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Gvaphics Department Malling Address? Phone: Editor: Advertising Sales: The Stoufivulle Free Préss IS pdbllshed monthly by the Sloulfvllle FREE PRESS Inc‘ delivered by Canada Post to most residences and businesses In Whltcrzgmmsgoufh Goodwood. The press run IS 15.000. 1 We all know how that one turned out after upwards 01 8.000 people flocked to the Last fall's municipal election saw mayoral and council candidates tripping over each other in their efforts to convince voters that the health of the downtown shopping district was a top priority. It turns out that eventual Ward 5 council seat winner lain Lovatt was on the right track with a suggestion that. while not exactly embraced at the time. turned out to be the winning ticket. Bring in food trucks. he said. Create a big event every now and then that will see people come to the downtown area to satisfy their calorific cravings. But it was his claim that such a food truck frenzy would put money in the tills ol the downtown merchants that seemed a little thin'~ on reason. Wouldn't the downtown restaurateurs rail against such unwanted competition7. it‘s a question that has been pondered in good economic times and bad. in times of zero population growth and runaway development. from Christmas shopping season to Christmas shopping season. The quandary as to what it would take to attract more people to Stouffville's downtown shopping area has perplexed local business types. politicians and residents for decades. 6 ° August 2015 By Bruce Staplqy Stouffville Free Pres Food Town Ontario? Bruce Stapley / stouffvillefreepressflbellpet Edward Nelles / edwardmheneflesgroup com I 416- 898- 5837 Jann Smit 1 mm smIt@cogeco. ca Travis Merrick Sheri Smith Nicole Love / Irauic‘ mnvrirllflnu 5758 Mam StA. Stbuffville. Ontario L4A 2T1 905-u0-FHEE (3733) StoufM/le Free Press And the merchants? If you can't reap a bonanza in extra sales gwith a crowd that SIZE walking. past your store you shouldnfi be in business, Downtown restaurants benefited from the spill over effect as many people simply weren't willing to wait In line for an hour for their food fix. If you have thousands of people In one area around meal time. anyone offering to help satisfy the collective hunger is gomg to find their stoves and fryers working at or near full capaCIty. Even‘ the Farmers‘ Market vendors benefited as the usually modest turnout of Thursday afternoon and early evening patrons ballooned as a result of the draw of the food trucks mention a variety of poutine and hamburgers that the typical fast food outlet would never dare attempt. wagons on wheels? offer 'must try‘ dishes such as fish tacos and lobster rolls. not to A month later at the sequel there was a doubling of both the crowd and the number 0! food trucks on hand. It should be mentioned that today‘s tood trucks are a far cry trom the ‘hot dog and tries‘ operations at years gone by. These gourmet downtown back in June to wait m line for an eternity. enduring a wicked downpour as they eventually feasted on the tare produced by 16 food trucks at the first ever Food Truck Frenzy. What‘it cpmes down to is Smith Nicole Love / lravidmerricstympa’ticoca me FREE PRESS Inc. and In Whltcnumnsgouflville and Out In W With apolognes to my dear lnend Jim Thomas. who pushed so hard a few years back to have Stoulfvllle oflicnally acknowledged tor Its musical prowess. it could just be that the time has come to consider a more apt UESIQDBHOHV Hmm.... How does ‘Food Town Ontario' sound to you? or fast food outlets such as McDonalds and Turn Hortons. Stouflville‘s new Symposium Cafe boasted the best opening day sales totals of any of the 22 such tranchtse in the provmce when they opened their doors here last month. Anyone looking to open a new busuness here needs look no further than the steady flow of patrons into restaurants like the Fickle Pickle. King's Landing or Maki Zushi. cafés like Red Bulb. residents and visitors looking for a variety of attractive dining options to choose trom. It wasn‘t always thus. When l moved here in 1977 the choices for eating out were limited to a handful of dark. dingy Joints with uninspiring menus and cooks who didn't know the difference between medium rare prime rib and a well worn shoe. That's all changed as it would take weeks for a discerning diner to experience the myriad gastronomic offerings now available in Town. that am trucks. E a desir. The first Food Truck Frenzy held June 18 on Main SI. drew upwards of 10,000 people and 16 food Irucks. 'Roughly C7, people crowded in o the Downtown area for the second Ftenzy July 16, which saw double the number 0'! Irucks. Carole Nelles Photo even without me food . Stouffville has become sirable destination for nls and visnors lookina 5 thus. When I 1977 the choices were Hmited to a ;. dingy Joints with Kate Cdeerdpk Bruce Stdple'y Kinjol Dagli-Shah Hannelore Volpe Ben Embiricos Jill McWhinnie Editorial and Photography Contributers: 7 The recent Pan Am Games Torch Relay celebration in Memorial Park saw organizers cordo off a small area for media photographers directly in front of the stage upon which the festivities were occurring. Two police officers were assigned to the general area. presumably to keep the large crowd from encroaching upon the pathways provided for the various acts to access the stage. When the photographer from this publication edged ever so slightly across theline that defined the media area in order to get the perfect shot, one office quickly proceeded to threaten him in a gruff manner with eipulsion from the media spot it he didn't retreat immediately. Rather than diplomatically letting the photographer know that this was where‘the next act was to walk past and to be watchful when they did come by. he let fire with the type of uncompromising vitriol that. power Canada. In recent months the city of Toronto has been wrestling with the business of cardingand the alleged tendency of that city's police to stop and question innocent people based upon racial stereotypes While we are fortunate in that we rarely hear ol incidents Involving. police heavy~handedness here In. Stouffwlle. occasional examples of inappropriate police behaviour do, surface on occasion. ‘ Overzealous Police Presence Not Needed Here There are more and more examples of police excesses surfacing in recent years. not just across the United States but here in Maurice Smith Ruth LeBlgnc Rob Reid DJn Wigmore Carole Nelles The The Stouffville Free Fress welcomés community even! [i non-profit groups and organizations. 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Sure. these incidents don't compare with tasenng a man to death in a streetcar or in an airport: But the damage ~done to the reputation of police officers everywhere cannot be easily erased when such over the topbehaviour is exhibited. it didn't help that the same photographer was privy to an incident earlier in the year which saw an oVerzealous York Region Police officer fling a temporarily disoriented teenager up against his cruiser and cuff him like a common criminal despite the fact the young man was simply in need of a little TLC and had given the officer no reason at all to behave in such an aggresswe manner. _ ' trippers in uniforms sometimes do. Which left a very bad taste in the mouth of the photographer. who has been covering events in Stouflville without incurring the wrath of the men in blue for the better part of three decades. Later in the proceedirigs the same dunderheaded officer blocked access to the stage of a youngster who was part of a skit by the.Motus O'dance troupe, thinking perhaps that the fresh faced. soccer shirt-clad kid was bent on sabotage. Co'me on people. this isn't the Middle East! lot slmchan =ree Thoua muslin Islsmnl