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sa4 wednesday april 13 1983 as j v c c- jp wmm editors mad merit pay dear editor 3 i4rtf the mayors approval of merit 1 pay for staff employees with excep tional responsibilities brings to light an interesting issue related to the modernday work force mayor king according to the tribune didnt stop with the words exceptional responsibilities but also included the words exception al job the latter is more impor tant than the former perhaps its on the basis of ex ceptional job that all pay in creases should hinge it might tend to upgrade the level of efficiency among canadians i have long felt that a plus effort is not a common practice with we natives most do only what they ha ve to do and some a lot less than is required if each was paid according to what he she pro duces the true worth of an em ployee would be maintained sincerely paul cormier rr 4 stouffviue thank you dear mr thomas i wish to express my apprecia tion for the complimentary human interest story published in the tri bune issue of march 16 your column has publicized our local m s chapter and has promp ted enquiries from readers thank you on behalf of myself and others with multiple sclerosis in this area sincerely helen leach booth drive stouffviue l wht brtbune james thomas editor established 1888 barry w wallace pubisher joe anderson advertising manager editorial oept jim holt jim irving display advertising dept bryan armstrong classified aovertisingorculation joan marwnan 4 office manager doreen deacon national sales representative metrotand corporate sates 4931300 published every wednesday at 54 mam st stouffville onl tel 6402100 single copies 35 subscrip tions 15 00 per year in canada 45 00 elsewhere member of canadian community newspapers assoaa don ontario weekly newspapers association ontario press council and suburban newspaper of america second class mail registration number 0896 thestouffvilletnburwboneofthemetroiandpnntingpublishingltd groupof suburban newspapers which includes acton free press ajaxwhitby pickering news advertiser aurora banner the bolton enterprise brampton guardian the burlington post the burlington weekend post the etotxcoke advertiser guardian the georgetown independent the hamilton wentworth poscthe markhanvthomhill economist and sun the milton champion the missusauga news the newmarket era the north york mirror oakville beaver oakville friday beaver oshawa this week oshawa this weekend the richmond htllthomhill liberal the scarborough mirror the woodbridge vaughan newi 6402100 j editorials antimissile meeting a prorussian rally communist rallies are uncommon in the boondocks meeting organizers lean more towards the cities with their higher concentration of people out of close to two million theyre at least assured a corporals guard with a percentage of weirdos and misfits thrown in to help swell the turnout but a communist rally in uxbridge no never thats what we would have replied also prior to attending a cruise missile meeting in the high school thursday night while the durham yorkndp riding association undoubtedly had the best in terests of the public in mind when they agreed to sponsor the discussion not one person in the audience even mildly chal lenged the speaker praise of the soviet union and condemnation of the united states even worse most appeared to agree with his statements we couldnt believe our ears just who is the enemy anyway cer tainly not the us a the united states is the best friend canada will ever have and wed better believe it cooperation with our southern neigh bors is vital for many reasons defense is one so when the pentegon requested use of canadian airspace for testing of the cruise ottawa more or less agreed the government really had no alternative this doesnt make the testing program right but its necessary we dont believe the soviets want war we dont believe the americans do either however until theres mutual trust one with the other the usa must keep the- kremlin honest and they do this by being prepared what irritated us most at the uxbridge meeting was the blatant way in which the speaker kept insisting that the un ited states are indeed the bad guys in this armsrace affair he used words like strong arm tactics to describe the reagen administration and protection of its own borders to portray soviet policy each antiamerican comment produced a host of nodding heads then he concluded there isnt really a big fear from the russian bear the entire address so prejudiced in its statements and so successful in its re sponse made us sick and adding furth er insult to the missions campaign was the recommendation that anticruise de monstrators concentrate their efforts in such areas asour high schools may our principals have the intestinal fortitude to lock them out window on wildlife- blame it on the weather byartbriggsjyda nature sure is full of surprises why just about the time you think youve got all the makings of a real early spring along comes old man winter with one of his famous last minute three point kicks gee we soon forgot all those bal my breezes of early march in our head long dash to dig out the mitts and galoshes again and ill bet there were more people than just my neighbor who took off their snow tires thinking the old cold fella with the big white blanket had gone away and left us until sometime next december of course all the surprises werent confined to us and the weather unfortu nately some of the songbirds that headed our way on the crest of that pro longed warm front must have been shocked right up to their feathered knees our resident redwinged black birds were a good example since their arrival on march 6 they have been oke- erlaing all up and down the valley swinging and swaying on the old cattails over the water then the weather did an aboutface the temperature dipped the pond froze over again and the snow- piled up a day or so later i looked out and the redwings were up in the lane feeding in the bare patch with the tree sparrows and bluejays then later that same morning i went down for the mail and passed a small flock sitting in the big oak there they were all turned facing into that biting wind uttering only an occasional oke sound it seemed the sudden cold spell had taken the erla right out of them yet while we felt some sympathy for these shoulderpatched swamp singers again it was the early arriving bluebirds that caused our greatest concern unlike the hardy blackbirds that can subsist on weed seeds and grain and will visit feed ing stations in fime of need the bluebird is a wild fruit and bug eater in emergen cies such as these frigid temperatures they must rely on old rose hips haw ap ples highbush cranberry and other win ter persistent fruit to tide them over and unfortunately they will not visit manmade feeders with any degree of consistency from the almost weekly inventory of the various natural foods that grow in our immediate area we knew there were scattered patches of sumac that the browsing deer had missed and luckily the rocky slopes have a good inci dence of ground juniper or squat red- cedar as it is sometimes called these low brushy clumps provide the bluebirds and other songsters like the cedar waxwings with an ample source of small blue fruit then too a few of the beaver ponds and boggy places still had- z sprinkling growths of red winterberry a distant relative to the holly plant and when the sun was out around midday there were even a few flies and wood moths climbing about on the rocks and sheltered stumps it appeared then from our observa tions that there would indeed be ample food for these traditional harbingers of spring but what was the penetrating cold of those long windy nights doing to the bluebirds we didnt know and for the present could just hope and keep our fingers crossed for their wellbeing only later in the spring when they usual ly take up their various territories around the farm will we know whether our dozen bluebird pairs used the boxes we provided for shelter earlier in the season editors mail some news tragic dear editor i read with interest the letter in the tribunes april 6 edition above the sign ature of one sue wilson lloyd avenue stouffviue in which she criticized the fact you used a fatal accident plus four people being injured as a front page lead story personally as a tribune subscriber i would have been more surprised if the news item had not been published not disappointed but certainly surprised while no one enjoys hearing of such things i feel you as an editor would be negligent if you refused to recognize these kinds of occurrences in the com- munity you dont create the news but merely print the news thats created thats what journalisms all about admittedly some newspapers dwell almost entirely on the misfortunes of others i dont place the tribune in this category v sincerely rodger colman i rr 3 stouffviue z vv i first graduating class at orchard park public schooll9585 this year marks the 25th anniversary of the opening of stouff- villes orchard park pubac school to mark the occasion a reunion of former staff teachers and students is planned pictured here are students in the graduating class of 195859 they are front row left to right winnie skinner linda smith betty- brown paul middleton raymond rioux donald smith clare byer kevin mcwhinnle brace stride keith betz eldon smith middle row left to right ruby mallett darlene watson gail hallman jane rioux donna knox linda plaskitt virgi nia foord paul stover rick spang paul lomas rear row left to right- gary s grundy karen hamilton nancy stover astred osterdahl marilyn corrigan roddy mclnnes paul otter carol hoover ronald lomas jim daniels erie grove jim ferguson and wk sutherland principal 3 it i i i u v lps