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mvfcktetoeogjbeff243a87 weekender comment ram may knock on your door hearing the dog bark and a mail box clink is a luxury many mar- kham and stouffville residents are willing to fight for gone is the complacent cana dian when it comes to accepting substandard mail delivery residents against mailboxes ram has organized a we- wont- takeitanymore lobby they believe every canadian should receive the doortodoor delivery he or she pays for with taxes and stamps ram doesnt buy the post office argument that cutbacks such as the supermailboxes are the only way they can meet their mandate to break even not in the face of the far superior us mail which moves the mail effi ciently six days a week and in the uk they actually make money organizer ann derrett is de termined organized and profes sional already rams joined forces with other similar grass root groups across the country and ram has placed the mar- kham stouffville area in good position to be an urban test site for outside contracting of door-to- door delivery ram will take their campaign doortodoor in markham tomor row asking you to write to brian mulroney or to donate vital funds help ram deliver jo ann stevenson selfprofessed stringbean pushes iron as hard as this may be for you to believe i lift weights sometimes yes i can hear it already that 150 pound stringbean lifts weights what are they made of pine like that crummy furniture he says he makes in that clunky old workshop of his well it all started with allen turner the chiropractor like most bone crushers al is obses sed with eating proper foods and making the human body the per fect form it was never intended to be at least not in a soft society like ours where television fills our every recreational need an invite to al and lornas cot tage a few summers back found us tying around relaxing one afternoon bruce how would you like to join me for a work out al asked the slightest touch of cynicism in his voice you mean you want me to go to the kitchen and fix drinks for us al i responded hoping he was from where i live just kidding after all this was supposed to be a holiday he was dead serious out came the weights the bench and va rious other bits of body building paraphanalia how much do you normally lift he asked me as he started to load up the barbells normally al i go over to the couch and snooze when this sort of thing goes on i responded youd be amazed at the effect a little weightlifting can have on your muscle structure al went on hmm i thought maybe there is a muscular jockey thats just waiting for the chance to emerge within this shopkeepers body of mine ten of these for starters al snarled as he dropped the bar bells in my hands these were a little exercise in masochism whereby you lie on your back on the bench hold the weights out on either side of you then attempt to lift them skyward and it only got worse from then on for two hours he inflicted con tinuous pain upon mc the next day he said now its time to do all the muscles we missed yester day i figured id gone this far why not push on the next day when i woke up i thought id been broadsided by a frontend loader noticing my ob vious discomfort al suggested that this be a day of rest i forgot to tell you that youd be a little sore today he apologized af ter a few weeks though if you keep it up it wont be quite as bad i drove home later that day with arms barely able to grip the steeing wheel each attempt to straighten an arm was like post- broken limb physiotherapy there was definitely evidence of muscular improvement howev er but was it worth it i won dered since that initial devastation i have tried to maintain some sort of disciplined schedule with re gards to pumping iron but like all my other good intentions the schedule has become sporadic at best but i store the weights in a prominent place so that i am forced to trip over them regularly enough so as to encourage occa sional use and while my initial dreams of becoming a small bundle of biceps triceps and chest muscles have somehow eluded me i occa sionally succeed in eliciting a less than envious remark from some one who has never been exposed to body building wholl say that for a skinny little guy i dont appear totally without form do you lift weights theyll inquire oh yeah i reply nonchalantly as if to say doesnt everybody so i guess ill always be a frus trated arnold swartzenagger in fact allen turner has taken to calling me arnold everytime he sees me i suppose that there are just no limits to the mans cruelty economistsun the tribune ski weekender bruce annan publisher 9 heritage rd markham l3p 1m3 2942200 4959440 6402100 6492292 published every saturday by metroland printing publishing and distributing at 9 heritage rd mar kham ontario t3p 1m3 tel 2942200 second class mail registration number 1247 the markham economist and sun published every wednesday and saturday at 9 heritago rd markham is one of the metroland printing publishing and distributing group of suburban 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