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a4 tribune april 2 1986 s editors mail vitality dear editor i was extremely interested in your papers lead story march 26 under the heading town at cros sroads while my feelings may run coun ter to those of the majority i hope our council chooses the way of ex pansion rather than stagnation since moving to stouffville three years ago ive noticed anew vitality in the former village i can only assume quite modestly that the new blood in the community is at least partly responsible for this i want this new blood to continue flowing through the veins of our town stouffville i feel is a much more viable place because of growth and our family is pleased to be one of hundreds to make this beautiful area our permanent home sincerely cathie burgess millard street stouffville still alive dear editor im pleased to see the stouffvil le motor speedway project is still alive this proposed venture will re quire some intestinal fortitude on the part of our politicians initially members of council have nothing to gain politically by approving it and everything to lose are they mature enough to rise above the criticism time will tell as with so many things opposi tion often relates to lack of know ledge i know from experience this would be good for whitchurch- stouffville sincerely tom creighton rr 1 unionville editors mail disturbed i appreciate the fact markham fair had a profit of over 9000 in 1983 it disturbs me however to read of a 10000 drop in attendance what happened to the ten thousand people who were there in 1984 they didnt all die or move away and what about the ten thousand additional people whove moved into the area where were they to the knowledgeable fairgoer this is an event heshe wouldnt miss but to the outsider its something that must be sold they dont seem to appreciate what mar kham fair has to offer or is it offer ing enough i think the program committee should circulate a questionnaire to every home in markham and ask what new attraction would you like to see at markham fair this year the replies would serve as a guide to future entertainment plan ning mrs barbara davey village parkway markham decrepit while unable to attend the pub lic meeting in stouffville march 5 1 wish to protest in the strongest of terms further expense related to the old arena south of main street the town is already saddled with a major expense in building and maintaining the new recreation centre we dont need any addition al cost for what would amount to as a duplication of programs lets tear the decrepit old build ing down and utilize the site for something practical joseph bambrick vandorf road whitchurchstouffville the tribune onurio community np james thomas editor awocnton established 1888 bruce annan pat pappas publisher advertising manager jenni hutt disuibution manager editorial dept chris shanahan kelly connelly display advertising dept lvnn moore real estate classified advertising joan marshman distribution doreen deacon karen heise national sales representative metroland corporate sales 4931300 the stouffville tribune published every wednesday and saturday al 54 main st stouffville ont isone of the metroland printing publishing distributing group of suburban newspapers which includes the acton free press ajax pickering news advertiser aurora banner brampton guardian burlington post etobicoko advertiser guardian georgetown independent markham economist sun milton cham pion mississauga news newmarket era oakville beaver oshawa whitby this week richmond hillthornhill vaughan liberal scarborough mirror topic newsmagazine wtllowdale mirror metro- land printing publishing distributing is a division of harlequin enterprises ltd single copies 50 subscriptions 1700 per year in canada s4750 elsewhere member of canadian community newspapers association ontario weekly newspaper association ontario press council and suburban newspaper of america second class mail registration number 0896 kellys comment my escape from cuba by kelly connelly 6402100 6492292 editorials plan towns future j town council had been accused of dragging its feet with respect to future planning not any more the twoday study session held at the nottawasaga inn alliston accom plished more than we had anticipated perhaps more than even council had anticipated the proposals are far- reaching yes we viewed the great escape with skepticism this feeling grew when we learned the group was travelling out of town staying overnight and expending up to 1 600 just another posturing exer cise at taxpayers expense we thought how wrong we were the indepth discussions dealt with ev erything from services to severences from town and hamlet populations to suburban residential designations in brief the council now has a plan a document that when approved will set the course for the municipality ten to twenty years into the future smile of the week dear editor i had no reason to smile at the time but i look back and smile about it now for more than twenty years i was a teacher in several oneroom schools during that time i experi enced so many encounters with children and parents theyd fill a large book i often wish id kept a diary one day a boy i suspect cap tured a garter snake out in the yard it was long slimy and very much alive during the noonhour he slip ped it in my desk everything went smoothly dur ing the afternoon until close to dis missal time thais when this same boy i suspect began to act up to make an impression i reached in my desk for the strap and thats when i saw it the long slimy snake very much alive the commotion that followed id rather not describe but it was bedlam i immediately dismissed the whole school all sixteen pupils in cluding those destined for deten tions naturally the snakebearer became an instant hero as i said it was no laughing mat ter then but i can smile about it now sincerely jeanne williams cohen rr 1 markham we dont agree with everything con tained in the thirteen resolutions neith er will the public at this point in time nothing is etched in stone there will be meetings there will be submissions and there will be changes residents are advised to show interest this is your town were talking about while some aspects of the document will escape the grasp of local citizenry population levels is something everyone understands by 1991 five years time its proposed that whitchurchstouffville will accommodate 23000 people thats 8500 more than now by 1991 five years time its proposed that stouffville only will accommo date 11000 people thats 3500 more than now by the year 2001 fourteen years from now the total