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. . . . . .: . :::i:i~~ *****'.* '.* .* ~ ***.....:.......D.. . That Bull thing Howdy. Having a good vacation? (Answer: Is there a bad vacation?) (We won't go into that. Now, where were we?) Vacations, right. Dandy times for not doing much of anything, oh, maybe yard work, maybe weeding, maybe some housework especially if SOMEONE in your house isn't on vacation and -expects those. on vacation to, you know, vacuum, dust, make beds, plan meais, make meals, serve meais, do dishes, sort laundy... Where was I? Oh yeab. Begging pardon. Being on vacation and relaxed and- al, 1 keep nodding off between paragrapbs. One of the problems of writing a column on the Monday evemings of a vacation, is, what do athietes caîl it? getting pumped. Let me explain. To write a regular column, and te be convincing, you have te, have a knack for the, ah, unthinkable. Like one time, I approached the reception desk of a local communications office with my lunch bag caught, ha, ha, ha, ha, on the ha, ha, outside of my ha, -ha, briefcase, ha, ha,. .. ha. Ahem. Okay, maybe you bad te be there. Another time, I had been pounding my forehead on my CPU for two hours witb no column enierging, when the doorbeli rang. It was the teenager next door. She was home alone, bad stepped out for fresb air when sbe lei the dog out and had Iocked berself out of the bouse. With the batbtub running. See? That'sthe kind of natural talent one needs te, write a regular column. Another local columnist, whom .1 won't namne, recently locked his children and babysitter out of the bouse and didn't corne back for several hours. Or days. Ail for a column. Deadines wil do that te you. My mother-in-law had a label for sucb events. One day, after I had eitber run out of gas or locked my keys in my car, or driven around ail day with'a baby in a .car seat on roof, you know, something like that, she looked at me knowingly, and said: "What a Bill thing te do." Recently, a Toronto Star staffer wrote a column about getting angry at his bank for returning a cheque post-dated by one day. And returned it again. Until'his wife pointed dut it.was post-dated a year and'one day. What a Bill tbing te do. Let's give a comparison. Another staffer at the Star recently wrote about moving. Great. I've done it myself. But wait. This guy, well bis wife anyway, bad the wbole move planned. To the last detail. His kids found it boring. Period. End of column.. Myself, I think moving goes mucb better if the movers show up seven hours late, have underestima- ted the cargo by two-thirds, and lock up the van at two aye em and still have to unload. But maybe bis wife wouldn't let bim. Columnists eventually will resort te, anytbing. The late Paul Rimstead of the Toronto Sun once bougbt a race horse. That not only got him a few columns, but a book as well. With Rimmer that was not a planned event. Few tbings were. Ann Landers, now, does not exactly do outlandish tbings berseif. But she bas nine hundred and eighty two million people around the world doing the imaginable for ber in unimaginable places and positions. No wonder she bas readersbip nunibers as high as the ON Tower. Oops, there! Almost got carried away. I see by the calendar it's tume te, go out and turn my compost. On~ a stay-at-bome vacation, that's wbat we cali a planned event. They're awfully bard to write about. Whitby Free Press. Wednosday, JuIy 27. 1M9, Page 7 !VI] DANCE PAVILlON IN HEYDENSHORE PARK, C. 1915' This frame pavilion was buiît in 1901 and. demolished in 1936. A snack bar and storage rooms were on the ground level and the open-air dance floor was on the upper level. Today's Heydenshore Pavilion is named after this building. Whîtby Archives photo 10 YEARS AGO froni the Wednesday, July 25 1984 edition of the WHffB FIRE 1>RSS " Whitby Arts Station Gallery could have burned down during renovations, but quick action put out a propane heater fire. " The Town of Whitby will pass an exotic animal control bylaw in September. * Wtby will have a Junior A hockey team in the fali. P ive Brooklin streets will be repaired at a cost of $60,000. 35 YEARS AGO froni the Thursday, J 1 2 1959 edition of the WHMY ViÏLY NEWS *The Town Council approved $450,000 in debentures to build a new high echool on Anderson Street. *Stokély Van Camp is hiring twice as many. seasonal workers as last year at its canning factory ln o htyhsrcie ettv prvi A Ae e r diislfatfrWib a rcie ettv prvl *A United iurch Con erence on Evangehism will be held at t he Ontario Ladies' College in Auguet. 125 YEARS AGO froni the Thursday, Ju1y 22 1869 edition of the WMTB CHRNICLE *The Mechanies' Institute Iibrary now has 1,400 books. *Grain merchant Lewis Houck bas been declared insolvent and bis property is being sold by public auction. " The steam elevator at Port Whitby, with a capacity of 40,000 bushels of grain, is .b eing let by Chester Draper. "James Holden a Whitby business man, is taking a trip through Europe to restore bis failing health. Il fi U U murai iwjL- -.-gaz qmp_