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a mother of three children
in grade school, and calls
being a mom her most im-
portant role.
Roberts was most recently
on the big screen in August:
Osage County, based on
the Tracy Letts’stage drama,
playing the daughter of the
dysfunctional mother from
hell, played by Meryl Streep.
Roberts’s character must
come to terms with ending
the chain of dysfunction in
her family. Shooting the
movie was marvelous, Rob-
erts said, but the hardest
work she had ever done as
an actress,– she compared it
to childbirth. But it was like
that for the entire cast, and
she praised Streep for being
the hardest worker of all.“It
was a privilege to be part of
the great cast,”she said.
Roberts was gratified with
her Academy Award nomi-
nation for Best Supporting
Actress, saying, “This was
certainly a once in a lifetime
experience and the recogni-
tion from it is an absolutely
thrilling bonus. I simply
could not be more excited
right now.”
There’s another ensem-
ble project that has come
her way, also based on an
award-winning play. Pre-
miering in May, The Nor-
mal Heart has been adapted
into an unflinching HBO
Films presentation that ex-
plores the indifference that
escalated the growing AIDS
epidemic in NewYork City’s
gay community in 1981.
The film stars Mark Ruffalo,
Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch,
Alfred Molina, Jim Parsons
and Roberts, who took on a
small but vital role.
As befits her status as a
perennial A-lister, Roberts
was greeted by scores of jos-
tling photographers when
she showed up at the recent
Television Critics Associa-
tion press tour at the Lang-
J Rulia oberts
Maturing
leading lady,
now 46,
appreciates
opportunity to
play parts in
ensembles
By Frank Barron
Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts attend the 19th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards presented by
Porsche at The Barker Hangar in Santa Monica on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014.
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confided that she had to
make a sacrifice for her role
in The Normal Heart. Rob-
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how she felt about “taking
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Roberts was amused by the
thought.“It’s funny, when a
girl just looks like a person,
she is unglamorous,” she
said smiling.“Of course, I’m
just saying.”
Despite a lot of interest
in her personal life, it was
more fascinating to hear
about why she signed on to
do the HBO movie.“My re-
lationship with Ryan [Ryan
Murphy, producer-director
of The Normal Heart, also
of Glee and American Hor-
ror Story] provided me with
such an incredible educa-
tion, and this definitely is
another stone on that path
of knowledge that we share
together, because I have
been asked twice before
to play this part, and both
times I turned it down.”
Why did she turn it down
before, only to accept the
role now? Roberts reported
there were“conflicts of time,
but my inability to fully un-
derstand who this character
was. So when Ryan asked
me to play this character,
I said, No. I don’t think he
heard me,so I was like,Well,
maybe. But I don’t think I
can.”
What happened after
that? Roberts said, “Ryan
called me back, and I
thought, well, just let me
ruminate about it a little bit.
And I wound up watching
a documentary on polio,
which I’m too young to re-
member what that experi-
ence was like for the coun-
try (and) the world. And it
unlocked the door to who
this woman is to me, and
where her ferocious, relent-
less pursuit of correctness
comes from, which was the
answer Ryan wanted.”
What came out of that
was the satisfaction of tak-
ing on the role and do-
ing justice to the dedicated
doctor. Roberts said,“It was
just a beautiful experience
to get to play her, and to
get to pay tribute to a per-
son who never let anything
stand between her and the
right thing to do for some-
one else.”
The statement that The
NormalHeartmakestouch-
es Roberts’s heart. She said,
“It’s impossible physically
to turn your back on some-
body, so that’s the real point
of storytelling, to nurture
that idea. And this movie
does it in such a profound
way because it’s about how
humanity failed each other
in that time.”
Roberts has played some
really great and entertaining
roles over the years, from
Mystic Pizza and Steel Mag-
nolias early in her career, to
intense roles in The Pelican
Brief and Michael Collins,
and fun leading ladies in
My Best Friend’s Wedding,
Runaway Bride and Ocean’s
Eleven. She played Tinker
Bell in Hook, and met her
husband while filming The
Mexican. Among her recent
notable films are Charlie
Wilson’s War, Valentine’s
Day, Eat Pray Love, Larry
Crowne and Mirror Mirror,
where she went to town
playing the Evil Queen.
She said she tries to do
roles that have some sub-
stance. “It’s important to
me to participate in things
that make me feel like I’m
a better person and can
participate in my daily life
with slightly more convic-
tion, or more joy, or more
Julia Roberts …from page 3
Julia
Roberts
earned a
Best Actress
Academy
Award in
2000.
Julia Roberts portrayed the evil queen in 2012's Mirror Mirror.
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and comfortable with,” she
said referring toThe Normal
Heart.
In August: Osage County,
Roberts also played part of
an ensemble – and also had
to accept looking less than
her best, wearing what she
called a “butt pad” to add
girth. She revelled in the
opportunity to have physical
scenes with Meryl Streep.
She has told interviewers
she has never worked as
hard in all her life as when
she filmed that acclaimed
film, especially the famous
fish scene. But unlike The
Normal Heart, Roberts
knew she wanted that role
– playing the eldest sister in
a dysfunctional family – as
soon as she saw the play.
She said she enjoyed play-
ing the eldest sister, given
that she was the youngest of
three growing up with the
Roberts family in Smyrna,
Georgia. Her brother, ac-
tor Eric Roberts, has had
an outstanding film career
in his own right, including
a powerful performance in
the film Star 80.
