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Octobor ls upon us, the month whenml l l l ons o f Csnad lan tu rkeys a res tu f fed , t russed, bas ted and baked,Amerlcan turkeyr have a monthrE re-prloye. October lc slso the month ofghoctr and gobllnr, playlng trlcks andseeklng treats on the last nlght of themonth. And dontt forget to rFall backton October 20thl We plan to rleep lnfrom 8 to I on Sunday mornlng, then wakeup and set the clock back an hour, ands leep ln aga ln f rom I to 9 . What a 'trest !

My apologles to Katharlne Jennlngs,our cover srtist for last l8sue. I notonly spelled your name wrongf I gave youa lob ln Vaneouverl (Katharlne works asan art teacher In Vlctorla.l

The beautlful arctlc loon floatlngln the kelp bed on our October cover lsfrom a pen and Ink drawlng by one ofBamf le ld rs reg lden t a r t l s te , AnneStewart . She ts also reoponelble forthe dramatlc lnterpretatlon of BradyfrBeach on tho last page of thlt lssue.Thank you, Anne. As most of us alreadyknof,r, the loon and Bradyrs Beach areava l lab le as no tecards a t Anne andLlndslts General Store. An asEortmentof slx csrds ls $4.00, lndlvidual cerds

are only $.70. A bargain at twlce thepr lce!

James Ferrls dld almost all of theed l t lng th ls month , a$ ve l l as thetyplng and prlntlng and addrelslng. Oh,and vrl:tlng hls column and formatlng mystory, too. Our thankr to our nelghborsBob and Bart Camerort' who came ln from asuccessful cummer of trolllng for galmonand dropped over to hetp Jtm get the.whole pspsr collated ln one evenlng, a'very dull tvo or three scsslon lob forone person. If,ve been ln Port Albernlteach lng cc lence a t the h tgh echoo lslnce mld-September, only here to helpout on the weok-Gnds. Maybe lrll rrrlteabout the hlgh school nexi month; thlemonth lrve been too busy, settlng 'up

labs and marklng paper! and gettlng toknow my group of 180 student&

Many thanks to all of our regularand falthful contrlbutors, who contlnueevery month to make the Bsrhley Soundera unlque and hlghly enJoyable rea.dlngexperlonce. Speclal thanks thls monthto Al l{ltcombe, Pllot of ttle PISCES tVsubmerrlble and Arctlc Correspondent totho Barkloy Soundar, who ls now varmtngup agaln st hls home ln Vlctorla.

The artlcle about the Erlcsson lsone whlch I wrote recently for a maJorCanedlan magazlne, based ln Toronto.They accepted lt, and even peld me forIt, but ln the ond they decided not to

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p r i n t i t . ?h ; " a re $ome beau t l f u lunderwater photographs of the wreck andthe pleces salvnged frorn l t , taken byNeil McDanlel, but they need ta be seenln color to be appreclated, so we a'renttab le to l nc lude them w l th th * 6 to ry "Meanwhlle, vhy not share the story wlththose f o r t uns te t cogno$cen t i r whocompo$e our readershlp?

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I had my flrst helteopter rlde theother day. I ctlll have a scnEo of von-dor when I try nev thlngs. I ftnd ttlmposstble to be blas-e about the wor-ders we wltness Gvcry day' I was talklngto the pllot, and we.both remember whenthey flrst lntroduced tauto-gyro$.i Theywere rotors on top of a flxed-wlng alr-craft. I gueas the thesry was that theygave add l t lona l l l f t and wou ld au to-rotato lf you lsst pov/er' letttng yotldown so f t l y . They wers nover re* l l ypopular, and the progresslon lnto hell-copter$ rras a natural sne. The dogs andI dntoyed the trlp. Th* dogs dldnrt seeln

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I had the opportunlty to valk thetrall to and fram Cape Beale. It ls theflrst tlme that I have doae lt, and Iwas pleaeantly *urprlsed at vhat a nlcewalk lt le. The remalne of the old tralla re everywhere . l t wou ld be n lce l fsomsthlng wae done to upgrade the trslla l l t t le , I t lg a f lne day h lke , v l ththe llghthou*e at the end, and a realasset to the communltl. $ome of the oldbrldgea and walks are dengerou$. Wtth bomuch emphaels on tourlct orlented Bctlv-I ty, l t would seem that the bcrt andmost obvtoui th lnge ars ml l red. Noteveryone ls golng to Erpo. Somc peopleItke to got out ln the burh and communewl th n&turs . I wou ld ra ther see thetrall developed than see a gtft rhop on

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Have you notlced the lncrease lnyeung chlldren ln Barnfleld? I understandthat there le a pre-achool betng con-duetod here . I am g lad to see l t . Ayouns populatlon ls a Joyou* thlng andspeaka wel l for the f uture of ourvl I lage.r I r - t t I I t r f r t t t r | | | t I

I uced the Bemfleld branch of theV*ncouver Island Publlc Ltbrary for theflrst tlme. You should uee lt lf you do

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not, They havo a flne solectlon of boakrsof all klndg, and can srder other bookefor you from a. very large and comprohon*slve llst. Roadlng makes the long wlnterevonlngs rnore bearable, and i t a loolncroaaes your knowledge. tiVhy.not aryI t?c o t o c o o o o o e o o c o c o o t o

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' STROKE,STR$KA!Rowlng the Broken GrouP

byGraham E l I t$ ton

Part Two

I didntt land on elther Mulltns orOnlon leland, but dld take tlme to do abtt of beach*comblng along l{lebe beforertrlklng out for Sfflngham at ?;30. Therrlnd was brlok and there was qulte achop ln the channel, maklng me feol verymuch alone tn all that water, The $kyaround Vtllagc Rsef rras full of cormo-ran t8 , whoo l lng about In svarmr l t ksrtar l lngr" I t sal a fasclnat lng alght,almort foaclnatlng enough to take rnymtnd off kl-ller vh.alos, when *uddenlyover my rlght rhoulder a volce calmlyaald, iHorrdyli Tho aound uas $o unex-pected that my wholo system went llmpand I could barely r€turn the kayakerrsgreatlng vhen he rtklmmed lnto vlewl

The landfs l l s t the o ld v i l lagoslte oc Efflngham war Just perfeet, Whata happy place that mutt have been,tollve Inl Hererg vhere I got tha aecondgcare o f the t r lp . Immedla te ly a f te rbeach lng t lo boat I headed fo r th€

gr8s$y area above tho high water markwhere the old vtllago had been. I was soent ranced w l th the s lgh t snd fee l o fg res$ and moss, th l r t les and dragon-flles, that I vanderod about for flfteenmlnutes or so. When I roturned to thebeach the boat was floatlng frso anddrlf ttng rapldly away on the offshorebroeee. Not betng much of a swlmmer,th ls l c a r l tua t lon I a lway* fear andusua l ly take ex t ra carg to p revent .Fortunately I had only to go ln up to miwalat to grab the trall lng l lne, but lfItd been any longer In thc voodr thbboat would mo$t cortalnly have beenbeyond resch,

Efflngham { also called Vlllags} lsthe largest of the lslands and lt lmms-dlately lmpreeres tho v ls l tor v l th l tsabll lty to support l l fe, The old vtl lagerlte recallr by-gone days, sttl l rytthtnmsmory, vhen famllles spent Bummerothere dnn lng the fkh lng $sason. Thearca behlnd , the boach ls an lmmensograss covered mldden about ftfteen ortwenty feet hlgh -- s $ure Indlcatlonther mary g€neratloni llvod there overthe yearu. I opotted deer dropplngo onmy vay back to tho beach, but no rlgn Ofthe anlmals thomselves. Thers ls a amalllake on the lsland, but I coutd not flnd

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the outlet as I cruised along the shoretoward Auctln IslandL I hopo to do bet-ter nert t lme.

