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theariruncthursdax july24 p3 missed putt peter shier misses a putt by an inch on the eighteenth green at the emerald hills golf and country club in the darryl sittlerernie whitt canadian spe cial olympics golf tournament held on tuesday july 22 j r photo by sjoerd witteveen the ratio of officers to people in york region one to 91 5 says scott from page 1 enough resources to do the job but then we have a low crime rate and the public seems satisfied he said as the population expands so too must the budget for exam ple he says the ratio of officers to people in metro is 1 to 411 an acceptable ratio in an outlying area is 1 to 700 in york its 1 to 915 a long range plan will help us put all that in perspective and allow us to plan ahead put it before the regional council and hope the regional council accepts it the plan will address many issues outside the audit such as long- range planning in areas like traffic management and other changing issues as the province downloads more responsibilities to municipali ties as well public hearings are scheduled perhaps as early as late fall to gain a sense of the publics expectations and concerns he added rosatis motion also includes a resolution that commits the board to monitoring the performance of the chief this comes after chief bryan cousineau stepped down in april while the ontario provincial police investigate allegations of criminal wrongdoing brought to the atten tion of those same provincial audi tors im an outsider and i have had quite a broad experience scott added i have to say you have a real pro fessional police force here who have been doing wonders health commisson gives 905 hospitals breathing room mike adler staff reporter the provincial health ser vices restructuring commis sion gave suburban residents some encouragement yester day even as it lowered the axe on 15 metro toronto hospi tals suburban hospitals say the commission will announce its initial plans this fall for reshaping heajth care in york durham halton and peel regions a lobby group for 17 hospitals in the 905 belt says commissioners seem to understand its mes sage that people here want more services closer to home theyre starting to recog nize explicitly the kind of development we need jim armstrong of the gta 905 healthcare alliance said in ajax yesterday in a may presentation the group told the commission access to chronic longterm care rehabilitation and men tal health services are seri ously deficient in the subur ban regions compared to most of ontario yesterday the commissions final word on metro hospitals found a distribution prob lem in the available rehabili tation beds in the greater toronto area and said a 226 per cent increase of such beds is needed outside metro the rehabilitation beds in metro toronto will decrease but there will be a propor tional increase in the balance of the gta the government- appointed group said in a release which also promised an eastern regional centre would be chosen following its review of services in york and durham the announcement means some suburban dialysis patients who are now forced to travel to torontos welles- ley hospital will be able to get treatment at york central hospital in richmond hill the regional dialysis centre york central will get 82 million a year for taking a fifth of wellesleys dialysis program and portions of the emergency surgical and other programs at north york bran son hospital which is con verting to an ambulatory care centre nancy webb a spokesper son for york central said suburban hospitals can do many things done in metro give us the resources to do it she said give us the resources to grow with our community closing some downtown hospitals will have less of a measurable impact on markham stouffville hospi tal spokesperson rosalie penny said yesterday but because markham stouffville is close to scar borough hospitals it could be affected by the results of the joint east metro hospitals task force a study ordered by the restructuring commis sion and expected in the fall she said and a spokesperson for scarborough grace hospital said markham residents about 20 per cent of its case load will be relieved to hear the hospital will keep its popular obstetrics program which delivers 3000 babies each year the commission reversed its preliminary decision to remove scarborough graces special care nursery which allows it to care for all but the most seriously ill newborns we would have been send ing two babies a day to anoth er hospital said catherine hinton appeals from residents including many in southern markham were instrumental in producing this good news she said local economic developer files suit against lindsay mayor whitchurchstouffvilles business economic developer has filed a law suit against his former employee the town of lindsay and its mayor eric lismanis is suing the town and lindsay mayor marty stollar for 6000 plus costs and interests the case was filed in small claims court in lindsay lismanis claims mayor stollar made defamatory statements against him the case deals with lismanis handling of a private festival and a townrun project lismanis resigned from his post as economic developer officer for lindsay last may and was hired in whitchurchstduffville in january joan ransberry resurfacing of hwy 48 up to york road 15 is an investment for the future joan ransberry staff reporter a king city company picked up a 26 million contract to resurface a section of hwy 48 extending to york road 1 5 in ballantrae yesterday durham- york mpp julia munro and transportation minister al palladini announced that safety will be improved by resurfacing of part of hwy 48 in markham and the northerly section of york road 15 or aurora road in whitchurch-stouf- fville restoring this heavily used section of hwy 48 to top condition will improve safety as well as driving con ditions said palladini the work is also an investment for the future as it will extend service life of this highway for many years to come the contract was awarded to kj beamish construction company ltd of king city work is scheduled to begin any day while completion will be in late octo ber work also includes the rehabilita tion of the little rouge river bridge located about five kilometers north of hwy 7