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p4 ivvr 16 1995 stujc municipalities shouldnt legisl do we really want to spend our time debating whether or not we should permit lapdanc ing in our society if someone wants to have a naked woman or man sit on them and then pay them for it is it any of our business espe cially when they can buy some truly horrific pornography at the neighborhood corner store metropolitan toronto appar ently tibinks we should care the bureaucrats at metro hall have asked local municipalities to strike up a bylaw banning the practice of lapdancing not that theres a whole lot of it going on in our area to begin with but mississaiiga has seen fit to ban the act arid other towns like vaughan may enact bylaws tokeep the dirty dancers viewpoint andrew mair bfftheir streets whether theres a strip bar in your neck of the woods or not your municipal representatives feel its up to them to dictate what you can and cannot do but lets face it this is an issue that affects very few people fx there are a handful in every thousand residents who fre quent strip clubs dancers do not make up a large part of bur workforce their ranks are split some like lapdancing for the money the oth ers feel their acts should be kept as handsoff entertain ment a disc jockey who plays music for strip pers in a woodbridge club told the week ender that since the ban was imposed up to 80 dancers a night have tried to freelance at his club they know the money is good and are willing to travel to get it v the dj even said he was benefitting frohi the metro ban making 540 on one nightrin tips from freelance dancers who lined up to have their particular musical set played if youre on stage he said you make far more money following your act in the subsequent lapdancing deals the situation resembles prohibi tion the dj said you cant offer something and then take it away it will just go underground the way prohibition did and the way prosti tution is presently he also said a minority of the cus tomers at the club actually ever ask for a lapdance he added that he didnt see what all the fuss was about and hes got a very good point i am not in favor of the practice nor strip clubs to begin with but municipal governments have to come off theirriigh moral horsesit is not their place to legislate moral ity the tribune weekender edition ametroland community kewpapcr patricia pappas publisher jo ann stevenson editorinchief andrew mair general managereditor debraweller director of advertising barry goodyear director of distribution vivian otieil business manager pamela nichols operations manager sxqueeyjlle all enquiries 905 6402100 fax 9056405477 6244 main st stouffville ont mcbridqb all enquiries 903 8929741 vmta 90s 8329741 88 brock st w uzbridge ont the tribune published every wednesday and saturday is one of the metroland printing pub lishing and distributing group of suburban newspapers which includes markham econo mist and sun ajax pickering news advertiser auroranewmarket era banner barrio advance 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of robert goulet that night mister goulet a canadian had been hired to sing before millions of boxing fans the national anthem of theunited states of americaand that night roberts rich baritone rang out from ringside reverberating from the arena walls bouncing off the interstellar satellites around the cosmos merrily tympaning against the eardrums of quadzillioris of fight fans from kenofa to korea from tswwassen to timbuktu there was only one teensy weensy thing wrong the words robert goulet forgotthe words right there on national make that international tele- save yision canadas own robert goulet hemming and hawing and erring and aahing oyer the words to the us- national anthem oh well not as if the yankees havent paid us back remember 1985 yankee stadium the blue jays hell bent for the world series and mary odowd stands up jtowar ble the anthems she did real well on the star span- gled banner but she bobbled the words to 0 canada like a thirdstring shortstop with peanut butter on his glove and just last year we suffered through the performance of dennis parks a lounge singer signed to sing the anthems at the opening of a gaiiadian football league game souith of the border dennis did a fine job he had mem orized every word of our patriotic fditty unfortunately he neglected to note the tune when dennis sang 0 cana da it sounded a lot like auld lang syne with overtones of for hes a jolly good fellow- and remember the heidi games let me take you back to 1968 the new york jets are playing the oak land raiders the jets are leading 3229 with just over a minute left in the game were talking superbowl count down here where every game counts jets 32 oakland 29 just over a minute left and nbc television switches to the sunday night movie heidi sports fans of north america went ballistic tens of thousands of viewers callec nbc to vent their wrath and those were just the tv watch ers who knew how to dial a phone sale ends october 15 1995 the queens pantry boutiqueltd 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