Wednesday, July 7, 1999 _ COMMENTARY ______ PENINSULA NEWS REVIEW 7

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% asels of bouquets to | ing and afternoon, to get the students and parents across
artist Paul Poulsen : Wallace Drive safely. Their concern for the safety

@ for staging such a of our children is very much ap-

successful art show in preciated. Butchart Gardens’ in-

our barn at Ravenhill volvement in the community is

Herb Farm in: June. one of the reasons that Brent-

The commission of 20 wood Bay is a great place fF rs —

per cent raised $460 to live. . j BUYING or SELLING...

for the Pioneer Mu- Parents Advisory council | | know our community and would be

seum Saanichton, per- . Brentwood pee! proud to serve as your Realtor!
mitting the. Museum se

to work on its re-wiring - ; ROB THATCHER |
project. Big bouquets of | a 655-4451
Barnsful of bouquets, ‘thanks to all those ey

too, to all- those. who
put old barns to creative
use: to Annie Scoons’ re-
cent . successful: fund- -
raising event for pallia-
tive care at the Saanich
Peninsula. Hospital -
~which raised $2500;
Louise. Rose and. her’.
Good. News. Choir, local
poets Lorna’ Crozier and

who so generously

gave of their

time, effort and

donations for our

‘first garage sale,

~ June 19. Special
bouquets to. the
‘many businesses -
who contributed and

to the volunteers. “

Quality Furniture
Upholstery —

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Tryntje Horn, Bite
Patrick Lane and Arthur Black . J
“of the CBC who raised the rafters, with | oe, , Margaret ae A
song, poetry and laughter. Let us keep - and Heather Hives

_and preserve the old barns of the Peninsula ie _ NANA Foundation 4

: xa and enjoy. their wonderful spaces.

‘ave you got. something. to |
‘say? A Beef ora Bouquet?
S Please send your submis-
sions to: PO. Box 2070, Sidney, | B.C: V8L 355, drop them off.
at 9726 First Street, Sidney; fax 656-5526 or email us at pen-

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B. Giving you personalized service’: Ss 6655 Trudeau Terrace,
~ for more than 13 years ere iNoed 1 Bay So aggh 2

“Noe! Richardson, Ravenhill aoe Farm

ea Huge bouquets to the Butchart Gardens for p
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‘ummer is indisputably here and I'm blue, because i the latest Travis ¢ McGee.
John D. Macdonald isn’t. es <> Then John D. Macdonald up and died, the ‘besiee”

» Here,|mean: en ae ~~ Leaving me high and dry in the Summer Light Trash ~ it ; ie a : -
: Mister MacD heeded that rmiost imperative of nature’ s reading department. He 656-00 13
calls — i.e. he croaked — a few years back. Beforehe © I've gota couple of prétty good subs, Elmore Leonard pa.

died, though, he brightened my summer reading list for | writes wickedly well about the Detroit underworld.
more years than I can remember. He did that by pump- _ When it comes to American dialogue, Leonard has per-
ing out at least one Travis McGee thriller every spring. fect pitch.
Travis McGee?’ He was the hero of a whole s seriesof Reading a Leonard pared is like sitting ina bar near
John D. Macdonald books. . . Pe Tg the Joe Louis arena and eavesdropping. .
McGee was basically a beach. bum. He iver Alas, Hollywood has discovered Elmore .
lived on a houseboat in Florida, and all that west coast movie moolah
McGee spent his days reading books, -- seems to be going to his head. His latest.
: drinking gin, smoking Erinmore Flake books take place i in locales like Cuba and
co and romancin the. local
pipe rebace ime : He s still good, but I miss the Detroit
But then — and here’ s where every | ‘twang,
Travis McGce novel takes off — someone — Robert B Parker’ s good, too - ~ now and
would show up with a problem involving _ ‘| then. His usual hero is a wisecracking .
money. It might be a crooked uncle, a | “a. Boston Pl. named Spenser who quotes
cheating business partner, a theft, a : ‘poetry, lifts weights, dates a shrink and
burglary —- some situation in which blows away bad guys about every 13°
somebody took something that didnt. pages,
belong to them.” Unfortunately the quality of the
Travis McGee would agree to try - Spenser stories is uneven, A cracking
and get That Something back —- with- good one can be followed by a pathetic
out benefit of police assistance or the: eer turkey ofa tale,
courts of the land. er ‘You just never know with Robert B. Parker.

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the slaintiff agreed to ive T ravis 50 percent Which leaves me where? Precisely where J was at the | UA deetehie
gl return he! lati agro . beginning of this whinge: with summer: here and nary a forts and feet :
That how. McGee kept up payments on his dockage ee oe |. - contest rules. 7
McGce wasn't exactly an outlaw, but he didn't always It occurs to me that John D Macdonald's been gone me be
play ti the Marquis of Queensbury rules either, He for at least: 10 years, which means it’s been a decade» -

| “fixed situations” with his brains when he could: with his since Tread my last Travis McGee ~ and probally three:

| fists when necessary; and from time to time with acom- decades since I read my first one,

mando knife, a Glock nine mil or agrenade launcher, Lord knows my memory Isn't what it was -— and it

‘And since he was a certified Good Guy, the Bad Guys al- ~ wasn't much even then, I could probably start the

: ways got what they deserved, Travis MeGee series all over again and not peocaige a
Jt made for some very. thrilling thrillers and for n good — things .

oe years I began my summer reading list each yeur with: oss Whoopee! Quick Red Fox, he re J come,

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