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p 4 tribune june 14 1995 voters send strong message st we have spoken at least most of us have julia munro won durhamyork handily and her win keeps the riding record consistent for the sec ond house in a row we have an mpp on the government side and munro is one of only nine women elected in the greater toronto area a sig nificant fact as our society opens more and more to fuller diversity among elected repre sentatives on thursday we sent a strong message to julia that we trust her to deliver the con tents of the harris agenda her task though will not be easy our view looking back to a similar mulroney majority the public had granted a mandate of fix ing the deficit with the first albeit illcho sen proposals to reduce bene fits to welloff seniors came screams of protest and the attendant media melodrama the little old lady who led the show on parliament hill was staged by the opposition it was brought to light much later there will be protests and media dramas in the next few months the honeymoon is soon over for novice premiers as we saw with david peterson and bob rae when theres a sweep it must be a dismal feeling to be one of the losing candidates their family members friends or campaign workers they do just as much work as the winning team does and the emotional let down must be trying they should keep in mind that the winning candidate belongs to the entire riding no matter what party leanings and this newspaper is here to serve all residents we are one community yours stouffville tribune 6244 main st stouffville ont l4a 1e2 905 6402100 905 6492292 fax 905 6405477 11 nkifvuu publisher patricia pappas general managereditor andrew mair editorinchief jo ann stevenson director of advertising debra weller retail manager mike rogerson distribution manager barry j goodyear administration vivian oneil operations manager pamela nichols am4irff questions news andrew mair editor joan ransberry mike ruta roger belgrave reporters sjoerd witteveen steve somerville 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out of the traps and just like life golf can really surprise you last week while a friend of mine and i were out for a round he hit one of the most surprising shots i have ever seen my friend is a scratch golfer and so rarely does he flub a shot and i guess he didnt really mess up this particular shot its just that this tree got in the way now i like anyone who has ever hit a golf ball have had my fair share of runins with trees ive hit into them behind them under them and sometimes over them but ive never had a tree hit back at me my partner hit the ball 50 yards smack in the middle of an oak tree and like a rocket the ball came hurtling directly back at him to land squarely at his feet we looked at each other in stunned amazement it was as if the ball had just fallen off the tee you dont get surpris es like that in any other sport which is why golf is such a chal lenge i guess i have had my quota of odd shots too i once hit a ball that stopped dead on com ing in contact with the ground it made a hol low thok sound when it hit imagine my horror when upon approach ing the ball for my sec ond shot i discovered i had committed mole- murder the little fella had stuck his head out of his burrow only to be greeted with death from above not a great way to start the morning for mr mole another time i hit the ball in such a fash ion as to take the skin right off it there was a high- pitched whistling sound and i saw the white sheath jetti soned from the tiny rubber ball inside as it flew through the air accounts of balls that bounce off rocks trees golf carts and other players to turn a disas trous situation into the miracle shot of the decade are legendary in most cases the stories of these mira cles sound so outra geous that they are regarded as the one that got away of the golfing set minu with mair w an drew mair but despite the incredulity of some people most of the sto ries are true and can be corroborated by the miraclemakers four some such is the case of one of the most unusu al shots in golf history and it happened just last week in wales it seems a man by the name of peter croke and his partner were on the tee of the 17th hole at a public course the pair were in a match play tourna ment and peter was down by two strokes he surveyed the hole he was about play long grass on both sides narrow fairway on the left a big sand trap off to the right a small herd of sheep grazed this is not unusual on many british cours es as the lands are often public with the tension of knowing the tourna ment was on the line peter hit the ball his shot began to slice to the right he groaned in disappointment he followed the balls trajectory watched it land bounce once and fly with substantial force directly into the nonbleating end of a somewhat surprised sheep croke and his part ner watched in amaze ment as the sheep apparently ignorant of the rule that the ball must be played where it lands walked up onto the green still sporting the shot he continued toward the hole and then somehow released the ball a few feet from the pin with the sheeps assistance croke made up the two strokes and won the match on the 18th hole what is even more amazing than the shot is that the rule makers of golf have made pro visions for just such an occasion according to the golf gurus at st andrews in scotland if the ball becomes lodged in an animal of any sort and carried off it must be returned to spot where the unfortunate viola tion took place and played from there they do make one helpful proviso the golfer is permit ted to clean the ball screwdriver comes in handy a hi pup did you have a good pay at school hot tips for hairdressers 371 make sure you always have a screwdriver handy in case of an unex pected absence of combs now some people may wonder why this should be necessary but then some people are organized par ents who can do french braids and bake their own cookies yes folks last week was dance recital time and it was a case of deja vu all over again home came the informa tion sheet from the studio several weeks ago at least with trembling hands i picked mine up and read it my daughter is in level 7 ballet and the required coiffure for level 7 ballet students was no prizes here for the perceptive french braids i stuffed this depressing missive into my in tray a cavernous box which eats important notices and mentally filed it away in my brain at the bottom of the things to do category just under delousing the ferret and enrolling in triple bypass surgery 101 by early monday morn ing there was a slight air of panic emanating from le chateau there were two principal reasons for this one my hairdresser does not work on mondays two my daughter and her french braid were scheduled to appear in a mega dance production that very evening v before you could say im washing my hair that night the phone rang and on the other end was my guardian angel its that time of year again she said under standing with not so much as a hint of reproach in her voice when would you like me to do the french braid this is a friend to trea- kates corner ikate gilderdale sure without her my daughter would be forced to take up mountaineering or san skrit neither of which requires a masters degree in hairdressing my daughter and i arranged to visit our savior at work or in the work place to put it into the appropriate 90s vernacu lar during her lunch hour we brought bobby pins we brought mousse we brought brushes and gel and hair spray and a bottle of water we forgot the comb the comb to the uniniti ated of which i was once a blissful member is proba bly the most vital tool in the whole armory of the hairdresser bent on creat ing a sturdy and unyield ing french braid a french braid which will withstand pirouettes j6tes and all manner of fly ing props my friend ever resource ful searched the room and her brain for a suitable alternative i know she exclaimed triumphantly extracting a large and dangerouslook ing screwdriver from the toolbox this will do nice ly with expert strokes she ran the metal edge between the strands of my daughters hair to separate them by the time her task was completed she was declaring that no hair dresser should be without the versatile and multi- faceted screwdriver it put me in mind of a cartoon i once saw which depicted two zonkedout youths inhaling deeply from a bottle of glue ere one of them is saying to the other in awe as he peruses the label affixed to the bot tle did you know you can use this stuff to stick things together