On the Yay to Efflngham Bay I tooks pook at the Gllbert lsla$d camprlte,but found lt crowded and already ln theshado at 5:20, so dsclded to epend thenlght on a nameless l ltt le lclet betweenRaymond Island and e navlgatlon l lght,faclng Coaster Channel. It had a llttlewood and a flne shell-sand beach abovethe normal hlgh water mark. The lowerpsrt of tho shorellne vas strewn wlthrough boulders and the tlde was low, soI had oeme citff lculty gettlng ths boatlnto a rafe apot for the nlght. By thetlmc I had eaten snd rettled down by theflrs lt vaq too .dark to read or tvrlte soI turnod ln for the nlght. At mldnlghtfwhen I voke agaln everythtng wa$ stl l land the sky war so full of stErg that Igot up and took a valk along tho splt tosee therL The seud rras abrolutely vhlteln the starl lght -- no moon yet -- tustl l ks a f resh fe l l o f $nov . The rocksshowed up black agalnot the sand -* nochance of puttlng a foot wrong, The alr.var balmy and the water rraE warm. Ittook rome tlme to got bsck to rleop lnthe s t l l l ners . I swoke br to f l y a t 2ofclock to ftnd the moon rl*lng ln the

east. The next tlme I opened my eyer ltwas 5 orclock snd the rky war beglnningto glow, Thon ruddenly the wlnd rotb tosbout 20 mph or mor6, fog came rwlrllngln , the mounta lns and lc lands d l rap-peored from slght and I ras loft vonder-lng how l fd fa re on tho ro tu rn t r lp .Everythlng calmed dovn In about {5 mln-utes, but wac freshenlng up agaln by8:00 whsn I began maklns proparatlons toleunch the hoat and head for home. Thosouthesster was drlvlng whltecaps rlghtlnto my teeth up the Coaster Channol andI must say the nort throo hourc, vlthono lltt le break ln the lae of Vll lagcRoef, provod to bo thc toughert rowlng Ihave ever experlenced. Every lnch had tobe fought for and any relaratlon meentbe lng swept back aga ln towards theroeks. At tlmo$ I vondered lf lfd evermako lt to the paro betveen Sandford andFlemlng lslands. About 45 mlnutee beforelandlng at Sandford the rR.E. Rlleyrcame plowlng out of $atelllte Pass andslowed dovn to stze up my sttuatlon. Hemurt have thought I was crazy, but pro-ceeded on hle way when I gave hlm syave. I had no Intentton of belng roe-cued wlthln rlght of my goalt The fcel.Ing of rellef that I erporlenced when Iset foot on ehore at Sandford vas beyond

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dercrlblng. Ivly lege yere so rubhery thatI could hardf rtagger up th€ beach, butIt took only half an hour to grab a blteand push off agaln for the flnal pull.

One hour later I rae back ln ourt ra l le r w t th I l ze and k ld r , s lpp lng acup of tes and wolflng down pancakes. Itwto l:00 p.rrrl July 25th. The. thunclerwas rumbllng outslde end the ratn srasbcat lng br lskly on our new f lbreglassroof. Hov good lt felt to be home!

ed. note:n Folger lslandn, mentloned lnthe Sept . l ssuo, shou ld have beennBordelals Islett. The crlp was made lnJuly of 1984.

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DANCEbyLyne o

Therefr a Fall Falr ln Albernland a routheilst $torm up the coasta host of vegler ln my froeeerand eppleE on ths groundgold and yellow ls appearlngso the stgns of Autumn aboundt

Freshly chop@ wood ls ctackodand rny rpuds frorn spaceere sacked fer tho rlnterour summer sun lr 6oneand the ntghts are gettlng longand longe

Yees of blrds fly aouthwardl lke a k l te- ta l l ln the wlndFall beglns to conquerand slll soon hsve takcn holdi hope the cold of wlnterdoesnlt coms toCI soonb$t I shall dream of Bumrnor rtarllghtand glow of allver moonof flamlng crlmson.suntetsand the evenlng call of loon.I shall dream of long-lost Eummeras flreltght f l l ls a roomand dances !n tho raln

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F l l s to ry o f Bamf te ld Schoo l

Part Two

rMaypole ceremonles were held onthe L t feboat S ta t lon Iawn ln f lnewoather and followlng the ceremony re*freshment$ srere served ln the CommunltyHall. Zena Burkholder played the accord-lan on the lawn becauss lt was too dlf-flcult to move the plano from the hall.n

tlt wag Mrs. Martlew who startedthe Mayryole ceremonles back ln 1927. Herhusband, Reg, used to be a planlst inthe Dfoyly Carte Opera Company In Lon-don, England. He cbme to Bamfleld andwas englneer on the Llfeboat Statlon fortwo or three yearr before becomlng acommerclal flghermsn. Mru. M*rtlev* hadbalonged to a choral group tn Vancriuverand a lso uged to teach $co t t l s l rdanclng.t

tThe f t r r t May Queen wa$ R l taGre€nrtrcet, then there was fuggy i'looraThere used to be an Honour Roll of allthe May Queena but I dontt know rhatbecamo of lt. Other May Qreens were the

Grunlund glrls, Lilllsn lt[cCormlck, MaryFul ler ton and Iat ter ly, Feggy Barber,Susan Happynook, May Leemet and SutanScot t. i

About t9l5 a largor one-room rchooliv$s bullt on cchool proporty Et aboutthe sam€ tlme that the old CommunltyHa l l wss bu l l t ln Bamf le ld Wo! t . I tserved the communlty untl l 194? when'emuch larger three-room school wes bulltby volunteer labour under tho eupervls-lon of two carpentert, Paddy Hugher andTommy A l len . A bu l ld tng comml t teelncludlng Alec Slmml, Doug York andGeoff Phl l l lps ruporvlrod th6 protect ,whlch also lncluded a tramway down the$tsep hll l to the waterro edge to facll-Itate the unloadlng and transportatlonof lumber end other bulldtng materlatsto the ette.

The Department of Educatlon wa$rrell pleased rrlth the rerult, deocrlblng!t 6s trthe mogt school for the dollarrln Brttlrh C,olumbla, lt vas named theErlc Godson Membrlal School af ter alocal boy vho va$ ktlted tn sctlon lnWorld War [I.

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4. There are two Jar r o f equa lcapaclty. In the flrst Jar there ls onesmoeba. In the second fer there sro twoafioebal. An amoeba can reproduce ltselfln three mliluter. It teker the two stno€-bas ln the second far thrss hourc toftl! the ,ar to capaclty. How long doeaIt take the one amoebe ln thc firut Jarto ft l l the far to capaclty?

5. Draw four connected r t ra lghtllnes, wlthout retraclng your path, thatpss$ through all theo Folntr:

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Tho rerponee to last month$t pur-zlerc was gr6at. Hsre ere some more totes t your sk l l l and l rnag lna t lon . Dt f -fsrent but challenglng. The answers wll lbe ln next months &{RKLEY SOUNDER Theseobvlourly dtd not orlglnate wlth rne, solf you have eeen Eom€ of them before,,ust pas$ them by and do the ones youhavenrt seetu Goad Luck!

l . Punc tua te the fo l low lng so l tmakes sense. tJohn whlle James had hadhad had had had had had had had hsd ebetter effect on the teach6r,t

2. Three boxes are labelod applcr,oranter and epplor and orangcs. Each boxtr labeled Incorrectly" You may *electonly one frult from one box. {No feellngeround or peeklng permltted.| How canyou lebel eech box correctly? 17

6. mrn: Hov many blrds and howrnany bcerts do you hava ln your zoo?

zootecpcn There are 30 headsand 100 feet,

man: I canrt tell from thst,eootocper: Oh, yes you tan.

C.an you?

7. A sh lp l s a t anchor . Over l t sslde hangs a rop€ ladder rvlth rungs afoot apart. Tha tlde rlses at the rnteof elght lnches por hour, At the ead ofglx hours, how much of the rope ladderwlll remaln abovo the water, aasumlngthat olght feet vere obove yater whenthe tlde bagan to rlse?

E. A camp cook u.ants to measurefour ounccs of vlnegar out of a Jut, buthe haa only a flve-ounce and a throe-ounce contalner. Holv can he do lt?

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Is lt ralnlng there too? lYerre. tledto the dock tn To f tno and have been*leeplng tho day away. Fall certalnlyhag arrlved. Wefre both glad to be onour yay hane and cantt walt, Even thoughI wesntt there to tend lt, my gorden wasa huge cucceee and werre well stockedwl th veg les and f ru l t . Had a grea tcouple house-slt for us ro theyrve takencare of all that and even started fl l l-Ing the freerer for s$.

Are you tn ts res ted in the r r€ -prlntr? I was overwhslmed to ree mycrazy s to ry sparked go f leone e l re rgwarpod s€nse of humour but thlnk enoughls enough. However , cou ldnr t res ls tsendlng tho cllpplng.

AII the best. lf l l get back to theArtlst thlng once home.

