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4 the tribune thursday may 11 ims he trihixw john montgomery editor established iu charles h nolan publisher 3arrebeacock advertising manager eoitobial oept fc lum kan display advertising oert lais mmm art ohm ausiness office jamramaooratadaacaeilaa ciava pveinkm ery tavrsoay at 54 maiasu stoomviha oat iilumiii toronto bmm mimm siaaj capm he wktcnatiaai thm mr rw a c malta u4h atuwkar member el audit bvrtav ol circulation caaadiaa conamity ncarspaatr auociatioa aad oatario watkly nrwtpapori auaoatioa sacoad cla mail rtanlratioa aambar mm tlw tribune it w al mm inland pubtiifciaa co limited aroup o tvfeurbaa atwtpapars whk iocludo in aiaxytolatfrrfrkknaa mm advertiser bramalea guardian earliaatea post elobicoko count markkam economist aad sun nowaiarlutaurora era oekville beaver oskawa this week and mississauaa news 6402100 3611680 editorial developer and consumer pay for indecisive leadership although we heartily endorse the town councils growth approach to development within its boundaries we have seen a couple of instances where developers have been put to unjustified expense by councils misleading attitude toward a particular project the first concerns a proposed abbatoir on woodbine avenue just south of gormley the applicant was giovanni guizzetti a suc cessful small businessman in his presen tation to the planning board he pointed out that he had successfully run two other businesses since leaving italy and had been a successful farmer in his native country he was also quite familiar with the operations of an abbatoir and of all government regulations regarding such operations after some discussion council sitting as the planning board asked mr guizzetti to return at a later date with a revised plan they felt that the size of the operation was too large to be acceptable and that the building itself should be placed further from the main road a local pastor testified at this time that the prevailing winds in this area were westerly and they should present no problem to the gormley community one month later we find mr guizzetti back before planning board his architect is with him and more drawings are presented to the board the building is now onethird smaller than originally planned and placed well to the back of the property over 1500 feet- from the main road the architect went into a detailed description of the interior of the abbatoir and indicated that its maximum work capacity would be the slaughter of 100 head per day but that the premises did not have the amount of storage space necessary j j-tovhouse-the- butchered meatjtthef actual r maximumcapacity would be likely 100 head- per week a only councillor bill kamps supported mr guizzetti s application saying that a legal abbatoir under strict controls was desirable in the area the mayor and councillor bill mcnalley did not support the motion on the grounds that unacceptable odours might be generated while eldred king was concerned with the amount of traffic the home south of the abbatoir lane would be subject to councillor jim doble was beleagued by visions of a future giant feed lot housing hordes of cattle that might be a nuisance to the neighbourhood not one of the objections involved the architects plan or could have been solved by councils earlier recommendations concerning the size and location of the physical structure if odours traffic and cattle stampedes were councils original concern these objections should have come forth in their first meeting with mr guizzetti as it ended up mr guizzetti was forced into unjustified expense time and hassle in revamping building plans that council rejected for reasons unrelated to therevisions the reasons themselves appear vacuous most abbatoirs in the area seem to be well kept and cause little or no odour the number of trucks required to deliver 100 head of cattle would be quite small the abbatoir was not designed to be able to handle enough cattle to make a feed lot a viable concern in another instance march 7 joseph barna representing mantia realty came before planning board indicating that he had a number of clients wishing to do business in the stouffville area and that mantia realty would like to build a commercial enterprise on the south east corner at ringwood mr barna said that all proposed uses fell within the bylaws covering the types of developments allowed in the area he and mr mantia asked that council be somewhat more specific as to what they might or might not want to see on this corner one of the gateways to stouff ville the board finally decided that the realtor and the architect should bring a solid proposal to the board and they would approve or disapprove the plan this was after telling the two men that ringwood was the front door to the town that it would be a challenge to the realtor- to bring prestige clients to the town and that mantia should be aware of the more desirable uses for the corner may 9 brought the applicant back before planning board the proposal brought nine uses to the corner it was indicated to the board that the development would not depend on the town for customers but on highway traffic their studies showed that a larger number of attractions would bring more business to the project council rejected this proposal as having too many uses on such a smalmothattraffic bottlenecks could be a f oblenv atthvintersectioh and the development might have an adverse affect on downtown business the planning board wanted a project featuring only one or two uses why didnt they say that to messieurs barna and mantia on march 7 surely this informative tidbit would have been all the developer and architect really wanted from their first meeting with planning board as it now stands a full month of time and money has been wasted by two professional people and it would be understandable if there was a bad taste left in their mouths if council wants time to consider certain developments then we encourage them to take that time but to present reasons for rejecting a proposal after indicating that the boards basic objections lay elsewhere or to reject out of hand for reasons that could have