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p4 tribune october 20 1993 a a a aaa v ajsa st stouffville comment v k swshbsbbsws anger must be vented on ballot t ote for whom you might but vote the exercising of your right to vote is one of the most important rights we have as citizens by lodging a personal protest by not voting as many indicated to the tri bune in our phone poll you only hurt the process spoil a ballot if you must but reg ister your complaints on the ballot not by your absence there are plenty of candi dates to select from this time out and voter turnout is alternately pegged as being very high and very low depending on the source dissatisfaction will surely keep some away but we cannot let apathy nor indifference to enter into the picture the choice we make on monday may be the most important in years show boat was something to sing about 7 ippee ladies day out through teeming rain and congested traffic the kibble women rolled enthusiastically into the newlybuilt and daz- zlinglyimpressive north york performing arts centre last weekend for a taste of what has to be one of the most spectacular musical productions ever made i know this because my cul tured wellread and muchtrav elled grandmother informed me so i myself have only seen less than a handful of live musical productions but if show boat is an example of what the stage has to offer sign me up there were times i liked it so much i just couldnt stand it my grandma informed us all after the show as we edged out of the centre along with about 1800 other show boat viewers the arts centre itself is down right glossy and i silently cursed myself for leaving my mink stole and silken white elbow gloves at home rattled by the mounting excitement of it all and revelling in the brass chandeliers marble decor we kibble women decided it would be a smashing perfor mance to sip a glass of wine before taking our seats this turned out to be an idea which soured our grapes howev er after doling out 5 a glass for the runofthemill vino youre in the city i told them its to be expected i explained my mother informed me after however that she would rather be parched to near death before indulging in such an elaborate kibbles f- bits t racy kibble preperformance ritual ever again when we arrived at our plush refined and padded red seats which incidentally turned out to be in the very last row of the theatre my mother made anoth er observation which i shall pass onto the architects of this 45- million structure there are no middle aisles so if you must excuse yourself before intermission to powder your nose you have to repeat at least 45 excuse mes as you edge your way along the semicircle row we had expected to see show boat precisely at 2 pm the excitement was nearly too much to bear when the orchestra com pleted its peppy opening num ber the lights grew dim and the curtain opened then suddenly bang bang the lights went back on people scrambled on stage then a voice announced the show was delayed a half hour it seems a prop fell on top of one of the musicians heads well my grandmother didnt care about that she came to see a show afterall i hope it wasnt someone important she huffed when show boat finally got underway i couldnt believe it the music costumes lighting props setup collection of antiques and superb talent was a production to be proud of i wont share with you the story except to say that it is a romantic tale of two peoples lives during a 40year span which began in the 1880s on the mississippi river as to the current controversy it is very difficult to see what the fuss is about the treatment of the black characters was in line with history but could hardly be deemed racist stouffville tribune publisher general manager editorinchief advertising director business manager operations manager patricia pappas andrew mair jo ann stevenson debra weller vivian oneil pamela nichols god made the fly but why start reporters tracy kibble julie caspersen roger belgrave photographers sjoerd witteveen steve somerville real 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liberal scarbor ough mirror and uxbridge tribune national sales representative metroland corporate sales 4931300 6402100 6405477 fax tjil f ne of lifes little irritations as the days grow cooler and winter approaches is the desig nated fly somewhere it is written that during periods of inclement weather every educational establishment every restaurant concert hall library and arena shall be assigned at least one live domestic fly programmed to hone in on you the minute you sit down and relax this subspecies of winged insect is even less sensitive to efforts at retaliation than its fairweather cousin and like a homing pigeon can be relied upon to alight repeatedly on ones person blithely ignoring the most strident attempts to repel it even though this phenomenon occurs with boring regularity every fall and winter it always takesme unawajesmy fly wa- kates corne ter has been put away for the season and brandishing a can of insecticide is liable to result in mass asphyxiation at a time of year when windows are firmly shut against the cold although flies who like to win ter over in public buildings tend to be even less intellectually gift ed than the sort who divebomb the cheesecake at your garden party they are generally swifter at reacting than their human adversaries thus i still manage to be just half a beat behind them whenev er they alight on me there i am dttirigspellb6und concert intent upon an innova tive interpretation of beethovens ninth when the df lands on my hand at first i retain an air of calm batting at it quietly but ineffec tually with my program more persistent than a telemarketer with a survey it stubbornly fails to get the message by the time the ode to joy is reaching its zenith i have become the unwitting focus of everyones attention as i jump around frantically in my seat warding off yet another aerial attack unleashed by my mind less tormentor flies like politi cians before an election are omnipresent unavoidable and completely impervious to the hostile atmosphere generated by their presence in the immortal words of ogden nash god in his wisdom made the fly and thenorgot totehus why-