Her role in the HBO film
is smaller than the one in
August: Osage County, but
these days, Julia Roberts
says she is content with
quality, as opposed to quan-
tify, of screen time.“I know I
worked a very small amount
of time, but it definitely felt
like a privilege.”
Roberts was prominent in
promoting August: Osage
County in advance of the
Academy Awards, photo-
graphed for the cover of the
MarchVanity Fair cover with
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Idris Elba
and George Clooney and
acknowledged to have sto-
len the shoot.
Continuedfrompage4
Essential Roberts
• born Julia Fiona Roberts, Oct. 28, 1967,
in Smyrna, Georgia
• youngest of three children; parents
were both actors
• when young Roberts wanted to
become a veterinarian
• before star-making role in Pretty
Woman (1990), Roberts earned an
Oscar nomination as Best Supporting
Actress for Steel Magnolias (1989)
• at one point she was engaged to
Canadian Kiefer Sutherland but called
it off; she was married to singer Lyle
Lovett for 21 months,
• won an Academy Award for her role in
Erin Brockovich (2000)
• married cameraman Daniel Moder in
2002, and they have three children:
Hazel, Phinnaeus and Henry
• FAMILY RIFT?The weekend of Feb.
8-9, there were reports that a half-
sister of Roberts named Nancy Motes
had committed suicide and blamed
Roberts in a suicide note. As the
tabloids explored details of the affair,
a representative of Roberts gave this
comment to people.com: “It is with
deep sadness that the family of Nancy
Motes ... confirms that she was found
dead in Los Angeles yesterday of an
apparent drug overdose.The family is
both shocked and devastated.”
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earnings during your work-
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Benefits are indexed to in-
flation, are taxable, and can
start at a reduced amount as
early as age 60, or as late as
age 70 with an increase.
Source 2: Employer-
sponsored Pension Plans –
in other words, what your
employer provides
* Defined Benefit (DB)
pension plans provide a
specific pension amount
paid to you for your lifetime
after you retire.The amount
of a DB pension benefit is
set according to your age,
length of service, and sal-
ary. It may or may not be
indexed for inflation.
* Defined Contribution
(DC) pension plans are also
known as money purchase
plans and do not guarantee
the amount of your future
benefits. DC retirement in-
come depends on accumu-
lated contributions and the
investment returns earned
by these contributions.
Source 3: Individual
Retirement Plans – in other
words,what you will provide
When you retire, invest-
ments held in your Regis-
tered Retirement Savings
Plan (RRSP) can be convert-
ed to income in three ways:
* A Registered Retirement
Income Fund (RRIF) is like
an RRSP in reverse. Instead
of contributing to it, you
withdraw from it.A RRIF of-
fers the flexibility of a wide
range of investment choices
as well as your choice of the
amount you wish to with-
draw each month (subject to
an annual minimum with-
drawal based on the value
of the investments in your
RRIF and age.)
* An Annuity offers the
simplicity of a guaranteed
lifetime income but can’t be
increased to keep up with
inflation or escalating living
costs.
Cash – convert invest-
ments in your RRSP to cash
and you will be subject to
tax on the entire amount.
Not the most attractive op-
tion in most cases.
– From the Investors Group
Continuedfrompage6
Retirement income sources – know them all
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F Y I L A U G H L I N E S
When they say
“You can’t go
home again,”
I always think
they’re talking
about Chernobyl.
I can certainly return to
the place of my childhood
and did just that for the first-
ever Dain City Reunion.
From the age of two until I
took off for university,I lived
in quirky little hamlet half-
way between a drive-in the-
atre and the Welland Canal.
Lost in the middle of John
Deere, Mud Lake, Ramey’s
Bend and Bethel, this place
might as well have been the
midway between the moon
and NewYork City.
The names changed over
the years, Airline Junction
became Welland Junction,
Dain Manufacturing be-
came John Deere, SS No. 4
became Bridgeview School.
One day Sunnyside Dairy
pulled the plug on their
milking machines and put
the horses out to pasture.
One night I went to bed in
a house at 53 Ontario Street
and woke up in the morn-
ing at 53 Forks Road East.
Nothing had moved except
the dog who ran away from
home in protest.
Welland amalgamated
the village in the fifties
and changed the name to
Welland Junction and now
they refer to it as Ward 6 but
memories are too long and
pride too strong – to me,
it will always be known as
Dain City.
I spent all eight years of
my grade school educa-
tion at SS No. 4. There was
no pressure to win because
every school sports team I
played on was greeted with
chants of:“We’re Number 4!
We’re Number 4!”
The commercial centre of
town included Ort’s conve-
nience store and Frank Mih-
alyi’s soda shop/gas station.
WehungoutatMihalyi’s.Sid
Hilton would sit at the end
stool slurping Coke through
a straw he crushed because
it make the drink last longer.
Frank sold cigarettes to kids
for two cents each. Deed’s
Place, a tiny pub and diner,
occupies that property today.
Evans General Store was
also the post office and the
Walmart of its day.
It seemed the Dain City
Hotel, on the canal next to
the railway bridge, had al-
ways been there. Once a
stagecoach inn, where the
horses were bedded in the
basement, the Dain City
House over the years was
a brothel and illegal betting
shop. I delivered the Satur-
day newspaper to both of
the bookies – they were by
far the best tippers. From
public house to a private
residence, “The Dainer” is
now an abandoned build-
ing with a couple of chip
wagons in the parking lot.
Dain City:
blast from the past
Just down my street and
over the tracks was the
Welland Drive-In, the hub
of summer activity. Walking
to the concession stand in
the dark,you had to be care-
ful not to trip over a speaker
chord or a brassiere. Kids
today have sex-education
classes. Malcolm Hilton and
me, we had binoculars and
the Welland Drive-In.
