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4 the tribune thursday october 1 1m john m0ntkmerysffijspbbhitarwv2ssii mjymmims perry ttt wim rt ot barrebeacoqc bor eiemcafat ftmiii ityhnrpwfsaisecihimdoctfwtaw library board states case for new facility the need for a new public library facility in whitchurch stouffville has long been apparent over the last fourteen years the library board has attempted to document the case in 1972 the need was confirmed by an independent consultant a new library now seems a reality with only a few minor details to be confirmed yet there are still members of the community who feel current facilities are adequate and that the new project should be scrapped the current main st location is excellent but the facilities are in fact barely adequate they have been sufficient only as temporary quarters being an old building the floors were never designed to hold the weight of book stacks the floors at present are loaded to maximum capacity and to add new stacks is structurally impossible without major ex pensive renovations since the library board rents but does not own the present building expenditures of this kind make little sense i definitions for hockey the ontario hockey coaches association recently gleaned some hockey definitions from an american newspaper that while they do not accurately reflect the ontario hockey scene may serve as a warning for us to im prove the atmosphere of the game red line the trail left on the ice by a player with a nosebleed severed limb fractured face etc as he is led to the arena infirmary for surgery crease the line a referee gets in his forehead when hes informed hell be handling a game involving the philadelphiaflyersvo blue line a hockey players conversation in which every second word is you gloves l what a player throws down to signal the game has started penalty box where hockey is played if the penalty box is crowded however players may mill around on the ice until theres space for them j hooking hockeys oldest profession trainer the person who tapes the hockey players hands before the fighting begins and their bodies after its over stick the most important bit of hockey equipment in that the player needs it to make obscene gestures to the crowd impale other 4 players and hold himself up while skating to the penalty box net whats left from the gross after ex penses hockey fan a person who pays 1250 to witness the kind of thing he can see for free outside any sleazy bar late saturday night teeth there is no such word in the hocky dictionary goal y y well we all know what tire goal is in professional hockey to make money right rather than pay rent it is more practical to put the money into a building which the people of whitchurch stouffville will own the debenture money comes from the provincial government at a rate much below the current market rates in effect a very cheap loan for what the province considers worthwhile projects i of the land purchased as a building site for 105000 only 25 percent will be deeded to the library board the rest can beused or developed by the municipality as it so desires this foresight is sound and responsible planning a cost to the taxpayer for the library of onehalf million dollars has been hinted at by some citizens the actual cost to the municipality for the building will be the 250000 debenture and a guarantee of 35000 until the old library is sold all other building funds will come from donations and wintario there are no escalation clauses in the tender documents thus we are assured of a firm price by the contractor and this price is backed by a performance bond even though there is no assessment on libraries it is the case that any municipality with a library board collects a per capita grant directly from the province for library service this year that grant amounted to 21119 not an inconsiderable sum we have also heard the argument that only those who use the library should pay for it since the passage in the 19th century of the public libraries acts in great britain it has been considered a right in literate countries to have free access to information libraries are store houses of our culture and necessary tools to insure a literate and informed citizenry to continue in this tradition is a right and a duty of all the citizens of whit church stouffville the public library board has attempted to the best of its ability to plan a reasonable j and efficient building let the community now stand behind the board to make the official centennial project a successful venture editors note the preceeding is a guest editorial submitted by the whitchurch stouffville public library board t present library is quite adequate dear sir t we got money lets spend it away we go again too much of our tax money just waiting to be spent it must be a disease thats become an epidemic perhaps we should call it a spending flu here we have a library that is in a very central location is quite large enough ive never seen it crowded and the library board wants to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for a new library it will cost more thana half million before its through as anyone who has seen projects escalate during the past few years will know the council apparently has 250000 it doesnt know what to do with one tax way or another that money came out of our pockets and before that building is open for business well have to kick in a lot more theres no assessment on libraries the land is worth a lot more to the