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Stouffville Tribune (Stouffville, ON), April 14, 1993, p. 4

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p4 tribune aprid1411993 st stouffville say what you will about ken y ou can say what you like x about ken prentice the mathminded councillor in ward 6 but you cant fault him for trying to keep the towns affairs in line however he is running into some rather serious roadblocks in the towns bureaucracy he is also not making many friends on council with his constant attacks on the pro cess and while many feel he is trying to hamstring the process with needless cau tion and delays he should be praised for his tenacity who can blame him for being angry that council passed a resolution banning a single member of that august body from obtaining specific information without the remainder of councils assent the council has always tried to silence pren tice but apparently he can still be heard through the gag friends are hitting thebaby name books vjit hats in a name y quite a lot apparently friends of ours who are about to bring another life into the world have been hitting the library pretty hard these days neither mother nor father- to- be have a clue what they will tag their child with when it finally appears so baby name books have been their main source of entertainment these last few months in desparation they called this week to see if kim and i had any ideas not that we are a font of knowledge when it comes to baby names its just that this couple helped us name our first cat so i think they felt they owed us the chance to assist in their dilemma i sug- gested snickers has worked well for us but they foresaw problems in the school yard in years to come with such a mon icker in a world of ashleys megans jennifers justins dylans and brandons this couple wanted something different of course five years ago the aforemen tioned names were quite radi cal what ever happened to names like joyce or pearl or hilda or phil or ed or lou the language is always chang ing but it seems names change with each passing tv season if storm bumps off chelsea on all minute with mair an are w ma if my restless nights to live the number of storms in the world drops dramatically this couple does not watch the afternoon soaps however so they turned to us to see if we knew of any unusual names ha i said ive known people with the strangest names on earth i have a friend who was dubbed krash at birth ive known a roger rogers a smithers smith and a fern fearn i have known a gibby a jiggs and a flem none of these appealed to the young couple particularly in an effort to be of some help we suggested they proceed with caution so the first name went well with the last my wifes maiden name is white and she had the misfor tune of having dec 25 as her birthday in the heady mixed up world of the sixties her par ents were set on the name christmas until someone point ed out she would be plagued for the rest of her life with requests to sing the irving berlin song she was named for my inlaws then lent serious consideration to carol holly and garland parents can be even more cruel i know a couple named teed who were blessed with twins the medication obviously hadnt worn off when their mother named the two newborn boys warren and garren i expressed this concern to my friends but i dont know if they will heed the warning theyre quirky and with a last name like fisch the possibilities are dangerous 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 juse caspersen roger belgrave photographers sjoerd wittoveen sieve somecville real estate joan marshman classified ooreen deacon debbie amundson oxbridge retail sales joan marshman doreen deacon heather hill gibson uxbridge distribu tion ariene maddock canadian publications mail sales product agreement 439010 published every wednesday by metroland printing publishing and distributing at 9 heritage rd markham ontario l3p 1m3 tel 2942200 the stouffville tribune published every wednesday at 6244 main st stouffville is one of the metroland printing publishing and distributing group of suburban nowspaoors which includes ajaxpickerlng news advertiser aurora banner barrio advance brampton guardian burlington post colllngwood connection etoblcoke guardian georgetown independentacton free press kingston this week lindsay this week markham economist sun midland express milton canadian champion mlsslssauga news newmarket era banner north york mirror northumberland news oakvllle beaver orillfa today oshawa- whltby this week peterborough this week richmond hluthornhlllvaughan liberal scarbor ough mirror and uxbridge tribune national sales representative metroland corporate sales 4931300 6402100 6405477 fax new outlook on life for my son t ts official my son is taller than me one of the most annoying things about being female in a family of giants is that sooner or later those of the male persua sion overtake one in stature take my younger brother my brother was one of natures unexpected little miracles born 11 and a half months after me by the time my mother was five months pregnant she could no longer ignore her condition she went to the doctor who since it was the dark ages was male and infuriatingly conde scending im pregnant she said without preamble of course youre not youre still feeding your daughter whatever gives you the idea that youre pregnant replied the great man with a smugly pater nalistic smile something kicked me kates corner kal e d e r d ale snapped my mother all i can say is its lucky for her that my sib ling started his prenatal soccer practice before his shoe size shot off the richter scale at first i passed all my mile stones well ahead of my pesky brother but by the time we reached adolescence i had to stand on a chair to assert myself i got stuck at five foot five while he shot up to a giddy six feet four you could have rescued the entire crew of the queen mary in one of his shoes his arms were always too long for his shirts which hung untidily outside his pants because kg could jieyec jfowlany long enough to accommodate his gangly frame his pants dangled j just above the ankle bone giving him a curiously waiflike appeai ance for all his height he was as skinny as a rail and about as bel ligerent as mr rogers nevertheless he was always getting into friendlies as he called them a friendly was a fight in which the participants rolled about the grass in unarmed combat even though they bore each other no particu lar illwill nowadays male bond ing experts and michael kauff- man call it inappropriately aggressive behavior back then it was called boys will be boys but all the reeducation in the world cant wipe that superior smile from my sons face as he looks down at his poor old mother with the triumphant air of one who is no longer vertically chal lenged

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