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the tribune thursday july s 1j wht wrthtxite james thomas editorinchief established 1888 charles h nolan publisher barrebeacock advertising manager editorial dept ed schroatar jta hon display advertising oept loto wtdtmin marl emmarson business office joan marahman doftta deacon ebaan gtovar pubbahad avary thursday at 54 main st slourmha onl tal s402101 toronto phona 3811680 staflla copiaa 20 c aubacriptions s1000 par yaar in canada 12900 auawhara mambar ol canadian community nawtpapara association and ontario waauy nawspapara association sacond class null registration numbar 0898 i tha trlbuna la ona ol tha inland publishing co umhad group ol suburban nawspapsrs which fav duda tha ajax whitby pkfcartng naws adrarnsar brampton guardian burlington post etobteoka qazatte markhara economist and sun nawmarkat aurora era oakvitte baavar oshawa thu weak misslssauga naws oshawa this waakand acton fraa prass milton canadian champion and tha oaorgatown indapandant 6402100 3611680 editorials we should be ashamed our town should hang its head in shame july 1 canada day dominion day call it what you like passed us by without a single act of organized recognition for what the occasions supposed to mean not so in other communities parades fireworks festivities galore but in whit church stouffville nothing a big fat zero would you believe it but not a single store here had a canadian flag for sale saturday and a tour of town sunday revealed only four unfurled a disgrace while its true most canadians display about as much nationalistic pride as a wet sponge they can become stimulated if somethings organized on their behalf you know like al eagleson arranging to have the russians play montreal at hockey in maple leaf gardens boy thats great we im mediately break out of our cocoons and become veey interested even emotional but on our own no way and canada day here was an example just another long weekend a holiday so someone should have organized something who the recreation committee with a little prodding from council was the logical group but if those members couldnt bring themselves to do it then the challenge should have been tossed out to persons who could we know of several who would have jumped at the chance if theyd been asked so far all weve heard are excuses and pretty lame ones at that too many other things going on everybody goes away that weekend no one wants to accept the responsibility and too little time to get something going were a few of the alibis we heard none in our opinion is acceptable we failed and failed badly most whove lived around here a few years can vividly recall some of the great canada day programs held in the stouffville park latcham hall and the arena activities were planned with everyone in mind the children teens inbetweens and seniors the muchtouted athlete of the year award was always a highlight of the event and it was not unusual to have upwards of two thousand people on hand for this presentation whats done is done but we cant let it happen again we would suggest that early in the new year a special events committee be established by council a group of five com munityminded individuals who will provide leadership in this regard not just for canada day but other occasions as well this committee wouldnt be expected to do all the work but merely see that the work gets done otherwise everyone sits back and nothing happens july 1 was a dreary dull day in town it neednt have been and hopefully it wont be again fire men says who propertyowners in the ballantrae- musselmans lake area have been deman ding improved fire protection for years its been a long time coming and it hasnt arrived yet but its getting closer the responsibility now rests with the residents themselves are there sufficient volunteers available to establish an auxiliary brigade we believe so but before stating why one important point must be made clear this fire- fighting force will in no way if ever be comparable in numbers to the unit based in stouffville in fact for a start it may be only four to six persons strong but ittwill at least be a start an auxiliary service we feel is required and it doesnt necessarily have to be a brigade of firemen why not firewomen as we understand it their task will be to contain a blaze until additional help reaches the scene for this and other emergencies too women can be just as efficient as men maybe more so so step right up ladies and fill out a form a one hundred per cent female firefighting force might warrant a note in the guinness book of records orphaned raccoons curious but cautious look closely now what do you see its a family of young raccoons orphaned when their mother was accidentally killed this unique picture was taken by lois wmeman of the tribunes advertising staff near her h home on 19th avenue rr l unionville the babies dont know it but theyre perfectly safe lois wouldnt shoot a raccoon large or small with anything but a camera muscle vuis iake- 3eu n ike volunteer flrbf apply here tatvfoeelth mi p now that could pose problems i hadnt thought about dsgtx sugar and spice teaching has its rewards by bill smiley each man and woman has a way of marking off the years with some its birth days with farmers its getting the crops in with fishermen its hauling out the old tub for the winter after the last catch with golfers its getting in one final round before the snow flies and so on with teachers its struggling through to the end of june without going around the bend ive just made it for the nineteenth time and at time of writing still have most of my marbles though i cant say the same for some of my colleagues they get queerer and queerer every year but it is only with the silliest and most sentimental that the end of the school year brings tears a feeling of loss a pang of sorrow most of us walk out at the end of june and never really care whether we ever re enter the old sausage factory at approximately the same time many mothers are giving a great sigh of resignation looking fearfully at the summer ahead when theyll have to cope with their kids twenty- four hours a day most teachers are giving a mighty sigh of relief because they dont have to cope with those same kids at all for two entire months its not that teachers dislike kids perhaps a few do but they usually wind up in the looneybin or slashing their wrists in the bathtub on the contrary most teachers have a basic liking of young people and show them often more tolerance and understanding than the kids own parents do theyll bend over backwards to listen to problems suggest solutions and try to motivate the youngsters but there comes a point a sort of sticking point where even the most benevolent of teachers runs across a kid who would drive his own mother screaming up the wall and often does one of my younger colleagues is still nursing a cracked rib incurred after breaking up a fight in the cafeteria and chasing one of the boys involved half a mile to the local park all in the line of duty he does not love and cherish that kid almost every year when a teacher is in daily contact with approximately 180 teenagers with their sexual repressions their hangups their broken homes their depressions there are three or four kids he or she can barely tolerate these few bad apples are what make teaching a very arduous