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p4 tribune june 26 1991 citizen has benefitted community t radition continues this week as the tribune presents the 12th annual citizen of the year award this years recipient is no stranger to stouffville residents our committee selected ged stonehouse after receiving a flood of ballots for him he was the obvious choice this year after his seemingly tireless work to get stouffville a prime athletic facility like the communi ty track ged was on hand when the sod was being set down he worked within the business committee and with community groups to bring the project to fruition and this is not the first time the stonehouse hand has been push ing a project to benefit the com munity he was instrumental in securing projects like the rec centre for stouffville and has always taken an active interest in the affairs of the community the tribune is proud to be the sponsor of the citizen of the year award and is proud to recognize the contributions of mr stone house a real community person festival spirit comes to stouffville his weekend there are few weekends like the july 1 weekend in almost every town and city across the country there is a festival or carnival celebrating all that is canadian usually with a supplemen tary theme stouffville has been put on the july 1 map through its strawberry festi val an event i have yet to experi ence but i am familiar with a few other holiday parties like say the trout festival in flin flon and while a host of events ded icated to a fish can be called no more unusual than a tribute to a field crop like the regal strawberry the strangest festival dedication ive run across has to be that which is cele brated each year in my former com munity of elliot lake every sum mer the residents band together and organize the uranium festival it always struck me as odd that for a week in the summer the townfolk would strike up the band for a radioactive element but of course the towns sole reason for existence came out of the yellow material found there the festival in that town was much like any other with bed races ball tournaments and baby contests but it had a few that were unique to a min ing town the drilling and mucking contest for example drew large crowds and the finals in the competition were as wellattended as the fireworks great brawny men would drill into a bare rock face scale off huge chunks of rock and race back to the minute with mair a n r e w vo a i r v starting line with loaded ore carts the fastest team won obviously there were other strange events like the firemans hockey game where the local fd would hook up their hoses and blast a ball towards the opposition goal with 200 pounds of pressurized water needless to say the crowds would leave dripping from all the excitement and it looks like the strawberry festvial will have much the same fun in store the reunion at sdss will make this year extra special and i know that the 14 months of work put into the event will pay off with many happy memories for those involved there is plenty to do on this years roster of events and to help you plan your weekend we have included a strawberry festival section in todays paper as well keep an eye out for the sdss reunion 91 magazine weve produced it is being handed out at the reunion and well have copies at locations around town congratulations go out to ged stonehouse 199 ls citizen of the year for whitchurchstouffville stonehouse has been instrumental in bringing to life many community projects including the rec centre and this year the community track well done stouffvilleuxbridge tribune publisher editorinchief editor advertising director business manager promotionsdistribution mgr operations manager patricia pappas jo ann stevenson andrew mair debra weller vivian oneil jennifer hutt pam nichols teachers get deserved br staff reporters tracy kibble enzo di matteo julie caspersen photographers sjoerd witteveen steve somerville real estate joan marshman classified retail sales doreen deacon 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6402100 8529741 iv more latin no more french no more sitting on a hard school bench no more beetles in my tea making gopgly eyes at me anon that little gem comes from my ancient and tattered but highly trea sured book of childhood poems cel ebrating the end of school despite its sentiments of unalloyed pleasure however ive always regarded the start of the holidays with mixed emotions the last two weeks of school are a lot more fun than the first 37 or so teachers are more relaxed lessons often go by the board and theres an air of camaraderie even among those students whose chief claim to fame is the astonishing number of times they can insert the f word into a sentence summer holidays represent change some of it permanent stu dents are leaving to go to high school college or university to start kates corner 6 e d a a job or to move to a new commu nity teachers are leaving or chang ing classes and suddenly it seems like only yesterday that your child was in kindergarten and next year hell be in grade eight the final rush of the school year is replaced by a less structured way of life and even as i heave a sigh of relief i feel bereft after all the school has been at the centre of our lives for nearly ten months how can i justify missing my deadlines with out the childrens endless activities to blame where will the next fasci nating piece of gossip come from militant parents must have a really hard time come the end of june what on earth do they do all sum mer no doubt they keep sane by hanging out at the baseballdia- monds and soccer fields threatening legal action at what they perceive to be bad calls and berating the coach for failing to recognize their childs budding genius its easy to be critical but as the school year ends id like to thank- teachers and school staff everywhere for doing their best to educate and care for our children often against awesome odds its a tough job but someones got to do it im just grateful it isnt me t a a a