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p4 tribune june 28 1995 enjoy your festival st this weekend is likely the biggest in the whitchurchstouffville cal endar the annual strawberry festival will once again surely draw huge crowds to main st the ball dia monds park and other venues around town it is a monumental undertaking to put on the strawberry festival and a dedicated team of volunteers put in countless hours and untold amounts of labor to ensure we all have a great time each year for past number of fes tivals a behindthescenes drama has unfolded in order to have fire works on canada day a team of fundraisers have made a her culean effort to put on a show that draws people from markham rich- our view mond hill and other surrounding communities it is a feather in this groups cap that they can pull off such an impressive display when the larger communities no longer even try it costs between 6000 and 10000 for 20 minutes worth of fireworks and through corporate sponsors and local donors and ser vice clubs stouffville has a fire works display rivaled only by the likes of the symphony of fire the community is indebted to the likes and peter arnott of the towns recreation department who assumed the chairmanship of the festival committee and supervol unteer gladys clarkson there were fewer members of the straw berry committee this year and many new members this meant more work for everyone the festival will feature new events and old favorites and on the schedule in todays tribune youll find them all be sure to make a point of being on hand whenthe rev wayne reed is presented with his citizen of the year award july 1 the tribune is pleased to be able to sponsor this event once again and we congratu late rev reed on his selection we were inundated with nominations and with the exception of a half dozen all were for reed enjoy the festival now if only the weather will hold out stouffville tribune 6244 main st stouffville ont l4a1e2 9056402100 905 6492292 fax 905 6405477 publisher patricia pappas general managereditor andrew mair editorinchief jo ann steveason i director of advertising debra weller retail manager mike rogerson distribution manager barry j goodyear administration vivian oneil operations manager pamela nichols questions news andrew mair editor joan kansberry mike ruta roger belgrave reporters sjoerd witteveen steve somcrvillc photographry retail advertising joan marshman doreen deacon classified doreen deacon real estate joan marshman distribution arlene maddock the stoultville tribune published every wednesday and saturday is one of the metrotand printing publishing and distri bution group of community newspapers which includes ajax pickering news advertiser auroranewmarket era ban ner barrie advance brampton guardian burlington post cityparent coilingwood connection ktobtcoke guardian george town independentacton free press kingston this week lindsay this week markham economist and sun milton canadian champion mississauga news north york mirror oakville beaver orillia today oshawawhitbyclarington this week northumberland news peterbor ough this week richmond ilillthorn- hillvaughan liberal scarborough mirror todays seniors uxbridge tribune contents cannot be reprinted without written permission from the publisher tribune of yesteryear examined there are newspapers and then there are newspapers its up to you to decide if todays tribune complete with my writings goes beyond lining bird cages and wrapping potato peelings ill take the liberty to sug gest that the tribune of daysgoneby was a very fine newspaper the march 13 1924 edi tion of the tribune found its way to my desk i put today on hold put my feet up and gave it a read the trib from the 20s is chalkfull of great stuff including lots of unusual news heres a sampling of what was published in the tri bune 71 years ago from stouffville the massey harris co were given three weeks in which to put a cream separator sold to ralph connor of stouffville in perfect work ing order according to a decision given in the divi sion court in toronto from melville there was someone missing from sunday school last sunday we do not like to mention names but the young people are missed when they are absent from uxbridge joseph reeves boot and shoe repair and merchant of uxbridge has passed his 50th year as a businessman from ballantrae while skating at shadow lake saturday night will simp son and fred gray met in a head on collision with the result that both were knocked out for a couple of days will is okay again but fred will be nursing some loose teeth for a few days again from ballantrae oliver smith reports a lively experience in an aeroplane a few days ago he landed on top of a pine tree when the limb broke but ollie being one ofthose sturdy pioneers he did not feel the bump but was awfully angry for a few days for all of stouffville and uxbridge persons concealing a case of measles off the record joan t a ns berry send us your letters the tribune welcomes your letters to the editor letters should be no more than 500 words in length and can be typed or neatly handwritten your letters can be on any topic but the tribune reserves the right to edit for length libel grammar and spelling and good taste letters will not be returned unless requested of the editor due to space constraints not all letters may be published however we endeavor to print as many as possible within a time frame that maintains news value