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~| Life is tough during ‘The dog days of summer. P I am not sure of the exact origin of the expression, but I have come to underâ€" ~ } stand it over the years as a sports cliche ‘"When a true genius in the Mtheh?:neu are â€"all in confederacy against him." The premise is sound. Nothing has happened to change the situation. All you have to do to prove that the dunces are flfi&uhmm.uefiuhidu uwwmu' i i receive half a dozen reasons why it is no good. Nw.fitlllme is nothing wrong with thoughtful opposition to any new proposâ€" al. It is healthy to be made to reâ€"check your idea and, for that reason, it is constructive. It is the chorus of thoughtâ€" less, even hostile, negations that identify then chairman of You an address before an doesn‘t seem ‘so long â€" I‘ve had a no longer isolated from the rest of the world, there‘s cable t.v. and a few channels to choose from. I think W & S are still on the CBC payroll â€" therefore ::lmqu'udnzthu;e:h:gu ay taxpayer‘s payroll â€" ing to say :x“nlbn:"fi'omthowwlooChmi- _ In the 626 days I‘ve been here â€" that Whenever I am confronted with this sort Being raised on the Prairies, with one lone television channel (until CTV arâ€" rived on the scene), there was never any choice, there was no need for a remote control ‘cause there wasn‘t any need for channel hopping â€" if W & S was on you Some few years ago, set to a Remember The Wayne & Schuster hour â€" who could forget that duo, garnering one of those CBC "perpetuity" contracts. The only memorable thing about the show is, in allgincerity, the ending. The: "So long, farewell, au revoir, good bye, be seeing ya‘, take care, adieu," etc., all 1 cliche describing the time of year when the ll they have no hope of winning a ncanionner es hase son w:’,-lfig.hummmauym .:'fln dog days of summer. Miserable, a baseball sense, I sense the restof us ts To o yoe in ae oys Am is is time of year as § we aren‘t being paid millions of dollars to play a game for a living like the diamond Jims are. We have a reason to complain. Because we know the dog days of summer are upon us when: You go to the store to buy a dehumidiâ€" fier and they tell you they are out of Society must adapt or fall behind I‘m so glad we had this time together The Prairies are ion is apropos in weikg 00 prove new theories of the universe, which ran counter to popular and clerical belief. They all but cost him his life. The same confederacy of dunces reacted violently when Edward Jenner anâ€" nounced the first vaccine, after noticing that victims of cowpox, a relatively minor disease, rarely contracted smallpox, as a compass pointing south and I forge right ahead. I haven‘t been misguided yet. There have been many notable victims of this conspiracy. Socrates â€"comes to mind, as one of the earliest in the field of free thought. Another historic target, Gllfleo,bufltlhlmxthathelpedhim prove new theories of the universe. which of attitude, I am perverse enough to see it tremendous opportunity to meet a lot of influential people â€" people who hel make this community tick. As welfi there were many people, who seldom get their name in print, who md:-t as worthy of the attention many of the local politicians get. It‘s been my pleasure. My partner and I arrived here from Western Canada, September, 1987 â€" not to ride on the laurel‘s of southern Ontario‘s economic boom â€"â€" but to assure my partner got the education he wanted at the institution he wanted. I‘ve deâ€" cided to join him at school. ‘During those 600â€"plus days, a lot of :hn‘,fi:' nges have taken place at the Chroniâ€" cle. most notable would be the move onlyufiwweehmywleimmly strolled through 18. You get invited over to a friend‘s Slm for a pool party and won‘t go in until you find out if the pool is heated. You take outâ€"oftown friends to the water park and don‘t even take your stock. So you go to a rentâ€"all, and they tell you it‘s booked until Oct. 23. bWobgried | A l ompanth aoh . veggies to buy corn, ""sweet" in front of corn has been crossed You‘re s Comment Isobel Lawson "That‘s Life‘ Rick Campbell work, when it seems the dog days of summer through some growing pains during the lastlSm&l;othsl,too.wuâ€"mdstinam â€" going ugh my own metmorphosis; learning to adapt to Central Canadian ways. It‘s been tough slugging at times, but awakening to the idea that my view and vision of Canada is, in most cases, diametrically omw most Central Canadians, has t some semblance of order to my life. I thought Central Canadians deliberately stuck it to Westâ€" ern Canada. I