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tunnel vision brad hakanson learns about tunnel vision in a workshop on blindness held last tuesday at a science fair at orchard park public school in stouffville pay exits issue must be handled behind closed doors several local politicians are not prepared to discuss a staff voluntary pay cut proposal in public and say they will request the matter be dealt with in private ward 2 councillor nick tatone said a motion presented by ward 6 councillor ken prentice two weeks ago which asks senior staff to offer taking pay cuts should be discussed as a personnel matter this should have been done behind closed doors its of a personnel nature tatone said prentices motion which asks for private meetings with any senior staff member willing to slash his or her pay or take time off without pay was to be voted on last night tatone but it is expected that majority council will keep a lid on the discus sions and will ask for a pri vate meeting ward 5 coun cillor bob ancheril said town asked to waive 6000 in tax interest a stouffville property owner wants the town to forgive 6000 in interest charges on his overdue realty tax bill officials heard last week keith frank told officials he is having trouble refinancing his mortgage with the additional 6000 added onto the debt because of the real estate market slump lenders are not prepared to pay the added amount because of depreciation in my property frank said business is slow now for me and its difficult to come up with such sums i dont want your pity just youre consid eration he added frank told council if the penalties were forgiven he would make arrangements to immediately pay off his balance but finance director ed blackburn cau tioned council that waiving the 1-14-per- centamonth interest charges from franks account would set a precedent blackburn said the town is currently tmbunemay 193j3 local man charged a police fraud investigation has resulted in the arrest of a stouf fville resident after a shortage of 200000 was discovered missing from two real estate trust accounts durham regional police assisted the business practices division of the ontario ministry of consumer and commercial relations to investigate an illegal disbursement of funds between march 1990 and july 1991 the money consisted of consumers down payments for real estate transactions and was placed at risk when it was used as general corporate funds reports show remax realty plus inc closed since early 1992 its president michael lindo of stouffville and an employee from whitby have been jointly charged with crimi nal breach of trust and theft over 1000 both accused persons sur rendered themselves to police last thursday and appeared in oshawa provincial court for a bail hearing wallets stolen during hockey and local businessman rick evans each suffered the loss of their wallets white lost about 20 along with credit cards and personal identification evans wallet was also taken student matt mcnaught lost 25 in the burglary police were notified private spot not central mayor says from page but bradford said the town should take chariots success rate into consideration when making a decision mayor fran sainsbury agreed the old deer park inn site is not central and beach volleyball courts built by a pri vate enterprise venture might not be for everyone chamber of commerce presi dent helene johnson who told the tribune she would regular ly attend council meetings to keep an eye on the public purse suggested officials back off the issue if a business was willing to build the courts for free staff will continue to investi gate the matter two wallets and an undeter mined amount of cash were stolen from a recreation centre dressing room during a high school hockey game last friday afternoon the thefts ocurred when the dressing room door was left unlocked during the stouffville district secondary sdss intramural championship game which involved students teachers and parents sdss teacher john white he will likely pull the item and ask that it be referred to an in- camera session prentices motion states that any staff who takes a cut in pay will not be praised and those who refuse will not be penal ized he asked that a memo be cir culated to staff to lobby the request undertaking paperwork to clear up about 2000 outstanding property tax debts and urged officials they must treat everyone the same and mayor fran sainsbury said although the town couldnt forgive franks debt the corporation could per haps work out a payment plan we cant write off the penalties but if there is a hardship we can help lessen that hardship sainsbury said tracy kibble correction in last weeks tribune the food bank hours given were incorrect the correct hours are 7 to 9 pm top soil drainage backdrop repairs slated this year from page 1 whitchurchstouffville minor ball is turning youngsters away as the leagues grown in popu larity the towns leagues currently have 21 mite teams with 12 to 15 children aged eight to 11 on each team 1500 children in total he said there are also 34 adult teams using the same facilities he said myers told officials there are 69 teams in whitchurchstouf fville alone and many teams are on a waiting list stouffville teams are playing home games in claremont goodwood and vandorf calling the time slots a satu ration in use crawley is sug gesting major repairs to dia mond 1 including concrete backstop and gate fence grandstand and infield repairs- diamond 2 including top soil and drainage improvements diamond 3 including fence backstop bleacher and drainage improvements dia mond 4 including infield back stop repairs vandorf diamond including levelling fields and topsoil improvements the franklin park tball dia mond rupert orchard park vandorf small diamond whitchurch highlands and bal- lantrae diamond all need work but with not as much urgency officials were told council approved spending no more than 17500 from its park trust account to undertake the recommended repairs photsjoerd 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