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Next week's column Is going to
be a real smasher, but in the
mealtime, I'm going to clear up
a lot of Christmas things, most of
thetn personal. If you don't like
personal stuff, turn to another
page.
First of all, thanks to my Uncle
Ivan fora cheery note. Re is now
the patriarch of the clad, on any
mother's side. I am supposed to
look like him, and act like him. I
hope it's true, and that I do. I'd
like- to be a patriarch of some-
thing. When you are a patriarch,
you are old and wise and every-
body pays attention to you. I am
old and stupid and nobody pays
attention to me. Except my wife
and grandbabby and students.
Bless you, Ursula Brady of
Vancouver. Remember how we
kissed behind the car while Bob
White and Pappyi• Warren and
Dinny McManus tried to get it out
of • the snow bank. Don't blush. It
was beautiful.
Thanks, Norm Lightford of Ot-
tawa. You always remember. Do
you remember the room we
shared at college, with the bay
window and the fireplace?
Cannel coal on Sunday after-
noons, stripped to the shorts,
talking about life and women and
stuff. And do you remember that
I left in the middle of the year,
and left you as sports editor of
Torontonensis, and you flunked
your year?
George and Elda Cadogan. Do
you remember the night you had
a party for all the sharp young
editors and their wives whom you
had met at the newspaper con-
vention? And it was the night of
Hurricane Hazel? And only about
four of us made it?
Hello out there tO a couple of
characters. First, my "TV re-
pairman". Six times a year Ito
a pungent comment '.froth him,
but there Is no identificatsal be-
yond that. Ile lives in Westport,
Ont. It is always signed the same
way, "Your TV repair man."
Here's his _Christmas card, in
part. "Merry Christmas, Smiley,
and the biggest surprise of all, I
like your column. You, i'm►• not so
sure about. Are you trying to
make us think you are old, with
that grandpa bit? My kids are in
their 50s and I'm not old." And
more of the same. How do you
deal with that old reprobate?
And hello to another nut: Lt.
Col. John McEwing, who sends
an annual picture of his pipe band
in, of all places, Spokane, Wash-
ington. This year's card is a
splendid thing with four bril-
, liantly colored quarters. I wish I
could include the description of
the coat of arms, but space for-
bids.
Here's a sample: "The parti-
colored shield Azure (Blge) and
Gules (Red) Is quartered saltire -
wise by a St. Andrew's Cross,
Argent (Silver), taken from the
old Flag of Scotland."
That's the essence. By some
wild reach of logic and probabi-
lity, the remainder of the coat of
arms drags in such disparities as
the United States Air Force, the
Cairn of the MacCrimmons, and
Canada, "the home of many fine
pipers."
The Colonel winds up his mes-
sage with : "I continue to greatly
enjoy your writing. I,..have been
told that whiskey imikxAred with
age." Thank you sir, and if you
are correct in translating the
Gaelic motto "Suas Leis A'Phiob
Mhoir" as "Up with the Great
Highland Bagpipe", I couldn't
agree with you more.
You might be interested, sir, in
knowing that our local pipe band,
ingluding our favorite paper-
hanger, Alastair Milligan, who
sounds Irish but doggedly avers
he is a Scot, is off to Miami with a
pipe band, to plat at some
football Bowl or other. Perhaps
the last Bowel of the Scots. Or the
last Bowel of the Smileys, if he
reads this.
But I wander. I wanted to say
that I am pretty disappointed in
some people. Not a word from
Dutch Kleimeyer. He usually
asks me to the Last Reunion of
the Last Fighter Pilots. Not a
word this year. Maybe I'm the
last, and they're all gone. I
wouldn't be surprised. Last time
I went to one, I returned on my
last legs.
I'm a little piqued that I
haven't heard from Gene Mac-
donald, the man from Glengarry,
last of the bigtime spenders; and
Pete Hvidsten of Uxbridge, last
of the vital virile Vikings. These
are old newspaper friends. Prob-
ably they both think I'm dead.
Maybe I am, and I'm typing this
in heaven, God forbid.
Finally, thanks to Mary and
Alan, George and Win, John and
Helen, Bill and Joan, Karl and
Michelle, and a host of others.
By the way, tile Acton Free
Press is about to be a hundred.
years old. A hearty to Kay, Dave
and Kathy Dills.
And to everyone, fight a good
fight in 1975. It's the only fight in
town.
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OTTAWA, ONTARIO SKIERS flock to six major ski areas on weekends all within a
60 -mile radius of the city. Weekday visitors encounter no lift lines day or night and can ski'
all-out on the miles and miles of almost deserted trails. (Canadian Government Office of
Tourism Photo.)
Ski Ottawa's big si
Bob Mellor
Away back in 1857 — when
Queen Victoria selected a little
lumbering community called By -
town to become the capital city of
Canada — the decision aroused
some pique in Montreal and
Toronto, and the chosen seat of
government was derisively
labelled "The Capital in the
Wilderness".