Towering 70 metres over
the Welland Canal, the lift
bridges were our midway
rides; the last kid to let go
and plunge into the blue
water below as the bridge
rose slowly skyward, won.
The last kid still holding on
for dear life, but chickened
out of jumping, had to stay
up there until the boat went
under and the bridge came
down. He lost.
I went fishing with Jimmy
Creighton at John’s Lake,
which was really just a big
pond. I brought fishing
tackle; he brought dyna-
mite. Suddenly, there was
an explosion and a lot of fish
swimming upside down,
but nothing for me to catch.
I went duck hunting only
once, with Allan Creighton
at nearby Mud Lake. I shot
him in the leg.We were both
quite surprised.To this day, I
thankAllan – for not return-
ing fire.That could have got-
ten ugly in a hurry.
I smoked my first cigarette
with Malcolm Hilton out in
the bush near the construc-
tion site of Dain City’s new
subdivision. I coughed and
spit my way through a long,
unfiltered Viceroy cigarette
Malcolm had nicked from
his older brother. On my
way home, I vomited green
bile on my desert boots.
That was my last cigarette.
Among all those little
settlements that sprung up
in the first half of the 1900s,
DainCityhaswonthewarof
attrition.I was a bat boy on a
Dain City softball team that
played against Perry Sta-
tion, White Pigeon, Cooks
Mills and Netherby. None of
those villages exist today.
I’m amazed at the num-
ber of kids who never left,
stayed to raise their own
kids in this quiet, safe set-
ting. Occasionally, I take a
slow drive through the vil-
lage. Little has changed.The
school is now an apartment
building and two of three
stores are still operating.
Then Allan Creighton spots
me and starts running like
hell toward Buffalo, NY.
Dain City – a tough but
vibrant village that survived
the test and ravages of time.
The reunion was long over-
due.
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by Keith Dixon
ALCS is actively look-
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members to be elected at
their AGM in April 2014.
Would you like to take up
the challenge? As you
will see from my story,
there will never be a dull
moment if you do!
Five years ago I became
a joiner. I had just moved
to Summerland and felt
a need for social con-
tacts. I set about locat-
ing groups where I might
feel at home. I joined the
Seniors Drop-in Centre,
the Camera Club, a writ-
ers’group and Agur Lake
Camp Society. Polio at
fifteen had landed me in
a life-long adventure of
pushing back my limita-
tions. Agur Lake Camp
back then was planning
a facility in the wilderness
where people with dis-
abilities could camp like
they had never camped
before.At that point I was
abitdisappointedtolearn
that it was just a plan,
not a reality. I attended
events on site and imag-
ined what it might be like
to be a camper there. I
had barely made myself
known to Board mem-
bers when I was asked to
be on their Board of Di-
rectors. They wanted me
to work on a dream with
them and to help them
make it happen.
I had some useful skills
and experience. I was a
photographer and a writ-
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with managing websites.
And I had lived my life
with a disability, so I saw
things from a unique per-
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were put to work imme-
Never a dull moment
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diately, and as that was
happening I noticed that
dozens of people with
other skills were there
making their contribu-
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caught up in an ongoing
series of meetings,events,
work-parties and plain
old-fashioned socializing.
I am turning 80 this
year and am finding it
increasingly hard to keep
up the pace of my first fif-
teen years of retirement.
I would love to continue
the ALCS activities that
have become so much of
my life, but I no longer
have the energy do it. So
I have made a decision
to resign from the Board,
comforted by the knowl-
edge that someone out
there will replace me and
get to enjoy the sense of
accomplishment that
working for ALCS has
brought me.
ALCS welcomed its
first campers last sum-
mer. In this transition
from a plan to a reality
many volunteers are still
needed, including people
with totally new skills and
abilities.ALCS now has a
new office.Volunteers are
needed to man the office.
ALCS now has a site by a
lake with two cabins and
a dry camp ground ready
for summer operation.
Planners and promot-
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money-raisers and shovel
wielders and paper push-
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If you want to learn
more, click on Volunteers
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your goal.
Don’t forget the open-
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on the Board of Directors.
I promise you, if you take
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By Ellen Ashton-Haiste
The existence of a strong
and positive relationship
between diet and health,
particularly at mid-life and
beyond, is far from a new
idea. Information abounds
about nutrition for heart
health, controlling diabetes
or warding off diseases like
cancer.
But for many people, this
stops short of aging brain
issues, including cognitive
decline and more frighten-
ing conditions likeAlzheim-
er’s and other dementias.
In fact, there are many
foods that can keep our
brains healthy as we age,
says Leslie Beck, registered
dietitian and author of more
than a dozen books on nu-
trition.
“For many of the risk fac-
tors for cognitive decline,
nutrition and diet play an
important role in either
preventing them or reduc-
ing their effects,”says Beck,
who has joined forces with
the Women’s Brain Health
Initiative to educate Cana-
dians about the relationship
between a healthy diet and
a healthy brain.
Go Mediterranean
For a broad-based diet
strategy that’s heart protec-
tive, Beck recommends the
Mediterranean diet.
“It’s what we, today, call
the gold-standard diet,”she
says.“It’s been the focus of
many large, long-perspec-
tive studies that have linked
it to protection from a num-
ber of chronic diseases, in-
cluding Alzheimer’s.”