town as a business or commercial site regmackay v 85maytreeave stouffville mmf countdown stouffville centennial 18771977 early reeves of stouffville of the early reeves of stouffville none was more eminently a community builder than robert j daley fourth reeve the stouffville market flourished at its height when he was reeve he took office in 1890 and served for three years prominent in the legislation enacted when he was reeve was the liquor local option bill of which he was a strong advocate in 1892 a largely signed petition asked for the vote tobe taken and it passed in april of that year by a good margin over the threefifths requiremencv jf council meetings were held in the hall owned by the reeve and no charge was made j the tax rate during his threeyear term of office remained at 13 mills mr daley was never defeated for the reeveship but in 1892 declined to seek reelection mr daley was buried in stouffville in 1930 t dining hiswm of office the clerks treasurer w h woodgate resigned and uriah c hamilton took over the duties mr daleys councillors had been r j armstrong auctioneer and storekeeper j c clark veterinarian hiram johnson baker and thomas williamson who became one of the villages most welltodo residents and on his death left the williamson trust fund to the deserving poor of the community centennial book the book on the history of stouffville is now in the final stages and should go to the printers by the end of november a target date set for sales to the public is january commemorative plates 1 centennial plates are being looked after byheen hassard and marian hodgson jpjatesf will be available for sale by december the plates come in two designs with either a picture of the original sum- mitview school of the train station plates will have some historical notes on the back 1 t as expected there were numerous last minute entries for the cen tennial sketch book all entries have been handed over to committee chairman bruce burton who is arranging to have a panel of artists make the actual selections in this way it was felt the judging would be ob jective as it turns out the sketch book will be more of a folio than a book the sketches will b2 printed on high quality paper suitable for framing and wont be bound the sketch above drawn by high school art teacher john roberts was one of the last entries received the house is located at the northwest corner of main and albert sts the house is approximately 90 years old and was built f or j l baker who was involved in the lumber business in stouffville before the turn of the century sugar and spice bill spends unconstructive summer i by bill smiley end of summer notes cant think of one single useful constructive thing i did during the past summer which is as it should be i did threaten once or twice to paint the back stoop and the picnic table and chairs but on the days when i was ready to put the stain on the picnic equipment it rained thank goodness and i never did figure out how to paint thestoop the cat sleeps there all day i was either going to have a cat with green feet or id have to tie him to the lilac tree until e paint dried which i thought was a bit inhuman one of the big events of the summer was having an oak tree taken down it was about 70 feet high and two feet thick at the base it was quite a thrill to watch the treeslayers two of them scrambling away up into the blue of a summer evening slinging ropes around in all sorts of mysterious ways shouting in comprehensible directions to each other like a couple of sailors reefing the foresail around cape horn and lowering the mighty oak in sections i i now have four woodpiles in my back yard about six cords of firewood on which all sorts of people are casting an envious eye forget it friends it cost me 300 to have that oak down and im going to enjoy it if i have to keep the fireplace burning day and night all winter that was a bad week just after the oak came down the automatic washer in the basement blew its guts the dryer was shot too so this was another 700 an exciting installation the washer and dryer wont down our cellar stairs the boys had to rip out the stairs and lower the machinery but they labored with great good nature and ingenuity we didnt lose a single man nor even a married one it could never happen if you bought the outfit from one of the big out-of- town firms theyd just sneer if you said the stairs have to come out that was a 1000 week of pure loss but it was somewhat redeemed the following week when i went to halifax and won an award which included a handsome cheque for 500 it made me think god was back in his heaven after being out to lunch for a whole week that halifax is quite a place it looks like a city in germany circa1950that has been badly bombed and is rebuildingv beautiful new buildings rising right next to deadly threestorey slums with winos hanging out the windows j last time i was there was in the spring of 1942 on my way overseas and halifax was real crud then cold wet dismal blackout poor food england looked like paradjse after wartime halifax now its a swinging lively city had a fine trip on the bluenose h fell sails set spanking along in the sunshine dont miss this if youre there watched in fascination as a prominent western edjtor fell asleep not once but thee times during a speech by joe gafk a potential prime minister humored an eastern editor who armed with a credit card from the grand trunk railway personally signed by sir john macdonald thought he could finance