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Lisa and Rick’s Mysynuk along with staff, pose outside their shop with some of their clients. Read about their long history in the Dog Grooming business with a story by Rod Drown on page 8. Photos by Jason Vanderhill “Let’s Get Ahead Together”

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DOG DAYS CAN BE GOOD DAYS — REALLY GOOD DAYS AT TIFFANY’S SALON By Rod Drown

was raised on a farm. One of the thrills during the night was hearing the coyotes howling in the fields and our “Heinz 57” farm dog (invariably named Paddy or Mickey) racing back and forth between our log house and the distant forests at the edge of our fields, chasing away the wailing intruders. So, I must admit that my initial response upon reading about a “Spa” for dogs at the website of Tiffany’s grooming salon at 820B on 12th Street in New Westminster was a bit dubious. I asked myself: what is a good level of care for man’s best friend? However, upon visiting Tiffany’s, I was very impressed at the very high level of care that Lisa and Rick Mysynuk provide to their canine clients. My “Inner Farmer” said something like, “Wow — these dogs have it better than some people I know!” That’s because the staff at Tiffany’s (family owned and operated since 1969) believe that the key to a happy healthy pet is regular, scheduled maintenance grooming. It’s hard to argue with that philosophy. Lisa Mysynuk is proud of how, over the years, she has run a business, raised her children, moved the salon five times and has still had time to volunteer and give back to the community that has kept Tiffany’s successful for over 50 Years. As she says on the website www.tiffanysgrooming.com. July 2018

The website explains that she and her staff have over 60 years combined experience with hand-scissored styling on all breeds. Not only have Lisa and Rick been Internationally Professional Groomers Certified Master Groomers of Non-Sporting Terriers, Terriers and Sporting breeds since 1988, they have also been members of the Western Professional Groomers Association since 1989. “We have also won countless First Place ribbons in competition grooming,” she announces on the website. The secret and the hallmark of Tiffany’s success seem to be DIGNITY, which is to say: Treat the dog with DIGNITY! As the complete wording in their credo says: Our goal is to groom your pet in the safest, stress-free environment. Our customer’s special loved ones deserve to leave our salon with personalized hair cuts that are functional, but still give them dignity and style. Our staff believe that your pet is an extension of you and therefore should receive the quality and care that you would expect for any member of your family. The website has some very interesting information, in the form of typical customer questions — and succinct answers from the team at Tiffany’s”. Questions such as Why won’t you shave off all my dog’s hair if I request it? | L O C A L LY P U B L I S H E D S I N C E 2 0 0 0

I won’t reprint the whole andid show up but not at the appoint“ Our company has created an swer but just a part exemplifies ed place and not at the appointed open and inviting spa-like hour. In fact, he showed up at her the care and concern the Mysynatmosphere.” ~ Lisa Mysynuk house very, very late — just when uks have for the animals entrusted to their care. Lisa was about to go to bed! A dog that has HAIR (i.e. Shih tzu, Bishon or Spaniel) “There was a knock on my door and there he was lookwill require grooming at least every three months being apologetic!” she recalls with a smile. cause their hair grows continually and matting will ocBut things became much more successful at the high cur unless brushed daily. Most hair styles are designed school grad a while later when Lisa and Rick found ourwith the breed in mind and the hair serves a purpose selves on a social cruise in Vancouver harbor — a big and not just a fashion statement. When your pet leaves event in the graduation rites of that time. Things blosour salon they should reflect the care and attention that somed between them. you give to them. There is no factual health reason that any pet would require a complete removal of their hair. Their day at the groomers should be a day of pleasure at the spa — not a day at the dentist. More interesting details about the calibre of care these experienced groomers lavish on their charges can be found at their website. THE COURTSHIP OF A CANINE-FOCUSED COUPLE After a long courtship (that began with high school graduation) Lisa and Rick bought their first house in Surrey in 1986 before they were married. They have now lived there for 31 years. Explaining a bit about their courtship, Lisa gives some details: “We were both born at the same hospital in the same year. Our paths crossed through our school years many times in Surrey but we didn’t come together till graduation.” As to the question of who made the first move toward a romance that eventually ended in a very successful marriage, Lisa details that their actual introduction took place at the beginning of Grade 11. The next significant thing that happened was that Rick asked her out, set a date, and then didn’t show up! Well, actually he

THEIR FAMILIES Both Rick and Lisa have in their families WWII war heroes and heroines that we admire. One of their heroes is Eric Butchart, a distant member of the family famous for the Butchart Gardens in Victoria, BC. During World War II Eric was involved in photo reconnaissance in the RAF. He prided himself on being a non-combatant. Yet, at the same time, his job was very valuable — at times entirely vital to the war effort. (continued on page 10)

