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2 the tribune thursday july m lttl edttorsmail my thanks dear jim i am writing to thank all those that made the citizen of the year award so special the tribune and those on the selection committee deserve special thanks for the organization of this presentation i would also like to thank the clubs and associations which made presentations to me the number involved makes it difficult to thank each properly as does the mail strike but it does make me proud that stouffville has the spirit to support such a variety of groups each of your mementos wiube treasured perhaps most importantly though i would like to thank the people of this community any inspiration mat i may have provided is a result of opportunities and support the citizens of stouffville have given me over the years if as some claim environment shapes a person the people i have known in this town certainly warrant my thanks and should share in this award the past is basically only good memories and learning experiences both of which stouffville has- provided me in a large share i thank the citizens of this com munity for this and am extremely proud of the award given me sincerely wayne feasby blake street stouffville outstanding dear editor subbing for a vacationing pat wheeler your talented cartoonist is undoubtedly a difficult chore however you couldnt have selected a more skilled artist to take her place the detail in nancy kus drawings is amazing while ive never had the pleasure of meeting nancy ive come to appreciate her many abilities she is truly an out standing young lady regardless of what career she chooses in life shes bound to be successful her parents must be proud sincerely grace burt rr 3 stouffville s1tt wtihunt established 1888 barrebeacock advertising manager james thomas charles h nolan editor in chief publisher editorial dept jim holt jim irving display advertising dept rod splcer bryan armstrong classihed advertisingcirculation joan marshrnan y office manager doreen deacon business office eileen glover national advertising representative dan poyntz 3631 051 published every thursday at 54 main st stouffville ont tel 640 2101 toronto phone 361 1 680 single copies 25c subscriptions 12 00 per year in canada s30 00 elsewhere member of canadian community newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 the tribune is one of the metroland printing publishing ltd group of suburban newspapers which in dudes the acton free press ajaxwhitbypickerlng news advertiser the auroranewmarket banner the bolton enterprise brampton guardian the burlington post the burlington weekend post the etobicoke advertiserguardian the etowcoke consumer the georgetown independent markham economist and sun the milton champion the mlssissauga news newmarketaurora era the north york consumer the north york mirror oakville beaver oshawa this week oshawa this weekend the richmond hillthomhiu liberal the scarborough consumer the scarborough mirror the woodbridge 4 vaughan news 6402100 3611680 roaming around sunshine returns to town editorials where is there any justice it was back on aug 16 1980 almost one year ago that john turner of rr 2 stouff ville was beaten to death in a brutal gang attack at hamilton place the incident itself was shocking enough the victim only 22 at the time was highly respected in this community however what happened immediately thereafter and in the eleven months since makes one wonder about the laws of this land the attack was witnessed by several persons and a warrant was issued a suspects arrest yet several weeks went by and no arrest was made indeed it was not until george everett mclntyre gave himself up that anyone was taken into custody now this newspaper has learned that the same george everett mclntyre is still in prison awaiting the selection of a trial date which may not occur until fall what gives from a distance the whole matter has an unsavory smell that we dont like first no police on location when the attack occurred second no arrest takes place until the suspect turns himself in and third a year will have gone by before a date for trial is set the question we asked before and are asking again is are hamilton police and the courts dragging their feet on this case because the victim was a resident somewhere outside that city it would seem so regardless it would be safe to say that had john vernon turner been a hamilton city police constable action would have been much more swift at this point in time were wondering if the case will ever come to trial at all postmaster in tough spot because a postmaster and mail delivery or lack of it go handinhand stouffvilles gary fisher has borne the brunt of criticism related to the inconvenience locally brought about by the current strike while many of these remarks are said in jest some are not these complainants are deadly serious to those who arent aware a postmaster is not part of the strike scene he or she is management an employee quite apart from the laborsquabbles currently going on the fact the stouffville post office is closed wasnt fishers idea either it was his desire to keep it open and at least provide a local service however the government said no feeling we suppose that with toronto distribution centres under lock and key there would be no reason to continue operations here while the shutdown is inconveniencing many people and businesses including this newspaper we have no alternative but to ride out the storm in the meantime an area of the town municipal buuding has been transformed into an emergency post office for the distribution of government cheques including family allowance cheques and old age pensions here