and topicality please send your letters to the editor 6244 main st stouffville ont l4a 1e2 or you can fax your let ters to 905 6405477 in their home and not observing the quarantine law are subject to a fine of 500 health issues for the ladies of uxbridge and stouffville when the for ties or even the thirties find a woman with the spring and the elastic gone from her body it naturally raised the question how did it happen shell say the house work did it others will say lack of posture exam time at a ss 17 dicksons hill in stouffville the marks are in and in keeping with the times they were published in the local newspaper heres how a few did jr iv clifford barkey75 per cent v banks 61 per cent jr 11 r smith 69 per cent grace byer 56 per cent and isabel gieber 40 per cent from altona the sound of the crosscut saw and the voice of the fortune teller are again heard in our burg from stouffville a rep resentative from the department of the provin cial treasurer was in town this week he was after bil liard rooms halls and the town park from pickering village crossing the road from the school house where he is caretaker geo elliott of pickering village was knocked down by a passing sleigh three of his ribs are broken 77ie tribune of yesterday was a gutsy newspaper it told the world who got divorced and why the tri bune also published details of dead peoples wills read ers were told who got what and why now some news begged a few questions i want to know why a certain young lady was sent to live with an aunt in toronto for a few months the tribune doesnt say why it just says shes spending a few months away and now for the editorial premier miketheknife eat your heart out ontario has become the paradise of widows and fam ilies the cause of this is our liberal allowance to widows with two or more children here is another well mean ing effort which promises to be a burden we are not against assisting widows but we believe that restric tions should be placed upon their assistance widows from other parts of canada should not be bene fited by this ontario law we have enough of our own without other provinces con tributing we know many widows who worked and raised fam ilies without assistance and we are not enamoured with laws that will have a ten- dancy to build up a leaning class what canada wants is an initiative class we want workers not leaners apologies for my insensitivi ljyisupyou like your new soccer uniform hello my name is kate and ill be your columnist for today in keeping with our desire not to offend any one this weeks column will be bland and noncon- troversial whilst allowing the reader to feel good about him or herself regardless of race color creed sexual orientation age shopping habits bad hair or gender formerly known as sex a word with too many unfortunate con notations which may prove unpalatable to our sensi tive readers i had intended to repro duce my mission state ment on this page but two things prevented me one i have not yet written it and two once penned it may contain certain inap propriate sentiments and blithe assumptions result ing from my having been brought up a white privi leged brit at the same time i am not in any way denigrating mission statements which have of late become a vital accessory to just about every organization from ibm to the monarchist league of canada before any shocked and appalled persons call i didnt actu ally check to see whether the latter had reached the stage of enlightenment from which all mission statements flow i just thought it sounded good anyway if i have offend ed anyone from that partic ular organization they have only themselves to blame as outdated colonial ist overlords overladies having been ruthlessly dis criminated against bent on subjugating our glori ous canadian identity apologies are long over due for the fact that i am a member of that obsolete and unhealthy elitist assemblage the nuclear family i have not once acknowledged the worthy selflessness of the child- free worse i often cite kates corner ikate qilderdale incidents from our dys functional existence to hammer home a point im trying to make my sole pathetic excuse for this is that having lived only from that nar row perspective it is all i know on the other hand to try and write from a dif ferent standpoint carries the grave danger of indulging in voice appro priation which i humbly hope will be seen as the greater of two evils looking over my columns i also recognize i have given undue promi nence to our animal com panion who happens to be a cat all this time i may well have been offending owners of such sterling and equally appealing co- vivants as dogs hamsters gerbils budgies ferrets tarantulas and threetoed sloths and for this over sight i also apologize i have lampooned the womens movement in particular the national action committee on the status of women shame lessly i have made snide references to equality guru michele landsberg whose endless efforts to sweep aside all forms of prejudice except her own which is justified should be praised rather than parodied i have sent up without due consideration of peo ples feelings achy breaky heart muzak the linguis tic shortcomings of traffic persons donny osmond glass ceilings and shopping malls after reading this i am horrified at my own insensitivity and i will try to do better in future per haps i should start my re education by participating in a training camp for store greeters have a nice day