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George Gibbs, similarly a non-combatant — except for his seeing action in the Battle for Juno beach during World War II — was a grand father of Rick’s. Gibbs in fact appears in the same photo “Wait for me, Daddy” that features another New Westminster hero, Private Jack Bernard. The photo (in the Province newspaper, of Oct. 1, 1940) shows the British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught’s Own Rifles) marching down Eighth Street, at the Columbia Street intersection, in New Westminster, BC. This photo shows five year old Warren Bernard, running towards his father, Private Jack Bernard, who was marching in the line. Lisa tells me that, further back and up the hill, in the line of marching men is George Gibbs, who later became an engineer in the military. “He joined just to travel and see the world,” summarized Lisa about Rick’s Grandpa George. Both Lisa and Rick Mysynuk are proud of the long line of people in their family who have worked or are still working as self employed or in some form of service industry in their family. Not only was her father an RCMP officer, but the Mysynuks also have in their relatives volunteer fireman & chiefs, hairdressers , insurance tycoons , film and retail cosmetologists, martial art instructors, mixolagists and home and commercial maintenance technicians. | L O C A L LY P U B L I S H E D S I N C E 2 0 0 0

I was curious about the “Insurance Tycoons”. Lisa gave me a lot of information on this particular connection — far too much to include in this article. Suffice to say that, once again the Butchart family comes up — this time in the person of Ray Butchart (again, one of the family of Butchart Gardens fame) who in 1984 became a partner of John Manuel, who earlier had bought Ward Insurance Agency, founded in 1967 by Fred Ward. More mergers and acquisitions followed until today the presently-named Ward Watkins also owns the Viking Insurance Services Corporation. Lisa’s pathway to her very satisfying career of grooming dogs grew out of taking a course in pre-med toward a career in veterinary medicine. In that course she was essentially advised to get used to the fact that animals in veterinary care sometimes die. “(However) I found that the fatality of patients was something I didn’t want to ‘get used to’,” said Lisa. ANNE PASSEY PASSES ON THE GROOMING SCISSORS At about the same time, her mother Anne Passey, a founding member of the Western Professional Grooming Association and the original owner of Tiffany’s was getting restless and wanted a career change. So restless, in fact, that one day she phoned Lisa and announced that she was going to close the business (Tiffany’s). She was, however, hoping that Lisa would buy it. In fact it took Lisa six months to decide if she wanted to own a dog grooming saloon. One reason Lisa was slow in making up her mind was because she was newly married. Besides Tiffany’s was a much smaller business back in 1989 and she may have been worried that the enterprise may not have been sufficient to support her and her new husband, Rick. Lisa is very proud of being “one of less than 50 certified international master (continued on page 12)

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And what of the nameless dead? The ones whose stones could not be salvaged, the ones whose markers are imperfect, unreadable? Let them find their way to the boughs of cherry trees when the blossoms blush pink in spring. Let them find the lightness of hummingbirds, the lush brugmansia, after the warm June wind has called them home. Chelsea Comeau is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in CV2, Freefall and Room magazine. In 2015 she was the Canadian winner of the Leaf Press Chapbook competition. In April 2017, she was the artistin-residence at the Anvil Centre in New Westminster.

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groomers in BC. Most of my training came through travel to Seattle, Tacoma, Calgary and all over the lower mainland taking seminars, workshops, testing and competing in the pet grooming industry to achieve my masters.” Lisa’s response to my question: What are the most regrettable styles and fads of the last decades?” was quite succinct: “We don’t do Mohawks, nail polish, and no coat-dying!” It is plain to see that Lisa understands that dogs are very sensitive animals and they pick up on their owners’ problems, sorrows etc. Both Lisa and Rick are well aware that some of their canine clients prefer her and others prefer Rick. Generally, notes Lisa, Rick handles the large dogs and she works with the smaller, perhaps more high-spirited dogs. The third person at Tiffany’s, (for 20 years) Cyrs Lauzon, also has clients who prefer her care over that of her two colleagues. Over the years of her childhood, Lisa became very familiar with looking after and grooming pigs, rabbits, goats, horses and cats (“Lots of cats,” emphasizes Lisa with a smile.), given that her family had a hobby farm out in the Fleetwood area. I wanted to know more about Tiffany’s clients. For example, who was the oldest? “That would be Mr Toth, who is 92 years old; over the years we have had kept five of his dogs trimmed and looking good! And the oldest dog would be Pepper, a mix breed ,who is 18 years old and rather frail, and only trusts Crys to look after it,” she mentioned. BESIDES THE DOGS For many years, for recreation, Lisa and Rick have played sports in the New West area. They still play coed softball with the Brew Crew on Thursday nights. Their team is made up of New West city workers and store owners. Rick, a guy with a strong arm, is a fine pitcher and Lisa specializes in playing Second Base. And they travel. It was a choice they made following Rick’s very scary encounter with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma about 20 years ago. Upon surviving that challenge, the couple decided that they were going to start living life to the fullest — and include their two daughters in that enlightening adventure. Rick and Lisa have traveled all over the world — to Italy, China, Greece Amsterdam and Hawaii, to name a few. They see travel as a family affair. “We have strived to give our daughters a taste of what life had to offer here in BC through sporting team | L O C A L LY P U B L I S H E D S I N C E 2 0 0 0

