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was, however, a sma-l catch. The chocolate bars had been storea near the soap and tastec stron^jly of Fels i.aptha. Twice a ween che whole popuiacion of ohe ca’Tip climbeo up lc the roao anc sat sno waitec for whao to cie seeded like hours. ,;e wore always extremely hot afoer our steep hirce but the; air smelled sweetlj of salal berries and looking for garter snakes or lizards anu prospective female victims helped to pass the time. The boys woula chase the girls, dangling some poor snaxe by the tail ana, as if on cue, the girls woula shriex ana inn away. i:.ventuaily our ears woula pick up the sound of a aistant motor, finally our wait was at an end as the Hocel T truck hove into view with its Chinese criver and mountain of fruits aiid vegetables. uacn mother patiently waitea her turn as the chilaren oeggv;d her to buy cherries ana peaches and all manner of favourite fooas .... then the long walk back to t he cottage with wTiatever burden you haa been assigned to carr^. FishiTig in those dajs was a far zvj fi'-om today. ho live herring (oi- evwn dead, for that matter). It was biamona spoons and heavy sinkers. The only pi-oper way to fish was from a rowboat .... really poor form to use an outboara. There weren'L marij arounc. anyway. m our ig-norauiCe, ii, was believea that grilse or immature Coho were ’'Sea Trout". These voracious creatures were simple to catch using a ivO. 2 biamona spoon ana veiy little weight. iou coulo always be sure of a feast of them even if the salmon were elusive. In order to save the trouole of reeling; in his lines when he wantec to change spoens or weights, my i'atner woula row to an appropriately deep spot ana ]_et the lines sink. This sometimes resulted in hooxing a large sna^^per oi' rocxiish. i4y no oner ain not take kindly to having these ugly brutes brought into the coat so they were unceremoniously tessea oacx the driuK even enough they woula not siu’vive after navir, een brought oo irn :uriace. .'.linouI a ccubt, ii was the oa.:.lcon-li.':e s-vio, 0.Ladder protiiicm.g fipm ihe ‘..i’'s mouth - together with its bulging e^es -that distressed my .lother so. Those pleasant summers proved too much for ray parents and in 1932 they aDandcned their new house in Vancouver and settled in Cypress Park, i^w my Mother could enjoy all year round tne lack of central heating, a wood-fired cook stove, no close-by stores, twice a week vegetable delivery and infrequent bus_ service. hx<>:^x<>x<c>xox<JM COMMUNITY DAY We hope you all had an oppertunitj to visit the display ol eai'ly transpoiu-ation mounted b;y the Society for Community Day. It served its purpose in attracting a great deal of attentioii to this aspect of our community. four president would like to thanx those members of the Executive who werxea so nara to arrange the display, and would add a word of special thanks to the members at large who coiitributed. These are Mary Chapman, Mildred Hughes, uetty Kirk, Dorothy Sabers and Cecily heynoids And, of course, there must be a special thanxs to Bas Collins, not only lor a loan of part of his collection, but lor his help in setting the items up lor display. If you noted the display cases, they are the work of Hugh Johnston, who maoe tne two flat cases in his basement.