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editors mail wednesday february 23 1983 sall more medals for maureen italented maureen ferguson of the stouffville figure skating club won a first in prenovice competetive ladies and a fourth in ladies gold interpretive at the upper york interclub competitions in stouffville sunday jim holt dear editor i -ij- se have the town wells been tested to the point of exhaustion as suggested by one of your readers certainly numerous tests havelbeen done strangely enough when the ministry of the environment did highly sophisticated tests recently the town wells were not included sixteen different orga nic substances were found pxylene associated with birth defects phthalates associated with cancer etc in one of the six wells tested on hwy 48 close to the town wells in fact every well was containing ated it would seem logical that the minis try would immediately conduct these same sophisticated tests on the town wells however up to today ho such tests have been done as with so many issues it will take a lot of people asking before action is taken by the ministry of the environment if the town water also contains some of these che micals we can press for alternate water supplies or activated carbon filtering perhaps some residents reading this will pick up their phones to request that their water supply be tested as the six wells were top speeches teen fads however t claremont beibopa lu la shes my baby like shes total ly awesome to the max furr shur two different sounds two diffe rent iooks two different times such was the com parison rnadeby cdurtnfey graham between teenage fads omhe past and presentun her awardwinning speech delivered recently at claremont and vaughan willard schools thirteenyearold courtney is a grade 8 student at claremont p s in her address courtney pointed to the fact her parents were in their teens during the 50s rock and roll era she de scribed her father as canadas oldest living teenager recently she said her dad cele brated his 40th birthday with a 50s party it was like- living a scene out of- happy days or i grease she said f can you imagine being in a room with fifty of them men all resembling the fonz she asked today mygen- eration she observed every thing is new wave or valley girls and parental reaction is much the same as thirty years ago courtney drew comparisons be tween music and language of the 50s and the 80s and their differences then asked whats the fad of the future in answering her own question she referred to an item in the january issue of newsweek maga zine that suggests history may be re peating itself even tocrewcutsvand miniskirts however court ney has her doubts mainly because this time around the fads have parental approval todays teen are trying to find their own space if only to be different from their parents courtney says dress music and speech are used to create a separate identity its all part of growing up look around but buy at toromark and save look around in the big stores but come to toromark to 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vered with skin on the inside its a hol low spot between the mouth and brain air passes through the nostrils into two tunnels cal led nasel passages which lead back to the upper part of the throat from the nasal passages air passes through the pharynx and wind pipe into the lungs did you know nos trils arent even dont worry no one has even nostrils your nose breathes it also fil ters out bacteria and dirt by using small hairs and a constant supply of mucus its also a bodily organ you use every moment of your life the word nosey is slang for spy or de tective being a nosey parker is sticking your nose a into someone elses business to nose- r- is to take a sharp fall when you count noses you take attendance a nose bag is a horses feed bag there are many expressions about the nose for exam ple there is hitit right on the nose pay through the nose right under your nose and plain as the nose on your face to work hard is to keep your nose to the grindstone a reporter may have a nose for news a long time ago m london there was a nose club for people with long noses the one with the longest nose was chairman at various times and in various places noses were bitten or cut off as punishment within some american in dian tribes the men would bite off their wives noses some animals have unusual noses but none can match the elephant who uses its nose to wa ter and feed itself animals can be identified by their nose prints much like a persons fing- erprint a few american indians south pacific islan ders and africans put rings and other unusual instru ments in their noses these orna ments serve as lucky charms a way to show youre mature toshowyou have class or mere ly as pretty decora tions most will remem ber the childrens tale pinocchio alf about the wooden puppet whose nose grew when it lied then theresthe christmas favorite rudolph the red- nosed reindeer in 1893 thomas edisons movie stu dio introduced a fivesecond movie all it showed was a man sneezing if any of you think dolls dont sneeze youre wrong not long ago mattel manufactured a doll called bless you baby tender love when you squeezed her sto mach she had a sneezing fit and wa ter shot out of her synthetic nose as you may have already guessed bless you baby tender love was not a best seller there are seven different nationali ties of noses classic greek ro man anglosaxon semitic north american indian mongolian and negro when you eat if you plug your nose youre not supposed to taste the food barbara streisand and jim my durante are known for their long noses and bob hope for his ski nose ailments of noses are stuffy runny and nasal drip if your nose itches youre going to kiss i a fool call it what you like a snoot a snout a beak a bill a beezer a bugle a smeller a nozzle or a schnozzola but re- til member the words st of comedian danny j thomas who safdf if youre going to have a nose have a nose sweater ladys moving feb 26th everything must go pces slashed skirts slacks sweaters slashed blouses fleece 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