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the tribune thursday june s 1980 3 girl next poor assisting others is arlenes goal ilslve audience by jim thomas dicksons hiix helping others less fortunate than herself thats the goal of sixteen year old arlene diller dicksons hill shes our girl next door arlene has served as a counsellor at glenbrook day camp on the 7th concession mccowan road of markham children with learning disabilities are welcomed there and so is arlene she has enjoyed the associations and would like to spend more time in this kind of work she plans to re join the staff there this summer arlenes an ex tremely busy girl in fact one wonders how she can include so many activities in a normal week for example shes employed part- time at parkview home after school and every other weekend she plays the flute in the sr band and sings in the choir church i n- volvement is im portant she says and has been as far back as she can remember shes a member at steeles avenue mennonite and enjoys the youth fellowship gatherings there she admits the guidance received from her parents and the church have greatly in fluenced her life arlene and her family moved from scarborough to dicksons hill five years ago while their present property 4 somewhal smaller than a 100 acre farm its still in the country and thats what counts she says the lawns and garden are beautifully main tained sixteen year old arlene diller of dicksons hill is a grade ii student at stouffville high shes a member of the senior band and choir works parttime at parkview home and has served as a counsellor at glenbrook day camp on mccowan road following graduation she hopes to assist children with learning disabilities jim thomas arlene has four sisters phyllis mrs paul eyre ninth line north stouff ville linda carolyn and glenna all at home a student in grade 11 and heading s towafds grade 13 she appreciates the size of the enrollment at sdss not too large she says you get to know most of the people her toughest subject she claims is maih enough her math teacher miss davey is tops because of her i enjoy it she says arlene par ticipates in all the usual sports including volleyball and softball although shes ncrt planning an extended vacation trip this summer arlenes been coasttocoast in canada some day she hopes to make it to england by jim thomas stouffville while difficult numbers done well may prove challenging to ac complished musicians and their director this appreciation of in strumental skills can fall on dead ears when the audience is unschooled at this level of learning that is why a band or a choir and their director must decide when preparing a program if they are entertaining themselves or the folks who have come to be entertained in our opinion the listeners are most im portant otherwise a group is performing only for its own enjoyment with this thought in mind band director paul samuelson and choir director jim rehiu may have wondered at the enthusiastic response accorded the simple songs at stouffville dist secondary schools spring concert thurs day like bandroom blast by the grade 8 band and maracas from caracas by the grade 9 band nothing too difficult perhaps but enjoyable and the choir num ber you light up my life a beautiful song beautifully sung the crowd was the largest to attend such a show the enthusiasm was the kind of en couragement these young musicians need and deserve the amazing part about the program was talent displayed by the grade 8 beginners and the progress made between the various levels right on up to the borderline professionals the concert con tained a touch of nostalgia with the in clusion of special guest artist jeremy waite a longtime member of the sdss staff he played the bass viol pauline powell band president praised the director for his per severance and en thusiasm hes done a fantastic job she said mr samuelson thanked the musicians for their cooperation dance raises 500 stouffville close to s500 was raised friday at the dance marathon held in the gymnasium of stouffville dist secondary sehool eighteen couples remained vertical through ten hours beginning at 2 pm and wmjn at mid night the djs for the event were larry cavanagh dan brooks and richard bartley at the library model trainman stouffville we wouldnt doubt that morley sproules favorite song is ive been working on the railroad although hes never guided the stouffville steak on its breathtaking run up from the city he has over the past 31 years laid down track constructed rolling stock propelled several trains similtaneously in dif ferent directions and been responsible for the operation of a complete railroad setup no hes not cns most versatile employee hes a most enthusiastic model railroader murray will be bringing some of his engines and freight cars to the library june 7 130 pm when he will discuss his hobby and explain how to construct scenery for a model setup mr sproule teaches evening classes in model railroading and is wellknown in the metro area for his ex pertise in this line there are several books on railway miniatures in the library circulation as well as an excellent monthly magazine model railroader anyone in terested in the lore and romance of reallife railways can travel through history with canadian pacific via pierre bertons ab sorbing books national dream and last spike and perhaps commuters boxed for loading in the oblong igloo that now serves as our local ter minal might like to resurrect the image of the late lamented stouffville station as it appears in elizabeth wumots meet me at the station guinness acknowledged purveyor of world records also keeps track of train trivia in rail facu and figures did you know for instance the fastest train in canada is cns rapido and that the longest heaviest freight on record comprised three diesels front and behind 500 coal cars weighing 42000 tons it stretched for about four miles speaking of stretch ing things out anyone irked by the length of our municipalitys hyphenated moniker 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