a Rozalynde McKibbin Continued from Page Al4 han yours,” or “My house is child. Sidney Some parents, through necessity, — bigger and more expensive than Thus, the children grow: up ' : , . just clothe their children from yours, ” or, “IT have more toys than expecting nothing but ‘the best Billowing thrift shops and rummage sales. — you.’ while the parents worry how nuisance This clothing may be last year’s Now is the time -to nip these — they’ll meet their creditors. These styles but it is clean and paid for. — show-offs in their designer labels. children are in for a rude awaken- Editor: There are children who dictate to and puta stop to this cruelty. Some ing if their balloon suddenly bursts Itis a very hot afternoon and 1 their parents just what will be children are tough-skinned and try and their parents cannot afford to | sit with my guests for a quict cup purchased despite the cost and to ignore the put-downs, others. give them everything they whine “of tea. on my back patio. Forty feet their parents will bow to the whin- cannot so there is much hurt. for. 7 _ away, behind a high cedar hedge, ing and say “charge it” to their Some underprivileged children Some children are, chastised by there isa familiar crackling sound, child’s every whim, whatever the have newspaper routes, some the bullies because they choose to An a moment smoke and small cost. gather pop: cans and bottles, some — go home after school to help with pieces of ash fill the air around us During my research for this babysit —- not to buy luxurics, but chores ‘or young siblings or to and enter the open-windowed letter, I even came across prejudice — to help the financial burden at. practise music Icssons (not at all house. We must go in and close the against a child who befriended a home. Some older children will ‘‘cool’’) and don’t wish to. hang windows and doors. §) — @undicapped child — “there must resort to shoplifting, sclling drugs, © Two days ago it was the same ae be something wrong if you keep hanging out with that geek!” Maybe it’s. time the. public school system adopted the wearing of school uniforms — all the students would then be dressed the same. But then; what would these young snobs have to tease about? How about, “My bike is better cic. just to keep their appearances amongst their peers. This is mirrored in the behavior ~ of some adults who try to portray a successful lifestyle. by charging many possessions.and mortgaging themselves to the hilt as they try to give their children all the things ‘they themselves never had as a_ teaching our children. TheReview ‘OUL in street-corncr gangs that ultimately get into mischief. _These are the kids who ask ‘““What? You clean your own room? My mother cleans mine — I don’t have to do chores and , sull get my allowance.” Perhaps now is the time to ask ourselves just what values we arc Fancy Patronize any .of these restaurants then clothes do not-make the man, woman or child it’s what’s inside that really counts, and on Labour Day smoke bil- lowed and swirled for five hours. | love my garden and spend much time tending if but I can never be sure that I can enjoy it . without smoke, Whatever can be being burnt so often? My garden is large yet I dispose of waste with- out any fires at all and there is Wednesday, September 20,1989 — Ald submit your meal receipt together with - the coupon on this page to the Review ¢ within 10 days. A drawing will be heid every week from entries received during the previous week. One winner per week, for 13 weeks will receive a $25 Dinner Voucher. | ($35 if you’re a Review Subscriber) _ . N CLIP and MAIL. —~e | PO. Box 2070, SIDNEY, B.C. VaL 385 ‘SUBSCRIBER YES] NOQ- _ PHONE _ . CITY: : RESTAURANT PATRONIZED - Tyne REVIEW RESTAURANT GUIDE» excellent garbage disposal. I know that there is a bylaw prohibiting open fires at certain times, but not legal incinerators. Yet often several times a week smoke invades my house and gar- den, This has gone on for. years and J have written. to municipal council and to individual alder- men, but no solution scems to have been considered. 1.have suggested that if people must burn perhaps a bylaw could designate days when this may happen so that the non-burners can arrange to close our houses and -go out. Sidney is not .an unserviced rural backwater where cach. resi- dent must attend to his own waste disposal. Jt is a compact, beauti- fully kept and serviced little town, with lovely houses and many car- ing people. Surely it must be worthy of a better arrangement to curb the nuisance of polluting, harmful and. ‘unnecessary smoke. Muriel H. 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