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pac 2 the tribune thursday august 19 1971 whm established 1888 charles h nolan publisher james thomas associate publisher and editor robert mtcalsland adverting manager published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 51 main st stouffville ont tel 6102101 single copies 13c subscriptions 500 per year in canada s900 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 ltanadlan weekly n association second c editorial a major shakeup required before another summer season rolls around town council must do some fencemending within an organization that calls itself the stouffville- whitchurch recreation committee it is alive in name only in fact if it was not for the energetic enthusiasm generated by its secretary the board would cease to exist entirely this newspaper that had its knuckles rapped once before on this issue has been trying desperately to learn when the committee holds its meetings if in reality it ever does to our knowledge and we stand to be corrected a quorum of members has not met in public since june 14 we are now halfway through the month of august in our opinion the whole organization and we use the term loosely must be completely reorganized tossing aside the dead wood and replacing it with a little life the sorry part of this whole affair is that two or three persons included on this committee are capable of making decisions and seeing projects through but decisionmaking isnt done properly over the telephone and projects arent concluded in conversations across the back fence it was back on june 14 that one member suggested that alleged com ments by the mayor and questionable press coverage by this newspaper had shaken the publics confidence in the board and all should resign unfortunately no one put the recommendation in the form of a motion putting people first it appears that people and peoples properties will on this occasion anyway take preference over cost and con venience the area in question is located within the hamlet of gorrnley where a major traffic interchange will be required at the crossover point of hwy 404 to do this utilizing the present east- west route would have an adverse effect of perhaps a dozen homeowners in the gorrnley community an alternate route is now under study at the regional level regional council is to be commended with the majority of members not closely concerned with the problems of one hamlet part of which is in stouffville- whitchurch and part in richmond hill they could have snubbed the engineers recommendation and proceeded straight ahead with the project but no theyve agreed to at least consider a bypass perhaps to the north maybe to the south we wouldnt be surprised that by skirting the hamlet the cost and con venience as well as the people problems will both be greatly reduced buyer beware buyer beware as much as we detest such heartless terms we feel it applies in certain in stances to a problem placed recently before members of uxbridge twp i council it concerns the operation of a gokart track on concession 2 north of highway 47 obviously a thorn in the side of some area residents but why we ask after ten years in business is all the fuss made now are the karts noisier than in previous seasons is the firm operating at longer hours is the track busier this summer than last according to the owners mr and mrs herbert van bell the answer to each question is no it is our suspicion that the antikart protest is the work of newcomers in the community folks who have moved to the district in the last one two and three years to such people we offer no sympathy surely before purchasing a piece of property be it a vacant lot or a finished home the wouldbe buyer would have sufficient foresight to look the area over if he didnt then too bad we dont feel its fair for any recently established resident to attempt to restrict the business operation of another no matter how irritating if the latter has been located there longer mr and mrs bell have indicated a willingness to cooperate we hope uxbridge council is inclined to do the same editors mail dear sir your august 5 edition carried a letter from excouncillor george harvie of uxbridge township which purports to show that the reeve is not the only member of the present township council who has changed his stand on the century city project by presenting half the facts mr harvie attempts to prove that both councillor higgins and myself who were on the 1970 council have since switched our stand he quotes resolution no 242 of august 24 1970 in which the council of the time unanimously requested the provincial government not to allow the toronto- centred region plan to act as a bar to processing the century city proposal in the usual manner the resolution did not ask approval of the project only that the provincial government get on with processing the application so that the provinces position would be made clear immediately following that resolution was no 242 of the same date by which council hereby approves in principle the plans for development as presented by century city developments ltd this resolution passed by a 3 to 2 recorded vote with messrs nesbitt dowswell and harvie in the affirmative and higgins and muirhead against since mr harvie was on the council and was present at the meeting in question his quoting only of the first resolution can only be taken as deliberately misleading similarly with regard to the brief which council asked the solicitors to prepare on century city this brief gave a balanced presentation of the history of the project and some of its pros and cons mr harvie chose to refer to some of the favourable items only which can only be considered another deliberately misleading tactic from its public inception in december 1968 the century city project has been accompanied by all manner of propaganda and misinformation which must have made it most difficult for the public to reach its own conclusions based upon the facts to make my own position absolutely clear i have nothing to gain or lose personally should the project go or not go as a councillor acting upon my beliefs of what is in the best interests of uxbridge township i opposed the century city project in the beginning and have seen no reason to change my stand since clark muirhead councillor twp of uxbridge tenting on the cold damp ground by bill smiley i dont know how youve fared but so far its been a rotten summer in these parts instead of the sunny with scat tered showers it has been day after day rainy with scattered sunshine usually by now municipal councils are begging citizens to go easy with their lawn sprinklers or flatly threatening householders with a fine if they use them at all brown burnedcrisp lawns are com mon by midaugust not at our place this year we havent used the sprinkler since the first week in july and the lawn is alarmingly verdant and growing