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4 the tribune thursday october 21 m7c spirit in town is apparently in short supply the centennial year is fast approaching and thanks to considerable work by the various committees and service clubs the year promises to be a busy whirl of social activities well have banquets barbecues dances parades contests and parties galore but we are somewhat concerned that conspicuously missing are any projects that will upgrade or improve the former village in a permanent manner that is except for a tree planting program to be carried out on the orchard park school yard by the students and teachers there- the suggestion we have had made oh several occasions and in this very spave that a program of tree planting and a general ears ago this week excerpts from the tribune from october 2i 1946 legal picketpockets the farmer who finds his pocket has been picked after he returns from market with a healthysized roll of bills can just forget about it if the picking has been done by his own wife according tojean orour a past president of the womeris law association the practice she declaresisnotcontraryto the criminal coders asjongasithe wife j nonthinking pf forsaking the houleholdr this will i be encouraging f news for housewives as far asciyil or criminal law goes but the law that governs the individual 1 household might argue with this decision consequently each wife will have to give the i matter consideration withthe khowledgeof the kind of animal she has to deal with knight of the road just a minute now until i get straightened up before you shoot that thing said this confirmed knight of theroad to the tribune when the camera was turned on him few know hisriamejim shannon but hundreds know his familiar figure as he l- saunters through the town on his frequent excursions which range between stbuffyille r as his western point east through whitby and oshawa as far as- newcastle v no i never take a ride especially if it is j offered by wbmenikeepaway from theni vbutitissoselddmthey ask me hecbnfessed- r only irfthe dead of winter doesjim feel the comfort bfabed he starts off in early v j spring to sleep but until november then seeks a farmjobtisually finding one among the big stock menwho need help in winter season such as jim can offer f clean up of downtown be embarked on has been met with absolute silence stouffville has an embarrassing amount o litter in the streets but perhaps its been there so long it will be part of the centennial celebrations we can picture the slogan 100 years of trash maybe someof that crud is 100 years old it looks it and by removing it we would be irreplaceably destroying a wealth of historical artifacts the towns official centennial project the new libraryhad to be mandated by council and it seems to be universally unpopular a r first for ust we had never until now heard of a community objecting to building a library most communities are proud of their library facilities another thing that does not bode well for the community is that on the eve of our cen- tennialwe havebecome so apathetic about municipal affairs that only the mayoralty position is being contested y s for the past two years we have listened to people bellyaching and complaining that council are a bunch of tightwads are spending our money like a drunken sailor are holding up development or are selling out the entire municipality to the developers y oyet when election time rolls around where are the critics i the old saying is that people get what they deserve but luckily in this case that hasnt happened if stouffville got the kind of council it seems to deserve then we would have a bunch of opportunists and grafters running things to suit themselves we often disagree withcouncils decisions i acclaimed council one whose members are in office by default owes nothing to the ratepayers because the citizenry didnt elect them we have been regarding the situation in suxtiridgewith more than a little envy that community has a spirit that makes us look sick they have a businessmans association may ours rest in peace that is doing a great job of beautifying and revitalizing the downtown j we can look at the demise of sports day and the craft centre and then compare that to the vitality of uxbridges fair and a host of other activities held there the comparison doesnt make us look good we are not attempting to belittle those people who have worked so hard to arrange the centennial activities we appreciate the tremendous amount of work that haygohe into arranging the festivities but we feelit is time to take a look at where we are really going as a community 1 the question is are we going to maintain a distinctive identity and community spirit of are we going to become just another faceless characterless bedroom community stouffville centennial sugar and spice fopthall gave toothless character by bill smiley now that the hockey hysteria is over we armchair athletes can settle into the football season and lend our expertise so lately freely offered to scotty bowman and the canadian team to