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p4 weekender february 28 1987 weekender talk dispells aids scare a disease that has no cure can cause fear and hysteria and the best panacea is knowledge a spokesman from york region health office visited stouffville high school this week to talk ab out aids apparently a student asked staff for more information the message was a reassuring one that aids seems to be con fined to homosexuals bisexuals people taking drugs from con taminated needles and the offspring of aids carriers however smug media hype such as that which surrounded rock hudson liber- ace and a recent toronto prosti tute is irresponsible people can easily become preoccupied with the potential for a fullscale epidemic yet the fact is that casual contact probably does not cause aids for now only two or three cases of aids exist in york region no children and since november 1985 red cross tests blood for the aids antibody at the present time smoking kills far more people every year than aids yet theres less con cern better the devil we know jo ann stevenson where have all the milkmen gone the story on the front page of the people section of last sun days star goodbye mr milk man told of a grizzled whis keysipping milk delivery man about to retire after 40 years of stellar service to his clientele in torontos rosedale the article left me with a nos talgic lump in my throat for cec goodman wasnt just any milk man he was our milkman for the 20 years it took mom and dad to raise 5 milkguzzling kids back in the days when lifes pace was a little slower when neighbour hoods were just that neighbour hoods when an area like north rosedalesouth leaside was like a small town unto itself in fact i believe that the reason so many people from the big city flock to the rural shelter of york region is to try to rediscover that feeling of residential intimacy the big cities were once able to pro vide before we became obsessed with rapid transit and moving for the sake of moving from where i live btuc stal2ly cec goodman gives the type of service that can only be described as small town the sort of thing that is usually enjoyed today only by those of us who live in a country setting everyone in our family has their own vivid recollections of cec or boxer as we called him on our street because of how he used to put up his dukes to play fight with our dog here was a man who became an institution to those whose lives he was a part of he epitomized the imperfect legendhero that wo mitchell loves to write about in his stories of growing up out west cec was never squeakyclean he loved a little drink and ill never forget those saturday afternoons when his truck would idle in front of our house for an hour or so while he and dad would down a few beers around the kitchen table for mom cec was always there to lend a hand like the time a rat set up camp in the garbage box just behind the house cec finished him off in short order and there was the time he sawed off the bottom of the christmas tree so mom could put it in the stand heck he even unstuck the zipper on her dress once when she was in a frantic rush to make an appointment on time not the type of job she gave to just any door-to- door pedlar of questionable in tent mind you but cec wasnt the kind of milkman about whom those kind of jokes were made he could always be counted on to join our road hockey games for brief moments and some of us can even remember the days when his horse drawn milk cart was so eagerly anticipated by the kids on the block but above all else the man tru ly loved his work and how many people can say that after deliver ing milk doortodoor for 40 years in this way cec has some thing we are all striving for but so few achieve peace of mind he never bought the treadmill ticket most of us so eagerly snap up the one that entitles you to race fran tically after more and more money a higher position on the corporate ladder and the nicest toys on the market cec managed to find the elusive ideal a job that becomes a vital part of your very being he was needed very much appreciated and he knew it his care and con cern for those who paid him his daily bread was genuine and sin cere he always had time to chat to help out or to play by nature a very sociable man so great with kids it saddened me to hear that cec a father of 4 had been separated for 15 years and was now living by himself in an apartment in scarborough however when he retires this spring he intends to steer his old milktruck eastward and head down to live with his kinfolk in the maritimes i can only hope that he is able to spread the same love and good cheer among the people waiting for him back home as he was able to do in these parts thanks boxer for being part of the foundation of a childhood so rich in precious memories i can only hope that my kids can look back at someone like you when they grow up for in todays world real heroes seem to be a little harder to come by conomistsun the tribune weekender bruce annan publisher 9 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