Kudos and bouquets: of Kindness Week this. ~ ~ week. Smile, open a__ ~ preciate them, bring treats to. e -work, leave a big tip, bake cookies: ways you can make a difference. ee “| in. Because to take advantage of Frequent . S . : Bore ens oarevovovevesaGooseereooHeDeeseaoe m ouquets to the lady © D. who was kind Bunches of bouquets to Lori Richards and — _ Mary MacKay for their work a. enough to with the Dance Club. knock on our door Staff and students last Friday night to Deep Cove elementary tell us that our dog . had been hit by a car. as: someone § Luckily, his injuries gone above and looked worse than i. A. beyond the call they were, and thanks of duty to do a good to Dr. Randle and his deed? Is there an organi- staff's prompt care, zation, group or individ- Charlie is making a good recovery... -. The Heaths - Sidney Has someone done “ gomething you -.-« Do you need to let off some steam? The Peninsula News Review. realizes. its readers need a place to ‘air their views. If you have something to say, ~ please send your Beefs to all those who take. part in Random Acts door for someone, pick up litter, tell people you ap- ‘to us at PO. Box 2070, Sidney, for a neighbor — there is no end to the = Do Darrell Park : Unity Chu rch of Victoria naticcom. If you're like me, you probably thought that Frequent pathological organism — inherently predestined to scre |. Flyer points were one of the best things that ever hap- ‘ | miles every time you take a plane trip. What a swell idea! ‘bloated’bureaucracy, ‘Ifyou still think that, I know one thing oe It would work like this: A Predatory Bu-- “about you: you've never tried to cash them - ‘| ‘say, ‘the Provincial level, with funds to carry it for two years only. After that, its budget would come solely from the money it saves taxpayers by eliminating waste in other agencies’ budgets. oe “Jn other words, the Predatory Bureau- Flying points, you have to actually call: up © “theairline, 0 Welcome to Call Waiting/Transfer/Eng-. | “lish or French/Domestic or Interna- tional/Elite or Preferred... Hell. --T've run aground on some pretty im- . _ pressive bureaucracies in my time, but: nothing to compare, in incompetence and unwieldiness, with the coast to coast Great Barrier Reef that Air Canada and Canadian Airlines operate behind. ~ It can take weeks of busy signals, “recorded messages and unreturned phone calls to’translate accumulated travel miles into actual travel. I imagine most people simply give up in despair, I know ! did. I re- alized I.could walk from Vancouver to Toronto quicker than L could make the trip using Frequent Flyer points. But why is that? Why does what should be a simple, over-the-phone transaction turn into a desperate mano a - mano between the customer and pure, brute stupidity? - Tean tell you in one word: bureaucracy, And it's not just the airline companies --- it's everywhere. Tried applying for a building permit lately? Or a liquor licence? Or a hos- pital bed? Aine ta BO gh an aa ae Se : A friend in London, England tells me that recently it took him six months.to renew his passport, -.. Six months? What were they doing — having it chis- elled in Carer marble? BOGS Bas ee Bureaucracy. If Modern Life was a single human body, bureaucracy would be the sclerotic sludge that cacaos up . the veins and arteries, ~ What this world needs is a Bureaucratic Bypass — and “John Badmen just may have his hand on the'scalpel; Bad- cracies around it. “Sounds good on first _ that it hinges on the creation of — shud-: ‘crats. _ Inthe meantime, tiny baby steps are being taken here and there to fight the ERE _ © smothering shroud of bureaucracy. This past year, the Defence Minister of India decided to take action against three bureaucrats in his finance de- sponsible for supplying and maintaining government ser- vice in a remote wilderness area of India known at the _ Siachen Glacier — a hostile region of sub-zero tempera tures and 60-mile-an-hour winds. Government workers. nearly four years processing the necessary paperwork, - ‘convenienced, The minister explained that his bureaus: worked fasten”: dle of winter? ‘man with a plan. He calls it Predatory Bureaucracy. | : ~ Agood start, ~~ Badmen starts from the premise that bureaucracy is a ual you need to thank? wish the hadn’t? : 7 : y ~ Gil Change ° Check or Replace Ignition -Decarbonize Head & Adjust Valves ‘and Bouquets submissions . B.C. V8L 385, drop them off at: 9726 First Street, Sidney, fax 656- ~ 9926 or email’ us at. penreview@sa- “Flyer points were one of the best things that ever hap- _ up whatever it's supposed to facilitate. He thinks we need | F=——— ‘| pened to air travel. Imagine! Getting free ‘bonus travel = © to introduce a predator — an organism that feeds on |}. == -cracy would feed on fatter, slower bureau- hearing. The | | only flaw I can see in Badmen’s plan is der — yet one more coven of bureau- partment, These bureaucrats were supposed to be re- stationed on the glacier had made an of ficial request for” half a dozen snowmobiles to make their jobs easier. 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