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4 the tribune thursday apr 1 1s7s wfw wttbutik v bernard editor i i i i established 188 charles h nolan publisher pumblwd every tlwrsdar m 54 mjin st stouffville oat tl 4402 1 01 barre beacock toronto phone mmmo single copies 30c iiibscriptiofls uoo per year in advertising manager cnaslimelsewhere member of audit bureau oi circulation canadian s community newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number mm the tribune is one of roe inland publishing co limited group of suburban newspapers ubkn includes the aiaxwbitbypickering news advertiser sramplon guardian burlington post etobicoke gazette markham economist and sun newmarketaurora era oakville beaver osbawa this week and mississaoga news editorials unexpected backlash leaders of ontario teachers who have moved to gangup on conservative can didates in the next provincial election by providing an election fund may find they have stirred up a backlash from the general public they hadnt counted on while the citizenry may not be totally charmed by the present government they nevertheless do not take kindly to pressure groups who make no bones about trying to manipulate an election in their own interests the public has already had it up to the cars with strikes and soaring wage demands and if this group believes that john public is going to take kindly to pressure tactics to elect only candidates who will give in to their every whim we think theyre barking up the wrong tree the popularity of such groups and the teachers are not alone is not very high at the moment and this latest blatant pressure tactic will not enhance their position the public in general we believe is looking much more kindly on government members who will display the fortitude to say enough v long struggle expected it is clear that the struggle to close the york sanitation dump will go on for some time the protagonists will likely fight it out in court but it is curious to us that the ministry of ihe environment has stood back and washed its hands of the problem after all there is a local bylaw banning all dumping in whit- churchstouffville it seems rather ironic that the govern- welldeserved tribute given members of whitchurchstouffville council honored the towns millionaire philanthropist arthur latcham monday with a dinner party it was mr latchams 30th birthday tuesday and the tribune joins the many people in the area who appreciate the work he has done in the community in wishing him a very happy birthday i vironment should be fighting the battle for us 7 f at- r v f compensation necessary people who live in the noiseland area of the pickering airport r should receive com- pensation there is no doubt about that the form that compensation should take is another question one solution would be jo establish certain expropriation proceduresallowing people to sell their homes to the government or hold them until the airport is built and then sell if they wish it appears to be the fair thing todo urban affairs minister barney danson said last week he will bring the proposal to ithe t cabinet i f but there are certain questions that remain unanswered what happens to people who live in the noiselands of thesecond runway which may or may not be built depending on which federal civil servant one talks to if the other runway is not built those people have no worry but if it is built they remain in a very vulnerable position what happens to them until a decision is made this windmill located on the site of the malvern project in scarboro has been donated to the pickering museum in sugar and spice brougham the workshop it powers will also be given thirty j years ago i s s this week licences due the time limit for securing ims motor car licences and markers expired on march 31 and motorists using the old markers now are liable to a fine new licences are obtainable at both uirionvule and markham where it is said the combined issue has ex ceeded over 2000 speaking of licences reminds us that radio licences are also due but these are obtainable in town suckers 40 cents dozen s a small lad passed along the street the other day offering firm fresh suckers for sale at 40 cents a dozen the fish were good size and hard indicating they had been hauled from a cold stream and they were so fresh that many of them still had a kick better still those who tasted the fish declared the flavor was good and despite the bones wereappreciated meht agency established to protect our en vironment would stand back and let the courts do the work that should be done by the ministry this is unfortunately the problem which has plagued the ministry of environment from the beginning there seems to be a reluctance to take decisive action the ministry feels that no action should be taken on the dump until the environmental hearing board completes its investigation those hearings reconvene later this month and could easily drag on for months to come meanwhile the dump remains open in violation of local bylaw we feel that the ministry should close the dump until the results of the