easily been rectified appears to us to be either fence sitting or worse setting uncalled for stumbling blocks in the paths of a develop ment we also feel that these type of dealings lie outside the bounds of human decency and could lead council into legal hot water if an aggressive developer should choose to make an issue of these inconsistencies c wuceleio no plaudits for stamina i rolled out of bed saturday morning after only five hours sleep and i must admit i was somewhat less than ecstatic afthe tought of bicycling 22 miles in the light rainy drizzle that was falling my mouth stomach and especially my brain all felt numb we had been to a small dinner party the night before and after spending a delightful evening eating very hot mexican food and tossing back shots of tequila alice and i had arrived home sometime around 3in the morning cudntrealiy feel hung over but as i say there was a certain numbness j l this is the third year i have been in the lions bikeathon and as usual by the time i got down to the park the bulk of riders had already departed ive never been known as an early riser even under the best of con ditions and these were far from the best the first thing i couldnt help noticing was that a muddy spray of water was whizzing off the fenderless back wheel of my bicycle and sending an unerring stream directly onto my behind the part of my anatomy placed most directly over the rear wheel i did not find this rude bidet very en joyable and luckily i didnt have to put up with it too long at the second checkpoint i managed to scrounge some cardboard which i laid on top of the rear carrier this effectively blocked the muck from the bicycle seat and my posterior unfortunately it did riot otherwise inhibit the flow of mud the spray now spewed in a wider arc all the way up my back and even on top of my head the mud flying off the front wheel con tinually squirted up the front of my jacket occasionally splashing my face when i at tained higher speeds my shoes pant legs and the frame of the bicycle were soon covered in a fine spray of muck the roads were generally in good condition the air was just cool enough for a long ride and the spring green countryside was a delight to the eye i used the gears on my 10speed as much as i could to save my legs and this combined with a leisurely pace made most of the course prettyeasy going the last leg of the route along 19th ave from the 5th to the 9th con cessions was a bit of a heartbreaker but on the whole it went quite easilyespecially after the rain let up c n by the time i finished my legs felt like wooden stilts and when i walked they kind of jarred the ground a la late night frankenstein flicks this soon passed and i was really congratulating myself on my stamina because my legs werent stiff or sore at all but plaudits for stamina proved slightly premature as it turned out for about the last 10 miles of the route i had been envisaging the hot bath i would soon be sprawled in simmering the tiredness out of my muscles of course there was no hot water when i arrived home so i decided to relax and read for a few minutes at 4 oclock when alice woke me i was still pretty bunned out and i kind of zombied around for half an hour or so until i got a call from my brotherinlaw tom havent you left yet he inquired in an incredulous tone adding everybody else is already here by john montgomery hunh was au i could muster it turned out we had been invited out for a family dinner jt and it like the rest of the world had slipped clean out of my mind- by getting dressed and leaving im mediately we managed to get there 15 minutes later than we were supposed to but also about an hour before we ate i had brought all my slides from cuba about 100 of them so before dinner i sorted them and laboriously placed them in a carousel each and every one of them upside f down t after dinner i lay dowjnto watch the slides x and by the time alice had switched them around twice before they finally came right side up i was feeling pretty comfortable i had never seen any of the slides on a screen before so i was quite eager to view them but in spite of all my resolve i was gone by about the 10th slide that was about 7 30 and for about the next three hours all anybody heard from me was heavy breathing when i came to everybody was gone but alice and diane and gibson and since it was their house it was only natural for them to stick around just as i regained consciousness gibson flicked on the television set and there was the v dirty dozen i sat there mesmerized through the whole thing gibson had given up after about half an hour and gone to bed but alice and i stayed for the whole thing although im tf not sure why j after the mornings mudbath the dirty dozen looked like a bunch of pretty boys kids stuff keirsteads class ltd reports on st marks recently the grade 6 class at st marks published an ambitious 33 page newsmagazine kiersteads ltd which told all about their school and the people in it it had a sports section editorials articles and poems and even advertising we thought you might enjoy some of the articles in it and have reprinted a few of them below school washrooms one of the students pet peeves is when you go to the washroom and find that some greedy person has taken all the toilet paper for an unnecessary cause another problem is when the paper towels are all over the place graffiti is the worst problem i think it is stupid because people are just wrecking things for no reason i think that more rules and regulations should be made and enforced ken comeluse i an indepth look at grade seven 1 things on the blackboard nothing but dates 2 art workthey love lots of art work such as funny pictures books on walls along with maps paper and cluppings 3 subject they were doing literature 4 way their desks were arranged in rows4 rows with two desks a row 5 their behaviornot too good i6k high tempered teacher- nice or tmadnice when theyre nice mad when t theyre mad lv a 0 ofworkj mvt8copened or dosed classroom v closed zi r v s v- at 955 april 12 i visited the grade seven class they had nothing as of yet on the blackboard but the date they had a lot of