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fcfcjvhwe police union frustrated with beard ban by julie caspersen staff reporter the york region police services board should lighten up and grant officers the option of growing beards says the police union leader they need to lighten up were being suffocated paul bailey york region police association president pt bailey said the board refused to deal with his request to set a beardwearing policy at tuesdays meeting and he was told the beard question is an oper ations matter that should be dealt with by police chief bryan cousineau who is opposed to beards on uniform offi cers cousineau said 25 per cent of ontario forces dont allow beards on uniformed officers but if a local officer feels strongly enough about having facial hair theyll have to join another force if they want to wear a beard theres- nothing stopping them from applying to a force that allows them the chief said metro toronto officers are allowed to grow tidy beards tve seen them everywhere i go bailey said in york region theyre still sitting back in the 1970s we have provincial regulations fed eral regulations force regulations we have a life to lead outside of this place bailey said he added that his members were warned that any york region officer who shows up for work wearing a beard will be charged with misconduct cousineau said the beard debate is not a very important issue and he is more concerned with making decisions that increase the safety of police and the community fm not opposed to giving them all kinds of equipment that will help on the street he said cousineau cited the darker shirts hes approved for uniform officers the more comfortable allweather boots his backing of semiautomatic weapons for police and the decision to arm cruis ers that patrol markham with rifles not wearing beards is not an undue hardship on our members cousineau said i dont think im infringing on peo ples rights away in a manger students at willowgrove primary school reenacted the nativity at the schools christmas concert this week photo obituary merlyn baker will be missed by many former town councillor merlyn baker died sunday at markhamstouffville hospital he was 79 mr baker was a farmer most of his life he was a councillor in the old whitchurch township and then in whitchurch-stouf- fville in the 1960s and 1970s he made an unsuccessful bid as the local mp for the new democratic party in the late 1960s his daughterinlaw kathy baker remem- bered him as a wonderful man i sincerely appreciated my fatherinlaw she said he was loved dearly by his family and was a very warm and affectionate man kathy said mr baker supported the overseas missionary work she and her husband peter the youngest of mr bakers four children were involved in he prayed for us daily and was interested and excited about the work peter and i were doing she said mr baker was a very godly man who was merlyn baker active in the baker hill baptist church teach ing the adult sunday school class for 30 years he is survived by his wife helen bell baker their children gertrude sheridan morgan john and peter and sisters alma oldham doris rat- cliff and mary hutchinson he had 10 grandchildren mr baker was predeceased by his brother alan a memorial service was held tuesday afternoon at baker hill baptist church doug alles granted recount mpp introduces palliative from page 1 held on december 21 or 22 with markham town clerk bob panizza acting as recount offi cer kennedy recently married will be on her honeymoon mayor wayne emmerson could not take part in the debate and ward 3 coun cillor margot marshall was absent in a dramatic meeting the gallery and coun cil heard from two deputy returning officers who reported that things went anything but smoothly on election night richard fronske who was at the ballantrae community centre told the tribune the town was aware there was a problem on election night he said a call was placed to the town around 710 pm the town knew about it a good three quar ters of an hour before they alles scrutineers were kicked out he said i objected to them being kicked out once they are sworn in the town cant even kick them out fronske said he is a veteran of three munici pal and two federal elections he said the town gave the officers contradictory information on what made for a valid scrutineers form after a lengthy wait for direction from the town he said a lady representing the town went into the middle of the room saying all peo ple representing doug alles had to leave town clerk michele kennedy said she received a phone call and made the decision believing the scrutineers forms had to have the additional signature deputy returning officer john mcphee was stationed at green gables manor he said he ordered a recount of the votes at his station when the numbers didnt add up correctly and it turned out a mistake had been made alles said one of his parkview village scruti neers objected to the counting of ballots a recount garnered alles six more votes i appointed 45 scrutineers he said it is my right to do so and it is in the public interest i was denied that right as it is set out in the elec tions act i efftjs s rttsw iw1 c m t i rig alles said it was the eight polls at the bal lantrae community centre that made the dif ference in the election in my mind i have to satisfy myself that things were correct or incorrect he said one has to determine why they were expelled councillors ed lyons cliff dunkeld and judy scala all spoke against a recount primarily because the 73vote margin of victory was too high to warrant it lyons said all candidates were faced with the same situation and dealt with it and that alles should have followed the requirements of the incorrect form ward one councillor ivanka bradley chairing the meeting had a different reason i want to show confidence to our mayor she said i want to show we want to work together if you alles feel theres been a wrong you should proceed to the courts ward 6 councillor mark kostandoff stood alone in favor of a recount 1 for one would support a recount because i believe in the democratic process he said then assuring alles there was no comparison intended kostandoff said if the devil were asking for a recount i would support it given the circumstances he admitted he only had one scrutineer on election night his mother i had complete faith in how the vote was to be conducted said kostandoff next election im going to wonder i would love to be able to convince all of you to grant a recount people believing in the system is at issue this debate is a legitimate reason for us to say lets do it after he had said this kostandoff was applauded by the gallery when council return after their 10minute absence scala introduced the motion support ing a recount prompting another round of applause from the gallery alles was obviously pleased as he left the council chambers ive always believed in standing up for your principles he said i think they did the right thing bun ria jsttupona isnoi yj n ym care bill at queens park mpp larry oconnor introduced a private members bill last wednesday which would let an employee take an unpaid leave of absence to care for a family member suffering from a terminal ill ness the bill entitled an act to amend the employment stan dards act would allow an employee to come back to their former position or if the position no longer exists to a comparable posi tion during the leave the employee would be able to participate in benefit plans and maintain their seniority my interest in this area came from my days on the shop floor at general motors in oshawa stated oconnor on an occasion while i was filling in for the pension benefit representative i had an opportunity to meet a fellow employee that needed some time to provide palliative care to a terminallyill spouse this individual needed time to spend with his partner of many years he continued not to retire early to mourn forever at the end of his spouses life oconnor hopes debate on 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