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rate cut dear mr thomas your comments concerning the sale or lease of the present arena were interesting certainly food for thought i doubt very much if town coun- cil will consider either proposal the reason as you pointed out is obvious the owner or tenant would undoubtedly cut the ice ren tal fee drastically in my opinion all things would even out those wishing to utilize the new facility would be willing to pay more those not willing to pay the higher rate would use the old rink simple as that rather than destroy the structure as occurred in uxbridge i feel the town should consider its sale and may the owneroperator be suc cessful judith ceronne stouffville a service dear mr thomas you and i must have been talk ing- to the same people on satur day nov 3 while attending the intermediate game in stouffville several persons mentioned the fact the present arena might be sold im not sure where they obtained their information but they seemed to know what they were talking ab out even to the name of the possible purchaser i think its great someones will ing to take this gamble a thirty- yearold building is a definite risk not to speak of the longevity of the icemaking unit i agree with you that a lease arrangement would be best both for the tenant and the town say ten years at a dollar a year the operation of a second ice pad would be a definite service to the community that council should con sider sincerely bryan coulter manitoba street stouffville theltfbune established 1888 james thomas bruce annan pat pappas editor publisher advertising manager jenni hutt distribution manager editorial dept jim holt chris shanahan display advertising dept terri bernhadt real estate classified advertising joan marshman distribution doreen deacon national sales representative metroland corporate sales 4931300 wednesda by motroland printing publishing distributing at 54 main st stouffville ora te 6402100 single copies 40 subscriptions s16 50 per year in canada s4500 elsewhere member 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described to us as nothing but a bunch of cows and horses and for years we believed this to be true until last year thats when we attended the royal for a first time we discovered how wrong that descriptive was and how much we had missed during the in tervening time certainly there are cows and horses plus pigs and chickens and oats and corn and hay this is all part of the agricultu ral community and deserving of a place of prominence at an agricultural fair but there is more so much more the truth is the few hours we spent satur- dayallowed us time to see only a small part of what this world agricultural ex hibition has to offer we felt cheated on having to leave so soon despite the distance factor involved exhibitors from this area are enjoying excellent success red ribbons were prominent on entries by allin lewis of markham ivan marion and murray norton of goodwood jim cowieson of queensville jennifer tribbling of ux bridge bruce and alex davidson of stouffville and jim mcwilliam of pick ering top honors at the royal dont come easily said general manager andy ste wart if youre a winner here it means you have the best in the business theres still time to see the best in the business the royal closes its doors for another season saturday night how do you tell your bird dog its the deer season how do you explain to an excited bundle of energy at 530 in the morning she has to stay home she just doesnt understand i bet if we put our selves in her forepaws we wouldnt understand either a slumbershattering alarm wakes the whole household and sets the dog in motion but thats not an entirely new phenomenon for since the start of the duck season that up and at em jingle has been frequently heard and therein lies the rub as far as shes concerned why only last week the dog was being blessed and urged on to great expecta tions but this week she senses some thing wrong as she charges in to greet you eyes bright stubby tail doing dou ble time on the wajg instead of an en couraging ear rub and a head pat a somewhat strained voice suggests she spend a little more time in bed bed her brown eyes ask you must be kidding her pleading looks of inquiry receive only more of the cold shoulder treat ment and a terse reply not today kim so for the first part of breakfast she lays prone on her mat watching every morsel on its course like a spectator at a tennis match then when it gets too much she stirs and ends up with her head on your lap feeling only a slight pat of affection she wonders what shes done wrong his head nuzzles deeper so you make a halfhearted attempt to con sole her next week wait til next week then you can go so she wags her tail hoping you mean wait til after breakfast but the obvious answer is that todays plans do not include her because the weather is wet you de cide to put on your hip waders to keep the soggy evergreens from soaking your legs did i say hip waders as soon as you begin putting them on the dog erupts again she knows those long boots are for duck hunting however as you gently but firmly push her back you tell her for the umpteenth time not today kim back to your bed shattered she turns towards her mat pauses looks back and questions your decision just one more time gathering your gear together you pretend not to notice the hurt in those big brown eyes you close your ears to that disgusted sigh that occurs as she flops disillusioned on the mat the lunch is in the haversack a hand ful of shells knife matches compass and a piece of plastic to sit on now its on with the blaze orange jacket and equally bright hunting hat but as you step back to pick up the gun the dog is right there again to step along with you she just cant get it through her hairy head shes not going so you try to outsmart her by giving her a bowl of her favorite food this morning though she seems down right disgusted that you would offer her a second choice to her favorite past- time it takes only a quick sniff to bring her back under your feet picking up the rifle you head for the door with her pro testing and acting like a lamprey eel attached to a lake trout finally you force your way out into the dawning day leaving her to whimper on the inside its dusk when you return your steps are slower your shoulders drooped youre not exactly humming your favo rite tune you sink into your regular easy chair and the story unfolds the big buck that should be hanging on the beam escaped you had him cold turkey and you missed your eyes strained half closed can see nothing but that big rack swinging around after you shoot your mind is