MLA’S REPORT By Judy Darcy

ack of affordable housing and renovictions are issues I hear about frequently in my constituency office — and they are a top priority for our government. As of May 17th, key amendments have been made to the Residential Tenancy Act to give tenants more protections from renovictions immediately. These include: • Landlords are now required to provide fourmonths’ notice — increased from two months — when evicting a tenant because of demolition or renovation. • Tenants now have 30 days to dispute a notice of eviction to end tenancy for demolition, conversion or renovation, instead of just 15 days. • The amount of compensation owed to tenants in cases of bad faith evictions has been increased. To deter landlords from using evictions improperly, landlords must pay 12 months’ rent to a former tenant if they are found to have ended a tenancy for renovation or demolition and then did not follow through on their plans. This amendment also applies to situations where the landlord uses a vacate clause claiming that the unit will be used personally or by a family member, but then rents the unit to someone else.

events, art museums in Vancouver. One of our favorite things was taking them both to Phantom of the Opera as a Christmas gift. We also took the girls and their friends to Disney on Ice every winter when they were young and biked with them to watch Celebration of light fireworks in Vancouver every summer,” she recalls. “We still have two continents left to “conquer” — Africa and Australia,” she summarized. The couple are also energetic enthusiasts of Latin and Ballroom dancing through the Centennial community center. In the Latin dancing realm of things, Rick and Lisa can do about 15 dances including of course tango, salsa, and meringue. HER VERY FIRST HURDLE Of course, I was very curious about Lisa’s comment in the initial bio I had received from her: “It’s hard to

• Original tenants now have a right of first refusal if they were evicted from a multi-unit building on the basis of renovations or repair. While the rent may be set at market value, this allows tenants to confirm that the renovations did in fact occur. Otherwise the original tenants are eligible for compensation of 12 months’ rent. These measures are already in effect and are meant to give renters more time in disputing evictions based on renovations or repair. It is also meant to discourage landlords from abusing the eviction clause, with higher penalties for misuse. If you are facing renoviction, please contact my constituency office. You can call ahead to book an appointment at 604-775-2101 and we will walk you through your rights as a tenant and let you know what resources are available.

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believe that I survived all of these different hurdles that life threw at my family, but some how I did the last 30 years.” Upon my asking, she explained. One of the biggest hurdles Lisa faced was one she almost never made it over! When she was 3 ½, she was involved in a serious car accident. One day, while her mother was driving Lisa and her sister in the family station wagon in New Westminster, their vehicle was rear-ended. Rear-ended so hard in fact, that Lisa’s sister ended up under the vehicle which had crashed into them. Lisa, however, was even more seriously injured. She was only saved because a quick-thinking cab driver put her in the back of his cab and drove her to St. Mary’s Hospital on Royal Avenue. She didn’t regain consciousness until her father arrived at the hospital in uniform pleading for her to open her eyes.

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.” ~ Robert Benchley

THE WILD, WILD WEST Q: Why did the dog walk into the bar in the Wild West? A: He was looking for the man who shot his paw. START SPREADING THE NEWS Q: What’s a dog’s favourite city? A: New Yorkie. TWO BITS A CALL Q: What do you get if you cross a gold dog with a telephone? A: A golden receiver. BORN ON THE SIDEWALK Did you hear about the dog who gave birth on the sidewalk? She was ticketed for littering.

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WOOF This dog walks into a telegraph office and picks up a blank form. He then writes on it, “Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof.” and hands the form to the clerk. The clerk takes it off him, looks it over and then says, “You know, there are only nine words here. You could add another ‘Woof’ for the same price.” The dog shakes his head at the clerk in disbelief and says “But that would make no sense at all.” WHERE’S THAT DARN MONKEY? A wealthy man decided to go on a safari in Africa. He took his faithful pet dachshund along for company. One day, the dachshund starts chasing butterflies and before long the dachshund discovers that he is lost.

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So, wandering about, he notices a leopard head-

ing rapidly in his direction with the obvious intention

of having him for lunch. The dachshund thinks, “I’m in

deep trouble now!” Then he noticed some bones on the ground close by, and immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat.

Just as the leopard is about to leap, the dachshund

exclaims loudly, “Boy, that was one delicious leopard. I wonder if there are any more around here.”