hearings are known that way if there is a real serious threat to stouffvilles water supply the problem will not be compounded r allowing ihe dumping to continue the ministry in this regard has failed to protect the interests of the people of whit churchstouffville it will take a costly legal battle paid for by the residents of the town to slop the dump when the ministry of v en- winters end brings jubilation by bill smiley there is also the matter of a noise study to be conducted in stouffville and surrounding territories andrew s harris noise expert earlier employed by the town will undertake to study the ambient noise levels in stouff ville r that meanstthe background noise in the town it will determine whether stouffville is a quiet town or not but the outcome of the study will have no affect on whether the airport is built mr harris might say that stouffville is a quiet town however that conclusion will have no bearing on the decision to build the airport people who already live in town know how quiet it is a study wilponly produce numbers maps and charts to prove what everybody in town already knows such a study may demonstrate the governments concern for the people of stouffville in a superficial way but will do nothing to change the fact that this area will t intruded upon all the studies in the world wont change that around here its one of those grand end- ofmarch days with sun pouring down the air positively balmy about 40 degrees the defeated snow slinging grimly to the shadowed corners and that lovely smell of rotten earth that precludes spring if it were fall of course and the tem perature were the same wed be saying by george nippy enough aint it looks like winters not far off bui at this time of year the weather i is more a state of mind than a matter of tem perature and all across the land canadians go slightly hysterical with the jubilant certainty that once more they have made it through that masochists delight a canadian winter with the first relaxing of those icy ten tacles we go a bit haywire rubbers are kicked into a corner sweaters and scarves are hurled into closets babies are plunged into prams and we all come down with a spring cold that is onlyslightly worse than the viciousonewenursedjairwinter it r typicalfexample this morning r garbage day just because the sun was shining and it wasnt snowing i nipped out in my pajamas and slippers to deposit the plastic bags f j it was a trifle nippy but the sun was shining and there was that ineluctable essence in the air i winked at a sexy squirrel in the cedar tree i made a vforvictory sign at old sol i hallooed at a beautiful crow i stopped to stroke the cat who was lying in the mud basking and ive been sneezing and blowing ever since j no matter winter is over those- long black nights and those short white days are gone for another six months and as far as im concerned fill upthe bowls and let joy resign unconfined usually s straggle into spring with nothing more hilariousjthana slight lessening of despair but this year the old lady and i ended winter with a gallant fillip some would call it a flip as you know if you are keeping up with the social news we took up crosscountry skiing this spring most people take up sports during the season but we dont operate that way as i recall we took up golf in the fall after the leaves had begun to tumble anyway we took to skiing like a cat takes to nip and in no time we were arguing about what kind of wax to use we have two kinds red and black and clumping around in our real boots like real skiers our timing was perfect on what turned out to be the last day of skiing for the season we look a shot at a hill or maybe it was the other way around it was a long straight hill no trees no rocks nothing that a capable sixyearold couldnt handle with both hands in his pockets we were certainly politeenough it was you go first youre the man and no no dear ladies first you know as usual i was outmanoeuvred i steeled myself with recollections of driving a bicycle- headon into a cow during an english black out of diving into a hellfire of german anti aircraft fire itook off one thing i dislike about skiing is that there are no brakes you cant even drag your feet well sir the only way i can describe my descent of that slope is hellbent squatffngj hike a kangaroo in laboreyes rolling i went down there at what i reckon was about 140 mph and i made it no ignominious tumble no- splits thirty feet from the end of the run all danger behind i straightened up waved one skipole nonchalantly and turned my head to see if the chicken was impressed just then the snow with unbelievable crust rose up and smote me amighty smite on the head my cap flew off i knew i wasnt in hell but i sure felt bent i lay there quietly uttering words i havent heard since my dad used to go down and beat the coal furnace with a shovel i heard a scream at least she knows im dying i thought bitterly boy is she going to be sorry for some of things she said to me over the years then i heard another scream bill get out of the way im going to run over you wrenching my broken