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page 2 the tribune tfeurjdajr sept 16 1871 established 1888 chakles h nolan publisher jambs thomas associate publisher and editor robert mccausland advertising manager published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 54 main st stouffville ont tel 6102101 single copies 15c subscriptions s500 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 editorial legal or not the alleged dumping of refuse in a gravel pit area west of blooming ton has been reported to members of whit- churchstouffville council r the tribune has also received several calls on the same matter and while foreign materials are definitely being j deposited there no one in authority has actually caught them in the act what we wonder is how serious is council about having its bylaw enforced do members fear it will not stand up in court and if not could the town be turned into another cesspool site for metro its time the town took a definite stand on this issue enforce the bylaw to the letter of the law or scrap it in favor of something that can be enforced a sign of better times while opposition parties at the federal level continue to flail the trudeau government over problems of unem ployment locally the picture is much improved the management of stouffville machine and tool limited reports the re hiring of fifteen men and more are required to keep pace with job orders for this firm at least its a sign of better times elsewhere also business appears on the upswing although in some lines the trend is to make do rather than buy during the spring and midsummer recession there were cries across the country as supplies outstripped demand and layoffs occurred such was not the case in stouffville employees took the news in stride and went out looking for other work any work until the word should come for them to return these kind of people are to be commended there is still the thinking among many that those who holler the loudest are the ones least interested in finding em ployment to tide them through such stormy times however it is difficult to assess how any one of us would react unless faced with a similar situation scraping the bottom of the barrel the ontario liberal party is surely scraping the bottom of the votecatching barrel in making the separate school grant rejection an election issue the same goes for the n d p what do leaders nixon and lewis hope to gain through this certainly not the premiers post for if we read the majority of ontarians correctly and we sincerely hope we do they will not be drawn into any war for the sake of religious convictions or party affiliation an indicator of this was the conclusion reached at a recent separate school trustees conference held in toronto and explained to the york board by its chairman eugene jacobs the tenure of the conference was mr jacobs said that the grant rejection gr 1113 should not become an election issue here in our opinion out of potential chaos comes a policy of common sense- unfortunately the same cannot be said for the liberals and the n d p we predict that this plank in the op positions platform will backfire in the next provincial election and instead of providing the votecatching power they so sadly require it will sink them deeper into the slough of despond editors mail dear sir in answer to your article a haven or hangout residents wonder yes one person a teenage girl did fall off the dam and was seriously cut on both of her feet caused by the broken glass in the area a number of her friends including two of my daughters brought her home to our house as she was staying with us at the time approximately ten of the teenagers who brought her home were not under the influence of drugs or alcohol i drove the girl to the hospital and she was treated for cuts and shock and no traces of drugs or alcohol were present every week we are visited by some twentyfive to thirtyfive teenagers a lot of them make our place their second home sure some times they get noisy and i yell at them but they keep coming back none of these kids have been on drugs while at our home and as far as i am concerned these kids do not take drugs my wife and i are concerned about drugs and as far as i can determine a lot of this drug business is just talk to try and impress their friends sure i know these kids should not be out at that hour of the morning a lot of the parents including my wife and i did not know that the kids sneaked out late at night to go to the dam but are you too old to remember what you did when you were young while i am on my soap box let me ask you what this town does for these teenagers nothing so until the kids find something else to do they are welcome in our home anytime so in closing may i offer some advice open your eyes and ears before your mouth c w jones elm road stouffville dear sir in your editorial the one church you noticed the joint meetings of the stouff ville presbyterian and united churches and you propose we should have one church only you could mention the volunteer helpers at nearby camps or at toronto mission works and medical and social workers all over the world who without being disloyal to their particular church worship together every day if christians love one another and serve the same purpose must they therefore meet in the same place you may as well say because everybody likes a menu for dinner we should have only one restaurant in town or because everyone needs gas and oil for his car we should have only one gas station furthermore if you know that people need to worship you should also realize that people have different ideas about whom to worship and how you may be devoted to the gods of sports and recreation this means that you wont spend much time in art exhibits and museums people who worship god will not spend much time in places where people worship man we see different churches and denominations because wesee different people we may wish everybody had our own skin color and spoke our own language however though others belong to different races and nations they are still human beings and share our own experiences just so the church of jesus christ has always been one and is one to all eternity at least for him who has eyes to see and ears to hear volker klaue elm road stouffville uhaj this mp ueeoi 16 a beffbr opportunities fbrbim program sugar and spice things to do if it one year to live by bill smiley dont worry not me i hope to live for at least two or even three years more but i sometimes wonder what i would do if i were told that i had exactly one year to live and id like you to think about what you would do this is not a new theme but its always an interesting one when it comes up in fiction or philosophy or just a plain gab- fest lets suppose suppose you have been to the doctor and have learned that you have a fatal illness make up your own and will die in approximately one year you wont be sick or in pain until the last hour and youll go out quickly how would you spend that