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p4 weekender august 23 1986 weekender comment meeting the need youll be mailed a letter sept 2 asking you to support the york region united way this year perhaps more than ever we hope you respond gener ously demands on the 30 agencies serving york region are increas ing tremendously with continued growth at a recent press conference statistics were cited to indicate that affluence in our community is paired with pain the markham and thestouffvil- le family life centres counsel families singles and youth on a gamut of social problems whether in crisis or just begin ning the centres aim at prevention but increasingly are dealing with teenage suicide homeless chil dren battered and stranded women and sexual abuse information markham and the markham branch of the cn1b are also financed by united way but regardless of location all 30 services throughout the region are available to and supported by york region residents to meet these needs united way must raise 325996 from markham and 40834 from stouffville ron maheu chairs the markham campaign this year and hank de groot stouffvilles united way is on the forefront of much needed people services not available otherwise if we value the quality of life in our communities lets supply the preventative medicine we need respond to your united way letter personally jimebwktui bank manager toasted and ro there comes a time in the life of every good company man when he has to make the decision to clean out the old desk and hang the gone fishin sign on the office door for good when this company man is a bank manager who has served the firm for 36 years there is no bet ter way for his friends to mark the occasion than by planning the zaniest form of milestone recogni tion the roast for the uninitiated or for those too young to remember the old dean martin tv celebrity roasts this does not involve char coal and a spit even a bank man ager deserves better than that what it does entail is a careful scanning of the roster of friends of the one who is to be roasted in search of several off the wall types who a know the poor un suspecting victim well enough to be able to exploit some of his more vulnerable areas without becom ing downright vindicilive b are not afraid to stand up in front of a hundred or so people with spot lights shining all over them and in a relaxed fashion rhyme off their zingers in the classic stand up comic tradition with any luck youll stumble across a frustrated comedian in the don rickles tradition wholl have them splitting their sides with laughter which is exactly what hap pened at the roast held last week for paul roney who recently re tired as manager of stouffvilles bank of nova scotia we had the feeling jerry young possessed the talent and that he could come up with some pretty good material and he was pretty easy to convince which must say something about the ham in the guy does he know were roasting him jerry asked me just days before the roast i dont know 1 responded why does it matter well jerry went on i was with him at the church dinner the other night and he was being so nice to me i felt like such a be nedict arnold knowing all the aw ful things 1 was planning to say about him on tuesday jerry was simply dazzling up here on that stage as it turned out great material all original all in good taste his best line had to be his reference to the roas- tees contribution of labor to the building of the new catholic church in stouffville we found out that paul was ambidexterous jerry proc laimed he was useless with both hands for my part i was picked to be the master of ceremonies for this auspicious occasion to say i was picked is actually not quite true i literally begged them to let me participate both as mc and as one of the roasters that way id be certain that this guy was given the third degree after all as my bank manager paul used to get all concerned ab out niggling details concerning the financial well being of my business itll gel better i would tell 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