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In an eloqirent forward to Tbg Pota-to Book by M"rna Davls, Truman Capotedescrlbed the only way he would ever eata potato -- steamed, and topped rrithsour cream and Fthe blggestr SreyestBeluga caYlar.i

f le i lodest Patato hasnft a lwaYsbeen dressed ln such extravagance' eatenwt th such ce lebra t lon , o r v r i t ten o fwlth such a polnted Pen.

Tlmes were tough for the tubsr vhen$pantsh congulttadorr first brought po-tatoes from South Amerlca to Europe lnthe mtd-l6th centurY.

A popo denounced the Potato ai thenapp le o f lover i and warned s te rn lY

'agalnst lts use. Scottlsh Fresbyterlanewou ldn f t ea t them becauee po ta toe$weronrt mentloned In the Blble.

Rather Inausplclous beglnnlnga forwhat ls now congldered by many as theworldfs most lmportsnt vegetable.

Hlstorlans credlt Antolne AuguateParmsntler for Popularlzlng the rplendldrpud ln Frsncs, Louls XVI gave the royalnod to Parmentler, who hsd slked permis-.glon to grov potatoes on some barrer

land outside Parls.Parment ler , the storY Soes' had

soldlers guard the fleldr durlng the dayand rlthdrcv them at nlght. Thls wasmore than the vlllagers could bsar. Wlthcat-l lke curloslty, they stole into thef te lds f l t n tgh t and nd lscoveredr thepotsto.

Myths about potatoes st l l l er l t t .The one the po ta to lndur t ry l s mostanx lous to mash ls tho t po ta toe i a r€htgh ln calorles. Hardly the cace' thoysay, wlth a vegetable thatfs 80 9b water.The bad pr6ts goes to the butterr sourcrsam, and mayonnalse or oll that oftenaccompany the ublqultous opud to thetable.

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D ivers D lscover the Remains o f anInventorfs Dream ShlP

Almost at the end of hls last tankof alr, diver Kevln Roblnson ras readyto call l t a day. The weather off thewest coaat of Vancouver Island made.February dtvtng a cold and rteky burl-ness. A team of ten dlvers from theUnderwator Archaeologlcal Soclety ofts r l t leh Co lumbla had spent tho daYsearchlng the dangeroug reefs of BarkleySouod, conductlng B statu$ survet ofh ls to r lc sh lpwrecks ln the no tor lousrGraveyard of the Paclflcr.

V la lb l l l t y wf lo near Por f ec t agRoblnson pokod about In the shallowsnear Folger Island. Then he found lt--aso l ld b rasr por tho le , l t s th lck g laasunbroken* - the c lue wh lch led to thewreck of the nErlcssontr, gone down InNovember, 1892.

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t l t seefned qul te unreai e t f l rs tnnUA$BC p res ld r l n t DEv id Gr l f f l t hs re *cal ied, t t ln twenty year$ of d iv tng, l tvenever seen a shlpwreck ln euch fsgclnat-tng, fabulous shape.' .

The 9! ,$-metre wooden barque layspread &cross the bottorn. Her hull , thelran deck srlpports, her rnasslve ruddernshtp and cabln f i t t lngr, machlnery andgalley supplles lay wedged between rockoutcropplf lg$ or half-burled ln the sand"Later that {ay, Ortff l ths surfaced wlththe ahlpfs beli , lascrlbed TCF.LORIC SHiPER[GS{.

The n f l r l cseonn r r ya$ bu i l t by theSsedlsh-Amerlcan englneer and InventorJohn Erlcsson, $he wae launched In NewYork I n 1853 , t he chowcase l o r h l srca lor lc e*g lner , an 'exper l ruenta l a l ter -natlve to $t*ari l . The ehlp wes outf l t tedon the grand scale, r ' l th rno$t f l t t lngsnnade of braeg or bro*ze.

Unfortunateiy, the enormous cslorlceng lne , w l t h l t s 4 ,$ -me t rE d l ame t * rp l s tons and t regenera to rs t t o cap tu reand recyc le ho t exbaus t a i r , p roveSunable to attaln speeds over 6 i knote,compe t l t l ve s teamers wo re do tng l 4kno ts . E r l csson i nod i f l ed h io des ign ,and ln l8S4 the shlp rvae reteeted ln New

Ycrk Bay, only to ire sunk by a auulder.i t e r r t f l c t o rnador . t r n E r l cgson tg ownwrds:

nAt the very snornent of euccess--$fbr l l l lant e$cce$$-- fa te has deal t me theseYero,st blow I eyer recelved. G

John Erlcecon achieved fame wlthnearly 2,$0CI other inventlons, lncludlngthe f lrst lronclad shlp, the tMonltorn,Hls l l l - fated narneseke was ralsed andher calorlc englne replaced by e conven-t lr"rnal stearn englne, She went on tose rve t he Un lon i n t he C l v i l War . I nlE$E she lvas converted to aall and usedto t ranspor t g ra ln , l umber and coa !bets'een portE ln the Paclf lc,

The barquo nErlcssonn ryas sail lngfrom San Franclsco to Nanalmo when nsuelden gale blew out her sal ls and senther drlf t lng onto the rocks ln BarkleySound . Cap ta ln and c rey rowed tosafety, but attempts to ralvage the shlpproved futl le.

The i lErlcssonr locatlon ls now aprotected herltage slte. Her bell , the

.porthole and a f lkn of the dlscoveryare on dlsplay at the Vancouver Marlt lmelvluseum, where curator Len McCann hascalled the f lnd nfalr ly mafor In na$tl-cal archaeology,n f lope ts high thst asmaller calorlc engine, used to poweyfhe wlnches, may be rs$tlng oi l the bot-torn, awslt lng dlacovery.

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@VgvruNTTY }!ALL I"JPDATESe*Rtember, 1985

byPat Garc la

a couple of months have gone byslnce the last update so there ls a lotto catch up onl ,

The serv lce road has been com-pleted- a boon for taklng suppl les tothe Ha l l . A lso very use fu l to thoseenterlng msny ltems ln the Fall Falr.Whlle dolng tho road an unused ueptlctank vas rdlocoveredr. Tom hag dumpedinothor toad of gravel to bury It. Somoof that gravel we hope can be used toput around the reptlc tank ln use, thegravel has sloughed away from lt, break-Ing off the plpes.

The new eteel flro oacape doors andhardware have been instslled by carpen-ter Alex l4tercell wlth Steve Gray asglst-lng. Thanks, Stevel That completos theFlre Commlssloners reque$t$,

The Canada Day Weekend celebratlonswer6 a lo t o f work and no t ve l lattended, except for the dancs. Perlhap*nert year we wonrt be so ambttlousl

The Midsurnmer Darrce ln Auguet lvas aeuccess- l t was speci f lcal ly for theBntldtng Fund and after expon$ee we rrereable to swell that fund by $1000.00. Themus lc was taped and donated by J lmRutherford- many thanks, Jlms!

Those ue lngwlll remerrber thosowe were lnundatcCWell, hopefully weproblem. Catch-AliPor t A tbern l wererrlth them. 14fe har;ctee and shored the

the l - l a l l i ac l l l t l esns$ty cefpgnter ants

wlth ear[y thls yean.heive el lrJlnatecl t i lat

ext+rmlnators frorrb r+ug ! : t l n t * de*3a tlrree )teilr ggarafl-

coet iv l t . r the Chur+l iBoard.

At the tkae the steel tlo*rs \tr€r1put In dryrot ya* fom*'i under th* dccii -sl l ls. Norm Ryeil, an cnglneer in FJam-fleld at tho tklro, surveyed tho bull '$t*;;for us and cnme up r$th. aornq rwammend*atlons. The damage wss not extenslve,three floor Jolste to be repnlred, alum-lnum flashlng, more rock to be romovedfrom ths back wallo al l lcone caulkln6arosnd the extendard roof beens and iislow cell lng fan ln the lof t are& be-cause of conden-gatlon. Tha ceil tng fsnhas been purcbaseci. Nof;i'ngt fee wa$ asalnnn- ffinny thanks to you l{orr*"

At one of the l l l rectsre Meetlngs westruck s cornmltr.:e to Sct t{}sether s' l thKetth Wyton to cone up with en extenslonp lan - t hey l r ; c l ude j udy Gray , E l l es :nScott, Mark $tokes a*d Jlrn [*obscn.

Blngo gernes rrv.,'i? held esery Satur-day through the $uff imer and wtl l con*t lnu6" Last Fs l l /Wln 'er ws hEld Whtstand Crlb garne$ and nould l lke sorne feedbnck whether rse eho*ld f iol, l them ag*!n"We rarely hsd recre tilsn t!tr,*e tabi.*s

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on Tueeday evenlngs- contact tvlarli Stokesor Mlke Warren for more detalls.

