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dainty donuts deli 18 ringwood drive mislms special 399 for c dozen cnus rrse regular donut with any beverage from 5 pm midnight th e stouffville nbune ffi 8m call 6424540 6132 main street slouffwlle vol 107 no 47 a 1995 50 a 7 rates reduced hydro staff replaced by automation by joan ransberry staff reporter a major overhaul of whitchurchstoufifville hydro should mean a reduction in electricity rates by 1997 tke local hydro manager has told the tribune hydro manager nick tatone said the utilitys new business plan designed to benefit resi dents has been struck approved and is already in the works the plan has been given the nod by the local hydro commission including wwtchurchstouffville mayor wayne emmerson the restructuring agenda includes major layoffs affect- ting six of hydros nine employ ees contracting work out and- rebuilding including automat ing the utilitys operation which serves 3000 customers the idea is to ready wwtchurchstouffville hydro for the new century said tatone at the present time whitchurchstoufrville hydro is not automated to todays technological standards most of our work is still done manur please see page 3 local block parents disbanded due to community apathy the whitchurchstoufrville block parent association has fold ed local association corchairman pat wild said recent efforts to form a new block parent executive have failed this is very sad said wild in spite of our warning that the program might fold if a new executive was not formed only one person showed up to the groups annual meeting the current executive including wild has served the 250- member local block parent association for a number of years the executive stressed that effort to keep the local block par- please seepage 3 send your letters to santa send your letters to santa claus via the tribune well see the jolly old elf gets your letter in time for christmas well also print your letter in the paper send them to 6244 main st stouffville l4a 1e2 or fax them to 6405477 be sure to include your full name and phone number a fourth generation doug drysdale sr and his grandson dj represent the second and fourth generation of tree growers in the drysdale family here they explore the family farm on durham rd 30 photosjoerd witteveen if tree farm gave rise to entire industry by joan ransberry staff reporter the christmas tree industry got its start on a little farm in ballantrae the name drysdale is syn onymous with the festive sea son on christmas morning families all over the world will wake to a drysdale tree ithe drys- dale family has just learned that the chritmas tree growers association of on t a r i o ctgo has nominated posthumous ly vthe late doug drysdale reg drysdale to the agricultur al hall of fame reg who passed away two years ago is being honored for founding the industry and for a lifetame of loyalty and dedica tion to the christmas tree today the drysdales family business overseen by regs son 63year old doug sr arid his grandson douglas 37 together they cut and sell more than 100000 christmas trees ayear it takes 12 full tame and 75 seasonal workers and 1500 acres spread over farms in ballantrae barrie and cook- stown to grow the scdtch jack arid white pine the spruce bal sam and the douglas and the eraser fir the drysdales also run a christmas novelty store at their cookstpwn farm also doug srs daughters donna 35 and diane 33 are active in the please see page 2 auto centre hours monday friday 800 am 800 pm saturday 800 am 500 pm sunday closed service manager bruce mackenzie 6405050 retail rnnoinri tire store heres what wel rush and clean ktstalupto8 hours monday friday 830 am 900 pm saturday 830 arh 600 pm sunday 1100 am 400 pm store manager robert van bemmel 5945 main street stouffville 5800