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4 the trublwethlbsday nov s 113 klna m 4l established 1sss charles ii nolan publisher w james thomas associate publisher and editor robert mccalsjland advertising director published every thursday by inlarrl publishing co limited at 54 main st stoumvule 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 eekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 editorials time to pull together a two million dollar campaign is proposed for whitchurchstouffville that if successful will see the construction of a recreation centre in town a multithousand dollar venture is being considered for whitchurchstouffville that if approved will see the erection of a new public library in town two campaigns where one would do two sites where one would do two committees where one would do complex ves about as complex a problem as any council or committee of council should have to face however despite the political reper cussions that could result someone in authority must take a stand either it must be a library alone or a recreation centre with the library as its first phase two separate projects both at the same time will prove fatal to both its time to bury the hatchet and get on with the work together we favor a consolidated recreation centre phased out over a period of years we feel the library should be a part of this complex the first part and the property should be of sufficient size to permit continued expansion as needs arise that is why the site to the south of the arena will not do its too small much to small the town must look ahead fifty years ahead and plan accordingly more important we must plan together with one thought in mind the best service for the most people at the least cost and a town doesnt accomplish this goal by organizing committees to pull in opposite directions that can only tear us apart retain community spirit this is the age of the handout the government keeps handing it out and the people have their hands out to accept it we complain if we dont get our share and we beef when others do the era of self- motivation for the sake of selfpreservation is all but dead but not quite at least not in the former police village of unionville there they have a sizeable project underway to expand and improve the interior of the crosby memorial arena and whos doing it why the people themselves no begging no jleating for government aid just good old- fashioned hard work mixed with a generous sprinkling of oldfashioned community spirit thats what makes unionville the kind of place it is and always will be you have our support one hundred percent editors mail street made safer dear sir while i do not have my information on authority it is my understanding that cathy joice councillor in ward 4 of whitchurch- stouffville was responsible for having the two stop signs erected on rupert avenue at winona drive if this is so i commend her for this seemingly simple but appreciated safety measure with a straight stretch through from the ninth to westlawn some motorists drove much too fast now theyre forced to stop and i hope the police make sure they do im sure the parents of children who reside in this area are breathing a little easier as an adult pedestrian who uses this street quite often i now feel much safer too mrs sarah kent stouffville rememberthink participate sunday nov ii is remembrance day in whitchurchstouffville and across canada a service in memory of those who gave their uves in two world wars will be held in the legion hall at 230 pm and later at the cenotaph in the town square gift 6ugar and spice yankee takeover in football too by bill smiley a number of deep and troubling questions are puzzling me this fall perhaps if i get them out in the open those stabbing cramps in my stomach will ease off leaves i have six maples and two huge oaks on my front lawn that produces leaves to the knees my neighbour across the street has four maples around his propertv also a fair crop of leaves but nothing like ours my neighbour rakes up his leaves at least his wife does i contemplate mine with a judicious eye waiting for the right moment to strike might as well wait till theyre all down my neighbours are godly and righteous people i am an acknowledged sinner yet every fall about this time we get one of those howling north winds that make you shiver in bed glad youre there i get up the next morning and my front lawn is as clean as the cats dish i look out the other window in dismay and sure enough my neighbours tidy lawn looks like the maple leaf forever my leaves why ive thought this time of telling him he should put up asnow fence but i think id better give him a couple of weeks to cool off and get those leaves raked up there i feel better already getting that off my chest as good as the confessional football in my youth i dearly loved the game played five years in high school two in college before i went off to play another kind of game every night id draggle home in the dark after practice aching in every limb drinking in the sharp fall air completely satisfied during the games there was the heady knowledge that every girl in the school was out there watching you this of course was a twoedged sword you might catch a pass for a touchdown you might also drop it for a red face we had some great teams in high school because our principal was a football nut when i think over the names i have more than a sense of nostalgia half a dozen were killed in the war we didnt have much going for us besides lots of spirit there were about four helmets on the team our uniforms were ragged we made our own pads of felt obtained at the local felt mill some had cleated boots others played in sneakers one of my great thrills was when my big brother took me to ottawa for the grey cup final in those days the grey cup game wasnt the sillyass spectacle it is now with beauty contest marching bands parades and such foofawraw it was serious business you were there to see a football game not to get drunk and make an idiot of yourself you could get good seats for seventyfive cents i sat between two voluble french- canadians who quietly