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i 4 the tribune thursday july x ln cna lht 2trtbune established 18ss ciiakles if nolan publisher w i james thomas associate puuihrr and editor robebt mccausland advertising director published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 54 main st scouffville ont tel 6402101 toronto phone 3611680 single copies 15c subscriptions 600 per year in canada 1500 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian community newspapers association and ont ario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 03s6 editorial recognize our rural hamlets the enlarged town of markham is to be commended for recently recognizing the numerous pioneer hamlets in their rural area council has agreed to have signs erected at these various points bearing the hamlet name whitchurchstouffville should duplicate this move we believe there are about ten such hamlets that should be recognized in a similar manner in years gone by when neither markham nor stouffville boasted over a thousand residents these were all flourishing corner communities each having at least one general store and a church they were the pioneer beginnings of community life in the area and the names have come down through the years and should not be forgotten many are the sites for early burying grounds with stones bearing family names back for a hundred years in most instances the general stores have long since closed down and only a small core of residents remain others such as ballantrae lying in the path of development have greatly enlarged great strides have been made in the last few years all through old ontario to preserve our history this is another inexpensive step which this municipality could take to recognize and preserve our early community beginnings lest they be completely swallowed up by a bursting city we hurt more than we help in the town of whitchurchstouffville the building inspectorbylaw enforcement of ficer has resigned who cares in the twp of pickering the clerk has quit the manager has resigned and an ac countant in the road department is leaving who cares in the region of york many veteran police officers have quit the force to accept other positions at reduced salaries who cares in the town of markham the planning director resigned under circumstances that were never publicly explained who cared the answer to each is no one and while such an attitude may seem cold and im personal it is in fact true no one really cares but should they should the residents demand a fullscale enquiry should this newspaper spearhead a fullscale in vestigation we say no unless the employee feels he or she has been unjustly treated for we have found that when any in dividual is threaded through the wringer of political debate it is the very person the public or newspaper is attempting to help that is more often hurt this newspaper will always be willing to air both sides of such issues but we will not purposely dig out the dirty linen for public consumption at an employees expense this unfortunately is what has happened in pickering to the councils shame editors mail dear jim i have tried to analyize your comments on the subject you titled the bigots still parade for inglorious 12th i can vision you the great unifier of races and religions hurrying to see that inglorious parade of bigots and i guess you took your son along so that he could write your notes as it certainlv addears like a little boys attempt to write about something on which he had not done his homework you are to be commended on taking a good photograph and while you admit that most male eyes were focused on the bearer she was holding high a wonderful banner but then i doubt if your eyes went up that far if a picture was the object of your trip to good wood and you clearly state anything for a picture why did you not spare your son the agony of perspiration dripping off the end of his nose and spend the time in the cool of your own basement leafing with him through the pages of playboy you appear as a self admitted ignorant person as you could not explain to your son what you were watching or what you were about to deliver to the readers is it any wonder that the public is getting disgusted with the ignorant persons who write misin- formed articles in some small newspapers it would certainly waste my time and perhaps yours to try and educate you at this late stage of your writing career you did yourself no service by trying to downgrade an association of people who do not stand for anything you misguidedly painted for the public view i apologise to your son for your ignorance i forgive you for your arrogance may god bless you and we trust that wisdom may come to you one day i remain in contemp joseph t silver rr 3 stouffville editors note youre wrong it wasnt that i couldnt explain what we were watching i was too ashamed to try dear mr thomas is there a group of people anywhere without its quota of quota of bigots this goodwood gawker was deeply wounded by your antiorange antigoodwood column of julv 12 i personally could never have been an orangeman any more than i could be a roman catholic an italian a negro a fun damentalist a latvian a swede a north american indian or a nudist but i am pleased to becontaminated and to allow my children to be contaminated by the colorful traditions of all the religious social and ethnic groups which form the great canadian mosiic perhaps when we have all been con taminated enough we will at last be free of such disparaging terms as newfie frog nigger wop dogan jew boy and hippie meanwhile i would beg you cease adding fuel to fires which barely smoulder here in on tario remember what persecution did for the christians and leave it to tolerance un derstanding and intermarriage to eventually put them out eleanor todd goodwood dear mr thomas i take very strong objection to your roaming around column in the july 12 issue of the tribune the publisher of any paper should know the facts and the true story before printing something that damages other people think again what is a bigot you seem to have no idea what orangemen stand for or why they parade on july 12 or why the black and ladies crystal lodges parade on derry day august 12 the fighting in belfast is not a religious feud do some reading and research and you will find its a political issue from years back the orange order is founded on christian faith their motto is freedom for all favors for none on july 7 1 very proudly wore my orange sash and marched in the parade at port perry with a loyal member on a white horse at the head more than one minister walked in that parade wearing the clerical collar are they also bigots your reference to a local yokel on a spavined gray nag is one no citizen orangeman or not will condone what you observed in goodwood was their lodge marching through town on their way to the annual orange walk in port perry yes they march because they uphold the right of everyone in our country ontario yes stouffville too to exercise the priviledge of worshipping in their own faitn why didnt you explain to your son some of the other things that may contaminate his generation such as drugs drink etc why don t you pay more attention to printing social events of interest to people that is what they want i am not alone in my criticism of your article many prominent people are very annoyed lonie m gamble worthy mistress queen mary loba 204 aurora ont editors note its unfortunate some of the hot heads didnt march themselves into lake scugog to cool off dear editor we would like to thank all the people of the musselmans lake area for their cooperation and generosity in supporting our campaign in aid of the cystic fibrosis association our goal was twenty dollars but we more than tripled this figure once again our thanks to the