A4d - Wednesday, October 24, 1984 - North Shore News Whatever the case, with the monsoons upon us, think, deat reader, of the courage, the drive, the devotion -- and above all the profit motive - - that brings this gutsy, fun- filled little sheet to your door I can relate to the paper carrier because that’s where 1 Started in the news biz Gawd It was awful Next litetume, fet me be anything else! Of course, as as often the case, when us nubile gaffers (haven't seen those words us- ed together betore, have you”) get to thinking back to the bad old days, ut seems to me that the ordeals | had to endure as a paper boy were oft the end of the scale in terms of sheer torture com pared to what a lad or lass out trundling the papers around the West Coast has to suffer I mean, Winnipeg! There may be worse places to deliver newspapers, but unless ats Tuktoyvuktuk, yOu ve gol to convince me, buddy | had a friend who shared his route with me to break me into the business As soon as he could get another job, he bequeathed the whole route {oO me as | And of course as Soon can get another job ] passed it on to the neat Oliver incarnate to come along fiowas the biggest route in the area 127 Bree Presses On Saturday mornings, cach of those papers weighed as much as a dead rabbit We had to face blzards in which old people taking the garbage oul ota the back Fane sometinnes: pot fost and werent found: until sprung Mornings came when ony the sprketops of proker fences broke from the crust of paar toring rar bow ree that stret ched from our fronmt windew to othe front worrdeaw of thre Phere ate bons thre Ntrect thre cond ated Chee Stche ww atk ated ther hes Yike thee trarcread Pot poe ss Riis Video Recorders VHS & BETA THE LEADING BRANDS and bawerrs ov atisted potres cot oa bree ves BUY WITH CONFIDENCE | ‘ ryb bat cot NI Aas wow wt ak ee | De teal (orb bE bat NE 1 ONY HOME FURNISHINGS Warehouse/Showroom OPEN TO THE PUBUC (2 bIks behind the Avaton) at 107% Roosevell Cras | N Van ". «985-8738 ain ve) es Strictly personal by Bob Hunter The tront door had to be muscled open. Cars lay buried under beautiful silver cowls To push your ice: glazed bike out into this uninhabitable alien planet's surface, carrying yOur paper bag like a sutt hide, peering oul between the scarves swaddling your head, was a far more. Cerrityving ex pertence than Neil Armstrong facing the vacuum of the moon After the snowplows got through, W# wasn't so bad ex- cept for the 11l-foot walls ot smashed glaciers left tn thetr dressers acc yy wide 16 Joo, HOURS: Mon through Sat Thurs & Fn ug BOOKCASES, tull 69" high, 29°’ wide with five shelves. NOW ONLY °69, WALL UNITS, arrange these as you need. Each 30’’ wide section with either doors or bar/desk flap is now onzy °109. beds are ‘eguia:s 39.4 VISA Are MAD Em ARAL wea dc 6 Ot 9 306 ays on route O YOU EVER NOTICE the poor kid who brings the paper to your doorstep? Well, he’s not always a kid nowadays, is he? wake along both sides of the road To reach the customer's yard, if he hadn't already shovelled the driveway free, you had to climb Ikke a mountaineer, the folded newspaper clutched in a dead birdclaw hand, woollen mitts having long since been soaked through trom wiping your nose and changed into a kind of envelope-sized chainmail tor- ture device in) which your hand was both crucified and burned at the stake They say treezing to death iS a preal way to go. Ie ain’t! At the peak of the ice ca- nyon, after you had hauled yourself up lke Hillary Qf not his son), you were razor- ping all the way trom the High Arctic, an open uninter- rupted howling across a dead sea bottom There | was, chained to a paper route in the other wing of Siberia, surrounded by distant mica and = blue horizons, as if space had come down on the earth. At night — which started almost as soon as I got my papers — there seemd to be no sky bet- ween me and the stars, or it there was, it was locked tn bone-hard transparent tce beneath my mocassins. My feet never tailed to freeze. Nose, too. Upper cheeks. Insane sinus headaches came regularly. Fingertips felt like hot solder- ing irons. Sometumes, in the wind, even my eyeballs burn- ed. Eyelashes actually stuck together. Okay I'll stop now You must be crying. All | really wanted to say was: spare a thought for the paper carrer as winter descends. It may only be a West Coast winter, but Ho sttt fooks hostile out there. Soggy, too. NV District to slashed by a edge of wind sip: press tax case NORTH VANCOUVER District Council has struck a committee which will repre- sent the District at a public hearing dealing with the provincial yovernment’s paper on. taxation. Mayor Marilyn Baker and Ald. Craig Clark will be responsible for making comments at the October 30 hearing. In an analysis of the gov- ernment paper, the District’s Director of Financial Ser- danish \W/) 5 Otitis sale WE HAVE NOW RECEIVED OUR LARGEST EVER SHIPMENT OF QUALITY WHITE FINISHED FURNITURE....IT MUST BE SOLD: - Sin PLUS MORE NOT SHOWN HERE... queenbeds, wardrobes, TV trolleys, wall systems, coffee tables, dinette sets, typing trolleys, computer trolleys, lamps.. ALL AT COMPARABLE INCREDIBLY LOW PRICES... Scandicratt 1470 PEMBERTON AVE. NORTH VANCOUVER “one of B.C.'s largest Scandinavian furniture stores’ TEREO STANDS, 39°" wide, 16"’ deep, 20°" high and INOW onty?59, TEEN BEDSETS, A complete with bookcase ~~ headboard and storage drawers. Incredible at NOW ONLY r DESKS, 24" x 48" top, two drawers and also has a bookcase front, fantastic value! NOW ONLY DRESSERS, choose from four drawers or six as shown, four drawer is now only*79, six drawer NOW ONLY $Q9Q . N vices, E.M. Palmer urged Council to reject any move by the provincial gov- ernment to take over non- residential taxes. Palmer said since the pro- vincial government presently controls about 11 per cent of municipal revenue budgets, that any takeover of non- residential tax levies would lead to the government con- trolling approximately 24 per cent of municipal revenue budgets. | Sn os ‘89.