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hospital lays off workers cuts hours markham stouffville cuts costs over 95million deficit by chris traber staff writer costcutting measures to trim a projected 95million deficit at markham stouffville hospital have left 36 fulltime staff without a job and another 95 with reduced hours the 131 affected employees represent approximately 10 per cent of the hospital staff and includes workers at the markham facility and affiliated uxbridge cottage hospital the cuts are across the board including administration clinical and support services senior vicepresident lome zon said it isnt clear if all staff have been informed of the cuts some of the people are not on schedule so im not 100percent sure every individual person has been spoken to mr zon said some of the staff changes are immediate while others take effect as late as april 30 next year in other cases the exact timing will be determined after collective agreement reviews with cupe following recommendations in a study initiated in the spring the hospital is trying to save 59 million a year the rest of the deficit will be made up with moneymaking initia tives health care staff cuts may become a trend cupe communications representative stella yeadon said i know very little about the specific layoffs at markham stouffville she said the only see hospitals page 7 hwy407 motorists haunted by bills collection agency wont listen drivers bymikeadler staff writer people unlucky enough to run afoul of 407 etr are in for calls at all hours six days a week from a collection agency that wont lis ten to reason liberal mpps heard this week and going to the highway operators with a billing error even one as simple as a wrong address can lead to months of frustration several toll road cus tomers told a provincial review panel in thornhill you are guilty until proven innocent said des bethell of markham who doesnt have a 407 account and at first was mystified by the recorded collec tion agency calls to his unlisted number told he owed the highway 10630 he eventually deduced his wife had used her transpon der in his car and it didnt work properly still mr bethell said it took months to fix the problem concord resident nayna pancholi said her husband jitendra has two panel vans the toll road sometimes counts as heavy trucks the size of tractor trailers as heavy trucks they are assigned a special 50 no transponder charge per trip so from february to october see driver page 4 victorian service for 2 staff photomike barrett richard preston of preston lake offers up a tray of sweets to evelyn seemann 3 and her sis ter katrina 6 at a victorian tea at the whitchurchstouffville museum in vandorf last week