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Wednesday, September 15, 1999

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uffel bags full of bou-
quets to Jack

584 “Ganivescep :
& would lke to Thank You f

Bouquets to all the volunteers who made our Saanich Fair
such a great success! I know my friends Ruth Maf-

¢- . Vaughan and the foot and Cynthia Keck put in days

staff at the Thrift Shop and a lot of effort. Thanks to all por Youre Suyapaort

on Third Street. After our that who did the same thing. m2 4

our children’s bag full We all appreciate your time oin-us Sept 48th :

of ‘travel toys’ disap- and talents. ; ae = :
peared during our oth- Grace Hicks E

erwise enchanting two- Sidney

week stay in Sidney-by- 5

the-Sea, Jack helped up y

replenish the toy supply ” STARTI NG FRI DAY :

— for under $15! Thanks,
also, to the lady on the
Pier to directed us to

the Thrift Shop. Sidney is
a part of the world worth liv-
ing: in. We will be back

gr as some-
one gone

se, out of ,
their way to do a
good. deed, = or

FOR LOVE OF THE GAME

Kevin Costner, Keily Preston

THE CASTLE
OUTSIDE PROVIDENCE - Fi, sat Tue
FEST OF THE BEST:

Snedyeal } commit a random Looney Tunes for a Toonie - Sat 12 - 4 & Sun.1:15 Only :
The Jordan Byack family “act of Hinvibiess that : CALL FOR dra surask: Sdcog” :

~ Peterborough, Ontario” you would like to ac- or a ‘

~ knowledge (or per- qv MES 653-1171 ‘
: Bikeloads of bouquets haps, something that :

to all those who sup- :
_. ported my campaign for
_»,Cops for Cancer. Your gen- ©
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over $5,00 in the fight against this

‘manages to get un-
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- The Peninsula News Re-

Grea dful disease. The funds will form view realizes there are. | "Victoria
part of the 1999 Cos for Cancer campaign, Ses when justia thank ate | Depart rtures :
which is still underway on Vancouver Island with you or a shaken fist won't do. If you SHERATON PRI :
: the four 7 Sees Together we can make a differ: have something. to. share, please iy NCESS
ae ; send. your cubmission§ to PO: Box 2070, Sidney, B.C. -V8L RARULANT oct 4-25

Andy we Deputy Chief Constable «38S. Or you can drop them off at 9726 First Street, Sidney; Hotel Room, Koivloni 07

fax them to 656.5526, or. email us at Penrevi iew Osan com

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songs” = the ones written in the 30s, 40s ies Billy Mac is a detective down 11. Texas: “Island Home Contre

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and 50s. You know he know just exactly —

~ “Because they're better songs than any- what the facts ts ;
thing written today” Torme replied. : He ain't gonna let those two L
He pointed out that “the old songs” were escape justice ;
really poems, written by word masters at He makes his living off other. At i:
the top of their craft. Old time songwrit- people's taxes. Ae 7

Anybody who'd try to rhyme ‘taxes’
with ‘Texas’ ought to be sent directly to
the Lubbock Elementary School of

ers actually thought about what came out f
of singers mouths. ah
“Beautiful melodies are lovely, but #
they’ re just the icing. The lyrics are the AK Songwriting.
cake.” In the song Live and Let Die, Paul
| The Velvet Fog’ knew whereof he crooned, Popular McCartney takes the Preposterous Prepositioning Prize
songs written by the greats ~ Cole Porter, Johnny Mer- — with his line; -
cer, Hoagie Carmichael, Canada’s own Gene Lees — are But in this ever-changing world i in which we live in...
elegant and beautiful and profound -—- themes and But for flat-out pretension, nothing I've heard can touch
thoughts and verses so well-crafted they make you want the lyrics of the flatulent melodrama MacArthur Park in
to carry them around in your head, pofehing them like es Richard Harris, to his everlasting shame, warbles; -

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the gems they are, metres » Between the parted pages and were pressed Whe
Then there's modern pop music — the stuff written In love's hot, fevered iron
since the 50s oo Uthe a striped pair of pants
Oh, sure, some of it's catchy and cute, but most modern If that one doesn't shatter the Gagometer nothing will. H
| pop lyrics are as flimsy and forgettable as used Kleenex. Puts me in mind of something a famous lyricist by the |. eo -
“And much of it is downright atrocious, “name of Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais once, te
Remember Donovan? In his pop song J Love My & Shirt said: . a Am “
he penned some of the dumbest song lyrics ever to violate : Today, ifsomething is not worth saying, = a4 a recat
ancardrum; ae people singih, oh he. i eat
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