The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

tribune thursday july it us wht wtihxm james thomas edhorlnchtof barrebeacock advertising manager established 1888 charles h nolan publisher edftofttaldept jta ho jfa jratog dismay aoverttsmo dot lob wlderaen rod splcer classfieo aovertisinarcvlation join manhman office manager oormq owcoa buswess office ebeen gsomt pubuehed every thursday t 54 ibiq st stourmhe oel tel 6402101 toronto phono 3611680 single cop 25 subecrlptiara 1100 par yeer in canada s3000 eienrhere wi bar ol canadian community mewepepen association and ontario weekly neweeeper association sacond class mail registration number 0696 the tribune is one of the inland publishing co limited group of suburban newspapers which in cludes the ajaxtwhubypickaring news advertiser brampton guardian burlington post etoblcoke gazette aiarkham economist and sun newmarket aurora era oakvue beaver oshaws this week m news oshawa this weekend a fre press mihon canadian champion and the georgetow indepe atjsj 6402100 c 3611680 editorials downtowns new lease on life its happened just as we hoped it would a whole new psychological outlook on main street in stouffville the flower containers and benches all part of the business improvement area plan plus the trees a project by the town with assistance from the lions club have created an atmosphere of cooperation and togetherness like no one would ever have believed possible and all within so short a period of time one can sense it and see it too people returning to a part of the community thats showing new signs of life the comments weve heard have all been positive praise for a committee thats worked so hard to put this program across quite a challenge from a barren wasteland of asphalt and concrete to whats visible today with more to come in the years ahead its almost too good to be true the tribune echoes the enthusiasm voiced by others and says well done recent accomplishments are indeed a feather in the committees cap now instead of looking to others to see what can be done others can look to us and see what stouffville did and were not through yet who needs the aggravation in refusing a motocross competition in an area of the ninth line near hillsdale drive town council did the right thing members had nothing to gain and everything to lose by doing otherwise the motorbike club originating out of oshawa had the decency to approach the municipality and request permission this much can be said for meet organizers a less cooperative group could have moved in had their fun then moved out when police moved in this they chose not to do however it must be said also that whitchurchstouffvilles concern was not their concern the location was merely convenient for their purpose perhaps a council in the region of durham might have been a little more sympathetic but we doubt it who needs that kind of aggravation a lead in academic excellence on occasions we north americans canadians included consider ourselves a cut above folks from foreign lands v we canadians in particular may not jfecojnaright out and say it or even show it but in quiet conversations such feelings are often revealed when we natives find it difficult to stick our heads inside our hats wed be well ad- vised to study the academic excellence of new canadians or children of new canadians who in terms of years have been here only a short period of time v in many instances their learning ac complishments should represent a learnings experience for all of us for example here in stouffville we have young people like jim michael margaret and nancy ku bettina rentsch michelle wang brian wong and indie persaud at markham high murad ali ismail mark kortschot and john maduri at uxbridge high bill lautsch andrew eng and linda maniw and at pickering michael amts regina crwatz yee wah quan and manoj ravindran to mention only a few all honor students wholl make their marks in thiscworld while the numbers here are high the per centage is likely higher in toronto the same is also holding true at the university level newcomers to this country head of the class iwhile some may pass this off as just a coincidence we dont we see these teens as young people who like their parents firmly believe in the work ethic an ambition many native canadians have lost we like the free ride coast along at someone elses ex pense but not the people or parents of people mentioned above while this may be a bitter pill for some of us to swallow perhaps in the long run its just the medicine we need editors mail filthy language dear editor i like john stephens reports on whats doing with the york county board of education he writes in laymens language which is more than i can say about discussions that sometimes take place in board meetings however i take strong exception to his stand july 3 under the heading let penalty fit the crime he felt that ob scenities voiced by a student shouldnt have warranted a suspension by the principal mr stephens wrote the words joey used are not uncommon on school grounds or elsewhere in the community the trustees statement is correct but this doesnt make it right i personally have heard language on school properties plus ball diamonds and arenas that would curl your hair this kind of reaction by students should be curbed its irresponsible school principals should be supported not criticized for