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thursdayoct52006 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville b 24 pages1 including gst main street lawyer gord ness community guy to the end briefly 3 calendar 15 sports 18 classified 20 staff photosjoerd witteveen running with the pack kyle obrien of stouffville district secondary school spartans centre with glasses starts in the middle of the pack in the junior boys alexander mackenzie high school mustang invitational cross country meet at milne park in markham friday for results see page 18 candidate says he wont take developers cash by hannelore volpe staff writer barely an hour before the clock struck five and nomina tions closed friday lifelong stouffville resident randy mole entered the race for mayor of whitchurchstouffville in the nov 13 election in the 2003 municipal elec tion he finished last in a three- candidate race won by sue sherban he has never held political office mr mole who has opposed unbridled development at to hear what your candidates have to say come out to the allcandidates meeting oct 19 from 730 to 930 pm at stouffville district secondary school and the vjhitchurchstouffville chamber of commerces mayoral can didates luncheon oct 18 beginning at noon at the bushwood golf club 10905 reesor rd markham reservations are required call the chamber at 9056424227 for cost and other information council over the past six years said he had been pondering whether to enter the political fray for some time he was pushed to act he said after trees were cut down for an auto mall on hwy 48 and the historic harper house burned down mysteriously he said he will not be accepting any donations from corporations who do business with the town since this is a grassroots campaign the neophyte politi cian is considering putting out penny jars for contributions and soliciting donations of less than 10 from anyone who wants to contribute on a per sonal level among his accomplish ments over the past three years he lists pushing for moving councilmeetings from daytime hours to 7 pm so more people could attend supporting the theatre at 19 civic ave and whistle radio stouffvilles fledgling radio station the past two administrap tions have been catering to the developers needs mr mole said it is time for our side of see candidate page 11 dumping miller group bothers councillors byserenawtjlloughby staffwriter the northern six municipalities in york region have entered into an agreement to combine their garbage and recycling pickup for the first time newmarket aurora east gwillimbury whitchurchstoufrville king and georgina sent out a request for proposals in july for companies to handle the collection of refuse after assessing the bids hurtle island recycling was selected that recommendation had to make its way through all six municipal councils before the company could be given the goahead king georgina aurora and east gwillimbury approved the recom mendation recently newmarket deferred its decision to a special coun cil meeting monday before giving it a thumbs up while whitchurch- stouffville held off its decision for two weeks before voting in favour of turtle island at tuesday afternoons council meeting several whitchurchstouffville councillors were perturbed to be mov ing from the miller group a company which they said had provided the community with good service and community support for many years see green page 9 happy thanksgiving from parthau wewellers 6312 main st stouffville 905k64o4646 y g