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the tribune thursday july 1s7s j- v tie wtiiuite established 188 charles ii nolan publisher pumistidcvcrytfeurjyat54mjiastsiovffvillonttim2lll barrk beacock toronto pnom mmmo single copies mo subscriptions mm per year in advertising maiuw canadsiioeelsewhere member ei audit bureau oi circulation canadian mubx community newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number mm the tribune is one of tpe inland publishing co limited group of suburban newspapers which includes the aiaxwhitbypickering news advertiser brampton guardian- burlington post etobicoke gazette markham economist andsun newmarketaurora era oakville beaver oshawa this week and mississauga news glorified pond should not be abused by mo torboats the perennial problem of fast motorboats on that glorified pond known as musselmans lake has surfaced again councillor becky wedleytold planning board last week someone had taken a racing boat equipped with a 427 cubic inch inboard motor onto the lake according to mrs wedley it took the boat about 15 seconds to cross the lake she said she feared for the safety of swimmers and people in small boats and she also mentioned other problems with waterskiers why anybody would even want to take a fast boat on that miniscule lake baffles us it must get extremely boring seeing the same scenery flash by every coupleof minutes as they drive around in circles which is about all they could do there we will take the charitable view and not assume these people are simpleminded and we would say rather that they are just very unimaginative there is a possibility they may get some perverse pleasure out of dodging swimmers sailors canoers rowers and in general just being a damned noisy nuisance this type of use while acceptable on a larger lake where one group can to a greater extent do as they please without bothering anybody else is absolutely preposterous on such a small water surface minibikes showing up in wrong places council is tobe commended for the new bylaw passed tuesday night banning mini- bikes from town parks more and more the minibike is the kind ofvehicle that has been snowing up in the wrong place at- the wrong time 1 w y as a matter of interest in the bylaw it was also necessary to include automobiles among the vehicles not allowed on parkland grass i but the major problem has been with minibikes these small but noisy machines can be heard crisscrosssing a number of- properties in the area where they are technically trespassing these include the flood control dam area north of stouffville- dist secondary school and the sdss property itself j the problem with minibikesmsthat they are really designed for wideopen spaces preferably in places far away from residential areas we fully agree with a suggestion in a recent markham economist and sun editorial that parents would be wise tdbe sure that there is some placefof their children to use the machines before purchasing minibikes c the best suggestion might be for parents to emphasize more constructive recreational activities for their children while minibikes are no doubt a whole lot of fun so are any number of other activities which donlt cost hundreds of dollars burn up gallons of fuel and tear up public lawns apparently- council made some in vestigations a few years agov into the possibiltiy of banning large motors oh the lake but they were stalled by jurisdictional disputes between the federal and provincial governments after a short discussion the other night they merely dropped the topic and went on to other business we would strongly urge them to reopen the matter and to keep at it until they can get motors banned not just large ones but all motors with the ever growing population in the area more and more people must be ac comodated at the lake all the time if it were restricted to passive uses this could be done with a minimum amount of damage to the environment of the lake accommodation needed none in municipality while stouffville can provide most ser vices required by householders and the travelling public there is one service whichtis drastically short we refer to overnight accommodation we have neither motel nor hotels suitable for tourist accommodation this has been an inconvenience in town for many years tourists visitors and outside service people have found that they needed to go practically into the city to obtain a room for the night stouffville is the route for thousands- passing north to the haliburton highlands it also offers a half dozen golf courses within a few minutes drive at the present time the hundreds of visitors whom the town hopes to attract for centennial celebrations in 1977 will find they must find their overnight ac commodation some miles away from town and this is regrettable along main street- sing a song of praise for summitview 95 by sheila aacleod i miss the sounds of summitview now that the kids have packed in their books and left the old brick school building for the summer the screech of over fourhundred pupils whooping it up out in the playground can be quite euphonic if you catch it along main as i do