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pae 2 the tribune thursday may 6 1971 r established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor wna published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 54 main sl stouffville ont tel 6402101 single copies 15c subscriptions 500 per year in canada 9joo elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly tfewspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 editorial a tremendous community effort saturday may 1 will be recorded as the years most successful oneday community event the lionssponsored bikeathon at tracted 380 entries with all but thirteen completing the 30mile endurance course gross earnings will exceed 12000 the keynote was participation not just children but entire families mothers fathers sons and daughters and the traditional stouffville boun dary line was broken there were cyclists from bloomington lemonville bethesda ringwood altona and mongolia it was a day of togetherness the organization that went into the project was tremendous with preparations extending over a period of two months the bulk of the work load was shouldered by chairman bill murphy and his committee they left no stone un turned in an effort to insure the safety of the participants opp and officers of the york regional police along with volunteers manned highway crossing points for hours on end will it become an annual event on sunday morning some cyclists werent too sure that it should today theyre saying yes a breeding place for trouble the former hagermans public school in markham a summer hostel for transient youth some members of york county board of education seem to feel the proposal has merit we dont instead we see it as a breeding place for trouble it is our opinion that the board when dealing with delegations and requests of this kind attempts to adopt the broad- minded approach they want to be fair but they must also be practical in a project such as this they are the ones with everything to lose members surely are not that naive that they cannot see the problems that would undoubtedly arise regardless of rules and regulations established by the organization heads drug users and pushers would find their way to such a site legitimate travellers would stay clear leaving the structure open to the riffraff of society yes on the surface the idea sounds good so to some was rochdale college the hagerman community deserves a better fate century city an airport site an international airport on the site of what was to be a satellite city rumors are rampant and where theres smoke theres often fire from the provincial governments point of view why not for was it not several of the key ministers in the robarts regime that gave the city project their verbal okay in one respect at least this would get them off the hook and where else within reasonable proximity to toronto is a block of 7000 acres under single ownership to be found where else would a project of such magnitude directly affect fewer people where else could such a mass assembly of land be acquired at reasonable cost where else would there be less op position to a venture of such size the answers are nowhere however we are not suggesting that 747 jumbo jets will soon be rolling off the runways on a flightpath over goodwood far from it we are saying that uxbridge township will undoubtedly rank high on the con sideration list when queens park finally makes its move to select an airport site editor 9 mail dear sir we are now into the month of may the conclusion of another school year is not many weeks away this means graduation exercises banquets and the presentations of prizes for academic accomplishment why may i ask should students of honor standing in all previous years receive awards and bursaries for the most part the learning process for them requires very little effort it just comes naturally i feel these awards should go to the student who shows the greatest increase in percentage this indicates real effort it also provides encouragement the boy or girl that attains 85 percent in grade 4 and the same average in grade 13 shows only a natural ability and not necessarily any intense desire to improve himself name withheld dear jim since my earliest days of figure skating i have had a very soft spot in my heart for the stouffville figure skating club and the people who represent that club therefore i always deem it an honor when i am asked to skate in their annual carnival it is especially rewarding when i hear or read a kind remark on my performance such as your in the april 15 tribune thank you in my days of skating i have seen the club fall from a higher echelon when the buttons jean winterstein janice smith and myself left the club to the lower plateau one of rebuilding a phase which every good club has to go through to today where i am pleased to watch the club reclimb to an even higher plateau today the stouffville figure skating club is truly making a mark in the skating world today the club has in its ranks persons capable of attaining that goal which is merely the dream of so many the rank of champion and there is also in the club the potential of world champion with the professional staff the club now has the name of stouffville can be brought into canadian and world recognition jean winterstein barclay has been the new impetus of the club and the inspiration of the community the home town skating sweetheart has given new life to the club jacqui armitage who joined jean has been a compliment to her and together have fostered the idea that our skaters are of competitive calibre and should be seen together they have produced one of the best amateur ice shows in ontario not only is the carnival one of the best i must qualify my superlative here by being the best i mean that the carnival is a great fun show without being pretentious in any way good costuming precision skating excellent properties and great lighting are always important but it is truly the feeling of the skaters that is the most important attribute of any show and the skaters at stouffville put their hearts into their show without which it would be just another carnival if the community as a whole could appreciate the efforts put into the club by the pros jean jacqui and victor irving sugar and spice giving a speech as bad as hearing it by bill smiley last week i mentioned making a speech to the vimy branch canadian legion and what a treat it was to be able to get up and talk about the stupidity of senior officers normally i loathe making speeches almost as much as i detest listening to them as a former weekly reportereditor a cold wet grey bianket comes down over my spirit at the fateful words and now i give you our guest speaker thats the signal some guest speakers you couldnt give to a starving group of cannibals not once have i been inspired uplifted or convinced on a very few occasions i have been mildly amused although almost never by professional humorists who always