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ls bmrtidwi st send your letters to the editor to the address below everyone loves the hat we made you for mothers bay publics support police officers have a very tough job this week members of the public will have a chance to say thanks to their police force may 1 1 to 16 is police week and the theme for this year is working together as a community police will be holding numerous events over the week to make themselves more accessible to the public residents can also take part in a blue ribbon campaign to show support for the work of police officers its a good opportunity to remember that it is police officers who are the first line of defence when it comes to keeping our communities and homes safe places to be police work is often a thankless task the good that police officers do is usually shrugged off by saying its their job the police cant work in a vacuum though they need not only the help but the support of the public which is why working together as a community is such an excellent theme crime and criminals flourish in communities in which peo ple dont care locking the door and drawing the curtains doesnt make crime go away it makes it worse communities in which neighbours look out for each other and are working with the police to combat crime instead of making the job tougher for officers are safe places to live something to remember as we recognize police week i ntel i igent owners keep dogs on leash dear editor the boorishness of society has reached new heights when did it become proper to allow dogs to roam free the following are a few of my unwilling experiences i have named the owners appropriately three german shepherds came bounding towards myself and my husband the owner made no attempt to call them off when asked this pillar of society saidfor cs sake they wont hurt you three shepherds hurling towards a person is intimidating my husband and i were quietly looking at a group of newborn geese last year this woman allowed her unleashed dog to run down the hill scattering the terrified geese when she was asked to call her dog she ignored the request and loudly letters said to her child what is the prob lem the problem woman is that you interrupted our quiet enjoyment pskeep up the great parenting skills barbie was jogging in her span- dex pants hold the thoughts gentle men this was not a pretty sight her evita a slight revision of history last week two friends and i rented the video of evita the lloyd webber musical starring madonna is one of those stagy block buster productions that work far better in the theatre than on the screen for a start the complete lack of dialogue has a tendency to make serious bits of the story inadvertently hilarious its hard not to guffaw as several per fectly proportioned young men stand in the shower scrubbing their armpits and singing lustily about politics while modestly clad in what looks like a cross between a loin cloth and a sarong meanwhile toughlooking workers croon merrily as explosions i destroy buildings and vehicles and sol diers march grimfaced with military precision to the accompaniment of the two or three melodies which make up the score evita the musical is a perfect exam ple of history lite a movie which lets viewers figure out the story for them selves without worrying too much about boring old historical accuracy according to this version eva peron is a charismatic woman with a penchant for expensive jewellery who claws her- kates corner kate gilder dale way out of the gutter so that she can stand on balconies in designer gowns and warble on about how shell take care of the workers because she is one of them husband juan played with facial expressions of perpetual if under standable embarrassment by jonathan pryce looks as if he cant wait until the credits finally roll he seems a pleasant enough fellow if a tad ineffectual hardly the sort to submit his recalci trant subjects to a bracing spot of tor ture every now and then the director suc cumbs entirely to the rock video for mat with closeups of madonnas ruby red lips and a scene in which she dances with che antonio banderas it is his misfortune to serve as the pro ductions narrator the pained look on his face attesting to the often silly lyrics and his difficulty in hitting the high notes you know that the end is merci fully nigh when our heroine sits wanly in a wheelchair unadorned by even a smidgen of lipstick juan carries her upstairs her stiletto heels dangling dis consolately from her feet and lays her tenderly on the bed despite her rapid ly declining health however sheis still well enough to sing albeit tremulously watching this slight revision of histo ry i thought it might be fun to create my own musical version of the chris tine lamont and david spencer saga tentative titles include christine and david do brazil and proletariats on parole by making it a musical comedy i hope to add an audiencepleasing light touch glossing over glaring holes in the couples original testimony and transforming them into naive but well- meaning canadian heroes virtual his tory is so much easier to digest and package than reality arid poetic licence means that every story can have a sappy if not happy ending flm youve read the papers youve watched the newscasts now see the musical unleashed dog had obviously been playing in the mud he joyfully jumped up on my new casual outfit when the spandex queen was confronted she sarcasti cally said to send her the bill i would have presented her the bill but when she was asked her name she swore and continued on her way all this while continuing to jog she clearly did need the exercise ps she prob ably works in customer relations during a leisurely bike ride just outside of stouffville we encoun tered bike chasing dogs my husband tried to send the pets back home the female owner witnessed the event and did not assist in any way calling the dogs was obviously a task beyond her capabilities we had gone a little way further down the road and had pulled well overto the left shoulder to enjoy the view this angel drove down the road in her car and should have been on the right she swerved to our side and narrowly missed us was this attempted murder or an example of her exemplary driving skills special note to any femi nists your car insurance rates will soon reflect your new aggression and demand for equality my request to society is simple keep your dogs on a leash the above are only a few examples of your abuse you diminish yourselves you make fools of yourselves you are breaking the law you potentially put your pets and humans at risk but alas this piece of prose is all for not a human with the intelli gence to read would have the intelli gence to keep their pet on a leash rdioz stouffville stouffville tribune y vs a metrolarid community newspaper ian proudfoot publisher alvin brouwer general manager andrew mair editorinchief tracy kibble editor debraweller director of advertising mike rogerson retail advertising 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