6 Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 24,1989 a The way TI see it.:. by mpeei “a - Sometimes I feel older than my years. Old, married and set- tled. What I mean is, remember when you were a young single person, and there . were people all around you who were having a good time, dancing on tables, and driving around a lot, and generally having a silly-good time? Well, I remember, . I remember when all that mattered was that you looked good, sounded smart, and en- joyed yourself, Oh sure, there were thoughts about the future, but you were going to be rich and famous then and would continue having this good time forever. Then you got married, and were suddenly surrounded by kids, and life gradually set- tled down. You began to ap- preciate a quiet Friday night, and discovered that going fora _walk can be nice, too. The reason this subject, came up, is that I found out that this guy I know is a bachelor. He’s a really nice guy, and seemed perfectly normal:to me, but since | found out that he’s not | married, I started noticing things. Like his car. It’s a “cool? car, not a station wagon or a truck. A single per- son’s car, And I noticed that he dresses like a single person. This is a subtle difference, and I can’t explain it, but.I know that a woman has not helped to pick out his clothes. They have that ‘‘masculine-bachelor’’ look to-them. And they’re not iron- ed, nor were they even hung up immediately out of the dryer. I was. thinking about this guy and how: bachelors live and what do they do on a Thursday night — not what they do on weekends, when there’s lots of . social life for. married people and single people, but Thurs- day night, when married folks stay home and watch the Bill Cosby Show, And wondering what’s in his fridge, things like that. I’m:a nosy person at heart. But then I was in his office one day, and I noticed some- thing. Slippers. He had slippers peeking out from under his desk. It didn’t seem like a wild bachelor thing to do, wearing slippers around the office. They were well-worn, definitely a comfortable fit, and sort of a nondescript colour. Just like a married man’s slipper would look. This changed the image I had of the wild, carefree bachelor. Suddenly his life didn’t ap- pear so untamed ‘and glamour- ous. I realized that when the cat vomits on the rug, there’s no spouse around to help clean it up,.and to complain to, I realized that a bachelor’s life is not always driving fastin.a. -, cool car. All these profound thoughts occurred to me. because of some old slippers. -Isn’t that interesting? Some- times I just don’t know what to think. I guess people .aren’t quite so different from one an-. other after all. The Centennial Christian School is the cleanest school in town. Beautification - Vesta Douglas and School District 88 trustee Edna Cooper spent four hours -touring 19 school yards recently and gave Centennial Society judges City Freeman Cleanest school in town Christian top marks. Clarence Michiel Elementary and Veritas place second and third, but Douglas.says she was more than pleased with the general clean-up done by all the schools. Choosing a winner was a tough decision, she says. side effects to smoke New Hazelton Terrace Prince Rupert STOP SMOKING IN 1 SESSION LASER. 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He seems to be get ting the hang of It. - Compromise landfill regulation — to be monitored for trial period © TERRACE — There will be some changes to the city’s sani- tary landfill operation but they won’t be what the Ministry of Environment was asking for. According to mayor Jack Tal-' stra, council met with ministry representative Kul Bindra last week and they “‘reached an un- derstanding’? in which begin- ning Aug. 15, the gate at the ‘landfill site: will. be locked from Al p.m. to 7 a.m, In March, the ministry sent - the city an amerided copy of their landfill permit that. -was intended to reduce the sites im- pact on-wildlife in the area and address complaints of pollution caused by fires at the dump. With the amendment, the city would. have been required to restrict the hours of access and have an attendant on-site during operating hours. In explaining these changes, Bindra said that there had been several complaints concerning landfill fires and because the majority of these were started by “‘vandals’’, restricting access and having an on-site attendant ‘should create a significant ‘de- terrent’’. : Council disagreed, however, saying an_attendant was too expensive. Now, with the ap- proval of the ministry, the city will try restricting access for six months but without an attend- ant present, At the end of the trial period, their-success in ad- dressing the ministry’s concerns 7 can‘then be assessed. 4 a HH: Famine nets $3. 000 The final figures are in on Caledonia Senior Secondary’s efforts on the World Vision 30-Hour Famine and they did a great job. The school raised $3,008.30 that will go towards helping provide a better stan- dard of ‘living for a small African community. . . About 30 Caledonia students worked and fasted hard on the project but Grade 11- student Lara’ Taylor put in the best individual. fundraising effort seen anywhere for some time — she raised $1,095 of that total by herself. 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