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the tribune thursday june is 1178 3 300 dinners served lugger team italian dinner last thursday evening marked the 3rd annual rugger team italian dinner and one was as successful as tbe previous two the senior spartan rugger team the york county champions prepared and served approximately 300 dinners to fellow students tand many interested t adults tbe cooking of the meal was very capably managed by mrs biancbi who had tbe boys kneading tbe hamburger into meatballs stirring sauces and generally learning a little more about tbe preparation of a large meal during the dinner coaches dave connell and wayne nugent presented mrs biancbi with a bouquet of roses on behalf of tbe senior team the rugger team also would like to thank the stouffvule iga the stouffville a and p and especially the lancia bravo food company for their vry generous donations of foodstuffs following the dinner both athletes and adults j stouffville grade 13 students at sdss were talking about a walk out early this week as the result of cancellation of the traditional senior assembly the walk out never came off and the school reported about 20 per cent of the senior students absent for the full day monday s school principal merv witherow told the tribune that although this is a fauiy high rate it is not that high con sidering the school term is almost over and at tendance is never as consistent at this time students from other grades circulated a petition with ap- proximately 100 signatures protesting cancellation of the assembly apparently the senior students feel the can cellation was not justified see letter page 4 mr witherow said he decided not to allow the assembly to be held during class time because there are too many other interruptions to classes during may and early june there was justification but they werent prepared to accept it said mr witherow the principal said class time was lost because of the three buildings preserved uxbridge i township council has determined that although r uxbridge downtown revitalization program is important it wont come i at the cost of destroying historic structures that came out at last weeks regular council meeting when the members passed a motion to appoint a local architectural advisor to look into the buildings that should be preserved and categorized ac- cording to mayor gord davie the mayor com mented that now that a study is being done to bring business into the town a way must be found of saving the architectural look of the city councillor norm lyons wholeheartedly agreed with the motion seeing it as a way to let people know we consider these buildings important to the town its a shame some historic buildings have been destroyed in the past hopefully it wont happen anymore goodwood councillor john paxton also sup- trip could continue continued from page 1 the cross an anglican lay religious order gives todd michell equal emphasis to physical and academic learning the claremont school is affiliated with a net work which began in winnipeg in 1957 a school official is reported to have said the trip may continue this saturday he said he felt the boys should continue for the good of th eir self- confidence but that the final decision would be up to the boys ported the resolution but commented it should have been done before the uxbridge post office was destroyed the post office built in 1911 was torn down seven years ago to make room for a bowling alley at the meeting the mayor also announced that the downtown study has received a boost in the form of a 2500 grant to defer costs the grant comes from the nelson a hyland charitable foundation a trust established by the late mr hyland a toronto philanthropist calling the study a last hope to prevent business from fragmenting toward the outskirts of the city the mayor praised the foundation for its support of the five month study the mayor further announced that the township has hired ae lepage consulting firm to assist in the feasibility study the firm will draw findings from the marketing surveys landscape designs and traffic flow data compiled so far retired to the gymnasium for the remainder of the evenings program mr rehill with many hours of preparation behind him showed an excellent music accompanied slide presentation featuring tbe boys volleyball basketball and rugger teams there were many favourable comments on this presentation along with two offers from television companies for mr rehill to do documentaries just before the trophy presentations mr connell announced the winners of the rugger raffle they were happiness is a warm srum t shirt mrs gaye macdonald give blood play spartan rugger t shirt karen sheffield and finally an authentic spartan rugger sweater nevil hodgeson an english teacher at sjxss finally the big moment arrived with the presentation of tbe many athletic trophies en thusiastic applause greeted the winners as each name was an nounced and when the final presentation was completed the principal mr witherow offered his congratulations not only to the winners but to all the athletes who had competed for stouffville this past year this ended a very successful evening and athletic year for the athletes and coaches at sdss there certainly were a lot of meatballs at tbe stouff ville high school last thursday for the italian dinner the students are from left to right glen newmarch larry holt randy grant mike salb dave wadsworth and mike boadway sdss physical education teacher dave connell gave a helping hand in scraping and cleaning the tremendous amount of dishes used at last weeks italian dinner dave when asked to stick his hands in the muck for the photographer adamantly refused not wanting to give his students the chance to see him that way students protest ruggerteams which went well into the finals and due to numerous field trips according to mr witherow the time was needed for teachers to complete their curriculum and to finish giving tests traditionally the time for the assembly about 40 minutes was taken entirely from class time but this year mr witherow said the school was prepared to allow a dismissal only 15 minutes earlier than the usual time of 315 pm he said the students declined to hold the assembly under those terms the whole school body is usually allowed to attend the final assembly warning health and welfare canada advises that danger to health increases with amount smoked avoid inhaling average per cigarette king size and regular 7mg tar 07mg nicotine gift to pcs ruled proper a 35000 gift to the ontario progressive conservative party from a garbage disposal company was proper an ontario supreme court judge ruled