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"OUR _TOWN*®

Mr. Roger Thew, Management Consultant,
has been conducting a series of courses in
Caseiar during the last few weeks, 30 we
asked him if he would give us his
impressions of life in "Our Town". At ths
time, the Bonspiel was at its peak and
this is what he had to say.

This Mad, Mad Voric

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mMhat is it that stalks abroac this
time of mid-winter? What is this ‘ Psopiss
Medness' that drives the Long Horre higher
up the mountains, that sends the meose and
the earibou further and further into the
Interior, and the grizzlies deeper under~
ground?

It. could only ba the ‘rear’ of the tsssiar
Bonspiel bouncing off the teps of tae
mountain and syvirling through the valleys,
which makes tie ghosts of Centreville pull
their shrouds « little cleser, and ssuses
the ies worma of Airplane Lake to hide
their heads in shams at such human frailty

Ahi, That one can suffer so gloriously. To
starve and to banquet. To learn. the
difference between ‘Curling’ and
*‘Bonspieling‘. To knew that ‘Curling’ is
just playing a geme, but to 'Bonspi sl‘
means the survival of the fittest. It

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means the ability to stay alive ~ even
without food, water or sleep. It nears

more too.

j it means abandonment of all higher learning
(2). It means that the conferences (oon
becomes the ‘Snake Pit'. It means the

i complete destruction of Communications, And
| {t meane mutilation of the lancuage. fcr
now we are to put "Rocks in the House’.

| Wheswer heard of a grown bunch of aduits

| Going that? Or a pernickety nousewife

allowing such a thing, when you ¢an‘t
wven tring in a little mud or asbestos
fibre paat the outdoor porch,

that. shout the ‘Hogline~ that area of
No-Mans’ land where 4 rock diga |
i‘cnominionsiy? A rock dying? Impoesibic. t
we teik about a ‘Hack’. It*s not a horae
st all, it’s something you put your foot
into, rather than throw your leg over. And |
e 'Rouse’? Wellae.. Ita not a home. And a
‘Broom * {t haen’t a wooden handle, it’s
metal and hollow. You tip it instead and

cut comes a vintage.

What about the ‘Button’? It's nothing you

sew on, or twist a little - no, it's some-
thing to draw to, and a ‘Pebble’ - well,
that’s water, not a stone.

You've heard of ‘Sweeping’. You’ve watched
4t &%%, and now you know why husbands have
to supply vacuum cleaners at homee And.
where would you be ‘Behind the Glass‘?