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p4 tribune march 1990 st mt page i v tica wou a mg ttf tfc news item ninth line from stouffvilie to new hospital will not be improved ibymn nofault bid fair debate over the provincial gov ernments proposed nofault insurance plan is heating up at the municipal level whitchurchstouffville town council is playing the game intel ligently however waiting to hear both sides in the debate before stating its position on the issue from here the rhetoric on each side of the debate is impressive yorkdurham mpp bill ballinger would have us believe the liberal nofault plan is the best thing that could happen to motorists the group calling itself fair action in insurance reform fair however says the govern- mentrproposal will spell the end of comprehensive and practical car insurance as we know it and both teams are gearing up for a final assault as the proposal makes its way through queens park but while this battle rages the average car owner continues to grapple with rising premiums theres no doubt change is required to make the system more practical and affordable the remaining question- is whether or not the motorists will win in the end spring renovation was a nightmare despite tax deadlines leaky boots and clogged eavestroughs spring is my favourite season by miles the only problem with this time of year is that it brings out mans primitive drive to improve arid restore spring is when a whole army of keen homeowners believe they can renovate their homes without suffering a nervous breakdown or discovering that the estimate they were given didnt include options like interi or drywall and waterproof win dows and it is possible but not without careful planning as we learned from bitter experience five years ago after perusing various pam phlets on how to select the artiste who would transform kates comer kate gilderdale chateau gilderdale into the next centre spread for architectural digest we came up with a short list of three likely contenders for the job and chose the wrong one ron was the sort of young man your mother would have loved you to bring home he looked as if he had the right intentions he wore a sober but wellcut suit with a quietly tasteful tie and his hair was clean neatly brushed and didnt dangle over the collar of his beautifully laun dered shirt stouffvilleuxbridge tribune publisher editorincjbief editor director of advertising retail advertising mgr administration mgr dir of promotionsdistribution jennifer hutt published eveiy wednesday by metroland printing publishing and distributing at 9 heritage rd martham ontario up fm3 tel 2942200 patricia pappas don bernard stephen houston debra weller susan berry chris bertram second class registration number 1 247 the stouffvilie tribune published every wedna printing publishing and distributing group of suburban newspapers which includes the acton free press ajaxpfckenng news advertiser aurora banner brampton guardian burlington post etobicoke advertiserguardian georgetown independent kingston this week lindsay this week markham economist and sun milton champion mississauga news newmarket era oakvffle beaver oshawa- wntby this week peterborough this v ror topic newsmagazine witowdajo mirror metroland printing publishing and distributing is a c of harlequin enterprises ltd national sales rep at 54 main st w stouffvilie is one of the metroland hmr- representative metroland corporate sales 4931300 6402100 8529741 ron was so sincere we hardly bothered to look at his creden tials he was a man who cared he was also significantly cheaper than his rivals and that should have warned us but we blithely signed on the dotted line and unknowingly plunged ourselves into six months of living hell how long will it take we asked four to six weeks said a smilingly con fident ron for the first three or four days he had one man working hard to remove walls and roofing so that the actual renovations could begin if we thought it a little strange that he had to borrow some basic editors mail tools from us to do the job his rapid progress lulled us into a false sense of security when he left however there was an omi nous lack of activity for almost two weeks suddenly ron who hadbeeri at our beck and call unceasingly while we pondered our choice of builder was nowhere to be found when we did get through to him he couldnt understand why the carpenter hadnt shown up hed get right back to us a week later a sadeyed looking man arrived and announced he was the carpenter john made eeyore seem opti mistic he did show up daily which was just as well because what he took three months to do could have been done by lesser mortals in three weeks he expressed grave doubts as to the viability of the project then he became quite unpleasant because his cheques from ron either werent coming in or were bouncing wildly he started demanding money from us which wed already paid to ron in the meantime the owner of the dumpster in our driveway politely informed me that he planned to empty its entire con tents onto our property before removing it because rons last three cheques to him had bounced the house became a crisis cen tre where i fielded calls from irate lumber merchants dry- wallers and other tradespeople who were after rons blood since we live on main street i was also constantly giving bul letins on the latest disaster to fascinated passersby the job did get finished eventually but my hair went quite red with stress they say time heals all wounds but itll be a long time before we venture into another round of renovation wars on main street west people have a right to know dear editor an open letter to ross stevenson durham mp on oct 5 1989 transport minis ter benoit bouchard stated in the house of commons we have immediately started discussions and i am quite confi dent that we will reach an agree ment to transfer the via line havelocktoronto to the go tran sit system in ontario quite clearly that was intended to deflect the certain pressure that was being brought to bear by the associ ation on oct 21 1989 ontario trans portation minister bill wrye stated i want to categorically deny there were any secret open or up front negotiations about taking over the torontohavelock run there have been none and are none mr bouchard continued the ruse when at a conservative fundraiser he said you ask me on jan 15 whether a train is still running well mr stevenson were ask ing is it right for a member of parlia ment let alone a cabinet minister to distort the truth and intentionally mislead canadians a request was made several weeks ago to bring this issue to the attention of the house of com mons a request which you refused mps have a responsibility mr stevenson aresporisibility you have chosen to ignore govern ments are supposed to help the peo ple not stand in their way the people of durham have a right to know dave lester executive director torontopeterborough havelock line passenger association