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ihtiffiunejuuri21995 plan a good compromise st it seems to be a workable solu tion councils plan to build a pool library and art gallery adjacent to an 88unit apartment building met with many favorable reviews last week except of course from ice pad supporters who had counted on mayor wayne emmerson to be able to complete his election promise by getting the rest of council on the ice side the plan was not successful and the motion for a second arena was soundly defeated that is not to say the plan is dead but it would appear if there is to be more hockey played in whitchurchstourrville it will have to come from the benevolence of the private sector or from the efforts of our view the local service dubs council has gone with the trend of mating municipal efforts with a private developer to get multiple projects completed at lower cost with mutually beneficial results the choice of gino testa to go in partnership is to be applauded testa has contributed much to this community and has lived here for 37 years his edifices and homes are to be found throughout the area the site for the new project is also to be commended the duffins creek area by the go station could be one of our most scenic spots if developed with care the plan to turn the library into the new town hall is also a great idea however the town should consider future growth will the present library even with an expansion be large enough for the town in say 2020 one of the problems in this town has been a lack of future vision in the area of planning this is best exemplified in the rec centre a second pad should have been added at the time it was built and a pool added there as well if the town couldnt afford major projects then they are cer tainly no cheaper now the plan put forward last week seems to be a good compromise unless you want to play hockey that is lsft out ikthecouo w95 stouffville tribune 6244 main st stouffville ont l4a1e2 905 6402100 9056492292 fax 905 6405477 publisher patricia pappas 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orillia today oshawawhilbyclarington this week northumberland news peterbor ough this week richmond hillthom- hilivaughan liberal scarborough mirror todays seniors uxbridge tribune contents cannot be reprinted without written permission from the publisher l overdrawn in the confessional confess it feels good roman catholics are wise they confess get forgiven and then get on with it noncatholics are differ ent they tell no one act as if they didnt do it and then stew about it for years im not a catholic but theres nothing to suggest i cant pretend to be one a decision has been made im going to be a roman catholic for the day if you object call the pope ive started my day as a catholic by admitting i sin heres a transcript of the big explain or in catholic circles the confession bless me father for i have sinned it has been 49 years and 11 months since my last confession listen up im only telling you this once i murdered a total of three bank cards and two health cards in a span of 10 days thats not all i took you- knowwhosname in vain when i couldnt get my mcdonalds restaurant glowinthedarkforever batman pogs to glow since im not a real catholic i reserved the right to cast blame else where forget my pog trou bles for a minute ill deal with the murdered bank cards first when it comes to the cards i tried to blame the 24hour green machine at stouffvilles toronto domin ion bank heres the story i stuck my bank of mon trealinstant bank card into the green machine a mes sage appeared on the screen your card is damaged i made the trip to the bank of montreal and got a new card a few days later i returned to the same green machine pulled the brand spanking new card out of my purse and stuck it into the money machine money did not jump out instead i got the message your card is damaged on the trip back to the bank of montreal i prayed that no one would remember my being there only a few short days ago my prayers were answered i walked into that bank a nobody and i left a nobody a day or two later i returned to the same green machine only to be told the same story your card is damaged this time i refused to sneak back to the bank of montreal theyre pretty smart there theyd ask questions what would i say if a clerk asked have you been hanging out at the td ive always banked at the bank of montreal in case you dont know theyre quite good with money once at the end of the month i had a surplus father i cant stress enough the bank of montreal guarded my 16 with its life instead i grabbed the green machine telephone and yelled okay buddy i caught you red handed youre wrecking my bank send us your letters to the editor the tribune welcomes your letters to the editor letters should be no more than 500 words in length and can be typed or neatly hand written 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 how ever 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 onu l4a 1e2 or you can fax your letters to 905 6405477 card dont try to deny it i heard a voice it took a second to determined that it was real father i kid you not it was a real living breathing human on the other end of the phone and the real thing had a real ear the ear listened to my story the real person then asked a simple question do you have a magnet in your purse he then explained that a magnet will wipe out all the data on a bank card or any other card i have a new purse yes it has a magnet catch i apologized for trying to blame the green machine thanked the real person and threw the new purse away now lets talk about my glowinthedarkforever pogs last night i turned out all the lights in my house opened up a package of pogs and with the great est of care placed six bat man pogs on the coffee table i waited and i wait ed no glow i started talk ing to myself i could grow old waiting for these pogs to glow how dare mcdonalds sell me dud pogs when i buy promise- toglow pogs i expect mcdonalds to keep their word is it too much to ask what in is this world coming to oh father ive only been a catholic for a day and already i feel better fatherfather are you listening to roe the descent into dotage the other night i was out in the city with three friends and we got into a discussion about how to celebrate or mourn our approaching dotage being of more or lessthe same vintage we were planning for the big fiveo still years away i hasten to add and various ways in which we could go not gentle into that good night one of our number suggested an outward bound holiday for the over50s there are several things wrong with this idea not least of which is the fact that the very term out ward bound holiday is a glaring oxymoron worse it sounds as if it might require more than a mod icum of physical effort something which yours truly takes great pains to avoid how about climbing mount kilimanjaro then my disgustingly gungho friend piped up unde terred how about cruis ing yonge street looking for cute guys i countered with a savage smile we repaired to a handy pub where the lighting was suitably soft and con sidered other more realis tic options in the end we thought we might settle for a full face job andor liposuction one friend had already costed it all out and announced that the tab for lifting our sag ging visages would be a mere 10000 ail inclu sive probably less than one would shell out to travel around the world on the concorde and longer last ing into the bargain and wed only have it done once because at our ten der age we couldnt imag ine wed want to bother again at say 60 even though by then baby boomers will have declared 60 to be the prime of life and the ulti mate in urban chic anyway the permanent smiles and shiny faces of those regularly uplifted are enough to make a face like a road map the more palatable alternative sometimes i think the voices of chronologically gifted actors of the female persuasion in movies must be dubbed on account of it must be impossible for them to get their stretched facial muscles around the script males meanwhile just get older and more crinkly without penalty in holly wood witness clint east woods craggy counte nance in the ads for bridges of madison coun ty a threehankie weepy im told in which clint a mature male verging on old sets the youthful 40- something heart of meryl streep ablaze with mid life passion whether or not she has had her face fixed is a moot point because when ever i see her on screen im too busy being dis tracted by her latest accent to give her physical features more than a pass ing glance this time she plays an italian housewife with a boorish husband and chil dren who take her lamen tably for granted clint rattles into town in his pickup and bingo four days of breathless passion followed by a whole bunch of heartwarming despair and despondency maybe the best way to celebrate our descent into dotage would be to follow the advice of rex reed and take up residence in tin seltown hollywood is where if you dont have happiness you send out for it