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p4 weekender september 26 1987 weekender -vv2jr- 3i comment benefactor deserves our praise kathleen mckay is a very special lady who deserves the highest honor this community can deliver her donation of an extensive private collection of original paintings by fred varley one of the group of seven artists was made official this week the paintings will be housed in a public gallery in the charming white board and batten main st unionville house which was her home and as a boarder fred varley lived and painted there exten sively the pressure to sell to klein- burg gallery which features group of seven originals and to the ontario art gallery must have been stupendous her generosity is a gift in it self to the town of markham and a great boost to visual arts in the area with the exception of latch- am gallery in stouffville visual arts have had no public gallery fred varley museum will be a terrific draw to main st un ionville as if it needed one and a terrific boost to the visual arts community jo ann stevenson be careful weighing vour5elf on unfamiliar scales some speak out op5rwheelrvjw economist and oun the rugged terrain of single life happy anniversary to me yes its been exactly one year since this refugee from romance severed the conjugal cord and struck out on his own to wander through the sandtrap of life- whew and as that famous old come dian with the bulbous nose and penchant for whiskey might say all things considered id rather be in philadelphia yes its a mean old world out there for those of us who suddenly had to learn to make a bed tidy a toilet bowl and choreograph the production of an entire meal when company comes for dinner and with women being the su perorganized creatures they are theres the inevitable tumble into chronic chaos when a man is put in a position where he must assume total responsibility for his daily existance without his wifes able assistance from where i live jdiuoe cbtahleu for instance i woke the other morning at 551 am in a sweat ive doublebooked thursday night i exclaimed to myself in horror a phone call later in the day resulted in one of those clas sic good newsbad news routines the good news the headmas ter of my sons school wasnt sche duled to come for dinner for a meeting the night i had arranged a dinner party for eight the bad news was that he had been invited for that very night in about two hours time i wasnt the least bit prepared as usual i somehow managed to survive the ordeal to those who see being single again as an excuse to run out and sow some wild oats consider the last three saturday evenings wiled away by bruce the party animal stapley the first was spent sitting around my kitchen table drinking tea and devouring three different types of storebought cookies with my boarder and another single male friend we hit paydirt later in the even ing when we were invited to the basement apartment of yet another single friend to watch crocodile dundee and eat pop corn wow the next saturday saw me nap ping til 9 pm after which i went over and unloaded a truck con taining my boarders earthly posessions it doesnt get any better folks saturday night number three saw me in cahoots with a friend trying to install a wall unit he had just bought for his sons bedroom so much for blowing off steam on a saturday night now from a sociological point of view being a sociology grad class of 71 i have noticed a lot of frustrations among singles i have encountered in the past year who are trying to get paired off there has emerged a rather worrisome cynicism on the part of singles in their late 20s and 30s who cantseem to find compatible mates one woman i know told me re cently she had lowered her ex pectations to the point of abandon ing the search for mr right she has since decided she would be happy with mr barely accept able another single woman spent the past year chasing three different guys all of a sudden they were beating a path to her door now she decides shes not really stuck on any of them at this rate therell be a lot of lonely old singles as the baby boomers approach their senior years in the meantime stay tuned well have another update on singledom at the end of year two it may get even more exciting economistsun the tribune sk weekender bruce annan publisher 9 heritage rd markham l3p1m3 2942200 4959440 6402100 6492292 don bernard editor in chlsf jim thomas editor eorrorlal department managing editor jo ann stevenson reporters paula crowell stave houston denise mcdonald alan shackleton paul pivato sports editorfrank king phoiographysjoord witteveen bill lanning published every saturday by metroland printing publishing and distributing at 9 heritage rd mar kham ontario up 1m3 tel 2342200 second class mail registration number 1247 the markham economist and sun published every wednesday and saturday at 9 heritage rd markham is one of the metroland printing publishing and distributing group ol suburban newspapers whichlndudet the acton free press ajaxpickcnng news 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