population target is 25000 people thats 10500 more than now these figures sound reasonable however its the means by which we reach these figures that affects us all rule number one when basking in the sun atop cubas remarkably white san dy beaches dont ask too many ques tions like why isnt the sand red fidel castro and his crustaceous communist affiliates wouldnt take too kindly to that inquiry rule number two dont wear a sweat shirt brandishing the american airforce eagle castro kicked out the america nos the mafia and private enterprise for a good reason excessive capitalism can be as brutal as communism in the exploitation of an ignorant and destitute population and rule number three absolve your self from any plane seige on the tarmac of a cuban airport the phonetics of ter rorist and tourist sound dangerously similar to a cuban airport soldier run ning across the tarmac towards a 727 is not smart the travel brochure promised white sand hot sun and warm turquoise wa ters for an incredibly low price my part ner and i were sold especially on the cheap we booked we flew we burnt and broke all of the above rules of con duct yes we did storm an air canada 727 parked on the tarmac at varadero airport in cuba along with 170 other de sperate passengers a major seating blunder involving our alba tour cohorts and a suddenly bank rupt unilours contingent swelled into a bitter first comefirst serve marathon to the airliner about 25 irate unitour pas sengers faced with the possibility of being stranded another week threatened to storm the plane if they we rent given a seat although my partner and i had first seating priority our tickets said so desperate unilours passengers in formed their travel company had gone bellyup march 21 and wouldnt provide a plane to take them home tried to sneak ahead of our alba party al the ticket counter their connivance was quickly exposed when my companion and i and 15 other innocent alba travellers were told blunt ly at the ticket counter the plane was full to rectify the situation a very con fusedlooking cubano no my problem ticket man issued blans seating passes to us and attempted to siphon out the unitour passengers from the boarding area we were then advised in a roundabout way to hustle ourselves onto the plane the second the tarmac gate was opened it seemed the 25 unitour travellers were plotting to board the airliner at all costs we hustled and fortunately grabbed two seats together for a communist country bent on sta bility and control its transportation sys tem is very chaotic at least 20 people were left on the tarmac when the engines started to roar the plane seige may not have been a pleasant way to end our vacation however the earlier memories of our trip were worth the aggravation cuba is a poor country no doubt if judged by north american standards yet the cuban society itself the rotting apartment complexes the putrescent egg smells in old havana the spanish and italian architecture the uncanny complacency of the working class the exhorbitant and haughty russian and german spectators who frequent the tropicana cubas las vegasstyle dance show the flavor of this one- class island is irresistably entertaining and remarkably subdued from a tourist perspective anyways castros face is plastered everywhere on the sides of buildings on gas station windows in offices and on street posts people still drive immaculatelooking 57chevysandtbirds archaic remin ders of the now banished american im perialist everything has been nationalized now there is no private enterprise ten- percent of the proletariats monthly earnings pay his shelter the maids in our hotel were paid 90 pesos a month the j equivalent of 90 american dollars a university professor earns 400 pesos considered a lucrative salary we were told the habana libre hotel popularity known as the hilton another amer- ican artifact forbids kissing or hugging on its premises forklifts instead of tow- trucks remove cars from an accident scene and dispose them in dump trucks peculiar customs and morals indeed its obvious the americans and capital ist ideology arent welcome but the- rum cigars and cubalibres rum andj coke still taste the same as they did 25 years ago editors mail apology 11 lylvhyn wh ts v r t 1 dear sir i wish to bring to your attention that the march 15 name that building contest published in the tribune weekender was not the quaker hill church as you claimed but the fifth line church that is part ofthe uxbridgescott museum complex the quaker hill church is south of the oxbridge road on cone 6 the building featured in the weekender is north ofthe uxbridge road on cone g there has often been confusion over these churches however since i was married at the fifth line united church and indeed showed the ladies photos of myself standing on my wedding day by the very sign pictured in your newspap er i believe you owe your readers an apology i dont know how many people identified the site correctly i know i did if you desire i can provide photos as proof sincerely mrs m goodfcllow graymalkin manor rr 3 stouffville vivian public school ss no 5 whitchurch 1952 the tribune appreciates receiving this photo of ss no 5 whitchurch twp vivian public school from harvey loveless a former student now living in toron to the teacher and pupils arc rear row left to righl- dorccn brink christine anderson bill longrigg wayne macdonald maude graves george ross muriel loveless georgina smith jim graves evelyn brccn elizabeth jackson teacher third row left to righttvalcrie whiting betty colton claire payment beverley clarke eileen winchester mary mclsaac dawn grose sharon whiting norman cox second row left to righdralph graves dennis mckay bob brcen hcndrick brink paul grose jim cook lloyd graves bob colton john ncilson front row left to rightemilc payment gertjic brink harvey loveless charlie graham bill reynolds glen focklcr albert bell and erick niclson thank you dear jim big brothers of york wish to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to everyone who helped make our bowl for a boy the most successful to date from celebrity day held at new market and georgina approx imately 35000 was raised for our work with fatherless boys money is also being collected from leagues who bowled for us throughout the week our grand prize draw a trip for two to the maratimcs including flight accommodation and car ren tal for one week was held live on ckan radio march 21 all pledge sheets and money collected had to be received at the big brothers office by march 20 to be eligible sincerely tom symington chairman bowl for a boy 1986 big brothers of york