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4 tub tribijne thursday may t 1j 9 s a d v 11 94 coi am g fi 61 pi 10 fo 11 w m 7 i i i i i i i i i i i i urn 3kt wnium don- bernard eiitor established 1888 charles il nolan publisher pumislmd ntry thursdjy t 54 main st slouhvillft oat tcl mo2i0i toronto phone mtim bogle topic me satacrlptioas sjm per year in candjsitmtbewlkre member sf audit bureau of circulation canadian community newspapers asseciatioo and oourio weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number otm the tribune is one ol the inland publishing co limited group of suburban newspapers which includes the aiaxwhitbypiciterino news advertiser brampton guardian burlington post etobicokt gazette markham economist and sun newmarketaurora era oakville beaver oshawa tbi week and mississauga news barkk beacock advertising manager siunmitvifew it is inconceivable to us that the york county board of education would consider an addition to orchard park public school when summitview will not even pass fire regulations that however appears to be what will record crowds at the museum the whitchurch stouffville museum tucked away unobtrusively near bogarttown deserves a word of praise as it enters its summer season the museum has been attracting record crowds in the past two or three years and has been a notable success despite some of the strikes against it it operates on a shoestring budget and utilizes volunteer workers largely the bogarttownvomens institute ladies have- been staunchsupporters of the museum- they do the cooking for- instance for the maple syrup festival the museum is thriving anditdeserves support as the only active institution for preserving the history pftheformer whit- church township is greater happen it almost did happen last week luckily the matter was referred to one of the boards standing committees just exactlyhow the addition of a general purpose room managed to receive draft plan approval from the ministry of education then appeared as a routine item on the april 26 board meeting remains a mystery somewhere within the inner workings of the york county administration hierarchy somebody thought that orchard parks addition should take prority however any person with half an eye can see that summitview is in dire need of both renovations to make it comply with fire safety regulations and a major addition to house the overflow of students f the school while not theworst in york 1 county could be termed jn the top five in need of immediate work it constantly amazes us how bureaucrats can make decisions that can affect the lives of thousands of people without seeing the obvious inconsistency of their decisions v in this case the administrators seemed to have decided that orchard park needs a general purpose room more than summitview needs a proper fire e scape and fireproof stair- wellsi it is a sad state of affairs -indeed- thoughts f rbm- the bible daniel soon proved himself more capable than all the other presidents and governors for he had great ability and the king began to think of placing him over the entire empire as his administrative officer this made the governors very jealous and they began searching for some fault in the way daniel was handling his affairs but they couldnt find anything to criticize he was tribune reporter ted wilcox had to climb a tree to get this picture of some robins eggs he reports that the sugar and spice mother was quite upset by his intrusion but he managed to take this shot of the eggs before they hatch ted wilcox faithful and honest and made no mistakes so they concluded our only chance is his religion daniel 635 quiet middleage is not so quiet u by bill smiley grant cuts are necessary proposed ciitsmn the regional grants to four family life centres in the region pose some serious questions as to what role the region of york- should take in assisting volunteer organizations in the area- a tentative regional budget prepared in early april allocated 100000 for grants to such volunteer groups in 1975 the family life centres received a significant grant to keep them going they stated that 100000 is needed in 1976 to keeptheddorsopen instead the health and social services other organizations alsohad grantscuts or eliminated some newroups have asked for help for the first time and were turned down the tribunehas consistently supported the work being done bythe familylife centres however it seems torus that the region has been very generous to allow even 60000 to them in a year of restraint the family life centres are no different than any othergroup they must accept the limitations laid upon them by the region at least for the time being next year they hope to receive funding through a york region united appeal we believe that the health and social services committee were as generous asthey could be some streamlining by the family life centres should enable them to make it through fl976 j v t to now the region has supported certain groups ona firstcome firstserve when you manage to totter through to what is euphemistically called these days middle age you are supposed to be able to relax a little slow down take it easy enjoy all those things you never had time for before after all your kids are grown up now and on their own the mortgage is paid off or nearly passion is not exactly spent but lets say that you dont exactly turn to jelly at the sight of a big buzoom if- your health is reasonable you should have a quartercentury of mellow living ahead time to travel to contemplate your navel to read all those books to cultivate your own garden before you are quietly shuffled off to one of those institutionswith the ghastly names like sunset haven or trails end paradise i am here to state quietly but with grim ferocity that this is one of the big lies per- i- eliminating such grants altogether however advice and have all the fun ydu can while it would let the various groups know where youre young go to europe buy a farm take they stand with theregion the present capinhand approach is not very good it leaves the organizations unsure