those who really need it like the hapless russ jackson and the hopeless toronto argos i must confess that im not as keen on football as i once was when i was a young buck- 1 was crazy about it i knew all the players in the big league all the standings all the records t when i was a kid we lived not too far from ottawa and i saw some of the greats in action dave sprague bummer stirling tony golab when i was about 14 my big brother took metoagrey cup final a classic between winnipeg ahdottawa with the great little fritz hanson one of the first american imports scampering around on the field like a waterbug on a pond until he was finally crushed by sonie huge homebrew a behemoth like bunny wadsworth of the rough riders those were the days when people went to watch football games because they loved the game not because it was a status symbol to have a ticket and also a great occasion for a weekend binge v my first grey cup game was also my introduction to rye whiskey i sat between two french canadian gentlemen knowledgeable about football- they had a mickey of rye after a particularly great play theyd have a polite swig each to keep out the bitter november chillavith gallic graced they of- fered me a slugmy methodist background and teetotal parents made me exclaim with horror but my14yearold spirit of adventure made me wet hiyjips with one eye on my brother ive had awarm spot for the com- biriation of footballfrench canadian gen tlemen and rye yhiskey ever since my mother would have killed me if shed seen nowadays a kid like that would probably have a mickey of his own or worse hed be v bludgeoned to death by some drunken woman behind him pounding on his head arid screaming go stampsgo even though she didnt know the difference between a wide end and a big bum v in high school played junior then senior football my best friends were the jocks oh the j football team rather than the academic types the boys in the school orchestra the membersofthe students council autumns were not school work they were long months of crisp fall afternoons tackling running throwing passing then the hot shower andthepainful jimp a mile home r through an october dark with- a sprained ankle or a loose tooth and the occasional day of glory when we stuck it to smiths falls or carleton place- and the cheefswerelike n in those daystherewas no money jor fancy uniforms and buses to outoftown games most of us wore homemade pads with felt from the local felt mill there wereaboiit half a dozen helmets for the two teams when we played out of town parents and teachers transported the team in their own cars when we played a home game every student and lots of townspeople were out to cheer the coach was a volunteer times change in the high school in which i teach with a student population of 1600 my own high school had 400 its impossible this year to muster two teams senior and junior well be lucky to have onei because of education cutbacks theres no money for buses to transport theteams whenwedo have a home game thestudents leave jin hundreds to walkthe streets- or just goof around a its sort ofsad football used to 1 characterbuilding even though you wound up with a tooth or two missing and a gimpy knee but if you weighed 140 and tackled some brute of 190 you knew you were on your way to being a man in my day the emphasis was on offense running passing trick plays but with the 2 massive influx of the american game the emphasis on defense and television to show it all the game has become almost dull except for the odd brilliant outburst of speed by some guy who is being paid a phenomenal sum for his skill and the main idea now is hitting that- is the player tries to collide with an op- ponent with such force and in such a way that the latter will be injured- and if it requires breakingfthe ive seen it done for example on kick returns then go aheadtake the s penalty as long as yoiican hit and injure the kick returner when hes hot set for a collision its dirty dirty t i went to university and i played there and i watched joe krol and royal copeland and companyand itwas still great but after the war the yanks took over now- its mechanized you have an of- fensive and a defensiveueam we used to play 60 minutes both ways and the chief aim seems to be to disable the opposition r h no wonder its losing its popularity with todays students they arenotsodumbv- one of bur high school coaches revealed the new attitude when he remonstrated with one of his rookies j hitim him im thekid retorted why should i hit him hes my friend v another kid started walking off the field in the playfheywhefeyou going the coach wanted to know the kid said im gonnahave arest it may not be football and it may make a coaches grind their teeth to the jawbone its sanity i 9 vrnavt opvernrriehf still flogging pickripg 18771977 early reeves of stouffville tf james h ratcliff who was elected to the reeveship in 1897 might well be described as the father of the local domestic water system he persisted in his efforts to bring the water question to a head and it was voted on in his first year