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p4 tribune februarys 1995 series a good beginning st the mayors series of youth pro grams were announced this week with much fanfare outside media were invited and the rec centre was turned over to the town officials for the announce ment which has been speculated about and discussed for the past 10 days we knew there would be an announcement but the details were unavailable to us but no longer the youth of our town will benefit first from a hockey tournament that will bring in international players to be held in december of this year in the meantime projects involv ing other youth sports will be in the our view works using volunteers as he said he would in his campaign speeches mayor emmerson has drawn up a thorough proposal to increase the level of activity for our towns youth and it is not just in the world of sport the media briefing on mon day also saw that other activities such as a dance festival are being considered the mayor said the program set out for the next two years is to be assisted by revenue earned from an annual golf tournament councillor scala then indicated that this is only the beginning and that brainstorming sessions on what the youth of stouffville want to do will take place we would direct them to the recreation dept study made more than two years ago it spells out exactly what the youth of this town want of course number one on their list was a centre for young people located downtown we would point to that in the report as well we are not being critical of these new initiatives in fact they are a great beginning however the mandate was established several years ago to provide stouffvilles young people with a place of their own and they deserve it that should be the priority stouffville tribune 6244 main st stouffville out l4a1e2 9056402100 09056492292 fax 905 6405477 publisher patricia pappas general managereditor andrew mair editorinchief jo ann stevenson director of advertising debra weller retail manager mike rogerson distribution 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todays seniors uxbridge tribune contents cannot be reprinted without written permission from the publisher help me ctiid fw go cmnfjrym if st valentine were around today what would he think of what has been done to his good name would he be appalled at the power ranger greeting cards printed in his honor would he gag at the thought of a frilly box of chocolates would he approve of the mass marketing of his name under the veil of promoting love or would he get himself a good lawyer and start look ing for residuals i am not trying to be cyni cal but it is becoming increasingly difficult to express your true love with out treading over some old and tired ground t like to do something dif ferent every feb 14 for my valentine but i must admit my creative flow has been stopped up by too many chocolate bonbons of course i am not the only one in attempts to stretch beyond the norm when it comes to impressing members of the opposite sex people have gone to great and unusual lengths as an example an acquaintance of mine began dating a girl very close to valentines day he didnt know her very well but still wished to daz zle her with his ability to respond to her every want and whim for days he tried to eke out some hint of what she liked and disliked but could only come up with one certain item on the big day he gave her a large heavy box wrapped in red with a heart on top excitement at the size of the box soon turned sour as his beloved opened the box to find 24 bottles of beer staring her in the dumbstruck face but you said you really liked export he wailed as the girl stormed out on him while this episode dam aged the poor man psycho logically at least he was left physically unharmed as many wouldbe cupids know love can often be a detriment to your health like the woman from minute with mair hamburg germany who thinking her valentine might enjoy being aroused by a good scare screamed at the top of her lungs when her mate entered their apartment the startled lover was so taken aback he tripped on apiece of furni ture and wentsailing out the window he spent a week in the hospital and love can be fatal just ask dr david love the cleveland plain dealer reported a few years back that the good doctor was indicted for manslaughter when in an attempt to spice up his love life he suspend ed bis wife naked from their third story window the rope slipped and mrs love fell to her death dr love was charged after a newspaper boy testified he had seen the send us your letters to the editor the tribune welcomes your letters to the editor letters should be no more than 500 words in length and can be typed or neatly hand written your letters can be on any topic but the tribune reserves the right to edit for length libel grammar and spelling and good taste j letters will not be returned unless requested of the editor due to space constraints hot all letters may be published however we endeavor to print as many as possible jwithin a time frame that maintains news value and topicality please send your letters to the editor 6244 main st stouffville ont l4a1e2 or you can fax your letters to 905 6405477 daring duo do the deed twice before in this manner and love can be danger ous a very good friend of mine bought a bouquet of flowers for his lady love on his way home he went around a sharp corner and the flow- ers flew off the seat scatter ing roses all over the car floor when he bent down to pick them up he brought the steering wheel down with him and the car leapt off the road went through a ditch and wound up wedged between two trees all this brings me in a rather roundabout way to my problem i need ideas for valentines day ive already asked kim not to read this column so she doesnt know whats coming if you have a great idea for feb 14 write me a short note on your notion of a per fect romantic evening but dont just tell me about flow ers and candies its been done pm looking for the ulti mate in romance something that would make keats or shelley want to hang up their pens write down your romantic evening send it to me at the address at left or fax it and ill pay you back in kind for the winning entry i will send you and your loved one to the smash hit musical crazy for you kind of appropriate eh so put your romance caps on and drop me a short note by this friday lets make st valentine proud golbrme oldfashioned a wearing a wyo retainer v w isnt so av badpux 0 w 2t youuonuy have it rr a few months w r butctfd y im a kid a fewmonihs is forever 0 zte they say old people dwell increasingly in the past and im beginning to discover theyre right as i purchased my box of casting tone on tone colorant the other day in an attempt to forestall the ravages of time i found myself mentally transported back to my youth my mother i knew would not have dreamed of coloring her hair it was considered slightly common some thing undertaken only by those referred to as mut ton dressed as lamb there was a woman on our street who qualified for this designation and she was the only adult we kids took more than a passing interest in you could see her com ing a mile off blonde bee hive stacked high on her head as she teetered pre cariously along on racy red stilettoheeled shoes we considered her dar ing yet bizarre and felt a sneaking sympathy for her rather pedestrian son her skirts were always an inch or two shorter and tighter than those of her respectable peers she often brandished a ciga rette and although the consumption of tobacco was not frowned on back then she would smoke in a manner suggesting a degenerate star of the sil ver screen thus adding to her image of suburban decadence although she was mar ried her husband shrank into insignificance in the glare of her deliriously tawdry persona she was kind to us in a distracted way but spent most of her time checking out her appearance i the only reason that i know of for her dubious reputation was the fact that she dyed her hair and wore clothes and makeup that were consid ered inappropriate for married women over 25 whats really depress ing to recall is that she was probably only about 35 younger than madon na yet already con demned as a hasbeen because of her advanced age but even when we were mere striplings of 21 my friends and i were expect ed to go for job interviews wearing a hat a- respectably demure dress and oh horrors a pair of white gloves if some members of my generation were to hop on a time machine and go back to the good old days think what those respectable matrons would make of us in leg gings jeans no one over 18 wore jeans boots and body suits even grannies those sweet little old ladies of my formative years are not what they used to be nowadays granny is just as likely to be climbing the corporate ladder of a major conglomerate as doing time as a white- haired ministering angel baking cookies and sooth ing scraped knees but thats okay because a kid isnt likely to scrape his knee playing ninten do or watching violent videos in the privacy of his own room when if i grow up id quite like to be an old- fashioned granny the money saved at the drug store could keep me in reasonable comfort and besides it would be kind of cool to have grey hair and learn to knit while all those other grannies are out at the health club doing step aerobics