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I’lmnm'nona Im‘lw Smart ‘HH-Wllhl: u 905 MU 8778 \ lv-8ll)~7-U 335* lh-bora Kelly 1(Nh "0| Are tryouts for competitive sports teams just a sham? However. hockey fever never got to me and I always saw immi- grant kids flocking to play the internationally popular game of soccer or football in many flaws in the world. Over the past many years. I male ii is extremely important to have the righr connections in rluhs and other associations. if you want your child to fulfill his or her dream of becoming an international soccer player. My experiences have been mixed with various soccer clubs where my son has tried out and he did have an opportunity In play rep. ur competitive. MM‘CPI’ fur the last year. l ccnainlv do not have the connections that are rvquircd. as some say. to get my sun min the best clubs. Hem are some actual wards my son heard from coaches after lrvouts: have been in (Zanada for the last 12 years and come from a country when.- l gmw up playing soccer and other sports. Ice hockey was new In mv. although I did play field hmrkcy. ‘Bu! l'm vm't'mg this to create awamncss. that as a parent. you must keep on trying until you get lhmugh. “You haw good logs, hm you need in bulk up by ahuul ll) pounds". (No comments offered un his skills.) "He played well for mm! days but on the final day. hc did nnl mmc to play“. [Final day?) "Yuu should CUIHE and jum our academy. whcrv vuur skills. will certainly imprnvfi (000d sales strategy.) What I heard fmm other par ‘ “This loan] has been playing "together for the last five; years.“ A vms is thv fullnwing: My millmn-dullar question to the community. clubs. asso- (‘ialinns and all parents and players is; an- tryouts {or real or are the players already selecwd before lhvy happen? What hmhcrx m0 ié even if the team is solid for the last five years. I am sure a good coach would look for bvncr lak-m and flush logs lor the u-zun, if he truly believes in and is as passionate about soccer as him. I know. l hnpe lhal people who read this can identify with what 1 am sharing and mum together to make MKft‘l‘l’ the truly wonder- ful game than it has been and always will he VM: Hangar :5 the father of Mo sons and :5 a writer. guest speaker and human resources pmfessw. The farm W has med m Richmond Hm for agar “Maybe yuu mood In speak Italian. because the coach talks to the (cam in Italian" “1110 team is already selected before tryouts,” Vikki Mungre LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Council fidn’t listen to f“fl’.?§:.‘ff Re: (main building good [nr «Yummy: Hargth and nghlxmrs unhappy with council. Sept. 26. There was a complete lack nf cumpawiun for muse who live. shop and haw businesses on Main Street during 'Ilwsday's Whitchurch-Stouffville council meetifig. Nuw. those in and around the site will be subjected to nmslrucliun from 7 am. to 7 pm. six days a week. For the seniors living in the manor. llwir last munths of life will be spent breathing in dust. not being able to go outside and listening to the construction vehicles all day. My heart goes nm In the merchants. residents of Buckingham Manor and people who «run homes on the heritage streets around the appmved site. “13! arm is the Wmedale of Stoufiviflc. ( huntier Rub Hargmw gave n-femm‘e to the "once hustling downtmn core" of Council appmvod the PACE/Geranium complex for ond 3nd Main streets. PUBLISHER Ian ProudfOot Guam wanna john Willem: MJST BE TIME FOR ENTERING MARKHAM FAIR? Our mono is “(loun- try Close to the City”. but at Tuesday's meeting it was easy to see that will soon be “City-making 'm the (loun- uy”. 40 shops. of which now five are closed dmvn. There was no reference that it was town muncil that also decided to move leisure of! of Main Street for which peo- pka mme to Main for. as well. ‘lhe arena. Royal (lana- dian Legion (due to the region's realignment of Ninth Line) and library were all moved away fmm Main Street. which brings up IN? question: are the people working in the planning department actually living, There will be parking and concerns in the neighboring areas with {he onset of construction Any challenges to the approval oftth plan fell on deafeam Even with the region’s mandate to gmw. there is a proper way to do it. There is a way to incorporate small shbpping and their kids to schools here? Mk and actuafly lis~ ten to those in town who have been here for genera- of new builds in 'Sumfi-Tfibune (3280me Wfiflifl 167 Goverhment set age for school attendance The question should be: As parents should we not trust our children are safe at school if the goV'cmmcm aliows this age to amend? Re: Child mo young to n'de‘ schad bus. letter to the editor by Teri McTavish. Sept. 21 and Mom gm sys. tem dmged afier child '5 bus misadwnmm Sept. I 4. Why question a mother for putting her three-year- old on a schoo! bus? Don'! blame the Iaxpay- ers. Blame the government and school system. Noun (1 mm“ " 51! )L 'f'H’ILU: tions and decades and they will have a better answer than those who do not live in ttM'n - but hold all the design power. During the meeting. there was a blatant distegard for heritage, the merchants. the town‘s people and the farmers - who actually built this town. Members of this muncil will never see my vine. SHAW KEIJ'BRBORN mu ’Fn’nus