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4 the tribune thursday april 17 1s7s lbk hbiune established 1888 charles il nolan publisher 1 dos bernard- p faitnr troo pbom miimo siol copies 2bmiocripticni um per year io rm cad4sumclstwhere member el audit bureau of circulation canadian community newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class maij registration number otm tbe tribune is one o at inland publishing co limited group of suburban newspapers which includes the aiajcwhitbyplckering news advertiser brampton guardian burlington post etobicoke caiette markham economist and sun newmarkeurora era oakville beaver oshawa this week and mississauga news i i i i i i i i i i i i barre beacock advertising manager i i i i public input blocks dump it is our prediction that whitchurch- stoiiffville will never have a municipal dump you dont have to have a crystal ball to figure hat out the one and only sight to be considered which has been made public has drawn such strong opposition that the town- is lying low before trying to find another site it will be increasingly more difficult to establish garbage dumps as people become more and more aware of their ability to stall development public participation has readied a new high cancer campaign in full swing april is cancer month and the tribune joins the local branch of the cancer society in urging people to donate to the cause there is hardly a family that is not touched by the disease but research continues and remarkable progess is being made in the fight against cancer your contributions will help that fight continue that means development of controversial things such as dumps will be more and more difficult to our way of thinking this kind of public involvement is going one step too far but a look at the situation surrounding the decision to drop the vivian rd site is useful to sec where council made its mistakes when a site was chosen councillors should have immediately had a series of meetings with the people near the proposed site once it was public then people would be able to have their say no one could say the thing was being foisted on them instead the people learned of the site because it was leaked to the press tlie residents demanded a meeting and uniformly opposed vivian rd and highway 48 the opposition was predictable but the council might have had better luck by talking to the residents first the people may still have opposed it but council would be on fir mer ground and could possibly have even tually proceeded instead of confrontation and secrecy people are demanding consultation it is an art to be able to deal with this new form of public participation old ways of doing things arc not adequate its a whole new ball game thirty years ago- this week excerpts from the tribune from april 19 ims weed prizes whenthe problem of labor for weed cutting was broached at whit church township council meeting on saturday deputyreeve l- p evans suggested that the farmers be en- couraged to cut roadside weeds opposite their respective properties by offering prizes for the best kept fronts in the municipality during the year 1945 i am willing to spend at least 100 in prizes believing the municipality would reap many times its benefit he said for weeds have not been cut for three years because men could not be engaged to do the work i i half mast the municipal union jack atop the clock tower and the government flag over the post office flew at half mast during the weekend in observance of the passing of president roosevelt sugar and spice bill laments spent holiday by bill smiley name change causes uproar tit seems that plans are afoot to change the name of cemetery lane to davis ave un- fortunatclythe people who live on the street dont want the name changed in fact they like the present name well enough the logical question to ask is why change the name originally carriage park investments asked for the change the company had just built five new houses on the street and felt the name would create problems in selling them that was last summer all the houses were subsequently sold early this year the name change idea was resurrected ad vertisements were placed in the tribune to announce a court hearing on the name change last week the tribune learned that noboby on the street or lane if you wish wants the name changed in fact a petition is being circulated asking that the name remain that sign be put up marking the road it all makes one wonder who does want the name changed the tribune feels that if the residents want the name to remain then it should be it is one of the more interesting names in town anyhow ciiqelwliakt a campaign is currently underway to jiavc a development approved for the gino tcslafarmonbethesda rd thefplan has been turned down by council however the proponents are trying hard to have that decision reversed i tlietribune urges councillo stick by its guns in this and- refuse to approve the development the plan despite its promise of lowcost housing is poor planning plain- and simple- v i if it was approved a newhamlel would be created just a short distance from the existing hamlet of bloomington it would take up good agricultural land which is currently in production s it violates just about every good planning principle it would have been turned down in a minute except for- one thing the developers have promised to include a portion of lowcost housing that kind of housing would be in the minority only 35 lowcost units are proposed and their cost- cannot be guaranteed in other words low cost housing is being used to obtain approval for a project that would never receive a second thought in other circumstances- yes the area needs low cost housing but it should be done the proper way according to sound planning nrinciples the tribune urges council to refusethis proposal onceand for all resident turnout poor public meetings are called to gauge public reaction to certain proposals last thursday whitchurchstouffville council called such a meeting in vandorf to discuss the future development of the hamlet the meeting was wellattended by one group developers in fact not one person living tight within the hamlet boundaries expressed an opinion on just how large the hamlet should grow the developers were there in forcestating that there should not be growth restrictions on the hamlet they of course are trying to establish residential development and most of them own land outside the hamlet boundaries proposed in a planning study there was muehtalk about the need for low cost housing and further residential development but no one offered an opinion on just what kind of planning or growth should take place each developer was pulling for his own proposal the lack of interest could cost the people of vandorf dearly in years to come when it becomes a sprawling community which like others of its sort lackshean if the planning study proposals are- followed it would be a compact community of 500 which sounds prettygood to us this seems to be a good week to clean up some loose ends so if you happen to have a loose end join me me and the old battleaxe spent a couple of days in the city during our winter break holiday and spent is the word it would have been cheaper to fly to mexico and pick up montezumas curse as they call it there or the dire rear as we call it here this remark has no connection with the opening sentence of this column we went out shopping to buy a- little something