about twohundred yards down wind the springterm staccatoes are best they skin over to our garden on a strong westerly yells of youre it the clunk of baseball against bat the cheers the jeers the slap of skipping robes girl guide girl guide dressed in blue these are the actions you must do stand at attention stand at ease bend those elbows bend those knees why couldnt i have lived this close to school when i was a student my journies always involved long walks and some erratic form of transportation i lived in a hamlet that was practically encircled by the bend of a river we village scholars had to be ferried across the narrow stretch ot water in a flatbottomed boat before we could set off on the twomile trek to school the ancient mariner who handled the oars particularly strong these hitandmiss moorings were liable to boost our walking distance to school by a good half mile by the time i qualified for high school a reliable footbridge spanned the river and i could catch the wee bus a shaky monument to public transporation and private enterprise at the end of it the bus arrival was never anticipated by schedule but by a rebellious rattle that could be heard for miles up the road on the days it could be coaxed into running the high school was at the top of a long steep hill and students were dropped off about a mile away at the bottom of the grade the wee bus knew its limitations the young folk in our house have been lucky their roadstolearning have always been short level and along solid sidewalk over the past ten years they have all in turn made their way toandthrough sum mitview a quick sneaker dash away maybe thats the reason i feel a closer affinity for the school along the road than i ever did for the distant institutions i attended as a student mind you summitviews a matriarch among york county schools and its not x rarely had enough energy to row us directly to unusual for folks whove beenassociated with the onnosite shore and with naviffatinnlpft- hurn o unnth r t tji thirty years this week a the opposite shore and with navigation left predominantly to the current the boat always headed downstream until some section of muddy bank scooped it up if the boatman was feeling unusually frail and the current was her for any length of time to develop a protective affection for the old gal shes an anacronism in gingham and thick lisle among the lowslung hightoned educational mod- pods of today well so what all that glitters aint lp necessarily gold at summitivew ive noticed the glow comes from inside its a matter of teachers a personal touch that makes it clear that education there is in interested hands its a matter of principal ive checked the legend out and its definitely not true that lome boadway was specifically set in with the summitview bricks back in 1917 it is true on the other hand that after about eighteen years as principal he is an integral part of the school and its spirit a communityminded man a participator a man of music and humor his stamp upon summitview is as distinctive as the date above the door 1 theres a special song the principal composed for his school its called sing a song of praise for summitview and its always hollered out with great gusto by the kids when school spirits run high last week the fourth and final member of our family passed through summitview on his wayto sdss its time forme totry a bar or two im not much of a singer but play it again sam especially for the staff and the old school down the road hfi mystery horse some two weeks ago neil weir gormley farmer just north of the cnr station there noticed a strange horse in a strange place on his farm for it was on the railway tracks which passes through his property mr weir took the animal to his barns and has cared for it ever since the gelding showed a few bumps but nothing of a serious nature it was travelling onrubber shoes too more like the city equines wear and since no end of enquiry has located an owner in the neigh borhood of gormley the belief is increasing that this bit of horse flesh really belongs to the city streets and may have fallen from a train passing along if this proves tobe the fact the animal did a marvellous thing in escaping with minor brusies while the steed remains silent on the matter the tribune through its advertising column is broadcasting the find in an effort to locate the owner and incidentally to solve a mystery that has the neighborhood baffled in the event of no solution then of farmer weir it may be truly said that a gift horse stares him in the face sugar and splce progress i hate if by bill smiley i try not to be bitter but i have aperfect example of that kind ofvprogress right outside my front door i many people have a peculiar idea of progressrrhey confuse it with change or- growth for their own sakesj all too often these things represent regress rather than progress- whenwemoved to this house it was on a quiet residential street f leafy tunnel of 1 research stouffville inflation and womens rights are two controversial issues of concern to everybody and it is always in- teresting to relate these contemporary topics past history v s for