A now sctlvlty, already rtarted, isa Playschool on Tuesday and Thursdaymornlnga. There ls an ago l lml t andfur ther de ta l l s can be go t f rom JudyGray at 728-3260.

Our next dance wtll be the Halto-ween Dance- date to be announced laterwlth advance tlckets only.

Laat but not leart, the Fall Falr-*uccescful ln the number of ontrles anddonatlons to the Buctlon. l{e thank youall ln shlchever yay you partlclpated!Avards wer€ a3 followa:

Mrs. Mary Patrlck--senlor aggragato formost polntc-Trophy and Cryrtal DlshMrs. Mary Patrlck--mo$t entrtes ln theFalr-D, Hegstrom trophyTanya Roblns--lntermodlate aggregate-Cartoon drawlng kltAler Cameron--funlor aggrogate-Flsher'Prlce casotte bookCathorlne Jennlngs--senlor draw all en-tranta-PreEsur€ spray bottleCat hy Rutherford - -lunlor/lntermodlate.drav-propolllng poncllThonas Wyton --lntormsdlateQuoen glft certlf lcste

drpw-Dalry

Danlelle Baker--Juntoq drsw-Dalry Qreen

gtf t cert l f lcate

Thank you to the Datry-Qreen--oachcertlflcate was vorth 2 delure hambur-gersr 2 shakeg and 2 frleg.-

Wade Gaylord, our 1964/E5 KnobbyKneer Ktng wa$ unablo to contelt hlrcrovn, so he lost lt to Ed Bayloy-con-gratulatlons Ed!

He lon Denb lgh , N lna Jan l t l s andRobertson were very thorough lnfudglngl

Thank you all for your contlnulng$upPort.

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PR I hIC I PALS REPORTby

Rod Burke

September has now paseed on foranother year. The usual problems andconcerns of the beglnnlng school yearhave arloen, and, hopefully subslded co$ome €x ten t , so tha t now we can a l lconcentratG on the tsskr at hand for theremalnder of tho ye8r, The flrut monthls always dtff lcult, rylng to establlchroutlres wlthln the school and attempt-Ing to organlze the best posslble combl-natlons of gtudent numberg. However, sofar thlr yeqr thlngs have flowed rela-tlvely smoothly.

Our enrollment to date ls 46. Wehav.e a very ltop heavyr senlor groupwlth I Grade 8rc, 5 Grade ?rs, I Gr;de 6and 5 Grade Srs. Thls does have manyadvantages especlally for Grados T & 8,who enJoy the company of more acqualnt-ances at school to help round out thelrsoc la l l za t lon p rocess . I t shou ld a lsomean that ye have a large number ofc tudents who have the sk l l l s and th .ematbrlty to take maxlmum advantage ofthe l lbrary and ro$ource facl l t t tes ofthe school. Several Indlvtdual proJectaselgnments wll l be allocared to thesestudents throughout the year In order toachleve these ends.

Our Grade 3 & 4 numbere provlde agood loarn lng oppor tun l ty dur lng themornlngs but the afteinoons become s{tme-what more complex because of the combln-lng wlth the Grades I & 2.

M$. Llndsay hag a brand nsw Sroupof k lndergarten students al l eager toedopt her as mother, and for them llfehas bccome a whols ncw ball game. TheFall searon ln thlr room moanq amongoth6r thlngr, harveat, and last Frlday avery tacty apple saucs was produced wltheverybody lendtng a hend, Our thanks atthls polnt to Mrs. Baker for volunteer-lng as chlef advhor of the productloncrelp.

We had a v lg l t f rom the Denta lHealth Deprt frorn Nanalmo on Sept. lltllThere was some excellent lnstructlon onthe bogt care of teeth and gums and wehope thlr tr belng practlsed at home.

Economlc dlatresg wtll toach men'lf anythlng can, that reallt l€s ara lescdang i rou f than fanc les , tha t fac t -f tndfng ls more ef fect tve than faul t -flndlng'

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DID YOU KI{S\I ?by

Dave Hegst rom

From the forests of the Queen Char-lo t te I s lands came the famous S l t kaSpruco uasd for meny lVorld War I atr-c ra f t . Th ts Spruce was a lso used tobutld the Mocqulto Bomber ln World WarI I

Potatoes, Peas and Corn head theI ig t o f vege tab le c rops ln Br l t l sh& lurbl a.

The tallest chlmney ln the world isat the lntetnatlonal Nlckel Company InSudbury , On ta r lo . I t l s 379 .6 met rest1?45 f t " 6 ln. l htgh. I t ls 35.5 matrest l l6 ,4 f t " l qnd 15 .8 rne t res t51 .8 f t . )ac the top. tt welghs 381390 tons andilsst 5.5 mtll lon dollars.

The lergest dry dock ln the worldls the Llsnsve Dock in Llsbon, Portugal.t t ts l?00 f t . long and 318 f t . wlde.

The Great Wal l of Chlna ls 2,150mlles In length . It has ttn addltlonalt,?80 mlles ln branches and $purs.

The Paclflc Ocean covers 6319861000$quare m l les " I t s g re f i tes t dep th l sJ6, I 38 feet.

EAIIFIELD WEATHER.by

Pete r Jan l t l s

We contlnued to hEve nlee and celmw€ather ln September, although therewere t5 days wlth mea$ureable preclptta-tlon. It accounted for only 3.40 Inchee"Average ratnfal l

. for 'september ls 5,1-7lnches. The most lnterestlng factor Isthat we have only 34.8? tncee of ra infor the year to the end of September.The average raln for the year ls 106,73I nches.

The drlest year on record was 1905wlth 56.64 lnches and the wettest yearwas l9?4 wlrh 141.33 lnches

Temperetures: the hlgh of 24.0oCwas on the 27th, whlle the low of 2.5oCwas on the 29th.

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Along abqut the mldd le o f eachmonth, when my ponslon chequ*s are ex-hauated, I have more tlme avsllable tothlnk about the sorry state of the worldand of how there ls nothlng more sober-lng than empty pockets . I am hc lp*dtremendourly ln iny cogltattons by read-'lng

of euch happenlngs as the governm€ntballout of the falled Canadl*n Comrner-clEl Elank and tho rsscue of the Okanagangrapegrowers frorn th* o.nslaugh,t of ruln

'caused by bett+r and cheapsr rrlne beingproduced ln othor part$ of the world.

Hover lng or i ehe f r ln6er o f mythoughts ls tf ie lrony +f the sltuatlonln thls provlnco where -1'/e are battl lngaga lns t Amer lcau p fo tse t ion lsm wh l lecncouraglng the same thlng ar home.

. My heartfelt $yrnpethls$ go out tothose pollt lcians who are faced rrlth ourfe rvent des l re to buy cheap and ee l ldear, no matter wh* get$ hurt ln theprocess, whlle at th€ sarns tlme protect-lnt oqr producers agalnst belng rul.nedby those feryent deslres.

Any MP who trles to sct reoponrlblyfor the ultlrnate good *f the whole na-tlon fares poorly at rhe hand* of his

own constltuent$ lf thelr boat ls rockedln tho proce$s. lt ls l l tt le vonder thatthey seldom do Bnythlng rlght, beset as. they are by the re l f - ln te res ts o f somany dlverse group$.

On those days of the month yhen Iam fl lrt lng vlth bankruptcy I am natu-rally ln a mood of deprecslon and muchmore a t tuned to the v l c tse l tudos o fo thers In l t ke eond l t l on , . I t l s theothat I reallze the full messure of thewelght on my shoulders elnce I am re-rponslblo for tho sorry stats the coun-t ry l s ln .

$/here I nade my mlstake wss lnputtlng my own velfare ahead of thewell-being of the natlon. Not only dld Ibuy a Japaneee VCR, and Amerlcan type-wrltor and a raft of dress ghlrtr fromTalwan, but lrve been rmoklng Cameb for25 year$ l l {hen I .used . . to lndu lge Instrong boverage*, lt was lrnported scotchall the vat. I even stooped co low attimes se to lmblbe Russlrn vodkal

How can I notr have the temerlty totake a shot at olther tho grapegrorersor the lumber producero, or the easterntobacco growers whq sometlmes have to besubs ldl zed?

