Jan 16/75  Sense and Nonsense [Nechako Chronicle] Now that the holiday season is all over I have decided to compile a list of “nots” for next year. This list is composed from various irritating, miserable and downright awful experiences of Christmases past and recent past First of all do not place any Xmas baking in…

Mar 10, 1975 Sense and Nonsense [Nechako Chronicle] Charles Darwin had a theory that people are descended from apes. If this is true then a lot of apes may someday be people. It may take a few million years but in the process of evolution anything is possible. I understand that some apes in the…

August 5, 1976 [The Nechako Chronicle] The 1976 Summer Olympics have been a 100% success – especially for East Germany, U.S.S.K., United States and West Germany. The Big “4” have taken this lions’ share of the medals. Canada captured quite a few silver and bronze medals but lamentably no gold medals at all. I have…

Sept 9, 1976 Sense and Nonsense The young people of today seem to have completely shed the shackles of superstition. Their forefathers tread much more carefully and often with a good deal of trepidation. They never crossed a black cats’ path nor walked under a ladder. If they spilled salt at the breakfast table, they…

August12, 1976 Sense and Nonsense [Nechako Chronicle] The scene: a living room with various sized people watching TV.  Dad, Mom, Big brother, Bigger brother, Borrowed brother and Small sister are lazily lolling in the sunshine filtering through the living room windows. Enter: Aunt, Uncle, Small nephew and Very Small dog. Aunt: “Such a beautiful day!…

Jan 29, 1976 Sense and Nonsense (Nechako Chronicle) In the past few years there has emerged a brand new kind of pollution. Actually it has been around for a long time, but is becoming more prevalent. It is language pollution. A spade is no longer a spade but is more likely to be called a…

Sense and Nonsense [circa 1975] I have read that in the fish kingdom they do not have dental problems as we humans do. At least some of the larger fish do not. There are little fish swimming about which are appropriately named “Cleaner Fish.”All the big fish has to do is open his mouth and…

Apr 24/75 Sense and Nonsense [Nechako Chronicle] Everyone is interested in dieting these days. Fat people collect diet plans like little boys collect hockey cards. Medium-sized people instantly cut out the goodies the minute they gain a pound. Even skinny people worry that they too may become fat overnight. Everyone agrees that being fat is…

The Good Old Days [Fraser Lake Bugle, 1981/82] Interview with Harvey MacDonald The Bluenose was built during the 1920s by two Swedes, Axle and Pete, for Bert Black and Dan Webster, two of the original partners in what would later be known as Fraser Lake Sawmills. (Merle Hartman was also an early partner in the…

The Good Old Days by Doris Ray [Fraser Lake Bugle 1981-82) For thirteen seasons Harvey MacDonald was the foreman of Fraser Lake Sawmill’s annual log drive on the Stellako River. The logs were floated from Francois Lake down the six mile, rough and tumble waterway to where the river flows calmly and sedately into the…