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editors mail academy visitors offer thanks dear editor on behalf of the 10 students from stouffville district secon dary school attending the us space academy in huntsville alabama this fall i would like to thank everyone who contributed to our cause as we tried to raise some money to decrease the 10000 total cost of going to the local papers who have photographed various fun draisers for publication local awareness and periodically writing about our progress and previous upcoming events to the people who were generous enough to donate money to our coin collection to the sdss student body who bought our jelly bean draw tickets and to mrs leroy and mr connell of the physical educa tion department who helped us organize the studentteacher hockey game and for helping sell chocolate bars after school to the people with cars who local aided after storm dear editor we have lived on 10th line south in stouffville for more than 30 years although there have been many changes the people are still friendly helpful and caring during a recent violent storm a large tree in front of our house blew down after the storm i phoned the emergency number help arriv ed shortly many thanks to the kind police officer who set up flares and directed traffic and stayed until my son and daughter arrived although he had other- calls thanks also to the young men whom i did not know who came with the chain saw and cleared the branches blocking the road so traffic could get by than you all for your help mae budd 10th line s stouffville helped by attending one of our car washes held at sdss but most of all to our first customer at our first car wash who tipped us 20 the list of people who helped us is long and distinguished but to name a few mr peter bright mr jim kel ly and company at storagetek canada linda wood of spar aerospace julian franklin and the rest of the 198889 student council mrs grove our typist mrs jackson our ac countant everyone at stonehouse travel for all flight arrangements julie and john woods of wheels entertainment norm faulkner and norm copeland and sdss custodians and many more to all our friends and family thank you for your support and encouragement toward our trip and our dreams thanks to you it has become a success yours truly jenni allen head coordinator outdoors- rain is helping the berry trade art briggsjude correspondent the overtures of rain of late may not be enough to help the se cond cutting of hay however it may give the wild berries some muchneeded nourishment any kind of crop would be better than last sum mers disaster when the seared little nubs of shrivelled fruit had to be regurgitated by the local robins to reach any semblence of softness of course when it comes to berry harvest time theres a vast difference between picking the cultivated berries and the wild ones the domestic kind are planted in neat easy to reach rows that have weedfree aisles big enough for a cart to go bet ween theres really no challenge to it but to go up on the ridge to pick or along the overgrown hedgerows or into the woodland openings now thats an ex perience right away it entails an exploration trip or two not only to locate the berries but to find out if they are ready to harvest now if theres one thing i learn ed as a lad picking raspberries for a nickel a pint near vineland it is that you use two hands to pick you tie a quart box at your belt line with a piece of binder twine and put your picked fruit in a pint box set in the larger one carrying your extra boxes in an 11quart basket gives you a good carrier to bring home your full pints and saves dumping them all together while blueberries get most of the attention further north its often the blackberries and thimbleberries that attract the local people in these parts but thimbleberries i soon found out have much in common with roses the largest and most at tractive specimens are always protected by a myriad of prickly thorns and these biggest berries also seem to be always just out of arms reach flintstones kidnapped matt nicholls correspondent a kidnapping has taken place in stouffville and bev spence isnt very happy about it two one of a kind lawn ornaments shaped in the form of the tv cartoon favorites fred and wilma flintstone were lifted from the spences front lawn on millard st two weeks ago and the 15year stouffville resident isnt impressed that two of her favorite possessions have mysteriously vanished its a little annoying thats for sure she said in an interview last week you try to keep your property nice and then this happens i just hope somebody sees them and returns them to us the twofoothigh wooden figurines were purchased four years ago from a scottish couple at the pickering flea market bev says and both are multicolored just like they were on tv they are one of a kind because i dont think the couple from scotland makes them any more bev says she thinks the probable culprits behind the heist are local teenagers just wanting to have a little fun but for the young children on millard st who frequently came to play with the figurines the heist is no laughing matter young children in our neighborhood would come down and play with the figurines and im sure theyll be disappointed bev has informed her neighbors of the situation and all are sear ching for the lost couple and even the york regional police are lending a hand i called them up and told them i wanted to report a kidnapping bev says laughing a female officer came and she was very good- natured about it with her lawn now bare bev says she will look for new lawn or naments when she goes to florida with her husband in october but for now shes keeping her eyes peeled for fred and wilma well keep looking and hopefully theyll turn up changing position means pushing the scratching brambles away and stumbling over a fallen branch or two in the process by the time you have an inch or two of wellearned fruit in your box you think youre primed for anything wrong again without warning your foot goes down a hidden groundhog hole and your berries all self- eject into the surrounding shrub bery now if you think its tricky picking the fruit off the bushes without getting lacerated try retrieving the ones you spilled underneath its enough to get a person hung up on himself another common occurrence that happens on any wild berry expedition is becoming separated from your companion youre both led in different directions by that old axiom the berries are bigger on the other side of the bush i often think back to the time a few years ago when we had the last bumper crop of thimbleber ries in the wilds of our homestead farm while i was engrossed in picking a clump of particularly large fruit my efforts were inter rupted by a series of low gutteral sounds coming from the nearby tangles my first thought was that my wife picking somewhere in the vicinity had forgotten her allergy pills and was having some kind of pollen reacton however when the shrubbery began to shake and wendy did not appear or answer my call it was time to take more drastic action but i couldnt just run away and leave my wife to face whatever wild thing was on the prowl so i bowed to compassion stopped running and walked away at a fast pace about then i remembered the camera hang ing on that elm stub back there in the little clearing black bears now replaced blackberries in my uppermost thoughts when the sound of cracking brush greeted my return i sought safety behind a large climbable pine wendy emerged from the greenery did you hear those two porcupines fighting in there she asked por cupines i stammered oh yeah but i was too busy picking to pay them much heed the tribune wednesday august 30 1989 p5 select art galleries art for collectors carl brertders only framed guaranteed acidfree framing in solid oak frame hurry dont miss this opportunity limited to the first 30 sold get your invitation to meet carl brenders select art galleries 2 locations to serve you better 610 yonge st s 13 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