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tribune february 24 1993 p3 crime this accident on bloomington rd was one of three attended by stouffville rescue teams on phohvsjoerd witteveen wednesday mondays snowstorm also saw many fender benders in the area busy day for local fire crews whitchurchstouffville vol unteer firefighters spent most of wednesday helping police departments clear up traffic accidents on local roads two the result of icy conditions tuesdays storm dumped about 10 centimetres of snow on york region before 5 pm making roads sloppy slippery and snowcovered in most areas for wednesdays rush hour traffic stouffvilles fire department answered its first call wednes day at 730 am at kennedy road just a half mile north of stouffville road a pickup truck and car col lided causing damage but no injuries according to york region police no charges were laid due to poor road conditions then at 825 am crews rushed to the scene of second crash on hwy 47 just west of the 2nd cone in goodwood where sheer ice conditions was the reported cause of a twocar crash according to whitby opp a 63yearold markham man heading east on hwy 47 lost control of his car on icy roads slid into the westbound lanes and struck a van driven by a 39yearold uxbridge woman the woman was taken to markhamstouffville hospital with minor injuries no charges were laid due to poor road conditions police said crews worked for more than one hour and rerouted traffic from the scene to avoid further icy mishaps police said crews rushed out again at about 130 pm to a threecar smashup at the 9th line and bloomington road intersec tion according to opp offi cers a 49yearold brampton man was travelling westbound on bloomington road hwy 47 when he entered the 9th line intersection on a red light he went through the red light hitting a second vehicle as it travelled south on the 9th line this vehicle slid across the intersection into a ditch the first vehicle meanwhile struck a third car driven by a 22yearold stouffville man who was stopped to make a lefthand turn onto blooming ton road the man was treat ed for minor injuries at the scene no one else was injured the brampton man was charged with disobeying a red light hes been framed gordon ness holds up a pic ture frame for the crowd at fri day nights rotary auction at the rec centre auction items included marcel bossis town crier services ads in the tri bune wine balloon rides and much more the annual auc tion benefitted community awareness bureau good neighbors and joanne tur- cotte trust fund pholocelia bronkhorst evening of song for everyone says organizer from page 1 forward to performing there he said we formed a committee and were working hard to promote this show we hope to fill the theatre committee members jim green lana burchett jim rehill linda hamilton john pet- titt bob pfaff and franklin himself are in the process of contacting churches across the region and inviting them to attend the performance no matter what their denomination this is an evening for everyone to enjoy franklin noted its also a great opportunity to celebrate the end of winter and usher in the the season leading up to easter he added franklin his wife hope and their three chil dren have been actively involved in christ church since they came to stouffville in the fall of 1987 from pennsylvania as well as providing them with a place of wor ship the church has given them a warm and happy social life and a true sense of community who says christians have to be dull concluded franklin cheerfully tickets for a special evening of song on sat- urday march 13 at 8 pm are available from the markham theatre box office at 171 town cen tre blvd or can be ordered by calling 4790201 tickets are 1850 each or 1550 each for groups often or more memorial park trial begins for youths five youths charged in a gang fight at stouffville memorial park last april appeared in court last week most of the testimony wednesday and thursday was conducted in a trial within a trial known as a voir dire where the five defence lawyers and crown attorney lynne saundersgartner debate on the admissibility of evidence until judge michael caney rules on the admissibihty of the evidence in question none of the testimony can be reported on each of the five youths all brother andre catholic high school students were represented by lawyers they were charged with assault last may after a gang rumble in stouffville between rival brother andre and stouffville district high school students police seized baseball bats and beer bottles from the warring youths officers from the police youth gang unit rounded up seven teens suspected in the attack on two youths aged 15 and 18 two teens were released unconditionally and five aged 16 and 17 were charged the crown attorney may call up to 13 witnesses including police officers and teens at the scene of the brawl defence attorney colin still said that collectively defence lawyers may call seven witnesses the trial is set to continue march 2 and resume june 13 14 and 15 in newmarket hospital restructuring from page 1 emergency administration healthdata resources environ mental services physical facili ties material management nutri tion services social work and ambulatory care as part of its restructuring the hospital plans to implement a pro gram management system on march 29 the system organizes care around groupings of common patient needs and focuses atten tion on patient care rather than on services provided by individual departments dr jim maclean vice president of medical services and chief of staff expects the change will make all health care workers that work ing together is the best approach to helping patients health professionals and doc tors realize they can no longer deliver care in isolation doctors realize we have to work together with other health care profession als he said patients can sometimes detect fragmentation among the doctors nurses and others assigned to care for them under the new system the hope is to create a seamless type of care he added region officials paid 500g york region homeowners paid more than half a million dollars in salaries and benefits last year to its 21 officials for politi- cial services rendered a report shows the remuneration members of council and local boards report reveals expenditures of 529407 were paid in 1992 for duties performed by elected and appointed officials the report prepared by yorks finance commissioner and trea surer showed chairman eldred king earned 87247 last year while each councilmember earned 22194 plus expenses which ranged between 217 and 2380 swap will cost residents from page 1 will be responsible for yonge st 34 million hwy 7 343 mil lion hwy 48 from steeles ave to markham village 3 million hwy 27 from steeles to hwy 7 15 million and hwy 47 east of hwy 48 2 million regional chief administrative officer bob forhan projects it will take 13 years before york stops losing money in the proposed roadwelfare swap york is asking that queens 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