It’s a plant-based diet,rich
in fruits, vegetables, whole
grains and legumes, light on
red meat, with the central
fat being olive oil. So, it’s a
diet high in anti-oxidants,
important because the brain
is particularly vulnerable to
oxidative stress.Since it uses
vast amounts of oxygen, it’s
a primary breeding ground
for free radicals, which are
controlled by anti-oxidants,
Beck explains.
Food from the sea
Fish,also a Mediterranean
diet staple, is important as
a source of Omega 3 fatty
acids, particularly DHA, es-
sential for good brain func-
tion, Beck says.
ThisOmega3comprisesa
large proportion of the brain
cells’ communicating mem-
branes. “If you have more
Omega 3 fats in your brain
cell membranes, it keeps
them flexible so memory
messages get passed more
easily between them,” she
says.
Beck recommends oily
fish like salmon, trout and
sardines.
DHA is also anti-inflam-
matory, important because
inflammation is another
risk factor for cognitive de-
cline, she says. Vegetarians
and non-fish-lovers can get
DHA in a supplement made
from algae,“which is where
fish make their DHA from.”
Green, green
Leafy greens – spinach,
kale, Swiss chard, rapini,
arugula – high in anti-oxi-
dants, are another key brain
food.
Beck cites a large Chicago
study that followed older
adults and linked those who
ate more than two vegetable
servings a day with a 40-per-
cent-slower rate of age-re-
lated cognitive decline.“And
when they looked at which
veggies seemed to offer the
most protection, it was leafy
greens.”
E Factor
If those greens are sau-
teed in a vegetable oil,
there may be extra protec-
tion, Beck says. Some oils
– particularly sunflower, saf-
flower or grape seed – are
great sources of vitamin E,
a potent anti-oxidant, she
explains.
Other good sources in-
clude hazelnuts, peanuts
and peanut butter.
Berry healthy
Berries – blackberries,
blueberries, raspberries,
cranberries, cherries, even
pomegranate seeds and red
grapes – get an A-grade as
well. They are high in poly-
phenols,another category of
anti-oxidants that fall under
the umbrella of flavanoids.
Polyphenols, Beck says,
activate the brain’s “natural
house-cleaning process” by
triggering cells called mi-
croglia, that remove toxins
that build up with age. “If
we allow them to build up,
these microglia aren’t doing
their job properly and that
can impair brain function.”
B for brain
B vitamins – particularly
folate, B6 and B12 – are im-
portant to good brain func-
tion, Beck says.“There have
been a number of studies
showing that low blood lev-
els of those B vitamins is a
greater risk for cognitive im-
pairment and also stroke.”
And in seniors, a low B12
level has been shown to ac-
celerate cognitive decline.
B6 is found in meat, poul-
try, bananas avocados and
B12 occurs naturally only
in animal foods, like meat,
poultry, fish, dairy and eggs.
Best sources of folate
include cooked spinach,
cooked lentils, black beans,
asparagus, broccoli, avocado
and artichoke.
Supplements are an ac-
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To say that
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passionate about
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like saying Tiger
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way around the
links.
Bermel, of Long Island,
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while this golf instructor
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One of 15 children, Ber-
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He’s been a golf instructor
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his status as an elite putting
instructor with his runner-
up finish, following a play-
off, in the New York State
Finals of the World Putting
Championship at Elmira,
NY in 1996.
Travelling throughout
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Canada with his road show,
Bermel said putting is re-
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“The number-one key to
putting is organization of
your mind. If your mind is
not organized, goodbye!”
said Bermel. “Organization
is everything.Your mind tells
your body what to do.”
Bermel, a creature of habit
who said he has owned only
three putters over the last
42 years, is a proponent of
what he calls PPR: the pre-
putt routine. “If you don’t
have a specific, methodical
PPR, good-bye!” said Ber-
mel. His three key principles
are: exacting, specific and
methodical.
Part of that prepara-
tion, according to Bermel,
involves asking yourself,
“What am I going to do?
How am I going to do it?
When am I going to do it?
And in what manner am I
going to putt? Now, we are
getting deep into the mind
game, and I teach a mind
game.
“How important is put-
ting to the game of golf?
It’s 43 per cent of the total
score,” said Bermel. And
psychologically, he says, it is
more like 50 per cent of the
game, or more.“Putting af-
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make a very good one-putt
or terrific two-putt, on any
given hole, you’re walking
to the next tee box with a
very positive mindset. The
same is true in the reverse. If
you have – God forbid – the
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walking negative onto the
next tee box.”
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W O M A N 2 W O M A N
Which diet is best
for you? Here are
some options, as I
see them.
Moderation, a diet con-
sisting of eating whatever
one wants but in reason-
able portions, is considered
stupid and boring. It as-
sumes that we would actu-
ally agree to eat a large piece
of salmon and a small piece
of chocolate, or a large por-
tion of vegetables and only
a bite or two of chili cheese
nachos with guacamole and
extra sour cream.The public
has not only soundly reject-
ed this diet, but the gover-
nor of South Carolina, Nikki
Haley, is now in favour of a
bill to allow citizens to not
only be allowed to carry
their handguns in bars, but
to use their weapons to
soundly beat anyone seen
eating a balanced diet in a
South Carolina restaurant.
This leaves us in a quan-
dary, even greater than that
posed by having to choose
between pepperoni or Ital-
ian sausage on our deep-
dish pizzas. Namely, what
kinddietdowefollow,when
we are not otherwise occu-
pied on Facebook or playing
Words With Friends? The
following are some popular
diets that North Americans
follow:
The Halloween Candy
diet:While mostAmericans
would be hard-pressed to
assert that a diet of Hallow-
een candy would put one
on the fast track to opti-
mal health, the truth is that
many people are on this diet
for at least part of the year.
