The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

p 4 f file tribont uesday marcw 17 1 998 st- tuesday march 10 1998 vol 110 no 21 the tribune is a member of the ontario press council the tribune com merit 0 inions send your letters to the editor to the address below editorial resurrect gallery the closure of the latcham gallery has left a formidable void in our community for 20 years it was the sole permanent facility for exhibitions by york region artists the gallery in its day has housed some of the nations finest artists however when it comes to slicing the government pie culture is often the last piece served in addition when that pie has to be made smaller culture is often a key ingredient that is left out such is the case with the latcham gallery the latcham gallery began largely as the dream of ron and linda baird uxbridge area artists last week that dream ended as the library board which oversaw its operations deemed 30000 a year too much to pay its 213 members and hundreds of supporters were devastated its opponents those that would see money be pumped into other areas which more suited their personal tastes the gallery has had a checkered past these last few years sever al curators have resigned from lack of support and the board had threatened to pull the plug at least once before there may a ray of light for those who believe the gallery served a purpose a proposal has now been put forward for the gallery to be run as a private entirety a citizens committee is being put together to come up with a business plan to have the gallery re opened we wholeheartedly support this venture and urge anyone with even a dim interest in the subject to lobby support for this unique community facility if the gallery was not feasible as a pub lic entity then certainly it should be given the chance for resurrec- tion in the private sector william james once said that real culture lives by sympathies and admiration not by dislikes and disdains it would seem that the boards sympathies lie elsewhere electorate decides losers must accept defeat graciously dear editor question what do mike watsoriand a few of the american olympic hockey players have in common answer they are all sore losers when a person decides to put their name forward and run for public office they should be prepared to accept defeat graciously at the hands of the electorate as readily as they would have accepted vic tory it is obvious to me that mike watson doesnt recognize the unwritten but wide ly accepted honourable rules of defeat 1 upon learning the results of the elec tion the loser immediately goes to the winner and publicly congratulates them on their victory i understand that mike watson was a noshow and did not offer mayor emmerson his personal con gratulations on election night there is no acceptable excuse for such childish behaviour 2 after the election the losing candi date even though it hurts always accepts the will of the electorate and gets on with their private life in so doing this allows the winner the opportunity to carry out the mandate granted by voters until the next election mike watson and his campaign man ager are cither extremely naive or some one has forgotten to remind them that the election has been over for months and they lost the electorate has already decided that their ideas were not accept- letters able no amount of mudslinging about mayor emmersons legal and highly suc cessful fundraising efforts will change the results for the watson family to have to con tribute over 4000 of their own money to a less than 6000 campaign tells me more about their inability to raise the nec essary funds to support their ideals than it does about their commitment to the com munity as suggested by last weeks letter to the editor as a recipient of one of the many unsolicited fundraising letters that they sent out before the election and the recipient of two pestering followup phone calls i am sure i am not alone in wondering how they raised any money at all tom brooke a professional campaign manager claims that without money there is no campaign no way of spreading the message and convincing voters to sup port a particular candidate or a particular platform in other words a candidate with money has a campaign one without money only has a cause bill ballinger stouffville government knows best or does it isnt it nice to know that whenever you need protection from yourself theres always a government department happy to oblige a couple of weeks ago a zealous bunch of federal bureaucrats instigated a cam paign to eradicate even the most unlikely sources of mad cow disease from store shelves across alberta among their targets were killer bisto baxters soups and other deadly british foodstuffs including for some inexplica ble reason a pie that contains no beef my first coherent thought after the ini tial shock had subsided and the realization that the government always knows best had reasserted itself was what about marmite this unique delicacy for those who did not grow up in the uk and arc unaware of its subtle charms is a spread which you have to have ingested from early childhood to fully appreciate a typical canadian response to the stuff heartily endorsed by my own children is yuk marmite alas was hard to come by when the latter were small and i was unable to introduce it into their dairy diet before they developed discerning palates kates corner kate gilderdale back to the plot i rushed to my larder wherein lurked two tiny perfect bottles of this unsung gem to check the list of ingre dients yeast extract salt dehydrated car rots and onions spice extracts it said comfortingly in both official languages marmite does however have a decidedly beefy flavour so im stocking up just in case even though i may not live to regret it meanwhile in toronto buster the cat another potential carrier of pestilence and plague has been threatened with eviction from the sweet indulgence bakery at the urging of anew keen city health inspector no deaths or even slightly debilitating ill nesses have been attributed to buster who has been a feline fixture since the store opened 10 years ago his function apart from being cute was to rid the bakery of mice a chore he has performed with estimable enthusiasm and sterling success still rules arc rules and if the provincial health protection and pro motion act says buster must go then obviously hes bakery toast when mr wallethcad read about the buster brouhaha he regarded poc thoughtfully for some moments before postulating that perhaps we should re think our approach to health on the family premises were courting double disaster he point ed out by harbouring bottles of bovril and providing shelter for two mindless but endearing moggies whose preiferred perch is the kitchen counter as a compromise i am writing this col umn to warn future guests of the hazards of breaking bread at chateau gilderdale and while politicians protect my fellow humans i will continue to regard the for mer with a jaundiced eye concurring heartily with the words of sir ernest benn politics is the art of looking for trouble finding out whether it exists or not diag nosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedy spanking can be effective form of discipline dear editor i share the sentiment of one of the let ters published on march 12 it would be wonderful if parenting courses were as popular as prenatal courses however i have an even greater concern when one calls spanking a simplistic and violent solution the spankings i received growing up were never simplistic or violent and i never perceived the per son spanking me as hitting me but they sure helped teach me some lessons im awfully glad i learned early in life corporal punishment that is not administered according to carefully thoughtout guidelines is a dangerous thing just because a technique is used wrongly is no reason to reject it alto gether children who receive corporal punishment from loving parents have no trouble understanding its meaning i was spanked i never doubted their love forme timothy neimy 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 about us news bssks 9056402100 9056402100 r classifieds v 905 6402874 distribution 905 0402100 im fax bnbsrbk maii thetnbistarca f th etowtfrijqe ihbuim pubbahed i every tuesday thursday and saturday hi one of the metroland printing pub- ljhing and distribution group of com munjty newspaper which include j p ajpickrtg kewa advartuway ai1u- r low heraldcourier barrio ad vanse h barry bay tfcia week bolton enter- f priaa brampton guardian burlington f shopping naw burlington port city- 4 parwrit colungwoodwaaaja bach connection baal york minorerui advwratecountry route etoblcmte guardian flamborougfa pott george- town independentacton free preia fikinf ton tbf wv uudaay 71im rwekmaiiaemqmtmivy i landmen tan gtuaheoa mutwruwjf j canadian champion milton shopping 1 newsy miariaaauga news newmarv p lealaurora eta banner northumber j land now north york mirror oavflfeft ough ink week richmond jttuifcorf btuvanghan liberal scarwrough mir- ror and uxbrmge tribunetoday nd city of york guardian rniuh i rprinua wilhout j written permurioo from the publisher permit 1347 the pumitber rcfervita the right co rdum orclaaaify an adver- i tuement credit for advertleament lira- j i ited to apace thjerror occupied i letters policy the tribune welcomes your letters to the editor please keep letters to no more than 300 words note that letters may be edited for space libel spelling grammar while we endeavor to print as many letters as possible we regret that not all let ters may be printed