The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

stoufjviue suntribune thursday may 18 j in the late 1950s live stock auctions were a saturday morning tradi tion at the stoufrville market shown are ralph faulkner second from left and walter atkinson right during a sale of sheep calves pigs and chickens photos courtesy marion wells in 1952 stouftville market owner walter atkinson and a work crew built the original cow palace using the wood and beams from 11 barns that he had demolished in scarborough the cow palace where livestock auctions were held for many years was torn down in 2002 and the current new building constructed market of memories the stouffville market will close next year it was announced this week heres a look back at the stouffville landmark livestock nhlers called it home 1952 walter atkinson builds the original cow palace for saturday morning auctions ven dors start selling their wares shortly after livestock auctions become popular 1982 norm clements becomes a partner in the mar ket which until then was owned by norm faulkner and frank bennett- national sports which mr clements founded in 1963 comes to the market 1990 mr clements and norm faulkner become business partners 1997 charity bingo begins a short run in the new market auditorium the 1990sthe market tries to introduce shows such as elvis tribute artists car dog and gar den shows rv shows and oth ers ronnie hawkins and prairie oyster performed nhlers and soap stars made appearances an antique market is attempted 2002 the original cow palace is demolished and activi ties move to the auditorium 2007 market scheduled to close hannelore volpe