Aside from the plethora of
choices rolled out on su-
permarket shelves in an-
ticipation of the holiday, the
candy itself is usually touted
as “fun size” or “mini size.”
These images are far more
appealing than“jumbo size,”
or even“gastric bypass size.”
They allow us to consume
vast quantities of sugar and
chocolate in teeny tiny bite-
size portions.
Many Americans have
discovered the Paleo diet,
named after Bud Paleo, a
prehistoric entrepreneur
who started a chain of fast-
food mammoth-burger res-
taurants back when all food
was not only pure, but a lot
of it could run really fast and
then kill you.The Paleo Diet
includes grass-produced
meats, fish and seafood,
fruits and veggies,eggs,nuts
and seeds, and healthy oils.
None of these items will run
fast and then kill you, espe-
cially the nuts and seeds.
Another popular diet that
doesn’t force anyone to be
moderate is the Gluten-
Free diet. Most North
Americans have now found
themselves to be gluten-
intolerant,even though they
have no knowledge of what
gluten is, other than a vague
belief that it has something
to do with glue. For this
reason, following a gluten
diet consists not of avoiding
certain foods, but instead,
of simply buying anything
that shouts “gluten free!”
Because of this, manufac-
turers of clothing and hair
products now carry gluten-
free labels.
The governor of South
Carolina has been quoted as
saying,“South Carolina has
a long, proud history of in-
tolerance. We are excited at
the prospect of adding glu-
cose, whatever the hell that
is, to the list of things we are
intolerant of.”
Other North Americans
have been following the
Subway diet (the popu-
lar sandwich chain, not the
underground rail system),
inspired by an ordinary man
named Jared Fogle, who lost
a huge amount of weight by
only eating Subway sand-
wiches. Subway devotees
have just now been shocked
lately to learn that Subway,
which touts their fresh-
baked bread, uses azodicar-
bonamide in their bread, a
chemical also used in yoga
mats. Jared, himself, has
not been available for com-
ment, as he is currently be-
ing studied by scientists to
determine the reason he is
now glowing in the dark.
The Kosher dietisn’tfol-
lowed by anyone who wants
to lose weight or avoid carbs,
fat, gluten or peanuts. It
does, however, discriminate
against pork products and
against mixing dairy and
meat together. To make up
for this, it encourages diners
to eat until they develop se-
rious gastric distress, for fear
of insulting the person who
prepared the food.
Other diets are either
Low Carb (another sub-
stance that no one actu-
ally understands but simply
buys products that say“low
carb!”) or Low Fat or Fat-
Free or Sugar-Free or Pea-
nut/Soy/Dairy/Additive/
Conflict Diamond Free.
They all have their merits,
when combined with ob-
scene amounts of exercise.
In sum, we don’t care
which diet you follow,as long
as you are careful when trav-
elling through the state of
South Carolina to not reveal
that you know where Life in
the Boomer Lane lives.
Let’s agree
to never say…diet
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By Igor Lobanov-Rostovsky
It’s one of the world’s
longest-established walking
trips, drawing both the de-
vout and those dedicated to
a holiday that can be a mov-
ing retreat.
For 10 centuries, those on
the spiritual path have trod
a holy route known as the
Way of St. James, a pilgrim-
age that can commence at
any of four starting points in
southern France or northern
Spain. Most pilgrims still
travel on foot or ride a bi-
cycle. A few choose the me-
dieval way, on horseback.
Many will walk for weeks,
even months, on what is
now designated a UNESCO
World Heritage Site. The
route from Le Puy in south
central France to Santiago
can take 2 1/2 months. The
distance from the Span-
ish village of Roncesvalles,
north of Pamplona near the
French border,to Santiago is
800 kilometres.
Some trekkers meet the
minimum requirements by
setting out from the village
of Sarria, which has bus and
rail service from other parts
of Spain.
Regardless of the distance
and starting point, they’re
all heading for the town of
Santiago de Compostela in
Spain’s northwest region of
Galicia. Its revered cathe-
dral claims to contain the
remains of St. James the
Apostle. Pilgrims are easy to
spot. They wear the Chris-
tian symbol for St. James: a
scallop shell.
If you’re travelling by foot
or bike, your most essential
gear is a backpack. When
loaded, it should not weigh
more than 10 per cent of
your own weight. Avoid the
temptation to take items
“just in case” because you
can buy whatever you forget
at markets and shops along
the way. A water bottle and
first-aid kit are musts, plus a
small towel, soap, and clips
to hang up laundry to dry.
You’ll need a sleeping bag
and mat if you’re not stop-
ping at inns on the route.
Well-broken-in water-
resistant mountain boots
a half size larger than your
normal shoe are your best
footwear. Always wear dry
cotton socks to avoid blisters.
PuttingVaseline on your feet
before donning the socks will
help keep blisters at bay.Take
a pair of flip-flops to give
your feet a rest at days’end.
If you choose to bike the
route, you will have to pedal
on local roads in some spots.
A mountain bike is best.Take
a helmet, waterproof gloves
and basic repair kit.You’ll be
riding with loaded saddle-
bags so practise riding this
way before you leave home.
Accommodations in the
towns and villages along
the way include rural lodg-
ings, hotels, parador hotels
(former castles, monaster-
ies, and other historic build-
ings), guest houses, camp-
sites and the traditional
pilgrims hostels.
These last, also called
refugios or albergues (in
France: gites d’etape) pro-
vide dormitory sleeping
accommodations and are
either free or require a small
donation to cover the cost of
cleaning and maintenance.