again fisher is caught in a bind for the sorting of these is his respon sibility a tremendous chore that must be completed within sixteen hours hes determined to see it through the responsibility of intown residents is to pick them up no later than friday july 31 otherwise according to our under standing theyll be shipped back to toronto dont say you werent warned and dont blame the postmaster if you respond to the warning too late the wicket closes at 4 pjn while the weather was threatening sunday saturday was for the most part fair and warm this was to be expected for sunshine himself was m town it wouldnt dare rain on such an occasion for natives of stouffville sunshine needs no introduction hes been stopping off here for the past 35 to 40 years maybe longer during jaunts across the country however the community and its residents have changed considerably during this period anton theadore nielsen 78 in september has lost many of the close friends who made him welcome back in the 40s 50s 60s and 70s folks like levi forsyth dr wa sangster avc nolan th paisley and shine davis no longer can he walk down the street and call out a cheery how are ya to every second person he meets yes stouff ville has changed the town a little the people a lot because of this sunshine discovered most of his old haunts along main street were different some in appearance and most in personnel so he headed for the likeliest place to find a familiar face one of the local restaurants there a kindly lady took him by the hand and helped him across the road to the newspaper office as luck would have it i was in i couldnt believe my eyes when i saw him at the door just out of hospital in victoria he said he had wanted to see stouffville one last time he was planning he said to visit friends at forest ont and was in need of a place to spend the night i told him hed be more than welcome to stay with us providing he could put up with six kids a dog and two ducks a quick call to my wife confirmed the reser vation anton theadore nielsen is without doubt one of the most amazing men ive ever met as difficult as it may be to believe he can recite places and dates going back to his arrival in canada even to the telephone numbers of the first three people who em ployed him here he can spin tales- of his hitchhiking travels across the country thousands upon thousands of miles that would fill a large book bom in hull england sept 12 1903 sunshine was one in a family of six at an early age he anu three others were placed in an orphanage then at age 16 years and four months was shipped like a bag of flour from england to canada arriving in halifax and not knowing a soul a farm agent found him a job near forest where he worked a twelve hour day for seventy dollars a year he remained there eighteen months in the years since hes accepted just about any kind of work that would come along from washing and waxing cars to cleaning windows and scrubbing floors for eleven straight years he served as santa claus in a shopping plaza at pt claire out side montreal between jobs he travelled back and forth across canada including eleven trips from montreal to white horse in the yukon on one such trip a us motorist took him from cranbrook bc to white horse a distance of close to 2000 miles on two occasions one year apart he received a ride from the same driver ive ridden m every make of car except a rollsroyce he says and met a lot of wonderful people one time he dropped into a little country church somewhere in alberta following the service a family in the congregation invited him to their place for dinner and they by jim thomas travelled the distance by horse and sleigh weve been friends ever since he said on another occasion he stopped into a restaurant in what was then fort william and ordered toast and coffee however he was treated to a fullcourse breakfast courtesy a couple of police officers who happened to be sitting nearby some experiences havent been nearly so pleasant twice in montreal he was knocked down by cars and ended up in hospital near capreol he slept one night in a bush at twelve below zero and froze both his feet i had only five dollars in my pocket and i needed that for food he recalled many times he said a single chocolate bar was a meal sunshine likes to look back on the good things that have happened to him over the years the many kindnesses of many people high on his appreciation list is the late jack smith of richmond hill for many years the member of parliament for this riding whenever a crosscountry trek took him to ottawa hed always drop in at jacks office in the parliament building where a welcome was sure to await him the name sunshine how did it originate one of the hardy boys he remembers he gave it to me and it stuck and itll long remain in the memory of our family the man who came to dinner and stayed to spend the night anton theadore nielsen spreading sunshine whereever he goes his kind should live forever anton theadore nielsen editors mail shocked dear editor i was shocked and saddened to walk through the stouffville park on the way to the pool thursday morning and see the destruction mat had occurred there over night what satisfaction anyone could gain from tearing out flowers and damaging equipment goes beyond my understanding it indeed must be discouraging for town employees to try so hard to make the area attractive and then see it vandalized in such a manner i must commend the staff for the job they did in cleaning up the mess repairing the equipment and replanting the flowers on friday morning there was little evidence that anything had happened lets hope it doesnt happen again sincerely pauline murpby manitoba street stouffville