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saturday june 15 2002 25 economist sun stouffville tribune sports rouge river fishway finally gets the green light better late than never a fish ladder will be built at the milne park dam site on the rouge river in markham after all the fishway was supposed to have been built three years ago but was put on hold for several reasons said the ministry of natural resources now its a go- mark heaton a fisheries biologist with the ministrys aurora district office said con struction is expected to begin sept 3 among the primary reasons for the prolonged delay heaton revealed were design modifica tions that were required to meet the fisheries act guidelines there were some sea lam prey control elements that were incorporated in the design and that was a major concern for approval under the fisheries act said heaton who is also the project facilitator another hurdle which delayed construction was financing and in particular who would be responsible for out laying the money to cover all of the costs with an estimated cost somewhere near 500000 heaton said with assurance that the required funding is now secured weve got the modified outdoors mik hayakawa designs to the fish ladder com ing forward and an agreement with the cornell development community for financing and the toronto region conservation authority he said with construction to begin in september barring any snags the fishway would be completed by december things are progressing for ward there were no delays due to the opseu strike cited heaton who was quick to point out no objections were raised when the minisuy and develop ers held a recent public hearing on the fishway heaton said the fishway will be different from a traditional vertical ladder instead a denil model will be created to assist fish in negotiating their way around the 45metre high con crete dam at milne park the problem with a vertical ladder heaton said is that it limits entrance to certain species of fish that can jump such as salmon or trout a denil model is comprised of a series of rectangular con crete pipes that have baffles and creates turbulence it also reduces the velocity of water which in turn allows all species to go through with close to 55 different species offish currently inhabit ing the rouge river heaton said the denil model would allow all of these species to utilize it upon negotiating the fish way the species would have access to some 50 kilometres of water on the rouge river and its tributaries that extend near the elgin mills and bayview avenue areas in richmond hill in past years when rainbow trout were transferred manually over the milne dam these headwaters were utilized for their spring spawning ritual there are two denil fishways in use in the greater toronto area on the humber river at the board of trade golf club in woodbridge and at raymore park just south of highway 401 scoring a big award several members of the markhamstouffville stars novice c girls hockey team including top row far left erin murphy 9 selbey tunney 9 and hannah tunney 7 and bottom row far left emily oshaughnessy 8 and danielle porter 9 proudly display the medals they received from the town of whitchurchstouffville on thursday during the annual recognition of athletes awards night at latcham hall recipients were those who earned a provincial title either playing for a stouffvillebased team or are from whitchurch- stouffville for the complete list of recipients see sportsboard on page 26 timely hits and solid defence propel stoufrville to seventh win chris burkholder and scott eyre smacked twoout fourthinning backtoback homers to propel the stouffville mennos to a 20 win over oshawa mickey finns in oshawa city and district softball league action wednesday at durham fields the mennos also received some timely defensive efforts in the sec ond and third innings as mickey finns loaded the bases with none out in each of those frames only to come up empty handed terry reesor limited mickey finns to just four hits while striking out three to earn the win now 72 on the season the mennos are scheduled to play two road games next week at claremont on wednesday and in bradford on thursday raiders derail express scott jamieson scored four touchdowns and added a twopoint convert to ignite the markham raiders collegiates to a 350 win over the beeton express in ontario football action last central minor league sunday trevor belrose added a touch down and colin maclean booted three converts for the raiders now 20 the raiders now 20 play tomorrow at ajaxpickering at 3 pm sports digest macri to race in portland markham soccer men prevail the markham soccer club mens team ran their ontario soccer league unbeaten streak to three games on wednesday with a 31 victory over visiting bramalea celtic czeslaw zajac al fogetti and d a r i u s z ostaszewski on a penalty kick each scored for markham who led 10 at the half now 201 on the season the markham men were scheduled to play a road game yesterday against cns club livno in oakville and tomorrow against csc velebit karlovac jonathan macri hopes to make some amends this weekend when he visits portland international raceway in portland oregon for the fifth leg of the cart toyota atlantics 12race schedule with the running of the atlantic freightlinergi joes 200 presented by texaco after failing to finish in last weeks race at laguna seca in monterey california when his pl racingntn bearings miller genuine draft swift 014a vehicle made contact with a wall the 20- yearold gormley resident is opti mistic he can make a trip to the vic tory podium earlier in the year macri did a test run on the 1969- mile road course in portland and found it to his liking testing went well at portland we managed to find a good base line setup for the car and i found a good comfort zone there so we should be in good shape for the race said macri who is in 10th place in the overall jonathan macri hopes to improve on outing at laguna seca series macri had his first 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