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Of the two annual daylight savings time adjustments, autumn’s is by far the more appealing. After all, how else can you setually turn back time?

Daylight Savings Time came about in the latter half of the Sixties, and was reinforced with the onset of the energy crisis in the early Seventies.

The original concept behind “springing forward” on the first Sunday in April and “falling back” on the last Sunday in October was to establisk some uniformity to the four-time zones of the North American continent.

The energy crisis a few years later entrenched Daylight Savings Time in our national psyche as the bi-annual

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adjustments were regarded as logical ways to adapt the clock to the light of day, thus buying us precious time before we turn on the lights to beat back darkness. Call it a clever way to kick at the darkness till it bleeds day- Neht.

Time as a notion is a most puz- zling thing.

It is as abstract a notion as one can imagine, yet without a logical mark- ing system of time society would grind to a screeching halt.

And while we have 25 hours to enjoy this autumn Sunday, just remember that in six months’ time we'll have a 23-hour day.

So, what are you going to do with that additional hour, that magical 60 minutes, that spare 3,600 seconds?

Afterall, time waits for no one, and it won't wait for you.

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“She had a panicked fook on her face, a ‘please help me’ look.”

West Vancouver's Paul Zalesky, describing the face of a small girl in a runaway BMW. Zalesky received a special commendation from ICBC for his bravery in rescuing her. (From an Oct. 23 News story.)

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“If somebody could at least be aware that this has happened. | wouldn’t care about anything else, just my photos of my children and grandkids. The other things are just things.”

Karen Crawford on the theft of a van containing ail of Crawford’s worldly possessions. She was in the process of moving from Vancouver Island to North Vancouver. (From an Oct. 21 News story.)

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“This is the wrong development at the wrong place at the wrong time. If adopted, council accepts a major financial responsibility for a road and bridge for a devel- opment that is, at best, third rate.”

Coun. Ernie Crist on the decision to rezone part of the bare land surrounding the CanOxy chlorine plant and realign the Dollarton Highway. (From an Oct. 21 News

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“You're lying, Mayor Be%i ... You’re trying to get yourself out of a corner ... ‘tour interpretation skills are as good as President Clintor’s."

Coun. Lisa Muri during the ssme CanOxy debate when Mayor Don Bell claimed he had never intended to include industrial land in an ongoing Seymour planning process. (From an Oct. 21 News story.)

000 “I’ve seen some of these pilots come out and their shirts are soaked. Of course their licence is riding on it.” Mark Hatton describing the twice-yearly pressures of flight simulator tests on pilots. (From an Oct. 21 News

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“CHILDREN Of A Common Mother” reads the Peace Arch inscription at the Blaine crossing. Nowadays there’s more than a little talk about

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ing her kids.

Across the Atlantic the heat is on for Britain to throw in its lot — lock, stock and barrel — with the ever more demanding European Union in the !atter’s drive to become a “United States of Europe,” politically as well as economically.

Burt although Britain has been a mem- ber in good standing of the economic alliance for more than a quarter of a cen- tury, it still continues, for now, to resist surrendering to the faceless bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg three vital cle- ments of its 1,000 years of national sover- eignty: defence, foreign policy and cur- rency.

So in 1999, when the rest of the EU launches its new common currency, the “euro,” Britain will stick until further notice with the pound sterling.

London's independent stance on this issue underlines the fact that Britain — alone among the other EU countries — has a choice for its long-term future. Its bonds of language, culture and concepts of democratic government are far stronger with North America than with any of its European neighbois.

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terns also differ from theirs. And as an Adantic nation, it lies on the geographic edge of the mighty English-speaking world it founded.

So instead of eventual toral submer- sion in a still alien and unpredictable European federation, the welcome mat is out for Britain to join, as an alternative option, the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA) — possibly then renamed the North Atlantic Free Trade Association — with no loss of British sover- cignty.

A top promoter of this scenario is that ultimate Anglo-North American Conrad Black, chairman of the Telegraph Group of prestige British newspapers and of Southam Inc. with its Canada-wide chain of papers, whose new national daily, The National Post, is scheduled to make its debut this week.

In a recent speech to Britain’s Centre for Policy Studies in London Mr. Black maintained Brirain is still in a strong posi- tion to exercise its choice. Its veto night and big current account deficit with the EU should enable it to negotiate com- plete reciprocal access of goods and peo- ple with EU members while withdrawing, from all the fatter’s political and judicial institutions.

At the same time Britain would apply to enter NAFTA — a move, Black pre- dicts, that would have a very positive response from the U.S.A.

Stressing chat U.S. policy-makers lis-

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ten to Britain more seriously than any other country, he argues that preventing wars in Europe ~ though a laudable EU aim — ultimately depends on an American presence in Europe.

He aiso fears the cultural anti- Americanism of many Europeans could prevent a United Europe from ever eftee- tively sharing the burden of global {eader- ship with the U.S.A.

In fact, he sees such a Europe as potentially a part of world problems rather than of their solutions.

History has no lack of supporting material tor his viewpoint. Not least, the nine centuries when Britain was repeated- ly at war with one or other of today’s EU menibers.

In size and global spread none of the latters’ empires eve approached that of late 19th century Britain. None gave the world the uciversal language English is rapidly becoming.

And across the Atlantic the world’s undisputed leader-nation today is a living monument to the blessings of the mother it shares with Canada.

In short — like Mr. Black says — we could be doing both ourselves and Britain a favor in striving to save mom from a bad marriage by reminding her where her natural home lies!

000 MANY HAPPY PETURNS of today, Oct. 25, to Mt. Seymour Lions birthday boy Glen Muri ... More of the same tomorrow, Oct. 26 to West Van Kiwanian Len Roth.

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