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6 economists sun stoufiville tribune saturday july 10 1999 stoufiville tribune a metroland community newspaper 37 sandifbrd dr suite 306 stoufiville out l4a 7x5 publisher- ian prdiidfoot y generalmanageralvinbrouwer editorinchief brenda larson advertising director debra welter business manager margaret fleming regional editor brian kirlik classified manager stephen mathieu office manager vivian aneil editor tracykibble distribution director barry goodyear ysmneujsj a forum for public opinion with the recent shooting of a teenage girl in a markharn parking lot are you concerned that young peoples lives are becoming more vio lent and if so what are the causes yes im concerned i dont think enough time is spent with kids when they are young so they stray a bit and of course there is violence on tv that is definitely abigcause v staceysootroff yes i am absolutely its lack of parental supervision with both parents working there is not enough family support to guide kids morally and children are being raised by others r tonypanoff i am concerned yes television is a root cause i think some of these television shows aire not good for children because of all the violence in them parents should not let their children watch these shows reman it almost sounds racist but it is immigration people commit crimes here who should have been deported a long time ago im riot saying thafs all of it im sure tv and movies add to it but they dont teach them to kill for the sake of killing brian baker its hard to say as children we had problems too but maybe more so now movies and tv are much more violent the three stooges used to hit each other over the head with a hammer but it is more graphic now george hoshns they are becoming more violent i think its drugs and parents neglecting their children life has become so fast moving parents dont have time to properly look after theirkids shehzadkhan i i dont think they are becoming more violent but as to the cause of violence it would be easy to say tv everything is easier to get the world is moving at too fast a pace parents dont have time for their kids and they cant raise them and teachers only have the kids till 330 arid with class sizes so bigtheres not much they can do juuacoteam this weeks question the opp in york region is investigating what is being called the worst case of road rage in ontario after a markharn man was severely beaten during a traffic altercation on hwy 404 do you believe road rage vio lence is increasing have you witnessed any road rage incidents malrconditoner thefvwilheof why should leners to the editor pesticides overused arid abused at high cost to all hooray to m macdonald for her recent letter concerning the spraying of lawri pesticides each year i become but- tfaged by thebveruse and abuse of these harmful chemicals little do people know their war with v dandelions and insects may be causing irreparable damage to our health arid even the genetic makeup of future gen erations although lawn care companies extol the safety of their chemicals i dont believe it lets face it making money is their bottom line exposure to these chemicals is enor mous daily we are bombarded with huge quantities of toxic poisons sprayed bylawn care companies and homeown- ers it has truly gotten out of hand are pesticides playing a role in increased cancer and autoarnmune dis ease why take that risk since synthetic pesticides were devel oped for chemical warfare during the second world war man has been using therii to tamper with and control nature in very dangerous ways with the rise of suburbia in the 50s everyone dreamed of the perfect honie with the perfect lawri what price have we paid for that perfect picture and the niost ironic part of all a lush healthy lawn if maintained properly is a lot better off without chemicals damag ing the root systems ours is green healthy and proudly pesticide free for an eyeopening look at the star tling dangers of pesticide useread silent springby rachel carson written in 1962 you would think mankind supposedly the most intelligent species would be a faster learner j v joanne heney unionvlile quality at public schools slowly declining in an attempt to defend himself as a quasiparental teacher the letter writer of teacher test is yet another invented crisis july 3 proves a case of paranoia he asks an inane but interest ing question about a crisis that will only bring further tension and disrup tion to ontario classrooms i would think that it is the obligation of teachers to puttheir hearts arid souls in an effort to bring out the best frorn a student and not bring further tension and disruption of classes by creating unnecessary strikes and demanding more rrioney as if they are owed and lesser classroom time v the truth is the quality in public schools is slowly declinirig since i can not afford to send my child to aprivate school and as a taxpayer i expect rriy tax dollars to be implemented to the fullest even to the extent of testing the compe tence of teachers iri order to improve the quality of education we do not know as of yet what the test is based on so long as it benefits both teachers and students bob elliot markham dave teetzel pop machines are preparing to take over obpdy believes me when i tell them pur technology is rising up to destroy us the fact that my computer crashes and my printer fails at precisely 20 minutes to deadline every day is pure coincidence imberngpararioidwhenlsaymycar has a chip that comriiunicates with my bank computer allowing it to break down every time i have more than 100 so how dov all you pencilriecked technotwerps explain the australian pop rnachines erriergericy services down under are gridlocked because soda pop machines are makirig crank calls to their equiva lent of 911 naturally modem science has a per fectly reasonable explanation for why a drink dispenser suddenly turns into a nightmarish amalgarri of hal 2000 and bart simpson these pop machines are- pro grammed to call a special distribution number when they get low so someone can come out and restock them but there was a computer glitch that caused them to revert to a default phone number000 uruortimately australian emergency services use000 instead of 911 probably because its easier to remember when youredrunk out of mountain dew so now the emergency line is being tied up by machines calling to say theyre but of mountain dew but why should ybu worry after all the rebel machines are on an island on the other side of the world who caures if a few convicts descen dants get eaten by dingoes because the local constabulary cant work a phorie but thanks to the wonders of tech nology the entire world is wiredltogeth- er the antipodean fizzdroids have access to our phones faxes computers they can talk to our pop rnachines i arii begirining to suspect that about twothirds of the calls i receive on an average day actually come from pop machines calls like uh the mayor is here and hes officially opening a pepsi can you come and take a picture for years now the tech support whizzes who are supposed to fix these things have doggedly applied tire one and only solution they know themacim are getting ready to ttirn the tables on jan 1 2000 theyre going to shut off society as we know it and reboot stouffville tribune serving the community since 1838 f submit contributions to views on the news fax 905 6405477 the stouffville tribune published every tuesday thursday and saturday is one of the metroland printing publishing and distributing ltd group of newspapers which includes the ajavkckertng news advertiser ailiston heraldcourier barrfe advance barrys bay this week bolton enterprise brampton guardian burlington shopping news burlington post city parent coliingwoodwasaga connection east york mirror erin advocatecountry routes etobieoke guardian ramborough post georgetown independentacton free press kingston this week lindsay this week markharn economist sun midlandpenetanguishene minor milton 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