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1he tribune thursday september t 197c whs v edimrials fcsfehibrs should take control j 0f their own social activities although notvet finalized it is all but certain that council will rent the old post office i building for the use of various community groups f one of the most often discussed uses is for a recreation fcentce for the many elderly citizens of the community there has been much talk of the retired residents getting together and forming their own association to run the post office as a rdrbpin centre sofar that is all there has been just talk to oursurprise the elderly peoplcin this- icommunity have sofar shownnone of the initiativerequired to get together and form a social organization they can truly call their vown vi j js jju it seems that- almost daily the federal i government announces some new horizons grantsthat have been awarded to senior citizens group within thepastmonth eight t groups in the toronto area received a totalof over 50000 to finance such activities as publication of a newsletter arts programs recreational and social activities the claremont senior citizens have formed a very robust organization that has also received federal funding j i it is unfortunate but it seems the elderly have become too dependent on the local service clubs and church groupswhich have xbeen organizing their outings and social ac- -tivities- v it is especially unfortunate as the retired people have a wealth of organizational and social experience that is going virtually un- tapped there is no way in theworld we can be convinced the elderly in this community are incapable of organizing themselves thi rty years thistvekhp one only has to look at the tremendous job mr and mrs wes brillinger have done in breathing life into the whitchurchstouffville museum they are both in their 70s yet they display a vigor and interest in life that would put half- their age to shame we find it amazing that- people can go k along through their working lives com- petently running homes farms or businesses j and then when they reach the magic age of 65 suddenly abdicate responsibility for their own social lives walkers cyclists safety cpiisidered it seems highway 47 from main st to just s south of thesales barn will be rebuilt this year after all council were earlier informed the project would be cancelled for the year because of a shortage of provincial funds reconstruction should provide con- siderable relief at the intersection of main and highway 47 as plans call for right turn lanes to funnel southbound traffic onto main st and to allow traffic coming from east of town to turn north onto the highway the only complaint we have is that there is very little provision for pedestrians and none whatsoever for cyclists increasingly i people have been walking or riding to the sales barn and if the plaza is built on the east side of the highway it is logical to expect people to walk from the existing neighborhood to the north and from the proposed dulverton subdivision plans call only for a sidewalk to run along charles creasey a stouffville resident submitted this sketch of the town fire bell as an entry for the planned centennial sketch book anyone interested in submitting a drawing should act quickly as the deadline is october 1 there have been some very fine submissions from local residents but so far we have less than a dozen sketches in hand if no more arrive we will have a pretty skimpy book the bell pictured here now sits in front of the fire hall it originally was mounted at the top of a fire tower and dates back to the days when citizens formed bucket brigades to at tempt to douse fires according to jean barkey who has been resear- ching the towns past for the planned history of stouffville the- bell was installed in the 1880s accordingto mrs barkey there was anv arsonist in town at that time and the train station two hotels both mills the tannery and a carpet factory were put to the torch she believes the culprit was discovered to be an employee of the grand trunk railway sugar and spice distractions distractions distractions by bill smiley 1 boy i cant think of anything more harrowing than trying to write a column sitting at the picnic table in the backyard on a midsummer day i envy those writers who have a nice without windows in no distractions- no the west side from main st up to south stvft quiet study we strongly recommend that aipavedisiwhichjto do- ft strip be placed along both sides of the road all disruptions just the writer and his machine 5 the wayup tothe sales barn this could serve the words pouring onto the clean white paper for evclistsand nedestrians and wouldbe 5iili mm i hifo 1nan excerpts from the tribune from september y kjh claremont landmark r i f 0 orie of the last carriage shops in pickering township and perhaps in the province of ontario has been razed to the agroundit was on the property of mr j a pugh and was built somewhere over 60 years ago by the late joseph wilson who owned the- property before mr pugh purchased itfmr rhugh michell bought the building for his chicken farm neaf claremont i the passing of this old shop recalls the beginning of the village in 1855 it was in that j dear editor l for cyclistsand pedestrians and wouldbe much cheaper than constructing a sidewalk mayor gordon iratcliff has expressed approval of this proposal and we hope he can convince the rest of council to go along with it now is thetifneto do it in conjunction with the rest of the reconstruction it could very well save the life of a pedestrian or cyclist onto a white linen like sparkling wine t its almost impossible for me con centrate on turning out a piece of taut fascinating creative prose for more than a minute or two sitting here today too many interruptions v not only doi i not have no windows if youll pardon the triple negative its just one big window and i cant stop looking through it if it was possible