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dont miss ttunight mtn friday august 20 1993 econo taxi 6405466 i ihe inbune econo taxi to airport 6405466 vol 105 no 33 a metroland community newspaper wednesday august jl8 1993 24 pages s 50 cents garbage contract still not open for tender tracy kibble staff reporter local politicians remained surprisingly tightlipped last week regarding its 23 million garbage collection contract after they were expected to publicly reopen the issue for debate during a meeting two weeks ago it was revealed officials had secretly waived the towns tender policy for a fiveyear trash contract during march budget deliberations the decision squeaked by on a 43 vote to waive tendering the 23 million contract and hand the job to miller waste disposal systems a company which has handled the towns garbage pickup and disposal for more than five years majority council had voted to take miller up on its offer to help the town shave 100000 from its 516500 yearly waste management budget and are within their legal right to waive the tendering pro cess however chief adminis trative officer merlin dewing dewing sa he had expected officials to reopen the issue suggesting council might even rethink its earlier deci sion to waive the policy dewing said officials may still decide to tender the contract go team go photolori emmerson members of the stouffwille kellington gardens squad cheer on their teammates during the provincial novice girls softball championships stouffville lost the game to st catharines see page 12 for details fatal crash markham man dies in hospital a markham man was killed in whitchurchstouffville on friday aug 13 after a dump truck crossed an intersection on a red light york region police reports stated this week according to police a ford dump truck was eastbound on bloomington sideroad at about 815 am and approached the northbound off of hwy 404 as the truck approached the traffic signals turned red for the eastwest traffic and green for the northbound traf fic at this same time two vehi cles were approaching the intersection from the north bound offramp and entered the intersection properly on the green light police said the truck proceeded into the intersection against the red light and struck both vehicles a toronto woman driving a red toyota was transported to york central hospital in richmond hill and released after treat ment of minor injuries the driver of the second car david fitzsimons of markham was transported to york county hospital in newmarket where he died of his injuries the toronto dump truck driv er was uninjured investiga tions are continuing and charges are pending police said four car crash hurts one snarls traffic please see page 3 whitchurchstouffville fire crews and the auro ra opp were on the scene of a fourcar crash last week at the intersection of bloomington sideroad and hwy 48 the crash occurred on tuesday aug 10 at about 450 pm and involved motorists from lindsay pefferlaw newmarket and aurora according to the opp the accident slowed traffic from all directions at the intersec tion for nearly one hour as crews attempted to clear up the debris one person was injured police said the incident is still under investiga tion and charges are pending police said province hijacks boards nodebt plan surplus cash from their pension fund has offset the need for unpaid days off as york region catholic teachers ratified a social contract deal monday the york region roman catholic sepa rate school board has a 743 million obli gation to the province in each of the three years assigned to wipe out ontarios deficit with the pension adjustment and pay scale freezes theyve already met their target without any unpaid days off said board spokesperson don oshaughnessy there will be no change in the schedule of the board he said the teacher union kicked in more than required under the social con tract law which lessened the income loss of other union and nonunion employee groups some having previously agreed to wage freezes and rollbacks as part of the boards own deficitreduction plan the board was required by the province to prepare a threeyear budget to erase its 23 million shortfall but the social con tract directive hijacked any attempt by the separate board to climb out of debt oshaughnessy said on average over the three years employees of the board will- be required to take five and a half unpaid days off a hike in the pupilteacher ratio will see less teachers hired as the projected hiring is cut by 475 per cent andnonclassroom teachers will return to teaching julie caspersen leachate collection triggers concern tracy kibble staff reporter leachate from an abandoned landfill site in rural whitchurchstouffville may be getting worse over time it was revealed last week local politicians were dis cussing a fiveyear leachate monitoring program at the for mer york sanitation landfill site onhwy 48 north of bloom ington road which yill take place again this year waste management of cana da incorporated wmd which owns the former site is ordered to continue and report ongoing surface and groundwater moni toring under environment ministry guidelines and approval last year officials decided the towns consulting engineer geologists gartner lee should review wmis final status report and recommend any necessary changes to the town in order for the former own ers to receive a necessary cer tificate of approval for the abandoned site from the province wmi has agreed to pay the 20000 revision cost by gartner lee mayor fran sainsbury who said the town has been receiv ing monitoring reports since 1974 stressed concerns that something has changed regarding surface and ground water quality although noth ing has ben confirmed sains- burysaid she is concerned that this year nearly four times the amount of liquid leachate will be pumped into steel tanks and trucked to the st johns pump ing station for testing sainsbury said past monitor ing program have required 31500 gallons of groundwater to be pumped removed from the site and tested but is con cerned because this year experts are calling for 117000 gallons be trucked across the byways the difference in the amount of collected leachate could mean something has changed in the status of quality of sur rounding runoff sainsbury said gartner lee is expected to have completed its review of the program by the end of the year ppiwpwwwpwfpw ttttt thfflww7f ft i v v vv v t v i i t