Hearing this, the leopard halts his attack in mid-

stride, as a look of terror comes over him, and slinks away into the trees.

“Whew,” says the leopard. “That was close. That

dachshund nearly had me.”

Meanwhile, a monkey, who had been watching the

whole scene from a nearby tree, figures he can put

this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection

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from the leopard. So, off he goes.

But the dachshund saw him heading after the

leopard with great speed, and figured that something The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, spills

ard. The leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says, “Here monkey, hop on my back and see what’s going to happen to that conniving canine.”

Now the dachshund sees the leopard coming with

the monkey on his back, and thinks, “What am I going

to do now?” But instead of running, the dog sits down

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with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn’t to hear, the dachshund says, “Where’s that darn another leopard.”

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MAXIMS OF THE INTERNET AGE 1. Home is where you hang your @ 2. The E-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail. 3. A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click. 4. You can’t teach a new mouse old clicks. 5. Great groups from little icons grow. 6. Speak softly and carry a cellular phone. 7. C:\ is the root of all directories. 8. Don’t put all your hypes in one home page. 9. The modem is the message. 10. Too many clicks spoil the browse. 11. The geek shall inherit the earth. 12. A chat has nine lives. 13. Don’t byte off more than you can view. 14. Fax is stranger than fiction. 15. What boots up must come down. 16. Windows will never cease. 17. Virtual reality is its own reward. 18. Modulation in all things. 19. A user and his leisure time are soon parted. 20. There’s no place like http://www.home.com 21. Know what to expect before you connect.

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THE FLIGHT Terri asked her Sunday School class to draw pictures of their favorite Bible stories. She was puzzled by Kyle’s picture, which showed four people on an airplane, so she asked him which story it was meant to represent. “The flight to Egypt,” said Kyle. “I see. And that must be Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus,” Ms. Terri said. “But who’s the fourth person?” “Oh, that’s Pontius-the Pilot. NOT SO LONG AGO… • An application was for employment. • A program was a TV show. • A cursor used profanity. • A keyboard was a piano! • Memory was something that you lost with age. • A CD was a bank account. • Compress was something you did to garbage not to a file. • And if you unzipped anything in public you’d be in jail for awhile! • Log on was adding wood to a fire. • Hard drive was a long trip on the road. • A mouse pad was where a mouse lived. July 2018

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THE HOP FIELDS

By Don Benson or several consecutive years in the 1940s, my mother, sister, brother and I spent the last two weeks of August ‘picking hops’ at the Haas Hop Yards near Chilliwack. Hops are round papery cones that grow on hop-vines and are the traditional flavour-ingredient in beer-brewing. My mother believed that being in the proximity of the hops relieved her chronic asthma. Others believed that a pillow filled with hops could help a person suffering from anxiety or insomnia. The money we earned from hop-picking helped our family with back-to-school costs. A family friend with a pickup truck drove us from New Westminster to the hop yards. Accommodations for hop-picking families were extremely basic: oneroom cabins about ten by ten feet in area, with hay-covered bunks and a dirt floor. There was no heat, and one light bulb hung suspended from the ceiling. Rows of attached outhouses were scattered throughout the property, and water was hauled from community taps. It was all very primitive and rustic. Today, the Farmworkers Union would not have allowed it! To reach the hop fields each morning, hop-pickers were crowded into big trucks with three long benches under a canvas cover. People sitting on the middle bench had to hang on tightly to the bench because they couldn’t see what was ahead, and if the truck turned a sharp corner or hit a bump, they could get thrown off the bench with no warning. The trip was usually about two or three miles and always made me feel claustrophobic and ‘car sick’. Thinking of the trucks makes me recall the year that, for some unremembered and misguided reason, we brought my big dog ‘Ranger’ with us. It was a foolish thing to do, and it caused all sorts of problems. He wasn’t allowed in the farm truck, so I tied him up to the cabin with a rope that first morning. We hadn’t gone far in the truck before he had chewed through the rope and was running down the TransCanada Highway in hot pursuit. We’d barely started picking when he arrived, wagging his tail! At that day’s end the driver wouldn’t let him ride in the truck, so there he was on the highway again, getting smaller and smaller as we picked up speed. After that we left him IN the cabin all day. Poor old Ranger. The work force at the hop fields included Aboriginals, Mennonites, Chinese and many other ethnic groups. I

