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a4 tribune october 14 1987 editors mail fabulous dear editor 1 read your roaming around column on silence is golden oct 7 with much interest i was the woman whose shrieks shook the rafters while i didnt think my shriek was quite that loud i must admit the scarecrow that i thought was stuffed took me completely by sur prise when it he suddenly looked my way for those readers that didnt see silence he is in reality bob hall a gentleman who annually sets him self up as a scarecrow in the school exhibit at markhain fair hes fabulous this was my first facetoface meeting with silence i was non chalantly checking the scarecrow entries with my two children when the oldest said look mom hes breathing i paid no attention then the youngest asked is he real it was at this very moment he turned his head the shock near ly bowled me over yes i guess i shrieked silence is priceless seeing him was worth the price of admission its the thing ill remember most about markham fair 1987 my chil dren wont let me forget i think its great when an indi vidual comes up with an idea like this on his own quite obviously from your column mr hall en joys the experience as much as do his viewers bringing joy and happiness into the lives of others be they adults or children must be extremely satis fying i think silence deserves a medal sincerely mrs shirley andrews unionville the tribune established 1888 james thomas bruce annan patricia pappas editor publisher advertising manager jennifer hutt distribution manager editorial dept denise mcdonald sports editor alan shackleton retail advertising manager charles canning real estateclassified advertising joan marshman real estate manager dorothy young classified manager debra welter distribution lea kitler doreen deacon business office manager chris bertram national sales representative metrotand corporate sales 4931300 the stouffville tribune published every wednesday and saturday at w main si stouffville om i one of the metroland printing publishing 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or to the detriment of the municipality no one will ever know a bookbinding plant described as a class industry will not be built at this site hopefully the proponent will find another location in town whitchurch- stouffville can ill afford to lose this kind oi quality firm while the majority of council sup- burn em with respect to the burning of leaves wejhink the environment ministry is pushing the panic button the town too of all the environmental problems the province must face in daytoday inves tigations leafburning is one they could well overlook the town too we would suggest the amount of leaf smoke dispensed into the atmosphere in whitchurchstouffvillc during an entire fall wouldnt equal the volume of diesel fumes dispelled by gravel trucks on the bloomington road in one day we feel homeowners are doing the municipality a favor by collecting leaves dropped from townowned trees to bag them for garbage pickup or rent a machine to do the job is an extravagant waste like with other legal nonconforming activities let the town and the province turn a blind eye to this pleasant autumn practice car lots recently wc had occasion to drive iwest from main street markham along raymerville drive it looked much like danforth avenue of the 50s an area lit- itered with cars there were two and three vehicles parkcd in every drive ugly best de- scribes it while the sardine approach to home- building isnt as obvious in stouffville as in markham we fear a similar car- sparking practice is developing looking up and down some streets this is what one sees cars cars and more cars its not a pretty sight little wonder some homeowners be came so upset at the thought of side- walks being constructed cars would block the pedestrian rightofway i as with trucks and trailers it would jappear council will be forced to take ac tion with regard to outside carparking like a maximum of one per rosi- doncc with the majority of homes sporting two car garages exterior parking is for the most part unnecessary ported the fitzhenrywhiteside applica tion we have grievious misgivings con cerning industry of any kind in so sensi tive an area in fact the town would be well advised to take a long hard look at all applications that might in any way disturb this stretch of land be they in dustrial or residential there are too many unknowns related to what lies below this escarpment we do know it represents the dividing line for the northsouth flow of water to lake simcoe and lake ontario this alone represents a danger signal to human tampering we feel the oak ridge moraine should be made a natural buffer zone totally undisturbed by developers fifty years from now or less politicians may more readily appreciate this hardnosed planning approach i attended the first fall meeting of the newly organized orchard park home and school association wednesday like 400 other fathers of orchard park students i didnt feel much like being there but i considered it my duty the reason the main subject of interest at least my interest was head lice head lice just mention those words and parents cringe me too main ly through ignorance i wouldnt know a head louse if i met one face to face nor do i relish a formal introduction like with so many things lack of knowledge breeds confusion bring back a full report jean