instance in 1886 whilemate teachers were being paid only 44130 per month female teachers were being paid only 28971 the following year the salaries of male teachers climbed to 45175 while the remuneration of female teachers went v to 28677 what maybe even more incredible are the phenomenally low prices of goods back in 1888 any one at all familiar with the present cost of groceries would- realize that turkeyat eight cents per pound or even a- pound of butter at 18 cents is something we are never likely to see again but then prices in the stouffville area have always been low after all petavreesorbougm o400 acres of prime land- for justhishorsesaddjev and bridle in 1802 ji rtms cbiamn byresearchistoulfvllle v jan ofy jxzp4i appears tribune housed in 6401859 voluptuous maples and stately oaks with a green boulevard on each side of the street it x was gentle and pleasant and safe for children the town council in the name of progress tore out the boulevard cutdown some trees and widened the street results we now have a speedway out front and you can scarcely risk crossing the street to the mailbox the squeal of tires makes the nights hideous as the punks try to proclaim their dubious manhood the remaining trees are dying because their natural environment has been disturbed and because they get a heavy dose of sprayed salt from the snowplow each winter much beauty lost and the only ugly things on the street dead cedar poles for telephone and hydro left standing in their nakedness just to complete the picture there has been a development which is synonymous with progress in many small minds at the end of our street what was once glorious bushland is now an asphalt wasteland inhabited by supermarkets a gaggle of gas stations and the inevitable hamburger joints and milk stores because of the development and its v accompanying progress traffic on our street has quintupled about five times with the accompanying multiplication of stink and noise tough luck says you right says i but this is not just a private beef ive seen this sort of thing happen so often on handsome old streets in pleasant small towns that it makes me sick first move of the progresshappy morons is usually to cut down the trees some of them 70 years old so that they can widen the road grace and shade and dignity are sacrificed to the number one god of north america the car in cities the same process holds potential parklands are turned into instant parking lots thruways slaughter miles of greenery ranking high among the villains are the developers in more enlightened cultures they would be called ecological rapists they take a section of beautiful bushland fertile farmland or lush fruitland they send in their bulldozers to ensure that the property will look like nonihansland they then carve it into 50foot lots and jam in the jerrybuilt and flog the swollenpriced abortions to poor suckers who are so desperate for a houseof v their own they shoulder a mortgage they can never possibly get out from under this when canada has more land that is useless for anything else but building than it can ever use that is progress oh progress has many faces and imany sounds and not a few smells far below the roar of the over-sized- over priced cars burning up precious energy as they whoosh down the superhighways may be heard the whimper of starving children behind the smiling face and honeyed words of the public relations department can be seen something not unlike a mountain range huge evergrowing piles of non- returnable bottles rusting cans and in destructible plastic garbage t and the stinks progress will take a cool clean sweet trout stream and poison it with chemicalsand detergents and other toxic elements because we need the industry and the big belching smokestacks go right on belching their nauseous gases from their rotten stomachs laughing hilariously when- the government slaps them on the wrist with a staggering 25 fine progress hoists again and again the taxes on booze because governments would fall without that revenue and sets up a cheap and pantywaist program barely hinting at the evils of drink tprogress produces bigger cars that go faster and burn more fuel on bigger highways the vehicles propelled in many cases by drivers who couldnt handle a crisis in a kiddiecar race progress taxes everything but the living breath of the working stiff but en courages the plumpies with the expense ac- counts and the credit cards to go out and live it up and lie and cheat on their taxes medical progress means turning a great number of adult neurotics into drug addicts by socking the pills to them and with the other hand giving a stiffarm in the face to the dirty sick frightened kids of the drug age a pretty idim view of progress it is as many people look on the wordv but surelythereareenbiigh of us left who believe in tke real- meaning of the word moral social and intellectual progress to trystodomethingabout the spreading sickness j- j i v v same tirie 4 t next sunday please in thef ouses cheek by jowl give ths wholething a meantime n guardagainst the progress ancy name spend a fortune on advertising- peoplejvj v fv tv 7w