a trip for several of us to paraguay f listened to a number of editors of my vintage tell me theyre rich retired and work one day a week just to keep my hand in which of course means interfering with their sons or daughters who are trying to pay off the tremendous sum the old man wanted for the business gave sage advice and a bottle of rum to a young woman called alice b toklas iwho assured me she had quit running around with gertrude stein and ernest hemingway and scott fitzgerald and all those rotters a and then of course weve had the boys as they are now called the boys are the two grandsons when they are here it takes four adults full time to keep things even minimally sane one is at the hellonwheels stage the other is at the crawling if you cant eat it pull it over on your head stage and every time our daughter leaves with the boys we are cleaned out she goes away with a big green garbage bag full ofsteaks- chieken pork chops a box full of canned goods and a pillow case stuffed with new clothes for the boys and herself next morn ing we have to go shopping to get enough grub for our own breakfast 1 then theres been the golf no matter what she does my wife is an enthusiast sh believes that nothing succeeds like excess so weve played golf every day she is really a rotten player because she reads books about golf and practices her swing i am just or dinary rotten v im afraid were going to be thrown out of the golf club if anyone had tried to tell me that my sweet shy bride of a few years ago would come out with the language she uses on the golf course id have said sir pistols at v dawnor nine irons at nine take your pick i try to help in a gentle sincere sort of way when she flubs a shot i merely point out that her grip was slack her stance sloppy her backswing too fast and her head went up like a toilet seat and she screams at me right across the fairway ij i heard one elderly lady golfer saying to her husband quite concerned r mark my words shes going to kill him why do you think she takes her seven iron home every day afterthey play i hear hes well in sured ii it all in all it was a pretty fair summer i think v t t k dp the english rpqlly have it 4 by c h nolar london despite all their problems economic climatic and other wise do the english really know how to live better than we do after making more trips to britain than i can remember i still come away each time more than a little impressed by the manner in which they appear to enjoy life the anxiety which we on this side of the water are constantly faced with that need to slowdown is never a topic of conversation neither mountainous taxes nor high prices occupy the priority place in conversation that one would expect high pressure salesmanship is hard to find and the speed with which many trans actions are completed can drive a north american nearly wild why are we in all this hurry suddenly faced with this question we are at a loss for an answer should we be driven to explode in the face of this couldnt care less manner of doing business we are merely looked on with faint curiosity over the last twenty or thirty years we have lived in canada with a constant feeling of being pushed we fight against it with great difficulty the end result continual tension we can deny it but its there the exact cause of this continual- scramble is not known but it undoubtedly feeds on the tv the daily press the anxiety over jobs and status we are constantly looking for change sd feel uncomfortable i with the uncertainty of it all while british newspapers are a weak copy of those to which were accustomed particularly in their v breadth of coverage they are enjoyed uiunsisnoiiosayui likewise tv while minimal in variety inot conscientious we compared to our own is excellent in quality and is likewise much enjoyed there is a pleasure in doing nothing which we in this country cannot quite grasp we rush froin place to place scarcely knowing why this slowness of pace in britain most pronounced outside the large metropolitan areas is a treat once one gets used to it and its only natural to wonder why it has to be otherwise all this is not to say that we in canada are are many are so much so that their frenzied lives lead them to take on more than their share of community tasks i a great majority of people will deny their tensions but it is a condition throughout our society that has become chronic and a trip to britain is a sure way to see the difference 1 thirty years ago this week excerpts from the tribune from october 10 1946 quite happy s cute little martha anne pogue 3yearold gormley girl spent all her money at the first stand at markham fair on saturday record receipts markham fair receipts this year established a record reaching 359455 plus grand stand admissions of 274 one of the most orderly and largest crowds on record for this fair said president george little clock bathed a the town clock has just had a bath first since it was installed fifteen years ago caretaker jake smith who grooms the clock each week stopped the works for a few days and gave the whole mechanism a thorough cleaning we wouldnt want tobe without our big time piece v v v j 80 snack the value of farmer elmer hendersons calf tooku sudden 80 rise too sudden for its own good henderson put his wallet containing 80 on a bush when the started to mow a meadow when he returned the wallet was gone henderson killed the calf and found his 80 only rlightly chewed the fanner lives near rusyville down in arkansas i