Friday, April 9, 1993 ~ North Shore News - 9 alert: clean houses make for sick minds ceeded as if he had. so she couldn't hear. useful. ALWAYS EAGER to be heipful around the house, the Amiable Idioi lifted both legs high in the air whenever his wife came past pushing the vacuum cleaner. St. Pierre it wasn’t convenient for him to do it. He would have preferred that such demands not be made upon him. He had been sitting peaceably on the sofa, a threat to neither man nor beast, when she had borne down upon him with the raging cleaning machine. “‘Are you going to sit there reading all day?’" she said. “No, Iam not, dear Jalapeno Lady,” he said. ‘‘After a time, instead of sitting [ may lic down on this couch, place the open book over my face and drift pleasantly away to keep an ap- pointment with the Goddess Mor- pheus. “Some of us have to work,” she said. “How well | know, dear Mrs. Taraerlane. 1 was thinking exactly that myself yesterday while I was rototilling our garden. At the time you were, as i recall, again at your hair dresser's.’” “You have always said garden- ing was fun, not werk.’’ “Exactly what the Pharaoh told the Egyptians when he wanted them to raise a pyramid for him. Yon, my Dasne of the Tabasces, are by nature a pyramid builder.’’ “If the Egyptians were as lazy as you are the pyramids would ' never have been built,"" she said. “And a good thing, too. Of all the government projects in histo- ry, pyramids have the distinct honor of being tie most useless as well as the mosi expensive.”’ She changed brushes on the ST. MARTIN'S ANGLICAN 195 in Windsor Road SUNDAY SEAVICES 8:09 am., 10:00 a.m., 7:30 p.m. Nursery & Sunday Schoot 10:00 a.m. Good Friday © 10:00 um Service of Meditation & Music Easter Sunday © 8:00 arn Prayer Book Eucharist 10:00 am © Family Easter Service of Holy Communion Deibrock Ba PAULITICS & "PERSPECTIVES vacuum with her back to him but in the process somehow managed to back the tube hard into his face so that his nose hurt and tears came to his eyes. He foregave her and continued to try to induce sweet reason- ableness into hier. “All this tidying and cleaning wouldn’t be necessary if you would read this book,”’ te said, displaying a pocket bo‘: called The Land of The Risin.’ Yen, by British author George ‘Wikes. Among the few character flaws that Mr. Mikes detected in the Japanese race was a passion for neatness and cleanliness. ‘Let me quote our Brit cousin to you,” said the Amiable idiot and, hearing no agreement, pro- HELLSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH 970 Lynn Vatley Road Sunday Woriltp 11:00 a.m. Junior Worship & Nursery provided Pastors John Hardy, John Cuddetord 985-1122 ptist Church 515 W. Windsor Rd., North Vancouver 985-4011. EASTER SUNDAY ~ APRIL 41! - 9:45 am Sunday School 11:60 am Moming Worship -“The Rezclity of the Resurrection” 6:30 pm Evening Celebration 8:00 pm Full Circle Rev. Randall Berg Rev. Bill Funk Rev. Bob Williford NORTH SHORE ALLIANCE CHURCH 201 East 23rd Street, North Vancouver, V7L 3E4 Phone 984-6422 $:30 and 11715 a.m. Sunday Schoo! and Identical Moming Worship Senices Pastor Buhler continues his series from Philippians “Choose Joy” Nursery and child care available. Rew, 2 in B ht 24 hr Ghurch Information Line 984-6429 Rev. Brian Bunter - Sorior Pastor Brad Harback - Intern Pastor Rev. Mitch Curby - Youth Pastor ‘Bt Ladrew's United Church : 1044 St Georges Avenue, North Vancouver Minister —- Rev. Matthew Smith, B.A. B.D. Music Director.— Mr. Lars Kaario, M.Mus. B.Mus. Easter Worship 10:30 am Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughn ’ Williams, based on poems by George . Herbert, with Craig Morash, baritone e & ; Nancy D DiNovo, violin. He read direct quotations of Mr. Mixes on the subject of tidiness and cleanliness: ‘These are virtues I do not respect or, it 1 may be a shade more explicit, which as a rule ! detest. They are the virtues of fat, dull, bourgeois housewives..."" The Amiable Idiot's wife tried to hit him with the little vacuum attachment that looks tike an anteater’s nose. He deftly avoided the blow with a little hop skip that he had learned early in the mar- riage. He continued to read, ‘'They are the virtues of door polishers, virtues which make their possessors smug and vulgar. “*What's more, and worse, tidiness and cleanliness are not only habits, they