art work such as funny pictures maps and paper clippings at this time they were doing literature their behavior was not very good they had a fair amount of work mr todd gets mad when they are fooling around but hes nice otherwise reporter gregsheardown all about grade 8 mr prieur the grade 8 teacher has also taught grades 6 and 7at st margaret mary school in woodbridge but after a while he always likes to get cranked up and move to another school he says he usually stays al a school for about four years and then changes to another but if he really likes it he stays for about 6 years and then goes mr prieur says he has liked the trips he has gone on because everyone who had never gone skiing before learned how to ski and he thinks that the class he has now is a fun group to go on trips with and that he likes to see them have fun after i had asked mr prieur if would miss his class after they had gone he said yes until the next class comes in and he sort of forgets about them but still remembers them mr prieur also said he will be teaching grade 8 and still stay byrosaturco interviews winning all the sports was what john monopoli said when asked what he likes so far through this year jim edwards said in his own words sports jackie hulshof said the same after asking them about what they liked so far through the year i went down the category to trips and some of them said i liked skiing roller skating and tobogganing jim said the same and he also said hes looking forward to the blue jay game the subject that most of them liked was physical education i asked some people what they thought about graduation i want to leave the school because im sick of it but i also want to take the kids said mary guest ill miss this school barbara van maris said i cant wait ive been in this school for nine years and i want out said david bianchi im going to miss it said jackie hulshof i want out was john monopolis reply i cant wait said jim edwards the grade 8s really like to express their feelings by doing a lot of art work i could clearly see they liked it by the way their portable walls were full of all kinds of art work such as drawings paintings sketches etc i think they are a terrific group byrosaturco bradley guessed it mystery picture bardley- larson of 8s winlane dr stouffville wins the s prize the wild guess award 1 goes to kim british of uxbridge sbe thought the object was the top of a turnip f window on wildlife woodland drummer by artbriggsjudl 01 every tad is familiar with peanut butter so we thought a picture of an almost em ply- jar of it would bo fairly easy to recognize however only one person actually came up with the correct atf swer te last weeks its nice to get out and walk in the woods at this time of the year the new leaves have not yet unfurled and the forest floor is beginning to burst with a multitude of wild flowers youll catch the heavy odour of wild leeks and notice the trilliums forcing their way above last seasons leafy cover and while you may become engrossed in the vast variety of spring flowers underfoot your ears will surely harken to the sounds of woodland wings one of the most likely spring noises and yet to many an unfamiliar echo is the drumming of the ruffed grouse the par ticular habitat they frequent conditioned by succeeding years of fallen leaves often makes the location of the sound extremely difficult to locale to a camper lying drowsily in the light of early morning the penetrating vibrations seem to come from almost beneath him more often it is heard however while walking- quietly along an old bush road if the listener tries to pinpoint the source he is usually left without his curiosity satisfied for like a mirage in the desert the drummer leads his inquisitive visitor on only to stop abruptly and remain silent until all immediate danger is past the male grouse produces the sound with rapid wing beats as he struts majestically on a fallen log here with crest held erect tail spread fanlike and his ruff or hackle raised he takes on the airs of a triumphant game cock the vibrations last nearly six seconds starting slowly and deliberately then steadily increasing until its climax a sort of bup- bupbupbup up up up up up not unlike a small gas engine reluctant to start the reason for all this of course is that its pari of the courtship ritual and in due lime the females harken to the drummers call soon a nest is formed in the dry leaves usually near the base of a large tree nine to a dozen buffcoloured eggs are laid with the female incubating them for about twentyfour days the hen also has most of the respon sibilities attached to raising the family as the male often mates with several females the young are off and running as soon as they hatch picking up small insects and pecking at tidbits the mother furnishes in two weeks they are making short flights and could become self dependent if the need arose ruffed grouse reach a peak population about every eight years or so scarce seasons are gradually supplanted by an overall buildup till the top of the cycle is realized some years ago the then dept of lands and forests after much study extended the ruffed grouse season in the southern parts of this province formerly a short six or seven week period it now runs for over three months in the southern counties it has had the desired results by spreading the birds out and making available many that would otherwise be lost in the natural cycle for the partridge as it is commonly called is much sought after and 0 shot at by the upland gamebird hunter a v tricky explosive target in its own back yard the ruffed grouse will maintain its numbers as long as habitat and controlled seasons are provided 1 tinder n embersother woodland sounds much in evidence last week were the nuptial calls of the woodcock in vivian forest a and the hollow who who who who tremelo of the spiraling snipe up on the bruce penninsula among the twentyfive replies to the bluebird column- was one from the secretary of the pickering rod gun club in one of the two boxes erected on their property seven miles west of brougham is a pair of biuebirdskeep those reports coming in they are so helpful