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inside 6 gift guide 15 sports 26 classified 28 3 new stouffville citizens group wants growth slowed down services in place for newcomers community calendar event a midnight clear christmas play when dec 13 14 and 15 7 pm 9058875651 where springvale baptist church stouflville rd f k got noxious neighbours buyer beware for those living next to factories serving whitchurchstouffville since 1888 50 cents including gst 44 pages saturday dec 7 2002 toronto staff blamed by caoat mfp inquiry critical information missing from report by david nickle metroland staff writer senior toronto staff who rec ommended a cosdy computer leasing deal were being less than full and frank and accurate york regions new cao told an inquiry into the deal friday michael garrett who was torontos chief administrative officer while the deal was being inked was on the stand at the toronto computer leasing inquiry for the second day on thursday mr garrett who worked in toronto for about 18 months told the inquiry as that citys chief administrative officer he bore the ultimate responsibil ity for staff actions but on friday under ques tioning from commission coun sel ron manes mr garretts assessment of those staff former treasurer wanda liczyk y2k head lana viinamae and former information technology director jim andrew came out ms liczyk and mr andrew both recommended toronto council go ahead with a plan to lease 43 million worth of com puter equipment from mfp financial services the recommendations to council didnt however include information mr garrett identi fied as critical that information included the fact the 43percent see senior page 9 reindeer ready for todays parade staff photosjoerd witteveen kinsmen club of stouffville members from left doug marshall bruce gribbon and frank mcgillan prepare santas float for todays kinsmen santa claus parade the parade runs along main street starting at 2 pm from the tenth line and heads west through downtown stouffville ending at the novopharm plant there are 70 entries up from 58 last year to reach us 905 6402612 norwa markham stouffville scrambles to deal with redirected patients by lisa queen staff writer a highly contagious gastrointestinal virus has forced one york region hospital to close its emergency department a second to redirect noncritical ambulance patients and left the third scrambling to care for an influx of sick residents hospital administrators fear the situation may get worse this week before it gets better the norwalk virus is an acute stomach bug that leaves its victims with watery diarrhea vomiting cramps mild fever chills sore throat and headaches symptoms typically appear 24 to 48hours after contact with the virus and the illness usually lasts 24 to 48 hours it is an unpleasant illness but its not life- threatening said york central hospitals new chief of staff dr richard schabas norwalk is probably the most highly contagious of illnesses to show up in insti tutions of our kind the worst of this may not be over york central took the most extreme mea sures of yorks three hospitals thursday night after the virus struck meanwhile southlake regional health centre in newmarket began friday redirect ing noncritical ambulance patients to markham stouffville hospital and barries royal victoria hospital while the hospitals emergency department see norwalk page 10 sits no payment for 90 days no security deposit on all leases olua tc awtid- ulf4cl4 1i in a 10 car country ifcealtyltd 6400888