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a4 tribune october 3 1984 editors mail thank you everyone to the editor on behalf of the stouffville branch of the canadian cancer society i wish to thank the tribune for coverage of the 1984 terry fox run special thanks to the stouffville lions club and the stouffville fire department for their help along the route to all in town who participated and supported this event in any way on this special day my apprecia tion pledges and donations totalled 720900 sincerely dixie sellers chairman election required dear mr thomas i for one appreciate very much councils decision to hold up any appointment concerning a succes sor to mayor eldred king i feel and strongly so that this important position should be filled by election if the time period had been less say a month or two an appointment would have been fine to complete the term however a full year is far too long for our town to be saddled with someone who isnt the choice of the people to choose from within may make sense to those on the inside but whos to say there isnt someone on the outside capable of filling this position all should have equal opportunity through your newspaper i com mend council for agreeing to a cooling off period before reaching a decision on this matter sincerely alfred gait rr 3 stouffville fs the tribune ontario community newspaper association established 1888 james thomas bruce annan pat pappas editor publisher advertising manager i editorial dept jim holt chris shanahan display advertising dept terri bernhadt real estate classified advertising joan marshman distribution manager jenni hutt v w -v- national sales representative metroland corpbrate sales4931300 i wednesday by metroland printing publishing distributing at 54 main st stouffville ont tel 6402100 single copies 40 subscriptions 1650 per year in canada 4500 elsewhere member of canadian community newspapers association ontario weekly newspaper association ontario press coun- al and suburban newspaper of america second class mail registration number 0896 the stouffville tribune is one of the metroland group of suburban newspapers which includes the acton free press ajaxpickenng news advertiser the aurora banner brampton guardian the burlington post the burlington weekend post the etobicoke advertiserguardian the georgetown independent the milton champion the i mississarga news the newmarket era the willowdale mirror oakville beaver oakville f beaver oshawawhitby this week oshawawhitby this weekend the richmond hill liberal thor- nnill liberal the scarborough mirror the markham economist and sun and woodbridge liberal metroland printing publishing and distributing is a division of harlequin enterprises ltd 6402100 6492292 r- roaming around no needles and pins oofv hm editorials mayor by the people whitchurchstouffvilles without a mayor in the true sense of the word until council decides oct 9 what route to take the twoweek waiting period approved sept 25 was a correct deci sion it gives both the politicians and the public an opportunity to assess the situa tion should council agree to fill the vacan cy by appointment the town will still be without a mayor for the only legitimate successor to eldred king is a candidate elected by the people we said this earlier and we say it again council we believe are prone to choose from within but who are they to say who should fill this important post for the next eleven months and what criteria have they set several reasons have been put for ward for not holding an election one is time only eleven months has been stated in only eleven months with the wrong man or woman at the helm this town could go down the drain another reason is cost the expense of an election is something like 15000 we say fifteen thousand dollars is peanuts compared to whats at stake that old bugaboo called experience keeps raising its head how a mayor should graduate through the chairs and earn the position we dont buy this argument either some of our countrys finest leaders were inexperienced and in some instances relatively unknown this brings us to the question of who who on the inside looking out and who on the outside looking in our inside choice is councillor wilf morley however councillor morley has said definitely he wont be a candi date our outside choice is chamber of com merce president ged stonehouse at this point in time mr stonehouse is non committal but he hasnt said no where theres life theres hope i hold an intense dislike for dentists and physicians nothing personal most seem like real nice guys its the weapon they sometimes use that hurts its the needle a mental menace thats haunted me all my life by now every reader must know of my hangup they should ive written about it enough times however there are occasions when i must set aside per sonal inhibitions when a storys at stake such an occasion was sept 22 it was the previous thursday that a lady called the office are you aware- acupunctures come to stouffville she asked i honestly admitted i wasnt i think you should look into it she sug gested i had a treatment and it worked wonders for me she gave me the name of dr allen r turner stouffville chir opractic health centre 120 main street west with fear and trepidation i ventured into dr turners office two days later and introduced myself to his smiling re ceptionist much to my relief she said he was busy and asked me to come back around noon a twohours reprieve i thought as i travelled on to st marks fall fair but an appointments an appointment by jim thomas atpre iwas back silently hoping the lineup of patients would stretch past the sidewalk but it didnt i was ushered into the good doctors inner sanctum for a firsthand look at his acu puncture apparatus it seemed harmless enough at least it had no threatening tentacles wires that might grab me around the neck dr turner referred to the treatment as meridian therapy whereby a flow of electricity passes along meridians or pathways to twelve major parts of the bodythe liver the gall bladder the kid neys the heart the spleen the stomach the lungs and so on information on each is recorded by computer and automati cally typeset for instant reading if i hadnt seen it i wouldnt have be lieved it there are only three of its kind in canada dr turner said he de scribed the results as phenomenal at the conclusion of our fifteenminute interview i thanked him for his time and turned to leave thats when he put me on the spot id like to try the system out on you he said not me i replied i couldnt stand it you wont feel a thing he answered thats my dentists favorite saying too maybe some other day i continued- shuffling towards the door im in a bit of a rush he looked disappointed so dis appointed i began having second thoughts youre sure theyre no