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- 2 REMEMBRANCE DAY We look forward to hosting the annual reception after the memorial service on November 11th. If you can help please phone Pat Scrivener at 922-2298. TRICK OR TREAT - OCTOBER 31 ST Hallowe'en - the Eve of All Hallows, or All Saints Day. Traditionally, all manner of spirits, spooks, hobgoblins and poltergeists will be abroad tonight, witches on their birch brooms will ride to their black sabbaths, and a devilish hullabaloo will take place until these ungodly ones are all chivvied back underground by the Saints Triumphant who will arise in bright array, first thing tomorrow morning. All this, no doubt, was taken terribly seriously a century or so ago. But tonight, the streets where by day I take my constitutional, for a short space, will be well populated by pint-sized witches and warlocks collecting goodies from good-natured householders in the quaint "trick or treat" tradition that Hallowe'en has now become. Philip Croft: "Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian" OCTOBER AT THE LIBRARY Assuming some of the Friends do not always pick up a copy of the monthly "Library News", I am permitted to include the following delightful introduction to October on the front page this month, written by Jack Mounce, our Chief Librarian. It's a gem in the Bad News/Good News department! "Let's face it, October can be a depressing month. Oh, it usually starts off OK, with warm Indian Summer days, cool pleasant evenings, bright fall colours, a resumption of Sunday opening at the Memorial Library (Oct. 2nd), etc. There's Thanksgiving turkey and pumpkin pie. Then things start to turn nasty. The rains come. Sodden slippery leaves litter lawns, line sidewalks and clog drains. Students still on summer time suddenly find themselves faced with mid-terms and looming assignment deadlines. Daylight savings time ends and we plunge into winter darkness. When the rain stops, frost kills the pumpkin and the last of the tomatoes. BUT ... At the Memorial Library fall programming is in full swing, new books, videos and CDs are on display, the bookmobile is loading up for its weekly circuit through the community, the Friends are busy, discussion groups going strong, Foundation directors planning special events, and in Youth Services they're plotting some REALLY SCARY STUFF for Hallowe'en. The only thing missing is your parking space. Try 20th Street, north of Marine. Your all-season library." FEED THE BIRDS ' The bird feeder which hangs outside our kitchen window is a busy port of call and is an unfailing source of amusement to us. My Constant Companion conjures up imaginary thought-processes for the various birds that come to feed, as small dramas appear to develop out there among the bird seed: The Oregon Juncos, which come in flocks but seem polite little birds and await their turn among the branches of the nearby dogwood tree; the Black-capped Chickadees, also arriving in flocks but staying only a second or two as they pick off two or three grains of seed, then away in a flash of black-and-white tail feathers; the Towhee, who hunkers down right in the middle of the heap of seed and eats all around him, rather like a storybook miser gloating over his hoard, to the quite evident irritation of the other species. But my ./3