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p41wbune july sll st stouffville rec centre flooring a positive step t he rec centre just might get the flooring it so desperately needs last week council at first nixed the idea of having a removable floor for the centre but before chamber of commerce president larry rogalski could leave the room the vote was reopened when newlyelected councillor stephen bellerby changed his tune the cost is quite high but in order to make full use of this facility when the ice is in and when it is not the town must purchase this flooring events like the annual home show and like this weekends reunion celebrations facilitate the need for such a floor the chamber should be lauded for spearheading the drive to get a removable surface for the arena and council too has earned high marks for making a tough spending decision it is a positive step toward continued development of first rate facilities for the town mevls -1teh- minimum wage uppet0l6 motherhood calls me from appointed duties well its time to close my note pad power off my computer and put down my pen itvtime to close my camera bag and unhook my phone im temporarily retiring as a journalist and launching a new career motherhood it will soon be time to feed change cuddle love and adore a new baby yes the days of a full nights rest are soon to be over or so my dear friends with children keep telling me with a broad and knowing smile the days of conversing with intelligent adults and debating the worlds troubles will soon be nothing more than goo goos and gaa gaas and my father keeps telling me ill be bored soon enough and will be dying to return to whitchurch- stouffville and to the tribune im sure hes right he usually is everyone keeps telling me ill be glad to return to work just so i can have a vacation from what taking care of a small infant cant be that much work is it i mean so what if i have to get up four times a night i dont have to go to work in the morning how hard can it be to feed a baby and keep him relatively happy for a couple of hours before he falls to sleep again i mean little babies sleep most of the time dont they why is everyone mostly women kibbles bits r laughing and shaking their heads i guess ill find out soon enough what being a rookie mom is all about in the meantime im sure there are many people out there who are thrilled to see my leave good riddance kibble they are saying to them i say ill be back sorry some of my readers im sure will miss me and to them i say ill be back x fact just so i wont miss work too much ive decided to compare each days routine as a mother to my days as a journalist in stouffville sort of a friendly reminder of work for- example when my kid wails at the top of his lungs ill naturally think of my editor but instead of filing a story to shut him him ill stick a soother in his mouth silence a deadline successfully met and when my darling child spits up all over my sleeve ill of course think of town council margot jim fran nick wayne doug and stephen why i cant explain the two just seem to fit together when my kid is happy and playful and full of smiles ill think of scooping jim masonthe sweet satisfying feeling of nailing your competition can only be compared to a babys smile ill miss you stouffville youve become my community although i live in jacksons point georgina i think of stouffville as my town i merely live there but i get involved here i know the issues here and i care about what happens here and if i could afford the property id move here but untilthen ill see you all in march im sure life at home will be a piece of cake it will wont it stouffvilleuxbridge tribune publisher editorinchief editor advertising director business manager promotionsdistribution mgr operations manager patricia pappas jo nn stevenson andrew mair debra weller vivian oneil jennifer hutt pam nichols staff reporters tracy kibble enzo oi matteo julio caspersen photographers sjoerd witleveen sieve somervwe boat estate joan marshman retail sales sieve 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4931300 6402100 8529741 awning saved the party day we threw a party recently and from what people have told me since i wish i could have been there i spent the first hour or two offering people drinks and showing them outside to meet the rest of the mob much of the remainder of the evening was taken up with searching for my own beverage i know i put it here somewhere and arranging food artistically on tables all the while keeping a sharp eye out for our opportunistic and permanently hungry cat the true star of this sparkling soiree was the awning which we borrowed from some obliging friends at around 1030 the heavens opened and the throng on the lawn watched in fascinated awe from beneath the roof as lightening struck and thunder rumbled i must have forgotten to ask someone i reflected as a particularly impressive clap of thunder crackled kates corner menacingly in the night air by the time i was readyto boogie most people had gone home but the awning was still standing and so were we sitting under it was a lot more fun than putting it up its said that you learn from experience but unfortunately such homey wisdom runs like water off a ducks back when it comes to my old man he insisted the two of us could erect this contraption unaided completely disregarding a wealth of evidence to the contrary supplied by previous illfated projects he had already assembled the frame two 14 foot poles with a large and heavy centrepiece over which the cover had to be draped the entire edifice was extremely top heavy and when we had it halfway to its destination it sort of slid away from us and crashed onto a planter my husband didnt say anything but it was not the kind of silence one could describe as golden clearly someone had let go and it wasnt him we rounded up more suitable help from the neighborhood and it was up in a gratifyingly short time i wont go into the dismantling of it but i do have scars to prove that once again we went the we can do this by ourselves route it was a terrific party so well attended that i had to leave the house on two subsequent tuesday afternoons to avoidlhe embarrassing crash of bottles outside my front door when the recycling truck arrived we gave a similar party five years ago and we had been asking ourselves why we waited so long to do it again now i remember