for pokey the grandson just a little shirt or a toy or some other trifle fifty dollars later i staggered out of the depart mentstore toting two large toys six little shirts four pairs of overalls a fulldress suit for the kid and a plastic shell windbreaker with a lining and a hood to keep him warm when he comes out from swimming at 15- monthskhcs going to be doing a lot of swimming you see then of course we had to deliver the stuff so we invited ourselves to dinner with daughter and told her not to fuss that wed bring along ah old chunk of meat or something never one to look a gift horse in the mouth he agreed with alacrity my wifes idea of a couple of items to help out with dinner turned out to be five dollars i worth of steak the equivalent in pies and stuff and assorted groceries running to another 10 my daughter supplying the potatoes and water for the coffee however- it was worth it we each got to hold the baby for about 10 minutes in one- minute snatches between bouts of trying out his toys and having clothes tried on him by the women after many years i finally realize why i hate trying on new clothes for my wifes surveillance that baby despised v every minute of the clothesmodelling session and bellowed- lusty protests as his mother and gran pulled his limbs into all sorts of gym- nasties trying to stuff himinto his new pants and shirts c it probably happens to all males in childhood and they resent it ever after next day was even worse financially my wife was determined to buy a rug bedspread arid drapes to match some new wallpaper in a room shed decorated as any woman knows and most husbands too this is a three- month not a threehour quest its usually about as easy as looking for the lost chord consequently the old girl went off with leaden step sagging mien and builtin frustration she looked so depressed my heart went out to her and in a moment of madness i offered to accompany her unfortunately she was in the bathroom with the door closed and the water running and i was so emotional that i waswhispering so she didnt hear me to my astonishment she burst into the hotel room two hours later eyes shining looking like a girl on her first date and radiating joy she had hit the jackpot in her shopping everything matched some shade of offyellow since i had expected to greet a wornout woman full of recriminations weary dispirited and emptyhanded i got carried away hey this must be your day whydont you buy a little something for yourself in that womens store it will giveyou a lift well as you knowi havent- bought a stitch of anything new since i dont know when maybe ill pick up a new spring blouse or something notto be an old fogey i decided that by george id get a new tie myself- well i guess i got a little carried away i walked out of that mens shop with two ties and two turtleneck sweaters i am not exactly the turtleneck type but in a devilmaycare moment i tried one on it was white made in italy and i swear i looked just like fred astaire just in from acapulco freds a good- looking 72 l 5 j these sweaters had extrahigh turtles they conceal your wattles and push your dewlaps out so that you look jolly rather than jusi hangdog fifty bucks lighter meft the shop with a redlplastic bag containing my gopdiesi felt guilty but jaunty i lost both my guilt and my jaunt wheni went to the ladies shop to meet my wife yes she had picked up a new spring blouse and a new spring suit and another suit and a casual outfit and some more blouses she was snatching things off the racks like a two- yearold opening christmas presents ah well what the hell you cant take it with you especially if theres nothing to take r next day back home she modelled all her array for me it was then that i learned none of her shoes or purses went with the new clothes the rest is history i two good things did come out of that holiday however my wife told me she wanted to see me in one of my turtleneck sweaters i fought it but finally gave in with bad grace where are they theyre in a red plastic bag where did you put it its with the rest of the stuff she retortedjt wasnt it wasnt anywhere i after going back over the day before we agreed that id taken it into the diningroom put it beside my chair and had walked outj without it of all the stupid if phoned the hotel longdistance no lost- andfound had no trace ofit but learning my name the lady there said she read my column in the blenheim paper and we had a nice chat x well there goes fifty bucks plus a ld call went out morosely to put some empties in the car trunk there was the little old red devil plastic bag with sweaters and tie the good thing was gypping the hotel on breakfast we ordered breakfast fok one i drank the orange juice she ate the vh buckwheat cakes i ate the toast and jam and we shared the coffee two breakfasts for the price otone tu bet they havent caught on yet i saved 180 on breakfast two days ina row a profitable trip taken all round 1 demise will be complete by ted wilcox a few little communities around here will go out of existence when the pickering airport finally goes through to put it more accurately their demise will be completed one of those is altona- with- its history of farmcrs millers storekeepers and j preachers- some of the important buildings still stand the old hotel later a general store and still later apartments the old cider mill thcmcnnonite church built in 1853 and the oneroom school house in the minds of the lifetime residents remaining there however the history is more than a few buildings a chapter in abook or a page in a newspaper it is their memory of what has almost become a cliche the vanishing way of life of rural ontario- jv as altonas fred lewis says the com- nuiiity wasnt all that unique it had a swimming hole to swim in a school yard to play ball in and a general store to buya chocolate bar in r they were virtually unaware of any desperate need for mouthwashes snowmobiles and ktel record selectors terms of our tv advertising were happy from reading the history ofthe hamlet its also clear that the community contained v many enterprising membersbut altogether to put it another way people generally treated their neighbors as they would want to be trcated themselves but its another day isnt- it its a dogeamog world and iieighborliness lakes a back seat now to accumulating things theres not much we wouldnt do logel ahead t r if it means changing residences every two years hardly knowing your neighbors demolishing 100 year old buildings or going into debt for a summer cottage sbbe it forlhe good life nothing is loo precious naturally inosl of us would like to have our cake and cat it loo to enjoy a coin- sumptivc lifesllyc without going into debt without losing touch with other people and without losing the atmosphere of small town life its a fond hope but not likely- usually you have to choose and we lend tochoose things over people using our motor boat over stopping to see our neighbor and watching the lube over just about everything r f so placcslike altona aiid slouffville change 7thvt oldlimers know somethings gone they can see thaipeople have more and with 3anerrie neyernever land wasjeffin the wake of the recent storm manyy6ftheihugedriftsm although the sun shone brightly and managed to melt much of the snowr ring wckki took some digging out before the garage was useable v r problem fslhas also what kills coiiiaj vvayav 1 r john montgomery r barnraisings iheysupporied eacitother v i