Page A8 | THE REVIEW 9781-2nd St., Sidney B.C. Wednesday, June 7, 1989

They'll make carrot cake out of me, | suppose

Attempts to positively identify writer. readers. tion letters iat fale suspicions.
the writer of the following letter However, the criticism In another era, this letter would Is this Buy) the Lacombe that 8
failed. included is important enough — —_ have been run in The Review's plays hockey? Or is he a relative

No Joe Lacombe is listed in despite the Western Wrestling Readers’ Mailbox — perhaps of Father Lacombe, the great
the Victoria phonebook, and no . Federation level of communica- when Hugh Nash, for example, Catholic missionary whose name
return address was included on tion —- I thought it imperative — edited these pages. was given to a Central Alberta
the envelope to help us track its that I share its contents with These days, however, we ques- community I know intimately?

In any case, perhaps I have
misjudged the level of devasta-
lion rejecting vegetables can
cause.

So to the Lacombe family, I
can only offer my regrets. .

I can only assume young Joe
was forced to leave behind the
family farm and move west, only

MORE AND MORE CUSTOMERS AND Pe a ceanen
COMMUNITY LEADERS AGREE: "| ory

RETAIL POSTAL OUTLETS OFFER si: tower

BETTER SERVICE FOR YOU. | Regma goon

(“Then there was the day of the
great rutabagas,”” The Last Word,
The Review, May 31).

I suppose you think you're
pretty big stuff sitting stiffly in a
soft chaise where you look downgy
at all us litthe farmers growing
vegetables?

_ Look, don’t you think I remem-

| ‘ —_ | ber the day my mother brought —
“ST RIND THE POSTAL SERVICE tips carrots into you and you led
er on and on and on and then said

VERY CONVENIENT. 99 | they were dumb. Don’t deny it. .

You didn’t actually say “dumb,”

_ Myrtle Gilligan, customer, — God, it Wook us thre weeks to
biood d d
Tulameen, British Columbia another three to steady her pulse, ©

And the drug costs? Had to sell the
animals, then the machinery bit by
bit and finally the farm but it was
no use. a

“Ma just Jay in bed popping pills,
surrounded by cushions and.
clutching her carrots: We buried ©
her that way. Instead of forget-me- -

Reta Postal Outlets across the country offer Canada Post customers | ina gone ee }

_ more access to postal products and services. On average, hours of «| as puted up a bit but nee

> refused to touch her carrots.

‘Like you.

~ postal service operation have more than doubled in communities =|, 00 Bes ope now

“don’t forget that. Sidney. is-sur-

oe | “sounded by farming of one kind gp 3° :
- where service has changed from a post office to a Retail Postal Outlet ee sats an ke whe mae
oon by local business. Thousands of rural Canadians | can now: ; ep ee dbo rel arming news| oe
oe | “special carrots, every wee |
purchase stamps. or ‘pick up mail i in v the evening ¢ or on | weekends. ee eer
eee b Hoe eae” |
Zalm in the nude kissing the steps
of the Legislature, on top of which
~ is Grace McCarthy expressing her

ACS. 7

; disapproval, with her little finger, | a.
; Pll be in. next week, You be
/ ‘there, | "
a a Joe Tacombe

Victoria
7 ey GOOD WAY TO PROVIDE
REAL SERVICE FOR SMALL
| COMMUNITIES.”
i |. Ernie Willis, Area Director,
7 |. Tulameen, British Columbia

Central

Saanich - |

gets help with |
police costs

Policing costs in Central Saa-
nich received a boost Monday.

An independent police equaliza-
tion. grant of over $340,000. was
oo presented to Mayor Ron Cullis by

oO _ - : Soe Oo |} Saanich and The Islands MLA.
—— - _ au tte us ees wee ee, em na ao ~ 1) Mol -Couvelier, on behalf of
re a ae ES = _ a : Oe , ae Municipal Affairs Minister Rita
; _ 4 _ . eh ) . us : ‘ a :

Tulameen Area Director Ernie Willis says the Retail Postal Outlet =| ous

Couvelier said Ihe Subject of

~ oo rovincial, help for municipal —
~ established : in his town, when postal services were converted f0 a | ries forces ad ee the sun

fest gcennee
local business, has hada positive impact on the community. “Using Seto ht Z si coe
; ow those with municipa

focal business to provide the service helps the small business Je Reg ges it ae the ane

/ funding: arrangement ‘that every >
. oe | 1 other aunietpality has has," Convel-
ane re EE (00 | :
person as swell, aoe ne | re — - Cullis said he was pleased to
re : a a receive the contribution on behalf - am
Of the taxpayers, Weare Apprecia-
tive of the SUPPort and will pat it:
to. fAOd Use;
Grants were provided for the:
we | | “costs of independent policing of
. . Wyo 1. up te 5,000 of the commumity's
. ne popu ation, or | the AMOUNL pro-
e a Wider ‘MP
Canada Post Corporation i is delivering on its pI omise. 25 Gastar ascent oe mm

cost sharing agreement for munici-

~ We’re in rural Canada to stay. — | ita mle

. Policing. costs-in Central Sang)
: | | | = - oo - ce PCH tor 1989 ayer: budgeted at
‘nena rn about $1.43 million, |

A total of 11 other municipalite |

ae - — 1 ies in the province bewelitud. fom oo
M Al L =>POS T] pL the equalization grants oe

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