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page 2 the tribune thursdav june 25 1970 established 1888 wt wna c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 54 main st stouffville ont tel 6402101 single copies 15c subscriptions 5x0 per 3 mr in canada 750 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0s96 editorial drop- in centre dropped it was back on april 26 that a meeting in the town of aurora fully endorsed the operation of dropin centres as a means of combatting the drug problem so prevalent in some communities within york county the village of stouffville was well represented at this gathering both adults and young adults indicating an interest in the program but that was seven weeks ago and to our knowledge very little has happened since the responsibility for setting up a student committee was left with the students once organized its members were to meet with council and arrange for the use of high school facilities no meeting has yet been held while originally we were somewhat pessimistic concerning the numbers of young people who would utilize such a centre a survey in may showed over whelming support of this program this should have been convincing enough to get something started school is out this week this means according to complainants that dozens of kids for the next two months will have nothing to do while this free time attitude may be difficult for most adults to un derstand sufficient numbers were interested enough to help get the project going but the onus was placed squarely on the young people themselves to put the wheels in motion this was what they wanted but the time is getting late soon it may be too late for the centre and some of its supporters too a nononsense council there is rapid deterioration within the ranks of stouffvilles municipal council we have observed it visiting ratepayers the few that do attend have noticed it too and commented on it this attitude is unfortunate for if ever a nononsense nose-to-the- grindstone approach to problems was needed its now particularly with the villagetownship merger only six months away but the desire and enthusiasm so apparent in previous years is ab sent why the change we can suggest two reasons first the personal approach is gone decisions made for stouffville today are for stouffville- whitchurch tomorrow the letdown is psychological as members go through the motions of serving two masters they are as caretakers or trustees until the expanded regime takes over but this should not be while the groundwork must be laid for the governmentimposed regional system in 1971 stouffville council is still serving the interest of stouff ville taxpayers and let no man lose sight of this fact in the same way a similar suggestion holds true in whitchurch members terms of office did not conclude with the mckeough an nouncement may 6 nor will they end on the date of area elections oct 5 the calendar year extends through to dec 31 and until that time arrives a 100 percent effort is expected from everyone potential candidate or not while there is a solution to the first problem to the second there is not it occurred when bill parsons declined reelection last december his experience on council has been missed on many occasions we disagreed with opinions expressed by the former deputyreeve but at the same time we always respected his willingness to take a stand more councillors of this kind are required e djto rs njailj dear sir we are delighted to report that once again the red shield appeal has been an outstanding success mr david a lewis campaign chairman announces that the ob jective of 998000 has been ex ceeded thank you and god bless you is the wish and prayer of the salvation army now that the campaign has been successfully brought to a close so many people helped and now so many can be helped through such generosity and cooperation the contribution of the stouffville tribune in supporting the red shield appeal has featured largely in this success on behalf of commissioner cd wiseman the officers and workers of the salvation army we express very sincere thanks for your interest and wonderful support sa mundy lieut colonel campaign director dear editor although a new softball season is already underway my letter has very much to do with last year on behalf of the claremont girls softball club i would like to thank everyone who helped in so many ways to make the season of 1969 so successful a softball team must meet ex penses if they cant it will not survive long we had expenses and thanks to the many people and organizations in the community ours were met this was due mainly to assistance from the legion ladies auxiliary the lions club the firemen gord taylors marine and mr and mrs al robertson with the money we purchased baseballs and bats as well as new jackets the ladies auxiliary also entertained us with a banquet where beautiful individual trophies were presented we also thank you the tribune for the coverage provided us throughout our orsa playoffs and the fine championship photo all was much appreciated last but not least we thank the people for their support to play before bleachers filled with fans helped us greatly in our successful bid for the championship many folks attended every game even those played out of town it is our hope that the cup cherished so much by the club can be retained another year for claremont lenora mckenzie coach dale devitt treasurer dear sir a thought the cart before the horse im thinking of pollution every pathetic phase air water we of the markham area have raised 30000 on a march for union villa thats very commendable i contributed 10 happily cheer fully proudly now we are building a centre for handicapped children again i say wonderful ill help all i can however what good are these projects if sewage is still being poured into waterways markham unionville and stouffville have this terrible problem we help people with one hand and kill them with the sugar and spice oh for the life of a teacher by bill smiley show me a teacher in june and ill show you a character with a crumpled shirt a wrinkled brow and a desperate look in his eyes his spirit is treading the lush green of the golf course his inward eye is contemplating the dark swirl of water under a log in a trout stream and his winterfat pudgy body is there in the classroom which is more like a steam bath room temperature 90 degrees before him loll about 30 students eyes glazed minds turned to other how about a walk to raise money for suitable drainage and sewage systems second thought the word ethnic i am a canadian i was born in canada of russian and french parentage i resent being referred to as an ethnic i am not an ethnic i am a canadian this word i feel sure was devised by white anglo- saxon protestants to drive a wedge deeper between europeans on both sides of the english channel this lousy foul word encourages the italian people to band together in tight little groups it is a form of protection and in these tight little groups they retain all their european customs including