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It looks and and is causing quite a buzz around town my: mm 'In Gradejlwemmck- or-treaflng as a paint bucket. wilh'my hair dyed all dmerent colours My costume was so wide I couldn't m through any vevanda 340M: Ava. Stouflville. Ontario L4A7ZS ”“1” Fax: WI E-m'all WWW-00m gimme w M91113: WW; ‘I was seven and l drassed up as a Christmas présent. with a bow in my hair. pint stockings. and my face painted with polka-dots” Thank you [or you: eflons at pmmollnc our event Ray McNm Sham Studio Tour Km Miller: 'I was Pippi Langstockinc back in Grade 5. I dyed my hair a bright ounce and made the pigtails stick way out and wore striped lecwarmers I lookediunnyf Is there any calmer. more peaceful place than a rural cemetery in the fall? In working on the stories and photos for this issue. we spent some blessed minutes in graveyards. As Remembrance Day approaches, you (an almost feel the ghosts of Whitchurdi-Stouffville‘s departed World War veterans mstling through the fallen leaves of the cemetery near the Tenth Line. The rows of white crosses commemorating those who took part bring to mind similar crosses in lohn McCrae’s haunting poem, "In Flanders Fields". and as you stand and remember the sacrifices that these men and women made for all of us. you can almost hear the call of a bugle as the wind whistles through the maples. A few miles directly east. along the Uxbridge-Pickering Town Line in the crossroads hamlet of Altona. lies the Mennonite Cemetery in which Abraham Stoulfer. his family and friends have their last resting place. As befits the simplicity which typifies the Mennonite culture. the chapel at the Altona cemetery is a very unpretentiouwbuilding. as are the graves themselves. no monument rising more than a couple of feet. These pioneers of our part of the world, including the man who gave his name to our “capital city“, are indeed at peace here. Even the neighbourhood boys. running home in the fading light down the Altona Road. seem to lower their voices as they pass. As you think back to the days when Abraham Stouffer first walked these forests. or even to when men like flyer Wilf McWhinnie (see page one) grew up here In the W305 and 40's. you can't help but long for a simpler time. And as you look at the faces of our Town Councillors every second maday In their tower on Sandliord Road. struggling with the very difficult issues that development. W" and population explosion bring. you know that they must wish sometimes that they oversaw the affairs of a simpler place. a country town not quite soidoato the city. __ The calm of the Altona graveyard was all the more appreciated because in the process of driving there from another photo shoot at the west end of Stouffville we experienced the noise and bustle of the town's daily supper- time rush hour. Emoerbated by the needless numbers of traffic signals along Main Street. it took us fully I5 minutes to get through the crawl from McDonald‘s to the East Gate. It would have been quicker on horseback. or in a Mennonite buggy. ' a.Ofooulse ll lire were mm the 30‘s. wevery probably Wouldn t have had (naval. mat would have been a little progressive for a community like out: And that's too bad. because although Sue Sherban can obviously handle ptesent-day problems. In many ways she would make a perfect lmhoentury reeve. too. A woman for all time Sofiyou’te aavlnga Bulawlm. let us recommend a remedy. Take a trip monument. and on yourway, share a moment with old Abe m Altona. Or on We: Day. visit the am on the 1bnth Line and say a little pmyuiorpeaoe. Foreveflbody. Ii you peruse the stories in this issue of WSTM. you'll find that a lot of them are about simplicity: the Victorian ma at the museum, the Family Fomm at the bebovic Centre. Bruce Stapleys sisters birthday-even the story of the Murby family who have become business tycoons by raising the simple white domestic dudL Simplicity is all around us, but in all the bustle oi the 2lst century. sometimes you have to watch or listen close to dbwverit A little peace and quiet mend-om: "Wemadepretty simple costumes when I was young. I specialized in Midwabutlwas alsoa great Indian princess. with stockings lor builds and a. burlap sackloraskln.‘ FEEUEA’T‘IbNIW ' ' 'ééli 1'. line Bosw' Ick MANAGING EDITOR ....... Conrad Boyce SALES REPRESENTATIVE . I .Bruce Stapley BUSINESS MANAGER ..... Robert Lazurko DISTRIBUTION MANAGER . .Barry E. Black GRAPHIC DESIGN ........ Sherry Day MEMBER OF THE ONTARIO COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION Man-nae cm I went as a geisha to one party. with my husband as a samurai. I had a kimono my grandmother brought back from lapan. and a cur-off mop as a wig with cherry blossoms.” NOVEMBER 2004