coming down hard on this kind of conduct the fact prime minister trudeau gained notoriety over his famous in famous fuddleduddle quote was due to the fact the media picked it up and blew it out of all proportions i may be oldfashioned and fourletter words may be in style but id back any principal or teacher whod take my son to task even suspend him for talking in such a manner sincerely mrs beatrice malcolm rr 3 stouffville stephens rather strange stand in my opinion on the sex instruction film taking chances in two separate ar ticles published in the tribune his ap proach has been extremely negative he seemed to be thrashing around trying to find someone to blame for the fact its been made available to schools in york region its interesting to note also that the same mr stephens was one of the trustees that voted to have it shelved awaiting a committee report that i doubt well ever receive john stephens is a separate school supporter with a voice at the secondary school level and a strong voice i might add could it be that his rc attitudes towards birth control are showing through im suggesting they are why else would he be so blatantly opposed to the film what policy his church holds on the question of sexual caution should give way to common sense because in so many instances caution was ignored 487 teen pregnancies occurred in york region in 1978 argue that one mr stephens sincerely howard adams stouffville rr 3 dear editor i dont consider myself a bigot in fact i admire all new canadians in many respects they put we natives to shame im also en interdenominational person presbyterian roman catholic baptist anglican who cares not i making these points clear so that your paper isnt flooded with letters of complaint i wish to make another it relates to board of education trustee john dear editor through the tribune i wish to com pliment the committee in charge of the main street improvement program so much has been accomplished in a short time its unbelievable i find it a pleasure to shop downtown again and my friends say the same if this is only the start of a fiveyear project the end result in 1984 should be really something im looking forward to that day to the persons responsible congratulations youve created an at mosphere thats catching and i sincerely hope you reap some benefit from your hard work sincerely hilda moore north street stouffville 1 rvyheelfrrs ne 1xibuhe saturday june 28 tribune pet show saturday july 5 roaming around one plant becomes a plague v by jim thomas theres a plant more like a shrub growing at the front of our garage that taunts me every time i go outside my wifes responsible for it being there she kind of took pity on it after finding the misfit among other flowersshebrougbt home back in may a sort of ugly dutcklmgshedidnt have the heart to destroy it thinking maybe it could be something rare a sort of horticultural first for stouffville she planted it in the most prominent spot she could find plainly visible from any angle as well as the street and boy how its grown away ahead of the petunias and marigolds what bothers me about this squatter is the fear its an old nemesis of mine a memory from out of the past thats come back to haunt me yes like it or not i think its mustard while dandelions are bad enough mustard is worse so serious in fact i thought it only fair that i warn my good friend and v neighbor vic little of the pending plague but strange as it may seem it didnt bother him a bit its nothing that the mower wont cut he said promising to come over and inspect the intruder firsthand this he did and im glad for he says its not mustard at all mind you he cant put a name to it but claims it doesnt resemble anything he knew down on the farm regardless im watching it closely i dont want to wake up some morning and find the front lawn stricken with yellow jaundice it can happen you know ask any farmer jwhen i was a kid pulling mustard favorite pasttime when the weather unsuitable for more meaningful work father would point to the back fifty and suggest we pull everything yellow short of buttercups how i hated it not that we had very much we were one of the lucky ones an hour or two would do it until the next time it was an ongoing thing if ever we complained father would remind us of a property in the next mile and a quarter so infested with the stuff it extended like a massive yellow blanket from one fence row to another howd you like to start into that hed say the very thought of it made me weak at the knees looking back i realize dad was right the secret to keeping the bad weed under control was pulling it out before it could spread and our old farms still mustardfree today a kind of memorial for which i accept some credit however in reality im wondering if i should or i shouldnt for al wallf york regions knowledgeable minister of agriculture tells me the growing of mustard is a common cash venture right here in this area to prove his point al sent along a story by john madill a staff memberjat the college of agriculture the heading of jijmustard- maddl begins hispiece by saying after 300years asyanun- welcomed intruder mustard had found a home in this province grown commercially for the first time in 1976 when farmers in eastern ontario planted 1100 acres the success of last years harvest occasioned an increase to 3500 acres in 1977 with equally encouraging