6 - North Shore News — Friday, December 31, 1989

Turning Time

@& \ITIZENS of the North Shore,

the day is upon us at last.

After months of pre-millennial
anxiety, assurances from banks, utili-
. ties companies and airlines that ¥2K
will be a mere hiccup in the digestion
of time, and more marketing ploys
and T-shirts than a new Star Wars
movie, January 1, 2000 is only hours
away.

a you’ve, already bought your
water bottles, your canned food, your
candles and your portable radio, the

only: thing ieft to do is sit tight and
“yait.
“Ys‘the end of the world nigh, as

' some would have-us believe? Will the

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
: vide across the Lions Gate Bridge, cir-
cumventing © baffled ; construction
workers and ignoring recently posted

e: Dallas Collis letter Dec, 22 News...
No, Mr/ Collis: MP Ted White has it right.
You are’ one of she-“hand-

everything possible to suppress competition.

‘there are : injustices, but ror help be trade and com-
a Ip poor countries to

st. and! ‘does not

bert, in his: excellent Dec. 8 letter in the =’

“it very: -well — the: ‘WTO knocks d

¢ inging socialists” who has
duped’ by: the big’ American ‘companies, which do

traffic regulations?

Will the fast ferries reveal their true
purpose at last by sprouting wings
and becoming giant airplanes?

Will there ever be another episode
of Friends, or will all six toothy
chums spontaneously combust at
once?
~All questions will be answered at
the stroke of midnight.

Chances are, though, that aside
from a few marginally grumpy eleva-

tors and some very tired emergency ..

services workers, tomorrow will be
pretty much like today.

We're not going to wake up to any-
thing as dramatic as a tropical heat-
‘wave or world peace.

But the new year — and a new cen-
tury — is a chance for growth, for
change, and for celebration.

Happy New Year and drive safely.

CHICKENS,

SEeps, A TRACTOR, wATerR
CANNED FOOD, FUEL, A COW,
A WHOLE
WHACK OF

CAGM co-e

SURVIVALIST |

Farewell to the 2 20th ce

WHEW! That was a close call.
We did it. We're here. We're still

_ alive.

. We survived the 20th century. -
Many -— hundreds of millions of peo-

ple caught in the tur-
moil of the times —
dida’e. -
me prophets pre-
. dicted none of us P :
would.

Alinost everybody
old enough to ponder i it
had at least passing :
doubts...

Pause for a moment,
from looking forward
’ to the century ahead,

and to the new millen-

down 1 trade .

nium -— still a year away if you’re one cof ©
0 can count up to

- those in intellectuals wh

ining up those cham- :

TY, believed 1 to have killed more ‘than half
of all rural inhabitants, somehow — by.
” “good luck or good management — “*
‘missed your forefather. Possibly he was.’
enjoying a weekend at his country estate
_ when the terrible germs
ran down his street. “_
- Canada wasn’t spared.
.- Cholera struck in 1834,
* , killing 265 people i
Kingston within weeks.
One was a prominent
‘citizen and politician, :

was dead... -
We know of this largel because his :
(death changed the life of va.
“ Tas dJohri

nd checking whether the:
the New Years Eve horns

pidest, mest murderous, most su!
destructive acts in one of the most :.

~ Come to think of it, though we ae
“dom do, everyone reading these words
es from a long line'o i darivors.

Tough survivors. Heal

¢ primitive rock that
‘the primitive mountain ny

was Aly, conunon
fever, caused by blood poisonin
Because the doctors haughty i
“to wash their hands before. delivery, Th
“Hun, doctor Ignaz Semmel
- “urged the medical establishment. to take
~ basic’ antiseptic precautions. Countless

* . qomen lived ‘ on, saved | by chlo-
rate of lime and ‘Eta tbe substance:

your”.
reat: Primitive

zie ie

th swept through.’
} the ‘mid: st —-

“ty of war, revolution, g
rorism that would have shocked the
: Bd wards

lestray
and created a new, deeply
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