Above a l l , how can t tu r t t f y my24 d issa t l s fsc t lon and unsass v t th the

V'federal government when I do not knowmyeelf vhat I want dcne about the econo-my and the huge def lc l t?

On the o the r hand , co f i ec th *thought that I know exact ly what I wantdone. I want them to ellminate unemploy-ment, the natlonal debt, al l marketlngboarde; I went them to legal lzo mar lJua-na and pro$tltut lsn and turn the result-lng revenue over to the provlnces beforeCrace McCarthy gst$ e chance to repeather performonce on the lottery dlspute:r I t ls the hlgrorlc r lght of the prov-lnces to admlnlster lotterles.s

At the same tlme my tvlP and my prlmemlnlgter ere expected to preserve al l my'r l gh t r as a Canad lan and p ro tec t meagalnst the onslaught of the outslderswho seek to subvert me by offerlng ffie abetter product for less money.

In other words, I don't know what Ireal ly sfant. Mult lply me by thoueands ofother mked-up lndlvlciuals and anyonec&n se€ the dl lemma faced by thoee en-t rusted wl th the admln ls t rat lc :n s f rnydemocratlc r lghte.

Maybo they had the rtght ldea whenthe slogan r A chtcken in every potn vascolned by poll t lclan$. A fat, happy andprosperoue clt lzen hag no t lme fort less- A5er ' lesues l lke moral l ty , honest Hovern-

ment, pollt lc*l petro$age, food banke,proliferatlon of nuclear wespon$ and allthat Jauu. He can vote and forget democ-recy for f,our years, unless, of coursehls own ox is gored.

We cen forget all that rot aboutnThoce who forget hlstory are doomed torepes t l t i and Jus t car ry on w l th nothought to the f r lgh ten lng poss tb l l l t yof being relncarnated a hundred y6srrdown thg fo9d., . . . . . . . to what?

So keep those penslon cheques conl+inS, Br lano and p lea*e cons lder theadv lsab l l t t y o f se*d lng them t l r l ce amonth lnstead of only once. That way Iwontt hsve a chance to get to thtnklngabout what you are dolng the rest of thet lrrn"

BAh4F I ELD I/OLL{NTEER T' TRN DEPART'Mfr}.iT

sernr*uo$rewarr

Emergency number- - - - - * -7 ZE -3Zl INon-emergencles - - - - - - -7ZS-9438.

I. must apologlze for mlsslng lastmonthrg lssue to glve our report on ourvery successful Flre weeh, But a week cfsall lng ln the San Juan tslands aboardthe Keeha far surpasses dolng a wrlteup. I could have done the wrlte up earl-ler, but who does thlngs early?

The proceeds from thls years Flreweek wll l be used t0 start a fund forturn-out gear, (protectlve clothtngl

The f l sh caught a t the F ish ingDerby were not large, but were the larg*est for egch caregory. Many thanks toCaptaln Hookts foi ittowtnf us ro usethelr dock for the rvblgh-tn,

l . L lana Hagarth (chl td) eteak dlnnerfor two at The Wheelhouse Cafe-? lb,Sprlng salmon2. Chr ls Obrlen (adulr l f tshing reel-4*lb. Plnk salmon3. Don Prevost {ndultl Safety flares-4lb.- Llng cod 4. Greg Hamaglsh (adultlSafety l lght- 4 lb. Sprlng saimon5. Margaret Plerce {adult} Flre extln-gulsher- 3* lb. Spr lng salmon6. Tina Char les (chi ld, B.V.F.D T-shlr t - 26

3 lb,. Fbrch7 , She l la Char lee (ch l ld l Ga f f - 3 lb ,Ferch8. Theora Chrlstney {chttd} Flrh. basher-2l lb. Mackerel9 . Conn le Char les t ch l ld l F l l l e t lngknl fe- 2 l lb. mackerel10. Mtke Ko (chtld) Llfe Jacket- 3 lb.Chlna rockflshll. Randy Robertgon (adultl ashtray- U4lb. Llng cod

Many thanks to the \theelhouce Csfefor the donatlon of the two steak dln-ners. Thanks also to the followlng busl-nesses ln Por t A lbern l fo r the l r veryhlnd donatlons.Valley Outboard Ltd.-- Llfe JacketPort Boat House--Safety flaros and ash-t rayFlowardfs Marlne repalrs- -Safety tlghtP.Y. Marlne Ltd.--Flre extlngulsher\4foodward,s- - Flshlng reel

Our th l rd annual Bamfleld Inter-ttdai Open Golf Tournament was a hugesucce$e. l{e had a total of 68 golfersth ls year . Inc luded ln the Green feeco$t was a Bamfleld lntortldal Golf Hatwhlch everyone wore:

F i rs t p r lze t rophy- -Rob App le ton , 40Second prlze irophy--Fred Mather andMlke l{arren, rore 43Th i rd p r l ze t rophy- -S teye C la rk , 45

Other categorles-Rlck Aiclod--bect drssed Inoo8eJlm Hobson---ltdost tlrnes gettlng nalled*lth a ball, not hl$ own.Cindy tno last namel mo$t ttrokes-93Sld baker--blggest bladder capaclty onthls or probably any other golf course.Berb Buntlng--en honorable tnentlon forwr l t tng "most hones t p layern on herscore iheet. Wlth the score ghe turnedIn, we belleve her.Jtm Hobson' determlned to stay dry' ralnor ehlne, ln hlg plaettc ralncoat, endedhla golf afternoon ln water to hls armpltsr- fust trylng to put some stuff lntoi boad. Better luck next year' Jlm, weara bathlng gult.Roger Demontlgny vldeo taped the waterbacLball, golf tournament and the barbe-cue, and lt ts vell worth seelng- Manythanks agaln to McMtllan Ftgh for thesalmon ai the barbecue and to all whocont r lbu tod food fo r th ls event . Thedonce ln the evenlng was a great eucces$ag well as our caslno nlght' whlch wsgon the Frlday evenlng. $lnce our golftournament ls becomtng to popular' weare havlng nkeeper trophlesr mede up forthe wlnnerg.

FLAN TO GET O UTAL T V E0ctober 9 , t 985

T lme 6 P .M.

Canada has the vorEt r€cord In theIndus i r l s l l zed wor ld fo r f l re - re la teddea ths . O f a l l f l ros ln Canada, ' 4S%occur ln the horne end these resldentlalf l res a re respons lb le fo r 90% o f ourfa ta l I t les .

All *chool chlldren across Canadaare well-versed ln flre drlll proceduresbut the s ta t l s t l c r show tha t too fewparents and chlldren have an evacustlonplan for thelr homes.

McDonaldrs Restaurants of CanadaLtd. wlll team up wlth the flre gervlcerln Canada t0 pu t on s na t lona l f l reescape prosram on October 9th. Thlsfollows a very guccessful program ilPlanto Cet Out Allven ln Edmonton last year,I t was the f l rst c l ty-wlde f l re dr l l l - af l rs t In Ce*ada snd posr tb ly Nor thy'rrer lca.

The plan ls geared to sorvlng tropurposea. The flrst ls to lncrease pub-llc arareness for flre preventlon tech-nlquea. The second ls to teach famtlteshow to conduct e drl l l .

Famllles wlthout chtldren and thosellvlng alone are als,o encouregod to mapout thelr escape ioute and proctlce lt.

An Independent te lephone surveyconduc ted ho th be fo re snd a f te r the

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drll l showed that 82% of Edmontontanssurveyed knew about the drll l" Of thoseques t loned , 12 % fu l l y par r t c tpared .Ftrq department offlctals were pteasedwl th the f lgure , and Jub i l sn t a t rheflndtng thar 37% of famllles wlth ele-mentary school aged chfldren- the prt-mary focus group- practlced thetr hbrnep lans .

Your local Flre Dept. ls partlcl-patlng ln thls Flre Drll l , and the com-ml t tee w l l l d l s t r tbu te the requ l redforrns. Hopefully they wlll errlvc fromthe Flre C.ommlsslonerta offlce In tlme,dependlng on portrl Eervlce, please turn11 fogrr escaps route ro rhe Ftre Chlef,the General store, Kamshee Store { iwlll phone rh€m to sccept your cheets)and hopofully Bamfletd wil l have a t00*r€ tu rn on a l l de l l vered gheetg . A t tschoo l ch l ld ren w i l l rece lve a F l reSafe ty Award Cer t l f l ca te fo r the l rfaml ly par t tc lpa t ion .