needles i asked no needles he promised you wont feel a thing first i had to remove my shoes and socks and then roll up my sleeves he proceded to touch various points of my wrists and ankles with a tiny metal de vice not unlike an electrified cow- prodder we used down on the farm the reaction was much different however i didnt feel a thing but the computer did it rattled away like crazy providing a medical printout in minutes the result both my spleen and blad der are out of kilter nothing to get alarmed about but out of kilter just the same this comes i fear from slouching at the keyboard and drinking too much coffee while i can straighten my spleen through improved posture my bladders obviously reached a point of no return for i suspect theres not a chiropractor in canada that can cure a confirmed cof- feeolic window on wildlife the best of plans by art briggsjudei reaching the masses the 129th annual markham fair was a success any fourday event that attracts upwards of 100000 people must be described in those terms however there were feelings of dis appointment some closely associated with the fair admitted to being a trifle letdown by the attendance particular ly on friday the mob of school chil dren that usually frequent the grounds didnt materialize there wasnt the usual shouldertoshoulder multitude of humanity saturday or sunday either and while this improved spectator- exhibit visibility it left organizers wondering what went wrong we offer several suggestion mar kham fair as old as it is and as large as it is requires a public relations commit tee headed by a pr professional this committee and this individual must sell markham fair to the two mil lion inhabitants of metro toronto via advance press radio and television pub licity they must promote the fair as the thing to see and the place to be only a halfhours drive from the city there are those who firmly believe markham fair sells itself and it docs to those whove experienced it once but there are thousands who havent in the town of markham itself for the area is changing rapidly the board must reas sess its priorities to meet this change we offer these recommendations also a system that will transport drivers and passengers from the back fifty parking area to the fairgrounds and return a parking site for senior citizens in the area reserved for exhibitors paved walkways between all buildings perma- nent fourday ground and vehicle passes for all exhibitors a family admission charge not to exceed eight dollars a public address system from the mana gers office to preselected points throughout the grounds and hourly announcements of events where they are and at what time while school participation is good a selling job is required in this area also on all aspects of markham fair and to teachers as well as students the child fairattender today is the adult fairattender tomorrow the board must retain this association through all age levels a difficult but not impossible task its often been said by people who have the hobby of attracting birds to their backyards that any effort put forth in that direction will almost always come back many times over from our own experiences we found this to be entirely true yet sometimes the hopedfor re sults differ greatly from the actual us ers like the fellow for example who puts up a phoebe nesting shelf and finds a hen robin has moved in and asserted squatters rights or again the housewife who finally convinces her husband to build that martin house only to discover after its up that a pair of crested fly catchers have claimed it and are chas ing any and all the martins away a friend of mine once had to cut down his backyard apple tree to make room for an addition to his garage it doesnt yield that much fruit he said but ev ery year our neighborhood robins build a nest there and ill miss them i sug gested he put a covered shelf on a pole to give the birds a nesting place he did just that in fact he went all out with a cedar pole and a rustic stained platform well- bracketed and roofed on top he even had the wide open side face away from the wind and guess what happened why a robin took advantage of his handiwork alright but instead of putting its mud and grass cradle on the shelf the birds chose instead to fasten it on the bracket beneath at any rate he still had his friendly robins nesting nearby another good example of some feath erfolk effort that became misdirected happened at our farm this spring when the bluebirds arrived a little earlier than usual and were greeted with a mini- winter we tried helping them out feed ing bluebirds has never met with much success but you still keep trying hoping youll come up with the right solution knowing they were wild fruiteaters made us think some kind of fruit might appeal to them so we tied old apples on the dead elm where they often came to warble and split a couple of oranges and did the same along the top of the gate- board where they often perched we put some clumps of raisins and strung some more of these dried fruits on the briar bushes close by still i was not totally satisfied with this fruit salad so i went rumaging around in the freezer some- whore near the bottom i came up with a small package of thimble- berries that somehow were missed before and were about to be missed again soon we fashioned a small pouch from a bright orangecolored mesh bag then we shaped and strengthened it with several lengths of wire lined it with a plastic baggie and dumped in about half a cup of the wild berries this had to be the greatest attractor since the hum mingbird feeder i thought as i hung this berry bag on a branch of the old oak but alas for all our effort the only thing that came and went regularly was the rain snow and cold weather so as things settled down weatherwise the starlings ate the raisins the bees finished off the oranges and the apples finished off themselves by falling from their wires yet the sturdy berry bag hung in there even though it was seemingly snubbed by all then about a week ago all this changed one morning we noticed a real live bird on the berry bag but it wasnt a bluebird it was a yellow and black bird a female oriole and its been coming every day since not only that but it has its mate hooked on the stuff and this bright orange and black songster ar rives in a flash of dazzling color today both birds were there sharing the con tents together however the orioles dont have a monoply on the berry bag because the woodpeckers have discovered it too along with the hummingbirds yet with all the feathered comings and goings were not even sure the birds are eating the berries or simply sampling the juice the main thing is theyre using it in fact ive just returned from filling it up again and for our money right now this bag is the berries v