including at. least 1000mg of calcium and 400 units of Vitamin D per day, not smoke ot overuse alcohol. Looking for a food high in natur- al calcium? ‘Try sardines. Three of those little fish (about one ounce cach) supply 370 mg of calcium. - Why? Your are cating. the: fish's skeleton. One‘ cup of milk has about 250 mg.. DAVIES. 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