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p 4 tribune april 16 1997 st comment email address stouffvilletribune pressnetnet lets just be rid of them once and for all the facts are all there yet we continue to ignore them torontos decision to reexamine the smok ing question is disheartening to those who would see a ban in restaurants and bars here local restaurateurs have said they wouldnt be happy with a ban on smoking saying it would adversely affect their business one only has to go into any toron to restaurant to see that the ban is working people can eat their lunch or dinner without a dingy haze hanging about them as well one can look to the example set by tim hortons donuts they have realized that smokers buy a coffee and then spend a long time occupying pre cious restaurant seats while they smoke tim hortons patrons come there to eat and drink not sit and smoke they can be commended for adopting the policy but also for having the business smarts to realize that people who eat spend money in other words people that smoke arent eating any physician will tell you that generations of people have respi ratory problems that sitting at the dame table who made it a promise to never took a puff but liv- with them has affected ban smoking locally ing in a house with smok- them for life would do well despite ers riding in their cars with the election com- what the smokers lobby with the windows up and ing this fall a candidate would have you believe stouffville tribune 6244 main st stouffville onl l4a1e2 905 6402100 905 6492292 classified 905 6402874 fax 905 6405477 publisher patricia pappas general managereditor andrew mair editorinchief jo ann stevenson director of advertising debra weller retail manager mike rogerson classified manager stacey allen distribution manager barry j goodyear administration vivian oneil operations mgri pamela nichols questions news andrew mair editor joan ransberry kathleen griffin mike adler reporters sjoerd witteveen steve somerville photographers julie caspersen copy editor 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publisher huhh our annual guide to getting into the newspaper once every year or so the tri bune prints a guide to getting into the newspaper for some its an easy process but others have no idea how the paper works or even that they have access to it here then is a crash course in getting your message out d if you have an event you want publicized give us at least a weeks notice we need that time to schedule the necessary people to cover your event and to ensure we dont have conflict ing assignments this goes for requesting a reporter a photog rapher and even for our commu nity calendar the sooner you let us know the better if you have had trouble getting us at your event its likely because we havent been able to juggle the schedule in time tta please make an effort to have your event planned well in advance when requesting a pho tographer we often only have a few minutes for each assign ment as our photographers cover three communities if you request a specific time be ready for the shoot when the photogra pher arrives fa make your event exciting in the newspaper business we call cheque passings grip and grinners because they usually involve a handshake a cheque and a smile and not much else what is more effective is a pic ture of what the money is being used for or some dramatization to make the photograph inter esting take a minute to plan something the photographer minute with mair a a will get creative if he or she has time but it is better if you plan something ahead also an inter esting picture has a better chance of seeing the light of day in the paper ks give us as much informa tion in your press releases as you can wed rather condense than have to expand who what when where why and sometimes how is our motto keep it local we realize that people have interests out side the community in which they live but ill be frank chances are extremely thin it will make the paper the tribune works on a firstcome firstserved basis for the most part unless the town is burning down that is how we assign our stories and pho tographs i should add that we also take news value into account for instance if madon na and michael jordan are lead ing a protest march on city hall and you had a perfect cribbage hand we might be a little late getting to your house o that being said we do like all kinds of news if you have a potato in your garden that looks like benny goodman we want to know about it if you won something discovered some thing heard something or have seen something we want to know fa its funny but people assume we know everything but truth be told we dont know unless you tell us fa oh and our hours are 9 am to 5 pm youd be surprised how many calls we get at 1 am kates not quite ready to turn the big 1 its my party and ill cry if i want to you cant turn l without a lot of people gloating some because they are older than you and cant wait for you to feel the same painful emotional and physical twinges others because they want everyone to know you are much older than them a kind friend who has so far avoided laughing outright whenever the subject of my senility comes up has with my permission organized an unsur- prise party to mark the end of civilization as i know it she and other friends and relations will do all the work while my job merely requires me to turn up and drown my sorrows in a vat or two of malmsey wine en route to the happy valley rest home since a lot of us are on the net i suggested a virtual party would be less effort but appar ently some people would prefer to count the wrinkles personally this means i will have to find something funky to wear that makes me look cool while avoid ing ominous comparisons to tammy fay baker although i still have a few weeks worth of being 40-some- thing left forward planning is of the essence by the time l rolls around the temperature should have risen to double digits which means i must abandon my customary funereal black in favor of springlike hues chartreuse shocking pink or outrageous orange all of which seem to be making an unwel come return to the runways of late are not at all the thing for ahem mature skin likewise anything too short or tight on the other hand you wont catch me wearing one of those understated tastefully coordi nated outfits the kind that 20- something male fashion design ers who disappear when they turn sideways recommend for women of a certain age i am not a natural candidate for a chic lit- kates corner kate a 1 1 de rdal e le chanel knockoff even if you could find such a thing at the bi- way nor i do espouse chunky gold fashion jewellery sheer tights with matching pumps or neatly coiffed locks offset by a hillary clinton headband my style if such it can be called encompasses a mixture of early woolco thrift shop grunge and le couture de queen street west augmented by faux leather footwear and a motley assortment of plastic and woven purses discarded by my daugh ter one of which still proudly bears a nine inch nails logo although i seldom wear cha- peaux i do own a nice little bat tered black number which i don on the days my hair goes wrong it used to be symmetrical until poc or was it spasm sat on it and rendered it a most arrest ing if uneven shape once i have settled on the appropriate outfit i shall turn my attention to the weighty task of building rome fortunately or unfortunately depending on your perspective eyesight dete riorates as you age so it is all too easy to go the tammy faylucille ball route inadver tently is your eye make up flattering or do you look like someone get ting ready to roam the streets at halloween disguised as a rac coon are you coming across as vamp or vampire and by the time you get to l do you really care just remember all of those out there who are younger than me you would cry too if it happened to you and my only consolation is that some day it will