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People keep asking me if I have any plans for the rest of the summer, such as going on a trip, renting a cottage, learning to scubaâ€"dive or whatever. To each and all of them I have one answer: "I‘m going into a rest home where noâ€" body under the age of 50 can get near me."‘ 1 1 E 2 7 P d g in se e c in e k c e ks bntutid PBhcsstemadiien dbe chdindint i94 chc B4 We‘ve just had a lengthy visit from our grandboys, the first in more than six months. If you have any druthers when your chidren are expecting children, put in an application for girls. There is no girl or girls on earth who could have put their Grandad through the physical obstacle course I‘ve been through the past week. When school ended in June, I thought I‘d hang around for one more year before making way for a real teacher. 1 was in pretty good shape and another 10 months in front of the chalkboard would be no sweat. This week, I‘ve almost decided to retire on the third of September. Somehow, I don‘t think either the authorities or the students want an English department head cranking around in a wheel chair. The bursitis in my shoulder is killing me, after throwing a baseball to a potential Babe Ruth for hours. My right foot is bruised, battered and sprained from trying to prove I can still kick a football over a big spruce tree. My knees are scraped, my hands are raw, my torso is thoroughly pierced from climbing trees to bring down small boys who can get up, but like cats, can‘t get down. f 1 $s e K Cc d e e on ns s3 ce s N es he: i reteredien en amcisie Siur D ieA My back door had to be removed and repaired after being slammed approximately 3,000 times by the boys and their buddies up the street. My face is burned to lobsterâ€"like hue from being out in the sun as long as seven hours at a stretch. The boys never burn. Monica Leiher has something to toot her clarinet about. She‘s spending the summer studying in the applied music program at the Boston Uniâ€" versity Tanglewood Institute in Lenox, Mass. The program stresses inâ€" depth study and practice for experienced instrumentalists and provides students with the opportunity to study with the Boston Symphony Orâ€" chestra. Leiher is a twoâ€"time winner of the Kiwanis Music Festival and has studied clarinet and piano for a number of years. She is the daughter of John and Margaret Leiher of Waterloo and attends Bluevale Collegiate. { SOMETHIN® TO TOOT ABOUT BILL SMILEY They‘re moving too quickly for the sun to hit them a single direct blow. I don‘t know much about girls. I had one about 28 years ago, and she was no problem until she became a teenager. The only idiosyncracy she had was wanting to go to the bathroom at the most inopportune times, such as sailing along on the threeâ€"lane highway at 60, with two turkeys tailâ€" gating you, and not a tree or bush in sight. |~/nahvigulc ~A9° dbeuat dBinss abee isinned snn t anbcdoett »daies ttiaeut nanit : i9 TB But I‘m sure girls are not as curious, daring and dicey as small boys, who want to climb as high as possible, go as fast as possible, lean as far as they can over a dock or cliff, and hit each other as hard as they can over the head with a fist, a stick or a baseball bat. m[‘); little 'g_l;l's-iet all cleaned up, dressed up, and then dash through the lawn sgrinklgr_'gmrr_\ediate!y and frequently? _ Do little girls go down to the docks with you, ask how deep the water is, then lean over at an angle of 65 degrees to look down and make sure you‘re not prevaricating? .. _ Do little girls eat junk food all day, then come home and gobble down enough dinner to keep a healthy lumberjack going? o im Do little girls plague you because everyone else on the highway is passing you, and when you tell them the other drivers are turkeys, suggest with a grin that maybe you are a chicken? _ Do little girls put on boxing gloves and try to hammer the daylights out of each other, no quarter asked or given? . . uk vike & UE Sk.0 CABAL «k ons ow cantricriih i spin d arrarsacn ied en d E 1 Do little girls, the moment they‘ve arrived for a visit, ask that everything be turned on : the fireplace (in July), the hiâ€" fi, the fans, and the lawn sprinkler? Do little girls go from six in the morning until nine at night without stopping in one place for more than nine seâ€" Frogs, snails and other things Representatives of the Waterloo Safe Water Society (WSWS) have appeared before city council several times to preâ€" sent their case and request the city to stop its form of ‘"mass medication‘‘. Waterloo will not only be faced with a municipal election in November, but there is a distinct possibility that resiâ€" dents will also be asked to vote on a reâ€" ferendum calling for the city to rescind its fluoridated drinking water policy at that time. The WSWS claims the city never conâ€" sulted with residents as to whether they wanted such a program launched in the first place. They just wint ahead and did it. I‘m one of many people who are preâ€" sently undergoing an educational proâ€" gram on fluoridation because quite frankly I never gave it much thought beâ€" I live in a city (Kitchener) that doesn‘t add fluoride