.. ,1J'" all ryrtems_ g,g. -tg,l Canadarrrrrr o_v_or natto[-rlde [ome flre drllll

I ne uepartment would l lke to con_gratulato ftre dept member Brlan McKayo.n hls . marrlage to Cheryl Thonnpson atthe Oakrldge Beptlst Church In Vancou-yer, on September 2lst. Many of Brlanrsfrlends from Bamfleld attended the wed-dlng. Congratulatlons Chcryl and Brlan,

THE &A'IVFTELD GARDENER

Bernad: l te wy ton

One of the neatest' most productlveand well mansged gardens around lg thatof Ron and Sharon Dunsmore. Thelr yardls an open sunny $pace.dotted wlth frultt ree$ and love ly l l t t le f lower beds .From lawn chalrs on the cedar deck patlo :ln front of the house you look out overa brlght green lau'n. A board walk leadsyou hmong a serleg of rateed beds. Allof them are hemmed ln wlth wood and canbe covered tn cooler *eather wlth porta-ble cold frsmes. A Uttle further on arotwo gresnhouses. They have hqrsed overy-thlng thls year from brasglcas and beangto onlons and watermelonS.

Belng a ftsherman, Ron has somerather unlque garden fertl l tztng proS-ram$, For Instance, ln the greenhouse helayered slx lnches of eole and shrlmpcast offs whlch worked wonders for thefollowtng crops. Outslde I vlewed a bedof bragslcas that obvlouoly were thrlv-Ing ln so t l fu l l o f compocted rh r l r ^nFsh i l l s . (They decompose read l l y , l rmtoldl. Generally, though' hlr compottplles are made of vegetable matter andiods. Ron uses a few thlngs to acceler-ste decompo$ltlon. A good stx lnch layerof seaweed really gets thlngt golng. Hesometlm€$ useE a thtng called double-

ac t l i l g compos t€ r wh is i r ! . s * t& -S - l *fert l l l rer. Anaehen ef fective acrlvafCIrl r I S -0 -0 . *P la ln *cd t r l l l e p rodax* *dlovely squash plente fcr Ror: thls ye*r.

One rvay of rn*lntslnlng soll fert l l -Ity over rvlnter lc tCI u$e green m{lnurecrop$,, The most lmpr*srlve of theee lnRon ts expe r ienc* i r t l ?e snn i l a l r yegraln. This grass locks $p and butldemore valuable nntrlents whlch are turnedbach lnto the sclt l for oeher crsp$" Healso trlcd clover" whirh {.a$ fioCI hard toge t r t d 0 f , and a i f a ! f a " The l e t t e r sextenslve rost $yst€fft le deslrable butRon found the plant took almost twCIyea rs to ge t s * tab l i shed" Two tab le -spoons per gallon at 2i l-*0-?0 fert l l lzerls ueed once In a while around htr frulttress or sn hig {rnions,

Ron rnulctres everywh*re wlth grasscllpplngs from the lawru They check lvaedgrorvth and are Sfeat far ssl l heat andwater retenglon" l le tr led *slng blode*g ra .dab le p las t l c shee t l ng ' r hen g rasscl lpptngs were scsrce. The plant.s grolrynw l th th l s p roduced much ea r l l e r t ha tthose wlth+flt .

P l an ta a r€ s ta r t ed {n f l a t e o r i nthe greenhouss. When they ere transplsn*ted Ron u*es o ss lut lpn wl th l0-S?* l?fe r t l l l ze r wh lch reduces a l l o lgns o fshock and 6ets thern off to a good start.I f they are braeplca transplf ints, granu-Iar dlazanon is used Jnst beneath each

ons to keep the root maggot avaywhlierhe plant l* so Young.

Th ls year Ron used the t r l ch l *lrrtgatlon tape sold by $toke*. lt pro-duces a s low, un l fo rm ogmos lg- tYPet r lck le . Because l t rs J r , rs t underneaththe soll there ls no $pray or mol$turebulld up ln the slr whlch c&n lead toall klnd* of problems ln a greenhoule,l lke powdery mlldew. Cropa llke celery'rnelons and cucumbers Sror slgntflcantlybetter wlth such a $fstsrn,

In hts experlmentlng wlth fall andvlnter crops Ro* has ob*erved that thetrlck for succes$ ls to allow the plantsto eetablish enough leaf area before the

' l vea ther tu rns co ld so tha t they 'canrnalntaln growth. lf they are too smallthey wll l nrerely go ron hcldt.

Record keeptng ls one of mY weak*nes$es so tr t rn part lcutar ly l rnprossedwlth Ronrs garden book of notee. 'Where

dld you plant what, when and what goesthere next when---that klnd of stuff.

Theee notes are actually extremelyInnpor tan t ln a la rge mu l t l - vege tab legarden u,here crop rotatlon and varletytests are alwaya belng pr$ctl$od. Uelnghts notes we extracted thlr useful l l ttof vegetable varlotlos that have doneexceptlonalty well ln Ronrs garden' Al!

' of them are avallable from Stakes.

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Harly Greenball Cabbage..snral l & fastgrcr*i irgSelf Slanchlng Caulif loweriv le t le i r Cebbage ( red) . .doesnt t sp l t t lnthe {a l lG rand Duke Ke l rab l " .app le s laed , ex -tremely fatt growlngCol ta th Brgcol l lCa lab r ia S roco l l l . . { l t . sp rou t i ng } . . f o rcr:ntlnual harveet.'dlta Ssieet Turnlp,,swsetl fast growlng,v*'ormlesa, Ttre anly one Ron's b*en ableto grow rvel!.Cold Reslgtsnt Savoy Splnach."crops bet-t e r i n t he f a l l . " r es i s t e bo l t l ng andgett ing tough.Ms Belie kpper.,$r*al l green bell pepper3S or 40 to a p lantSuper Stuff Pepper."yel low stuff ing pep*per. Very prol l f lc.itornano Br.lsh fieans,.flat wlth real n$ttyf lavor..extrernely produceiveKentucky Wonder Fcle Bean (greenl,. theyellow wax donrt produce ag well,Captaln Utarvel Brussel SproutPrlnce lvlarvel Bruasel SproutP+nt la PotBEoE ln t t t Po ta to . . a c reamy ye l l ow du t chpotat$, .great for bsk lng, A lo t o f enal lbnes, though.ltentura Celery.,excellent, nlce tsstlng,rerider varlety. SEelks are one to twt)f*et talgh Flesta OnloR.,$weetn tendergocd slzed Spanlsh Onlon.

Carmen Onlon {purp le } . .a b l t s t rongertflstlng than Spanlsh.Tarmagon Onlon..a short geaoon cooklngsnlon. Storeg for a few months!.{ova Paste Tomato,.excellentSmal l Fry Tomato,.smal l pat lo toma-to. .35 lb / p lantHarvest VeeBasket Vee..good regular slzed tomatoeg.Eerly CascadeYend*r Vlne..regular s lzed greenhousetf imto.Grand Raplda Forclng Lettuco.. for rprlngand fEl lCap l t on Lea f Le t t uce . . no tra$t lngFrost Hesd Lettuce,,wll l gowlnter.Ithaca Lettuce,.for early sprlng.

CCIAST GUARDby

Dav ld Hegc t r (m

llle have had 80 Incldents to date.The old Bamfleld Ltfe Boat lg sttl l

ln Vancouver. [t was a great hlt at thsPNE. tt ahould be back on bare $ometlmsln the nef,t two weekt.

The tralnlng school {RHIOT) forrubber boats wll l start on Octobor l?thhers at the Bamfleld Statlon.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear Jeanne;

Here ls an updaee on tho trlals andtrlbulatlons of the submerslble ,PlscesIVt ln the Great Whlte Northl

The flrst fev months of operatlonwere spent ndlv lngi between Hal l fax,Newfoundland and the Grand Banks. Unfor-tunately the weather hlndered our sched-ule and we found ourselvec elther rldlngout gales or sltt lng out the renownedGrand Banks Fog! In the month of July,for lnstance, we only had elght opers-tlonal days- yet these dlves- as part ofa geologlcal survejr to'21000 metres deephad to be some of the most lnterestlngend productlve to both ouruolves and thepar t l c lpar lng sc len t ld ts .

