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s j j tl p 4 the tribune tuesday february10 1998 st tuesday february 10 1998 vol 110 no 11 the tribune is a member of the ontario press council the tribune comment opinions send your letters to the editor to the address below editorial lets call a truce what do the olympic winter games and the military crisis between iraq and the united states have in common everything and nothing everything because the eyes of the world are on the players in both arenas sports and military everything because in both sit uations people can watch competitors pit themselves against each other trying to prove who is the fastest strongest and mightiest and nothing because the military show of force against iraq whether in good conscience and moral necessity is the antithesis of what the olympic spirit is all about the ancient greeks held olympiads every four years to allow athletes to participate in events such as foot races boxing and wrestling even back then a special truce was declared during that period of the games and any wars were suspended to allow athletes and spectators to enjoy the spectacle in safety prizing the olympic values of physical and mental develop ment arid competition without warfare frances pierre de cou- bertin revived the idea of the olympic games in the late 1800s resulting in the first olympic games being held in 1 896 since then warfare and terrorism has threatened the peaceful olympic movement several times who can forget the massacre of israeli athletes at the 1 972 munich games or the boycott of the 1 980 olympics by many countries over russias invasion of afghanistan let us hope that the worlds athletes can exemplify the olympic spirit of competition with guts and not guns skills and not smart- bombs lets pray that the men behind the military machines in both iraq and the united states find peaceful ways to resolve their conflict and turn off their radar screens and on their tvs i hope you get better soon mom pad5 making his cream corn porkn bean sardine casserole again dogs make good news bylaws do not dog shows home and trade shows and an elvis weekend are full of fun and full of life anyone who objects is full of himself im echoing a statement made by ward 5 councillor judy scala in regards to the legality of the upcom ing dog show common sense will prevail despite a silly bylaw mixup stouffville will still go to the dogs on the weekend more than 1600 dogs will arrive in town to compete in the ontario breeders associations annual four- day show to be held at the stouffville country market beginning feb 1 3 about 10000 people will attend while dog lovers will pump some 150000 into the local economy off the record joan ransberry ill be there 1 know zap about dog competitions but i like dogs i also like the country market its got char acter the upcoming dog show was an item at council last week i paid close attention ive been in the news game long enough to know that dog stories are always a hit with the readers on the other hand if the subject is zoning bylaws the readers bail out in great numbers with the greatest respect to all bylaw enforcement officers planners and politicians stories about zoning are sleepers and 1 get nervous when the readers slip into a coma heres a fact of life readers know what they want if a reporter writes about laws the readers are counting on stories about murder armed rob bery prostitution and kidnapping i cant blow you away with a story about general zoning bylaw 8734 but im asking you to stick with this ill take 30 seconds under permitted uses in the zoning bylaw as it applies to the country market dog shows are out home and trade shows are out strawberry festi val events the elvis weekend like wise a car show and a chili cookoff because all the good stuff is out common sense dictates that the bylaw needs to be amended but in keeping with a provincial law a public meeting must be held before an amendment can be granted the process takes time the public meeting is early march while its expected that the zoning will be adjust ed soon after in the meantime local council in its wisdom is looking the other way when it comes to the dog show and the local business i think country market adds much to stouffville im confident that country market officials the town and the public will soon iron out a fair working rela tionship as a bonus this will spare our readers any more dull stories about zon ing bylaws see you at the dog show city proofreading job was hard on the old eyes moonlighting becomes me last week for a change of pace i took a couple of days out to ply my rusty trade as a proofreader at a design company in the city check ing copy on food and beverage pack aging the work was not what you would call intellectually stimulating but it did make me realize that lunch pre pared with fresh ingredients is less likely to make a person glow in the dark than some examples of the pre packaged variety of the massive index of ingredi ents listed for one of the aforemen tioned nuclear snacks references to anything approximating real food were rare and most of those had grosssounding stuff added to them my literary acumen was of little use since shakespeare and his ilk were disinclined to write soliloquies on kates corner kate gilderdale such gourmet delights as xanthan gum carrageenan or sodium ery- thorbate adding to the challenge was the tiny perfect typeface which would have been indecipherable even when i was in my prime and which now required a powerful magnifying glass to decode each word had to be painfully spelled out and by the time i had done my two days hard labour crouched like bob crachit over the accounts ledger in a christmas carol a bracing oneandahalf hour crawl up the don valley park way in a raging snowstorm seemed almost like a vacation as i detoured through markham on my second day avoiding as many traffic snarlups as possible i could nt help noticing the new road signs which have begun to spring up pre sumably in response to the growing dimness of boomers eyesight the immensity of their lettering was in such stark contrast to my ingredient lists that i was transfixed gazing up at them i felt as though i had shrunk like alice in wonder land or been fed some hallucinatory drug which was altering my percep tion of the everyday world it was almost a relief to arrive downtown and squint at the regular signs which are so minute and post ed so close to intersections that even the young and sightenhanced have been known to drive straight through instead of turning left or right at the end of my sojourn in the city i was asked to submit a time sheet this task was far more daunting than the job itself and required a degree in higher mathematics since the amount of time spent on each task had to be broken down into fractions and totalled to accurately represent my hours my stress level was exacerbated by a miniature parking spot which required me to reverse in at an acute angle while simultaneously checking the rearview mirror and a large concrete post locat ed uncomfortably close to my left front fender to my astonishment 1 parked there not once but twice leaving the post and my car unscathed now that ive upgraded my skills- im thinking of applying for a proof reading position with the markham works department stouffville tribune a metroland community newspaper patricia pappas publisher andrew mair editorinchief tracy kibble editor debra weller director of advertising mike rogerson retail advertising manager stacey allen classified manager barry goodyear director of distribution vivian oneil business manager pamela nichols operations manager ai about us news 9056402100 retail sales 905 6402100 classujcds 905 6402 distribution j 9056402100 90564054 mail arca aa 6244 main st stouffville ont tb fitoume tntnms pumirfiw vcry ljrjniiintdy and saturday is on of the mctroland printing pub hshingrand dlxiruiuttcm group of com munlty newgpaparv which includes v now adveruaar mus vtoiv 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