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arsl 13 1 7zo lzm vfjm tutipulmujfi cashable gic an- rrtnhuiuunmos ufemumncmiuha 1w wnmiwnonikmrca isms 4712311 the tribune repair specialist 172 bullock drive unit31markham 4718660 zx vol 10 no 43 a metroland community newspaper saturday october 22 1994 48 pages 50t ww students score well by julie caspersen staff reporter the york region board of education announced monday its students did well on a national math and language test but a schoolbyschool ranking wont be released until next month director of education bill hogarth said he is extremely pleased with the results earned by grade 3 arid 6 stu dents on the canadian achievement test compared to a national sample of stu dents the tests are graded in rela tion to the average score earned by a sampling of stu dents across canada the average grade 6 student in york region did better on the math test than 71 per cent of the students in the sample and performed better than 64 per cent of students across the country the average grade 3 stu dent did better on the reading test than 56 per cent of the sample group while in math the grade 3 children did bet ter than 60 per cent of stu dents nationally superintendent of schools art holden said he is satis fied that the teachers are per- formingwell and that the chil dren are performing well the board will release an action plan aimed at improv ing student learning next month and evaluation officer daria lindsey said all schools are now preparing school improvement plans to be included in the regional plan aimed at improving learning individually parents know how their child performed on the test administered last april and schools know how they rate with others in york region but an actual ranking wont be released until nov 21 one week after the munici pal election the freedom of information commissioner ruled in july 1992 that the carleton board of education must release schoolbyschool please see page 3 hundred home plan goes to next level the first stage of the west hill subdivision which would see 100 homes built at lori avenue and the 10th concession moved a step forward at the oct 11 council meeting against the requests of two residents who asked that any decision be deferred once the draft plan is revised and returned to the town for review and approval the subdivision plan will be recom mended to the region for draft approval flint crescent resident steve kerlie said the owners full devel opment plans are for 700 to 800 lots and that traffic would increase substantially were looking at a millard avenue in southern stouffville he said adding that an unofficial bypass would be created in the subdivision kerlie said the development is too important to the future of the town for any decisions to be made by the outgoing council what i dont want to see happen is any radical changes between now and voting by the next coun cil he said this development is the future of this town and we have a responsibility to ourselves and future councils another resident said council shouldnt proceed without looking at the entire future development of the area noting that miss ing an official plan is a bad place to begin mayor fran sainsbury said there is an official plan and that a secondary plan for urban stouffville is in the works we will have arterial roads and bypass roads but we wont know this until studies are done she said the resident said the matter should wait for the next council town planner bill moyer said the first stage is the only one being proposed adding that the sewage capacity for the town has been allocated in other words at present there is no capac ity for any more than the 100 lots in the first stage there are three ways for the sewage capacity to increase said moyer stouffville could hook up to the big pipe sewage system an upstream plant for additional flow could be built or capacity could be found in the existing system none of these things would happen very quickly he said from left michelle steele piills sons connery 1 and mattlng- ton 4 in a wagon along edward street wednesday photosjoerd wttteveeh opinion three years is too long three years that is how long the young people of whitchurchstouffville have waited for a youth centre in this town those young people that could have most benefitted from such a facility 14 15 and 16 year olds are now at college or university they have no use for a youth centre now it is too late one complete term of municipal council has gone by and there still isnt so much as a pinball game for young people to use in this town that means your chil dren are still travelling to the malls the city or who knows where to amuse themselves it also means the lure of more nefarious diversions are quick to become more appealing on dec 17 1991 the tribune sponsored a forum on the topic of a youth centre from this a study of the teens in town was conducted by the parks and recreation dept where all aspects of a youth centre were scru tinized once the findings of the study were present ed a steering committee was established with councils blessing whose mandate it was to find a location develop a budget and put the results of the teen survey into action in february of 1993 more than a year after the initial meeting council approved the youth centre and its location in the basement of the silver jubilee club by a vote of 52 the sole condition was that the basement be please see page 3 markville home show special come out to markham home show brand new 1994 aspire vcrfcrcd 10000 tttt oat yaw battel tk ymm tmmu win sponsored by markville lincoln zzszijz 19054707044 markville makes it happen mb brand new 1994 lincoln continental includes moonroof leather keyless entry much more t tt v m- value priced35999 or plan it 490mmfti safe pfctbfiiiamgni man prt bmj onion buyaaccllotiuja itbtmnim lmd on 10 down frogm 4 j j f j 4 fc in m markville 111 j t o j fnvjj ltttlr rfvr1n 407a hwr 7 9051 4707044 tww jryi1jif tps mtoskwrtfl