Newfoundland offered us the mostspectacular ly colourful d lves ln rvhatare the deepest wsters on the easterncontlnental shetf- between Florlda andthe Artlc. At Bay DfEapolr a sheer rockwal l r l r tng f rom the sea bed fo r 800met re$ Yas so pro f use ly covered lnmarlne l lfe of every hue and color, thatIt more rerembled an overgrown flowergarden. Taklng four hours to cllmb thtsver t l ca l t landscapen, we comple ted afu l l v ldeo and photograph lc survey ,

wh l l s t l l u ten lng to f l ne mus lc on thesubrnerclbles stereo sygtom. I found theonly thlng mlsslng from thls dlve s'a$the scent of the flowers.

Returning to Hallfax for a week ofma ln tenance , ln p repars t lon fo r theArctlc crulse, the sub rvas thourcughlychecked over, new equlpment'f ltted andthe Pendora ln turn was fueled,wateredsnd v l t t l ed fo r the long hau l no r th . .After two week$ vacatlon ln Vlctorla, imet the shlp agaln ln Froblsher Bay, andthe grea t t rek nor th cont lnued, Theprosrsmme thls tlme vas to Eurvey someselected FJord bottoms on Baffln lrland,for reasons unknown or unspoken of ??Hero we completed vldeo $urv€yr!, obcerv-Ing mar lne l l f e and l r tegu la r lL legcarved by old glacler actlorl. Some ofour dlves ln fact \rere done ln front ofactlve glaclers, The tomperature on thebottonr ln these wateru was mlnug 2"C andso lt was far from comfortable sltt lngln an unheated sphere for more then acoup le o f hours each d lve . A l thoughthese dlvee were lnterestlng, the enthu-slasm for the Great Whtte North grewvery thln, as the Flord wellg and moun-ta lns on e l the r s lde were comp le te lylack lng ln vegeta t lon , a l though thelocal Inult people showed ug where dell-clous ground creeplng Blue-berrles weregrowlng. Occaslonal polar bears weroslghted and whenever we went ashore lt

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was always wlse to carry a gun.Poss lb ly the mo$t in te res t in 'g o f

the Arctlc dlven was done In CambrldgeFJord, where we searched far and found ssubmarlne fresh vster sprlng at a deprhof 47 metres. The rlslng fresh waterInduced an lnflow of nutrtent rlch Beavater and the lmmedlate area 'had anab .undance o f co lour fu l fanemone$,fea ther and besket s tq r$ and o thertfl l ter feedersn. Whtlet maneuverlng therubmers lb le a round the area to tekeeampler and photogrephs, I had the moEtunusua l expor lance . The upwe l l tngrbouyantr fresh vater entered the Plscessklns; desplaced the heavler salt waterand llfted me off the bortom ltke a hotalr bal toonl

The temperature of the fresh waterwas I oC, vanner than the surroundlng seabut stl l l a tremendous temperature dif-ference to the hydro-thermal vent ectl\ '*Ity we dlscovered off Vancouver Islandln prevlous ye&rs. As I wrlte thls, thePandora ls returnlng to Clyde Rlver, rochange sc len t l f l c c rew and hope fu l l yplck up the mall. tt/o sre manouverlngaround large lce bergr, but the s€a isf l s t ca lm and l t l c on ly snowlngllghtly. In two *resks we retGrn to St.Jolrnr, Newfoundland tltts all down-htl las we sayl !, and I take a three weekvacatlon. The shtp wll l contlnue dlvlngopera t lon$ un t l l t he end o f Oc tober ,

l eav ing Ha l t f ax and re tu rn l ng t oVlceorla by the f lrst week ln December.

P l sees w l l l t hen go l n to a we l ld*served four-month refl t perlod, andth l s w r l t e r w t l l So beck t o h l g w lnemak lng and mode l re l l r oads ! We lookforward to returntrg to Bamfleld ln thesummer of 86-(al l those green trees andho t sunsh lne ) and mee t tng a l l ou rfr lendg *galn.

Beat vlthoa,

Al Wltcombe

cl-Asstrlm196? Ar ts toc ra t T rave l T ra l le r .Exce ! len t cond l t l on . l 6 r , S leeps4 . Propane c tove w l th oven ; F r ldge ;To l le t . $2200 .00 l f f r l t e Box l l 3 ,Bamf le ld o r ca l l 726-329E.

fef ggle: New Zealand splnnlng wheel,i6tCffi-made cardtng maihtne and threebags of brovn New Zealand wool. Asklng$150. for the lot. Phone: 728-3267.

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Bob Skellyo your MLAReports from the Legislature

r n a s p e e c h l a s t w e e k t o t h e v a n c o u v e r b r a n c h o f t h ec a n a d l a n H o n e b u l l d e r s ' A s s o c l a t l . o n , r o u t l i n e d ac o m p r e h e n s i v e h o u s l n g p r o g r a D a l r n e d a t p r o v i d l n g a f f o r d a b l eh o u s i n g f o r a l l B r i t l s h c o l u n b l a n s a n d c r e " t l n g J o b st h r o u g h h o u s l n g c o n s t r u c t i o n a n d r e h a b i l l t a t i o n .

A n N D P g o v e r n m e n t w o u l dp r o g r a m s d e s i g n e d t o :

l n p l e m e n t a r a n g e o f h o u s l n g

* c r e a t e j o b s i n c o n s t r u c t l o n a n d r e l a t e dl n d u s t r l e s* e n s u r e c o n s t r u c t i o n o f a f f o r d a b l e n e w h o n e s* p r o n o t e h o m e r e n o v a t l o n* e n c o u r a g e ene rgy c o n s e r v a t i o n t h r o u g hr e t r o f l t t i n g e x i s t i n g h o u s l n g* p r o v i d e s o c l a l . h o u s l n g t h a t w l l lt o h l g h q u a l l t y a f f o r d a b l e h o u s l n gs o c i a l o r e c o n o m i c c i r c u n s t a n c e s

e n s u r e a c c e s sr e g a r d l e s s o f

H o u s i n g s t a r t s f o r I 9 8 4 w e r e a t t h e t h e l r L o w e s t l e v e ls i n c e I 9 6 2 . T h e n u m b e r o f j o b s l o s t f r o m t h i s d e c l l n e i nh o u s l n g s t a r t s 1 s s t a g g e r l n g t f y o u c o n s i d e r t h a t e a c hh o u s l n g u n l t b u i l t r e p r e s e n t s 2 . 5 p e r s o n - y e a r s o fe n p l o y n e n t f o r t h e p r o v i n c e . T h e N D p b e l i e v e s t h a tg o v e r n x n e n t n u s t p l a y a s t r o n g r o l e l n s t i n u l a t l n g h o u s i n gc o n s t r u c t l o n t o r e v l v e t h e h o m e b u i l d i n g i n d u s t r y a n d a c ia s a v e h l c l e f o r e n h a n c i n g e c o n o m l c g r o w t h .

T h i s h a s b e e n t h e s p p r o a c h o f t h e N D P g o v e r n a e n t l nl , l a n i t o b a . T h e y h a v e l d e m o n s t r a t e d a s t r o n g c o n n i t m e n tt o w a r d s s t l r n u t a t l n g t h e h o u s l n g L n d u s t r y a n d h o u s l n g s t a r t si n t h a t p r o v l n c e h a v e m o r e t h a n d o u b l e d i n t h e p a s t f o u ry e a r s .

I n d u s t r y o f f i c , i a l s h a v e b e e n v e r y p l e a s e d w l t h t h e N D Pg o v e r n n e n t , ' s a p p r o a c h 1 n M a n l t o b a . T h e p r e s l d e n t o f t h eM a n l t o b a H o n e b u l l d e r s - A s s o c l a t t o n h a e c a l l e d l t a n i t o b a ' sh o u s l n g p r o g r a n t t t h e n o s t s u c c e s e f u l 1 n C a n a d a ' r , a n d t h eI n v e s t m e n t D e a l e r s A s s o c l a t l o n o f C a n a d a h a s d e s c r l b e d t h ep r o g r a n a s t t a n a J o r l n p e t u s t o e c o n o m l c g r o w t h r r l n t h a tp r o v L n c e .

