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stu weekender may 3 1997 p 25 letters insensitive dog walker has reader seeing red dear editor on tuesday morning i witnessed something that not only made me angry but sick to my stomach my husband parked the car in the east driveway of orchard park public school while he kindly took some papers to the office for me while i waited in the car i saw a woman walk her dog from the rear playground and down the east sidewalk then she yanked him back to the strip of grass along the walk where he just sniffed around from there she took him to the front of the school and let him walk all over the top of the flower bed then she yanked him to the grass between the bed and the school where he had a bowel movement although she picked his deposit up in a bag i thought what if he had a loose bowel movement from there the dog was walked across the front sidewalk to the flower bed on the other side then the lady walked with her dog right along in front of the classroom windows i wondered why the parade there disturbing the students inside the class rooms was she demonstrating disrespect to public prop erty what made me sick i thought back to one year i taught grade 2 in that school it was the end of june and the primary end was so hot the hall floors sweat with the heat we took the children outside to read under the trees there was always a lovely breeze from the north i could only think of the children that sat on the grass i know we would often see dog dirt on the playground where the night rider or the shadow must have walked their dogs at night they were never seen and didnt clean up the mess why would someone walk her dog all over the ground where children play roll and tumble does she not know how unhealthy this is for children i know this goes on in public parks but a school yard have you ever seen a dog taken for a walk that it didnt have to urinate somewhere i heard that people and their dogs often resemble each other and as i watched this lady an expression that i had heard years ago came back to me i thought the expres sion suited people like her nincompoops so parents if you read this article would you please help to do some thing about the situation for the sake of your childrens health of course i guess i could have been a good samaritan and gone over with a roll of bounty and said no need to worry about your dog urinating on the grass bounty is strong and will absorb anything doreen brown stouffville ii 1 ffl fiill service florist at zehrs mothers day classic elegance bouquet armful of carnations bunch of 24 say i love you mom with flowers for mothers day 14 9 local area delivery to uxbridge stouffville port perry plus exclusive delivery to over 30000 cities in the united states and canada as well as over 140 countries worldwide call 8521215 tropical garden baskets small large 24 includes tuberous or fibrous begonias sunshine or regular impatiens ivy or culture geraniums or fuchsia or petunia 9 99 10 dia pot dr shelly lazier family dentist too far to travel for special services we have dr elliott weidtnan periodontist and ed edwards denturist available in our office all insurance plans accepted 6212 main st stouffville just east of the go station tel 6427474 new patients welcome llvw town of whitchurchstouffville tender call sealed tenders for the following contract placed in the envelopes provided clearly marked as to the contents will be received by the clerks department municipal offices 19 civic avenue stouffville ontario l4a7z6 until thursday may 22nd 1997 300 pm local time contract ws9703 glad park avenue reconstruction and fairview avenue storm sewer installation the work consists of the supply of all material labour and equipment to reconstruct glad park avenue from a rural standard to a full urban crosssection additional work will include the installation of 1670m of aluminum archpipe storm sewer together with appurtenances along fairview avenue and various spot watermain and sanitary sewer work within the community of stouffville tender documents may be obtained from the clerks department at the above mentioned address between 830 am to 430 pm local time monday to friday on payment of a 2000 nonrefundable fee payable to the town of whitchurchstouffville if information is required please contact mr t parry p eng director of engineeringplanning or mr m cooper cet development technologist at 905 6401900 or 905 8952423 the corporation of the town of whitchurchstouffville reserves the right to accept or reject any tender and also reserves the right to accept other than the lowest bidder j