Alex Mitchel died in the Maritimes of drugs [?, as in it may not have been accidental].

August 1976

August 11-12 Wednesday-Thursday
Cleaned the library for an MUC mayors meeting.

August 13 Friday
Played Risk with Bob, Janet and Mike H at Mike's. Andy (a friend) came in later. A long audio recording exists.

August 19 Thursday
While cashing my paycheck at the bank at Fairview, someone stole my jean jacket from the car [it was already beginning to fall apart, I couldn't understand why anyone would take it. The problem was the keys to the van's mag wheels were in the jacket, and they stayed locked until 1977].

August 21 Saturday
Fred Parnell died [while swimming up north with Foster, Ernie and others? I guess they were out at night, swimming on drugs and Fred couldn't make it back to shore. A shock, Peter phoned me with the news].

August 23 Monday
Last day of work.

August 31 Tuesday
Gillian and I went to Abbott, then to Westmount. Visited Abby and Brian on Summit Circle. We saw the smoke of the old American pavilion at Man and His World burning from there [the metal geodesic dome survived].