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page 2 the tribune thursday mar 27 1969 ginnmiimminihiimimiiniinnmiii mrnminiitiiiimmi uuii1u1c a bypass road proceed with care 1 in an effort to alleviate congestion on the main street of stouffville reeve ken laushway has suggested that suitable signs be erected at both ringwood and lincolnville directing throughtraffic around the village via the bloomington road oddly enough the recommendation failed to arouse much discussion among members of council it should have we would urge the council to give this matter very serious considera tion before it embarks on such a move we contend that the congestion for a few hours on friday evenings saturday afternoons and sunday nights is no cause for complaint as far as stouffville people are con cerned if these cars do not stop they create no parking problem travelling bumper to bumper speed is not a factor why then the concern while the majority of merchants may reap no benefit from cottagers other commercial establishments do we would go so far as to suggest that on a weekend 75 percent of local gas sales are with transient trade village restaurants also do well to mention only two while many towns much larger than stouffville felt the pinch when community bypass roads were cre ated business here has not been im paired in this way we hope it never is in our opinion council should leave well enough alone to advertise an alternate route around the town could create more problems than it will ever solve how about an enlarged welcome sign thats what our attitude should be to everyone three down one to go to say that a stouffville hockey team has never won an omha cham pionship may be subject to error it is safe to state however that such an honor has not come to our village in recent years weve come close on several oc casions in 1958 the bantams advanced to the ontario finals but were beaten by shallow lake in 1959 the bantams again gained a berth in a title series but lost out to blenheim in i960 the midgets went all the way only to be ousted by ridgetown perhaps 1969 is stouffvilles year this season not one but two teams are knocking at the door the pee- wees under the leadership of bob hassard have swept aside three op ponents in alliston kingston and huntsville the lone rival left is st marys the juveniles with don harman at the helm are currently engaged in a series with meaford if they can get past this club they will have earned a shot at the championship the pic ture will be clearer by thursday stouffville has gained much favor able publicity through the hockey prowess of our peewee and juvenile clubs they have carried the village name to all corners of the province the kind of advertisement no amount of money could buy like in the review of a professional players contract after an exception ally fine season perhaps the council could consider raising their donation a little when another winter rolls around calling for student jobs in a special advertising announce ment in this issue the ontario gov ernment is appealing to employers to provide summer jobs for students while the shortage of jobs in the summer for students in this immedi ate area has not loomed as a big problem up to now a great percent age came from farms and were easily integrated into the labor force dur ing vacation time this situation is rapidly changing and many more students here do not have home farms or home businesses to fall back on the problem is a byproduct of an increased program of education and a muchincreased school popu lation many depend on summer jobs to help finance their studies and this has an even greater value as it pro vides practical experience so essen tial in preparation for adult life government and industry seems willing to help but the tremendous upsurge in the number of jobs re quired makes the job a frustrating one ihiiiiiuiiiiiiuiiuniiiniiiiuiiiiiwinniiiiniiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiuniiimiiimiiiiiuinuniiiiiiiiiniiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiik i do you remember s s no 9 uxbridge twp garibaldi 1947 the majority of these pupils will be familiar to residents of the garibaldi area of uxbridge twp the year is 1946- 47 the teacher centre rear is mr garnet gray pupils are front row i to r russell degeer kenneth jefferson dick taylor garnet bacon alvin irwin centre row i to r jean mcguckin bernlce mcguckin marjorie jeffer- h son darlene taylor gloria mcguckin margaret tindall barbara hewlett glenda taylor rear row i to r bill mcguckin wilfred hewlett ruth jefferson mable tindall jim hewlett clare mcguckin iiiminnjimrhwmmitiitmnnmhihuiiniimninnimmmiiliiiiiimiiiiiniiiijiiniuipiiiiiiiiiihitiiiimiinuiiuituin iiitiiiiiuiiniiii n tniiniii snniiiim ihm 1 1 n iiumii mim itiniiiiniii nun mirl editors mail who really goofed on new school site a boulder fence near brougham the oncefamlllar stump fence is now a rarity but on the brock road near b brougham theres a fence made from boulders historian bob miller is writ- 1 j ing the story into a prepared history on the hamlet staff photo imiiiiiuuimiiniiinihhinhnihiniiinhiiihiuiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiinimnbniiiwuiibiuniiiiiiiiiiniiiininraninniiirainiiiiiiimiinihiiiniw dear sir i have read with great interest how the stouffville public school board goofed on the purchase of