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st ancheril questions cost of repairing rural ball diamonds tribune june 9 1993 p3 tracy kibble staff reporter the town shouldnt spend money repairing ball diamonds even if the money is there to do so one local official stated this week ward 5 councillor bob ancheril doesnt want to spend 10000 in leftover repair funds to fix outoftown ball parks asking only those repairs for memorial park diamonds in stouffville be under taken this year the towns recreation superintendent john crawley however told officials minor repairs to rupert vandorf and ballantrae parks are way past due in fact if they arent undertaken this year he would recommend the repairs be high priority for 1994 crawley said crawley added he performed a walkaround tour of all town diamonds in april with minor baseball volunteer mary myers to identify the most pressing repairs needed to the rural parks which include replacing old deteriorating wooden fences but ancheril said repairsto memorial parks diamonds 2 and 3 which call for 7000 worth of fence heightening to keepout-of- play balls from neighboring backyards should be the only repairs the town commits to why do we take the attitude that just because the money is there we have to spend it we should fix diamonds 2 and 3 and leave the rest to a later time ancheril said but mayor fran sainsbury said shes afraid to wait to repair old fencing because costs can escalate so quickly sainsbury said local baseball tournaments can create an eco nomic upswing for local businesses and stressed the need to help one of the towns largest recreation organizations everything just gets worse when you wait sainsbury said in reference to the towns delay in purchasing a new firetruck which cost the town an additional 50000 ward 4 councillor cliff dunkeld agreed stating conditions at the vandorf and ballantrae ball diamonds are nearly beyond repair officials voted to spend 16500 to repair both in and rural ball diamonds ancheril voted against the expenditure pholomwce staplby mcneil memorial award for sdss bob and sheila mcneil left present stouffville district secondary school with the spartans softbali sweater of son dan mcneil thursday the sweater honors the late sdss athlete and will hang in the hall recognizing the schools athletic achievements the family also donated the dan mcneil memorial trophy see page 12 for more town must grow says builder from page 1 ministries and 160 proce dures he said lebovic said 35foot lots allow him to build a better quality house within afford able standards set by the province he said if he extends the lot size to 45 or 50 feet there will be less money left town says no to 15 million road grant tracy kibble staff reporter a 15 million road grant to upgrade hwy 47 was kissed goodrbye last week because the town cant meet timing restrictions imposed by queens park ontarios transportation min istry offered the town a road subsidy this year to upgrade widen and reconstruct parts of hwy 47 from the west connect ing link at the 10th line all the way to the 9th line the major construction pro ject would have cost the town about 322000 10 per cent of the entire project cost but officials turned their backs on the money last week because it cant begin the pro ject as quickly as the province would like said the towns road expert paul whitehouse theres no one here that hates to give up grants of this magnititude more than me but the restrictions the province put on us are too much we would have had to pull off a major portion of the work before the end of 1993 white- house said he added the town needed more time to complete neces sary studies and paperwork before construction could begin but the province wouldnt agree to wait the subsidy was offered for a specific portion of main street west of the 9th line but utility relocations road widenings and environmental assessments stand in the way of construc tion beginning whitehouse said if the town took a chance started the project and couldnt meet the time frames set by the ministry stouffville could be left holding the funding bag whitehouse warned even if we were given the green light to begin today the project would carry into 1994 and we could be left funding the whole project and thats scary whitehouse added ward 6 councillor ken pren tice said losing the money this year is a heartbreaker for the town i hate to kiss this kind of grant goodbye he said whitehouse suggested the town redo its plans and look at performing the repairs in small doses we could look at sections and sequences and develop these plans over stages we can afford whitehouse said he said the cancellation of subsidies this year will not affect the towns chances next year of obtaining new road repair grants york may take iwa fight right to supreme court from page 1 search process makes sense or if it is even legal blue said the region has so far spent nearly all its 200000 budget to fight the iwa but blue and king say it could cost up to 4 million to complete the battle at the supreme court of canada obituary patricia kuhn active in girl guides longtime stouffville resident patricia n kuhn lost a courageous battle to cancer on monday may 31 and passed away at the centenary health centre in scarborough she was 51 mrs kuhn a respected church street neighbor to many was a valued member of the whitchurchstouffville hydro commis sion since she joined the staff in 1978 mrs kuhn left her secretary treasurers post last december to enjoy life at home and was greatly missed from the office by commission staff the mother of two grown daughters mrs kuhn was active in the local girl guides volunteering her time in the administrative sector of the girls group mrs kuhn was born in richmond hill in 1942 and her family moved to toronto where she was raised she moved to stouf fville in june 1967 where she brought up her daughters christine 25 and jennifer 23 she leaves behind her mother nancy mcniffe daughters christine and jennifer and soninlaws blair and joe her sister judith whitton and nephew tim and prede ceased by her father fred mcniffe and brother kenn the family held a private service and com mittal to remember their loving daughter and mother on thursday june 3 at oneill funeral service donations to the canadian cancer society are being accepted and appreciated on mrs kuhns behalf and king said if costs con tinue to mount taxpayers have only the province to blame the government should stop the search process imme diately until the legality of what it is doing is settled why spend tens if not hun dreds of thousands of dollars per week on work that may have to be redone king said to put into the structure brick might have to be sub stituted for siding etc he said lebovic who has been in the real estate business for more than 40 years and who is a past president of the urban development insti tute in ontario said he would rather not build at all than build something cheap as far as residents con cerns about overloading roads lebovic said his plan is to build a collector road parallel to main street which would actually re route traffic away from the already overcrowded throughway i understand that people dont like change and most dont understand about growth people arent buy ing estate residential any more if stouffville doesnt get people to move here it will become a ghost town the town will die lebovic said there is no infrastructure here if stouffville doesnt grow it will go backwards business will die the town will die lebovic predicted kids earn extra money become a carrier today attention flyer advertisers we can deliver your flyers for as little as 4 a piece so far this year i we have delivered 14180235 flyers doortodoor in markhaml unionville milliken stouflville uxbridge claremont dickson hill i locust hill gormley goodwood victoria square brougham hagcrman corners box grove cedar grove buttonville sandford i goodwood lcaskdale crecnbank udora sunderland zephyr i ashburn cannington and all 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