Present-day Ottawa still is, in
many ways. Not that bears
forage on the edge of town any-
more, or that you can take a five-
, minute walk to ,go deerhunting,
but it remains unique as the only
city of its size today where you
can knock off work two hours
early and hit the ski hills for an
hour and a half before early
winter darkness• sets in.
On a bright winter weekend,
with fresh snow, as many as
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25,000 Ottawans and visitors have
been counted on the slopes north
and west of the city. It's hardly
any wonder then, that the
Gatineau Hills, which are the
most -developed range within
easy distance of town have de-
veloped two world ski champions
from this broad base of en
thusiasts in Anne Heggtveit and
Betsy Clifford.
``Most Ottawans and most
visitors as well, take their skiing
in daily doses, returning either
home or to the luxury of a down
town hotel for dinner, evening
out, and a good night's sleep. •
Gradually however, as moro
out-of-town visitors have dis-
covered the Gatineau and sur-
rounding region, a demand for
accommodatiops even closer to
the hills has been growing, and
the areas have been moving in
that direction over the past few
seasons.
One of the first to do .so has
been Edelweiss . Valley, one of a
cluster of three areas just under
20 miles from the city. Operated
by one-time Olympic skier Andy
Tommy, Edelweiss has gone
"resort" with five or seven-day
ski week packages accom-
modated by a new 20 -unit Swiss -
styled motel, cocktail lounge and
excellent dining room, all at the
foot of the ski slopes.
Like most of the areas in the
Lower Gatineau, it offers a wide
variety of trails, 155 in fact, de-
scending a mountain with a 600 -
foot vertical. It's served by a
3,200 -foot double chair, along
with two express poma lifts and
four T -bars, has snowmaking
facilities, and to assuage the
after -work ski appetites of many
Ottawans, is open from. nine in
the morning to 11 at night.
Edelweiss has two nearby ski
neighbors. Four miles closer to
the city is Mont Cascades, a new
area still in its virtual infancy,
but rapidly gathering devotees.
Bob Gratton, a local product who
left Vermont:s Mount Snow to
take over the area's ski school,
claims the Exhibition Run down
525 feet of vertical in front of the
Alpine -styled lodge is one of the
most interesting advanced runs
in the Gatineau. It's one of six
trails which the new area offers.
ranging from beginner up to the
Exhibition. served . by a double
chair, two T -bars and beginner T -
bar. It also offers night skiing.
Cascades is the latest of
several developments in the
Gatineau designed by John Clif-
ford, the father of world -champ-
ion Betsy and the man generally
credited as responsible for the
stupendous growth of skiing in
the Ottawa area since the late
'40s.
Also in that cluster of three
neighboring areas is Vorlage,
located in the village of Wake-
field, just over on the opposite
side of the Gatineau River which,
gives the region its name. Vor-
lage boasts Some of the best be-
ginner -intermediate trails in the
vicinity, up to a vertical of 450
feet. A chairlift and five T -bars
serve the aro, which stresses a
family skiing atmosphere, an
has one of the Gatineau's Mod
commodious glass -fronted Jday`
lodges at the pottom of the slopes.
There's accommodation avai-
able, along with several Eur+
pear=styled " restaurants in_ .the'
nearby village.
Camp Fortune is just 10 miles
from the Speaker's chair in the
House' of Commons. It began in
1910 with a cabin built by a group:-:
of cross-country enthusiasts, ,and
has . burgeoned into the most
diverse'and widespread develop-
ment -in the Gatineau.
.There are a total of 16 trails up
to a mileand a quarter in length
wending their way down a 600 -
foot drop, and 'covering the
gamut of ski skills. Two chairs, a
triple and a double, along with
four T -bars and a poma lift ser-
vice those slopes, all of which
have snowmaking, many of thein
floodlit to satisfy the nocturnal
instincts of Ottawa office work-
ers.
Camp Fortune has never lost
sight of its beginnings and in fact,
its memory has been refreshed in
the past few seasons as thousands
have rediscovered the . joys of
cross-country skiing. There are
45 miles of cross-country trails
through the nearby hills with
three outlying lodges to serve the
explorers and back -packers," as
well as a number of cafeterias in
the area's central core. Even ski
jumping can be accommodated
here, with three jumps building
up to a 60 -meter structure that
has been the site of many
national championships.
Queen Victoria may never even
have slid down a snow-covered
lawn, but in placing the national
capital where she did, the mon-
arch was doing a big favor for .
future generations of Canadians.
At least, she fouiid a way to keep
future employees of the new
country's government happy at
no cost to the taxpayers. The
growing number of visitors every
year would no doubt agree.
Hospital uses solar heating
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. —
The new building of the Chil-
dren's Hospital and Child
Guidance Center, dedicated in
May, is tther> hi -ti -
nation to use solar energy for
heat and the only hospital
with a heat -reclaim system.
Solar panels are mounted
on the roof of the nine -story,
288 -bed facility, which covers
two city blocks adjoining the
University of Pennsylvania
campus.
Thieves probably
are hopping mad
MANCHESTER, Lanca-
shire, England — Thieves who.
broke into a parked car here
and made off with a bundle of
loot are probably hopping
mad.
Their peke consisted of 140
shoes -- all for the left foot. •