the pro posed school site at westlawn and elm road no doubt some goofing has occurred somewhere along the line but as far as i am concerned re gardless of the abuse heaped upon the whipping boy when all has been finalized i will be deeply satisfied believe me i am not interested in public acclaim or any form of pres tige that might accrue but i would appreciate the opportunity to permit people to judge for themselves who goofed when and where it is most interesting to note that the site now being purchased is the exact one chosen by the board at the outset indeed it is the one we agreed to purchase last year originally we selected this site and one other in the eastend after a tour of the community accompanied by the clerk and the board in 1967 with the impending development of the ponderosa the western site was deemed more essential and an option was planned for 1968 this option was later drawn up and presented to council by the chairman of the board in the spring of 1968 to enable council to make application for debentures to be used as payment meanwhile negotiations were bogged down by a death in the family of the property owner and the legal matters that had to be settled before negotia tions could proceed when this mat ter had been cleared up the owner became almost impossible to catch to consumate the proceedings then the land was sold to the new owner mr a tombosso and the board en tered into negotiations with him through lawyer representatives of each a plan of the proposed subdi vision was presented to the board early in december it showed the school site north of the separate shool property and not centrally lo cated as we had planned this made it unsuitable from a servicing view point or for ease of accessibility by now it was december 21 and i was asked to meet with mr tom bosso on monday december 23 since i would be available at that time this meeting proved very fruitful mr tombosso was very cooperative and anxious to complete the deal after a careful explanation and dis cussion why the site should be chang ed back to its original location it was agreed to do so as a result mr tombosso agreed to have his engin eers redraw his subdivision plan to place the school site in its original location it seemed to me that mr tombosso was doing all the giving when i reflect on that conference and he was the price was to re main the same although it was less than he had paid for it on december 30 mr tombosso presented the new plan and purchase was agreed upon with time rapidly running out our lawyer was on vacation a meeting with the clerk and tlje reeve produced little except who the land should be deeded to and the fact that approval for the debenture had been received in october accordingly i called the interim secretary isoc to see if the deed could be made out to the stouffville public school board when they take over our assets this year he thought that it might be possible since both the deal and the debenture was ap proved before january 1 this was not acceptable to the clerk everyone seemed to be rightiously sitting on their hands except mr tombosso and i who were doing our best to get things moving finally i learned through a coun cillor that a letter to the effect that the land had been purchased plus the deed would result in the processing of the debenture to provide the money needed for the purchase early in january i spoke several times with the chairman of the county board and presented him with a map of the site and the pro posed school area at the same time i explained how it would affect the local school accommodation and em phasized the urgency of the situa tion since the site and the price was excellent action was commenced im- mediatley since that time county beard rep resentative have been to the plan ning board and expressed the view that that was the site wanted i have shown them the proposed site and the area concerned to emphasize the urgency of the situation incidentally i have also reminded them of the other future site what appeared to have been an open and shut czze has become prolonged and dragged out i can fully understand the irritation felt by mr tombosso resulting from so many delays mr tombosso is to be commended for his patience and cooperation the idea of things being finalized within a week could have been a reality long ago if it had in volved just the developer and the school board it is up to the individual to decide who goofed the developer was cooperative the school board did its best who didnt perhaps those who didnt should stand up and take their lumps now fortunate ly the school board has broad shoul ders and will take it easily within its stride for this is the price of pro gress by the way what would you have done that we did not john c mcmurray trustee stouffville education committee stouffville public school board dear sir for the past several months iiave been engaged in attempting to com pile a history of the hoover family i am tracing the descendants of lud- wig huber who came from switzer land to the palatinate to rotterdam to pennsylvania through three of his sons namely john martin and daniel hoover all came to canada in 1804 and settled around markham john and daniels families remained here and some of martins family as well the rest of martins family went to the united states these three sons had several chil dren each their