warned as i disappeared out the door and not just in your notebook i nodded okay i fully expected the place to be pack ed that id find it hard to park strange as it may seem it wasnt less than 50 moms and dads and only three of these were fathers we males felt like onions in a petunia patch at least i did fifty parents out of a possible 850 is a pretty low average where are all the rest i wondered to myself surely i thought if any issues going to spark interest its a school rampant with head lice i obviously thought wrongly regardless of the hohum reaction it does present a problem if you dont be lieve it ask the parents of pupils at sum- mitview what they endured last spring orchard park parents are enduring this fall at summitview it led to the forma tion of a parent attack group called bug busters that now seem to have the situa tion under control something similars been organized at op several mothers are giving of their time to do headchecks every day dozens of kids have been sent home by jim thomas- while much serious discussion wednesday was marred by misplaced humor i found it anything but humor ous a lousy kid is in reality a pretty serious thing i know for one night we thought we had one our marylynn spent the whole of the evening in front of the mirror convinced she was con taminated she in fact was so sure she had the rest of us itching and scratching a psychological reaction i guess see there it is she called to her mother that white thing half way up jean searched and searched even with a magnifying glass but couldnt find anything we agreed to let the bug busters have a look they couldnt find anything either the itching and the scratching has since subsided but this doesnt mean were home free as long as these creepies are still crawling theres a chance of infestation jeans on her guard washing scrub bing vacuuming everything in sight even susie the family beagle is sus pect and she knows it spending most of her time outdoors while cynical concerning most gov ernment agencies i commend both the ontario ministry of health and the york region public health department for its easytounderstand brochures also the orchard park home and school for its swift response to a pressing problem i now know more about head lice than i ever knew before for example they dont fly in fact a louse doesnt even have wings neither docs it jump they can infect not only the hair but eyebrows eyelashes and beards an adult head louse is only oneeighth of an inch in length this makes it ex tremely hard to see even worse it changes body colors to match its en vironment although the adults life span is only ten days the female can produce be tween 50 and 150 nits eggs these nits only half the size of a pin head lie close to the scalp and are firmly attached to shafts of hair by means of a cementlike substance a finetooth comb a stiff brush or tweezers are required to remove them each nit must be placed in a plastic bag and disposed of carefully medicated shampoos are available at local drugs stores care must be taken in their use other wise the cure can be worse than the cause treatment isnt confined to heads only all clothing towels bedding etc used by infested persons must be washed or drycleaned dont panic community health nurse pam youssef told her audience wednesday head lice wont kill you or your child theyre mostly a nuisance a nuisance is right weve had marylynn under a micro scope ever since the epidemic erupted and susie too neither am i out of the woods but jean insists its only dandruff how could it be anything else she insists we havent had our heads together in months parkview folk possess wealth of talent theres a wealth of talent at stouffvilles parkview home parkview village and parkview apartments all contribute to the enjoyment of residents here bill brodie and ann nikkei harmonize on the violin and accordian at a recent musical program at parkview home ann is a mem ber of the life enrichment staff at parkview mr brodie resides at parkview village jim thomas editors mail support dear editor as a regular reader of the tri- bune i look forward to receiving my copy in the mail each week not always on thursday but apprcci- ated just the same i look forward in particular to the issue following markham fair i al- ways know it will provide fair coverage unlike any other weekly newspaper ive ever seen your oct 7 edition was no excep- tiori i appreciate the fact there are many areas of editorial and picto rial interest at a fair like mar- khams at the same time i appreciate the time factor involved in covering each of these events to come up with so many stories and pictures with limited staff is mind- boggling some of your people must have worked day and night most readers of course dont understand the hours that go into the publishing of a quality ne wspap- er as a journalist i do you and your staff are to be commended while writing this note id be re- miss if i didnt mention the excel- lent followup markham fair story in the tribune weekender on alex and bruce davidson a tribute such as this is so deserved most of us wouldnt have known about it if we hadnt read about it this is what makes the tribune so interesting its mostly about people in closing i wish to thank you for your continued fine support of an ageold institution may markham fair and your newspaper continue to flourish sincerely cecil w gibson rr 1 unionville