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at the tribune thursday november 2s 1981 council comments by jim sanders a little helps a lot during the past summer bell canada applied for rate increases council was asked by the consumers association of canada cac to support the association at followup hearings according to a cac report received by council the bell request was reduced by 182 million for subscribers in ontario and quebec this saving will go primarily to residential and business services bell asked for increases of 30 per cent for residential and 40 per cent for business services however these were held to 12 and 15 per cent respec tively also cac submitted and the hearing board the crtc agreed that bell should be required to implement innovative long distance schemes in cluding a saturdaymorning discount program an expense claim by bell for 118000 for a billing insert was also disallowed these are some of the items that the cac was able to gain for the benefit of the public council supported the cac with a donation of 6718 that is cent per person i believe this was money well spent and is a proper role for council to be taking frequently local councils deal with issues that involve large corporations or governments and far- reaching issues council often debates whether or not to take a stand on such matters that although they effect each person in whitchurchstouffville they reach well beyond our municipal boundaries by ourselves we would have little or no impact on such issues by joining forces with other municipalities and associations in a co operative effort we can make use of specialized accountants lawyers and scientists to present a case on our own we could not afford such representation and the public interest would not be as well looked after thc tribune a dualpurpose sled eh now thats good thinking considering my arrival in whitchurchstouf fvilles only nine days away wht hbune established 1888 andrew p cook advertising manager james thomas barry wwallace editorlnchiel publisher editorial 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and sun the milton champion the mississauga news the mississauga news weekend edition the north york consumer the north york mirror oakville beaver oakville friday beaver oshawa this week oshawa this weekend peel consumer the richmond hillthornhill liberal the scarborough consumer the scarborough mirror the woodbndge vaughan news 6402100 3611680 editorials town making right move in recreation overhaul j whitchurchstouffville council meeting in committee monday took its first positive step towards implementing recommendations contained in a prepared but not yet ap proved culture and recreation master plan while discussions to date will not capture the imagination of the manonthestreet we believe the town is approaching the issue in a right and proper way dealing initially with the fringe benefits and the major concerns later on although no conclusions were reached it wasnt a legally constituted meeting its plain to see the direction council is headed the formation of a hmember parks and recreation board with community centre committees serving in an advisory capacity we like the idea and we think the way council is going about it is good the metamorphosis should ruffle few feathers certainly the present system was in need of change there was no cohesiveness be tween the four community centre boards and even less between the boards and the general public the recreation committee served no useful purpose other than a fiscal rubber stamp enthusiastic members soon became discouraged and quit such should not be the case under the new arrangement the proposed recreation board will have tremendous responsibilities most important of all the implementing of new recreational activities across the municipality we anticipate great things in this regard as for a recreation director or a program coordinator we care not what the official is called thats only window dressing whats needed is a take charge individual with an ability to organize and pull people together an ingredient that has been sorely lacking here zoning controls duplication zoning weve been told is a trump card held by council to control duplication of services strange then that the town would agree to a zoning change at 363 main street east in stouffville knowing full well that a pinball and electronic games arcade was planned for the site a licence application has since been approved were not questioning the integrity of the operator but we do question the need of the operation stouffville already has two such establishments need there be three zoning and licencing are two different things agreed in this instance to approve one and not the other would have been folly perhaps council realized this too late while duplication of services may not be top priority here we would suggest that at very least a representative might have been delegated to check out the applicants operation in port perry just to put their coivctive minds at ease v roaming around rubiks cube has me baffled im no quitter and i pride myself in this mind you it sometimes takes me awhile to get started but once i begin i seldom stop this attitude even amazes my wife often shell interrupt the task at hand and suggest i take a rest finish up tomorrow or let her take over for a time but she knows the answer before she asks whether it be putting on storm windows raking leaves or cutting grass i stay with it till its over no matter how tedious the chore being ambitious if i may call it that is not something of my own making but rather a trait i inherited from my parents no eight hour days and five day weeks down on the farm nor dawn to dusk either when there was work