seem so intent on keeping their tongues in their cheeks that you begin to feel that somewhere in the process they have bitten them off thats the receiving end the delivering end is just as bad it follows a fairly pat format you are called up or written to by the secretary of some organization which youve never heard of and told theyd like to have you as guest speaker at some function you have no interest in at some place you have no idea of how to get to this is the moment to say loud and clear thank you i am deeply honored but i cant possibly make it any wavering and youre in trouble the professional guest speaker and there are a few about chooses that moment to lay down his cards he says well i might be able to fit that in on that date but ill have to consult my calen dar he consults his calendar which is blank for weeks he calls back yes i the diligent hard work they do the work put into the club by the parents and all those others interested in the club and if the community would support it as they do other ice sports the stouffville figure skating club would be one of the finest on the continent thank you again for those kind words fred peddie don mills ont could make it my fee is 75 plus ex penses this produces an agonized pause if youre on the phone then comes a plaintive oh yes well uh as you know uh were a nonprofit organization and we dont have much money and we thought youd just come along and give us a little talk you know just anything uh how would 10 ex penses be and in a burst of en thusiasm and bring your wife along her dinner would be free of course this is always what clinches it with me a lastminute invitation for my wife and a free dinner for her big deal some people love to speak to anybody they have one speech which theyve memorized they have two jokes in variably inserted with the prefix that reminds me of a little story it didnt and the story has nothing to do with anything but for half an hour and sometimes lord help us for 45 minutes these speakers are the cynosure of all eyes except those which are closed in slumber and every ear is attuned to them except those with the hearing aids turned off they bask it is nectar and ambrosia to them even though it may be lukewarm coffee and cold porridge to their listeners good luck to them for me its tor ment its like a saturday night bath whether you need ic or not about every two years i make a speech whether i need it or not im proving something to myself this time it was different vimy branch is the way i like it they meet only twice a year for a real smash they have no club rooms no flags no lugubrious mutterings about at the setting of the sun we shall remember them instead they have their own band which smashes out the tunes of glory at a volume that is exceeded only by their enthusiasm and skill the chaps took the insults well their hospitality was gracious unobtrusive and generous a hotel room a cheque for expenses and a crock of my choice my wife was not thrown in as an af terthought maybe ill make another speech in a couple of years ringwood public school 1940 i the year is 1910 and the location ringwood public school the teacher rear row third i from left is miss janet button now mrs norm baker of markham the pupils are rear row left to right doug ramer nora i llarman marian ferguson georgina m land stewart vague centre row left to right bernard fockler bob fockler doris vague i helen fockler hazel fockler jessie hardngl juncstccklcy mildred fockler front row left to right fred banks marsdenl steel bruce timbers rae steel clarence fockler arthur harding eddy fockler lorne i mortson i oirullnp the other side of the teenage story by jim thomas theres hardly a week goes by that someone doesnt phone write or stop me on the street to complain about the tribunes policy of publishing court news stories involving young people in the majority of instances its usually the mother of a boy or girl who feels some sense of shame and in certain instances guilt at a son or daughters wrongdoing many requests are sincere hes always been a good boy shell say but he made this one mistake if you can overlook it this time im sure it will never happen again and likely it never will other parents are more concerned for themselves bad publicity could jeopardize a wifes status within the fraternity of the local bridge club and that would never do to heck with john or mary theyre old enough to fend for j themselves and likely they always will what disturbs me most is an accusation like why are you always picking on the kids or why dont you write something good about our young people j for a change this week it is good the truelife side of a typical teenager that you the reader should want to hear about and i am pleased to write about the boy is keith manser keith is 13 a grade 7 student at stouffville dist secondary school he resides just north of bloomington with his parents mr and mrs ted manser a brother duncan 11 and a 4 sister jane 6 when keith and duncan heard of the lionssponsored bikeathon scheduled for may 1 they quietly signed up one for the cancer society and the other for the crippled children t they were two of the first to start out on the 30mile route saturday morning but all did not go well for keith about onequarter of the way around he lost a bolt from the 3speed gear mechanism this was later repaired by one of the volunteers the worst however was to come on the bloomington road between checkpoints 15 and 16 he accidentally ran into the rear of a parked car scratching the paint on the auto and bending his own j handlebars in spite of the severity of the impact keith could have ridden off and in fact was advised to do so by others who happened on the scene but he didnt 4 first he went looking for the owner but a check of a nearby farm house found no one home so he did the next best thing he scribbled a note on a small piece of paper arid placed it against the windshield under one of the wipers it read my name is keith manser rr 2 stouffville i hit your car with my bike my phone number is 6404360 i was in the bikeathon j for most such problems would be all one person could be expected to withstand for one day they would have quit then and there but not keith still accompanied by his brother they con tinued on completing the distance in j about five hours the bikeathon saturday was not a race yet 13 year old keith manser must be declared a winner for by his honesty he has championed the cause of teenagers everywhere as the cars owner bert paisley of stouffville put it i wonder how many adults would have done the same thing i wonder too dear sir you attended the operetta rip van winkle in the auditorium of dicksons hill school 4 i think you will agree that it was a marvellous performance the staff teachers who worked with the children on the program are to be commended it awakened memories in the minds of many adults recalling the enjoyment of this story held for us years ago mrs fred steckley rr 2 markham