people of the lake community wendy wigmore chris eldridgc tammy harding karen wigmore bryan witkins kevin wigmore danny wigmore w sugar and spice great to be getting older by bill smiley when i was young and ignorant and life was forever nothing bored me more than old people talking so much about death as soon as my dad received his hometown weekly paper he would flip to the obituaries and read them to my mother interspersing the printed word with comments about the deceased often the latter was a distant cousin or someone father had gone to school with or someone hed worked for as a boy hed recall where the dead person had lived what hed done and some of his peculiarities i couldnt imagine why my mother could be bothered listening she didnt of course she was much too busy bustling around cooking or sewing or doing a wash but she pretended to and would drop in the occasional comment or correct him on a date now that i am old and not quite so ignorant and realize the brevity of our stay i can understand it wasnt a morbidity on my fathers part it was an interest in and awareness of the fact that death comes for us all even for the archbishop he knew it was closing in on his generation quietly but relentlessly i am not about to start reading obituaries as a regular predinner treat but i did read three lately with a since of almost personal loss though i didnt know any of the three involved if thats the word joe e brown the name means nothing to young people today buit it recalled for me saturday afternoon at the matinee almost falling out of my seat from laughing at the antics of this great clown betty grable she was never much of an actress but she was a great hollywood per- dear sir those of the news media have had quite a field day during the last three or four years with regard to the trouble in northern ireland bandying about the word bigot in referring to everyone opposed to the murderous outlawed ira but seldom a word condemning them or their activities now in your column roaming around july 12 you got into the act referring to those in the goodwood orange parade as bigots perhaps the heat was too much for you and ycu should have stayed home however if you had taken the trouble to look back in british history you would have been able to teli your son that those in the parade were celebrating an important victory over the forces of oppression and tyranny and that wc are still enjoying those civil and religious liberties gaincu at that time im tired of newscasters and writers who set themselves up as authorities on everything from bathing beauties to religion remember a person can be so tolerant he can be mistaken for being on the other side think it over and stay out of the sun wellington reid stouffville rr 2 editors note i can stand the heat ob viously some orangemen cant sonality in the days when there were such creatures pinup girl of the western world before the centrepage allnude foldout was dreamed of veronica lake fell half in love with her when i saw her first movie she contrived to look sexy and sinful in the days before bikinis and braless bosoms brown was an old man but grable and lake were in their fifties forgotten by the world but not exauy doddering each had a distinguishing specialty joe e brown had a moth about the size of half a water melon grable had legs that inspired an innocent sort of lust at a time when an ugly exposed navel would have been just that lake wore long blonde hair over one eye half the girls in town went around halfblind trying to emulate her hairdo my feelings of nostalgia were brought to a focus yesterday my wife and i were at the beach she was flat out turning black under the sun as is her wont i was sitting up like a gentleman in a chair carefully covered but still turning red in exposed areas as is my wont near us on the sand was a young couple very handsone with a little boy very bad he was bugging the life out them kicking sand in their faces throwing cold water on their hot dry bodies running off and having to be fet ched demanding that his father do six things at once but he was cute my wife watched then asked nostaligically and tenderly would you like to be young again like that with the little ones i thought carefully for 12 or 13 seconds and replied no i meant it when i look at my flab id like to be twenty even ten years younger when my seed wart is throbbing and my bursitis in the shoulder is burning like acid id like to be thirty years younger but when i think of the agony and the ecstasy of starting all over again raising those kids sanity speaks days at the beach sure but even though watching them like hawks the sud den disappearance of one and the frenzies running up and down searching until the child was found playing with a dog forty feet from the water summer nights in a small town yes until a fouryearold vanished at bedtime and the frantic running around the block calling wildly knowing there was a deep ditch hill of water and the rage when little miss was discovered watching tv next door nope sweating out music festival adjudicators remarks i can do without trying to steer out of drugs and into education i can manage to give up i think i can even sacrifice santa claus parades and riding with tots on the ferris wheel at the midway no i dont want to be young again its too hard on a chap im saving whats left for my grandchildren well walk on the beach and in the woods and ill answer from my pinnacle of ignorance all those impossible questions kids ask and when im stuck ill say go and ask your grannie death where is thy sting grave where is thy victory its great to be getting old well anyway older 4rqunp costs rock concert sponsors by jim thomas the tumult and the shouting dies the captains and the kings depart the remains a living sacrifice two busted bankrolls broken hearts that young folks is my hastily prepared epitaph to stouffvilles first and likely last professional rock concert in the arena saturday night talentwise it was tops financially it was a flop why there are many reasons first the imported talent was too professional too costly this was reflected in the admission the price was too high the teen guy who sports a nifty duster with mag wheels and all the trimmings will still think twice about spending 700 on a night of noise and thats what it was noise out of the elvis era my era and let me tell you kids tastes have changed some since then oh sure some still crave the big beat sound but not enough at least not enough in stouffville the result a disaster i attended saturdays show fully an ticipating an audience in excess of 1000 to my surprise i observed a yawning cavern of empty chairs extending row on row from centre ice back it resembled the interior of some churches on a sunday morning only in reverse here everyone all three hundred of them were seated at the front the police were there and conspicuous mainly due to the smallness of the crowd but they werent obtrusive they didnt need to be the kids at least the ones i saw were orderly but getting back to the festival the music and such whats with the long tall sally and blue suede shoes routine that stuffs dead fifteen years dead belted out on records before some of the shows listeners were even born and one group the programs finale had the nerve to request girls from the floor go through an impromptu dance giration on stage there was no response at a reported 1200 for sixty minutes work they could well afford their own down but not out organizers may try again if they hope to break even or maybe make a dollar i have a couple of suggestions first hire local talent and forget the socalled pros and second with councils okay hold the show outdoors from the amount of refuse scattered about stouffvilles conservation site sunday thats where this concert had its conclusion anyway hu