Privately owned hostels cost
a bit more. During summer
months, and other times
when the regular places are
full, sports centres, churches
and other places will ac-
commodate pilgrims.
Hostel accommodations
are on a first-come, first-
served basis until 8 p.m. Pil-
grims on foot are given first
priority, followed by those
on horseback and then cy-
clists. Except in the case of
illness, travellers are limited
to one night in each hostel.
They open at noon and no
noise is permitted after 9 or
10 p.m.Breakfast is included
and departure in the morn-
ing is by 8 or 9 a.m.
The average daily distance
for walkers is 20 to 30 kilo-
metres. For bicyclists, its 60
to 70 kilometres. One’s age,
physical condition or other
factors dictate the pace of
travel. Some pilgrims use a
support car.
Signs that point the way
may be almost anywhere:
on walls, the ground, trees,
stones, and posts. If you’re
uncertain, ask someone
nearby and you likely will be
pointed in the right direction.
Spring to autumn is the
best time to make the trek,
with July and August the
hottest and most crowded
months. Wear comfortable
clothing, with a sweater
for cool nights and a hat
and sunscreen for the days.
Drink lots of water during
the day, filling your water
bottle from the many drink-
ing fountains along the way.
Have a hearty breakfast.
For lunch and dinner, there
are restaurants, cafes and
other establishments where
you can sample local dishes.
Often, they have a“Pilgrims’
Menu”at a very reasonable
price.
You’ll need to show your
“Pilgrim’s Passport,” a cre-
dential issued by the first
hostel you stop at, or at the
associations of Friends of the
Way (Amigos del Camino)
before you set out. Then
you have it stamped in each
town where you stay over-
night. As a certificate of ac-
complishment,it entitles you
to the“Compostela”given to
pilgrims who have complet-
ed at least the last 100 kilo-
metres to Santiago on foot or
by horseback, or the last 200
kilometres by bike.
To obtain a Pilgrim’s Pass-
port before leaving home,
look for Canadian Company
of Pilgrims at www.camino.
ca/. To view their newslet-
ter, e-mail Austin Cooke at
Austin@santiago.ca.
For more information
about the Camino de Com-
postela, visit Leslie Gilm-
ore’s website at caminode-
santiago.me.uk/sbout-2/.
Pilgrims’ Pathway
For 10 centuries, pilgrims have followed the footsteps of St. James
Pilgrims on the Way of St. James near
Saint-Martin-des-Champs.
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RV OWNERS
For those
contemplating an
RV for your next
snowbird flight,
here’s a primer
by Janet Groene
If you are a snowbird con-
templating a trip south in an
RV, you don’t have to worry
about sleeping an entire
Girl Guide troop nor worry
about a snow load on the
rooftop.The recreation vehi-
cle you choose for a Sunbelt
trip must provide comforts
only for yourself and your
partner(s) on the road and
in the kinds of RV resorts
you enjoy. The first decision
is whether this is an RV you
will drive or tow.
Motorhomes come in
Class A (bus style), B (van
conversion) and C (built on
a light truck chassis). It is
one vehicle to fuel, insure
and jockey about the high-
way.You might tow a small
car behind the motorhome
or go light and lean by car-
rying bicycles or a motor-
ized scooter on board.
With a travel trailer you
have the hassle and extra
costs of towing but once
you leave the trailer in a
campground you have an
agile vehicle for errands and
sightseeing. Choices range
from featherweight pop-up
campers to rolling homes
with a couple of bedrooms.
Travel trailers also come in
“toy hauler”models that are
part living quarters, part ga-
rage for toys such as anATV,
wave runner or boat. Lastly
are a fifth-wheel trailer or a
pickup camper. Both make
use of the pickup truck you
use at home.
It all begins with choosing
the right vehicle for trav-
elling at highway speeds.
Look at the number of axles,
the suspension, the depar-
ture angle, power assists,
miles per litre, ease of park-
ing, total payload and much
more. Next, look at how ac-
commodations will work for
you and your partner start-
ing with sleeping arrange-
ments. There is no reason
to haul around extra bunks
nor, if you prefer showers, a
bath tub.
NEW VERSUS
USED RV’S
New is best because: it’s
easier to finance and insure,
it’s available with all the co-
lours and options you want,
it’s clean inside and out, and
it probably has a better war-
ranty than you could get on
any used RV. Everything is
new, from the light bulbs
and tires to the DVD player
in the cockpit.
Used is best because: it’s
already taken that first, big
depreciation hit. The pre-
vious owner has probably
worked out the worst of
the bugs and will probably
throw in plenty of extras.
BUyER PITFALLS
By now you’ve probably
owned enough cars, com-
puters and other machines
to know that complexity
breeds breakdowns. Rule
One in choosing an RV is
the same KISS (Keep It Sim-
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us live by. The more conve-
niences you have, the more
conveniences there are that
can break down.Even when
covered by warranty, fail-
ures mean another trip to a
dealer, another night in the
shop, another phone call to
a supplier and endless per-
sonal confrontations just to
get the RV working the way
it was meant to work.
The less able you are to
deal with electrical, hydrau-
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yourself, the more impor-
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systems. Do you really need
a pushbutton entry step, ra-
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electrically operated awning
and a heated,cooled driver’s
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ADDITIoNAL
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• When a big investment
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an attorney go over the fi-
nancing agreement and the
warranty.
