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p24 weekender april 29 1995 stux local man finds himself in thick of oklahoma disaster stouffville optometrist martin mcdowell is no stranger to the irony which can sometimes accompany disaster before departing for a fiveday laser eye treatment course just out side tulsa oklahoma two sundays ago he joked with friends and fami ly about the remoteness of his desti nation he suggested the week ahead would be quiet uneventful and perhaps even a little corny rhyming off a few bars from songs of the musicals based on life in that heartland state however his first phone call home did little to support the stereotype of folksy tranquility two murders in the neighboring town of hulbert the night he arrived had cut into the hamlets already trifling population of 150 people not to mention the damage done to martins precon ceived impression of the state in which he found himself a visitor the next day he phoned the folks back home to tell them that a hurri cane complete with 75-miles-per- wanted 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first hand the reactions of those who could identify with their own people who had friends acquaintances or even family members work ing in the federal building which had been so brutally devastated while the local populace was inclined to believe the deed had been perpetrated by foreign terrorists refusing to accept that one of their own could resort to such an act martin said they were at the same time chilled by the remote prospect that there might just be a crazed mad man or two in their general vicinity as the week wore on he wit nessed the coming together of the oklahomans the yellow ribbons on every arm and the generous support shown the victims he also noted from close up the expression of tra ditional religious sentiment evident whenever america is confronted with such tragic events and of course when he arrived at the airport in tulsa to catch his flight home that saturday the tight security was in stark contrast to what he had seen coming into the states the week before for martin it wasnt the first time his travels had taken him to the site of pend ing upheaval in the fall of 1986 while with a group of doctors involved in a medical mission to haiti he witnessed the uprising which led to the ousting of papa doc duvalier the dictator of the day three years later he just happened to be in san fran cisco when the earthquake struck that cancelled a world series game in the bay area when i talked to martin this past sunday night he was about to embark on a whirlwind week which would see him travel from calgary to new brunswick on busi ness lefs hope it was a boring week on the national front meet the neighbours live your country dream in uxbridge oversized lots that back onto a century forest where songbirds deer are your neighbours live in a familyoriented riverside country town with schools churches friendly local shops and an oldfashioned sense of community its real right now at forest creek in uxbridge see for yourself today preview 8 bungalow 2 storey 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