Ha LULU fhe aS Tn HTT aii ii 0 HE SE FEE IPM HHH I LL LO I O.P.P. Constable Jennifer Tompkins Local Community Service Officer of the O.P.P. November will be available in the former Township Hall in Milford during the month of Please call 476-2151 for the dates and times. If you have any problems or concerns 'regarding police protection in the community Constable Tompkins will be pleased to discuss them with you. Seafood - Continued from page 5 with a shank as big as my middle finger into the ocean. Fishing in the dark is sort of like ice fishing, you do it because you're forced by nature to fish that way. John, who took me out for the fish, was using a six inch eel for bait. Eels can only be described as repulsive. They're worse than snakes, because while they look like snakes, they have the added disadvantage of being really slimy. Yuck! We used to eat them, pinning their head to a board and ripping the slimy skin off like a nylon, then cutting them up into two inch lengths so they wouldn't look so snaky. They taste pretty good, but it's hard to get the snake image out of your mind when eating them, so I wouldn't cat them now. I read where some Europeans like little two inch eels (elvers), alive, in a glass, and drink them down. What would it feel like to have all these little animals swimming around in your belly until the gastric acids settled them down? For me, they'd come up by the same highway they went down. I notice that the size record for last year in Ontario for the American Eel was 4.00 pounds (gee, what happened to metric?). This is a record I do not aspire to break. Anyway, I caught a big striper and we had that for dinner with a lobster sauce. We went out and had fried clams and scallops, too. I'm not high on raw oysters. | DotCom Computer Services E-Mail: gary.pearsonl:@sympatico.ca 613-476-1097 1 ¢r) DesCom [8 i A" Computer P & Services RB id a 4 ! i Gary Pearson 22 Rogers Street. P. O. Box 991 Picton, Ont. KOK 2T0 613-476-1097 Phone 613-476-1380 FAX think they're just a tad slimy, but I highly recommend them for those who are dentally challenged, which I think is the appropriate word for folks with no teeth. One man speculated that the bravest person in the world was the guy that first opened and oyster and slurped that slimy living thing down his throat. Oyster stew is another story, firm oysters drifting about in a hot pool of seasoned cream. We went to a kind of reception while we were there, and waitresses were roaming about with bacon wrapped scallops on toothpicks. I ate so many that I had to surreptitiously slip several toothpicks onto the plate of the lady beside me so people wouldn't think I was a swine. Lobster, clams, quahogs, scallops, mussels, oysters, shrimp...it's great living by the ocean. My brother lives in Phoenix, and we've visited him several times. There are many seafood restaurants in Phoenix, which seems very strange to me. I know, fish can be flown in daily and are probably fresh, but shouldn't a person be cating javelina, roadrunners, lizards and Tex-Mex when in Arizona? Yeah. I know. I'm not in The County by popular demand. I can always leave and go to live by the ocean if I like it that much. Well, they don't get walleye in Boston. - George Underhill SINCE 1925 MINAKER'S AUTO PARTS (MILFORD) LTD. Phone (613) 476-4547 Fax (613) 476-1565 Milford, Ont. KOK 2P0 Specializing in Hard-to-Get Parts New and used, for cars and trucks 1920 models and up Randy York Paul Minaker Closed Thursday Afternoons and All Day Sunday