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SOME PEOPLE think that
for a breakfast cereal to be
good for you it must con- .
tain weeds, seeds and very
small rocks.

By Tina Gilbertson
: Contributing Writer

-The health food craze of the
-780s has endured and seems a
-comerstone of life in this
squeaky-clean Age of Aquarius.

* Personally, I’m still.
‘ breakfasting on Sugar-Os, and
: dang proud of it. Sugar-Os con-
* tain not less than 99% substances
that end in -osz ea mean glucose,
+ sucrose, etc. —- not moose ... I
- don’t think).

“The other 1% i is pure fibre and
~. consists of parts of the packaging
- which have rubbed off and been

infused into the cereal.

I want my food to taste good,
‘Rolled oats, in my ‘opinion, do

“| mot taste good. Neither do wheat
getm, lentils, steamed bat, or. any

? other excessively healthy food.
tlike ice-cream. {like cakes

d pies and brownies and toffee. :
- Preferably all mixed together. in a
‘> gallon can. ~

Exercise? Nope. No time, no

a will, ‘no energy.

“No, lam not overweight and
my skin is not pale and I can
climb a flight of stairs without
wheezing like a steam engine,

. since you asked. So why should I

ump on the health bandwagon if: .

om doing OK with my current

bits? |

Because the truth i is, I lied;

f get winded riding an elevator,

“tet alone dragging myself up a
“mountain of stairs; the mere

. thought of ail che floors I'm

~ ascending takes my breath away.

There has .been.a knot in my
‘stomach whenever I -have heard
the sound of a. power saw in the
-Blueridge area; I know that yet
“another second growth tree is be-
ing brought down.

-B.C.-Hydro: has contracted out
‘ the ‘cutting of trees to contain the
encroachment of branches around

the’ wires: During the last three |

months they have been in this area
I feel: they ‘have gone far, far
beyond their mandate of a. 12.3’
line clearance...

‘These people are approaching
the residents and stating that if a
tree: falls over a line then the resi-

: ae is responsible. Have they ever

Encourage

: Dear Editor:. :
As..chair of the Anti-Racism

os ‘Committee of the Affiliation of

Multicultural Societities and .Ser-
vice Agencies of B.C., (AMSSA),
I would like to encourage the
~ North Shore News to take respon-
-sibility for the cessation of hate
incitement as perpetrated by col-
‘umnist Doug Collins. .
“Community newspapers con-

eee

And if I’m not as big as a
hiouse by now, it’s only because

won a ‘court case to that effect, 1
wonder? :

I plead with: the residents of
Blueridge to say yes to have the
tree topped if need be, trimmed if
need be, but not felled. Piles of
wood line Berkley . Road and
Sechelt. It may be taken’ for
firewood and maybe not.

The tree service got the go-
ahead to remove one of the three
alders on the greenbelt between
Berkley Road and Lampman.
They ruined the other two they
had wanted to take down’ by -
stripping the branches right to the
trunk. These people obviously
have no appreciation of trees,
otherwise they would: not have
taken those steps.

to stay healthy in

1m tall for my weight and lucky
so far. Pale? If I stand next toa

They felled instead of trimmed
back a fifty- to sixty-year-old tree
in Sechelt park which shaded a
field of lily of the valley. Again
this shows no appreciation of the
tree and its role in its immediate
area.

We must !ook carefully at each
tvee because the more we take
down the higher the risk of *
blowdown. The tree service com-

. pany fails to mention this point.
~ B.C, Hydro must not be allowed

_to continue changing the character
~of our community.

After coming from New
Brighton Park, a park witn only a
handful of trees in an area once
forested to the waterline, my son
stood and looked at the residential

harmonious society

eee 13, are the article appear of
the editor.

tribute to the social fabric of the
areas they serve and we encourage
the North Shore News to par-
ticipate inthe development of a
society which recognizes and
upholds the dignity of all its
citizens, for the well-being of the
entire community.

