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juarkbam tieuttttg akcofflxtionwg systems 172 bullock drive unit 27 markham 1 4711748 tribune community sports leisure entertainment serving whitchurchstouffville uxbridge area a 220 success square ureens 6407211 of stouffville your neighbourhood meeting place a metroland community newspaper third section wednesday july 5 1989 budd vanzant by bruce stapley e quiet little a j orida writerartist budd vanzant oks back on his stouffville origins the library set a pattern of lifetime reading i never thought about being a writer i was 13 when i first came in contact with a typewriter at the stouffville tribune for budd vanzant a 63yearold st petersburg fla resident who called stouffville home for the first 15 years of his life a longtime goal has finally been realized but it almost didnt happen the former newspaper advertising salesman who has supported himself for the past 10 years by writing magazine articles had hoped to someday put a book written by his hand in the local library he us ed to love so much as a boy in stouffville this spring he dusted off a 1979 manuscript one that had been rejected again and again at the turn of the decade and sent it out one more time the book a western novel was accepted by a small publishing firm in the united states and such is their satisfaction with the piece of fiction that they asked mr vanzant to writer another one and now a third is underway but while he says he wont get rich on the money the books are bringing in hes just happy to be fulfill ing a lifelong dream ive found what i wanted to do he says in a recent interview from his st petersburg home but boyohboy i almost missed it mr vanzant says he lives a simple life in florida busying himself with his writing and painting which he does as a hobby theres never a day that goes by im not at the word processor he says im working on books mainly but you keep an eye open for articles you can be writing too z- im making a living im not driving a rolls royce but im happy most people get unhappy because they want things they cant have ive come to appreciate the things i have im just lucky to be here his first book stranger in hoganville is now on the shelf of the whitchurchstouffville library he sent the tribune a copy along with a letter describing his first exposure to a typewriter when he was employed by the tribune on a parttime basis at the age of 13 he would arrive at the tribune office at 7 am start the fires and clean out the ashes as well as sweep the floor but he would invariably end up sitting alone at the old typewriter ironically he wouldnt buy his own typewriter until he was 30 years old a lot of writing and several typewriters flowed under the bridge before i got into writing books now when my first western is off the press i thought id donate a copy to my hometown library if you can find a place for it on the shelf somewhere ill be most pleased mr vanzant says he chose to write western novels by the process of elimination i didnt like science fiction and romance novels arent for me westerns were the only thing i could live with the stories are set in montana mr vanzant says he studied enough about the states history to make him familiar with its western heritage he says that while a western wouldnt have had a chance of selling 10 years ago there has been a revival of interest in such books and using the drawl of the characters in his stories he says theyre comin back good now mr vanzant last visited stouffville in the early 1970s i knew it was the 70s but i was seeing it in terms of the 1930s he recalls i got a phone call today from new orleans from harold hisey harold lived a block over from me i liv ed on victoria st and he lived on clark st his father was a butcher and worked for harvey schell at schells butcher shop on the north side of main st next door to the stouffville tribune he moved to new orleans in 1947 hes retired now but he had a successful career with the local tv station there his mother died last week in toronto at the age of 77 mr vanzant lives on his own in his st petersburg apartment a daughter lives in mississippi and his exwife is remarried ever the philosopher he says he gets together with the former mrs vanzant and notes that they get along better than they ever did 25 years after their divorce you look back and you cant remember what all the fuss was about he says adding im basically a loner i like people but i like to be able to withdraw from them i dont really know any other writers or painters and as for his recollections of stouffville he says hed love to return for a visit one day but doubts he would recognize much other than his old school summitview ps and his old house on victoria st budd vanzant back row far left in miss brooks 193334 class at summitview public school in stouffville when he last visited stouffville in the 70s he saw the town in terms of the 30s vanzants first book stranger in hoganville is now was employed by the tribune on a part- on the shelf of the 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