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can still hear the Mennonites singing in four-part harmony as they picked. Some said the Japanese were the best workers of all, but during most of my hop-picking years, the Japanese in British Columbia were either interned at camps in the Interior because of World War II, or had not yet returned to the hop fields after the war ended in 1945. Ethnic groups tended to stick together when picking hops. There was a lot of social interaction as old friends from earlier harvest seasons met once again. Many life-long friendships were formed, and many romances blossomed or wilted right before our eyes. It was a continuing soap opera of endless chatter in many languages, and endless rumours about the wages being cut from Don Benson age 13. five-cents-a-pound to four-and-one-halfcents-a-pound, for example. I recall trying to imagine remembered to bring. It had a nice smell of sassafras how a ‘sit-down strike’ could accomplish anything. To and made your hands really smooth. a kid, it sounded pretty boring. Picking hops was hot work in late August, so a ‘water The green-coloured hops grew on vines that curled truck’ with tin cups tied to strings came by regularly. counter-clockwise around strong strings that were The hops were picked into a basket and then dumped tied from the hop plant base up to overhead wires into a large burlap sack when the basket was full. When strung to posts about twenty feet tall. Men roamed the big sack was full, it was dragged to the nearest weighthe ‘hop field’, each carrying a long pole so they could ing station where it was inspected for leaves. If there lower the wire to a more comfortable picking-height were any leaves, the worker with the sack had to step whenever someone who wanted their hop vine low- off to one side and clean them out before the man would ered shouted ‘WIRE DOWN’! When you picked hops, weigh their hops. your fingers soon became stained black and yellow The man weighing the sack of hops called out the from the juice that was later extracted from the hops weight to another man who punched a card showing to help give beer a tangy, bitter flavour and unique how much money that weight of hops was worth. The bouquet. The sticky, fragrant juice tasted so bitter card could be taken to the ‘company store’ and used as that when you ate your lunchtime sandwich, you held currency to buy groceries. We had to supply our own it half wrapped in waxed paper. I can still recall the meals and there were no cook-stoves, so we ate a lot of cetaste of sardine sandwiches accidentally tainted with real and a lot of sandwiches. The prices of the company a drop or two of bitter ‘hop juice’. When we returned store groceries were outrageous, but there wasn’t much to our cabin after work, we all scrubbed off the stains could be done about it as the nearest grocery stores were with a gritty compound called Snap that Mom always at Chilliwack, a long hike away, continued on page 24

This story is from Evelyn Benson’s award-winning book, A CENTURY IN A SMALL TOWN — One Family’s Stories. Both Book 1 & Book 2 are available at Renaissance Books, 712 – 12th St, New West and www.amazon.ca. Watch for more stories in next month’s Piffle. “Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.” ~ Unknown

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and none of the pickers had a car that I recall. Come to think of it, if a person could afford to buy a car, they wouldn’t need to pick hops to earn money. At the end of our stay, the punched cards not yet used at the company store to buy food were turned in for cash. We started picking early in the morning. It was said that a few folks slept overnight in the fields during good weather so they could get started picking at sunrise. Usually, after I had picked a certain weight of hops each day, about noon I was given my freedom. Kids today can only dream about the freedom we kids had in those bygone days. I often went exploring alone in different directions for miles. One day I picked my quota of hops as fast as I could, then headed north from the hop fields of Sumas Prairie to have a look at the Fraser River a couple of miles away. When I got there some boys were playing on a log boom. I soon joined in, playing tag on the floating logs. Suddenly I was in the river! My world was cold and so dark I didn’t know which way was up! To this day, I remember vividly that while I was under that log boom I ‘saw’ a Provincial Police officer at our cabin door telling my mother that I had drowned in the Fraser River. The illusion was so real that I could smell the policeman’s sweat and see the dust on his brown uniform. As he was telling her what had happened, I remember a feeling of profound sadness. What had happened was that one of the boys had jumped on the other end of the log I was standing on and flipped me into the water. Luckily, that same boy reached me and got me back onto the logs! Of course I couldn’t go back to our cabin until my clothes were dry, and I never did tell my mother about that terrifying but haunting experience. I didn’t want to lose my ‘freedom’. Our family was always over-optimistic about how much money we were going to earn picking hops. We would make a Wish List of all the things we were going to buy from Eaton’s Catalogue with the ‘hop-money’. Then, when we saw we had fallen short of our goal (as usual), my mother would quietly stroke off the things she had added for herself on the Hop-money Wish List… As usual. Beginning in the 1950s hop-picking machines were introduced to the hop industry, and each machine could process up to 25 tons of hops a day, the equivalent production of about 500 persons picking by hand! So once again the world moved on, leaving a colourful and interesting way of life behind, but still remembered by the few of us still alive who were there. | L O C A L LY P U B L I S H E D S I N C E 2 0 0 0

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SOME CHUCKLES FOR SCIENCE FOLKS Q: Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium? A: It went OK. • If the Silver Surfer and Iron Man team up, they’d be alloys. Q: How did the English major define microtome on his biology exam? A: An itsy bitsy book. • If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate. Q: What did Gregor Mendel say when he founded genetics? A: Woopea! • A photon checks into a hotel and is asked if he needs any help with his luggage. He says, “No, I’m traveling light.” Q: Did you hear about the man who got cooled to absolute zero? A: He’s 0K now. • Organic chemistry is difficult. Those who study it have alkynes of trouble. Q: Anyone know any jokes about sodium? A: Na.

