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p4 fiafeunef novelvibert 1993 i st stouffville comment trash issue will not soon go away a sigh of relief was let loose last week at the iwas announcement of dumpsites for those commu nities not directly affected by a dump in their back yard but the sigh may be short lived and that goes for this area as well even though we were not on the dumpers short list we will al be impacted by these mega- dumps in peel york and durham we can only hope that a new provincial gov ernment will put a stop to it and proceed with more sen sible and viable options like japanese compression tech niques rail hauling or incin eration in the meantime we can only sympathize with those communities selected to bear the gtas mounting pile of trash ws tme onle vluo bought wis at its wi viw is imw9i firewood may be new growth industry t magine the look on the faces of our ancestors if we told them we paid the equiva lent of an average workers pay for the week on firewood i bought firewood for the first time in my life last weekend meaning to say i actually paid for some and while i had a rel ative clue as to the amount of wood i would be getting i was quite stunned by the prices not to say that my man wasnt competitive in fact he was below many firewood peo ple i called and he delivered it in fine style and with eager promptness but it seems almost surreal to pay upwards of 250 or 300 for a bush cord of wood of course i am spoiled i used to get my wood up north where a bush cord ran 60 and a face cord could be had for 10 if you loaded it yourself 15 if they did it for you of course there are plenty more firewood salespeople in southern ontario and i am pretty sure that they all origi nally came from up north you see if you really want to make some money in this day and age get into firewood since there hasnt been a decent grove of trees standing in these parts since john graves simcoe was the chief treefeller people have been short of firewood and what with these million dollar homes in the area with their multi tude of woodstoves and fire places demand is high that is why a bush cord of minute with mair wood in this town will cost you 80 there are about 170 logs in a bush cord or about two weeks worth if you have a decent fire every night for a couple of hours now these smart northern ontario boys have come down here to take orders for all these fireplaces then they run back up north on the weekend and with a hefty 16inch chain saw root through the bush and chop up some tidy profits it costs them 40 in gas wear and tear on the truck and they have a nice little sideline for eight months of the year bully for them of course 7 dont like paying the firewood boys especially after spending my whole life looking at trees just ripe for the picking i am adjusting to the price structure though and was thankful to have the wood this past weekend with it being so damp and miserable here is a tip for those who have recently come into posses sion of a woodstove or a fire place pay the man to stack the wood for you one hundred and seventy logs may not sound like much until you have to pick them up and put them in neat little rows there is a true skill to this and i have yet to learn it in fact i restacked my pile sever al times on the weekend before i actually got it to stand up straight without rolling into an avalanche of bark and sawdust heres another tip wear safe ty boots i sport a rather wonderful shade of purple on one of my toes thanks to a big chunk of birch ill have my revenge on that errant log tonight as i keep the homefires burning stouffville tribune publisher general manager editorinchief advertising director business manager operations manager patricia pappas andrew mair jo ann stevenson debra weller vivian oneil pamela nichols staff reporters tracy kibble julie caspersen roger belgrave photographers sjoerd witleveen sieve somerville real estate joan marshman classified doreen deacon debbie amundson uxbridge retell sales joan marshman doreen deacon 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6402100 6405477 fax 3fa an assembly to remember xju hen i visited my daughters t school last thursday morn ing i found myself reduced to tears i was there to watch one of the grade 8 classes perform a dramatization about the devas tating effects of war which was being presented as part of the schools remembrance day assembly without warning the lights in the gym were doused a univer sal signal for mayhem among any selfrespecting student audience throughout this per formance however you could have heard a pin drop as the drama onstage was played out the actors were dressed entirely in black from time to time the dimly lit stage explod ed with flashes of light accom panied by ominous rolls of thun der to underline the specific horrors of war with stark effec- kates corner tiveness one student read a poem the others acted it out to an eerily sombre musical score and unless grade 8 students have changed incredibly since my school days one might have expected them to feel uncom fortable with such openly emo tional scenes instead they performed with an eloquence and understand ing beyond their years creating an immensely moving and har rowing portrait of a situation we hope they will never have to face themselves a mother and daughter were dragged to the gas chambers in a concentration camp a letter was delivered to a young woman with the chilling words we regret to inform you a mother hugged her baby as the narrator informed us that the father would never return to know his child it was powerful stuff one teacher told me afterwards that in all his years of teaching he had never been so moved by a student performance its easy to forget as people fret about escalating crime and outofcontrol youth that most young people care deeply about the world they live in and want to do everything in their power to preserve what they have teacher bill mcmahon and his students made that fact abun dantly clear last thursday if we really mean to give peace a chance its hard to imagine a better way of getting the mes sage across