like weeds which of course a good portion is ours not much one can do about it but my heart goes out to the poor devils who are tenting tenting is great fun under ideal con ditions its about as close as we can come to really getting back to nature theres the pleasure of finding that choice campsite with a mere 30degree list the solid satisfaction of getting the dear sir i wish to congratulate you on the editorial aug 5 with regard to truck traffic on the south road of musselmans lake it stated perfectly our thoughts on this issue i feel you might be interested in the aftermath of councils decision to enact a bylaw to control this nuisance the truck traffic has since trebled particularly between 7 and 8 am when people are still asleep and again in the afternoon when children are on their way to the beach apparently truck drivers hold priority over residents the people who shoulder the tax load a load that is steadily in creasing mrs ea white stouffville rr2 sign cf the times the following slogan was attached to the rear bumper of a car parked in town last week it read fight pollutioneat a pigeon for lunch tent up on the fourth try the adventure of exploring a new camp and its adjacent waters theres the long day of puttering about in the sun fishing swimming gathering firewood relaxing for the men and children that is theres the long day of puttering about with dishes cooking meals fooling with balky gas stoves and administering first aid to sundry scrapes cuts and bites for the lady few women like tenting but even for them there are joyful aspects when the last pot has had its black bottom cleaned with sand when the last child has been tucked away milady can perch her weary tailbone on a stump or a stone by the campfire look into the blueredorange flames and dream of the glorious day when this ghastly trip is over and shell be back in her castle with a proper stove refrigerator and automatic washer she sits there counting on her fingers with a dazed smile when the campfire is dying mom has her supreme moment of the day she can crawl into her dampish flanellette pyjamas crawl into the huddle of blankets on the camp cot which is tilted toward her head and shudder for hours with a combination of cold and fear of the things that go bump in the night what tops it all is that about 3 am she discovers that she has to go to the bathroom its purely psychological of course but its quite an ordeal the flashlight doesnt work and the little house with the facilities is 80 yards away across ground that is crawling with snakes and spiders with a bear behind every tree this is where she gets her revenge whining and whimpering she rouses her spouse from a deep sweet slumber and issues an ultimatum either he gets up and goes with her holding her hand all the way or she starts packing and they head for home right now this is known in some circles as wedded bliss but nothing could be better calculated to put another nail in the coffin of their marriage ive portrayed so far only the good side of tenting when the weather is fine but put yourself in the boots of the miserable male who has rented a tent for his two- weekswith takes the wife and three kids and gets one halfsunny day the rest cold or raining on the third day the guaranteed water- 4ruunt a simple service country style bv jim thomas arriving at church on time is no simple chore at our house in fact the preparation takes a good three hours from the time the first of the family opens his eyes to the last an emergency trip to the bathroom as were about to back out of the yard believe me if anyone has a logical excuse for skipping services once ip awhile i have but yet without bragging my recori so far this year has been good perfect in fact if one overlooks the weekend of absence while on vacation last sunday however i established an allnew mark i attended not one morning service but two or to be specific in casa rev jim carder was watching it was- one and a half during the offertory prayer i slippec out of the back pew not to miss the of fering mind you but to attend a seconc church of my choice the location was at bethesda a con verted schoolhouse where the coin munitys best friend the late isaac pike conducted classes tor so many years i why emmanuel church bethesda i because i had often been told that theirs was a belief in old time religion the kind i once knew in the little baptiat church where i attended as a boy anp something i feel we all need once m awhile i wished only to see for mysel f i took son barry along for moral support the form of worship i can only descrit e as wonderful simple but wonderful mind you there was no 3manual pipe organ to accompany the congregation only a piano but they sang oh how they did sing repeating some of the verses in each hymn there was no plush carpet on the floor but it didnt prevent the members from praying on bended knee the service was no fashion parade quite the opposite the ladies plain print dresses hung down to their ankles and the girls wore much the same their hair was in braids and pigtails the lay pastor was not magnificent in long flowing robes he wore only a simple blue suit white shirt and black tie he had no reverend in front of his name and no long list of degrees at the end but what he had to say was at least sincere im glad i didnt come out of a cultivated kind of goodness i dont have much polish im pretty rough and raw he admitted he was honest theres more to getting through to heaven than shaking a preachers hand and signing a communion card he continued he was eloquent our only hope is mercy in gods grace or grace in gods mercy he was critical theres not much you can call vir tuous today look up and down the streets of your town and how much virtue do you see the devil is making inroads into our church spiritually we are at a pretty low ebb we can live in this world but we dont have to be a part of it he was comical if that old cow hadnt kicked the milk pail clear across the ditch id have been alright but she kicked and then i kicked back in fact i clobbered that old cow and my tongue got out of line i knew then and there i needed something more dont we all give me that old time religion proof tent begins to leak the firewood doesnt even smoulder the kids are going hairy with boredom there isnt a piece of dry clothing to be had the wife has stopped speaking entirely the tent is full of ants who are smart enough to get in out of the rain what to do if he packs and goes home its obvious that the sky will clear and therell be a heat wave if he insists they stick it out he will earn the undying k hatred of his wife and the sullen contempt of his kids give me the tenting life any day the sizzle of frying bacon the scent of wood smoke the clean cool air for sleeping the murmuring talk by the campfire 4 but dont give me tenting on the cold damp ground as stephen foster didnt put it id rather spend my holidays in jail 7