children married in to other families and the name in some cases was lost others like wideman reesor byer steckley heise took its place i would like to get in touch with as many as it is possible i have already contacted many people anyone else who would like to can write to me at 25 unsworth avenue toronto 12 ontario eventually i would like to have this information published in book form gerald hendry dear sir i would like to tell you of an organ ization which could be of great ser vice to many of your readers allergy information since food allergies ef fect a large percentage of our popu lation especially children this group could possibly help many of your readers who are trying to cope with an allergy diet allergy information comprises a group of women who are attempting to help those with food allergies they do not give medical advice but rather help individuals to cope with the restrictions imposed by a spec ial allergy diet it is mainly through the work of allergy information that we now have milkfree margarine on our grocers shelves for those allergic to milk now they are urging food pro ducers to list all ingredients on their labels and are seeking legislation to make this compulsory for the heaith even life of food allergy sufferers many allergists now recommend that their patients contact allergy information for guidance i know they have helped me considerably in feeding my young son who is allergic to egg wheat milk beef potato pea nut and cocoanut further information can be ob tained by writing to allergy infor mation 144 clanton park downs- view mrs mary l tutly 155 fairview ave toronto ont established 1888 hs s c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by the stouflville tribune limited at 54 main su stouffville ont tcl i02101 single copies 15c subscriptions 500 per year in canada s750 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class mail post office depi ottawa the heart line rolls on by jim thomas any parent who has watched a small son remove the christmas wrappings from a carton containing an electric train has witnessed the ultimate in a little boys joy theres just nothing no nothing that can generate so much excite ment and while this product of the steam age is something new to many and merely a memory to most the magic of its attraction lives on we dont have an electric train set in our home the number one reason is that poor old dad hasnt the know- how of putting such complicated con traptions together number two is that i wouldnt find sufficient time to play with it it was with some enthusiasm then that i received a printed card in the mail last month announcing a model train show the largest of its kind in canada at the home of morley and dorothy sproule 85 cliffcrest drive in scarboro although the hosts were complete strangers as was the location of their residence i made up my mind then and there that i would treat the kids to an onthespot inspection of this display the layout is a spectacle so in triguing that one could watch it for hours mr and mrs sproule and their nine year old daughter laurie reside in a comfortable but modest home just south of stop 14 on the kingston road the model train system takes up almost the entire basement and for four days the sproule residence is a veritable union station from thursday to sunday 1500 kids ad ults and children flocked to the de pot to see this magnificent sight but the show doesnt end there throughout the entire year morley and dorothy host hundreds of school classes all prearranged by their teachers morley sproule 47 a bus driver for the ttc considers himself only the custodian of the line the real engineer was his son robbie robbie loved trains and he and his dad would play with them together by the hour but robbie had an ail ing heart and following several op erations performed in an effort to prolong his life he died may 19 1961 in the sorrow of that hour a little bit of his parents died tod robbies trains grew dusty the flashing lights went out and the shrill steam whistle ceased its sound robbie was buried with his stuffed white kitten that he had always cud dled beside him in bed every night and his red and black cowboy shirt that he loved so much his engineers cap was placed on a peg like it would never see the tous led head of another boy in the whole wide world the basement became silent like death itself but morley and dorothy soon re alized that life must go on they turned their thoughts toward the hundreds of other little robbies who had never known the joys of watching a doubleheader disappear into a tunnel or a tencar freight puff its way across an overhead bridge the basement room was reopened on the very first day they welcom ed two dozen visitors the word soon spread on sunday they welcomed over 800 although school classes are admit ted free the general admission dur ing the 4day onceayear show is fifty cents per person to date close to 7000 has been raised all for charity and so the heart line rolls on as 12 locomotives puff up and down 500 feet of track and across 350 square feet of eyecatching countryside where the seasons never change morley sproule the chief engineer of the project also serves as travel conductor his friendly face mirrors the pride of a successful venture but best of all the sound of chil- drens laughter once again has re- turned to robbies room