8, 1981 - North Shore News | mells real good The other ‘day, as I was filling the car up, a whiff of gasoline tickled my nostrils, sending me off on at least a dozen major nostalgia trips at once. It has been known for years that smeil is the sense that triggers memories most effectively. There are more people than you might think whom ‘you -recall: most vividly. through an olfactory experience relating to them. That's a way of saying you may not remember her name, but you'll remember her perfume forever. I hesitate to link perfume and gasoline too closely, but, then again, why not? The smell of gasoline is the smell of modern civilization. We should all love it. _ Moreover, directly or indirectly, we're all addicted to it. Mention OPEC, and most people cringe. As well they might. If some mad Arab was sud- denly to cut off our regular fixes of petroleum, life as we know it would.end. . Can you imagine staying at home all weekend, every weekend, with the kids? Can you imagine jogging te work? Walking across the Lions Gate Bridge? Riding a horse to that convention in Toronto? This is all pretty obvious stuff, I guess, although a wise man once told me that the thing that is hardest to see is.the thing that is most obvious. Excited by that little whiff . of gasoline the other day, I started thinking about all the marvellous associations that exist in my head concerning petroleum. In the age of ecological awareness — we are there, aren't we? — it is all too easy to think. of petroleum “products i in the same mental breath as that copper cloud of carbon monoxide hanging over downtown Vancouver. Easy,too, to think of supertankers and oil slicks and cancer caused by ~ polluted air. But the truth is, - petraleum has been getting a bad press lately and it’s . totally unfair. Maybe it’s just that nobody wants Marc Lalonde to have Alberta's oil: Or maybe people are just a wee bit tired of waiting for the Middle East to blow up. Anyway you look at it, oil has become a political issue — even a health issue — _with the. unhappy result that many people have lost track of the essential paint. It’s not that we've become a civilization dependent on one non-renewable resource, or even that the burning of this particular resource results in pollution levels so severe they have already altered the climate of the entire planet for the worse. No. ANOTHER OUTBREAK OF CONTAINER. BLAZES An outbreak of garbage container fires is recurring in the Lynn Valley area, in the same way that a rash of such blazes occurred earlier this year. - This latest series of fires is centred in the Mountain Highway/Lynn Valley Road area, around Westlynn Mail and the mini mall and in each case it is large garbage containers owned by the municipality that are being torched. A North Vancouver District Fire Department spokesman says that such fires occur in rashes. The previous spate occurred in the Norgate area, around January. Generally, the fires occur between midnight and 3 a.m. They are regarded as a nuisance by the fire crews that respond to them but now the. fire. department fears the situation is becoming more serious. At about 2:35 a.m. Friday the firebug struck in an adventure playground at Lyon Valley Elementary School, setting fire to logs there. A fire department spokesman says: “Now they are starting to light these things in school yards it is scarey.” your own home. 4til wl a i Arr Don’ t Reply to This Ad Unless You Want to Stop Smoking Permanently in 24 hours Yes, you can end smoking without weight gain, drugs or embarassing group sessions in the comfort of ‘a We Guarantee It. Call 984-4111 Now. To meet demand new locations now bdcing o under licence across Canada and U.S.A. Apphca ants with proven financial stability call Mr. Barry, 984- Just a few hours before the playground fire, the department responded to the nearby mini mall, where a garbage container behind the Dairy Queen was tor- -ched. , Last month saw four similar container fires in the same area. Early Saturday, after 3 shortly a.m., firefighters The main point is that while gasoline is a subtle drug, it is incredibly potent. Anditisadrug. . - ‘Some of you will find this hard to believe, but I can | remember, as a little boy, standing on tiptoe to get my _ nose up to the top of an empty 100-gallon oil drum, so that I could sniff the | remaining fumes: In later years, I remember suffering withdrawal pains after having lived in London, England, for a year, and having left. What I missed wasn't the theatres or the crowded tubes. It was the carbon monoxide. I still get a thrill when a bus roars by me, spewing grey smoke. Likewise, the rainbow colors of an oil slick on the water strikes me as one of the most amazing surrealistic sights to be found in nature. Quite beautiful. Am I kidding? I dunno. Been doin’ petroleum so long, smells real good to me. responded to a Towers building. RCMP are aware of the - = problem and are stepping up _ their patrols in the area. garbage - container fire at the Kiwanis. 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