the bast choico a here ken prentice ownermanager 18 rlngwood dr stouffville 6429507 vol 109 no 53 tuesday june 24 1997 20 pages 50 gst ind a metrotancf jpitblicatw signy lawson eh concepts 6424540 see inside mflfkgefrsfflmffc touffville trustee cets new duties board reps may have to share trustee with neighboring communities mikeadler staff reporter stoiifivilles school trustees may have some new ground to news you can use h an allway stop will soon be put in at the intersection of lori avenue and stouffer street if government approval is granted on monday whitchurch- stouffville council was to review a recent staff recom mendation calling for the traffic measures- staff is also suggesting cau tionary signage denoting chil- drenatplay be installed on lori as an extra traffic mea sure two weeks ago local resident robert hargrave pre- serited a 37name petition calling for a stop signs more than 65 children live in the area hargrave stressed at times cars race down this road at speeds excess of 80 kilometres hargrave said whats inside comment p 4 calendar p 7 f strawberry fest p 10 sports p 15 classified p 16 cover this fall the town will have to share its public school trustee with east gwillimbury according to a draft plan to cut the size of the school board the separate board plan would see stouffvilles catholic trustee drop the townships of georgina and east gwillimbury but take responsibility for aurora and king sean pearce the cur rent trustee said the switch would be good news for stouf fvilles catholic school sup porters if the plan is adopted their trustees territory wont be quite as large as it is now he said last week its an extremely hard thing to cover the area said pearce who under new provincial rules cant run for reelection because his wife is a teacher public board trustee harry bowes said adding east gwillimbury to his stouffville duties would create a large district with several communi ties most of your work will have to be done over the tele- region may phone he concluded reorganizations are happen ing in both boards because the provincial government is cut ting down the number of trustees and trustee salaries in both cases stouffville wont have the population to get its own trustee bowes suggested that since the province has set a maximum salary of 5000 it should issue trustees a job description too it has to be a lot less than what theyre doing now he argued centre opens the oare- mont community centre opened with much fanfare this past weekend in the communi ty to the east of stouffville a parade and daylong activities were held to mark the occasion of the opening of the multiuse facility the 26 million pro ject was completed under the canadaontario infrastruc ture works program with each partner federal provin cial and municipal con tributing one third of the total costs one of the first of its kind the centre replaces five build ings firehall library seniors centre park pavilion and the old community centre here ben van gorp of the first claremont scouts carries the canadian flag into the centre see page 3 for more on the fes tivities photo by loriemmrson blink on waste depot plans joan ransberry staff reporter york region may back down from a plan to put a 135000- household hazardous waste depot at woodbine avenue and st john sideroad in stouffville reports local mayor wayne emmerson while the region has earmarked three depots to be build the plan now could be changed to have two one in markham and one in georgina said emmerson they might be able to do with two and not have to put one here said emmerson on june 18 a meeting attracted about 50 residents from the wood bine ayenue and st john sideroad area while residents listened as york region staff outlined details of a plan to build the facility at the york regions public works waste yard the residents expressed a concern about the present operation the people are not as worried about there being this depot theyre con cerned about the state of the site please see page 2 gpsi2 waigr water restrictions are in serving canadians for 75 years friday saturday june 27 28 lots of great buys located outside in the garden centre