recently a royal commission was set up to look into allegations that revolved around the companies donation while a sister firm was seeking landfill permits from the ontario environment ministry justice sam hughes who headed the com mission into waste management inc of oak brook 111 said that he pinb all wizards score more time uxbridge the uxbridge pinball shop on l i brock st will be allowed to lengthen their operating hours t following the hotly debated decision at t council last week councillor sandy ewen at the meeting moved an amendment to the places of amusement bylaw allowing tbe store to operate from 10 am to 11 pm monday to thursday and 10 am to 12 midnight friday and saturday tbe motion which passed by a narrow 32 margin allows the store to open earlier in the day councillor john paxton questioned the need for the store to be opened earlier ex pressing that with the revised hours children will have an easier time getting there however mr ewen noted that there are cither citizens not just students who use it and would find it easier to use if tbe store was open at 10 am i dont think the municipality should be controlling students by curbing the hours of an establishment con trolling students is the job of the school or parents not tbe municipality and i also think tbe kids should be entitled to an extra hour on the weekeod nights it seems reasonable mr ewen commented councillor alan wells was concerned about the appearance of the store but felt the amended hours were reasonable and supported the motion mayor gord davie voted in favour of tbe motion breaking the deadlock was unable to find that there was any wrongdoing or im propriety or any im proper influence brought to bear on members of the ontario government or its public service by the company besides the donation the commission also dealt with the inference that because the ministry failed to enforce its own regulations against york sanitation ltd in its dump on highway 48 in whitchurch stouffville influence had been used york sanitation is another subsidiary of waste management however the judge found non enforcement of the rules in line with the ministrys policy to wean operators away from bad habits rather than to prosecute them the judge was critical of the ministry because of the over- dumping at he site saying it was no more technical breach but a studied flouting of the ministrys order york sanitation had been dumping up to 900 tons a day when its permit called for 300 at the most ministry lawyers had said they couldnt get a conviction until weight scales were installed the scales were put in two years ago and york was convicted and fined 14000 in 1977 the royal com mission was set up to investigate the donation made in 1974 from disposal services ltd a canadian subsidiary of waste management a week later the ministry granted a permit for the smaller of two landfill sites sought by superior sand gravel and sup plies ltd calling the situation most suspicious of all judge hughes noted however that he found it to be coincidence only all the evidence is to the effect that no one at the ministry of environment from the minister down knew anything about the donation until three years later and there was not a shred of evidence of any influence being brought to bear mrs bianchi was studiously at work most of the day last thursday overseeing operations in the sdss kitchen she along with some of the rugger players prepared 60 lbs of hamburger into approximately 600 meatballs local students visit ottawa by dianne darling stouffville the highlight of the year for sdss grade eight students was undoubtedly the ottawa bus trip the outing timed for the may tulip festival was a real experience both for the students and the teachers and parents ac companying them the students got the opportunity to sup plement the past years history lessons with firsthand experience during the first part of the dog dues if you are a friend of mans best friend you are about to start paying your dues if you havent been already the town of whit- churchstouffville has bylaw enforcement of ficer george goff and two students canvassing the entire town in an effort to collect monies from all dog owners in the town to finance dog control in the municipality the use of the students is an experiment by the town in an attempt to have a more intensive canvas of the area mr goff and his team have been at work for at least three weeks now and the whole project is expected to take one month drivers out stouffvilles new baseball diamond has prompted town council to call automobile drivers who park on the south side of park drive south out a new bylaw passed tuesday night june 6 prohibits parking on park drive south for a distance of 350 feet west of the intersection of thicketwood boulevard and park drive council felt that the congested parking caused by the allowance of parking on both sides of the street presented a dangerous problem and when a large turnout for ball games was on band it became difficult to use tbe street tour when they visited upper canada village david payne head of the elementary division had spent hours organizing this part of the trip so that students would get a better un derstanding of pioneer life the youngsters chose individual buildings and did assignments on them in ottawa the students toured the museum of science and technology one of the finest science houses in the world they saw a chicken hatch pressed every button possible and mrs krabi one of the teachers had her picture taken with a holstein cow upon returning to the hotel 16 pizzas were ordered in and devoured another highlight of the trip was a tour of the parliament buildings which was arranged by the office of sinclair stevens our mpp stevens was impressed by the questions from our students and was caught off guard when one of them queried him on the pickering airport issue everyone was presented with a canadian pin and a flag for the school another interesting experience was sitting in the gallery during question period wat ching former prime minister the hon john diefenbaker in action was a real thrill next on the program was a night tour of ot tawa and hull only two guides showed up but the girl from the hotel desk generously accompanied the group and made the outing a great success the last stop was the national museum of man where students did last minute shopping before departing for home ah the students were on their best behavior throughout the trip they- knew how they behaved would reflect on their school and home community all who accompanied them are sure ottawa will be looking forward to a visit from stouffville grade eight next year