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6 stouffville suntribune thursday dec 30 2004 i stouffville suntnbune a metroland community newspaper 34 civic ave 3rd floor stouffville on l4a 7z5 publisher ian proudfoot editor in chief debora kelly business manager advertising director retail flyer sales nicole fletcher distribution director circulation barry black marketingpartnership director debra weller robert jxtzurko director production interactive media john futhey advertising director classified real estate events management gord paolucci director circulation systems lynn pashko york region printing general manager bob dean worthqijqting what the newsmakers said in 2004 heres our pick of some of the mem orable quotes i dont think the prime minister is going to have any luck its not up to canada its up to the americans it doesnt matter what he prime minister paul martin says or does most farmers have lost all confidence in politicians mount albert farmer ralph smalley on behalf ofyork regions 500 beef farmers in reaction to mr martins warning to americans canadaplans to fight back if the border to beef doesnt open soon we certainly expect a salary increase in this round of negotiations that will be starting later on this year were going to go into negotiations anticipating the funding formula will allow for that president of the ontario secondary school teachers association york region terry price on premier dalton mcguintys promise to give more money to school boards for hiring teachers there are no limits online youd be amazed at the prevalence of the fword and the hateful things your children see the problem for parents is that kids are way ahead of us in terms of how they use email instant messaging pagers websites and cell phones joe rich therapist and parenting expert on cyberbullying when there are largescale testing programs out there that end up ranking schools you might as well rank the schools by the affluence of their families theyre both pretty much the same associate dean of research for the ontario institute for studies in education at the university of toronto ken leithwood on student testing in the media were getting out the message smoking is dangerous to you the government is behind that but were not promoting healthy eating and exercise heart and stroke foundation spokesperson linda reid on a study that said fat is the new tobacco success always takes longer than anticipated you may have two or three failures before getting that successful venture to hang your hat on but you have to learn from that chartered accountant dougmcintyre on running a small business letters to the editor tradition of boxing day lost during shopping blitz this year i as i have every year of my life enjoyed a plentiful and merry christmas a moving service at my church filled me with the joy of this festive season not all but many many canadians had a similarly wondrous christmas unfortunately again this year boxing day was celebrated by participating in once-in-a- lifetime opportunities to buy still more things at nevertobeseenagain prices it would do us well to remember that the roots of boxing day are a tradition of giving to those in need in celebration of our own abun dance surely we have a duty to do the same we who have so much jim priebe stouffville health care system better under provincial liberals at noon on boxing day we received news our nephew a 35yearold markham resident had been rushed to markham stouffville hospital with chest pains he was stabilized and sent to southlake regional health centre in newmarket which is the hie stouffville suntribune welcomes your letters i submissions must be less than 400 words and must include a daytime telephone number name and address the stouffville suntribune reserves the right to publish or not publish and to edit for clarity and space write letters to the editor 34 civic ave po box 154 stouffville l4a 7z5 email jmasonyrngcom cardiac centre for york region within a few hours he was taken into surgery and underwent an angiogram and angioplasty to unblock one artery that had caused his heart attack in previous years under the mike harris tory government i personally know many patients who suffered heart attacks and had to wait several weeks to undergo a basic angiogram this is a 20minute procedure to investigate how many cardiac arteries are blocked and to what extent kudos to the health minister george smitherman for drastically improving our health system and thanks so much to the ems staff at markham stouffville and cardiac care team at southlake for giving such excellent care to my nephew he was moved back to markham stouffville the day following the procedure hes now on the way to recovery joyce riettie unionville editorial editor jim mason jmasonymgcom assistant editor news frank king jkingymgcom administration office manager vivian oneil voneilymgcom production manager pam nichols pnicholsymgcom advertising classified manager ann campbell acampbellymgcom managing director new business flyer 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preserve past help merchants main street in stouffville between the ninth and tenth lines looked like the most congested bottleneck the don valley parkway has to offer at rush hour cars plodded along drivers stick ing their heads out windows like giraffes wondering what the delay was many a local avoided main street and its congestion on weekends like a plague perhaps of fleas it was any weekend afternoon in the mid1980s residents from across the gta descended on stouffville and headed for its northeast corner to the flea market times were different there was no sunday shopping in ontario and the other flea markets that would sprout up in plazas and industrial parks hadnt even been thought of stouffvilles market was pretty much it for bargain hunters and it prospered even after the livestock auction barn was closed arid the sale of live poultry dimin ished there was still action a new barn was built about 10 years ago paving the way for the eventual demolition of the old silver barn with the large flea on its roof country concerts and charity bingo were attempted how you refer to the tenth line landmark dates your years of living here for newcomers its stouffville country mmarket anyone arriving in the 1980s calls it the stouffville flea market for oldtimers its the sales barn it will be no more by 2006 the property has been sold and the new owners have no plans for the site councillor susanne hilton is leading a charge to preserve a market even at another location stouffville memorial park has been mentioned mrs hilton has a bigtime point the market was once stouffvilles biggest claim to fame and there is still an active albeit shrinking farm community in this area perhaps a weekly farm market in a location such as the downtown park is the answer it would draw people to the centre of the old business district instead of having them drive through and merely congest an ageold com plaint from the downtown core in another time jim mason is editor of the sun- tribune