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a4 tribune november 2 1988 editors mail too few its with the greatest respect i write this letter it was printed in your newspaper of oct 26 that a remembrance day service is to be held in the legion hall stouffville nov 6 in my opinion this form of remembrance should be discon tinued there are far too few who want to remember and those who do are also growing fewer in number very impressive ceremonies are held in many of our local schools i believe the legion should be represented at these assemblies at least there the numbers are suf ficient to make the remembrance worthwhile gordon brady ninth line stouffville unfair although now a couple of months past i would suggest many of your readers did not understand what was behind the protest lodged by ron elliott of gormley re the divi sion of the triangle property west of woodbine avenue mr elliott as i understand it felt the people of gormley shouldnt be bound by a bylaw that was initiated with respect to land division at ballantrae and i agree the two areas are as different as night and day alex lieberman gormley s the tribune established 1888 james thomas patricia pappas deborah weller jennifer hutt pubssher advertising manager dstrfcuiion manager editor retail advertising susan berry manager chartes canning real estate classified advertising joan marshman real estate manager dorothy young distribution sandy wteley artene maddock business office manager chrs bertram doreen deacon national sales representative metroland corporate sates 4931300 the stouffvfe hwne pubfched every vajdnesday and saturday at 54 man st swutfvte ont s one ot me metroland pmtng pubfehng dsjtrbutng group ol suburban newspapers which ndudes the acton free press ajax petering news advertiser aurora banner brampton guardian bursngtoo post etobcoke advertiser guar dian georgetown dependent markham economst sun mfton cfiarnpoa mssesauga news newmarket era oakve beaver oshawa whuty ths week richmond h thomhi vaughan lwral scarborough mror tope 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last questions from the floor but even these were fairly tame we make the following observations a second nomination meeting nothwithstanding we consider an atten dance of 200 out of 13555 eligible voters disgraceful thats 15 percent we dont anticipate any more if as many at vandorf tonight affordable housing or lack thereof proved a major issue unfortunately no one had solutions not as far as whitchurchstouffvilles concerned jim sanders ward 6 relayed the ball into the regions court which in our opi nion is where it belongs along with queens park certainly our town can play a part but with only 77 units available on the municipal sewage system that part is minute at best the indoor pool vs town office com plex failed to raise the dust we ex pected don bigioni candidate ward 6 introduced an interesting point when he recommended it be made an addition to the high school few if any questioned were meant to embarrass candidates although the time factor targeted towards wilf morley had tinges of indictment we liked the honesty of all replies on one query mr bigioni admitted simply he didnt know for this he gained respect nick tatone overshadowed rival johan aaltink ward 3 mr aaltink admitted to being nervous and it show ed an errant mike through most of the forum didnt help his cause crawford thomson- a political freshman and mayoralty candidate no less scored aboveaverage marks on his introduction but failed miserably the questionanswer test this was expected there was little to choose between marie adams and doug alles ward 5 and don bigioni and jim sanders ward 6 wilf morley was at his best he spoke clearly and with authority mayoralty incumbent fran sainsbury dropped her defenses ever so slightly on he big pipe issue and morley was quick to score we gave him top marks over all however if the interest and en thusiasm on nov 14 is comparable to the interest and enthusiasm of oct 28 god help our town over the past 40 years ive ex perienced many highs and lows in the field of weekly journalism the lowest of the lows occurred mon day evening oct 24 indeed mf the tribune office had been located on the 25th floor of the sun life tour id have surely thrown myself through the plate glass window onto the street ended everything then and there i kid you not strange as it may seem for a mon day things had gone unusually well i fully expected to be home by midnight or 1 am at the latest jeanll never believe this i said to myself shell think im sick or something certainly the fact i worked both saturday and sunday nights had something to do with it however for some unexplained reason everything had gone together well it was 1045 pm and i had only three pages to go midnight should be a cinch the in audible conversation continued i cant believe it nor should i have believed it for at precisely 1055 pm the phone rang i answered promptly i dont know how to tell you this the voice at the other end drawled hesitatingly but i have bad news very bad news and whats that i responded grip ping the arm of my office chair for support its just that pause pause all your stories are gone he then pro ceeded to explain the mechanics of the catastrophe i listened but in actual fact i wasnt hearing anything the magnitude of he faux pans was far too great to comprehend gone is all i remember replying followed by i cant believe it its true came the unassuring response i only wish it wasnt at this point my head was spinning at a million miles a second i grimaced an uncomplimentary goodbye and slamm ed the receiver down with such force the phone fell on the floor then i collapsed both physically and mentally the whole world that minutes before was a veritable bowl of cherries had come crashing down on my cranium with bonecrushing force and i went limp burying my head in my hands and i cried great tears of agony flowed across my defaulted log book and onto my desk no i dont expect you the reader to understand the depth of my despair its just that one errant flick of a master switch can in a matter of seconds erase everything thats taken hours even days to write thats what happened at markham where all the tribunes computerized stories are channeled unfortunately theres no bypass line to the printing plant to serve as backup when the wipeout occurs its com plete theres no resurrecting that which doesnt exist after the shock waves of suicidal pro portions had passed i began to assess he tremendous work load lying ahead where do i start i wondered from scratch my subconscious replied trouble is in this weird and sometimes bewildering world of jour nalism much of whats written comes from the writers head its not just a case of copying whats already been put wacky witch charmed by halloween angel on saturday afternoon whitchurchstouffville public library held its annual halloween hoot prominent among the hosts was the wacky witch alias sheila mclcod however even her charms were no match for those of a visiting angel alias sara pickering sara age seven lives on aldcrwood crescent stouffville jim thomas on paper no such luck while all earlier items had been sav ed i had to rethink each of my page 1 stories plus whatever others time would allow a monumental task to say the least wife jean offered to help so did son barry a sympathetic bruce stapley the papers dependable assignment reporter even wanted to lend a handj but there was nothing anyone could do supported by three bananas two ap- pies a largesize coke a slab of cheese and a bottle of nonod pills i went to work three oclock four oclock five oclock the earlymorning hours tick ed away and my fingers flicked away by six there was a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel maybe just maybe i mumbled to myself ill make the couriers call at eight and i did more luck than good management somehow i dont know how i managed to stay awake and somehow i dont know how i stag gered back into work at nine but nothing had changed not really you look terrible commented one of the compositors at the printing plantj i always look terrible tuesdays i answered wearily how come you didnt catch that glar ing spelling mistake on page 1 asked a reader wednesday which one i replied despondently what happened to the story about our bazaar enquired a lady somewhat aggitated it was annihilated i answered dejectedly the stories behind those replies i didnt have the heart to explain or the strength but to the library latcham gallery- the schools the churches the clubs all the volunteers who look to the newspaper for muchdeserved publici- ty my apologies your stories were there once but they disappeared gone to dead story land never to return i almost didnt either editors mail on own dear editor parkview village is one of the finest apartment complexes established in the whitchurch- stouffville area seniors residing there must cer tainly be pleased if the government can subsidize this type of project why cant the same kind of accommodation be provided folks at the other end of the age scale in my opinion theyre just as needy maybe moreso i feel our towns seniors are marvellously cared for and so they should be however theres a serious lack of affordable apartments for newlywcds and single parents whos looking after them it would seem they must fend for hcmselvcs sincerely mrs bruce davis aspen crescent stouffville