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p4 tribune february31993 st stouffville www panizza will be missed in stouffville it came as sorry news that bob panizza the personable cao at the town of whitchurchstouffville had resigned panizza has contributed a great deal to the community he came here as a man of vision however the sad truth is that stouffville very nearly did him in the top position in the towns hierarchy is no picnic but panizza was hamstrung in his efforts to get things done and he was assuming several roles at once finally last week whether the sos protests were the last straw is a matter of conjecture panizza- took up a position in markham and chose his family over his career and no one will fault him for that simply put stouffville isnt ready for bob panizza it doesnt have the money the support staff or the infrastruc ture to put into place many of the ideas panizza had in mind when he came here from vaugh- an three years ago his professionalism energy and dedication cannot be placed in doubt hell be missed back to the country has new meaning tvf ore from the country note- l i am a prime candidate for spinal therapy they dont tell you in the pages of country liv ing magazine that there is a great deal of backache that goes hand in hand with a house in the boondocks i knew that farm owners had to do plenty of intensive labor like lifting cows hindquarters so their udders line up with the milk bucket and pulling the plough when the john deere is in the shop but i was not pre pared for the knots that crept into my lower lumbar regions after a weekend of toil i loaded logs unloaded more logs chopped logs and stacked logs when the logs rolled across the garage floor in an avalanche of bark and sawdust i restacked them then i lugged a bag of bird seed through the snow to fill the bird feeder it astounds me that birds can still fly after wolfing down a handful of these lead pellets take the feeder off the tree first my wife yelled as i attempted to hoist the 50 lb bag over my shoulder her rea soning startled me to such an extent that the bag flopped in the middle spilling bird nuggets down my coat my boots and all over the ground missing the feeder altogether i was immediately swarmed by a herd of ravenous slavering chickadees to free myself from these avian divebombers i took to shovelling the driveway my father always said an hon est winter days work included getting on the other end of that shovel our pioneer ancestors never had to shovel a country lane they had babe the ox to plough the drive i have no ox but i do have melnor the magic snowshovel guaranteed to last until the sun goes supernova so i putit to honest use three feet into the task my back must have assumed i was tackling the aegean stables and promptly gave up the ghost the rest of the day i promised myself i would spend in tor tured relaxation with a heating pad beating down my wrenched back muscles however as is always the case there was one more task at hand as i lay on the bed there was a terrific clattering above my head rat tles scratches and noisy thumps led me to believe i would not be granted my much- needed rest until the job was done so i spent the next 40 minutes crouched over in dire pain in my attic with a broom trying to corner an enormous red squirrel who was jealously guarding a storehouse of nuts in my insula- tion once the squirrel was evicted i laid back down just as the unmistakable sound of logs crashing to the floor came rum bling in from the garage stouffville tribune publisher general manager editorinchief advertising director business manager distribution manager operations manager patricia pappas andrew mair jo ann stevenson debraweller vivian oneil jennifer hutt pamela nichols staff reporters tracy kibble julia caspersen roger belgrave photographers sjoerd witteveen stevo somervillo real estate joan marshman classified doreen deacon debbie amundson uxbridgo retail sales joan marshman doreen deacon heather hill gibson uxbridge distribu tion arlene maddock 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one warned us about the high cost of builtin adoles cence im not talking about meeting payments for postsecondary education plans or skiing or dance classes or even the gallons of hot water lately devoted to baths and showers the potential cause of a major economic downturn in many households is zits a medical alert was issued recently at chateau gilderdale skin was breaking out in blissful igno rance i offered to drop into the drug store and buy some clear- asil one teensy little tubette comprising a measly 30 grams set me back a stunning seven dollars and fortynine cents before tax thats 25 cents a gram at that price you would expect a magic potion capable of transforming writers of a certain age into goldie hawn being an kates corner aercia i o insensitive adult it was hard for me to see the aforementioned blemishes as those eumphemistic copywriters call them in the first place but then my eyesight isnt what it was and neither is my oncefragile ego its no good telling your chil dren you think they look just fine as a parent you are consid ered older than methuselah and as cool as joe clark it is a known fact that parents are incapable of finer feelings my parents understand me is not a sentence which trips light ly off the tongues of the young and the appearanceobsessed your opinion of looks music food and clothing will be greeted with all the warmth your teen usually reserves for an operatic aria by maureen forrester say ing well i think you look won derful is just another nail in the coffin of youthful selfesteem parental approval is something you should keep to yourself it must certainly never be divulged in front of your offsprings peers your job is to buy vats of goop guaranteed in most cases to render your teens complexion flawless and to create a black hole where your bank account used to be it doesnt end at a tube of cream theres a whole line of products without which no young persons bathroom cabinet or selfesteem would be complete and just when you thought it was safe to go shopping a hair crisis breaks out r