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stouffville suntribune thursday june 23 2005 7 sleepy hollow residents offer to maintain park by hannelore volpe staff writer the first steps toward a parkette in sleepy hollow estates the first in a whitchurchstouffville estate subdivision were taken earlier this month a local developer 911 investments ltd has been asked to dedicate or sell a small portion of its 15acre property for parkland when five new homes are built on the site the sleepy hollow estates are on the 10th line south of bloomington road until now the town has not provided parks for estate developments because the larger lots have room for swimming pools and play structures sleepy hollow resident irene owchar who began lobbying council about a year ago suggested the parkette be maintained by local residents instead of town staff last year mrs owchar presented council with a 46name petition that sug gested parents shouldnt have- to drive each time their children want to play in a park there are about 65 fami lies in the subdivision councillor susanne hilton said it was refresh ing residents are willing to maintain the parkette con sidering we are cash- strapped as a council but councillor harry susanne hilton appreciates residents helping cashstrapped town council bowes would also like to see sleepy hollow residents do some fundraising for the parkette in 2004 it cost about 1620 per acre jor town staff to maintain parkland excluding competitive playing fields or recreation al facilities the town would have a supervisory role in seeing that a future parkette is properly maintained councillor phil bannon said both councillors how ever believe there is a greater need for a park in themusselmans lake area which has a population of close to 1500 residents have been asking for parkland at the ninth line lake for a num ber of years driving course revs up today the 55 alive course to help older drivers hone and update their driving skills is coming to stouffville it is being taught at the stouffville royal canadian legion on ninth line north of main street today june 27 and 30 from 930 am to noon the course prepares older drivers for driving tests once they turn 80 it also teaches defensive driv ing how to become more comfortable in todays heavier traffic and identify and correct bad driving i habits the course is taught by barbara west who has been trained by the canada safety council sv do not have call display and we do not record the call cash rewards for anonymous tips that lead to an arrest 1 800222tips or wwwcrimestoppersyrca this message brought to you as a community service of the econornistsuntribune to register for 55 alive call 905- 6420187 canada day sale one week only june 25 july 2nd 4747hwy7eas markham 9054775524 wimwalmiracom nstnrmm j o i -0- w5xim-