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scotia mcleodi design your own retirement will your current savings 4 investments be enough when you retire call for a free j worksheet 2269505 serving markhmmjnionville muslzdfnanclaladvofisl snceixt weekender emtim vol6n047 i j ametmlandcomtmmify newspaper satmrkynovember24w0 5fipegt 25centsu great rotesij m guaranteed investment certificates standard trust phone for details 2946865 boards aim to get lot levies in 91 school boards in york region hope to start collecting educational lot levies in early 1991 the york region board of education and the york region roman catholic separate school board need only provincial approval before instituting the development charges act allowing school boards to collect a fee through new home development to be applied to the building of new schools in the area the boards submitted a plan to the ministry of education oct 17 were the first two boards bringing this for ward separate board superintendent of business and finance john sabo said he added other boards probably wont be handing in reports for at least six months the two york region boards will gather the money and place it in a com munal pot its not ours its not theirs mr sabo said he explained the draw from the pot will be based on need and ministry approval originally the boards estimated a charge of between 5000 and 10000 would be levied on new homes the separate board calculates each residential unit with householders sup porting the catholic board will pay 1360 the board arrived at this figure by dividing the cost of new school con struction 42168616 by the number of new housing units 31000 public board supporters will pay 2600 but trustees are worried developers could challenge the act that allows the collection however if developers sue anyone theyll sue the provincial government and rule the province didnt have the right to pass mis legislation markham trustee terry ryan said the legislation is designed to make up the difference between the approved cost of the construction of a school and the amount of money granted by the ministry the current grant rate is 69 per cent of the cost of the school construc tion at the elementary level mr sabo said after ministry approval the york region boards plan a public meeting will be called the legislation can be enacted five days after a board meeting unlucky no 4 prompts address change tracy kibble staff reporter whitchurchstouffville town council has changed its regular house numbering policy to accommodate oriental supersti tions it was decided tuesday night and although some officials stressed the decision could be precedentsetting they agreed a look inside comment p 4 letters p 5 6 sports p 2732 entertainment p 2224 religion p 31 puzzle p 16 classified p3339 see our real estate section dickens tale of christmas reviewed see page 22 under the circumstances the poli cy could be changed in this iso lated case larry hoffman of landford preston lake ltd asked council tuesday to allow him to assign house addresses without use of the number four on the 12 lots he is building he said the number four used alone or with other numbers means death to many orientals he said most of the presold homes were purchased by people of chinese background but none would agree to buy the houses with a number four attached to it most people who are chinese feel very strongly about the num ber four and some to the point where they will not even visit a home with the number four in it mr hoffman said it is such an enormous issue and a very serious matter to them no matter what you and i think about it and its not just 10 per cent of chinese its all of them that feel this way mr hoffman added ward 6 councillor jim sanders was the first town official to move that the request be granted and explained why the number four is a bad omen to chinese people a school teacher himself coun- the number four sounds like death and they dont want their homes linked to that cillor sanders said he recently approached another chinese teacher about the issue the history behind this shows a very definite concern of why cantonese people do not like the number four its not a mythologi cal thing its the- sound of the word four in cantonese the number four sounds like the word death and they dont want their house being linked to death the number 14 means sure death so i can see the concern they have and i think we could accommodate this request councillor sanders said eliminating fours will mean eliminating the number four fourteen twentyfour etc but mr hoffman said it would be beneficial to alter the numbers now instead of waiting until after the homes are occu pied mr hoffman said regions such as north york and scarborough have dealt with the dilemma and added he didnt see any great downside in accom modating the request but town planning director michael saunders said the request could bring a rash of future house numbering changes to avoid superstitious 13 and the number six whiclf is supposed to be the number of the devil council granted the request to eliminate fours from the house numbers in the subdivision on condition the changes did not cause staff any major problems