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THE WEEKEND OUTLOOK Friday January 11 11 Editorial GoodforaLafP I have a confession to make No no Martha the kids can stay up its not that kind of confes sion Last Tuesday a companion and I trekked to Maple Leaf Gardens to take in the game between the Calgary Flames and the hometown favorites affec tionately known as the Multiple It was a tough decision Tuesday being a quiet night in the local enclave it came down to a choice between the Leafs- Calgary match or heading over to the local library to watch them lockup for the night The tickets to the Leafs- game were so this helped make the decision easier Besides Calgary only journeys to Maple Leaf Gardens to play hockey on rare occasions a situation the Maple Leafs ap pear to have adopted whole heartedly and you can watch them lockup the library most nights of the week It should be noted however the library clos ing came a close second an unofficial vote In what might best be termed a masquerade of a hockey game the Flames led 20 after the first period after the second period and extended the lead to just 13 seconds into third period play before coasting to the win Give the Multiple Laffs their due though The team was very impressive in the pregame war- mup It was simply a case of the Leafs saving their best for first as it was all downhill after the opening faceoff My companion having spent some time in Calgary is a dyed- inthewool Flames fan She decided to wear her Calgary Flames sweater I thought this might cause some problems at the Gardens among Maple Leaf faithful so I felt perhaps I should wear a sports sweater just to even things out I didnt have a Maple Leaf jersey however and felt the I got several years ago from the National Ballet km run might seem a bit out of place especially in the washrooms so prepared for the worst No sweat Maple Leaf fans must write their support because I only saw one youngster wearing a Maple Leaf sweater while Calgary Flames sweaters proliferated There were even a couple of Flames banners being waved Leaf players have a valid point when they complain about lack of fan support in their home arena In a word the game was bor ing highlighted only by referee Terry Gregsons questional per formance And this is the zebra scheduled to work next weeks NHL AllStar game in Chicago Obvious penalties were ig nored while more petty shinny crimes suffered the wrath of the referee The joke call of the night oc curred in the second period and it involved the Leafs Vince and Calgarys Doug Gllmour Gilmour it should be noted was recently voted the Most Sexiest Player in an ESPN pol of female viewers Similarly is not noted as a brawler To make a long story longer after threatening each other the two went at it and were each dinged with five minute fighting majors Then however Gregson tagged on four minutes more to each player for get this at tempting to spear Give me a break they were waving at each other and no contact was made Goodies at the Gardens are basically just as overrated and overpriced as the Maple Leaf players A hot dog cost 50 two ice cream bars cost SO a small container of pop cost 1 and a small box of popcorn similarly cost On top of this 1 paid 12 to park for just under three hours All in all maybe I should have just stayed home and watched the game on the tube Then again maybe I should have headed over to the library for the nightly closing Poets Corner FRIENDSHIP A true friend Is hard to find The one which you can trust Rely upon To help you through any obstacle And which understands you But when you do find that friend You know you have found special Dont take advantage of that friendship Because once you lose them A part of is destroyed Respect hem care and love them And they will always be there for you By Christine Deforest Terra Cotta CRITICISM We live in a world of competi- ion And a world of fashion and beauty Judging one another wherever we are Being Ignorant and cruel Looking only at the exterior and physical beauty Ignoring whats most Impor tant The beauty and qualities deep within Who has the right to judge And why do some think theyre better Especially when were to be equal Lets open oar eyes Allow people to express themselves first Lets not play judge and jury Lets accept one another For who they are Not How they may appear By Christine Deforest Terra WILL THEY EVER UNDERSTAND When parents get divorced Your life Is torn In two Each gone their separate ways So along with your heart Its just as hard for their children No matter what the age may be Bnt whats even more difficult remarriage All you can do is accept the situation Try and understand But when they shut you out And have less time for you You feel abandoned and alone Either they dont understand Or they Just dont want to hear So they answer with denial Theres nothing left to do But write it down Maybe someone else going through this situation Will understand where Im coming from Will understand why I wrote this And maybe Im not alone By Anonymous The Hatton Hills HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1 866 A Division of Canadian Newspaper Company Limited Guelph Street Georgetown Ontario L7G 3Z6 K ROBERT MALCOLMSON Publisher and General Manager 8772201 BanDumma CLASSIFIED Minnall 5Mrly Jnup CIRCULATION Miito AC COUNT IN SUBSCRIPTION HATES Copy In Statu month rntgn M til SO It month Provincial Salt Winter is highly overrated I dont know about you but I might start enjoying winter a lit tle more if I could figure a way to keep my car from freezing up without cultivating icicles m my living room This may take some explain ing Please bear with me As I may have mentioned in the past my personal opinion is that winter is a highly overrated season Im frankly not sure why we bother with it in the first place Obviously theres not a lot we can do to stop winter from arriv ing once a year But this doesnt mean we have to feel cheerful about living on a planet with such a glaring design flaw Naturally this sentiment leaves me slightly at odds with a lot of my fellow Canadians since Canadians as a breed are prone to being inexplicably romantic about winter Such attitudes leave us with two possible conclusions about our ancestry One Canada was settled by rugged pioneers who didnt know the meaning of the word complain because they were simply too tough to freeze to death Two Canada was settled by pioneers with vacant grins who didnt know the meaning of the word frostbite because they kept looking for it under in the dictionary In any case here I am wondering why its too much to expect both an unfrozen car and an unfrozen living room The roots of the dilemma lie back in September when I took the inexplicably rash step of buy ing a new car New cars have many ad vantages They also have one hideous drawback you want to keep them alive This was never an issue in all the years I drove Arthur the 1973 Oh I certainly would have felt badly if Arthur had perished in the first cold snap of winter But theres not the same pressure when youre driving a car worth roughly the value of the gas in the tank With a new car though I leaped Into action as the temperature touched 20 Well creaked into it anyway Lacking a blockheater I remembering hearing tell of a portable heating device you could clip to your engine in cold weather So I headed off to a well- known Canadian store that stocks such devices 1 wont mention the store by name Lets just say its the one that lets you save like Scrooge largely because you can never find a sales clerk to sell you anything After searching for an hour I found precisely the device I wnted I drove proudly home then discovered it was precisely the device I didnt want It wasnt a portable heater It was an ordinary blockheater It required Installation Installing mechanical devices does not run in my family The practical knowledge of the Weirs has traditionally been limited to remembering that plumbers are listed under p in the Yellow Pages Its always struck me as slight ly odd considering that my father is a surgeon This is a man who can successfully execute a quadruple bypass but needs all weekend to weatherstrip a door way In any case I returned to that certain wellknown store and ex changed the heater for a safety light having once been told plac ing a lightbulb under the hood will generate enough heat to pre vent freezeup Im not sure why I believe this to be true since the person who told me was my father But well let this pass Just one small problem re mained Ive just moved into a new apartment which lacks out side plugins But this sort of thing need not dismay a skilled mechanical improviser who will quickly realize he can solve the problem by running an extension cord through his front window The one slight drawback is that the aforesaid mechanical im can no longer shut his front window That means he is currently trying to prevent the next Ice Age from beginning under his chesterfield by leaving the stove on all night Im enjoying my winter tremendously Really I am I always curse loudly when Im happy