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page 2 the thibuxe thursday november 11 1971 established 1ss8 charles h nolan publisher james thomas avociat- publkher and editor kobebt mccausland advertising manager published every thursdav by inland publishing co limited at 51 main st stouftville ont tel 6j02101 single copies 15e subscriptions 300 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 0s96 editorial appraisal prices too high thirty thousand dollars for the school site at vandorf over 22000 for a similar property at hagermans and 21500 for bloomingtop any individual who would invest this kind of money would be bordering on lunacy and yet these are the prices the york county board of education have received from a professional appraiser they are far too high the board members themselves cannot be blamed they felt that as laymen they could not appraise such properties fairly so they paid out good money to have the job done properly now with the exception of a couple of cases theyre right back where they started by now it should be apparent to all trustee members that theres a dif ference between being professional and being practical an opinion that the vandorf school property is worth 30000 may indeed be professional but from a practical sense its ridiculous so also could be the appraisal price on the site at lemonville we would suggest that in this regard the community hold the line at 15000 in this laymans view its not worth a red cent more put people first somewhere within the realm of municipal jurisdiction there are areas where practical judgments should take priority over legal requirements the application to operate an airport near claremont was surely such an issue by law the township was required to notify only those residing within 200 feet of the proposed site however if for no other reason than good public relations an extension to 2000 feet would have seemed in order for aeroplanes and airports affect other than adjacent owners and regardless of what the law says these people have a right to know whats going on airport operations wherever the site stir up opposition some legitimate some not but to confine legal notification of the project to a mere 200 feet arouses not only protest but suspicion problems of this kind need not occur its a matter of putting people first where they belong councillor to be commended about two months ago hon dalton bales ontarios minister of municipal affairs requested all municipalities in ontario county to submit individual briefs on their views with respect to regional government in the twp of uxbridge councillor frank hendy readily agreed to take on this chore a rather mountainous task other members quickly accepted his offer councillor hendys recommendations are now complete and while badly torn apart by his cohorts many of the suggestions remain intact regardless of what is acceptable and what is not the brief represents many hours of work far in excess of what is expected from any one member it should not go unrecognized it may also be that some of the recommendations already scrapped by council may some day prove more practical one of these undoubtedly will be the union of uxbridge town and township and perhaps not too many years away jeiitar mail dear sir the great pine ridge development co limited has created an airport with two runways approximately two miles west of claremont at its october meeting the committee of adjustment was requested to interpret the municipal agricultural zoning bylaw which permits the use of land for recreational purposes in such a way that the establishment of the airport and the uses to which it will be put are not in contravention of the municipal bylaw a favourable in terpretation is necessary before the owners frisk frisk weir will be granted a federal airport licence the township planning board notified in the usual manner only those property owners who were within 200 feet of the airport property since the majority are absentee landlords only two people showed up to oppose a favourable in terpretation the committee of ad justment as it often does deferred a decision until an onsite inspection fortunately a quorum was not present at the inspection and decision was deferred until the october 28th meeting in the meantime much to its credit the stouffville tribune by means of an ar ticle about the first hearing informed the residents of claremont community about the request before the committee of adjustment and irate residents won dered why they had not been informed of this by the planning board i submit to you sir and to the residents of the community that we were betrayed by the pickering township planning board to have notified only the owners of property adjacent to the airport fulfilled the letter of the law but not its spirit or true intent a more realistic approach would have been to notify all residents within a fivemile radius here was not a simple request for an unusual use of the land such as the establishing of a slaughterhouse or piggery because air planes fly outside the property of the owners and affect a whole community all residents of that community have a right to hear any decision made regarding airports isnt the logic of this obvious pickering township residents have now been brought to the position of suspecting the future intentions of their planning board residents are losing confidence in the public service whose salaries they pay and suspect that no one at the municipal office wants to hear about how they the residents feel about community concerns mr j m davidchuk r r 2 claremont dear mr thomas we would like to take objection to the editorial titled a councils respon sibility covering passing snowmobile bylaws where it was stated they meaning snow machine owners feel no municipal controls are needed at all but rather a set of rules and regulations established and enforced by the snowmobilers themselves this is in fact completely contrary to the submission made to council by concerned resident snowmobilers where the entire proposed bylaw with the ex ception of the curfew was en thusiastically endorsed and in fact ad ditional tougher sections regarding ex cessive noise and private property trespassing were suggested research now completed of other similar club activities both in the us and canada positively indicate that the scarce heard amjd the gihs belou sugar and spice 7 when men went to war willingly by bill smiley as the two great wars of this century move gradually out of memory and into the pages of history books our annual remembrance day recurs with alarming rapidity for the veteran there was nothing great about either of those wars except for their size yet the old sweats call their war the great war and the middleaged sweats have to settle for the title world war ii the name of the day has been changed from armistice day to remembrance day a good change but im