Whitb .y Free Press, Wednesday, Juty 6, 1994, Page 7 Good evcning! Vïth OurJimn Dandy with flic ruggcd good looks and Y~ the authoratative Feet U Psounding, voice here for Mega Ncws 4 whcre any riews is big news. by Bil SwanNo matter how redundant or trivial we'I1 report it and-make VAVY it sound big and A- LNfflimportant. We're here Unexectdgusrsin front of an LA. Unex ectd gu stsvariety where O.J. This je a mysterytory. Eventually you will learn ledybo'ha who did the doggie do on te neighbour's roof. Firet, some background about household pests op there, I almoet eaid pets. Well, they woulZ pets if my daughter had hier way. (Waningte foilowing cotains im licéit ilence that May -ffend1 Reader iscretion 15 au is«L) We couId start with our compost heap, the world's largeet, one point two metres by one point two metree by one point two metres. Whatever. The experte eay: do net add meat, fat, dairyh produets in your compost. And pests will net bother it. You ve heard that before, right? Okay, just 50 lon's inm not delusional. You're my witnesees.. Next, and y ou gotta believe me on this, we follow the râles to the letter. We even throw in some tuf _____________________________________ that ne self reepectiflg rodent pet would even look at:1 mam» weed-filed sod; sunflower staIke; grass clippinge; euh- -- soi. Then yougotta be as'surprieed as me when we find thie epring that we have visitors. Cute littie,.long- tailed, big-eyed visitors. Dear, dear, dear, deer mice. Mydaughte r loves them. She and her friends spend hours plqeyng peek-a-boo under the bird feeder 0f course, the compost may not be to blame See in the garden shed there had been this sack of bird seed, two- pounde of mixed eunflower anid other goediee, that was intended for the bird feeders. By the time we diecovered the mice, we diecovered that they had discovered the bird eeed.' Within days, the bird seed dieappeared. First it's ~~ there, then it ain't. Nothing but littie heaps of sunflower seed hueke left behind. 5 Se by thie point ail we have jeagren shed full of inice, bnrping and making other noises that a birdseed diet will give you. They're hopping in and eut of the compost, sncing on discarded ii ip e tt ls heels, anything to enrich t er cu înar i . iggingPA DEJUY115 tunnls.Driing eigbouhoodcat crzy.These children's entries in the parade are passing ail Saints' Anglican Church -at ]Driin& neighbonrs crazy. Henry, next door, the Dundas and Centre Street. The celebrations marked the 1OOth anniversary of the guy who irons hie lawn, ends up with four in hie incorporation of Whtby as a town. Prizes were awarded for the bout entries in the garage. And a pregnant one under hie workshop. Centennial parade.WhhyAhiepoo Whity Amivenphot lie even shares the blame. See, he's got hie own I No doggi ever climbed that drain pipe, we figure. 125 YEAR AGO SSoIRwe look aain and say, "Well, I juethope it isn't one I from the Thursday Jul1 1869 edition of the 'Pun danehtr fow Alexander Prinale have died within two weeks. Seventeen year-old il ý1 Later, when we point out the indiecretion, Henry tells cf spotting raccoons on neighbouring roofs, and once at three in the mnorning finding one in hie backyard, tripping hie motion-sensor lights. If-the raccoon solution je good enough for him, itfs good enough for us. I'm just happy to believe it waen't one of our inice. Wouldn7t that be ente. oe~oe~ Harriet ded on June 28. *Woodworker George Cormnack lost the thumb on bis Ieft hand in an accident with a circular saw. *Dominion Day was celebrated today with a cricket match between Whitby and Oshawa. *Falling chandeliers in two Whitby stores nearly caused serieus fires in the past few months. 1