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buy any tuna chnken or egg sandwich ana a soup and receive a free small coffee or pop 435 plus tax dainty donuts deli 1 8 ringwood drive stouffville g money fj concepts rirspt call 6424540 6132 main street stoufmlle tory government shakeup spells changes at library by joan ransberry staff reporter stouffville has been affected by the provinces move to hand over all responsibility for libraries to the municipalities the shift is part of the recommendations from the who does what panel provincewide it means libraries in ontario will lose 24 mil lion in provincial funding on the homefront whitchurch-stouf- fville public library will not get annual grants valued at about 38000 next year the sharp edge of the provincial axe has hit stouffville before last year library officials saw about 9000 trimmed from provincial funding the latest change could also mean user fees could be charged when taking library material excluding books the 13member staff at whitchurchstouffvill library wont be affected by the new system said chief librarian marilyn fer guson some library supporters are however crying foul claiming giv ing municipalities carte blanche over board appointments will bring an end to volunteerism and bring politics into a previous ly anticensorship environment local library board chairman monica van morris was not please see page 2 all lined up katelyn ross shows plenty of concentration as she lines up her shot during youth bowling action saturday at the the stouffville bowl photo steve somerville piock parent group threatened with folding by joan ransberry staff reporter the whitchurchstouffville block parent association will fold if an executive cant be formed by the end of febru ary a last ditch attempt to save the 200member association is being made if at least three residents dont come forward to help stouffvilles block parents will definitely fold said asso ciation spokesman maryanne mcmanus the local block parents faced the same fate a year ago it was salvaged at the 11th hour by three concerned resi dents were in the same boat again if it is not saved all block parent signs in win dows in stouffville will have to be turned in said mcmanus the main focus of block parents is to keep chil dren out of harms way mcmanus pointed out that if a few interested adults came forward- to lend a hand it would not be a great deal of work for anyone many hands make the load light she stressed duties carried out include delivering signs and handling the mail theres not a great deal to it and yet it provides such a vital service said mcmanus anyone interested in the local block parents should call 6404506 eight thousand remain to be tested for hepatitis b by joan ransberry staff reporter the investigation into canadas largest hepatitis b scare that also touched stouffville and markham is over yet 8000 people continue to be urged to undergo tests a health offi cial has reported mary ferguson of the north york public health board said the investi gation involving four public health departments uncovered 75 cases of hepatitis b nine months ago 18567 patients including some from markham and stouffville were notified that their health might be in serious jeopardy of those notified 10000 were test ed more than 8000 others who had eegs at the clinics may not yet have had blood tests said ferguson the patients including a 40-year- old musselmans lake woman were advised to get tested for the potential ly fatal disease it was a trying experience for the musselmans lake resident while tests showed that the woman was free of the disease she told the tribune that going through testing and the waiting was stressful for the whole family she had an eeg at a clinic to deal with a sleep disorder the patients have received eegs in clinics in markham pickering scar borough ajax and north york the clinics have stopped doing eegs auto mnnomn tire centre hours monday friday 800 am 800 pm saturday 800 am 500 pm sunday closed service manager bruce mackenzie 6405050 retail jttt cmwdirn vtire store hours monday friday 830 am 900 pm saturday 830 am 600 pm sunday 1030 am 400 pm store manager robert van bemmel 5945 main street stouffville 6405800