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• Did you just mutate for a stop codon? Because you’re talking nonsense! • Two chemists go into a bar. The first one says “I think I’ll have an H2O.” The second one says “I think I’ll have an H2O too” — and he died. Q: What do chemists call a benzene ring with iron atoms replacing the carbon atoms? A: A ferrous wheel. • Did you hear the one about the recycling triplets? Their names are Polly, Ethel, and Ian. Q: What element is a girl’s future best friend? A: Carbon. • I had to make these bad chemistry jokes because all the good ones Argon. Q: Why can you never trust atoms? A: They make up everything! • I had to make these bad chemistry jokes because all the good ones Argon. | L O C A L LY P U B L I S H E D S I N C E 2 0 0 0

Q: What did the male stamen say to the female pistil? A: I like your “style.”

• Did you hear about the famous microbiologist who visited 30 different countries and spoke 6 languages? He was a man of many cultures. • A fellow accidentally ingested some alpha-Lglucose and discovered that he had no ill effect. Apparently he was ambidextrose. HIGH BROW STUFF THAT SARGE DON’T GIT 1. Honestly, everyone should just leave writing poetry to the prose.

2. What do you get when you mix alcohol and literature? Tequila mockingbird! 3. Bronte? She’s like a breath of fresh Eyre.

4. Why is John Milton terrible to invite to game night? Because when he’s around, there’s a pair of dice lost. 5. What happened when past, present, and future walked into a bar? It was tense. 6. Here’s a riddle… Voldemort.

7. Never read Fitzgerald? You Gatsby kidding me!

8. Which dinosaur knows a lot of synonyms? Thesaurus. 9. What makes “Civil Disobedience” such a great essay? Thoreau editing. 10. Why are writers always cold? Because they’re always surrounded by drafts. 11. You had me at Othello.

12. Why did the book get thinner? It had its appendix removed. 13. You were reading and then you saw a bird? Cool story, Poe. 14. What do you say to comfort an English major? Their, they’re, there.

15. Why is a book’s plot so important? It builds character.

16. What did the period say to the sentence? We better stop now! 17. What do pregnant women and apostrophes have in common? They’re prone to contractions. 18. Hyperbole is without a doubt the single greatest thing in the universe.

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WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE Wildfires are a natural part of British Columbia’s wildland ecosystems. Without wildfire, the landscape loses its diversity. Wildfires recycle nutrients, help plants reproduce and create a mosaic of vegetation that provides habitat for a variety of wildlife. By choosing to extend our communities, resource developments and recreational pursuits into forested areas, we become more exposed to the danger of wildfire. Living where wildfires can occur may put your home at risk, but it’s possible to reduce the potential impacts on your home from these natural events. PRIORITY ZONE 1: This area is immediately adjacent to a given building and extends outward in all directions for a minimum of 10 meters in flat terrain. The goal of zone 1 is to create a fuel modified area in which flammable vegetation surrounding the building is eliminated or converted to less flammable species. Some examples of managing this area are: • Annual grasses should be mowed to 10 cm or less •

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“Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that’s how dogs spend their lives.” ~ Sue Murphy

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This explains so much. Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was? Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses. Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what’s known as an event boundary in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next. Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room and prepares a blank slate for the new locale. It’s not aging, it’s that crazy door! Whew! Thank goodness for scientific studies.

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MOUNTAIN FOLK’S UNDERSTANDING OF COMPUTER TERMS 1. LOG ON: Makin a wood stove hotter. 2. LOG OFF: Don’t add no more wood. 3. MONITOR: Keepin an eye on the wood stove. 4. DOWNLOAD: Gettin the farwood off the truk. 5. MEGA HERTZ: When yer not kerful gettin the farwood. 6. FLOPPY DISC: Whatcha git from tryin to carry too much farwood. 7. RAM: That thar thing whut splits the farwood. 8. HARD DRIVE: Gettin home in the winter time. 9. PROMPT: Whut the mail ain’t in the winter time. 10. WINDOWS: Whut to shut wen it’s cold outside. 11. SCREEN: Whut to shut wen it’s blak fly season. 12. BYTE: Whut them dang flys do. 13. CHIP: Munchies fer the TV. 14. MICRO CHIP: Whut’s in the bottom of the munchie bag. 15. MODEM: Whut cha did to the hay fields. 16. DOT MATRIX: Old Dan Matrix’s wife. 17. LAP TOP: Whar the kitty sleeps. 18. KEYBOARD: Whar ya hang the dang keys. 19. SOFTWARE: Them dang plastic forks and knifs. 20. MOUSE: Whut eats the grain in the barn. 21. MAINFRAME: Holds up the barn roof. 22. PORT: Fancy Flatlander wine. 23. ENTER: Northerner talk fer “C’mon in y’all” 24. RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY: Wen ya cain’t ‘member whut ya paid fer the rifle when yore wife asks. 25. MOUSE PAD: That hippie talk fer the rat hole. | L O C A L LY P U B L I S H E D S I N C E 2 0 0 0