of their grant income and at the same time puts regional councilin role of the villain if the grants are reduced a clearcut policy is the only answer music mania successful music mania as always was a delightful presentation and all those who attended certainly must have enjoyed everyminute of it approximately 2100 people attended the three performances- but aside from being an artistic success which it undoubtedly was the show is a tangible eyidence of community involvement on a large scale over 100 people volunteered time to help out with the production aside from singersand performers there were people involved- with makeup costumes lighting and various other aspects of the production although obstensibly sponsored by the couples club of stouffville united church it is a total community production added to that the proceeds go to some worthy cause thisyear this year tothelocal work of the canadian national institute for- the blind- all in all it was a job welldone and all 1 those who took part deserve a hearty vote of thanks from the people of stouffville a year off dp what you want to now- because youwont have time when youre middle- aged i just sat down here for a minute to stop my head spinning and it struck me that its the first chancetve had to sit down and take my usual cool perspective of life for weeks life is not exactly a gay mad whirl when youre middleaged its more like a case of the blind staggers i i just for example if were not running in one direction to see our two grandsons were running in another to see their 83yearold greatgrandfather i recently in a wave of good feeling we decided to treat my daughter and her husband to anight out they are students broke andi never get out so i hawked up the price of dinner and a show and my old lady told them wed be delighted to babysit fine any grandparents would do it but it was akin to a disaster firstborn grand- baby pokey was so wild with excitement at seeing his favorite toys servants and sycophants that he ran around the apartment like a demented chipmunk up and down over the furniture leaping into arms jabbering and laughing and roaring with defiance at any effort to cool him down and the other guy the little fat new one is a bawler he doesnt even bawl at the drop of a hat he bawls at will and at suse thats my wife im will the young couple left at 630 baby asleep pokeyfed two minutes later thebawler was at it two hours later he was stillat it some- where in there id managed to stick our dinner a frozen chicken piein the oven at 830 my wife was sitting with him on her knee trying to give him a bottle with one hand and spear a bit of chicken pie with the other across from her i sat with pokey on my knee feeding him every second bite of my meagre portion at 920 we had them both asleep we collapsed at 945 little fatso woke up and bleated for titty he scorns the bottle suffice it to say it was a long evening but that was unusual you say most of your life is pretty tranquil and even in tone well thats what you think buster i didnt even curlthis past winter and scarcely had time to blow my nose right now aside from a full days teaching i am doing the advertising and publicity for the school open house t preparing to be a giiest on a panel discussion and modelling for an art class in my spare time i mark papers and prepare lessons modelling did i say yep im a model the art department at the school wanted a live model they conned me into it by pretending they wanted somebody with character in his face well i have lots of that j wrinkles broken nose bloodshot eyes the lot later i discovered the reason i was chosen i was because i was the only teacher who had a i spare that period except for one woman teacher and she refused to model in the nude i didnt i was all for it so were the student painters but the puritanical old administration wouldnt allow it they were- afraid theyd have girl art students fainting tc all over theplace not in awe in horrorso i have to doit ina loincloth with a mask over myeyessotheywontknbwwhoiam y you think im busy you ought to see my wife aside from her regular housework she- teaches piano knits arid sews- simultaneously it seems to me prepares the income tax return chooses and uses new paint and wallpaper runs around trying to find clothes for two grandsons and gallops down to simpsons order- office to return things three times a week it was she who put eatons catalogue out of business and we havent even started oh the garden yet so just a word of wisdom to you young people dont swallow that bromide about a serene middle age its about as serene as saturday night in the corner saloon- gather yei rosebiidswhile ye may ye wont have timej when yere old and gray an easy way to ntqkeabtick by annegret lamure rm tfia countdown stoiif f yille centennial i i7 71977 f did you know that the original grandstand in the town park rebuilt some ten years ago had a special toboggan slide maintained at one end reaching up to the- roof which was i somewhat higher on the old building the slide was keptvproperly iced in winter by the town n and provided a popular winter tide stretching all the way to the present arena site- r line farmer and was the site of the stouff ville fair in the 1800s that the towns major livery stable of fifty years ago was located on lloyd avenue east side just south of the main st corner the operator was edward pennock and a number of good driving horses were always in readiness for hire that- stouffville was once serviced by four passenger trains a day two each way in addition to a large freight traffic countdown board plans are going ahead to erect a i countdown sign to tell everyone the number of days remaining until centennial yearthere are just 34wiks left before the start of stouffvilles 100th anniversary year that is 239 days hopefully the count- down board will be installed in the next month publicity committee aside from the actual organizing of centennial events the publicity committee will play a very important part- in the centennial celebrations letting people that the site of the present testa villa