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p4 the tribune wednesday november 15 199 participation key to town recreation stouffville is being urged to help map the recreation direc tion in which the town is moving a parks and recreation department advisory board meeting scheduled for tomor row night is the perfect oppor tunity for residents with some recreation ideas to speak their piece but the town needs input to help chart the future of recrea tion in whitchurchstouffville the towns first step in creating the advisory board is indeed a laudable one but for it to be a successful venture it must first have some direction from the taxpayers and then take heed of what is requested though advisory board chairman dennis murphy points out that the open meeting isnt a complaints session it will provide a forum for thoughts good and bad about township recreation pro grams and policies participation is the key to helping the advisory board suc ceed in its quest its up to local residents to give the board specific goals to strive for computer byte is worse than its bark why did i think that when i finally stopped worrying and learned to love my computer nothing would ever go wrong with it just two weeks ago i was fac ed with the moment every technoconvert dreads my mouse didnt want to play in vain i rolled it around the mouse pad hoping for a reaction but the arrow stayed stubbornly in the upper left corner of the monitor screen refusing to open files or respond to my user friendly computers cheery little error messages i cleaned it out tenderly as in structed by the manual and put it back together still nothing mov ed i knew then wed come to the kates corner kate gilderdale end of our sometimes stormy relationship apart from the fact that i had about 10 deadlines to make in 24 hours i figured i could cope id just drop into the nearest computer accessories store and pick up a new one you go to a bakery to buy bread and a grocery store to buy groceries right going to the computer store however will not necessarily 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mirror metroland prin ting publishing and distributing is a division of harlequin enterprises ltd national sales representative metroland corporate sales 4931300 6402100 6492292 all i had to rehearse my line do you carry replacement mice didnt sound right so i settled on this is a dead mouse if you cant revive it can you let me have a new one we dont sell the mouse without the system offered my friendly salesman apparently amazed that anyone still possess ed a computer of such ancient about five years vintage maybe its time you thought about an upgrade it was a nice if fleeting thought we were talk ing a mere twoandahalf thou sand here but somehow i couldnt bring myself to be persuaded i heard the usual stuff about how much faster it would be to get into files and how i could operate a ton of software not compatible with my present prehistoric system his sales pitch fell of deaf ears if only hed realized it was useless to waste his breath on someone who remembers blowing on liquid whiteout to hasten the drying process after erasing a typo to me my computer is still a miracle of modern efficiency but without my mouse it had all the impact of a speech on fiscal restraint by toronto public school board trustees after my abortive trip to the store i consulted the yellow pages and called several places to find out whether they had a mouse and if so what it would set me back how much could a small plastic box measuring about three inches by lvi inches by one inch whose internal organs con sisted of a mini squash ball some metal rollers a spring and a few wires possibly cost youre right much much more than i thought estimates started at 86 with a tradein and climbed to more than 150 while i was bidding a tearful farewell to my faithful rodent an my credit balance i thought id ask about another small glitch id encountered the disk drive wasnt ejecting consistently without the help of an unravelled paperclip the customer services rep said could be something really simple which would pro bably run me up just 200 plus of course the standard 40 service charge on the other hand it could be some problem with the machine and then wed be talking quite a bit of money i tuned him out and went round the corner to buy another package of paperclips isnt modern technology wonderful musselmans lake resident gets no response from town dear editor with regard to the article about the lake musselman club in the oct 18 issue of the stouffville tribune i wish to draw to your attention to the fact that the mayor was supplied with the names of our clubs four representative advisers well in advance of the town council meeting on oct 17 the advisers specific geographic areas of concern in- volving the entire lake musselman community were presented clearly on a map we contacted the mayor through her personal secretary on wednesday oct 18 to ask why mayor sainsbury withheld the adviser names and constitutional outline of our organization from council to date the mayor has not responded to anyone within the lake musselman club councillor robb has been given a duplicate of our constitutional outline and the adviser quadrant map that we originally supplied to the mayor he has been formally invited by letter to meet with these ad visers to discuss the environmen- tal concerns of the lake musselman club we await his response y truly ke jobe adviser quadrant 3 time for change dear editor hooray for pat armstrongs letter on the traffic congestion on main st i am sure many of the town people think the same way so lets do something about it anyone interested in forming a committee to change the access route to the sales barn contact me at 6407954 its our town lets make it livable jfjtylta thomas stouffville