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Era Out Wed THE ERA Serving County Since RHASKELL TERRY CARTER JOHN LOTT is not a big community but umbers among its inhabitants who suffer from some form of ritis About of them have a pretty bed or what mobility a provides Another or so are bled to the extent that their earning their capacity for enjoyment are ailed for all of them the quality of life he popular image of the arthritic is that i person of advanced age waiting for Illness of all ages many elderly but there are little babies with it too and young men unable to carry on their work and provide for their families there are young housewives for whom the simplest tasks of childcare and housekeeping are extremely difficult some times impossible What can lie clone for these people What is being done A few years ago not much But in its year- the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society has carried on a program of research professional education and patient care Much of this revolves aro und the Rheumatic Disease Units now Important first step But more Rheumatic Disease Units are needed the goal is one for every Canadian medical to help patients to train specialists and to carry on research leading to improved therapy and some day a cure and the means of prevention How can you help First if you suspect you are having troubles with your own joints see your doctor at once Second wel come the CARS canvassers when they call Give what you can and some day arthritis will be only a memory Georgina Township last week took the t step to obtain some muchneeded Lake shoreline for public use Council with only one dissenting voice take an option on some acres land in the south Keswick area By tak- on the land it doesnt mean will necessarily buy it But it shows this years council is inter ested in more shoreline and park- Mayor George Burrows has long been an advocate in acquiring Lake shoreline for public use and it is hoped that his coun cil feels the same way It is hoped that a large segment of the townships residents back Mayor Burrows The reasons for acquiring public Lake shoreline First there is very little of it availi at present and secondly it is easier to trol pollution when shoreline is publicly Added to these reasons the uses for public are almost limitless The Region of York is fortunate to a body of water offering Mich its doorstep NEWSROOM NOTES Seagulls and oysters and things A couple of funny things happened to me holidays this year One was peculiar the other was haha I went out to British Columbia this year attend the Canadian Community Association annual convention and to me of Canada that Ive never seen I carted along the Spending Half this r and we had a beautiful room g an office building t I had placed a paper bag of go- I had these goodies to provide sustin- to some of my newspaper colleagues came up to my room to enjoy a social Such types as Bang Bang Maxwell Lady Killer Keough Charley Tri une Bulgy Barker and others like to munch nd nibble while they quaff their firewater Room service prices are atrocious lly to satisfy the tastes of these gentlemen who suddenly have very expensive tastes when somebody else is picking up the tab so I nought bug of goodies at a nearby After a foray by some of the aforementioned gentlemen and their depar ture I placed the remnants of the goodies bag on the window ledge and forgot about and a couple of gentle clunks I My two sausage rolls a halfpound of smoked cheese a tin of cheese two bagels and a dill pickle That was the funny haha now for the funny peculiar The Spending Half and were returning to Vancouver from a twoday boat trip from the tip of Vancouver Island to Prince Rup ert It is about a three hour car ride from Bay to where you hoard the ferry for a twohour trip to Vancouver A friend of mine Ron Lawrence a form er newspaper colleague who has gone legiti mate and is writing bought a house on the ocean about 18 miles north of Nana- THE Readers ERA This space is reserved for the comments opinions and drawings of The Eras rend ers Please feel free to send yours a long All we ask is that you include your name and address Not fair to as saying She Is category mentally retarded that good an is why she did it Thats there ar r Editor As the of a lleally now Mr chilli I must claims lhat ho has Our lhat Im greatly lis worked with these many point them that many eel the Many of us BILL GAMBLE One more egg and 11 be cracked BILL SUGAR AND SPICE Farewellold car on foot now While we were there I asked him if he would show me his ocean and salmon We strolled down to the shore and to my amaze ment I saw hundreds upon hundreds of oy ster shells Are those oyster shells I cunningly asked Yes implied Hon you can help yourself to oysters any lime you want around here Since I hud never eaten a real live oyster freshly plucked from the sea I nipped down to the ocean and plucked one Ron cut the little beauty open with his trusty pocket knife and I popped the little in mouth a- 1 was nut to swallow it 1 thought I would give it one small crunch with my teeth so as to get its full flavor Together came my teeth crunch came my teeth on something hard Id struck a pearl Now it wasnt a big pearl about twice the size of this capital 0 you see before you hut it was the first pearl I ever found in oyster and the first Ive ever heard anybody else finding Some day Im going to go back to Rons oyster bed and I hope my first experience wasnt just beginners luck freely admit many limitations The famous sculptor may announce even with a certain amount of pride that hes unable to drive a car and the truckdriver when a if be understands the Theory of Rela tivity will be quite frank in admitting that