to be done we did it even well into the dark the only relief came when it rained often i prayed for a flood now that i have sons and daughters of my own i try to impress on them the need to never give up even when theres no end in sight and ive enioved moderate success even though on occasions n they often complain however in the last couple of weeks the tables have been turned my kids are teaching me a lesson in endurance ill window on wildlife- never forget their sticktoitivness relates to a popular little gimmick called rubiks cube this toy comes in all sizes shapes and colors the idea is to arrange the squares so that the colors on each side are the same sure it looks simple but its not at least not for me i cant even come close have i honestly tried yes i honestly have in fact i work away the thing every chance i get in private of course id hate the kids to see their fathers face turn from red to blue to purple within the space of fifteen frustrating minutes besides its downright embarrassing our youngest neil and marylynn are completely caught up in the craze they love it to them it represents a challenge so much so im sure theyll be sorry the day they solve it if in fact they ever do it seems everywhere they go rubiks cube goes along even to church and theyre not alone its not uncommon to see kids twisting and turning the pesky little things at school in stores and on the streets they just never give up but i have i had to the pressure got too by jim thomas great last thursday i slipped the dodad back under my sons pillow never to retrieve it again except on friday that was when i visited orchard park where id arranged an interview with ten year old tricia ellis a pupil in grade 5 tricia for those who dont know is the rubiks cube expert at orchard park and maybe all of whitchurchstouffville as luck would have it her cube was broken so i agreed to bring ours from home what skill in a matter of minutes her record is two minutes and four seconds she had it mastered her hands working so fast her fingers were a blur that evening i returned triumphant holding the conquered rubiks cube aloft i marched it into the dining room and set it in the centre of the table dad you did it you did it they chorused jumping for joy all that is except neil hed seen me at the school and quickly shot down my deception in flames so now im back where i started bam boozled by a silly little cube and a guy called rubik whos driving me mad few deer antlers ever found by art briggsjude while poking around the northern woods a while back we came across part of an old deer antler to me it was a real find for in many years of forest travel this discarded section of a bucks rack was only my second such discovery but while the first tined horn i discovered was unmarked and a perfect half of an eight point bucks head dress this latest piece of antler revealed why these items are not too often found coincidently it too was the remains of an eight point bucks rack yet here the similarity ended for this more recent part of a male deers armament was already only a shadow of its former formidable self already one of the sharp tines was almost completely gone while two of the other spikes were reduced to half their original size then too the whole main branch of the horn from the bulbous anchor knob to the longest point bore the deep incissor marks of many unknown animals only the leafstained under surface lying on the forest floor had escaped these various chiselsized bites and gnawed scars and therein lies the answer as to why despite their shedding every late winter deer antlers usually disappear without a trace in some ways nature seems to be ex tremely extravagant and the annual discarding of such protective bonelike structures appears to be a good example of this a closer look however especially with a shed sample in the hand reveals that many animals including deer themselves eat them in fact in some regions where the water is low in bonebuilding material the calcium content of these discarded antlers is regenerated back into the bodybuilding processes so although these horns disintegrate more rapidly than normal bones few ever have a chance to decompose due to this utilization by animals the old falacy of a deer burying its horns has finally been proven erroneous although the bucks probably aid in this concealment by rubbing their racks in heavy cover and as both sections rarely ever fall off at the same time there must be an unknown period when the deer experience an imbalance picture if you will a large eight or 10point buck sud denly dropping half its magnificent spread it must in some ways be likened to a racing sulky unexpectedly losing one wheel for in both instances there must be some erratic maneouvers for a time but if we think a big buck deer has problems losing this poundage on one side of its head what must an old bull moose ex perience for this huge monarch of the forest drops as much as 35 pounds in one lump when it loses half its gigantic rack little wonder these animals lay low during this shedding process and incidently there is one sure way to tell whether the horns you find are a natural shed or the result of some animals predation for the annually dropped antlers have a socket knob on the heavy end while the horns from a demised deer are probably still at tached to part of the skull bone a political point of view dear editor the tribune is the most appreciated newspaper received in our home we look forward to it every week the ex cellence of its content will in my opinion be made even better through the inclusion of a councillors column jim sanders adds a personal view to an often misunderstood area of local concern sincerely edwin cooke rr3 stouffville