results writer madill then goes on to describe the steps necessary to obtain best results so while i hate to admit it those little grains of mustard seed that i tried so hard to eradicate have come back to haunt me even to my own front door no it wont win a red ribbon at next months horticultural societys flower show nor will it take a prize at markham fair however with the seed selling for something like twelve cents a pound it might keep prince supplied with dr ballards for a month and so it should for when it comes to regular watering he gives it more attention than anyonev j- vi sugar and spice schools outat long last by billsmiley- id like to be able to say that the end of year for a teacher is fraught with sadness as the delicate flowers you have nurtured during the year and most of whom have turned to weeds leave you not so rather it is a lifting of several stones from a man who is being pressed to confess the pressing was an oldfashioned method in which everheavier stones were placed on a mans chest until he said uncle not so onthe last day of school a teacher walks out of the shoe factory which most schools resemble and is beholden to no man except his wife kids dog car boat bank manager and his garden but its better than being beholden to a lot of gobbling young turkeys whose chief aim in life is to destroy your emotional equilibrium and a gaggle of administrators whose chief aims in life are discipline attendance dress drugs and the entire midvictorian world that is crumbling around them things have changed quite a bit in the twenty years ive been teaching in my first year my home form gave me a present at christmas and another at the end of the year this went on for some time they may have thought i was a dull old tool but we parted with mutual respect and good wishes for a happy summer there was always a gift one year a bottle of wine and three golf balls another year a table lighter that didnt work another year a pen and pencil set with ther mometer that still works but golly in those first years there was a little sadness joe had turned from a gorilla into a decent iad hiding his better instincts behind a mop of hair bridget had turned from a foureyed eager beaver into a braless sex symbol i wished them well unreservedly nowadays if my home form gave me a present on the last day the first thing i would do would be to send it to the local bomb squad if they cleared it i would open it with tweezers and a mask wondering which it contained dog or cat excrement ah shoot thats not true either they might put an icepick in my tires set a thumbtack on my chair when i wasnt looking write the odd obscenity in their textbooks two words with my last name the second one but they wouldnt really do anything obnoxious just because i thumped barney three times this year with my arthritic right fist doesnt mean that we both believe in corporal punishment were buddies and im going to keep an eye on my cat this summer in case its strangled and little michelle doesnt really hate my guts even though she deliberately stabbed herself in the wrist with a pen on the last day of school came up to my desk looked me straight in the eye sprinkled blood all over my desk and pants and asked are you sure i have to write the final exam im kidding of course those kids in my home form look on me as a father not exactly as a father confessor mind you or a kindly old father more the type of father whom you put the boots to when he comes home drunk and falls at your eager feet in fact i wouldnt be surprised if they give me a present on our last day perhaps a cane possibly a hearing aid presented by robin an angeliclooking little blonde who kicks steve just ahead of her right behind the kneecaps in the middle of the national an them and makes him fall forward kicking backward the more i think of them the more nostalgic i get for the year weve spent together at least i am spent theyre not they havent invested anything so theres nothing to spend on second thought im not a father figure to them im a grandfather figure in the last few weeks of school before it was decided who would be recommended and who would have to write the final i noticed a definite increase in solicitude and kindness if i dropped my book from senile hands they would pick it up and instead of throwing it out the window would hand it to me gravely and they became nicer to each other probably out of consideration for my in- creasing sensibility instead of tripping the girls as they went to their seats the huge boys would pick them up and carry them instead of throwing a pen like a dart when someone wanted to borrow one they would take off their boot put the pen in it and throw the boot so the pen wouldnt be lost in the scuffle and speaking of scuffles there have been very few of late oh the other day there was r a little one when tami fivefeetminus grabbed todd sixfeetplus and shoved him out the wuiclow secondstorey no harm done he was able to grasp the sill and when she stomped on his fingers managed to land on his feet some distance below in the middle of a spruce tree maybe its all been worth it they havent learned much but i have and thats what education is all about three years from now 111 meet them somewhere on the street in a pub in jail the boys will have lost their 14yearold ebullience and the girls will be pregnant and well smile and love each other