he doesnt Theres nothing shameful about being un able to do another mans job or another womans And thai brings me to my point The cold truth is you see Im not very bandy at cracking eggs And furthermore I recently discovered that women are much better egg- crackers than men Heres the way it happened My wife bad gone away for a couple of days As she is leaving she pie ruled Willi me for the 100th lime You wont forget to it now will you Dont worry I answered when I got hungry Ill fry some bacon and eggs theres nothing to it Anyway thats what thought but lets face il just wasnt built for cracking eggs Maybe Im Impatient perhaps I have the wrong temperament for it I dont know But one thing do know theres more to cracking an egg than moots the eye Its art And which is more its art that can reveal a mans whole psychological and philosophical character The way he stands the manner in which he holds the egg whe ther he clutches in the right hand or the When I had changed my slacks and mop ped up the floor I tried once more This lime I remembered about the thumbs and was careful in cuddling the egg in the fleshy parts of my talons The egg however having been in the fri dge for a couple of days was extremely cold I managed to get its content to the garbage nail with a minimum of spillage Well it looks as though any more travel ling I do before summer bids us farewell will be on foot Kim passed her driving test today It was a pretty tense morning for both of She was afraid she might fail her teat I as afraid might pass it Just to complicate matters he turned up for her test at 30 am only to discover that was slated for pm She claims it their mistake but knowing my daugh- to work her in at am when else failed to show up So that meant I had time for only about cigarettes a I waited pretending to read the morning it gave me a chance to look at the people preparing for their tests Quito a cross- section They ranged from a skinny 16-year- old boy who wanted driver a license for his motorcycle to an old chap with a hearing aid and almost blind in his left eye Both passed hut I hope I never meet either on the high- Then a couple of former students of mine walked in They are the type who have prob ably been driving for several years without a license and have finally been nailed They are pleasant lads but while neither is dumb er than an ox neither is smarter Their procedure typical They filled out the application cards wrong and had to three out of squares ticked off I tossed them a word of It might be easier if you could read and write eh they just grinned Peter retort ed Yeah we gonna sleep in all them there English classes Fine physical specimens theyll probably make excel lent but dangerous drivers Im not implying that the driving teats arc easy Theyre quite tough When I got my license the job of testing aspirants a political sinecure The tester told me to ar rive at his pi of business at pm He locked up the store told me to drive him home eight blocks I gave him two bucks that was it When my wife got hers some years later it was the same procedure The police chief had her pick him up at the office they Today theres a whole battery of physical tests a written test on the rules of the road and the actual driving test A good many people are flunked and Im all for that What Id really like to see is a compulsory test for driver about every two years and a good stiff one Could you pass Jack with your color blindness Could you pais lady with your total inability to parallel park Could you pass Grandad with your arthritis I think a great many of us would be put out to pns- Anyway Kim returned I expected to see her with a face as long as a foot She was beaming My heart sank Theres going to be a fight here every day until she gets beck to school the other one in the skillet As you may know an eggshell which has been frying in a sizzling skillet for a few il minutes can get frightfully hot Hud it not been for the blisters on my finger I truly believe my next attempt would quali fied me for the Good Housekeeping Seal got it as far as the skillet and except for a few dribbles of albumen which managed to escape down the side of the stove I honestly claim that I one total egg hi position for frying Rut a few fragments of shell seemed to have gotten in as well and they tore the yolk to shreds turning what was meant to he a fried egg into a very egg I am by nature a man of fairly even disposition Yet somehow theres something maddening about failing to get a simple lit tle egg into a skillet in one piece Perhaps I shouldnt have kicked the stove After all there must he a civilized way to crack an egg successfully With grim determination I grabbed an other egg and struck As I mentioned be- fore a mans personality his idiosyncrasies can bo evaluated from the way he cracks an This attempt laid bare the hidden hasti ness in my character It would have been perfect try had it reached the skillet think the next egg had a faulty shell for it broke in my band even before I got it out of the fridge It went all the way down to the top of the freezer what a occurred to me that perhaps I was approaching this eggcracking thing the wrong way perhaps was cracking them the wrong way round I decided to crack one lengthwise It was at this point that I began to curse everyone who ever cracked an egg successfully I I a few hens when I was at it Were it not for hens we would not have eggs in the first place In those moments of despair I felt that I would die happy if never saw egg In any case the bacon turned black and was no longer hungry so I took the whole mess skillet and all and flung it across the vacant lot I then went back to my twenty sixer which I shouldnt have in the first place