After a busy life of work in the city, Roy Bonisteel was drawn back to living the simpler life on a farm. : es of his shows, Bonisteel made it his goal to elicit a smile from the saint- ly vary and he did. the he strains of being on the road, at air- ports and hotels. He would find himself in New York one day and being sent to Toronto the next, to complete yet another interview. He was feeling the pressure and tension that had been slowly building up in his daily work and fast-paced life. During that time, e sat down to interview Elie Wiesel, who had been through the Holocaust and was then an author importance of silence. The interview would. : eee the direction of Bonisteel’s, him back on the path to Trenton, to revisit the important language of that silence is Wiesel explained the soul of the world. The words is a time to be quiet and there is a time to scream. There should not be silence Mee said, when there is chaos ion that needs to be pat out and recognized with words. Bonisteel soon realized that he was losing touch with the deeper reality of life and was not having a chance to just be with the company of himself occasionally, His three children, Mandy, Steve and Leslie, were born in St. Catharines. They lived in Vancouver for awhile and were about to settle in Toronto until Bonisteel felt the need to return to the environment he in, to show them what it is like to | live a slower-paced, more mean-_ were oriented around the city. Their | idea of a farm was to look at a few | ducks. It didn’t matter to them if it tained oF not, either, taking the small pressure on what position the child chooses for a vocation: They ee | it’s the personality they should take pride in. “Parents should base the child’! accomplishments. more on who they are and not what they can become,” said Bonisteel. Bonisteel has never stopped | being busy. He is now a citizen- ship court judge for department of Citizenship and Immigration and acting journalism director at the University of Regina.