glad they havent changed the date november 11th is an ideal time to remember its usually cold wet and gloomy even the skies seem to weep at the folly of man its difficult to conceive of hearing those hallowed cliches fallen comrades in flanders fields the poppies grow at the going down of the sun and in the morning we shall remember them lest we forget on a hot day in july but im not being sardonic when i refer to hallowed cliches they are cliches but they are also hallowed and they mean a great deal to the men and many women who gainer once a year to remember that the cream of canadian young men in two generations was skimmed off by a brutal fate on faraway fields its hard to believe in these days of the burning of draft cards of draft dodging that in those two great wars canadians went not only willingly but in most cases eagerly to fight in a war 3000 miles away against an unknown enemy for hazy reasons at least with hindsight the reasons were hazy but at the time they were crystal clear the kaiser was out to destroy the british empire good enough hitler was out to stomp across the civilized world in jackboots clear lets stop the sods we didnt fight to subdue anyone as the russians germans japs italians have done we werent out to conquer new territories we were out to prevent someone from subduing us or conquering our territory in both wars there was a minority who joined up for less than heroic reasons to get away from a nagging wife to avoid the law to escape a boring job but in the first great war canadians literally flocked to the colours swamping recruiting offices in that war they showed a dash and elan and fortitude once in action that made them respected throughout only successful means of controlling snowmobilers effect on the community is by self imposed standards and regulations bylaws to be enforced by local police do not work as enforcement is impossible a snowmobile club on the other hand can appeal to every snowmobilers conscience to save his sport by cooperating with the com munity and eliminating complaints the plain facts are that the biggest problems are caused by snowmobile noise and trespass on private property a self imposed code by snowmobilers themselves can control use close to residential areas and direct traffic to private property whose owners grant permission for use in addition a responsible snowmobile club would also engage itself in promoting safety in struction to juniors and providing emergency service to the community in case of winter storms that prevent normal vehicular traffic a new and important concern to en vironmentalists is the snowmobiles effect on ecology several research projects are now underway by both universities and the snowmobile manufacturers and we can be certain that an active snowmobile club will be the first to encourage proper use of snowmobiling in accordance with the results of these studies to prevent damage to the ecology and thereby preserve the snowmobiling sport in summary then we respectively submit that whitchurchstouffville snowmobilers enthusiastically endorse sensible snowmobile legislation and will conscientiously work toward promoting their sport with a minimum in convenience to nonparticipants committee for sensible snowmobile legislation rsvp immediately mickey hunt stouffvilles genial sunoco dealer received a post card from nigeria recently the brief message read how do you say bathroom in swahili and i need your answer in hurry 40amin inuunp best we forget by jim thomas i attended a remembrance day ser vice in the old town of markham saturday like myself twentyseven others i counted them exclusive of veterans shivered and shuddered through a ritual that lasted about forty minutes it was impressive if you are im pressed by the sound of a bugle the skirl of the pipes and the beat of a drum it was colorful if you see color in unfurled flags polished medals and matching blue berets many dont in years past i have been prone to criticize this attitude but not any more instead i now understand it its been fiftythree years since the end of world war i its been twentysix years since the last shot was fired in world war ii over half our population have no personal recollection of either event and the majority wouldnt want to remember it even if they could our whole attitude towards war has changed rather than lest we forget its now best we forget and although this trend in thinking may go against the grain of the seasoned exserviceman i offer no argument against it take for example the ceremony saturday the cenotaph once thought of as the customary cross but now the modelled replica of a father mother and child the family circle no symbol of war there the parade ranks once 100 percent veterans but now infiltrated by new recruits the majority of whom i suspect never shouldered a gun or fired a shot no symbol of war there and the legitimate veterans too joshing and talking over old times no symbol of war there so why a service of remembrance when so few can remember or want to remember much better a service of peace something that involves us all today time like an everrolling stream bears all its sons away a they fly forgotten as a dream dies at the opening day this hymn was written in 1700 its meaning is evident in 1971 still we expect people to remember on saturday twentyseven did nine thousand forgot were only human europe and especially among the i enemy and in the second despite the disillusion of the depression despite the cynicism of the thirties perhaps the most antiwar generation of this century they did it again and once again they proved themselves beyond a doubt as doughty warriors on land sea and in the air personally i didnt exactly flock to the colours both my brothers had jumped in early that didnt bother me i was a product of the cynical thirties a university student and i laughed at them as they went through endless months of dull training while the war in europe was a complete stalemate but a time came the germans broke through civilization as we knew it was in danger of being tramped into the mud by the jackboots that was when thousands of us stopped sneering at the phoney war and took the oath looking back i shake my head wryly as i remember how desperate we were to get killed it was a traumatic experience to be washed out of aircrew where your chances of being killed were fairly good and wind up washing dishes at manning pool safe as a sausage we knew what we were doing in some instinctual way we wanted to come to grips thats why i feel a certain pity for v the conscripts of the socalled free world in these days they are forced to go to war against an unknown enemy for something they dont believe in amidst an atmosphere of corruption and downright lies to all veterans dont remember the blood and mud and sweat and brutality and fear just remember all the good times and the good friends youll never have them again