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6402100 speed kills for police too we seldom criticize any authority whose job it is to protect those who abide by the law from those who dont police of course are most prominent in this respect we have them because we need them and when we need them we want them in a hurry there are times however when an in dividual officer can bring discredit on himself and his department by reacting to a situation in an extremely foolish and irrational man ner an example of this occurred here friday night a york regional constable in attempting to catch a kid on a motorbike missed the turn at the east end of town vaulted the cruiser over a ditch smashed down a sign a post and a section of fence and finally came to a stop in a nearby field the property damage even to the car was negligible by comparison with the loss of someones life which only by a miracle did not occur there were other vehicles ap proaching the intersection at the time children were playing in a driveway entrance only a few feet to the south witnesses to the crash claim the officer was hitting a speed close to 100 miles per hour when the deadend loomed ahead this may be an exaggeration but tire marks extending far back on the pavement would tend to support what they said regardless he was undoubtedly travelling too fast endangering not only his own life but the lives of others for what to catch a boy on a motor cycle lets not be ridiculous for years now weve argued against chases involving police they may yet pose some kind of challenge but theyre not worth the risk neither are they necessary not with the latest in radio communication at each officers fingertips so lets have no more of this foolishness excessive speed to save a life is sometimes a necessity excessive speed that takes a life is stupidity only by sheer luck are we not saying this following someones funeral parents have your say now that noted psychologist dr blair shaw and outspoken evangelist dr ken campbell have had their say concerning the noninvolvement of schools in sex education perhaps its high time we heard from the people who really count the parents and yes the young people themselves what is your feeling on this very im portant issue in whitchurchstouffville adults are normally quite outspoken on these kinds of subjects and yet to date we havent heard a word the town ministerial to our knowledge hasnt taken a stand and teachers too are strangely silent we say the time has come to make your opinions known one way or another speak up and be heard in the region of durham theres been strong reaction against dr campbells recommendations the backlash has taken the form of requests from all sides for an organized program at both the elementary and secondary levels we trust this support will put the board back on its original tracks it is our hope that here in york trustees will not be so timid as to take dr campbell too seriously sex education should be a part of the health program its just as important as most other subjects already included in the curriculum as we said before dr campbell is right in many areas and we respect him for laying it on the line in this issue however hes dead wrong no bonus for efficiency the police association in the region of durham has voiced dissatisfaction with the arbitration award handed down recently by provincial arbitrator jw samuels in it a first class constable receives 23363 is it too much or too little whos to say if comparisons count for anything its about 35 less than an officer of comparable rank is earning in york and 667 less than in metro as of aug 1 one of the complaints voiced by the association in durham has to deal with the departments efficiency rate presidentdale allan seems to feel the force should receive some kind of bonus for doing such an ex cellent job thats ridiculous the officers we hope did their jobs well because thats what they were hired to do not with the expectation theyd pull out a plum the next time around every crime committed is a case to be solved with no salary strings attached llst l fopgel the grace of almighty cod mai ui who pass this ww hold sacred j their hearts thl mfmopits of rucsl foicht d dlfd that ml mhhf 1im tlfpo veterans memorial dedicated atservice a memorial dedicated to the memory of the men and women of the whitchurch- stouffville area who served their country in two world wars was unveiled sunday af ternoon at the conclusion of the annual decoration day service in the town cemetery shown here following the placing of the legion wreath are president louis hertle right and pastpresident ivan goudie branch 459 jim thomas sugar and spice- beulg apart mends marriages 1 by bill smiley- its bewildering when you think of the number of things that can break up a marriage that began in heaven and ends up in the other place sexual or emotional incompatibility disparity of interestsrotten kids desertion booze insanity to name just a few of the serious ones then there are the basic differences in genes that shatter many a case of connubial bliss some people are yawning until the tears spurt at 920 pm and are wedded to other people who just begin to hit on all cylinders about the time the late movies begin thats bad enough but the former are the type who leap out of bed at six am carolling here hath been dawning another new day think wilt thou let it slip useless away and the latter have to be dragged out of bed at the crack of noon with a block and tackle not much chance for them then there are the poor devils who put on a pound just by reading a menu and bitterly resent their mates who can shovel in the chocolates pastryjghipped cream and beer and go around remarking blithely and smugly i have to eat like a horse to stay ven grounds for a hatchet murder some people mostly men look forty when they are married and still look forty when they are sixty others mostly women look sixteen when they are married and sixty when they are forty this can lead to a certain amount of savagery and there is plain old body temperature some like it hot some like it cool thus we find running battles as bedroom windows are thrown wide or slammed down as the ther mostat is viciously wrenched up to 80 and the moment the backys turned is triumphantly twisted back to 60 another of the fractious items in the constant domesticrskirmishing is the question