apartments wasonce the stouffville vinegar works factoryas well as ketchup v know what is ijappening and when is vital mnnufamiiror i dr bill murphy has been appointed chair man for the committee and the first major mmkfina wac hofi loef thitte4air fantilxh manufacturer that all the churches in town main- stained t set of church sheds for the con- venierice of horsedrawn vehicles and that the last of these did not disappear until the late forties- vy f rl that- lloyd avenue was the first sub- division established in stouffvillcthe land was owned by the late edwin lloyd 10th meeting was held last thursday april 29 vothepeoplewith talents in the publicity field are needed for the committee those v wishing to help out should contact dr murphy at 6402702 or tribune publisher c h nolan at the newspaper office 6402100 v the publicity committee meets every fourth thursday of thejmonth thenext meetingis thursday may 27at 8 pm most people when school bus drivers are a mentioned immediately think of a burly middleaged individual with a boomingyoice and -a- kingsize headache spelled anacinthis is a profound miscon- ceptionmany of the school bus drivers i know are sensitive resourceful softspoken people with a welldeveloped sense of humour ac tually some of my best friends are bus drivers and they tend to be young blond and female as a matter of fact i ferry one of t those big yellow bombs around from time to time myself so when helen phoned me for some pointers yesterday she called the right person you passed your school bus license ihelen congratulations starting next week great which route you dont have a map thats too bad listen those kindergarteners dont even know their own mothers let alone their house let you drive right by and never a peep out of them and those mothers boy do they get- mad they think youresailing by them on purpose no actually its good when they complain to the principal that means hell be waiting for you when you finally come- crawling back to the school with your leftover kids never mind it all sorts itself out in a couple of weeks by the way i hope youre good at finding things no howre you going to find the bus key then nope it sure wont be tlierethe guys at the depot always hide it no you wont there areat least 351 different hiding places in the average forty foot bus whos exaggerating that works out to 87 places per foot well i cant help that look i dont want to discourage you but are you handy with a screwdriver oh well youll learn soon enough naw only the kids like to dismantle -the- seats no nothing like that they just like to undo all the screws oh about sixteen -per- seat yea theres about 22 pairs of seats no you cant watch them- because ydu have to drive the big inside mirror oh thats so the kids can tell- when yourejaot looking at them sunglasses to hide your eyes that might work wish id thought of that i listen- one other thing dont ever be late on a rainy day biit if you are dont forget to bring a large tin can especially in the spring why for worms of course you dont want them crawling all over the seats do you thats why you should try to be early so the kids dont get a chance to collect any and try to avoid pulling in behind another bus theres bound to be a boy on it thatwill hang a moon at you on the other hand its maybe even worse to let another bus get behind you since every bus has one of these jokers the driver in back might get mad no impossible they alllook too much alike if you know what i mean oh one other thing watch out for dogs especially german shepherds once theyre on your bus youll never get them off sure at school but then the principal gets upset look the kids always tell your best bet is to drive the dog home again they always hop off like gentlemen at their stop no nothing else only the dead rat thing all the girls rushin a screeching wave from one side of the bus to the other trying to get away from the small brown object the boys are throwing around no ninetynine times out v a hundred its only a rotten banana what do you mean put you off its the greatest job in the world sure lots of things for instance theres a little girl who picks up the prettiest pebble in her driveway every morning and gives it to me i got myself quite a rock collection huh- just what do you mean by that ok then youve changed your mind youre going to drive a gravel truck youre joking thats a tough job dont be silly driving a bus is an easy way to make a buck 30 years ago this week excerpts from the tribune from june 9 1946 league reorganized hall canvass result of the canvass in town in an effort to raise 10000 by public subscription toward a veterans community hall is nearing completion with most of the ratepayers having been interviewed unfortunately the results are far from what was hoped for and while the number of refusals to subscribe have not been numerous the amounts donated have been too small for the number involved to be able to reach unsubstantial sum notwithstanding the work will be rushed to completion and the decision of the citizens committee made knjwn probably next week if the sum of 10000 isnot donated the by law to raise an additional 6000 will be of no avail we understand the canvassers have raised probably 4000 with only a small proportion yet to be called on at a meeting held in aurora on friday evening representatives from several towns on yonge st in addition to milliken planned the formation of a seventeam league this season in midget and junior divisions the seven teams whichitis hoped will comprise the league are richmond hill aurora new market willowdale milliken markham and stouffville fainting ceremony a correspondent has been good enough to inform us abouta near tragedy that happened down in sussex wis at a wedding ceremony apparently the groom was so lovesick that he fainted during the ceremony then his brother floyd fainted a second later one of the attendants went into a swoon- the sur- vivors of the ordeal rendered first aid we are not informed on the reason for the unfortunate m situation which must have marred the hap piness of the occasion