of- office it required all mr ratcliffs per suasive powers to even get the electorate to 5 consent tovote on the question council was f fearful of the 25000 bylaw required the ensuing vote was one of the hottest ever contested in village history the bylaw- passed by seven votes most of the op ponents lived to see the error of their stand initially mr ratcliff held office for two terms he was reelected in 1917 and remained in office for five straight years he was the youngest councillor the village had had and was often twitted for his youth- fulness l he was prominent in the grocery business and a son glenn ratcliff recently deceased lalso served as councillor and reeve in later years r mr ratcliff was born in wingham and educated in peterboro where it is recalled he walked five miles to high school each day l f honour of sj tii0sf who sfrved i939 ti95 j n k0pfav vyaughan stouffville moaument works donated the two plaques above boaoarfaig uieupconilng stoaffvole centennial and tnevllbgedead froin world warll al ithe koranomfiicithe two cbldmns located at the church st sentranceto the town park rhye also been rebhckedunfort bavebeenmashed t- by uievfflagesobe seemingly ujexhaustfwe nataral resource vandals vafj stivrir the pickering airport scheme is still alive and well at least in the minds of certain ottawa bureaucrats whose views are reflected by transport minister otto lang in the houseof commons lastthursday mr lang stated thefnct is an additional air facility in the toronto region is the only way we know of solving the problem of increasing traffic which will be presenting itself having said this the minister ignored three facts r y firstcomparedtoearueryearstherehas been littleorno growth in toronto air traffic during 1975 and so far this year faced with theseeurrent activity figures departmentofficials simply reply the growth ifwutcome w second mfi langs department has already made two classic blunders in trying to establish dual airports to serve one urban areai in montreal the billiondollar mirabel has turned out to be a whiteelephant- now it is intended to justify mirabel by transferring traffic including toronto passengers through mirabel and by diverting dorval activity up to the less convenient new airport in edmonton air traffic has been badly split to the great annoyance of customers ever since the federal government built a second airport 20 miles out of town y v third while mr laiig speaks of building pickering which will likely cost more than mirabel other ministers in the trudeau cabinet talk of fiscalrestraint less spending and more energy conservation somebody is atcrc v v- s- iicfewif anynew airports are being built anywhere inthewbrld today certainly they -arenot- being constructed in the u for example yet that country has eight airports thatare more active thanmalton 0hare chicago alone handles more passengers than all canadian airports put together yet that airport is only slightly bigger than malton t the economic turn down and energy crunch has led other countries to at least delay airport expansion so should we in canada better rail service between toronto and montreal eliminating noncommercial and private flights at malton and the routing of air freight to other airports would relieve malton by sinclair stevens mp from the stress of any future air traffic ex- h pansion that is up to 1990 anyway j v beyond that date who knows what will be needed to service future travellers already it is known that larger aircraft with modern noise control apparatus will carry more passengers with less noise s as that becomes apparent it is likely todays anxiety among residents in the malton area will lessenthey want to keep thehv airport but they want less noisethey may get both that is if pickedring is not built thanks for volunteer program story dear john thank youfor the opportunity of allowing me to explain our volunteer probation of- fleers to you in an interview at your office on preciation for your excellently written article james oosterveer senior probation v parole officer iicers 10 you in an interview ai your omce on i j september 9th i appreciate that the twtouu dlscusswh ul l tribunes social awareness and sense of community service extends to the point where considerable space was given in the sub sequent article of your september 16th issue i thanks to you our recruitment drive was asuccess eight people from the stouffville area presented themselves after reading the tribune and they are presently completing bur training program in york region a total of 23 people came forward to volunteer which is truly impressive once again may i express my ap- schools not wanted 1 dear sir v i i was glad to see that the york county board of education passed a motion stressing the achievement selfmotivation and self- esteem through- academic- and vocational skills i hopethat this trend toward more basic skillsfor our children will also be a trend away from groupldiscussionsof per- sonaland family problems and otbergroup psychological techniques ihcjsxvisi audrey christie i qsjiyizfejm1ul stoofrvuie