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p 4 tribune au6ust 30 1995 st comment foxes inspiration to local efforts stoiiffville tribune when terry fox was forced to stop his crosscanada run june 28 1981 he could never have imagined that from his own personal tragedy hope for millions of cancer sufferers would emerge and how after 15 years his dream lives on strong and determined vthis part of the country has always been involved heavily in the annual run and orga nizers are hoping this will be the best year yet betty and roily fox stopped by our community on monday to kick off the local campaign betty fox has become an accomplished speaker and advocate for those who are suf fering the devastating effects of cancer i her thoughts were inspiring to not only the people who must deal with the disease each and every day but also for those who came to hear her speech betty fox said countrywide a remarkable 152 million has been raised for innovative can cer research projects she stressed that more than 550000 canadians walked ran wheeled and rollerbladed their way to a record year the run is now held in 54 countries around the globe give up his dream but we still we have come a long way have aiong way to go before we since terry fox was forced to can rest 6244 main st stouffvulc out l4a 1e2 905 6402100 905 6492292 fax 905 6405477 publisher patricia pappus general managereditor andrew mair editorinchief jo ann stevenson director of advertising dehni welter retail manager mike kogereon distribution manager barry j goodyear administration vivian oneil operations mgr pamela nichols qmgstift news andrew mair editor jam ifctnsbeny julie cxspersen roger belgrave reporters sjoerd witteveen steve- somerville photographry retail advertising joan marshman catherine dunkeld classified doreen deacon real estate joan marshman distribution arlene maddock the stouffvillo tribune published every wednesday and saturday is one of the metroland printing publishing and distribu tion group of community newspapers which includes ajax pickering news advertiser auro- ranewiiiarket era banner barrio advance brampton guardian burlington post citypar- ent collingwood connection etobicoke guardian georgetown independentacton free press kingston this week lindsay this week markham economist and sun milton canadian champion mississauga news north york mir- ror oakville beaver orillia today osliawa- whitbyclarington this week northumberland news peterborough this week richmond hillthornhillvaughan libera scarborough mirror todays seniors uxbridgo tribune con tents cannot be reprinted without written per mission from the publisher many tears wiluae flowing with start of school t there will be tears flowing next week the start of a new school year is always a traumatic experi ence traumatic for parents because with the possible excep tion of their own birthday and the stroke of 12 on new years eve there is really no other time in the year that it becomes so blatantly apparent that they are getting old as when their young ones trundle off to school again and its traumatic for the kids because of course the days of spearing frogs suffocating fire flies in a jar and kidnapping local dogs only to return them later in the day for a reward are over t of course there are also often tears of joy as some beleaguered warweary moms and pops relin quish their wicked little charges to the care of the school system if starting school again was not stressful enough imagine the feeling for those who are starting a new school its not so bad for kindergarten kids three hours after the tears fall and they are singing along with barney or fighting over who gets the blue mat at nap time they have forgotten all about the ini tial trauma even if their moth ers are still at home crying into their coffee and commiserating with the sorry lot on the ricki lake show but for those experiencing the stress of a new school new class mates and new teachers in a new neighborhood there are few moments in life as humbling i well remember my first day minute with mair at a new school in grade 3 dreaded it for weeks i agonized over what the day would be like even down to what i would wear when the day finally arrived i opted for a white turtleneck white pants white belt and white shoes i thought i looked pretty spifly and managed to get past my mother before she could show me the error of my ways the first comment i was greet ed with at my new school came from a sarcastic little girl in her sundaybest what are you the x man from glad i was floored what was i thinking now feeling very self- conscious i went into my new classroom my new teacher wel- corned us back from vacation arid then proceeded to invite me tbthe front of the class to be introduced as a- new student despite my entreaties she made me stand redfaced in front of my peers class this is andrew he is new to our school he is also obviously not aware of the rules of fashion wearing white after labor day is a nono lets make him feel welcome naturally the class erupted into gales of laughter i spent the rest of that first day in a haze of embarrassment my face burning eyes welling with tears and my back aching from trying to hide under the seat by the time the final bell rang i was really angry i would show them all not to make fun of me the next day i strode into school wearing a green shirt green pants and green sneakers the first person i met was the girl in her sunday best i smiled confidently at her until she said what are you the jolly green giant seeing my dotage through rose colored glasses middleaged life is merry and i love to lead it but there comes a day when your eyes are all right but your arm isnt long enough to hold the telephone book where you can read it ogden nash of late i have been forced to face the fact that there is no giant plot afoot among printers of telephone directories and the newspaper classifieds to render their products unreadable its merely another unpleasant manifestation of middle age ah unwelcome reminder that from here on its all down hill last week after a painful ses sion of unsuccessful squinting at the instructions on a package of uncle bens pasta i succumbed to reality and went in search of reading glasses most of them put me in mind of aging profes sors or elderly eminent surgeons and were hardly the thing for someone who is a senior boomer i can believe tm admitting this and thus comes equipped with a builtin resistance to believing the evidence of her own eyes acknowledging the need for glasses was one thing finding a pair which looked cool was quite another eventually i happened on a brand which fitted my cri teria nicely they were oval in shape with chic bronze metal frames and they looked good on me one major advantage of reading glasses is you cant see images clearly at a distance which is where i was standing in relation to the mirror when i checked i returned home and amused myself by going through the medicine cabinet and reading labels on bottles of pain reliever eye drops and indigestion tablets it transpired we were hoarding a lot of neanderthal stuff in there which i hastily chucked out before indulging in a leisurely perusal of our disin- kates corner tegrating local telephone direc tory even in a darkened corner i could decipher each number without so much as a narrowing of the eyes it occurred to me that here was another previous ly unconsidered bonus not only could i now see clearly i was also avoiding future wrinkles something tells me that cool reading glasses are just the beginning of a trend which could one day encompass harleydavidson wheelchairs walking frames sponsored by pepsi and rock concert venues equipped with wheelchair eleva tors in the halcyon days of the com ing boomers dotage the proto type magazine model will bear a closer resemblance to hazel mccallion than kate moss per sons of both official genders liv ing in adult lifestyle condomini ums and retirement villages will boogie to the beat of the grate- ful dead and led zeppelin while hapless younger people in the surrounding communities will lobby for more stringent noise restrictions within a three mile radius of old folks homes our descendants can hardly be blamed if theyre looking for ward to the time when were car ried off to that great iovein in the sky but with technology developing at the current pace who knows we could gain immortality and go on gumming up the airwaves with 60s nos talgia through the next millen nium and beyond the generation that wouldnt die brought to you by mcdon alds