apie SGA ae te wt ‘k 4 z 3 Saabs caches Mean Sith bebenteh ETA S E ae 3 § z * x g oa ? Aba sithl a Wednesday, August 27, 1969 2 ee _SAANIGH PENINSUL A AND GULF ISLANDS RE VIEW. - i by Ed Ketchum. Joan was just prepar ‘gbréates. - fast in the little house bythe side . of the fairways When a terrific. | Galiano _ Notes — _ BY MARY BACKLUND - — Paul Scoones came down from Squamish to -visit his sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Cam Prior, Miss ‘Mary |. Benbow, — of Croydon, London, England, is ‘spending some time visiting cou- sins, . Mr...and Mrs, A) Killick, i Recent visitors at the Cc.0. Twiss’s include Mrs, L, E, Har- ris, frorn Ganges, Mrs, Gerald ; Smallwood, from Vancouver. v Mrs, Bunny Dalton, of Kelowna, spent a week of her holidays at’ the Galiano Lodge, while visiting her host of friends on the Island, She is a former resident, fo Mrs. Nora Boulter, of Brent= * wood, spent several : enjoyable . days visiting on the Island, Mr, and Mrs, Eric Mallett, of | Vancouver, are staying a week in the cottage of Mr. Mallet’s sister, Mrs, Joan Walkers; at Whalers Bay, : Mr. and Mrs.” Richie Hume, and family, from Victoria, spent the. weekend ‘with parents, Mr. and Mrs." J.P, Hume. . Misses E, E.. Trimmer and F. Druce’ spend most of their week= ; ends from Victoria at- their cot-,|: ~ tage on Galiano, ‘and this weekend they had a special friend from Birmingham, Englaad, who was in the Air. Force’ with Miss Druce, Miss Hazel -Ward, who is. on a tour of Canada. Mrs. Hank. Knudson, : with Donna, Julia. and Bernhard,. are home following a holiday in Stet- ‘tler, Alberta, To the delight. of summer resi- dents who live along the Montague Road, it. has now .been black- topped, and they h have no more ~ dust. gee te ee Soci beens —_-NEW TWIST FOR ¢ GAME. a explosion shoals rhe trantdoor and. caused her to drop the frying pan, . breakfast and all: “But it was nothing really = just , a twosome playing the first hole and slightly off their magnetic ‘bearing. °° But it-has brought anew twist to the old game, - You see, the duo started outone morning.-last week for. a friendly jitde nine holes at the. Galiano Golf and Country Club. The lead- | off: buddy stepped up to the first tee confidently; took two or three” > practice swings, addressed his ball and --- swishh, connected with a mighty drive which should have carried the ball halfway to the green but unfortunately “it hooked to port and fell to ground amid the. trees, The day could have been ruined right there - but wait: finding. the, ball: in the rough our lucky one played the second Shot’ with unbounded malice and, with rifle-like velocity, it. hook-. ed again, = this time right smash into. the plywood door of the little house. causing Again the terrific ¢ ex- ‘plosion ‘that shook the front door. -and caused Joan to ‘drop: p:the fry-, ing pan. So mighty was the impact that the ball embedded itself-.two- thirds of its diameter: in-the door and could not be extracted with- out tools. Sov the two- buddies “backtracked to the Clubhouse to borrow. a screwdriver and the ball was finally released, Now our: hooking swinger car- ries the screwdriver in-his bag as an deceéssary tu the conven- tional clubs and Galiano has scar- ed again thenews w ith ane. trend in golfing. The Rules, Captain .is still scratching his head over the pen- alty for playing a ball embedded in a.vertical door and a frighten- ed girl goes about the even tenor’ of, her. way. wisting not’ when a- nother wayward ball will cause an explosion that willshdke the front door, causing her todrop the fry- ‘He says ingpan, breakfast and all, on the floor. (No penalty). THE SILLY SEASON is here again. Mother. Nature's talents in odd spud sculpture are showing up in peninsula potatoe