DOG QUOTES • “Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul — chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!” ~ Anne Tyler • “Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” ~ Ann Landers • “No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.” ~ Christopher Morley • He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. ~ Unknown • If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. ~ Mark Twain • I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. ~ John Steinbeck

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• A calendar’s days are numbered.

• When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.

• The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground. • The dead batteries were given out free of charge. • If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory. • A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail. • A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired. • A will is a dead giveaway.

• Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. • A backward poet writes inverse.

• A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.

• Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I’ll show you A-flat miner.

• When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds. • The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered. • You are stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it. • A lot of money is tainted: ‘Taint yours, and ‘taint mine. • A boiled egg is hard to beat.

• He had a photographic memory but it was never developed. • When you’ve seen one shopping center you’ve seen a mall.

• When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she’d dye.

• Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.

NUMBER BLOCKS

• I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. • Police were called to a day care where a three-yearold was resisting a rest. • To write with a broken pencil is pointless. • When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate. • A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months. • A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened criminal.

• We’ll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply.

Generated by http://www.opensky.ca/sudoku on Tue Dec 5 23:17:50 2017 GMT. Enjoy!

Each column must contain all of the numbers 1 through 9 and no two numbers in the same column of a Sudoku puzzle can be the same.

MATH MADNESS

Submitted by Ray Sargent

HOW FAST CAN YOU GET THROUGH?

6 4

2 4 8 1 6 3 7 5 9

Each row must contain all of the numbers 1 through 9 and no two numbers in the same row of a Sudoku puzzle can be the same.

8 5 6 2 1 7 9 4 3

7 9 3 5 4 8 6 1 2

4 1 2 6 3 9 8 7 5

Each block must contain all of the numbers 1 through 9 and no two numbers in the same block of a Sudoku puzzle can be the same.

5 8 4 9 2 6 1 3 7

3 2 1 8 7 4 5 9 6

9 6 7 3

3 3

2 1

3 3 3

3 3 3 3

2 2

2 3 3 3 2 2 2 5

8 1

5 1 4 2 8

2 1

1 3

3 1

3 5

1 1

HINT: TOO MUCH OF THIS The principle of this puzzle is to shade, in a logical way, boxes in the grid to discover a picture solution. Numbers on the left show the sets of boxes to be shaded in the corresponding line. Numbers above the grid show the sets of boxes to be shaded in the corresponding column. There is always at least one clear box separating the shaded boxes. TIP: It is just as important to discover which boxes are clear.

BY ROSS HOOD

PUZ ZLE #48

Puzzle 1 (Easy, difficulty rating 0.25)

PIFFLE’S

SUDOKU!

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OPTIONS Q: What did one flea say to the other? A: Shall we walk or shall we take the dog? REDNECK AND THE PIG This redneck was parked behind a trailer load of pigs near the zoo in Washington, DC. As the truck drove away — one of the pigs fell out. He walked over and picked the pig up and placed it in the front seat of his truck. He was sitting there looking puzzled when a policeman walked up and asked what was going on. He told the story and the policeman recommended he take the pig to the zoo. The redneck was sitting in the same spot the next day with the pig sitting up in the front seat. The cop said “didn’t I ask you to take this pig to the zoo?” The redneck replied “I did and he liked it so well — today I’m taking him to the movies!” THE CHESS PLAYER Q: What did the Australian chess player say to the waitress? A: Check, mate.

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CAN COUNCIL SPEND MONEY WITHOUT PERMISSION?

