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mmm9mnm sx -tuxwm- stouffille hall of fame just what town needs tt he release of the news that stouffville is bidding for the baseball hall of fame can only mean positive things for the community however there is already opposition from some reople who do not want to see the town hall turned into a tourist site this is the sort of thinking can only be damaging to the commu nity j this town needs an injection of capital it needs the spinoffs that would result from locating the hall of fame here new business would bang down the door to locate here tourist dollars would flood the town and a new sense of pride arid community spirit would be instilled the vacant storefronts on main st would sport new businesses and the developments on the out skirts of town would be more attractive this is a plan that would have longreaching imp ications for the town and certainly has this newspapers report wall ar lliilil iiliiiiiiiii revenge will be sweeter than halloween candy halloween is a favorite time of year for me each of the past few years i have spent some scary evenings at a friends home in north bay a group of 10 or so sit around and chat friday night and then on the saturday- we play a round of touch football have a hearty hal loween spread get dressed up in silly outfits and take a bus out to a hotel owned by another friend for an annual costume party and while there is much revelry and halloween pranksterism the week end is not complete without video taping the entire sordid affair for posterity halloween was not always chock full o laughs for me however in the neighborhood of my youth the spookiest of evenings held a certain degree of terror for me not associated with traditional ghouls and goblins halloween in my neck of the woods was ihe annual stomping ground of a nasty little gargoyle bent on raising gain with adults and children alike bucky buchanan would run about the neighborhood slitting candy bags toppling jack-o- lanterhs and stepping on the trail ing tails of costumes he was a terror even without a mask and all the neighborhood kids feared him more than knock ing on the door of the west house oliver west was the mean old man of which every town seems to have at least one he kept to him self hated kids and stories floated around about body parts in his freezer which he fed to his mad dog bucky it was said had no fear of old man west and tormented the man on halloween by playing nickynicky nine door soaping his windows and putting glue on his door lock r in response to this annuallcam- paign of terror the man put his dog outside on halloween thinking the massive bloodhound would act as a deterrent for trick ortreaters and bucky alike no such luck watched as bucky took some of the treats hed pilfered frbrrua fairy princess and her younger brother a frog and fed them to the dog he then ran up and soaped the darkened windows glued the door handle and rang the bell incessantly my friend and i were standing on the sidewalk and when old man west came to the door bucky dove intbthebushes leaving the pair of us as the most likely suspects he chased us half way down the block before he gave up panting arid wheezing aryi there was bucky the following day at school laugh ing and taunting us for being chicken this past weekend when i was in north bay 1 jearried thatbucky had bought a house in toronto a big new place with large bay win dows in the front- oh thursday i think ill make a trip into the city with a case of ivory iri the trunk and a big grin on t my facex stouffville tribune publisher editorinchief editor advertising director business manager promotionsdistribution mgr operations manager patricia pappas jo ann stevenson andrew mair debra weller vivian oneil- jennifer hutt pam nichols staff reporters tracy kibble jula caspersen roger belgrave photographers sjoerd witteveen steve somerville real estate joan marshman classified ooreen deacon debbie amundson uxbridge retail sales joan marshman ooreen deacon heather hill gibson 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message is clear change it t heres an emergency and you i have to get in touch with some one urgently so you call them at home and get their answering machine depending on their creativity you could be subject to a bewildering selection of responses first of all theres the dull but serviceable hello this is joe clark i cant come to the phone right now but if you leave your name number and a short mes sage then there are those folksy mean- derings which are the bane of every insurance sales persons day and which consist of a detailed summary of the individuals recent and not so recent personal life were sorry we cant come to the phone right now were too busy enjoying this fantastic weather janes mother is here from wyoming and the baby has two new teeth kates corner slothful people often neglect to change these messages for months at a time obliging you listen to a long rambling discourse youve heard countless times before and which is hopelessly out of date the baby having graduated from high school last summer because the perpetrators rarely call themselves they are unaware that theyre driving their friends into a frenzy and anyway thenov- elty of having the machine has long since worn off and they cant be bothered to do an update and even if they could they cant find the booklet which tells them how another popular device is a mes sage which emulates cultural icons such as humphrey bogart brian mulroney or wc fields so entranced are the new owners with their witty respondent that they often forget to mention whose house youve actually reached leaving you to wonder whether youve left your number with a total stranger some people favor airi unintelligi ble message recited by a precocious three year old and youre obliged to call back several times before you get the gist of it all this ere- ativity is laudable except when youre calling long distance or you have some ghastly tidings to impart and the witty repartee which pre- cedes your message seems callous ly 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