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tribune decembers 1990 p3 festival of bells phottdavid barnett stouffville residents gathered to celebrate the annu al festival of bells last friday at the town square the event was marked by songs and celebration as vell as the lighting of the christmas tree top photo students from summitview public school lead a singalong of favorite yule songs below whitchurchstouffville mayor fran sainsbury admires the tree with granddaughter lindsay stouffville aims to save trees whitchurchstouffvilles tree committee is taking a strong stand to preserve the towns trees and their maintenance the committee made up of con cerned volunteers has been working with town staff for two months and wants to implement a tree mainte nance management policy to ensure protective measures are enforced within the municipality town chief administrative officer bob panizza said the thrust of the group will be to establish a policy review the tree situation and make recommendations which will be uti lized in the existing core of the town and in new and industrial subdivi- sons the mandate will establish a com prehensive policy to govern the main tenance of street trees in the town with the help of a consultant a com mittee report stated the committee is asking for coun cil support and an annual budget to ensure trees are regularly pruned fer tilized watered and protected against insects some protective measures the com mittee wants to enforce include pre serving existing trees removal of and replacement of diseased trees and the planting of new trees throughout the town mr panizza said the project will be a much larger scope of operation than just reviewing architectural land scaping this policy expands the role in not only reviewing landscape but the trees in the town as well and will affect town decisions he told officials at a recent meeting mayor fran sainsbury said although the committee would like to set up a public information meeting the group should not make rash decisions the tree committee should sit as a hearing board and not make decisions the night of the public hearing the mayor said council can change any final policy recommendations the committee brings forward said- public works director paul whitehouse the committee would also like to giveresidents the opportunity to pre- sent concerns to the group for review and consideration council supported the tree mainte nance management policy in princi ple and voted to allow a public infor mation night cn crossing repairs coming relief is still in sight for motorists crossing the bumpy cn rail line on main street in stouffville council voted last tuesday to go ahead with temporary repairs at the trou blesome crossing once approval from cn is obtained stouffville council has been waiting for two months to hear from cn offi cials regarding the crossing but have been unsuccessful in getting any action at that time stouffville motorists were to see 44000 in repairs of which 90 per cent of the cost was to be subsidized by the province but no work has been done consequently stouffville councillor jim sanders said the town should do the work now to offer relief for motorists something has to be done right away he said after brief discussion on the matter members decided to go ahead with repairs of its own weve got to get in touch with cn and fell them well do some temporary work said councillor sanders teachers sick days jump 40 julie caspersen staff reporter the number of sick days called in by york region separate teachers jumped by 40 per cent last year during the 1988 school year 12830 sick days were taken by york region roman catholic separate school teachers this climbed to 18038 during the 19891990 school year the total number of days absent for illness and other reasons including jury duty adoption leave and funerals climbed by 53 per cent this is a disturbing trend super intendent of business and finance john sabo told trustees at a recent finance committee meeting last year supply teachers were called to fill in on 11558 days super intendent of operations frank sealy explained replacements are not always called in high schools cover absent teachers internally on the first day of a teach ers day away and in some instances the absent teachers pay is lostjbr the day away or is deducted from his or her retire- muffle noise greens told sound insulation measures at greens restaurant in stouffville must be undertaken before stouffville officials will consider exemption from a noise bylaw town council decided last tuesday its the latest development in an ongoing dispute between a tenant in the upstairs portion ofthe success square plaza development and greens officials who present live bands on thursdays fridays and sat urdays david williams a resident who lives above greens objected last month to a bid from restaurant offi cials to be exempted from noise restrictions and allow live music according to a report prepared by whitchurchstouffville building director bob bennett all parties were in agreement that the noise level was unacceptable when they met in november to hear a band play live as a result staff said greens must complete noise insulation measures to protect apartment tenants above the restaurant when that is completed staff would recheck the apartments for noise mr bennett added in his report whitchurchstouffville mayor fran sainsbury said officials at greens are cooperating with town staff to improve the situation for tenants wed rather have mediation and negotiation as opposed to confronta tion she said after the meeting ment benefitsrthese leaves include attending a real estate or legal appointment running in an election and attending a school board of municipal meeting im not arguing that the sick days are valid but why are they getting sick markham trustee maddalena smimakis asked she wants staff to look into the rea sons behind the substantial jump in teachers personal illness days included in the 1990 budget is 2 million for supply teachers in 1989 17 million was set aside neighbor angry over flooding an ongoing flooding problem in musselman lake has left one victor drive resident angry coun cil heard recently rick le blanc wrote tocouncil regarding his neighbors pond which he claims is filled to an overflow level which we have never witnessed at this time of year mr le blanc also said his prop erty is flooded each spring from water overflow and wants the magnified problem solved according to mr le blanc a second pond on cameron amos property which acts as an over flow to the first pond has been filled mostly with soil which cre ates flooding on his property but mr amos who attended the meeting presented officials with letters from giffels associates the towns consultants which stated that inspections and improvements to the ponds grading will benefit the town by alleviating an exist ing drainage problem i without impacting neighboring proper ties mr amos stated in a letter that he had followed all the specifica tions giffels required and added he still has several tasks to com plete until the grading is complete i will be working on this site from time to time and maintain to pro tect the environment in the mean time mr amos said meanwhile town public works director paul whitehouse told officials all authorities are aware of whats going on at the amos site and suggested monitoring the work through giffels council referred the matter to staff for a report which was expected at this tuesdays meet ing earn extra money become a carrier today call 6402100 attention flyer advertisers we can deliver your flyers for as utile as 312 a piece so far this year we have delivered 22678608 flyers doortodoor in markham unlonville mllllken stouffville uxbrldge and surrounding rural routes we can deliver your flyers on the day you want in the area you want any quantity from 5000 to 35000 calk advertising at 2942200 6402100 or distribution at 2944244 or 6402100 inserts for wed dec 590 carpet mill 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