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Dick Peterson Baby boomers will see an interesting retirement Have you ever wondered what you'll look like in 40 years? Not that there's anything wrong with it, but old and gray is the best I can come up with. So, I wonder about my entire generation, the baby boomers who have come to age. When I'm old (and I'm talking a whole lot older than 35) h of us. There be able to fill four Texas. there's going to be a bunch of us.There will be so many of us we will be able to fill four or five Floridas and a good part of I can picture myself in 2034 overlooking some red hill in stinking-hot Georgia, kicking myself for not having enough foresight to buy the last available condo in Frostproof. 111 be depressed. I know there will be a lot of us addling old codgers. But I'm wondering what we will lode and act like. I hadn't thought about that until the other day when I spoiled my appetite by eating qn entire row of Duplex Sandwich Cremes, a cookie with a taste similar to low-cost housing; plasterboard and plastic. After I ate the fifth or sixth Duplex and the lard started lying heavy on my stomach, I began to consider the long- term effects of such binges. I am sure I'm not the only one of my generation to eat a whole row of Duplexes. The operative word in rapid-fire junk-food consumption is snarl. In a figurative sense, you can snarf cigarettes and coffee, too. We're a generation of snarfers. The baby boomers are the Snarf Generation, if you will. Don't let those Yuppie joggers fool you. They've got Duplex Cremes stashed all over the place. They just won't admit to it. They use jogging as a cover. We all know they are snarfers. „ The current generation that occupies the halls of power in this country (that of my parents) didn't grow up on Duplex Sandwich Cremes; and Hubba-Bubba bubble gum; and sugar-free, caffeine-free, taste-free Coke; and Big Macs; and light cigarettes; and light beer; and Twinkles; and Nutra-Sweet. v They ate normal food; food without sodium stearoyl-2- lactvlate. Anything that would resemble modern-day junk food was made at home, in the oven, with real ingredients like flour and sugar and tender loving care. Or they ate crackers from a barrel. Or corn-meal mush. General sloth was the downfall of the Roman Empire. In the specialized world of the 20th century, junk food will be the downfall of ours. That's the Nutra-Sweet talking, I'll bet. Everybody says fing its Nutra-Sweet is wonderful and safe, but I've got a feeu some kind of behavior modification drug. Some day down the line, like in 2034, we'll all be talking like Mr. Rogers and Nutra- after all. generation of older people has had to deal with its beer gut. Ours will have to contend with a soft, cream-filled gut, like so many walking Twinkies. We are what we eat. After eating rows of Duplexes, Snickers bars and trouble- free bubble gum, rampant tooth decay will increasingly become a problem, and we'll All be thankful that Twinkles were developed. You don't have to chew them. Twinkies can be sucked, lliey're ideal for the toothless future of the Snarf Generation. More than any other food item of this day, the Twinkie will be the one that history remembers us by. Yes, <$iiche is only a fad. Quiche is the fondue 6f the 1960s. The Twinkie is the forebearer of all junk foods. ! Sometimes I'd rather have a Twinkie than a prime-rib dinner. One of my favorite lunches is two Twinkies (you can never eat just one) a cup of coffee and a cigarette. Car­ bohydrates, caffeine and nicotine. Isn't that simply disgusting? No, it's a typical snarf lunch. We'll live to pay for it-in 2034 in Georgia. Right now, it's just too hard for a snarfer to pass up an inviting row of Duplexes. » Police combine continued from page 1 those used in an Aug. 24 attack in Lakemoor on the McHenry- Lake county line, McHenry County Chief Deputy Sheriff George Hendle said Wednesday. In the McHenry County case, the rapist used a knife to gain entry to the home and cut the phone line, covered the woman's face and stole credit cards and a small amount of cash, he said. The credit cards were found later in the Gurnee area, Hendle said. Hendle said the Lakemoor attack occurred at about 1:30 » ° PAGE 3 • PLAINDEALER HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2*. MH. . Marina owners discuss proposed water agency § district that would be represented^ by the agency. All question* can* be answered by calling Schaffer's office at 455-0309 or- Kleirm's office at 455-6330. After clarification of the puT; pose, intent and powers of the pro- posed agency, the concensus ol ,• the marina owners at the meeting . was in favor. A special informational meeting for marina owners on the Chain of Lakes was held recently at Chapel Hill Country Club for the purpose of clarifying the provisions and authorities of the Chain of Lakes- Fox River Water Management Agency. A total of 26 marina owners representing 18 marinas on the Chain attended the informal fact­ finding session. State Sen. Jack Schaffer and State Rep. Dick Klemm, sponsors of the bill, were Joined by David Beno of the United States Environmental Pro­ tection Agency, Frank Rupp of the Illinois Department of Transpor- ta t ion Divis ion of Water Resources, John Rogner of the Ar­ my Corps of Engineers, Dean Cunat, whose many credits in­ clude president of the Northern Il­ linois Planning Commission, and Dr. James McMahon and Ward Duel of the McHenry Clean Streams Committee, to answer questions and concerns relating to the creation of the new agency. The three-hour session climax­ ed with a recommendation from McHenr-y 's Hansen Marina owner, Bud Hansen, who stated: "I think it's time we stop fooling around with this thing and come out in {avor of i t . I t ' s for everyone's benefit to have the future of our waterways taken care of by a group whose special interest is the improvement and ^ preservation of the Chain." Hansen later stated that, "It's Important , that everyone understands that there will be no taxes levied on properties nor business fpr this agency. That's hard for most people to unders­ tand. As soon as you say 'referen­ dum', people think 'taxes'. This is one of those exceptions. There will be no taxes. Funding for Che pro­ jects of this agency will come from user's fees (which are very minimal) and from state ap­ propriations that have already been secured and from securing other s ta te funds that are available for waterways improve­ ment. We just have to get them for the Chain, and this agency should be able to take care of that." In response to the concerns thqt «the user's fee would be a deterent to boating %n the Chain, Bruce Buschak of the Wauconda Boat possess and control dredging and other equipment. -Enter into agreements with Il­ linois and Wisconsin and other local governments. -Provide for enforcement of the act with any state agency or law enforcement agency. -Shall appoint ' an advisory panel to be made up of citizens and public officials. - -May employ s taff as necessary. Company related his experience . -Shall adopt an annual budget on Bangs Lake where a user's fee that was imposed a few years ago was expected to meet with resistence for similar reasons. "We found that there was little if any objection. Boaters who have a large investment in their craf t are concerned about the quality of the waters in which they entrust the safety of that boat and its riders. They were and are most cooperative in complying with that fee requirement." The proposed Water Manage­ ment Agency will have no taxing power and will be required to hold a public hearing on user fee pro­ posals before they are decided. The agency shall not charge any fees for fishing, snowmobiling, swimming, water skiing, con­ struction of piers, or any other use other than recreational or com­ mercial boating. The powers and duties of the agency will be to: -Implement reasonable and necessary rules and programs to maintain and improve the recrea­ tional waterway. -Accept fedceral, state, county and local government funds. -Construct, acquire, improve and maintain public recreational facilities. The Agency shall not have eminent domain powers. -Acquire, purchase, lease, to include a plan for the use of all funds.' Schaffer stated that a complete synopsis of the act will be mailed to every postal patron In the Schaffer and Klemm broad-spread support and the gathering to the serious '• responsibility of then finding th€^ right candidates for the seven *; board positions to be elected on' the April ballot If the agency W ' adopted on Nov. 6. MICROWAVE SALE Now In Progress! LEE & RAY ELECTRIC 1005 N. Front St. McHenry 815-385-0882 a.m. and the woman, described as being in her early 30s, was home alone. All the victims were either women living alone or home alone, according to Lake County authorities. ' "He knew they were, alone," Fagan said. "He .was either ••watching their houses or followed them home." * The rapist in the Monday attack is described by Lake County sheriff's police as being a black male. The subject in the Lakemoor case is described as a black male, approximately 35-40 years old with a slim build. racfcy... America's rcilcibl* shipper! SAVE DISCOUNTS AT SCENTIQUE CO. comtm... 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