language these people can contribute to canadian culture not by remaining a tightfisted unap proachable band but by putting forth an effort to learn the language of canada english and the same goes for the french the ukranians the doukabors the fins the lat vians and germans i do not object to people teaching their children another language in fact im all for it i know two besides english but in our house english comes first lily c brooks markham hits big time rick mcleish of sunderland and rick mcleish of boston are one and the same the hardball hurler has been picked up in the nhl draft and could possibly see action with bobby orr and company this coming season money talks some throat and cough syrup firm is missing the boat by not acquiring the sales promotion service of auctioneer alvin farmer of gor- mley mr farmer had three sales on three successive days last week june 18 the estate of the late arthur brown boyer street june 19 the effects of leslie wideman and the late suzannah wideman main street east and june 20 a private collection of antiques the property of mrs mervin bunker altona contrary to reports alvin did not sing a solo at the morning service in the gormley missionary church sunday something important like a swim or a joyride or just lying in the sun chief difference between them is that the kids are arrayed in their coolest- while he adhering to some ancient and ridiculous tradition quietly steams in his swaddling of shirt and tie jacket and trousers the students are there only because they have to stick around to write lasthope tests and find out whether theyve been promoted or have to write the finals the teacher is there only because somebody in his infinite wisdom has decreed that school will continue until a certain day in june its not exactly what we in the socalled professions jargon call a good learning situation someday someone with some common sense is going to close the schools on the first day of june and open them on the first day of august june is a month for joy in canada not imprisonment in a sauna bath the days are long the mosquitoes havent really found the range and the world is green and glorious by august the sun has lost some of its blast the days are shorter and the first wild lust for the lushness of summer has abated school could run from 7 am to 1 pm and thered still be a decent chunk of a summer day to be enjoyed its not only the heat that makes june rough for teachers its the lastminute panic there are 64 memos from the office telling you to be in three places and doing three different things at the same time or so it seems there are the final exams to set supervise and mark there are marks to be mustered that would murder a mathematician and written down in six different places there are new books to be ordered and old books about 10000 in my case to be sorted and counted and stored and everything is to a deadline that always seems to be yesterday some of the young new teachers find it a traumatic experience something like trying to milk- a cow while looking over your shoulder for the dangerous bull known to be in the same field the oldtimers just get irascible and ignore the bull but who can complain there is the deep satisfaction of knowing that joe dough has passed and somebody else will have to teach him next year that naughty nancy she of the cocky walk and the talky talk has her ring and will be driving nobody crazy next year except the poor simpleton who gave it to her there is the sincere satisfaction of knowing that some of your graduating students will probably contribute a lot more to the world than you have as doctors nurses teachers engineers portraits from the past stouffville reeve ken wagg signals the start of the new roadpaving project on main street it marked the beginning of the end many months of dust dirt and detours the date august 3 1961 jas thomas 4uffc wbuhl the service was simple by jim thomas timmys dead the little guy that for one brief week seven wonderful days brought so much joy into the lives of five children is no more hes gone where all good tadpoles go- its our second sad experience with household pets the first was a canary we called it tessie and a colorful creature it was too while we could never teach it to sing a note the fact that it was an eating breathing being was quite enough but one evening it stopped eating by morning it had stopped breathing it marked the first sad day in our early months of marriage the second was friday barry who had adopted timmy as his very own went out to feed him as was his custom around the supper hour he returned quickly his forehead furrowed and his face a visual expression of deep concern i dont know whats wrong he said hesitatingly timmy wont move i think he must be sick or something while sick he might have been his condition then was long past the recovery stage but how does a father explain death to his seven year old son the realization that a life has ended when for both of them it had really just begun i tried but failed terribly he cried like i was sure his heart would break but you know i sometimes feel that theres a purpose behind such things here for example was one small tadpole whose place in natures social sphere would never advance further than the status of a lowly garden toad but yet its un timely passing had welded our family unit together as no other single incident had ever done before it provided us with a time to stopto thinkabout the ordinary things of life about life itself the burial service was simple and very very private held under the shade of a large chinese elm located in one corner of the backyard the children were all there from the oldest down to the youngest with barry the last to arrive still sob bing his eyes redrimmed for him it was a final parting between friends too final for many months he had urged us to buy him a pet any kind of pet but feathers and fur present allergy problems at our house so much so that even the neighbors dogs and cats keep their distance but a tadpole that was different timmy was accorded a royal welcome but now hes gone placed reverently in a little two by four troweldug trench with a flat water- washed stone for a marker but the memory remains for it was cathy just five who summed it up best for all of us say daddy she said if timmy was a tadpole down here with us ill bet hes a goldfish in heaven tears vanished and smiles shone through prove it todays youth are supposedly very pollution conscious but pollution takes many forms some we see and some we dont on saturday evening several boys dumped a portion of one garbage container in the centre of the sidewalk near the intersection of market and main streets in stouff ville within the space of about five minutes at least a dozen young people came by they walked through it over it and around it but not one was concerned enough to pick it up we did bare spot no the drill didnt run out of grass seed at the base of the mole hill in stouffvilles west end park the bare spot is intentional the new site for a future softball diamond