• Whether the RV is new
or used, insist on getting
all the written warranties,
operator manuals and in-
struction books that go with
every system including the
flush toilet and individual
appliances such as the mi-
crowave, stove and refriger-
ator. Many things in an RV
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in the first place, you could
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care of flooring, counter-top
materials, upholstery and
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• If you’ll be buying the
RV at an RV or travel show,
attend the first time just to
look and listen. By the last
day of the show dealers are
more willing to cut a deal
rather than haul the RV
back to their sales lot.
With an RV you have the
pleasure of both being there
and getting there in your
own home without packing
and unpacking. If an RV is
in your future, plan on at-
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Janet Groene is author of
Living Aboard Your RV, now
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Info: Conny @ 250-763-4406
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The B.C. Fiddlers
DANCE!Old Time
All Ages
Welcome
Door
Prizes!
Taoist Tai Chi™ Beginning Classes
This program introduces a system of training intended to develop a body
that is strong and supple and a mind that is clear and calm. Classes are
presented in a way that is relaxed and accessible to all ages and abilities.
Our goal is that you feel balanced, comfortable, and that you have fun.
Call 1-888-Tai-Chi-2 or visit www.taoist.org to find classes schedules
LET’S GO GREEN TO THE
Irish Stew Dinner Dance
Sunday, March 16 • Happy Hour @ 4:30 pm
followed by Dinner @ 5:30 Dancing • Tickets: $10.00 each
OLIVER SENIOR CENTER EVENTS ACTIVITIES
EVERYONE’S WELCOME AT THE OLIVER SENIOR CENTRE • 5876 AIRPORT ST.
Bridge Tournament
Sunday, March 20 • 9:00 am
BRING YOUR PARTNER!
$15/couple • Lunch included • Prizes
Info: Fern 498-6453 / Center 498-6142
Mixed Pool Tournament
Monday, March 31 • 9:30 am
Lunch included with your entry
To register phone Ross Aston 485-4360
PENTICTON
Stamp Show Bourse
Saturday, March 22
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Penticton United Church
696 Main Street • Penticton
Free Admission • Door Prize • Stamp Auction
Contact Roy @ 250-542-4127 or rhein2@telus.net
CAPSULE COLLEGE
HALINA CENTRE (in Vernon's Rec Centre)
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM • Admission: $7 ea. • Info: 250-545-7753
Don't miss the final 3 presentations in the Spring Speaker Series,
sponsored by Vernon’s University Women’s Club (CFUW)
These talks fund two $1500 scholarships yearly for students at Okanagan College.
Thursday, March 13: Jungle Tribes of South East Asia
MARY STOCKDALE explains how community resilience comes from
applying ‘traditional’ ecological knowledge in the face of outside influences.
Thursday, March 27: Green?land: Land of Contrasts
JULIA LISSAU depicts the grandeur of the west coast of this ancient island
through its history, peoples, geology and rugged beauty.
Thursday, March 20: Bugs and Us: Entomology in the Okanagan
WARD STRONG, entomology research scientist at our Kal Forestry Centre,
makes these small 6-legged neighbours come alive for us with his intriguing
stories and incredible microscopic images.
Saturday
April 5th
7:30-10:30 pm
For more information:
250-376-2330
The Kelowna Garden Club
meets on
Wednesday,
April 2 at 7:30 pm
Eat Your Yard Because Companion
Planting Isn’t Just for Vegetables
Presented by Gordon Hiebert of Element Eco-Design
First Lutheran Church, 409 Lakeshore Road, Kelowna
Members attend for free
Guests please donate $2.00
Annual FREE Seed Plant Swap/Sale
Wednesday, March 27 • 6:30-9 PM
Schubert Centre • Vernon
6:30 PM: Seed Plant swap/sale
7:30 PM: AGM (short!)
7:40 PM: Composting talk and
demonstrations with experts.
Everyone is welcome. Bring a carload!
SPONSORED BY THE SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT
NETWORK SOCIETY (www.sensociety.org)
Contact: Julia at 250-542-0892
Enjoy Italian Food
the Italian Way
DINNER
March 15th
Kelowna Canadian Italian Club
770 Lawrence Avenue
Email: kcic@shaw.ca
www.kelownaitalianclub.com
Info: 250-762-0900 (leave a message)
at
the
Okanagan
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
S A L M O N A R M B R A N C H
meets the 3rd Monday of every
month at 7:00 pm
Boardroom, Picadilly Mall
(enter from side door)
1151 - 10 Street S.W.
St.Patrick’s DaySt.Patrick’s Day
Cod Gone Wild
Recorded at the Codshack, Vernon, BC
Produced Engineered: Cod Productions
Andrew Mercer Chad Carter
Mixed Mastered: Lake Studios
Andrew Zachari Smith, Kelowna, BC
Graphics: Rhino Designs, Vernon, BC
Copyright: Cod Gone Wild 2014
1. You Never Know
(A.Mercer)
2. Half Wagon Men /
Half Wagon Reel
(C.Carter / A.Mercer A.Otter)
3. Spancill Hill
(Trad)
4. Raggle Taggle Gypsy
(Trad)
5. Star of the County Down
(Trad)
6. Whiskey in the Jar
(Trad)
7. Blarney Roses
(Trad)
8. Black is the Color
(Trad)
9. Canadiana Fiddle Medley
(Trad)
10. Back Roads
(C.Carter)
1 1 . H a v e Y o u E v e r
(D.Whitty)
12. Out from St.Leonards
(Gary O'Driscoll)
13. I Remember
(A.Mercer)
Made
in Canada
Cod Gone Wild
Album Release Celebration
friends friends
Album Release Celebration
Enjoy an evening of Celtic music
featuring the Okanagan Celtic
Choir and the introduction of
the third independent album
“Battered and Fried”
from Cod Gone Wild.