of who does the most work a man lets say a barber bleats that hes been on his feet all jlsy pdtheyrwlulling him his erstwhile ioulmaferetof tsthiat shes been on her knees all day and shell kill him if he doesnt get out and mow the lawn in the same vein an executive will reel in from work collapse in a chair after mixing a triple martini and go into a recitation about the overwhelming stress hes under a fight with the boss a client lost inefficient un derlings j and his darling sugar or hon of thirty years ago will come back like a tigress with her stress the phone rang thirteen times today she had a fight with the plumbers and she had to take the new car to a garage because some turkey creased her to the tune of 300 in a parking lot heck i could go on for an hour listing reasons that people first begin to get on each others nerves proceed to smoldering dislike and end up in a glorious blaze of pure hatred and im sure every one of you gentle readers could add to the list ill do a thiryjthousand word thesis on it someday but for now id like to add just one item to the list that is seldom mentioned by either sociology professors or ann landers this cause of fractured marriage is too much togetherness when a married couple spend too much time together they not only begin looking alike but talking alike thinking alike and all the other alikes as a result they become twoheaded calfs siamese twins freak vegetables with two carrots growing from one seed repeating the same old things bickering about the same trivial things chewing their cabbage twice they lose the individuality and become both boring and bored they are nearing the end when they start calling each other mother and dad and can spend half an hour patiently disagreeing over a thirdrate tv show this was no great vision on the road to damascus it came to me when my wife went off for a few days in the city and i was alone all all alone on a sea of beautiful privacy nobody saying lights out dear you have to work tomorrow at midnight just when im getting into the guts of a novel i know i have to work tomorrow two nights she was away i read until six am nobody telling me what a day shed had when id had a worse one and vice versa she thought id eaten the cooked ham she left me i fed it to the squirrels and ate a lasagna that almost killed me dill pickles ice cream coffee a spoon would stand in un made bed unwashed dishes and cigarettes with no filters when she came home of course everything was spick n span but she loved me so much she almost strangled me it was mutual try it it cost me about four hundred worth every cent about once a year i do the same take off to a convention or into the woods she doesnt miss me loves the solitude and im delighted to be home separate holidays might make that domestic cage of yours bearable no pun intended window on wildlife- a birds home is its castle i by art briggs-jude- there are many methods by which wild birds protect their nests some species such as the horned owl and larger hawks present a formidable set of talons in a direct frontal attack that soon discourages any intruder other medium sized birds like the ruffled grouse plover and killdeer put on such a convincing broken wing act that it draws the attention of an enemy away from their defenceless brood the little rubythroated hummingbird we notice hovering about our wegeila bushes or garden flowers is a bundle of determined energy when its nest is threatened in an aerial display of unmatched manoeuvreability this tiny emerald roars to the attack sounding somewhat like a runaway buzz saw blade that has spun off its shaft this courageous creature gives an enemy the impression one of those whirring teeth is about to nick it at any instant our neighborhood robin kicks up an awful fuss when a cat comes too close to its nest site but does not usually press home the attack on the culprit like bluejays in fact a pair of nesting jays will often pin a cat down for a time on the ground while forcing other felines to give the area a wider berth actually of all the birds that i have banded including some of the largest flying predators the bold bluejay is the only one that ever struck me and drew blood bui i have seen flickers drive their longpointed shafts into the face of a birdhunting squirrel when the latter tried to enter a flickers cavity and that must have hurt plenty once when i discovered a shrikes nest the parent birds came pretty close to my ears with their stout snapping beaks but these so- called butcher birds with the sinister looking black masks were more bluff than bite when i editors mail impressed sir a pleasant feature for a frequent visitor to stouffville is the opportunity to view the current exhibits in the latcham gallery z not every family community has the good fortune to have a modern structure a dedicated staff and the facilities to provide their citizens with a display of books and art providing a background of culture i am most impressed and appreciative of your library and gallery leslie c parkinson toronto slipped the light metal rings on their off spring on another occasion a house wren that had taken up residence in one of our blue bird boxes became more than a trifle in censed with my intrusion this brown little fidget actually landed scolding on top of my head in a bold display of feathered protest if you happen near a marsh these days you will soon be greeted with at least one pair of belligerent redwinged blackbirds the males are especially prominent in their disapproval of your presence often perching on the nearby rushes or hovering overhead and if a crow or hawk happens to fly into such territory by design or accident a whole wave of blackbirds rise up to challenge like world war 11 fighters defending their home base often the most persistent blackbirds will pursue the invader well into the next con cession before relinquishing their attack however the high point in my mind of a bird protecting its nest occurred this past week when a tree swallow took exception to a red- tailed hawk flying near its nest box this graceful flyer climbed swiftly above the winged predators flight path and diving suddenly down attached itself between the hawks shoulders there it remained for some time riding along and pecking the back of the big birds head like a jockey in the home stretch applying the whip to boot home a winner