to turn my head in a 360 degree circle i would see an entire world mostly green in miniature theres my neighbor helen at the a clothesline uhhuh looks like her grand- daughter was here for the weekend ten diapers on the line among the towels and sheets doesnt believe in disposables i do theres a sawing sound across the fence wonder what my neighbor jim is working at this fine sunny day better saunter over and i check it out well have a chat about the iniquities of the town council v here- comes patsy woods a third side neighbor with her little brother- bad news one of my huge oaklimbs about two feet in diameter the one that hangs right over their editors mail etrjdijikers ridje in supporters backyard kiyear that donaldmcphee opened the first iirfistoreand a grist mill was erected in 1866 a planing mill and a woollen mill were added to f- t village industries- tit i f record enrolment uxbridge highschool reports the largest enrolment in s years- 158 students registered two buses operate to the school j from zephyrand from udora library renovated vt while the greater portion of wednesdays municipal council meeting in stouffville was vttaken up with the passing of routine accounts cisthelocal library board represented by rev douglas davis and lc murphy waited on council and reported on the recent im- provements made there both in the books and the building itself- k m the board mrdavis stated had gone to considerable expense of late in redecorating the interior of the building and arranging for b bulletin boards outside andwereasking the municipal council for a grant of 100 to assist with the work if the council saw fit to make this contribution a similar grant was to be forthcoming from the department of lib- jrariesit was also stated that the hor- siticultural society it was expected would take iorf job of replanting the once flourishing may i reply- to the letter ofw assinck of and sports equipment we had ho community centres or recreation directors to organize our epiy w rr2 stouffville who defended trail bikesm fun and i cantremember any of my youthful the tribuneof august19th vozgang being bored or getting into serious 7dsurfacediv trouble r flower bed in fronfof the library building as a rural resident on a hard- road we have our share of the hoiseof gravel and other trucks of farm tractors anjd plemehts chain saws and etc and these necessary disturbances we accept as a part of the noise pollution of- everyday living therefore i do not think we are unreasonable x in expecting rural peace and quiet on saturdays- and sundays- when most mechanical activity is curtailed when up toforty trailbikes are gathered in the abandoned gravel pits close to our property on weekends i do not think we are i being narrowminded in complaining about the imported noise there is a noise- law governing automobiles which does not seem to applyto motorcycles if the trail bikers operated their vehicles with reasonable quiet we would riot complain about their activity- but noise seems to be a necessary part of their game v- w assinck mentions that older people should think of the fun they had when they were youngof course we had fun butwe werent affluent then and to have fun we had to shovel snow from the pond to play hockey and clean off a section of the cow pasture for baseball and soccer in between times wedid odd jobs to earn money to buy our own skates w assinck asks where kids can go to ride trail bikes as an opener i would suggest that house has a split right up the trunk have to go and look yeah mats dad patsy ill have to call george the tree man and have it taken down pity but it willprovide some ex citement for the neighborhood right behind me is the big- square- brick house in which lurks my old lady sufferingv from the mummy of all sunburns nose like ani overripeclierry chest like a peeling boiled beet furious because of thewayshe and feels v i dont burn after a dreadful experience as r kid- when i had to sit foritwo days and nights in a chair plastered from head totoe withsome concoction of my mothers t for- sunburn was it baking powder i or baking- sbdaikeepmylilyiimbscovered oh i get what we call a farmers tan forearms face and neck but the rest of me is white as the driven snow v vj fi j i dont turn around to look behind meatj that house aside from my suffering wife v- inside thereis the outside beautiful 1 green vine so much admiredbyvisitorstisv climbing the brick wall like a giant squid pulling the bricks loose one byone aria bc-i- i he or she should begin lookingfor a riding casionally hurling one downt- just above the space close to rr2 stouffville where he lives t backdoor at todays rates for repairsthat by doing that he would be sharing the problem k and taking some of the trailbike noise out of my backyard john livingstone rr1 locust hill brickwork will likely cost me more tjianit post- to build the house 7todd yearsagov t f htl fu- tui lets change the subject ill break off for a moment in fact ithinki its so painful situation observed whiiiisicallv theres thegarbage can to bnng inmaybervi ilkget my seveniron out of the car trunkahdip dear sir a passenger and sing or government should ex- whistle as i do then on pand their licence plate observation is the serving is all that is left production into car- only activity other than hence i have observed bodies an entrepencur singing or whistling for most 1973 licence plates could corner the old- people who must drive are standing up to the licence plate market and daily to and from toronto road salt better than most sell them as car patches get my seveniron out of the car truruvahd cut some weeds thats what i use instead of a hoe- l r t if y there thatsbetter5my swing was fight i have also observed on today kept myhead down my eye on the huge empty sanitary weed took a slow back swing and one whole flower bed is weedless for their work if you take cars the ontario reader lampoons labor congress poo balis