profession they are a daily source of irritation with their bad language bad habits and bad manners but every job has its unpleasant aspects and if you cant cope with a few rotten kids you should get a job where you have a rotten boss or rotten customers or rotten pay we read recently of high schools in the big cities where teaching has become something like running the gauntlet of physical and verbal violence this occurs not only in in nercity schools with their masses of poor kids from broken homes and immigrant kids disjointed by a different culture and language but also from suburban middleclass schools whose students are overprivileged also come from broken homes have too much money and are extremely materialistic like their parents they look on teachers as something like an orange to be sucked dry and thrown away like the peel not for me i couldnt hack that id quit im no dedicated martyr i dont want a punchup with three druggies forty years younger i dont want my tires slashed or my female staff assaulted i am basically a peaceable coward our school is not like that and i guess thats why ive hung in here so long when i started i had offers to teach journalism at a community college to do public relations a work to teach at a univeristy but i began to grow too fond of the teenagers and backed away from these offers im not sorry im no mr chips im not a great teacher but i do enjoy teenagers with their curiosity their sensitivity their sense of humour their developing selves even their flashes of anger and always their honesty end of term comes and even the little turkeys in grade 9 who bedevilled you with their giggling or their yapping or their gid- 1 diness all year become lovable because you know theyre gone for two months and you get a nice tie from one shy little girl and a nice card thrust through your letterslot by another who has walked eight blocks to do it and a muttered havea goodsummersir from the worst spalpeen in the class and it all makes some kind of sense j and at commencement night you sud denly discover that those lumpy girls in levis and work boots in jeans and sneakers are really beautiful young women with bosoms and golden arms and flashing eyes that those lazy surly unkempt louts you tried to pound some english into for ten months are elegant witty young men with a shirt and tie on who have twice the ease and poise and knowledge you had yourself at that age and then theres the ego thing a guy lurches up to you in a bar and insists eight 4 times that yourabess teacher i ever had i go down town in july to get a paper or buy some milk get home three hours later old lady sore as a boil where in the world have you been respond ah all the kids are home from university and they want to tell me all about themselves and their problems its tough but it has its rewards window on wildlife purple martinsa challenge by art briggsjude among the 50 known species of birds that accept manmade structures for nesting sites only one is sociable enough to share its premises with others of its kind of course we sometimes see a starling and a house sparrow occuping opposite corners of s ir piulti- roomed birdhouse but then again these are two different species of birds the only true colony nester when it comes to an apartment- type birdhouse is the purple martin this large blueblack swallow is found in summer in most parts of southern canada throughout the united states and mexico and while we say most parts of these places mentioned there are some areas like new york and boston where they are unexplainably absent then too there are other local sections of many counties that cannot boast of having a single nesting pair despite concentrated efforts to entice them my own personal experience in trying to attract purple martins to a birdhouse goes back 20 years at that time we were living in an old three storey brick home in st catharines it was a tall structure in fact the only higher building was the steeple of westminster church across the street the roof of this century house had a flat balcony on top complete with a wrought iron railing it was a great place to view the surrounding city annual air show or hawk migrations often when we were up there we would see purple martins flying about so it seemed like a natural place to erect a martin house made from a wooden packing box it contained eight correctlysized sections supported on a 12- foot pole well the martins looked in at it and the starlings and sparrows accepted it this despite all my efforts to discourage these latter pests each spring the battle over the nestbox would continue even though i kept the holes plugged until the big swallows arrived from the south the martins never did nest there and eventually we moved to another location out closer to the vfelland canal this acre lot spanning a brush covered ravine with a creek at the bottom seemed a good setting for a martin house having once again whet my appetite to the possibility of attracting these desirable birds i decided to build a colony house that had a few extra features the martins might find hard to resist such a design is put out by the dept of agriculture washington dc it incorporates an aircooled central shaft for ventilation wide shelves under the 214 inch holes for perching and sunning and a good overhang above for wet weather protection according to literature this house coupled with a wellchosen location would offer the best chance of attracting purple martins not only that but a relative in thorold had put up such a house and was rewarded with martins the first year the following spring up went the new martin house it was purposely put on a 25foot pole part way down the hillside so the swooping birds would have lots of freeflight space the martins came warbled chimipped and left this went on for four years while i did my best to keep the sections dear and open by evicting the starlings and sparrows that arrived almost daily finally a friend told me he had martins right up near his home and suggested i move my birdhouse up the hill a new steel pole a new mounting base added up to four more years of frustration with only occasional visits from these mosquitoeating flyers and all this in an area where some six blocks away a fellow had a huge house full of martins that flew over every day yet never landed on our property then in 1970 we moved to gormley and you guessed it the martin house came along the fields behind our home were all farm country a great area for martins i thought so up went the repainted house again they came looked it over and left without nesting once a crested flycatcher used one section for a nursery but other than that it was the same old sparrow starling routine oc casionally in the late summer a flock of migrating martins would arrive for a short visit but finding no one home they would move on leaving me with but a brief vision of what a martin colonv was really like on saturday morning however this all changed for we were wakened by the rich chirrup gurgling sound of purple martins near the house it was then i saw two pair of these hitherto elusive swallows carrying nesting material to the martin house on the hill i wanted to stand up and cheer for it had finally happened instead i just lay there watching and listening to that sweet warbling sound and then smiling inwardly i went back to sleep t