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A2 - Sunday, September 5, 1982 - North Shore News

IT WAS shocking, at the big family picnic, ‘to
notice how many kids there weren't.

My mom and step-father
had just arrived from
Winnipeg, Fred having

pension cheques were

The day they arrived, it
had been overcast and rainy
. for a couple of weeks. Half
an hour. after they landed on
my doorstep, the sun came
out considerably in my

A week later, when we generation
had the picnic to celebrate
their arrival, the sun was still
pouring deliciously down. many.

I took that as a pretty good
omen.

Yet, at the picnic, there
was something odd,
something fundamentally
different from when I was a
kid.

My wife's ‘parents were

An uncle of mine had been
laid off early from his job
and had a couple of years to
wait for the Canada Pension

were oniy three Kids.

“Pretty soon, those three
will be supporting the whole
bunch of us,” chuckled my
uncle.

And of course I com-
plained about how, 25 years
from now, when I qualify for
the plan, it will long since
undoubtably have collapsed.

The greying of Canada i ts
scarcely a

So, we’re not going to be
alone, us oldsters. Not at all.

At the picnic, we were
having such a good time,
with the sun shining, I'd have

had to be a fool to worry.

about the world 25 or 50
years from now.

When you're blessed, dig
it.

But I thought to myself, as
3 watched those three little
kids playing, enjoy it, kids.
Your work is cut out for you
down the road.

Plan to come to his aid. represents just 7.3 per cent wt

But an aunt and her
second husband showed up,

and they were both living on years or older is i
their pensions, not wealthy, steadily while the number of
but far from uncomfortable. kids under 14 is dropping.

Counting my _ wife's
r, and another of
my aunts, we had seven

turned upside down just in_

TWO. fires which occurred
overnight Monday-Tuesday
in North Vancouver District
- one to a motorcycle ‘and
were

incidents, fire inspéctors still,

considered’ it ‘unlikely that
the incidents were con-
nected, at News press time,

' although inspection reports
‘had not been completed by

then.

The first fire burned up a-

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ions. was a tad, running around...
And of course you _— shricking with my cousins.
couldn't help noticing how Here was a gathering of
almost everybody, right over 20 relatives and there .

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