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ikjxxn ssrr ri-ibojwaa- 1 wk tjbk 4 p 6 weekender saturday may 9 1998 st the tribune saturday may 9 1998 vol 14 no 19 the tribune is a member of the ontario press council comment op tmons 9056402100 fax- 905 6405477 email thetribistarca editorial mothers deserve their special salute this isnt going to come across as earthshattering and were not taking a radical stance here but we think mothers are just a little bit of alright especially in these times of the reduced nuclear family of twoincome families of day care and commuting the annu al salute to mothers that began as one womans dream then picked up as a greeting card promotion holds more and more meaning with each passing year todays mom is faced with v obstacles and challenges their own mothers would have never dreamed in newsreels from the 1950s and 60s the mother of the new millennium was predicted to be a stay-at- home mom with a thousand gadgets to make her life care free and easy today we are certainly surrounded by technology but by no means is life getting easier it is constantly changing but not easier mothers day was originally designed to relieve the drudgery of domestic duties for a day and for the family to offer thanks for the untold thousands of tasks mothers per form each year today it should celebrate not just what moms do for their families but also the indomitable spirit of motherhood which in this confusing and rapidfirepaced world has overcome and will continue to overcome all we have man aged to throw at it happy mothers day to one and all cigars make madison avenue makeover i guess folks will buy just about any thing as long as some ad agency guy dreams up a way to convince them they need it take cigars please there was a time not so very long ago when cigars were recognized for what they are stinky cylinders of a foul herb that pollute the air soil the drapes and burn holes in ones lungs and lapels with impartial abandon but cigars have had a madison avenue makeover theyve become chic trendy cool visit a newsstand these days and you see the likes of arnold schwarznegger sylvester stallone peter falk riot to mention goldy hawn demi moore and sharon stone grimacing back at you their capped teeth clenched around a sto gie the size of a rottweilers hind leg cigar afficionado is the pretentious moniker of one of the rags another one bills itself as the smoker perhaps the least pompous is one called simply cigar the trouble is these publications are devoted to one thing and one thing only to the notion that sticking a large tube of weed in your mouth and sucking on one end while you ignite the other will make you a more attractive person and were not talking ei cheapo cigars here the readers who fall for thecigarsarecool line will be paying big bucks for the priv- basic black readers horrified by front page picture dear editor the trempe family and the com munity of stouffville suffered a terrible- tragedy in the loss of courtney trempe while the events of that fateful day needed to be published the picture oh the front page of may 5 did not the photograph of donna and john trempe at a time of complete devastation was offensive and at the very least an invasion of priva- shame on you karen hord dear edit6r vvbur picture of the family mem- bers of courtney trempe on the front page of may 5 edition of the letters tribune was ghoulish and in very poor taste it was bad enough that the last few editions of the paper have been filled with articles con cerning this unfortunate incident we have recently moved to stouffville and we enjoy reading all about the goings on in your paper we were very disappointed to see that big city paper sensationalism had found its way into the tribune please return to the level of report- ingthat stouffville citizens enjoy arid expect from the tribune helen john wilson arthur black ilege of courting lip cancer and smelling like a pool room nowadays trendoids dont bat an eye at the prospect of paying 25 or 30 bucks for a pleasure that will last approxi mately as long as it takes to drink a cup of coffee benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister recently found himself in agua caliente as a result of his passion for davidoff rrs davidoff rrs sound like anti missiles and indeed theyre not too far off size and shape wise but actually they are extremely rare and expensive handrolled cigars davidoffs cost the equivalent of 43 cdn since he took office two years ago prime minister netanyahu has been handing out davidoff rrs to visiting bigwigs like kiss candies at halloween hes also managed to puff his way through an incredible 1 14000 worth of the things the problem is netanyahu has been putting those cigars on his tab as long as hes been in office israeli taxpayers have just learned that theyve been pay ing the bills for netanyahus habit all along at a christies auction held in bern switzerland recently an anonymous oil tycoon from saudi arabia eagerly shelled out the canadian equivalent of 25000 for 25 thats 25 cigars now its true that these were creme de la creme cigars that are almost impossi ble to find these days rare trinidad cigars handmade in cuba by master craftsmen still anyway you slice it that guy is laying out an incredible 1 000 for every afterdinner stogie he smokes mind you the christies brochure points out that the prized products came packed in their original cedar box somewhatsmaller one assumes than the wooden box the purchaser will be packed in if he continues to smoke cig ars the tribune really blew it dear editor whatever possessed you to print a picture like that i dont even think i need to tell you what picture i mean as if the trempes have not had to copewith enough the loss of their dear sweet angel as they refer to courtney in the obituaries the mass es of press coverage that has been focused on this tragic event and now you have the audacity to print that picture up until that point the coverage of this event had been as positive as it could possibly be and i do com mend you for that however you blewit i think the only possible course of action is a front page apology in the thursday tribune i hope that 6ven half of the people that i have spoken to will sit down and write a similar letter no one that i know of thinks the picture was nec essary or appropriate unless of course you are trying to position the tribune as a supermarket tabloid airlie brown stouffville tribune weekender a metrbland community newspaper ian proudfoot publisher alvin brouwer general manager andrew mair editorinchief tracy kibble editor debra weller director of advertising mike rogerson retail advertising manager stacey alien classified manager barry goodyear director of distribution vivian oneil business manager pamela nichols operations manager about us 9056402100 3iajj sate 5 6402100 wtyf- 18007433353 v thetribistaica stouffville ont iaave2 i the stouftrme tribune pubushed b every tneeda tnursdayand saturv day is one of the metroland printing 1 i publishing 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