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hb mm l4tumialjgvsry4x99l st stouffville f viul i 5 get to know faces behind the uniforms t he decison by york region police to start regular foot patrols along main street stouffville is a welcomeone for a police force which has to deal with such a huge area its a good idea to give residents of the regions towns an opportunity to get to know the men and women in blue inspector ivars vittins said the force decided to put officers on the beat in stouffville after some local complaints about vandalism however even the inspector admitted the problems werent serf- ous and the main motivation was public relations and theres nothing wrong with that the police have a tough job and when they are known only as face less individuals in cruisers its hard for members of the general public to relate to them as people out of their cars though walking the streets and talking with mer chants it becomes easier to put faces to the uniforms as coast james purvis said to tri bune reporter roger belgrave but if one person comes up and says officer have a nice day it makes it all worthwhile a sad story hair today gdhjprnorrow ben jonson the scribe not the run ner once wrote that old bald cheater time how astute but ben left out the fact that time seems to be striking some of us in his own image bald that is not cheaters i am having a tete a tete with old- father time and i regret to inform that i am losing the battle lets put it this way my brush run neth oyer yes it wont be long now until i am subject to cue ball jokes solicitations from roadside toupee salesmen and doortodoor chamoise hucksters when i first started losing my hair at the age of 20 1 began collecting a series of quips and phrases dealing with the inevitability i was facing i was set to employ quips like grass doesnt grow on the beaten path but it is no consolation to me now to make matters worse i went for a haircut the other day it was perhaps the worst experi ence of my life the death of my dog couldnt hold a candle to the trauma i suffered in the chair that day my wife i must say was partially to blame though i am my own man and nfake my own decisions but she urged me to change the look youve had since 1979 lwent to an expensive salon de cheveux since my wife contends that louis her stylist has never done her wrong give me something a little more mod i said as i settled in what i left minute with mair e w with was a coiffe that resembled a picasso painting my thinning locks swept back over my balding pate in a cascade that bulged from the back of my head they abruptly stopped in a shelf half way down my head the remainder of my hair looked like a putting green i was so stunned when i looked in the mirror i numbly paid the girl and got in my car i got back to work and heard the snickers as soon as i walked in the door nice lid was the kindest of the sarcastic remarks and get in a tangle with a lawnmower on your lunch was the kindest of the cruel jokes after work i went back to the stylist arid explained that while i certainly appreciated her efforts the pointing and laughing were really too much to take she understood fully and said it could be fixed easily enough i am sure i was the source of amusement for the entiresalon as i sat down to have the work removed what she didnt say was what it would take to return me to the land of sensible haircuts after what seemed like an eternity i walked out weighing about four pounds less sonow i have less hair all over not just on top what they say about tattoos is also true for hair you can remove the thing but not without a lot of pain stouffville tribune publisher editorinchief editor advertsing director business manager promotionsdistribution operations manager patricia pappas jo ann stevenson andrew mair debra weller vivian oneil mgr jennifer hutt pam nichols where would we be without gadgets staff reporter tracy kibble enzo oi maiteo julie caspersen roger belgrave photographers sloerd wrtteveen steve sometviile real estate joan 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harlequin enterprises ltd national sales representative metroland corporate sales 4931300 6402100 6405477 fax xx7 hat would we do without all y those wondrous gadgets which make modern life so effi cient i pondered this vital question as i tried in vain to dry my hands on a hot air dryer in a public washroom i am well aware that these devices are more hygienic and less wasteful of our natural resources than tow els requiring no refilling or laun dry service in short they are per fect in all respects save one they dont dry your hands then there are those infernal chainedup shopping carts located outside grocery stores in order to release one you will require some or all of the following a quarter the patience of a saint iron clad thumbs and the ability to steer in a straight line a cart whose natural inclination is to go round and round in everdecreasing circles in earlier days you would simply have traded your defective cart for kates corner sixwiikxijvwwvffl a e r a a a less obstinate model subjecting yourself a second time to a wrestling match with art inanimate object in broad daylight however is a powerful incentive for making do with what youve got remember the good old days when daily newspapers came out of the box without a fight and you could pay for them with any combi nation of coins now that boxes are sealed even those who abhor van dalism find themselves surrepti tiously kicking and banging at the unyielding metal in a futile attempt to extricate a newspaper in exchange for their hardearned cash a store on the other hand charges ten cents less and only takes your money if it can deliver the goods boxes do have one advantage over stores in our won derful high technology world how ever being nonelectronic they can produce a newspaper if theyre in the mood during a power cut and then youll have something to read while you hang around waiting for modern life to resume with the restoration of power to gas pumps traffic lights bank machines computers and 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