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ADVERTISING 905-640-2612 Classified: 1-800-743â€"3353 Fax: 905640-8778 York Region Media Group community newspapers The Sun-Tribune. published every Thursday and Saturday, is a division of the Metroland Media Group Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. Metroland is comprised of 100 community publications across Ontario. The York Region Newspaper Group also includes The Liberal, sewing Richmond Hill and Thomhill, Vaughan Citizen, The Era-Banner (Newmarket/Aurora), Markham Economist @fiorri The Sun-Tribune welcomes your let- ters. All submissions must be less than 400 words and must include a daytime telephone number. name and address The Sun-Tribune reserves the right to publish or not publish and to edlt for clar- ity and space. Letters to the Editor. The Sun-Tribune 6290 Maln St. Stouflvlllo. GM LM IG7 Sun. Georgina AMcate,York Region Business Times, North of the City, yorkregionmm and Yom Region Printing. Classified Manager Bonnie Rondeau Carrie MacEarlane w Manager Mike Banville mbanuilleéyrmgnom brondaaueyrmgoom 905 -640-261 2 Fax: 905-640-8778 Carolyn Norman cnorman@yrmg.com Dawna Andrews dandmwsOyrmg. com jmasonflyrmgxom DISTRIBUTION ADVERTISING Pnonucnon lETTERS POLICY DISTRIBUTION 905-640-2612 Enrmnm EDITORIAL SherryDay MIA ) rn moving in the coming ' weeks and while the experts suggest packing up and then unpacking in a new place can be one of life's most stressful “should be fun but sometimes isn’t" activities â€" right up there with giving birth or attendâ€" ing your own wedding â€"â€" it has also been fun to go through old stufi that’s collecting dust in the base- mentor tucked away in closets or drawers to be dealt with another day. That day has finally arrived and I admit to getting nostalgic. I now have a son in high school and another in Grade 6 and yet a comer of the basement is home to a wellâ€"wom plastic rocking horse, various scratched up Fisher Price gems such as a xylophOne that makes noise as you drag it along the sidewalk or a little battery powered keyboard that miraculously still has power. They are evidence of about five garage sales that never happened, the summer weekends seeming too precious, in the end, to spend polishing up and selling off the memories of my ldds' childhood Ila-Brokersmakecareafibrd- ' E-mai'imasonmmm able, Cross-Border Care series, ’ Nov. 28. snent on investment 1' The second article in your series on health care issues in Ontario read more like an advertorial for private brokers arranging for services and pro- cedures in the United States than an effort of serious jour- nalism. Health care situation better in Canada Talking about the luxuri- ous rooms and gourmet food available at private clinics in the US. is similar to observing wealthy people do not have to stay in chain motels and eat in modest restaflrants when they travel. It is not news that wealth brings great privileges at sub- stantial cost. You touch on an issue that should be addressed: Could the resources currently being spent by OHIP on approved procedures in the US. be better Tough admitting 0M computers are ‘eâ€" waste’ lETTERS TO THE EDITOR spent on investment in more medical equipment and stafi here? I would like to see any discussion start with the acknowledgement it is a great blessing for all of the fami- lies in our community to have access to quality health care, and then focus on how we can make our system work better in the areas that are less than ideal. You should also make sure your readers are aware ‘of these pertinent facts: 1) Compared to Canada, the US. spends sub- stantially more of its GNP on health care, yet 40 million citi- zens are without health cover- age. 2) Our life expectancy is longer. 3) Our infant mortality is lower. JOANNA REESORâ€"MCDOWELL STOUFFVILLE b What do you think of this issue? at 50 cents a piece. Now these items must be got rid of, the experts on moving will tell you. Fortunately, there’s a young mom up the street who I’m sure will be too kind to turn down our sandbox relics. While getting rid of old toys and clothes and iffy kitchen appliances that should have found their way to the curb years ago is almost a relief, what bothers me in the move is the two computers that sit collecting dust â€"- old PCs that hold unknown trea- sures. Oné “died” a while back and the HAVE YOUR SAY Bernie O’Neill SfiW-Ti'ibune guy at the computer place suggested the info on it could be retn'eved, in some form, for a sizeable fee but that if I knew what was good for me I would just move on with life. The other computer still works, thanks to andows 3.0 operating ' system, once all the rage (if you were comparing computers to cars, think Model T). PUBLISHER Ian Proudfoot He reminded me of the auto mechanic I asked to repair a pickup truck I owned when I was about 25. He suggested I sell what gas was left in the tank, then take a shovel and bury the vehicle in a nearby field. Yet these old hard drives are the storage place for photographs, kids homework, letters and so on â€"â€" things we used to print out on paper but that are now often only saved electroni- cally, inbits and bytesâ€"which isa problem if your computer suddenly drops dead. I was going to take these old beasts to the electronic recycling depot (there's one in Markham with hours Wednesday and Saturday and several others in York Region). But after 1 got the thing up from the basement, I didn’t have the heart to load it into the 6290 Main St. Stouflviue, 0N. MA 167 www.yor|cegion.oom trunk. It’s kind of like cryogenics â€" freez- ing your body after death in hopes someday a cure for the disease that killed you will be found, or the secret to eternal life will be discovered, so they can just thaw you out and off you go to the mall that afternoon. In the same way a grandpa might spend an hour or two flipping through old photo albums, I see myself after I’m long retired dragging out these two old PCs. I connect some special gizmo that was advertised on webTV â€"â€" “Retrieve all those lost photos, let- ters and loving family memories from your ancient computer with Scan Wow! Order now and we’ll throw in the Digiâ€"Might â€"â€" saves your old videos, casettes and LPs on to your handheld in seconds!” Either that or you can hammer a board between the two computers and make a nice sort of . picnic bench for the grand kids. Stouflviiie resident Bernie O'Neill is a York Region Media Group editor Emma m Camp Debora Kelly BUSINESS MANAGER Robert Lazurko Dmmmon, Amnmsmc, DISTRIBU'HON Nicole Fletcher DlnEcmn, OPERATIONS Barry Black