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p4 tribune april 13 1994 ninth line its about time region t ts about time the people of this town may soon be free to drive on ninth line without taking their lives into their own hands ambulances may soon be seen rushing to markham stouffville hospital along an unbroken stretch of pave ment and cyclists and pedestri ans may soon be aissured they wont be struck by swerving motorists ninth line is now the region of yorks problem and what a problem it is the hope is to have the infrastruc ture grants cover the cost of resurfacing the road and not a moment too soon hats off to the region for taking on this responsibility hats back on for taking so long to decide it is a regional matter police town cooperate on investigation are there a handful of bad apples rotting the town of whitchurchstouffville to its very core maybe maybe not are there town politicians and easytobebought staffers taking taxpayers for a ride and leaving an unethical trail of wrongdoing behind maybe maybe not project 80 a task force set up three years ago this month to investigate a growing num ber of municipal wrongdoing complaints in the area has now knocked on whitchurch- stouffvilles darkening doorstep this busy govern ment affairs bureau set up to monitor political operations across metro and the outlying municipalities is now fraud- squading in stouffville only the third york region public office to be subject to legal examination metro police investigators say they will look into com plaints about the possibility of a few grey areas within the files and documents of this public office called the corpo ration of the town of whitchurchstouffville police sources say there will likely be a lot more municipal probes undertaken in the next few years aross the gta not ing a whopping 100 com plaints recently lodged at metros project 80 headquar ters fraud investigators are kibblestsi bits working undercover to find out if complaints and there are some being acted on in whitchurchstouffville have backbone and warrant a deep er digging into the affairs of politicians whose duties and intentions have been ques tioned using public office o fatten ones personal bank account is a serious matter this is fraud of the shoddiest sort could such dirty deeds be unfolding right under the tax payers nose in lilywhite stouffville maybe maybe not a thorough fivemonth pre liminary investigation process across this vast 82-square- mile municipality will now focus inside the town buildings to be sure police will either prove to the people that nothing under handed or unusual is going on or they will show the people something dad and if somebody or some thing is rotten in the state of whitchurchstouffville police say residents can rest assured the culprits will be punished and if everything is on the upandup as we would hope and expect well find that out too in the meantime it is impor tant to not speculate rumors and innuendo do not serve the public interest in cases such as these it is best to allow the police room to do their work the town for its part has offered full cooperation in the investigation but at the same time if any thing is uncovered we would hope it comes to light before the fall election just back from nevemeverland stouffville tribune publisher general manager editorinchief patricia pappas andrew mair jo ann stevenson advertising director debra weller business manager vivian oneil operations manager pamela nichols staff reporters tracy kibble julie caspersen roger belgrave photographers sjoerd witteveen steve somerville real estate ads joan marshman classified ads doreen deacon retail sales joan marshman doreen deacon distribution ariene maddock canadian publications mail sales product agreement 439010 published every wednesday by uetroland priming publishing and distributing m 9 heritage rd markham ontario l3p 1m3 tal 2942200 the stouttvllla tribune published every wednesday at 6244 main st stourmbe is ona ot the uetroland printing publishing and 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waist down when the tribune photogra pher began brandishing her flash bulbs in my direction at the markham stouffville hospital gala the theme of the evening was the enchanted forest and i was one of a number of volunteers reconstituted as fairy tale charac ters who were on hand to take care of the guests to those who attended i would like to emphasize that im not in the habit of walking around posh kates corne ballrooms clad in little more than my selfconfidence when an old friend male asked me to dance i underwent severe gender confusion i explained to him with sincere regret that the volunteers were there to work and dancing with another man was simply not in my job description i thought i detected a sigh of relief and who can blame him ear lier in the evening i was standing at the doors to the banquet hall pointing people in what i hoped was the general direction of their tables when i was joined by prince charming this was one cool dude tall and handsome- with flowing- blond locks he had one major flaw he looked a lot better in tights than i did its typical of my luck that i had to meet him when we were both men and then there was my adorable tinker bell a delightful young lady who was never lost for words not even when i was desper ately trying to sort bids for the silent auction into some kind of numerical order at one stage in the proceedings we sat down to dinner the white rabbit carefully removing his head to eat halfway through the second course i was summoned to be a live auction spotter its not until you do this job that you realize how many people gestic ulate wildly during regular conver sation and i cant help thinking the auctioneer would have done a splendid job without my interven tion at least peter pan and i have an excuse for our shortcomings we both refuse to grow tip