opportunity to again assert and repulse a foreign invasion of in- countdown stouffville ceiiieriiiial fblgreuner opened in 1891 ki- stouffvilles first major retailer in the dry goods trade was fred spoffordmf spofford twas born in markham township in the hamlet lotmmraimdnvfm secondary education in richmond hill at seventeen he itwasir ainti89lopenedthew6ckdowt library attbejmrnertof main ana mill stsyearwithouttheuscjof chemicals the block was actually built by- messrs sangster sanders williamson and in 1893 blossomed out as spofford co- largest dry goods retailer between toronto and lindsay jlw mr spofford- was a- strong believer in advertising and as part of his program he put on special musicalncerts during the yearj importing the best t talent from toronto v f anotherfirst was lus acquiring of the- iphandled only y wholesalers manufacturing prcci that could be produced any day of the ijf dear sir s given as i did not want to your editorial be charged with following britains- plagiarism path got me rehearsing poo bah morris and the labor movement in broadbent marched their canada from 1905 on to subservient serfs up the and commandeer all that cover same meant a hill when asked by wehold dear justice and letter too long to burden students invited to freedom receive the throng what mental institute they jailed from the sub- servient serfs bawled out labor congress of canada this answer produced laughter from disposal truck heading south on ft highway 48 presumably enroute- pick up another load body garbage for york sanitation safe keeping reflect for a moment on what council has done they have prohibited squirrel looking for a dumping tolerated a rubbing against rriy i hearing board thrown tantrum for the benefit queens park and focal newspaper sales what else can we do my observation is how ineffective local zif r also pushed the lawnmower under the and bugs- left a big round dead patch in the lawn good work bill- lawn good work bill i i more distractions a cheeky black 4 handout dumb cat you and the readers of the tribune we know that the labor movement has been pampered and given power that appears to supercede the bill of rights for instance the all quarters with their country far above that of cipient ideologies that government has become would confiscate usurp- why not let the ad ministrator continue to run the administration and let council resign the provincial governments would continue to set our local policy and we would be setting an example by cutting back on expenses we could use the money saved to buy up old licence plates then we v our country be blessed with some mortal soul who will lead this generation and those that follow in the footsteps of our- forebearers who placed patriotism and ahah whats that noise down the lane v better stroll down and see great- a bellf telephone truck and two young fellows digging- a post hole entire neighborhood watehes machinerydigs hole erects pole witheasew old timers comment scornfully remember r when you dug them by hand with a spoon shovel brutal hard work theres the fire engine betterjump in theear and followholy old jumpin whydojj they let all these crazies follow the firetruck through town at 50 miles an hour somebody- might be killed v i wasnt much just some dumb housewife let the fat boil over on the stove while shewas watching her soap opera but it might have closed shop business and welcome at an end poo selfishgreed o licence piaics men we izr jrfii commercehavevbeehbahmorris3and -broad- what an opportunity could sell themasbody tfpfiws tyawgiiy clobberedvno longer bentl marched uhe rsub- for aspiring patrioticvp thesenior i lwee f mwfj- 1 should get back to the column ohnov theres the old battleaxe at the back door wailingwhat areyou doing out there just sitting around enjoying yourself when you know im in agony least you could do is put a if l len floor me any masters in their place of servient serfs down the business they- must iiillv v iacceptthe approval of vshadows of evening unions that never- had had begun to creep over contributed one red cent the landscape yet high on or energy in creating the hill a beautiful maple businesses that existed leaf fluttered in the before the dictatorial -vyening- calm and the nabobs were born there vesper hymn came has to be changes and choiring oh canada we unions dehorned of stand on guard for thee privileges v the students of the following sketch canada op- llcvi youth- lli has been said citizens use them in their that the darkest day m arts and crafts at the iiew heralds the dawning of library we would take a light may mat light shine percentage of their sales forth and honor canada we could be known as the strong and free reclamation centre of the j i world garbage from thank- youmr every country wecould editor in providingan all be rich start a opportunity to protest the lottery have the militancy and ignorance olympics maybe we of a money- mad j y the country form our own 1 govern- which cafes not for the i two years ago and insisted with great and sincerity that if they were ever in our broadbent stems frbmamonis and broadbent parodyon a ubbrieader that the spirit of october in the- usanamed ibu is not dead has but dooley tws explanation iain dormant awaiting an aj jtitrifscrvii -v- door thev fear the end of ul nof the woods to look us up look at thatk poor they fear the end meil and stop the dump ithreekidsanda drigodev llfjf v perhaps ywicuntlevstaijdliow why 1 l observed doing 40 mph in haf tinsrk io j h fhe about thedimbiupf the portunitythfamth day of jfxlil v ment and stopthe dump v hiuvabortmwtuandxoctbber toshow poo bah j5s4ffl iave- justvbeen- n iji rm r h ana notdeiore time j u m s- and not before draws near wiluam mcartiiur rri gormley 5s5 and having a t having to write myooti tft bob lewis r- out under the trees imtead of writing if ol rr2 stouffville jumnr out under the trees instead of writing it at my k desk in mid-winter- f wjaty ji w s