Whitby Fm ePMUe, Wednesday, May 3,.1995, Page 7 500 colums Why, cornme on over and sit a spell. Put your feet up and let's jaw about -the weather, the governrnent and the election. What's that? Sitting with your feet up 1944KFrOauTTI you don't get to type too good? JR b Teil me about it. Thfats sorta the posture 1 get into once a week, writing this column, with me feet up and lt trym'ngu to type in that position. Ready for a reffil? lIl hang on wbile you get it. It's ail self-service here. Funny about this weekly column. Ever tell you how it got its name? 'With Our Feet Up' started life as a sports column. Thatfs rigt. Tbirty-two years ago on Monday. At -that -. time I was the fresh-faced youuig general reporter,,il newly appoixted as sports editor of The. Daily " Sentinel-Review in Woodstock, Ont. A Thomson news- paper. I musta been about twelve. As far as 1 know, it's still publishing. Pays te check, though. With Thomson, you neyer know. That particular version of the column lasted a fulo year, five columns a week. How's your math? ThatYE should be about two hundrèd and flfty colurnns. As 1 changed positions at the newspaper, first as city editor and then as m anaging'editer, the column appeared from Urne te Urnme. It had transmorgified itself mnte a general coluxnn. Then I left-newspapers te teach. What's that got te do with the price of eggs? Well, nothing, really. Just fiiling ini Urne here wbile you sip you coffee. Don't burn your tongue. Where was we?dh Oh, yeah. Then, for about fourteen years, no column. It became what, fancy wordsmiths cail roribund. Dormant. Stil kicking around up here, yeah, but not saying rnuch. Then, ten years ago this week, up she rears again. That was 1985. Free Press editer at the Urne was Michael Knell. Michael was a, journalisrn graduate I from Durham College. That's how corne I knew hlm. His regular colurnnist had left town and he inquired:.. Would I be interested? Heck, I already had the name for it. But I insisted IHS OLST.DE SONV D ,MA8914 on o6 cndiion 1 wuldwrie oly fr lts nd otsThis picture was taken bebind the Cenotaph when the end of the Second World War of rnoney. Free Press publisher in 1985 was Mike was clebrated 50 years ag. rom- lefrt. to right are: Mildred Thompson, Doreen Burgess. By a strange comecidence, Burgess had also Loudfoot, Maebelle Rowley, Jack Dewsbury and John Greer. A parade was held from taken a night echool journalism course I taught in the Centennial Park to the Cenotaph and back to Centennial Park for an ecuminical church service of Thanksgivi.ýng. The 591h anmiversary of V-E Day will be rnarked on Sunday by early.seventies. He was pleased te welcorne bis old Royal Canadian Legion Branch 112. teacher te the newspaper. He was also a' very Wih «hv ht generous publisher. Almost as generous as current Free Press publisher Doug Anderson. Between the two of them, over the past ten years Burgess and 10 YEARS AGO Anderson have pad m total of ehteen dollars and Prom the WednesdayMa 1, 1985 edition of the pax m a oeigeWH1TBYF;WB PRSSs seventy five cents. Being honest I claini it ail on rny A pilot recycing project was started in the West Lynde subdivision on April 26. income tax.* Public School taxes will increase by *40 this year. *A provincial grant will provide $520,000 for road repaire i Brooklin. Ten years. Five hundred columns. Dont snort your Progressive Conservative MUPP Georje Ashe mays he will resign frorn the Legislature coffee. So this little gabfest we're having right now. if GO Transit is not extended from Pickering Wo Oshawa. That's a birthday indulgence. Sort of like an old timer sittin' on the porch, bis feet up, gobbing atstados If we wanted 'a fancy word, we'd c~ this a 35 YEARS AGO retrospective. Isn't that what artists get whn they's Prom theThU!rsdayAr'l 28 1960 edtion of the matured? When I first thought maybe rd mention WfluTBYiWEK Y NEWS ths a te oum7 brtdy,1envisioned snippets* Ontario Minister Of Health Dr. Matthew B. Dymond will tour the Ontario Hospital thiswasthecolmn'sbirhda, Ias part of Mental Health week on May 2. ftorn some of the almost five hundred columns. (You* Neil Murkar received the Peter Perry Award as Whitby's outatanding citizen of know: one word frorn each.) Right. One computer 1959. a A contract bas been let for refacing the Whitby Harbour dock with steel piling. Sowerestrtngth lev nh p ear. n n te 1-d-Y1-AL D ý01imill1«c a.1Rnlnrflman1 te