I t 1 s o u r b e l i e f t h a t af u l 1 c o n s u l t a t l o n a n dp a r t l e s . l , l e a r e c o m m l t ta n d l u r p l e n e n t a t l o n o fC o l u n b l a .

h o u s l n g p o l l c y w i l l o n l y w o r k w l t he o - o p e r a t l o n w l t h a l l L n t e r e s t e de d t o t h a t g o a l i n t h e d e v e l o p n e n ta n N D P h o u s l n g p o l l c y f o r B r l t l s h

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RffiICT{AL DTSTRICT REroRTby

A l Sen ton

Two weeks ago I ettended the Unlonof B .C. Mun lc lpa l l t tee Convent lon lnVancouver vhere $rme metters of concelnto Bamfleld resldents ryere mafor toplcsof convorsatlon. The flrst of these wcsthsi Provlnclal Partners ln EnterprlsesproSraL

Thts program, a6 lt affects Reg-lona l D ls t r l c ts , v l l l cause a maJorchange In the property tax base of thearea. F'lrstly, lt ellmlnates taxatlon on .all machlnery and equlpment of buslnes-ses ln the Provlnco. In our R.D. thtsmeanE that mtll lons of dollars of mach-lnery and equlpment towned by McMtllan-Bloedel Ltd., ftsh camps such as J.S.McMlllan, and even such small businessesas Ostormrs Machlne Shop and the llVheel-house Cafe! are removed from the taxbaso. Thts wtll m€an that to ralre thes&me number of tax dollars every year, aheavlor load wll l fall on the lndlvidualproporty owner.

On top of thlo, the Provlnce hasdeclded that the tax rate for commerclaland. industr la l propert) ' , present ly 3.4tlmes tho rate for resldentlsl property,wll l decreate to 2 tlmes the resldentlglrate by 19E7. The Reglonal Board hasasked the U.B.C.lvL to prepare an analy-

sls of the lncrea$ed cost tc taxpayersl n t he Reg tona l D l s t r l c t o f A lbe rn l -C iayc 'quo t , and has a igo ! v r l t t en theM ln l s te r o f F l nence t o enqu l re wha tf l nanc ia l ass l s tance rnay be ava l l sb lefrsm the Provlnce to al levlate $orne ofthe lmpact of the*e lncreages. I shouldhsve some accurate flguror on how muchthls wll l cost you by next msnth.

The second ltqn whlch wao dlscussed-at some length et the [r.B.C.M. Conven-tlon was the Munlclpal Act AmsndmentBIl l 62. Thte wll l subatantlal ly affectthe implementetlon of zonlng and plan-nlng functlons ln rural areas, such arours.

Baslcal ly, what l t provldes for lsthat only sreao whlch are deslgnated byrhe M ln l s te r o f Mun lc lpa l A f fa l r c asrRural Plannlng Areasr shall be governedby sett lement plans (now renamed Off l-cinl Communlty Plans! or zonlng bylavo.Exlst lng Sett lement Plans wll l contlnuetc have e f foc t u f i t l l euch t lmo Es onOfflclal Communlty Plan l* preparod. TheMlnlcter msy alsa dlrect that a Rurall-and Ure Bylaw must be drawn up for the

" area thst he deslgnate$ as a Rural Plsn-nlng Area.

Many suggeetlons yere made to theMlnlster st the Conventlon for changeet * t he B l l l , and l t i s d l f f l cu l t t odetermine lts ersct effect untl l these

gS a re lmp lemen ted . The on l y lmmed la te

*ffect on Eamfleld ta thet the RevlsedSet t lement Plan wl l t not be approvedunt l l a f ter Bt t l S! c*mes ln to ef fecr . Ishatl keep you inferrned of any develop-ment$ ln thlg &trea.

I t i s he * r t en lng t o $ee t ha t t heMin ls t ry of Hlghways te f tna l iy tsk lngsorne actlon towards *learing up problernswlt lr the tral l system ln West Bannfleld"i know ghat many of you are s t l l l con*cerned wteh these pr+blems end rnlstrusr*f u l o f H lghways l n te l r t i on$ . I u rgeeveryone who does have a Problem tobr lng l t to Hlghways Dept . s t tent lon. [ fyou are unhappy wlth thelr respon$e' Iwculd reccrnmend that you csntact theOrnbudsmsn rs o f f l ce l n V l c to r l a . TheOmbuderi lan ls prese*tly actlng on fcur orf lve cciunplalnto from Bamfleldn snd themore pressure that ls put on Fllgbway*Dept. at thls t lme ehe more l lkel lhoodwe have of *n overalt solutlon to theproblem. The *queaky wheel really doee;et the greas6. l f { can help a*yone onspeclf lc proble:reso glve rne s cal l andl r l l do my best .

F I RS *F' TruA MSNTF{by

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Would you bel levo lc--The $tar l tngt

I n mos t c l r c les the s ta r l l ng l sabout as popular as R left-handed guestst an Arab dlnner pertyr partly due, tqdoubt, to thelr habtt of assembl lng ln:Ia rge rn lg ra r ion f l ocks wh lch ma ln lyappear ln the fatl of the year. Thoughtia have been introduced frsrn the OldWcrld ro New York Ctty about lBg0, theyd i r i no t take long ro ee tab l leh rhem- .selves ln Eastern Canada, and now areseen all through Canada and the UnltedSfiates. Thelr spread wae fairly rapid InCanado, belng flrec reported ln Ont*rloln the &utumn of lg l4, Nova $cor ls lnl915 and Qgebec ln !91?. New Brunsrylckwac rsn t b lee t {n lS t4 , fo l l owed byPrince Edsard leland ln lare tgIS orearly 193!. In the $*me year- l93l- theyr4i&re reported in Manltoba, then Albertaln iate 1934, Sask*schewan ln the spr lngof 3S3?. Oddly enc*gh rhey next foundtheir way to Newfoundla*d. in 1943, andfinally co*quered the Rcckles* to moveintc* Brtti*h Cslurnbta ln ehe wlnter oflS45-ig4S, when they were recorded InWll l lams Lake.

Unfortunately, thoy have s few bad. iralt-c wlrtch nlmerst averride thelr good

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polnts" Chtef arnrlng these ls th* fae,tthat. they take over ne$tlng and feedlngareas from the natiye blrda, such as theFllcker, Red-headed ltltoodpecker, PurpleMar t ln , and Eae te rn B lueb l rd ; a i l o fwhlch have dealined ln numhers due tothe competlt lon form thls most aggre$-slve blrd. On the good side - the bulko f the l r d le t l s Insec ts , a$ we l l s$berrles and seeds. However, they can bequ l te des t ruc t lve when zero lng In onfrult trees. Cooperrs Havks and pere-grlne Falcons appear to consldor them Itasty mersel, Asldo from these two blrdsthelr maln efiemy s€ems to be man. tnrocent years we hser about va*t effortsbelng made to reduce thelr numbers, butnothlng $eems to make much of a dent lnthlelr growlng numbers,

Vltal Statlstlcs: Famlly $rurnldae. F€-{grred to by P.A. Taverner In the year1926 as iT rue Star l lngc t r . Numbei o f$peclor: lYorld: t03; ln the West Z (plusI Introduced ln Hawalll. Thetr rangb lsw ldespread ln the Old t4 fo r ld , w t th zepecles Introduced ln North Amorlca,

Of the two opecles ln Nsrth Americawe have the:

Common Starllng - Sturnus vulgarlg- between 7.t - 8* tnches ln length.-Th;eas los t des t lngu lsh lng fea tu re l s theshort-,. squarlsh-shaped tall, and duringbreeding season o yellow bll l. l{tntei

plumag* mlght have you bellevlng lt l3 Inerp blrd, As summer glve* way to Fallthelr plumage gradually changeo, and thel r r ideacent b lack breas t and s tomachcolor ls covered qrlth whlte spot$, thebll l ls nory dark ErsL and top of thehead and back ls more of s buffy colorra ther than the b lack , bu t w l th thewhlte marks stl l l showlng up on the backand head. The Juvenals, gray or gray-brown, look rnuch like a female blEckblrdln color, but with the typlcal ctarl lngshort tall and sharp bll l .

Found in c l ty , town or count ry ,they on ly need any cav l ty , bu l ld lngcrevices - or ou$t other resldent blrds- for nesttng. I recall havlng qulte at lme mak lng our count ry ma l lbor lnOntarlo ttght enough to prevent themfrom nestlng. For at least e weok, on adatly baslr, we had to remove the nest-tng mater la ls and secure ly r $0 wethought, cloge the box. The clutch of 4-6 eggs are pale blulsh or groenlsh vhlteand the Incubatlon perlod lo reportedlyonly I I - 14 days. Lltt le wonder theymult lp ly so fast .

The second member of thts famlly levar loua ly re fe r red . to as the Ch lneseStarllng, the Japanese otarl lng and theCrested Mynah. lr l l see shat more Infor-mBtion lg avallable next t lrne

Thatrs al l for nov Folksl ! HappyB i rd ing l l l l l

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