By Tony Gioventu, Executive Director, Condominium Home Owners' Association of BC

ear Tony: This is pretty simple. An owner changed their own toilet, flooded out their unit and the unit below. The insurance deductible cost was $5,000 for the water claim and the damages were $12,000. Council chose not to file the claim on the advice of our broker because our deductible would go up to $10,000, so council just paid for the claim out of the contingency fund, and tried to claim the amount against the owner, but as there is no deductible claimed, so her insurance company won’t pay the amount claiming she should only be liable for the $5,000 deductible. We are only 18 units so this is a big hole in our fund. Do they have the authority to make that decision? ~ Kyle Davies Dear Kyle: The strata corporation is authorized to expend funds that are approved in the annual budget, approved by a resolution of the owners under a special levy or contingency expense, an emergency, or for unauthorized amounts up to the maximum set out in the bylaws or $2,000 or 5% of the annual budget whichever is less. An insurance deductible is a common expense of the strata corporation which may be paid from either the operating account, contingency account or by a special levy. The deductible is essentially the “emergency or mandatory amount”, and the strata in your case would have likely commenced an action against the offending owner for the claim and the insurance deductible amount as the cause of the flood was a result of their direct actions. All of the owners in the strata are named insureds on the policy, so a strata owner can still file a claim, and whether the claim was filed or not, your

George Garrett, Vice-President

strata still reported it to the insurance company, which may still affect your risk and deductible. The problem you now have is how to collect the amount when the strata refused to file an insurance claim? Because many strata bylaws and homeowner policies have limitations and conditions set out around the application of insurance deductibles or claims for damages, it is important to review your strata bylaws and for the homeowners to review their personal policies to see what options are available. It may not be too late for the insurance claim to be filed. Twenty percent of your owners may wish to consider petitioning for a Special General Meeting to vote to instruct council to file the claim. At the very least, your council should seek legal advice, a cost which could have been avoided had they simply filed the claim in the first place. This publication contains general information only and is not intended as legal advice. Use of this publication is at your own risk. CHOA, the author and related entities will not be liable to you or any other person for any loss or damage arising from, connected with or relating to the use of this publication or any information contained herein by you or any other person. The contents of this publication may not be reproduced, blogged, or distributed in any fashion without the explicit prior consent of the writer. Direct office phone: 604-515-9683 Office email: tony@choa.bc.ca Mobile: 604-323-6458

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By Bruce MacDonald

rom the late 1970s through the early 2000s the house at the corner of Sixth Street and Welsh Street housed the popular La Rustica restaurant. Despite the fact that it’s on Welsh Street, few people today know that it was once the home of C.A. and Maud Welsh. Charles Almeron Welsh was born in 1866 in Bay City, Michigan. Raised in Ontario, he came to British Columbia in 1889. He was manager of the Jubilee Grocery Company until the 1898 fire that destroyed the city’s downtown. The ruins where still smouldering when Welsh opened his own grocery. A prominent advertiser, Welsh branded his store ‘The People’s Grocer.’ He served the city as an alderman, the chairman of the pilotage authority, and as a police and license commissioner. He was a president of the New Westminster board of trade, the Royal Agricultural & Industrial Society, and the Vancouver Golf Club. He was also the manager of the New Westminster Lacrosse Club, the Salmonbellies, in 1908 when they defeated the Montreal Shamrocks for the national championship, the Minto Cup. As a trustee of the cup he displayed it prominently in his store window on Columbia Street. Welsh married a former New Westminster May Queen, Mary Maud Williams, in 1896. She was a member of the Board of Regents of UBC; a member of the Local Council of Women; a president of the Provincial Council of Women, and on several occasions delegate from New Westminster to the National Council of Women. She was one of the founders of the New Westminster YWCA; a charter member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood [PEO funds post-secondary education scholarships for young women]; a past provincial president of the King’s Daughters; a member of the board of directors of Royal Columbian hospital and active in the work of the hospital auxiliary and the Red Cross Society; a member of the Women’s Educational Auxiliary of the United Church; and a member of Queen’s Avenue United Church. Charles’s fatal heart attack at home in 1938 at the age of 72 also killed Maud, the shock of his sudden death stopping her heart. She died within a minute of her husband. “There was something of beauty,” said the Columbian newspaper, “in the fact that these two, who had worked so long together, in death were not divided.” A thousand mourners crowded into Queen’s Avenue United Church for their funerals. Hundreds of other people stood outside, surrounding the church. The Reverend J.S. Henderson, president of the Salmonbellies to Welsh’s manager at the time of their 1908 Minto Cup win, presided at the double funeral. Among the Welsh’s pallbearers were Salmonbellies supporter and mayor Fred Hume and former players Wells Gray, Will, Tommy and Jimmy Gifford.

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up, my eyelashes are sore, my dog just died…” When

they get try to get back to the sell, just continue your problems.

If they say they’re Joe Doe from the XYZ Company,

ask them to spell their name, then ask them to spell

the company name, then ask them where it located. Continue asking them personal questions or ques-

tions about their company for as long as necessary.

If they clean rugs: “Can you get blood out, you can?

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Answer the phone. As soon as you realize it is a

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Tell the Telemarketer you are busy and if they will

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DRYER LAUNDRY ROOM 6’0” X 9’4”

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COV'D PORCH

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W.I.C. 5’0” X 3’8” DECK 12’10” X 4’6”

BEDROOM 4 12’0” X 12’0”

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