year what you would do would certainly reveal very clearly what sort of person you really are behind that facade that most of us wear daily there would be the initial shock of course humans have some weird idea that they are immortal until they finally are stricken by some deadly illness but after the shock wore off then wed see a separation of the men from the boys the sheep from the goats some people would become constant whiners why does god have to do this to me ive contributed to charity and so on some of these would become so bitter they would turn against god their friends and relatives a pretty sour way to go some would be so depressed they would crack up mentally and become vegetables others would adopt a fatalistic epicureanism if theres such a thing their attitude would be if im gonna go im gonna enjoy it they would escape into alcohol drugs sex not necessarily in that order some people would become instant christians or whatever they would be filled with a terrible fear of the afterlife and would spend their twelve months on their knees in church and desperately doing good works in an effort to make up for all the bad works they had done in the rest of their lives now not one of us gentle reader would fall into any of those classifications question is where would we fall first decision i would make would be not to waste one second of that year if every second in the year were used fully the one year could be more rewarding than all the previous ones put together next i would make a superb effort to love my neighbour as myself this is a tough one in the first place its ex tremely difficult to love oneself most of us seem to but many of us secretly despise ourselves in the second place some of us have appalling neighbours we dont but id have a good whack at it not as a hedge to make sure of getting through those pearly gates but because i believe in it good old love my first action would be to divest myself of all material possessions except a toothbrush and a few clothes would even get rid of my razor the proceeds i wouldnt give them to the poor the hell with them they can go on welfare and it would be only a drop in the bucket anyway and i wouldnt leave them to my family either they could go to work for a change id quit my job take the whole 500 of my estate in onedollar bills and burn them one at a time to the screams of anguish from onlookers that would be cutting the umbilical cord of the system and id be free for the first time in many years then don the knapsack pick up the begging bowl a wooden salad bowl and take off id see every inch of canada i could see and i would savour every sight sound taste touch and smell even whiskeybreath and onions i could come in contact with in this most wonderful of worlds might die in a ditch but whats the difference how about you put down carefully and briefly what you think you would do with a year to live send it to your local editor id like to reprint some of your ideas hey i might even get a divorce remarry and make some other womans life miserable for a year just an af terthought 1 signal lights erected at busy corner automatic signal lights have been erected guarding the corner the mayor hopes heavy i at the intersection of the bloomington road gravel truck traffic may be withdraw n from i i and huy 48 the project was completed after main street stouffville and south road e yor ken laushway brought the matter to mussclmans lake attention of regional council by safe- jas i nomas bi mm mmm mam mbmsa mmn maa mmmm mmm something missing on main street by jim thomas it was last saturday afternoon in stouffville the highway was crammed with cars many families taking advantage of the warm weekend for a latesummer jaunt to the cottage for them the towns main street is really nothing nothing more than an additional ten minute delay between where they left and where theyre going for city folk bound for the cottage country seldom stop to talk unless of course the driver makes a right turn at the wrong intersection then and only then will he tend to seek assistance from one of the sidewalk natives townsfolk believe it or not kind of enjoy this it gives a local yokel a sense of t superiority for its not every day a country bumkin can tell a cityslicker where to go to me its too bad more of these urban oriented residents dont take the time to stop and visit awhile they might learn something after all the way theyre growing theyll soon be part of us anyway and sooner or later theyll have to fit into our way of life if they had stopped saturday or even looked they would have noticed a sizeable lineup of senior citizenry congregated in front of a shop known only as shiners mind you such a scene is by no means unusual for- theres seldom an hour that 9 someone isnt standing or seated there and with all respect to council much of the towns business past present and future is conducted from this site with the change in seasons from late fall to early winter the gentlemen simply move indoors to what is commonly called shiners back room there tales are told and retold and some i suspect even originate there theyd fill a book a best seller why i mind the time up near goodwood a bunch of us were raisin a barn recalls bigmorley slapping his right knee and sending a shower of cigarette ashes about the worn wood floor thats only the start the stories go on and on each one that follows more humorous more exciting more unbelievable than the one before on occasion the tribune would do well to set up its news office there or better still bury a tape recorder in the old coal- box just back of morleys favorite chair the circulation would soar i suppose every town in ontario at one time or another has had a shiners back room but theyre disappearing fast and its 4 too bad for nothing will ever replace it the place the people and the stories they tell its part of our past but what is its future f if you read the tribune carefully last week you may have spotted this small item on page 4 it read mr kr shine davis announces that his main street tobacco shop will be closed sept 13 until further notice a handprinted sign on the front door says the same so now you may understand why the members meeting saturday held special significance it was the last adjourned sine die until the chairman of f the board is completely well again in recognition of what shiners back room has meant to stouffville we dedicate this poem the shop is unpretentious at noll main the paint is chipped the floor is bare a simple store and plain so much more than just a place where things are bought and sold its here that friends meet face to face and many a tale is told regular every afternoon when theres nothing much to do the menfolk gather at shiners shop to spend an hour or two but the years flash by in restless haste too soon the lights grow dim silence comes to shiners place all quiet from within but soon hes back completely well the tales again well hear let life return to shiners place this is stouffvilles prayer