neck around i looked uphill there was a dark figure flying toward me it looked like a witch but it was riding two broomsticks instead of one then the broomsticks began to part in what seemed slow motion and i knew the witch was going tosplit right up the middle unless the nightmare ended it did i woke up the witch was dead one brookstick pointed straight in the air the v lolher was pointed back up the hill there was nsilence r r jtf then are you all right and i uont know are you and i dunno mhink im gonna cry that was me boy am i glad its spring and theres no more skiing until december but skiing certainly tones you up i can now touch my toes with no problem at all i use a yardstick and my wife can knit like a demon with onehand she got good at it while her left arm was in a sling i along main street flights of fancy n by sheila mcleod last weeks storm seemed anything but a ugh t spring wow and it this carlt makes things a little more bearable to see the wonderful ar- a report from one of our rural correspondents last month confirming sightings of purple finches in greenwood red- breasted nuthatches in coppins corners and a brown creeper feeding on someones suet up in simcoe sent me scurrying off excitedly to see if any misguided species had inad vertantly settled down in my backyard after two hours of scanning for the unusual as meticulously as madame curieall 1 spotted was an orangepainted fence marker and hanging from a tree a greenstriped toque my son lost last christmas a rare sight indeed the first time in fact any of that lads clothing has been seen actually hanging up in years its nonexperiences like this that tend to make me highly skeptical of reports from area birdwatchers after all it hardly seems reasonable that bluebilled seersuckers and creamcrested waterwings keep dallying in their backyards while nothing but castoff candy covers flutter into mine oddly enough despite the suspicion that enthusiastic watchers sometimes soar off in fanciful flight with the sparrows i have never doubted for a moment what must be the most cspectacular sighting in local history since the demise of miniskirts these tearshaped spaceships glowing red orange and yellow that were seen hovering near goodwood not so long ago f ive hovered around there myself though not so dramatically and i find extra terrestrial interest in the area entirely plausible my first and last jaunt in a light plane was over the hamlet and the old township of uxbridge confidently standing with both feet firmly on the ground i had agreed to tag along with pilot and photographer for some r aerial reconnaissance the flight originated from goodwood airport o y the port as far as i could figure was secreted somewhere in a quarry over on con 2 the runway unwittingly aligned by united empire loyalists jreking north in bullets of gravel spurting against the fuselage v of the plane up front with the pilot the photographer was squinting heroically into the wide blue yonder making like errol flynn in dawn patrol clamped in the back seat i jiggled like a pot of pallid paint on the hardwarestore mixer my courage had already hit an air pocket j j 1 the former township of uxbridge an obstinate old bachelor still unaware of regional matrimony lurking around the corner wobbled beneath our wings there below was goodwood the bustling centre of commerce and administration and stretching to uxbridge town of the municipalitys epidemic of gravel pits errol clicked off his aerial shots while the plane and my stomach banked to port and starboard the slipstream whooshing through the open window parted my clenched teeth as i braced for a pitstopv in the ex- cavations below ive no doubt these astral beings for such they be im sure who hovered near good- wood in their teardrop spacecraft looked down on the local scene with much greater composure unlike me i expect they were entranced by the deep and devious gravelscape so much like home possibly plagued by overcrowding in the recesses of their own planet they were searching for a friendly uninhabited crater to call their own vhad the old uxbridge council ever suspected during its years of hassle with errant quarry operators in the area that creatures like this might be willing to rehabilitate the township pits it would have- been out wavingflags ofj welcome eager to grant landed immigrant status my jaundiced peep from above on the other hand only helped distort reality as we shuddered in through the chasm of a quarry to touch down on the brink ofgoodwood airport v considerably vshook lip i backed slowly out of flying machine and cautiously touched a foot to the ground a fcw that i managed to announce to the 4 t seemed that winter roared aspects of winter are shown hbacwitha vengeance some beautiful tistryf nature according to thelcalendar spring is jnst aroundthe search of greener pastures 4 e waiting worldis one small by the arrangement of icicles on the front of corner 4 ixv 1 5- 4 i v ted wilcox we rattled off from this pioneer strip one giant leap for mankind v waiting world iis one small step for manf 1 nnt riant 1afnff martkinsi v