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p4 tribune april27 1994 st stouffville dont miss the boat g touffville has a train to catch with the arrival of the york durham railway stouffville faces a serious prob lem which must be addressed especially from a business per spective when the train rolls through the passengers will disembark at uxbridge when they return they will get in their cars and leave stouffville in a sense will be the leaping off place but will not benefit from the train unless we do something now to keep visitors in town shopping in our stores boosting our econ omy the first project should be a new station for the town com plete with shops maps and guides to the area the railway association hasnt the funds to complete such a structure so it will be up to the town service groups chambers of commerce and the residents to get togeth er on this project if we dont get on this train well all surely be missing the boat rr those wuo acmm qbjbie in will be n putos w aususto i might have been tracy yzerman tracy yzerman yzers bits mrs stevie yeah dream on right this millionaire athlete proba bly doesnt even remember me or our brief brush with romance more than 10 years ago if i had been more persistent maybe i could have made a stronger impression on a young notyetfamous stevie yzerman you see i was the older woman all of 21 when i met the nowmature handsome commanding brilliant and tal ented captain of the archrival detroit red wings he with his mop of 80sstyle blonde hair and large brown eyes was a mere 17 years old a rookie who had just been drafted from the juniors up to the national hockey league i had just shut off my comput er from the banks adelaide street office building where i worked the afternoon shift and decided to take in some down town to action with my girl friend heather heather attracted hockey players like the sun attracts heat and was currently dating russ courtnell another yuck rookie who had just donned a toronto maple leafs sweater heather and i hopped into her yellow honda civic and headed for pat and marios down by the esplanade the year was 1982 or 1983 i cant quite remember but the events are crystal clear and to this day i smile whenever i see the great sy in action heather a city girl up on all the happenings assured me kibble bits that p and ms would be the place to hang because it was a wellh to wn fact if you were any kind c a groupie that hockey player j would flock there after the nhl awards banquet held that very night we walked into pat marios at about 1130 pm and it was rockin heather excitedly jpursed her glossedup lips and pointed to a plainlooking lanky girl sitting with wow paul coffey thats carol alt heather proudly informed the doehead country bumpkin shes a model and hes an oiler heather ordered us a couple of long island iced teas 450 a crack and we pushed and crammed our way to a section of the bar where russell was standing with this goodlooking guy named steve yzerman if these guys are underage how can they get in here i asked because theyre hockey play ers silly she huffed now i guess you could say ste vie and i hit it off we couldnt dance because it was wall to wall people and we couldnt talk because the music was too loud and i didnt want to spit on him or anything we just stood there and smiled at each other next thing i knew heather was rifling me out of there and steve yzerman was following we were apparently invited to have a nightcap with a few peo ple in one of the players hotel rooms but just as we arrived steve yzermans protective father came running down the hall demanding to the shocked and embarrassed sy you get into your room young man this is no way to become a good hockey player and so ended our shortlived date as it turns out the senior yzerman made all the right moves because his son is a great hockey player stouffville tribune publisher general manager editorinchief advertising director business manager operations manager patricia pappas andrew mair jo ann stevenson debra weller 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