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p4 twbune7une 30 1995 st- stouffville this years citizen a natural choice f ongratulations to the v 1993 citizen of the year margaret britton exempli fies all the traits that first inspired this award now more than a dozen years old in the past citizens have been awarded the prize for their volunteerism a special achievement and contribu tions to the town in the 1993 recipient we have all of these qualifica tions and more the response from those who nominated margaret brittonwas quite remark able almost every nomina tion contained a full list of accomplishments and each successive entry had a new reason for her selection whether it be her work with mobility transit mul tiple sclerosis the hospital hospice or her community projects in her own back yard we are truly lucky to have a citizen in our midst like margaret britton mi st closed tb traffic to awo a straubbfflf jam mi naming the universe a big task indeed c o you want to be famous k heres a surefire way to achieve the notoriety you think you deserve and it does nt cost more than the price of a postage stamp no im not talking about winning millions using the marvin fine method this is much more esoteric it seems there is a new con test to rename the birth of the universe it seems that the old term the socalled big bang has been deemed too ugly and is a disrespectful name for the universes genesis the contest sponsored by sky telescope magazine offers no prizes other than the fame that would come from naming the start of it all the contest organizers have given nomenclaturists until aug 31 to come up with a new name that hardly seems appropri ate two months to come up with a name for the start of every thing it took four billion years to figure out that something hap pened at all and now they are giving us the summer to give it a proper and just handle why just perusing the the saurus for appropriatelylarge words would take the better minute with mair part of a weekend around the office some sug gestions were tossed back and forth what the heck was that labor day first night and the politicallycorrect premier selfgeneration none of these are prizewin ners i am sure but to name the start of it all is a goal worth seeking the big bang was coined in 1950 when sir fred hoyle used the term in a bbc radio interview it stuck now the astronomers want a new name but will they change it again in 30 years and another thing how does hugh downs host of abcs 2020 rate as a judge the magazine has hired hugh and carl sagan to pick the best name shouldnt these tasks be the responsibility of the united nations or the world court or the world bank someone a little more impor tant than hugh downs please like ronald mcdonald maybe or bill cosby one more thing if the gene sis of the universe was a big bang but there was no one there to hear it did it make a noise send your entries to big bang challenge box 9111 belmont mass 02178 stouffville tribune publisher general manager editorinchief advertising director 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was he bringing home a strange man but he was within 20 minutes of the little house on main street for a few fevered moments i reviewed the various disaster kates corne k a f e- o e r ci a l g areas in a vain effort to decide where i should begin to effect some sort of order out of chaos then i gave up if paul that was our guests name were to become a friend he may as well get used to the mess if not he could probably endure one night in the pit before returning to his montreal sanctuary apart from removing various items of clothing from beneath the futon on which he was to sleep and divesting his bedside table of several days worth of pop cans and candy wrappers i elected to leave the rest of the mansion au naturel dont take him upstairs i warned my husband darkly even before paul and i were officially introduced naturally my better half ignored my words of wisdom and took paul directly into the war zone fortunately our guest was charming and gamely appeared not to notice the muddle as he made admiring noises about whatever decor was still visible beneath the piles of comics books and clothes ignoring the dust balls under the settee and the cobwebs on the ceiling we repaired to the pub for a reviving beer and a delicious meal and my equilibri um quickly reasserted itself still the old man would do well to heed that oftquoted philosopher anon nothing annoys a woman so much as havingfriends drop in to find her house looking asit usually does