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tt iia v ptiufii rfiivltiiirti iitf a uuimiuxi stouffviflelnbune a mefaoland community newspaper 37saixjiforddrsuite306stouffmleontl4a7x5 publisher- fan proudfoot generalmanageralvinbrouwer editorinchief advertising director business manager brendalarson regional editor briankmik debraweller classified manager stephen mathieu margaret fleming office manager vivian oneil editor tracy kibble distribution director barry goodyear emrawal permaifent blood donor elm it happens every summer hospitals across the country start running low on blood elective surgeries are cancelled and the hospi tals have to plead with their communities to donate blood its a familiar pattern and in some ways its under standable with so many people on vacation during the sum- rher donating blood seems to be ithe last thing oh peo ples mitids also regular donors go off on vacation and miss a clinic however as the number of donations drop the need in the summer increases as there are more acci dents especially traffic accidents which require emer gency blood transfusions its a potentially deadly situation and while the rea sons for the shortage are explainable something must be done to address the problem oneqption is for the canadian blood services to aggressively promote the need for donors in may arid early june before the schools close and folks head off orivacation a second option is for the establishment of more permanent blood donor clinics at the moment there are simply riot enough arid in york region there isnt a single penrianent clinic canadian blood services has recogrrized that two permanent clinics one in downtown toronto and the other in mississauga along with a regular saturday aftemoori clinic at sunnybrpok hospital arent doing me job for au of central ontario if tomorrow permanent clinics will be opened in barrie arid peterborough thats a step in the right direction but we need a lot more permanent clinics and we need them now york county hospital m newmaiet which gets especially busy in the sumrner dealing with injuries frorri vacationers iri the south lake simcpe area is call- mg for a permanent cliriiciri york region the ideals excellent though york county not sur- prismgly vvants me clinic mnewmzuket f we want to see a perinanent blood donor clinic set up in york region as soon as possible however the idea of newmarket housing the clinic is a bad one it needs to be located in a much more ceri- tral area one that is accessible for all york region resi dents perhaps hillcrest mall in richmond hill located at yonge street and 16th averiue would be a good site for a permanent york region blood donor clinic an everi better idea is to open two or three such clin ics each centrally located for northern eastern and western york region residents donating blood is truly giving the gift of life and making that gift should be made as easy as possible cheers jeers jeers to the preposterous situation going on in ottawa over a motion last year by oak ridges mp bryon wilfert to have national nonstatutory holidays named after canadas first two prime ministers sir john a macdoriald and sir wilfrid laurier wilferts motion an honourable one which had hoped to pro mote canadian history has instead been turned into a political football by a few individuals far more con cerned with stirring up frerichenglish animosity than they are about recognizing great canadians cheers to the rontmuing drive across york region to toughen up rhunicipal bylaws governing horse riding stables safety and protection should always be a priority im letters to the editor 3bwn councillor lives in sharing community i believe it is time to call a spade a spade dont think for a moment that rig residents infbrrriation group is interested in anything else but seeing the poollibrary project stopped the majority of this group is suffering from nothing short of the not-in-my- backyard syndrome some feelthey are more special and should not be inconve nienced by recreation or they know the only place where recreation facilities should go i belonged to a similar group two years ago which then tried to call them selves sra stoufrville residents association and it wasnt long after i realized there was only one mandate on the mind of the selfprbclairried presi dent and that was to take care of their concerns not the betterment of the community so here we are again different group name but similar faces who again claim there has been no planning or reports but when the pool planning meetings were going on where were they iwasthere when the library plaruiing meetings were going oh where were they iwasthere but the moment a decision is made not exactly to their liking there they are waving a flag and claiming they are not being listened to so we then again have had more public meetings rig said they didnt want it at the end of obrien avenue we did that they said obrien avenue shouldnt be used for construction we did that they sdd they didnt want obrien or roseavenues to access it we did that they said they wanted a traffic study we did that they said they wanted a safer walking access we did that they said they didnt warit taxes raised we did that they said they wanted it bigger we didthat- v they said they wanted lights at park and main streets we are planning that i think it is time to take a reality check is this not a community where one sometimes has to share iri order for themselves and others to play arid work together if it is isolation rig wants maybe they live in the wrong communi ty because the one i was bom in and my children were born inj is a much iriore sharing giving and caring society than what this particular groups mandate seems to ba 7 when i moved onto thicketwood near the park there was notball dia mond there there was no toboggan hill there was no skateboard park with lights there was no lights on diamond two and three there was not an extension on our road straight out to a new development 5 but you know there was understand- ing and compromise the main and most important ingredient of building a healthy community suesherran whitchurchstouffvillb councillor debora kelly complaints about teachers are not frivolous well well it seems the teachers unions are a tad perturbed that the ontario college of teachers is sticking its nose in places it shouldnt theyre giving far too much atteri- tiori to what i would consider frivolous corriplaints said ontario english catholic teachers association president jim smith hmrii frivolous complaints such as a teacher having sex with a student over 18 the unions are annoyed the college is inyestigating said incident even though the teacher couldnt be convict- edin court the cpuege formed m 1996 by the reforming tories has some concerns about said teachers professional con duct no kidding shades of bill cliriton here the couege wont ideritify teachers or the details of any case under investiga- tion until they are found culpable which is fair college spokesperson denys giguere says cpmplairits commonly dealt with involve sex abuse forgery and bribery not so frivolous id say since 1997 the college has revoked 18 teaching certificates arid suspended two teachers while the unions feel school boards can handle the com plaints thats not always the case over the years ive spoken to quite a few frus trated and distraught parents who felt they hadnowhereto turn this watchdog council was a long time in coming arid has already proven it can play an importarit role in a reformed education systern that has decreed parents and students have a more important role to play its understandable i suppose that the object of complaints might prefer to brush them off as vexatious or an abuse of process and some may be but its essential that those complaints are heard can teachers be expected to hold hands and skip rnerrily along with their watchdog just look at our police forces arid the provmcev siu to see how diffi cult this relationship can be but the teachers unions are also complairiirig the 90 annual fee their members are obligated to pay is too high now we cut to the chase the teachers college is cutting the tinions grass here building milliondollar reserve funds in a tradition long hon oured by the union themselves could that be whats really bugging the unions complaints be damned stoufmletribune 7f servingthe community since 1888 the stouffville tribune published every tuesday thursday and saturday is one of the metroland printing publishing and distributing ud group of newspapers which includes the ajarpickering news advertiser aiitston heraldcourier barrie advance barrys bay this week bolton enterprise brampton guardian burlington shopping news burlington post city parent cblbngwoodwasaga connection east york mirror erin advocatecountry routes etobicoke guardian flamborough post georgetown independentacton free press ktotjston this weekundsay this week markham economist sun mkjiandpenetanguishene minor milton canadian champion milton 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