The Citizen f JHMI F Tuesday June 8 1971 Those new striped mail mailboxes ¬ boxes gee I dont know Yes Yesterday ¬ terday I tried to post a par parcel ¬ cel In a lady tourist from Nebraska I thought It was odd the box having wet lips But Ive learned now to wear glas glasses ¬ ses when I take out the days mall Even if I am addressing the correct red pantsult there Is a lot more reading on the mall box than there used to be Its all part of what the post office department calls As Assured ¬ sured Mall Living In the age of Anxiety entirely surroun surrounded ¬ ded by bug eyed neurosis and the strident call of the screaming meemles wt should I guess be grateful for Assured Mall Assured Mall has the sound of quiet competence 01 well oiled gears smoothlj meshing Of the postmaster general a Charlton Heston figure radiating provlderce his thumb resting lightly on the controls that never fall Just thinking about It slows the nervous tic In my cheek and coaxes my tongue down from the roof of my mouth If you cant afford the time for the operation on your ul ulcer ¬ cer the next best thing is to go out and mall a postcard Before 3pm You are sooth soothed ¬ ed by the certainty that It will be In one of the designated cities the next delivery day regardless of whether you are still here tomorrow I just wish I tould be that sure of making a pick up Tills new assurance of the postal service has already rubbed off on our postman lie now comes on like Cary Grant suave confident bon bonded ¬ ded Its a privilege to pick up his junk mail Nobody needs to be told by mail or otherwise that the dead sureness of Assured Mail reflects the unflappable sang froid of Mr Trudeau Completely assured on skis he rejects the possibility that a blizzard may deter the let Council briefs The lulldlng inspectors le port foi May indicated 0534140 collected In building permits this yeat to date compared to 2282708 to the same tlmp last year Seven city council members will have to wait turns to lead the two copies of the controver controversial ¬ sial 103 page Plunkett leport tecelved this week fiom the Union of B C Municipalities The UBCM commissloned le- poit citculated to various gioups in the piovlnce piedlcted dls astious developments for municipalities unless thepiovln clal government assumes alarg ei share of education and welfaie costs City council Monday gave first tluee leadings to a bylaw to allow lease of a site at the High Highway ¬ way 07 10 junction foi a outh Canada infoimU ion booth oung people financed by fed eial outh pioject money will run the booth until Sept 30 to provide hitch hiking accommo accommodation ¬ dation job and othei infoi na nation ¬ tion to tiavelling joung people Council gave flirt tluee read ings Monday to a bilaw to tenew Eric Nicol Stripes help the lease to Petei Janzen foi a pal -tluee golf couise off High way 10 west near the cemeterj Janzen leases the land fiom ter carrier Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom oi night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their rounds unless you mail mailed ¬ ed after 3 pm As the prime ministers wave of confidence sweeps through the services of the federal government one won wonders ¬ ders where assurance will ooze out next The guaranteed minimum wage has been men mentioned ¬ tioned Perhaps from the de partment of fisheries the In Infallible ¬ fallible rlounder From agri agriculture ¬ culture Warranted Wheat plant It before April guar guaranteed ¬ anteed harvest before fall All this assurance Is apt to be a shock to the system of senior civil servants Or do we Infer that the post of office ¬ fice Is the one branch of fed federal ¬ eral government that is sure to deliver Inflation and unemploymnt come to mind as larger res responsibilities ¬ ponsibilities badly In need of a ssu rabies Do I as an applicant for welfare get faster service 11 I line up In striped boxer shorts Can I be certain that there will be no rise In the price of milk If I get to the cow before 11 00 a m A little reassurance here would be welcome Meantime I have been disturbed by the event of last Sunday when 1 pedalled up to the mall box with my clutch of urgent cor correspondence ¬ respondence and found that the wealth of literature post posted ¬ ed on the new boxes omitted to mention pick up times for Saturdays Sundays and holi holidays ¬ days I stood around anything but assured buttonholing passers-by to ask if they knew the weekend hour of the indu indubitable ¬ bitable Nobody did A small and probably tem temporary ¬ porary oversight no doubt But these days a persons con confidence ¬ fidence can be shaken by very slight aberrations in the ab absolute ¬ solute of certain knowledge Like half assured mail City building close to boom City building activity last month was only slightly short of a boom according to M lyor Harold Moffat The city has Issued 230 build building ¬ ing permits this year compared to 103 to the same time last year the city for five per cent of his gross levenue Girl guides from