and with dignity passed a mickey of rye 85c back and forth but only to keep off the chill today theyd have a twentysixer each and be glassyeyed by half time it was a great game those were the days of giants bummer stirling who could boot a ball the length of the field bunny wadsworth who was like a tank in the line this day the centre of attention was fritz hanson who was as hard to pin down as a dragonfly but for all his scampering the bigger ottawa team won 76 on the last play at any rate in those days i knew the game from there it was all downhill the yanks took over and as usual we adopted j their terms outside wings became ends middle wings became tackles inner wings became guards and the flying wing my own favorite position vanished into limbo today i am as baffled by the terminology j of football as an elderly librarian would have been by the terminology at the recent fighter pilots reunion in ottawa what is a tight end for example is that what we see when the players go into a huddle and stick those extremely tight pants into our faces on tv what is the opposite of a tight end is this someone who has the skitters is that why they are always running off the field what is an offensive tackle is this someone whose language or behaviour you find offensive to your sensibilities is the familiar phrase i gave him a j pretty good shot an indication that the players are now carrying concealed not to mention offensive weapons one of the universities is giving an ex tension course at its night school its tor girl friends and wives of football players so that they can enjoy the game more i think ill sign up for the course im dying to know what a middle linebacker does for a living roaming around televisionnext best to being there by jim thomas ive always been a rabid hockey fan its a mania not uncommon to canadians for me this intense enthusiasm for the game goes back about 35 years when we all as a family group would crowd around the old deforest crosiey and listen to the play by play as vividly described by foster hewitt names i still recall include such hockey heroes as syl apps bill cowley charlie rayner davie kerr gordie drillon turk broda and the greatest of them all in my opinion bryan hextall i worshipped him with all the littleboy idolism that kids today hold for performers like bobby orr dave keon and paul hen derson i had his picture one for every bee hive corn syrup label plastered over my bedroom wall i also had and still have a scrapbook of photos showing bryan hextall in action every once in awhile i haul it out of a treasure chest in the basement and leaf through it with sons barry and paul there he is i say with reverence boy ill never forget the night and then i stop for the kids are bored they dont come right cut and say it but i can tell they couldnt care less they dont know him they never saw him in fact they never even heard of him except from me so why should they care theyre interest is in the present the orrs the espositos and the keons all else is history i sense a similar reaction when we visit the hockey hall of fame each year at the c n e i selfishly lead them straight to one section and we stand there in silence if ive read the scoring statistics on bryan hextall once ive read it a dozen times look guys his picture just like the one i had and see that two scoring championships oh i tell you i go on and on yes theyre looking and yes theyre seeing but what they see is not a hockey star but a dad whos too wrapped up in his own boyhood to think about theirs this generation gap i blame on television we never had the game actually played in the centre of our farmhouse kitchen we had to rely a little bit on immagination quite a bit in fact and later we clipped out every newspaper picture we could find these were fact not so any more every scoring play every shot stopped every blueline check is recorded and rerecorded before an arm chair audience of millions but is every the proper word do we see everything on the television screen hardly or maple leaf gardens would be halfempty every saturday night instead of folks clamoring for seats i know for we the two boys and i viewed firsthand the torontopittsburgh encounter saturday from excellent seats in the westside blues it was a thrill to be part of that huge crowd to watch guys like the two swedes inge hammarstrom and borje salming he should have been a star dune wilson in goal and norm ullman and eddie shack hes worth the price of admission alone but the greatest thrill of all occurred not during the game or between periods but after the majority of fans had left the rink more by accident than anything else we selected an exit that took us close to the pittsburgh dressing room a dozen or so kids were grouped around so we decided to wait too just in case while standing there i spotted old friend jack watson from stouffville with wife carol and family he was waiting on his brother bryan a defence stalwart with the pittsburgh club hi there he yelled cmon over here theyll be out soon we obeyed first came bryan then syl apps but none others we recognized hockey players look different in street clothes we were ready to leave when jack doing a bit of scouting up and down the hall called out again hes here over here we ran to where we had last seen a wave of his hand and there he was bryan hextall he stood tall handsome immaculately dressed we shook hands your father was my idol i said im glad to hear that he replied but the kids said nothing they were too dumbfounded too flabbergasted to speak do you boys play hockey he asked breaking the ice they only nodded with barry producing a program in silent anticipation of an autograph he quickly complied then we left we were waiting for the subway when paul so caught up in the whirl of bigleague excitement finally found something to say was that really bryan hextall son of the man you once knew he asked thats right but i didnt really know him i answered honestly i only thought i did by listening on radio and we only thought we knew this bryan hextall by watching on television replied paul but tonight he talked to us wow some difference some difference is right