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p4 tribune april 15 1992 -tt- st stouffville youth centre now obvious necessity t f there are still any critics of a a youth centre for whitchurchstouffville they must be silent after the inci dent in memorial park last week the incident served to high light the need for youth activity in this community and a place to hold such activities those who initially stated the centre was of no interest to teens may be in for a shock the recreation dept is presently compiling statistics from all intermediate and senior students in this commu nity and by next week the voice of stouffvilles youth will be heard by all indications the survey that was conducted will provide proponents of a youth centre with a clear man date a portion of the unoffi cial credo of the centre for youth by youth and with youth has now been fulfilled the mandate for the centre has been offered by youth with a centre in place inci dents like those last week would likely never take place again super dad does the job ith his eyes closed f t t ahbahbahbahbah gumgumbumbahbumgum sacabumsadeesdeem music to our ears the beginning babbles of an eightmonthold kody show mom and dad hes thinking and every time he utters these sounds my husband bob looks into his eyes in a teachers patient voice backed with encouragement he says say dada kody say dada daaadaaa daddy loves kody dada dada dada he waits bah bahbah is the proud response always accompanied by a crooked grin and a slam of his fists on the table bob shakes his head in despair and i can hear him from the other room hell never say dada bob makes a wonderful dad i some times call him a lot of different names names i wouldnt be allowed to print isnt that what wives are for but i have to admit he is a model parent the 90s father always there to take over when i turn into a raving screaming lunatic always there to offer assistance when i cant keep my eyes open or because he wants just the guys to go for a drive theyre buddies daddy and kody hes eager to be a part of his sons life and does a remarkable job being a regular sock flinger and dirty tshirt thrower your basic bedroom slob 1 was shocked at how neat and efficient he is with kody playing mr mom for half the week kibblesl bits bob does all the things a mother would do and sometimes better he baths him changes him feeds him and rocks him but bob is especially good in the playing department sometimes it astonishes me at how loud and hard our son can laugh when his dad plays games with him secretly when bobs not around ill try the same tactics only to be awarded by a feeble smile or a giggle or two theres one area however where his champ instantly becomes your kid he mumbles something about a dirty diaper change he just cant make it through that chore without gagging uncontrollably he pleads with me to come into the nursery now please change the kid im gonna be sick he tells me matteroffactly as he slinks backwards out of the room and if im not home he runs the poor child at arms length next door to grandmas house pretending to be there for coffee and idle chitchat he cons his mother to do thejobforhim once or twice grandma has been out and bob proudly informs me that he can actually endure the task if he dumps 900 wipes on kodys bottom closes his eyes holds his breath and does the job with his head out the win dow i find the whole thing thoroughly amusing weve got our work cut out for us this month dont kids ever stop moving around and why is it that no matter how many toys children have they keep heading for the garbage the telephone cord and the empty pop bottles is there a support group for this our more experienced friends call this the just say no stage of parent ing our jobs seem relaxing to us now stouffville tribune publisher editorinchief editor patricia pappas jo ann stevenson andrew mair its april showers from here on in advertising director business manager promotionsdistribution mgr operations manager debra weller vivian oneil jennifer hutt pam nichols 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kates corner the largest amount of square footage reserved for the bathroom this palatial retreat contained a bath which could have accommo dated an entire baseball team it was so long and deep that you had to cling to the sides to avoid drown ing or you would have had to if the hot water tank which serviced this immense and impressive fixture had been equal to the task its dimensions alas were hardly big ger than those of a large suitcase when we crossed the pond and moved into chateau gilderdale we had plenty of hot water but a bath of woefully inadequateprojortyns its predecessor an oldfashioned model with legs had been ban ished to the garage where it served on occasion as a drink cool er for parties before being snapped up for a song at a garage sale when yuppiedom was at its zenith and everyone was building bathrooms which would not have looked out of place in the palace of versailles we probably could have replaced our bathette with some thing more substantial but i never could bring myself to invest large sums of money on something as intrinsically boring as a bathroom its not as if you would do much entertaining there at least not unless you wanted to encourage some wild speculation on the part of your neighbors and what was the point of such lavish expenditure if you couldnt show it off i guess hi just have a shower and leave olympia and j york totakeabath