Creekside TheatreCreekside Theatre
Sunday March 16th, 2014, 3:00pm
Tickets available at the Creekside Theatre or call 250-766-9309
With
Adults $ 27.00 / Students Senior’s $ 25.00 / Group of 4 $ 92.00 www.codgonewild.com
COD GONE WILD • SUNDAY, MARCH 16
3:00 pm • Creekside Theatre
Join Cod Gone Wild for a special St. Patrick’s
matinee show to help them celebrate the re-
lease of their brand new album, entitled Bat-
tered and Fried. They will be performing the
entire album front to back plus some of their
personal St. Patrick’s Day favourites.
Tickets: $27 adults, $25 students/seniors
$92 group of 4 tickets
www.codgonewild.com
Kelowna Toastmasters
MEETING
March 17 • 7 PM
Rotary Centre
for the arts
421 Cawston Avenue
KELOWNA
NEW VINTAGE THEATRE PRESENTS
The Astonishing Adventures of
Awesome Girl and Radical Boy
March 13-16; 19-22 @ 7:30 pm
BLACK BOX THEATRE, KELOWNA
April 3 4
THE HUB ARTS COLLECTIVE, VERNON
Don’t miss this award winning campy musical romp
by Ethan Cole - it is a fun adventure that you will be glad
you had the pleasure of catching.
Advance tickets available at selectyourtickets.com
Children $10 • Students/Seniors $15 • Adults $20
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The 1942 raid
on Dieppe by
the Allied Forces
was, as Mark
Zuehlke’s Tragedy
at Dieppe tells us
in no uncertain
terms, the worst
military disaster
for Canadians in
World War II.
About 68% of the 5,000
Canadian soldiers involved
in the nine-hour raid
would become casualties,
and the majority who were
unscathed never made it
ashore.
The Dieppe raid, code-
name Operation Jubilee,
has been controversial since
the moment news of its out-
come reached the world.
How could it have gone so
terribly wrong, and who
was at fault? In Tragedy at
Dieppe, Zuehlke tackles
these questions through
the personal accounts of
soldiers, sailors and air-
men. These anecdotes form
a narrative of the planning
and execution of the raid
that is brimming with per-
sonal insights from every-
one involved, from the de-
cision-makers to common
soldiers who wouldn’t even
learn the raid was happen-
ing until a few hours before
it began.
Through Zuehlke’s highly
detailed descriptions of the
politics around the raid, the
plans that were adopted
and then abandoned and
adopted again, growing and
becoming more complex
and unmanageable, and the
grand fiasco of the training
exercise codenamed Yukon
that preceded it, make it
sound almost impossible
that the Dieppe raid got off
the ground in the ifrst place.
As he leads us through the
experiences of the soldiers
during the raid itself, we
watch heartbroken as one
batalion and then another
sopes with the reality of the
ill-fated operation.
However, as Zuehlke says
in his epilogue,“Honouring
the sacrifice of those who
fought ar Dieppe requires
no justification for the raid.”
Tragedy at Dieppe, now
available in trade paperback
for the first time, stands as
a tribute to the brave men
B OO K R E V I E W
Tragedy at
Dieppe
By Mark Zuehlke
who met disaster on the
beaches of France on Au-
gust 19, 1942.
MARK ZUEHLKE was
nominated for Canada’s pre-
miere history prize, the 2013
Governor General’s His-
tory Award for Excellence in
Popular Media: The Pierre
Berton Award. Widely hailed
as Canada’s leading popular
military historian,he is author
of more than twenty books, in-
cluding the popular Elias Mc-
Cann mystery series. Zuehlke
lives inVictoria.
“His is a truly moving pre-
sentation, with quotations
and facts that make this piece
of history something to read
through your tears.”
- Winnipeg Free Press
“A painstaking reconstruc-
tion of a military project that
was doomed from the start.”
-Toronto Star
$27.95 CDN, 6”X 9”, 472 pages, 27 BW
photographs, Douglas McIntyre.com
each evening.Chef Ollie,al-
though English, is as French
with his cuisine as possible.
Each was a true repast with
tremendous, innovative
menus.
The Captain’s dinner was
superb. It included white
Chablis and red Infant Jesus
as the wines, to go with fois
gras with fried bread and
port reduction, cured salm-
on with capers and cornich-
ons, a splendid trio of lamb
(slowly cooked shoulder,
roasted rack and fillet), with
dauphinoise potatoes. No
meal went without a fine
cheese tray – St. Maure
de Touraine, Epoisses and
Roquefort – ending with
an amazing creme brulée.
Since many of the cheeses
aren’t pasteurized it’s dif-
ficult to find them in North
America.
One night we dined out
at an acclaimed restaurant
in Les Bezards and at the
end I concluded that Chef
Ollie’s reputation was safe.
And the accommoda-
tions? What a surprise
when we saw our suite.
There are only four suites,
all similar. They compare
well with many of Paris’five-
star, small hotels.
Another opportunity for
activities was wine-tasting.
I can’t recall a trip that had
something for everyone
from the finest wine, chees-
es, meals to the supreme
comfort level. No wonder
many guests return.
Prices for a six-night
cruise aboard the eight-
passenger hotel barge Re-
naissance are from $6,350
per person in a twin/double
ensuite cabin, including all
meals, wines, an open bar,
excursions and local trans-
fers.Visit gobarging.com.
Other notable French ca-
nal barge trips are available.
See your travel agent for
more information.
Canal Barging in France …from page 22