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wiw8 vi5 1 p 4wftkersaf0rdxv 271997 st the tribune saturday september 27 1997 vol 13 no 39 comment www send your letters to the editor to the address below editorial recall special goal tomorrow is a pretty significant date in canadian history for it was on sept 28 1972 that paul henderson scored the goal that was heard round the world or at least across all of canada and what was then the soviet union for many who were around to see it happen the goal became one of the defining moments in hockey history people still talk fondly about where they were when henderson put the puck in the net to restore our national honour it has become a part of the lore of the game and the history of canada here we were by no means a superpower sending hockey players and fans into the heart of the evil empire to take on the big bad soviets it was also a time when all of canada was united towards a com mon goal referendums constitutional debates and the strange soul- searching to define canadian were all to come in the future but for september 1 972 we were pulling together whether play ers were frenchcanadian englishcanadian or immigrants such as stan mikita who was born in czechoslovakia it didnt matter they were team canada and they had to win that series it may have seemed odd to the rest of the world but the impor tance of this series became monumental especially after we lost game one canadians are relatively restrained patriots we generally mind our own business and dont try to force our will on other countries however in those days our hockey supremacy in the world was never questioned when the soviets came over and knocked us on our ear it was time for some serious reevaluation many of the players in that series said that for them the final four games in moscow were like being in a war its funny that 25 years later the participants can get together for a friendly game of shinny and laugh about what happened take time tomorrow to remember ust delete the frustrations of emai had coffee the other day with a friend of mine an excop hed been on the force for eight or ten years then suddenly last spring hed resigned and now it seemed like he might want to talk about it i wasnt sure just how to approach the subject there was a rumour going around that my friend had suffered a nervous break down but why did the constant stress of facing down crazed crackheads and homicidal psychopaths finally get to him was it the unrelenting threat of injury and death the strain of deal ing with the human race at its violent booze- and dopefueled worst is that what got to him i asked as gently as i could his hand shook slightly as he hoist ed the mug to his lips no he said softly it was the basic black beautiful musselmans lake now a faded memory dear editor its hard to believe musselmans lake is the same lake that i grew up on swimming waterskiing and admiring as a young girl i moved to musselmans lake when i was 10 now at 30 1 walk around the lake today and it saddens me there is a green film that settles on the surface theres a black film that lines the shore most important there was an oil spill which is most visible i often wonder who or what is responsible for the poor conditions of this once most beautiful small body of water that many of us call home recently roads water and gas were installed in my community the lake withheld its grace somewhat through this enormous construction and distur bance each morning or evening as i walk around musselmans lake i wonder will i ever be able to admire this lake as i did when i was 10 in memory of musselman lakes past i have concern for its future jackie gray forest water troughs were a thoughtful gesture dear editor i would like to thank whoever is responsible for the very thoughtful gesture of placing a water trough under a tap at the southwest corner of the patterson tract near the new pumping station at mccowan and auro ra roads as a longtime user of all of the york regional forests i was most impressed with quality of the installation and appreciate the kindness on behalf of all horses and their riders in the tract gwynne rooke arthur black paperwork my friend estimated that he spent threequarters of each working day making notes sending memos filling in forms and typing out reports i wasnt a policeman he said i was an office clerk who happened to carry a gun it wasnt the pressure of holding down one of the worlds most danger ous jobs that got to him it was the mindnumbing boredom of shuffling paper all day long my pal is not alone a business con sultant by the name of dianna booher conducted a survey of 2000 business es last year a few of her conclusions whitecollar office workers spend 60 per cent of their time checking fil ing and retrieving printed informa tion of all the documents that are print ed copied and distributed by north american business every day 75 to 80 per cent are never referred to again for every dollar spent thinking up documents it costs up to 80 to print copy distribute file and eventually destroy them but thats old news because this is the age of the computer right paper shuffling is obsolete in the brave new electronic world of the internet and email wrong a study from san jose state university concludes that computers have not replaced eld technology theyve merely jumped on its back adding to the burden office workers dont just answer the regular mail anymore they also have to respond to interoffice mail voice mail teleconferencing email faxes pagers even postit notes re member how email was supposed to revolutionize our postal habits by weaning us of our paper habit maybe it would if we trusted it but we dont sixty per cent of all email is still copied onto paper the supreme irony of all those great new spaceage time saving commu nication devices is that using them consumes more not less of our time seventy per cent of the people inter viewed by san jose researchers com plain that they are overwhelmed in their personal and professional lives just sending and receiving messages some of us are fighting back a few office workers ease their burden by deliberately allowing the batteries on their pagers and cell phones to run down other people just leave the dust cover on their home computers i heard of one ceo in california who returned to his desk after vaca tion to find more than two thousand e- mail messages waiting for him his solution the delete button he vaporized the whole works i fig ure if they were really important mes sages the senders would get back to me he explained and my friend the excop sold his computer turned in his cell phone applied for an unlisted tele phone number and landed a job in the hardware department of the local canadian tire goes fishing on his days off and he smiles a lot way more than he did as a cop stouffville tribune weekender patricia pappas publisher andrew mair editorinchief julie caspersen editor debra weller director of advertising mike rogerson retail advertising manager stacey 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