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f4 weekender november 1 fun for a good cause it seems the markham theatre is becoming a great place to hold fundraising events and three good ones are coming up this month on sunday nov 9 the econom ist and sun and theatre 48 are sponsoring an entertaining even ing of music and fun called raise the roof featuring dinah christie and tom kneebone proceeds from that event go to help fix the roof at participation house then on saturday nov 15 the heart and stroke foundation is sponsoring a musical evening featuring the gilbert and sullivan society of toronto and local bar bershop chorus the markham men of harmony on tuesday nov 25 old fire hall sports is holding a showing of the film ski dance and a winter wear fashion show featuring bog- ner skiwear proceeds for the evening will go to the markham stouffville hospital tickets for all three events are available at the theatre box office call 4790201 all three are worthy causes all three promise to be entertaining fun evenings and all three deserve our full sup port former activist looks back fondly maybe it was just a reaction to a night spent listening to bob seger playing that old time rock and roll at maple leaf gardens or perhaps its merely a part of the mellowing process that comes with the passing of time whatever it was my little chat with stouffville mayor fran sainsbury the other day caused me to reminisce about those days not so long ago when i was actively involved in the local political scene yes i was what you might call a political activist and like anything else i get involved in it was anything but a quiet stroll through the park standing there talking to fran about the makeup of the present council and the fore most issues of the day all i could think about was ho w it had all seemed so deadly serious back then us against them truth versus fallacy the politic al left versus the right or what ever ideological opposites emerge in small town politics i guess we all get bitten by the political bug at some point in our lives and one thing is cer tain we sure did cause a few ripples the local establishment knew we had passed through af ter all was said and done we had sensed that the mayor of the day was on the way out in the fall of 1980 that he wouldnt be able to withstand the chal lenge of our man ged stone- house a young buck with more creative imagination than the entire ad agency used by mcdo nalds so we dropped everything and went for it as it turned out we were a little premature in our predic tion of eldred kings demise not only did eldred stave off our challenge although it was close he went on to become re gional chairman of york and who knows just how far he will go although he once told me he had no further political aspirations beyond the mayors chair im not a politician he insisted dumb like a fox that eldred i guess one of the best ways to develop respect for someone is to go head to head against him and come out second best nev er have i met a man to whom credibility was of such para mount importance eldred king is one politician youll never see being dragged before a review board for suspected im propriety the man is hard working clever and totally up front we may have had our spats but you just cant help but admire eldred both as a person and as a public figure anyway after our defeat we licked our wounds and wrote the whole thing off to experience what the heck we figured the universe was more likely than not unfolding as it should but the real disappointment was still to follow a few years later as we went against jim sanders stouffvilles councillor for life only to fall short by two votes im sure lovanna jims wife still wakes up in the mid dle of the night in a cold sweat thinking about that one enough was enough we fi gured sure nixon and diefen- baker had lost a whole bunch of elections before they finally put some points on the board but ged decided he could stir up enough dust from behind the scenes since then he has con fined his political pursuits to the various professional associa tions he is involved in he was recently made president of the independant travel profession als a consortium of about 150 travel agencies canada wide not too shabby at all as for the local political scene its still there with its lit tle controversies and personal ity conflicts but it just doesnt seem to call out to us the way it used to somehow the town and the re gion have survived yes flourished even without us and with eldred king at the controls as regional chairman the thing isnt likely to falter for one thing is certain the man doesnt deal in wooden nickels j7 conomist sun the tribune weekender bruce annan publisher 9 heritage rd markham l3p1m3 2942200 4959440 6402100 6492292 published every saturday by metroland printing publishing and distributing at 9 heritage rd mar kham ontario l3p 1m3 tel 2942200 second class mail registration number 1247 the markham economist and sun published every wednesday and saturday at 9 heritage rd 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