the eighth company were welcomed toMon days city council meeting then given a brief tour of city hall by Mayor Harold Moffat City council took the first step Mondaj toward creation of a new zoning category a parking lot classification for land outside the downtown coie area A healing Monday will be fol followed ¬ lowed nest week by first three readings to a bylaw to create the new parking category In lesponse to a request by the Square Dancers of Prince Geoige and aiea Mijoi Harold Moffat on Monday pioclalmed the week of Sept 20 to 20 squaiedanceweek A lettei from the square dance club said nioJern squaie dancing Is a family entertainment Associated Engineering Ltd In a letter to city cojncil said studies are underway to find the most economical type of con st met Ion fu a majoi new water Intake system lo ie built by 1073 two miles up tr Ncluko River fiom the cltjs present watei in intake ¬ take pump system t the old Ne chako bridge The englneeilng fiim saldfur thei lepoits will come as studies piogiess The city will wilte the YM Y C V to ask w hat plans the Y has to build on a site near Twentieth and Came leserved for them Bike-a-thon tried for Crisis Centre The Crisis Centie will take advantage of the latest two wheel fad In Pilnce Geoige The Ml ti to laise money with a bike-a-thon It can be 1 family fun day moie than a fund iaislng event centre dliectoi Chailene Howe said It will be a chance foi the community to get together The bike-a-thon planned foi June 27 w HI raise money to help pay Cilsis Centre opeiat lng costs The 18 mtle loute will start at the Tort George Paik stock stockade ¬ ade and tiavel along Taylor Ash and Patiicla then acioss the old Fi asei bi idte and past the alr poit to the Highway 07 junction r and back along 07 Into town and to the stockade The distance can be covered two or tluee times and prizes donated by local businesses will be aw aided In a wide range of categories Riders will gather pledges for each mile covered Following the bike riding which will last fiom 1 p m to 5 p m a singalong and picnic will be held in roit George Park The community can get to gethei to have a singalong and learn more about the Crisis Cen Centre ¬ tre Mis Howe said Although the Crisis Centre has sufficient financial resources for June and July they wish to plan ahead Wilderness was their classroom By Moira Maclennan Citizen Staff Reporter A microscope a jelly like substance on a slide and a grade seven student A typical classroom scene except there was no class classroom ¬ room Or rather the classroom was the wilderness environ environment ¬ ment of Camp Mclnnis the Junior Forest Warden sum summer ¬ mer camp 30 miles from Prince George Thursday was Open House Day for Highglen Elemen Elementary ¬ tary s week long outdoor school A Im of the school wa s to give grade 0 and 7 students an op opportunity ¬ portunity to pursue in depth topics relevant to the study of ecology The camp setting removed from what teachers Dick Rosebrugh and Rick Bryan called the artificiality of the classroom The student preparing to examine the jelly under the microscope was Bernl Man tal He had collected frogs eggs from different partsofTsitnlz Lake I want to see if theres any difference Gene Lestage was to ex examine ¬ amine leaf sections with his microscope but right now Ive got a mosquito In here Ah yes the mosquitos they were a sure sign this was no artificial classroom But Helde Seida a grade 0 student took a remarkably po positive ¬ sitive view of the situation Were kind of fortunate she said Only the females bite What If males and females bit oh wow In addition there was plenty of Insect repellant Highglen School has been preparing for the outdoor school for a considerable per period ¬ iod of time As the outdoor program leaned toward social studies and science classroom studies In the winter months were strongly orientated to toward ¬ ward math and the language arts Safety rules were taught successfully Bryan said Thursday there had been no accidents In addition each child ar arrived ¬ rived at the camp having made up his or her mind on a topic for independent study Mike Worthmann chose birds and saw grebes and woodpeckers while he was out in a canoe A book from the library pro provided ¬ vided Information to supple supplement ¬ ment his own observations Further data perhaps Ig Ignored ¬ nored by Mike was given by Darryl Hora a cub who once camped near a woodpeckers nest The birds are noisy even at night he said Other projects included Sheilla Von Nlessens stud of water hardness Jed Camp Campbells ¬ bells drawings of the sort of microscopic animals In water and Heldes dissec dissection ¬ tion of fish As it was Open House Day and guests would be coming for supper said the girls the gophers had plenty of work to do when studies were over Gophers The people who go for plates and go for forks and things like that they explained B MHBHBBBsSBslsssi vi BBai 4 SvBKvOtfsiIViSHHtfli taiF J jz iBBrrw r 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