clouded with the sight of that enormous whitetail bounding away you still cant believe you missed even though a thorough search reveals the sad fact you shot underneath tugging at the straps on your boots you feel something bump against your elbow its the dog again pushing her nose up to your leg you reach down and scratch her velvet ears her head comes up and that damp nose touches your hand she sits on her slowly wagging tail and reaches out with one flecked paw taking it gently in your hand you look almost apologetically into her face her inquisitive eyes seem to say maybe i could have helped you pull her up with the other paw and you nod in mutual agreement then you speak softly to her maybe you could help but not out there the fact is youre helping an aw ful lot right now in a couple of mo ments both dog and man are fast asleep better safe than sorry familiarity breeds contempt the rabies warning has been broadcast through the media including this news paper so many times few people pay it any heed only when a child is confronted by an all too friendly fox or a neighbors cow dies from the dread disease do folks be come alarmed health officials and veterinarians arent fooling when they report incidents of rabies in the whitchurchstouffville markham uxbridge and pickering areas nor are they out looking for busi ness when they urge antirabies vac cinations its just plain common sense to have it done rather than risk the terri ble consequences however vaccinations cost money money thats not always readily avail able other necessities take priority to assist in this regard the york re gion public health branch in co operation with the stouffville veterinary centre is holding a rabies immuniza tion clinic this saturday nov 17 from 1 to 5 pm the cost is only five dollars only dogs and cats will be accepted residents here are urged to take advantage of this service every pet worth keeping is worth protecting stouffville boy regions top orator laborious lessons the correct decision there was no service at the cenotaph in thetown square sunday instead the wreathlaying ceremony was conducted in the veterans memorial hall while cancellation of the parade and outside activities that normally follow caught some people by surprise includ- ing york north mpp bill hodgson it was the only sensible thing to do in fact there have been occasions in the past when participants would have been bet ter served by holding the complete cere mony inside due to the fact changes in plans were made on short notice we found out ab out it at 130 pm there was no way of spreading the word certainly a few were disappointed but no one with the exception of mr hodgson was incon venienced even our provincial mem ber had an opportunity to join the gather ing later loking back veterans of two world wars endured miseries of far greater magnitude than were experienced sun day however as stouffville legion branch president ivan goudie put it all of us are getting a little older some 45 years older we would suggest that in the future when conditions arc such as experienced this year the service at the hall be auto matic this way no one will feel left out in the cold whether battling the enemy or the ele ments discretion is sometimes the bet ter part of valor twelveyearold jason brock duchess street stouffville was the intermediate division champion in the york region public speaking competition nov 6 at aurora heights public school aurora the title of his speech was lessons it is published here it was an overcast and rainy morning footsteps echoed along the hall jason youre late get up mom you cant make me do this ill quit i wont do anything ill be rude love them or hate them im not talking about school im talking about lessons life is no thing but a bowl of lessons some firm some soft but as far as im concerned all come with pits ear ly in life there are so many lessons one has to learn as i remember it these were relatively painless everyone learned how to get up of their knees and be suddenly drop ped into a turtle pool but i just learned to crawl you instinctively know that from here on in it just gets deeper jump she yelled just jump 111 take care of you who doesnt remember the smell of chlorine or the clang of the change room lockers and the wet slime underfoot then the freezing shower and that familiar grip of panic and finally standing teeth chattering lips blue at the edge of the pool a beaming teenager clutching a clipboard asks hav ing fun well everyone into the pool after half an hour of swal lowing water and gasping for air you struggle out of the pool and grab for your towel your parents drop a quarter into your hand to alleviate their guilt for all your suffering and off you go to the corner store collecting hockey cards began the phase when i thought i wanted to be a hockey star bundled up in my little snow suit with a helmit on my head so i wouldnt knock my brains out if i fell i looked like somethingfromanotherplanet but that didnt bother me until i stepped on the ice where all the girls wore cute skating suits and danced cir cles around me while i shuffled for an hour to reach the other side of the rink i could tell i wasnt going to be another wayne gretzsky so much for lessons involving physical activity how about some intellectual stimulation no one should go through life not knowing how to read music lec tured my mom since we happen to have a piano wouldnt it be fun to learn how to play it the first few lessons were fine you thought scales were only on fish then i began complaining jason this has tjot to stop nag ged my mom what do you want to do with your life i wanna rock so came the electric bass and a great big ampli fier im the only kid in stouffville who practices while grounded once a week i struggle to my lesson dragging my 200 pound bass and spend half an hour in a small smoky room learning how to keep the rythmn it sure beats the piano and a heck of a lot lighter during the course of these les sons it became evident to my mom that i sure could act i could look deathly ill when it was time for swimming lessons exceptionally tired when it came to skating and suffer cramps in my fingers when lessons loomed jason youre too much you should take acting lessons de- icared my mom so off to the young peoples theatre we went every saturday a dusty old room playing frozen tag and pretending to be a flower wasnt my idea of a good time until the audition calls were handed out and i found myself cast as tiny tim and later acting in jacob twotwo wow that was all right swimming skating music theatre art cooking singing danc ing computer typing tennis wood working sewing lessons anyone i