are a philosophy, a desperate attempt to put everything into its proper place, into a pigeonhole. Everything must belong somewherc,”” “‘You are making this up,’’ she said. He passed her the book and pointed his finger to the section wherein the author points out that God, whe made the natural world, is notoriously untidy, as can be seen by surveying any wilderness area on the planet. She read briefly and turned to the front cover of the book cxpec- ting, no doubt, to finda photograph of Mr. Mikes in handcuffs with an explanation that the book was a rehabilitation project for prisoners in some max- imum security institution. She knew that if they were men they would rather be working on a project than doing anything CHRISTIAN SCIENCE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST 714 - 20th Street, West Van 922-2023 & 11 am Sunday Sorvios Sundsy Schoot a8 pm Wadnesday Testimony Reading Room 1353 Marine Dr. W.V. Hon.Sat. 10-5 pm ST. SIONS ANGLICAN CHURCH 1384 Deep Cove Ad., North Van 929-5350 EASTER SERVICES 9 am and 11 am usic begins 8:50 & 10:50 The Rev. Ed Hird, Rector — ST. DAVID'S UNITED CHURCH » & a Ee a Easter Suvwiay Family Worship . 1:30 am . » Rev. Bob Burrows All Welcome CHURCH FOR ALL MATTOS 10:3) am Sunday Service at Lonsdale Quay Hote! Pasiors: Marc Dalton and Nathanael Koh (R. 944-7763) Church Office: 421-4640 EVERYONE WELCOME! FILIPINO ALLIANCE CHURCH 212 W. 237d Street, N. Van. 987-0624 40-00 am. Sunday Worship Service Hickey McDougall Rec Centra 23rd/Lonsdale Rev. Ricardo Habacon, Pastor 526-4195 ST. RICHARD’S ANGLICAN CHURCH Corner of Philip & West 15 Streets (1 block south of Marine Drive) SUNDAY . HOLY COMMUNION 10 A.M. Church School & Nursery provided The Rev. Kathleen Schmitt 987-0314 . . VISITORS WELCOME! Failing to find Mr. Mikes wear- ing a prison badge, she flung the book on the sofa which was so far As usual, an appeal to the intel- lectual side of her nature had fail- ed. As he ambled off to quieter regions of the house the Amiable Idiot reflected that her trouble was she worked too much. She needed more tinte for philosophic reflections. uncleaned and comfortably un- tidy. The Amiable Idiot picked it up and continued reading the author’s devastating attack upon cleanliness. She turned on the vacuum again ¢ Elfa Baskets * Wire shelving cessorles «Custom bullt closet organizer Installesi or Do-it-yourself eMirror00rs _ «Melamine finish Showroom Open Mon-Sat. 9-5 " CANADIAN CLOSET “A family owned business since 1984” EE 1385 Crown St. NVan. 986-4263 ST. CLEMENT ANGLICAN CHURCH 3400 Institute Road, Lynn Valley 988-4418 1 : GOOD FRIDAY ~ APRIL 9 10:00 am Good rrieay itu Liturgy 7:30 pm Evening with Stations of the Cross HOLY SATURDAY - APRIL 10 7:30 ae The Great Vigil of Easier ER DAY - APRIL 7 8am ae 10 am Easter Eucharist MCHRIST THE LOAD 1S RISEN TODAY, ALLELUIA! Rectw: The Rev'd Ronald Hunt 968-0522 MOUNT SEYMOUR UNITED CHURCH | b> Parkgate Jira, * co oe Pool Easter Sunday - Apri! 11 BY 7:20 sm Sunrise Service and Communion at Panorama Park Minister: Rev. Brian Thome HOLLYBURNCHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP & . 1403 Duchess, West Vancouver 926-373 SUNDAY 9:30 AM _ The Lord's Supper 14:15 am Family Bible Hour Sunday School 7:00 pm Fellowship TUESDAY 8:00 PM Bible Study - SUTHERLAND BIBLE CHAPEL @ 630 E, (8th St., North Van " 838-6923 SUNDAY SERVICES 9:15am & Tarn . Family Bible Hours 6:30pm Worship Service - Adventure Club — Grades 3-7 Tuesday, 6: Brooksbank Elem. 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Pike, Rector - Pioneer Girls - Grades 2-7, Thursday, 7:00pm, Church Licensed Preschool Youth Director Todd Wiebe 988-5775 Pastor Dan Cochrane $88-6923 St. ‘Andrew’s & St. Stephen’ s Presbyteriait Church 2641 Chesiertield Ave., North Van . 9:30 Informal Worship’ - 14:00 Worship & Sunday School & LYNN VALLEY FULL GOSPEL 1160 East 29th Street, North Vancouver {next to McDonald's, Lynn Vatley) 980-0307 — 7. —_—— Church 987-6800 Rev . Robert Allison Home 998-4777 FRIDAY, APRIL 9 7:00 PM. GooD FRIDAY COMMUNION SEAVICE SUNDAY, APRIL 13 11:00 A.PA. EASTER CELEBRATION Pastor Owen Scott speaking 7:00 RM. EVENING SERVICE Guest Speaker - Rev. Lionel Bartke, International Speaker & Teacher Ministry Staff: Pastor Owen Scott, Asst. Pastor Glen Ryland | : CHRIST HAS DIED! CHRIST HAS RISEN! CHRIST SHALL COME AGAIN! f