to its water â€" in fact city council rejected the idea seâ€" veral years ago â€" and I was under the impression that it would work wonders in the area of cavity prevention and harâ€" dening of teeth. While wading through the reams of inâ€" formation on fluoridation that have poured into this office since the issue first came to light, I began to realize there was more to it than just cavity prevention. If fluoridated water strengthens and hardens tooth enamel then what is it doing to the rest of my internal body sysâ€" tem? I just can‘t believe that when the chemical is consumed that it‘s just afâ€" fecting my teeth and nothing else. With the amount of water and coffee I drink while at work I‘m probably going to end up with organs that resemble solid concrete! Although some people have occasionally commented that my head is made of that same material. > I know that I partake in, and of, a lot of things that do more harm to my body than good, but the difference here is that I do them through choice, not because someone tells me I must because it‘s a municipal law. There are indications that there is more than enough fluoride, which apâ€" pears naturally in our water system, to That fluoride fog Waterloo Chronicle, Wednesday, August 13, 1980 â€" Page 7 conds, aside from the odd fourâ€"second pee demanded by Grandad? -wâ€";fijhyu little girls are not as angelic as I‘ve suggestâ€" ed, but little boys are just as demonic as I‘ve intimated. In fact, my wife heard at the hairdresser‘s that little boys are more honest, more affectionate and more lovable than little girls, who of course, are practising to be big girls. That may be. However, I‘m about as bruised, battered, bewildered and burnt as though I‘d climbed a mountain without any ropes, or crossed a desert without water Gran doesn‘t take the punishment I do. Oh, she does a lot of work. The washing machine is thumping most of the day, there isn‘t a dry towel in the house, she‘s about run out of Bandâ€"Aids, and she spends hours in the kitchen, whipping up such delicacies as honeyâ€"andâ€"peanut butter sandwiches and strawberry shortcake. (Guess who picks the berries?) _ She had a whirl in the backyard one day, batting, fielding, being shot with the hose, did nobly, but hasn‘t been out of the house since, and spent most of the next day ig_bed. 14 t cica ds 122000 B carctvalio se stt ninds taliintafineras dsc is uP +c ABroV Y Thank goodness for good neighbors. John ‘‘fixeded‘"‘ the car doors when the boys, through some miracle of mechanâ€" ics, had made it impossible to close them. He also "fixedâ€" ed‘ the sprinkler. (Ballind, the little guy, wants to make sure the past tense is quite clear, so he adds an extra "ed‘"). All in all, however, it hasn‘t been too bad, except for the sleeping arrangements. The boys are peripatetic while somâ€" nambulant. You go to bed in one room, alone, wake up at midnight in another bed, another room, three of you, and may wind up in the morning in still another, four of you. _I wouldn‘t trade them for all the Samanthas and Mary Eliens and Joannes in the world. But make me an offer. promote cavity prevention and many toothpastes on the market now include fluoride in them. So why do we need to add it artificially? There is, in my mind, such a thing as ‘""overkill"" and we could be well on our way to consuming more of the chemical than our bodies are meant to tolerate. § Jim Colley, a member of WSWS and the organizer of a local antiâ€"fluoridation petition, recently told me that some peoâ€" ple think he is a "crank" or "radical" and one person went so far as to send him an anonymous letter accusing him of being a ‘"communist trying to underâ€" mine the health of the citizens of the city." He is a businessman, family man and a concerned citizen who now is seeing the ranks of his supporters growing every day. It is not a case of some **wahoo" trying to kick up a fuss over some local issue just to get his name in the papers. He cares. His supporters also care. In fact they care so much that they are urging him to run for alderman in the next municipal election, and it may just give Waterloo council a badlyâ€"needed shot in the arm te have a mover and shaker in its ranks. I attended both council meetings when Colley presented the case for WSWS and had a chance to watch council as he spoke. Some aldermen used the occasion to reorganize their desk drawers, some cleaned their fingernails while others used the opportunity to pass humorous notes to each other. They may have been listening while Colley spoke, but they sure didn‘t give him their full undivided attention . Whether or not fluoridation is good for us is not the issue here. The real issue, as far as I‘m concerned, is that the resiâ€" dents of Waterloo never had the chance to accept or reject the program. Colâ€" ley‘s efforts may just give them the chance to finally voice their opinion. I too felt that if I wasn‘t troubled by the effects of fluoridation then I could push the issue aside and move on to more pressing matters. I‘ve since reaâ€" lized my mistake because if it‘s as bad as many scientists are saying, then toâ€" morrow will be too late for any reversal in my health.