On behalf of AMSSA and its
members, I wouid like to em-
phasize that the destructive racist

We therefore urge you to
discourage the spread of racial
and ethnic. hatred and to en-
courage, rather, the growth of a
healthy, harmonious society. ,
Riasat Aji Khan
Chair, Anti-Racism Commitiee

Friday, August 21, 1992 - North Shore News - 7

wall I disappear.
So how do I go about beginaing

area along McGill and along Wall
Stzeet and turned. to me and said,
““We have to do something to save
our trees!’ Hf .a seven-year-old
boy can: see what is happening,
why is it that
enlightened adults do not?
Please be aware of what B.C.
Hydro and the tree service com-
pany are doing. There are people

Dear Editor:
Seldom do I-find any fault with

- either Noel Wright’s editorials or

Doug Collins’ columns, my being
one of the latest Gallup poll’s
80% who are not happy with the
direction this country is being
taken by our disparate govern-
ments,

However, 1 do take - umbrage
with part of Doug’s Aug. 5 col-
umn in which he castigates

Newfies for their being paid not
to fish!

That $406 per. week will help a
deck-hand get through the winter,
but means zip to any Newfie
boat-owner —. if mortgaged (as
most are), the owners will lose
these high-tech boats to the banks
and trust companies who will sell
them to the less disciplined Por-

responsible,
_ generations.

the *90s

a healthy regime of diet and exer--
cise without hating it too much?

My mother has started me off
with vitamin and mineral pills. 1
don’t mind the concept, but these.
things are big enough to chokea’-
horse (I wonder with all that room.
inside why they don’t include a”
banana split).

Seems tome! getallthe _
viiamins I need from an orange =».

‘popsicle, and for minerals § can

leave the cellophane wrapper on. .
But she assures me these pills are :
better despite some fluorescent: :
side-effects which don’t bear
discussion.

The next consideration i is a little

‘piece of hell euphemistically | ‘

known as-“cardiovascular
strengthening.’’ Now this for me
should be.xo real problem. I can.
keep my heart rate up (that’s all
there'is to it, really, you silly jog-_
gers!) by watching one Jean-
Claude Van Damme movie for
two solid hours every day. Hey, I.
think I’m getting the hang of this!

For overall muscle toning, Vl!
try washing my hair with my
hands tied behind my back three
times a week.

Aerobics? Naah. To my mind, °
aerobics is-just a fancy word for.
the calisthenics I spent my high —
school years trying to avoid.

- (On the first day of school, my
gym teacher caught me attempting
to ditch P.E. Cornered, 1 told her
my father had just had a heart at-
tack and { was on my way to whe +
hospital. She bought it: So for the
next eight months, my poor dad.
suffered a series of life-threaten-
ing disorders on Tuesdays and .'
Thursdays at about 2:30 p.m.)

- So there it is, my new regime. I
feel healthier already! Think [°It.
walk — not drive — to the Dairy.
Queen for a ‘celebration « fea

you ‘can consult for a second opi-”
nion if. you feel threatened :by the

‘ trees and of course there are other

areas you can live where there are
smaller trees’ or. no” trees -at.-all.
Please. leave these ones for futtire :

Laura Wells :
North Vancouver .

Newfies need support :

tuguesé or Greenlanders, (probably
at ‘a “good profit). who will then
promptly fish where we can’t. .. :

- Doug should know that:-Kanada-
is giving Balooney’s best friend, ©
Paul Reichman, ‘$5 billion of our -
tax dollars to nudge him out ‘of. ©
his $8.6-billion. U.S.D.° jackpot,

_and we give millions ‘to ‘Zimbabwe.
and Zaire; and we have a
ing Doug’s own. statistics, over... —

iven, us-

$10 billion to our native Indians;
and- Quebec! Dear Gawd! —.and -
none of those. people: have. con-.
tributed one red cent ‘to -the. eco-
nomic advancement. of good old
Kanada, like the Newfie has! ~

So lfet’s put our money where it ;
is best spent — on the people who. wo
built Canada — for once. : © ao
Geoff Fenton’ ~ a
North Vancouver