realize, now, a lot don‘t know anything about Western Canada; a lot don‘t care. This, I believe to be true of individuals as well as governments. Thus, I have learned to iate WatarloonndmnhemOnhrioEwhn from Erb St to Waterloo Town Square. As history shows, the move is actually a return home since, over the years, the Chronicle headquarters have been in nndoutofthisbuildinfi.Andwithn slight interruption, Rick Campbell is back at the helm â€"â€" a good place for him. While the Waterloo Chronicle went claim, "I‘m sure they are no one that we know," intimating that they were willing to concede that the "lower classes" may well have come by that route! In the arts, Epstein‘s sculptures outâ€" raged the public when they first appeared. Stravinsky‘s Firebird just about emptied the theatre when first performed. In fact, in all the muses, the outstanding creators are always heralded and can be qualified Bryan, a former Secretary of State and three times a candidate for president." In Darwin‘s time the furor was intense, but the dunces weren‘t all clerics. Those of the upper crust inclined to the view that those of simian ancestry were a matter of class distinction and were heard to deâ€" which was often a fatal one. Darwin‘s theory of evolution continues to shake the same group as late as the present. One notorious confrontation occurred in the mid‘20s when John Scopes was tried in Tennessee. "The chief You go to the mall and the bored kids who have hung around there all summer are nowhere to be seen. Obviously they got bored there, as well. TV stations are now showing recycled sitcoms in place of summer reruns. All the sales people in your company talk about how great next month is going to be. Everyone in the office has had two weeks of holidays, and just when you Even the precious few moments you are allowed to water your lawn, you don‘t. Why bother? By the time the grass turns green again, it will be time for it to turn brown again. You start clearing a snot in the wn chairs, which you paid $200 for and have used twice. The prospect of "catching a few rays" to store the lawn immower, Thus, moving here was an educationâ€" ally sound move for me. And if I have helped one person understand that there is much, much more to the Prairies than golden wheat field sweeping across treeâ€" barren land, than I have accomplished and continue to stay settled, for the benefit of southern Ontario still holds true today. (Right, Ian!) it has and is. There are a lot of good things to be said about this area, the people, the amenities My one wish would be that Central Canadians travelled more â€" not to E and Florida but to other eommumges and regions of this country. My heart belongs to the Prairies. I chose not to talk about the great things about the Prairies for fear others will hear and want to move out there. But I often hear myself defending the Prairâ€" ie‘s honor, explaining the colonial preâ€" mise that the Prairies were to be settled, by the initial outcry that their works evoke. Being ahead of their times, they must expect the hostility and ridicule of the majority who consistently carry a "Do not disturb" sign around their necks; they dislike change and are afraid of the new. P To r they don‘t take kindly to anyone who disturbs them with the truth or causes them to think. Human creativity is ever expanding and so our expectations must do likewise. Evolution is ongoing and the dunces will either adapt or fall behind. Movements such as the Aquarian Conspiracy and the Futurist Society are already preparing people for future shock, through forming networks of likeâ€"minded people seeking change. (Geoff Fellows operates the Human Reâ€" source Development Institute, P.O. Box 642, Cambridge, NIRSW1, providing industry.) After all, it is the dog days of summer, isn‘t it? You start paying attention to the chuuwn:‘thehwnfl:nmh. than three weeks ago you categorized as a "good winter project." You stop at the gift store in a local restaurant and buy up all the reduced You say to yo\;r;o\;eâ€"râ€"l-tlu too late in the year to be wearing white, isn‘t it"" You shut off the ball game in disgust because your favorite team, a classic bunch of underachievers, has blown So, as Wayne and Schuster say ... Testaurant and buy up all t items in a Christmas display think you‘re staffed up and rarin‘ to go, the ones who went first, start to go gou grumble to your wife to quit putting those cute little salad plates in front of you as an excuse for dinner. You tell everyone that your favorite season is the fall. mt puttin You Which, giving it second