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stux weekender april 22 1995 p 21 pool poker and pine trees stricken from chamber of commerce agenda they say you can never go home but upon being voted onto the new executive of the whitchurchstouffville cham ber of commerce after a 10year absence last wednesday night i couldnt help but feel a sense of coming around again granted this time im repre senting the tribune instead of my own longdefunct retail operation i asked editor andrew mair whom i replaced as director to give me the low down on the chamber of the mid1990s just how much change could have occurred since the days when former chamber president and charter member god stone- house had members cringing in fear of his ambitious plans to turn the organization into a from where live bruce stapley giant service club after all change is a big city phenomena one of the reasons we all moved to the country right but andrew immediately dis pelled that sad illusion gone are the executive meetings held in the basement of former pres ident graydon cards house these informal sessions have been replaced by gatherings in selected local dining establish ments the poker game pool shoot ing sessions and various unprintable escapades indulged in by chamber executive mem bers at the conclusion of sched uled business are also a thing of the past andrew assured me but i smiled to learn that the transformation was not without its positive aspects thankfully the chamber of the 90s has opted to concentrate on the advancement of trade and com merce spending its energies promoting events such as trade shows and fall festivals on main st for no one associated with the chamber in the early 1980s will ever forget the sorry fiasco which came about as a result of a wellintentioned but illfated decision to lighten the load of the town works department one christmas marmuum little theatre presents for tour wife by ra7 c001ie7 april 26 to 29 1995 at 800 pm saturday matinee at 200 pm tickets evenings 1400 matinee 700 seniors and students 700 on thursday at the markham theatre for performing arts for tickets phone 905 4790201 opening night reception meet the cast and crew produced by special arrangement with samuel french inc it was decided by good citizen stone- house that the chamber should cut down a 30foot evergreen a resident had generously offered the town the titanic tree was to be installed and lit up in front of the clock tower in the civic square a trio including two for mer chamber presidents volunteered for the assignment possessed of ques tionable navigational skills the cads proceeded to fell the majestic blue spruce located next door to the intend ed evergreen when i encountered one of the culprits at a local cutyourown christmas tree farm two decembers ago he told me it was the first year since the big blunder that he had been able to summon the courage to take saw to tree at christmastime it was reassuring to check the names of some of the 170 or so busi nesses on the chamber roster and find that van 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