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New here? This event is an ideal way for you to embrace Whitchurch- Stouffville and learn more about what makes it tick. Get to know the people who run the museum in Vandorf, the minia- ture railroad near Ballantrae and the Masonic lodge in Stouffville, among others. Found out how you can help and better your community. Maybe you can make your own history here. For times and locations, go to doorsopenws.ca 0 The Toronto and Region Conserâ€" vation Authority is providing a look at items found last year at the archae- ological excavation at the Lewis Site, an early 18005 EuroCanadian pottery house at Bruce's Mill Conservation Area. This display will be located at the Whitchurch-Stouffville MuseUm. Beyond the curiosity factor and the structures, Doors Open is also an opportunity to meet your neigh- bours. The dig has captured the attention of residents since The Sunâ€"Tribune wrote about it last summer. You can meet the archaeologists who conducted the dig, learn the methods and techniques used to uncover and analyse their findings, tour a display of artifacts and try your hand at excavation. Originally a market and concert hall, it has been a movie theatre, bowling alley, billiards parlour, garage and, most recently, the municipal offices. You can see restoration in action, through a display of photographs of behind-the-scenes work to transform the 1896 landmark. It’s a chance to embrace the heri- tage of your home town and imagine what your predecessors did. Some of the highlights? 0 19 Civic Ave. in downtown Stouffville is being transformed into 19 on the Park. The arts centre is scheduled to open next spring. It’s on this Saturday from 12 loca- tions throughout the municipality. The premise? You can get entry into buildings that are normally off limits to the public. It’s all free of charge. The national program has operatâ€" ed in Whitchurch-Stouffville in other years. It’s called Doors Open Whitchurch- Stouffville. lETTERS POLICY than 400 words and must include a daytime tele hone number. name and a ream. TheSun-mb e reserves the right to p fish or not publish and to edit for clarity and space. Lotion to the EdItOV. The Sun-Tribune 6290 Mn St. StoufMflo, ON I.“ '67 The Sun-THbune welcomes your letters. All submissions must be less lmason.yrmg.com Smujfville Sunâ€"Tribune I Thursday, lune 5, 2008 A look back, and ahead Editorial lmmcnvna MEDIA mung I: Mva'dalng Manager Dawna Andrews dandn’ulsfi'yrmgrom Ennonm Editor lim Mason jmmonfi‘yrmg. mm Demand from residential growth has already exceeded supply at Markham Stouffville Hospital. What all levels of government lack is a motivation Novopharm, a for-profit drug company, is expanding its facilities here in Stouffville. The town office was expanded when more capacity was needed. And, how long does it take Smart!Centres and other development companies to build Walâ€"Mart. Canadian Tue, Tim Hortons, Boston Pizza and more retailers to come? What’s their motivation? Demand from residen- tial growth and profit. One would think if hospitals were private, for- pmfit entities that qualified construction companies would expand hospitals as rapidly as they build new residential, retail and commercial structures. Mayor Wayne Emmerson is quoted as saying “We’re already bursting at the seams" and “we won’t see progress at the hospital until 2016. That’s a long time and we need another game plan." Here’s another game plan for our politicians: Put a moratorium on approval of new housing developments in the region until development fees can be increased to go directly to fund hospital expansion. Unionville resident Don Hammond gets it, say- ing: “We’re building homes and moving in families faster than the hospital can handle them.” Re: Hospital expansion delay slammed, May 31 “Increased demand from hospitals and a short- age of qualified construction companies is being blamed for the province's decision to phase in funding.” Expand York Region’s hospitals before moving in new families Classified Manager Bonnie Rondaau hmndmufi’yrmgrom ADVERTISING Retail Manager Stacey Allen sallmfi’yrmgmm 'Sfi'W-Tribune PUBLISHER Ian Proudfoot Letters to the Editor 6290 Main St. Stouffville, 0N. MA 167 wwwwrluegiomcom Pnonucnon Team Leader Sherry Day u/‘PAT' WHEELEwa SUN-TR! BONE We appreciate the comrnents' and enthusiasm we received and are looking forward to next year's show, the first weekend in May 2009. THE LEMONVILLE GROUP OF ARTISTS WHITCHURCHSTOUFFVILLE Thanks to residents, Sun-Tribune The Lemonville Group of Artists annual show and sale was another great success, with records crowds. We would like to thank everyone, including The Sunfl‘i'ibune, for supporting us again this year. I am asking citizens to lobby government at 511] levels to find a better way to spend our tax dollars where most needed. Expand hospitals, roads, fire halls, arenas, schools and other public infrastructure before building homes and moving in new families. for profit. Don’t get me wrong. I’ve seen Michael Moore's documentary Sicko and I am fortunate to live in a country with universal health care. This letter is not an argument for wholesale privatization of health care. However, I do believe competition would force the putglic heal_th care system to: operate more efliciently. b What do you think of this issue? E-mail a letter to the editor your own to:jmason@yrmg.com WU HAVE YOUR SAY, STOUFFVILLE ' ' ' I I ( \Nm‘ 4:941!!! Busmnss MANAGER Robert Lazurko Enmn m Cum Debora Kelly IGET SUCH A KICK our ormrs GAME! EDITOR IA L 905-640â€"261 2 Fax: 905-640-8778 ytD-DQU-zb I z arr: 905-640â€"8778 ADVERTISING 905-640-2612 Fwd: L800â€"7A3-3353 ax: 905-640-8778 DISTRIBUTION 905~640-26 l 2 A York Region Media Group community newspaper Ihe Sunâ€"Tribune, published every Thursday and Saturday. is a division of the Metroland Media Group Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. Metroland is comprised of 100 mmnlty mm m Ontariolhe‘fork Region Newspaper Group includes The Liberal. sewing Richmond Hill and Thomhlll, Vaughan Citizen, The Era-Banner (NewmarkeUAumra). Markham Economist Sun, Georgina Advocate, York RegiOn Business Times, North of the City, yorkregion.com and York Region Printing. Duuacmn lmuwmva Mann a 'I‘ncuuowcv John Futhey BILL GRANT STOUFFVILLE Dumcmn, CIRCULATION SYSTEMS Lynn Push/co DInEcmn, ADVERTISING You REGION PRINTING I. DIs'nunu’nou GENERAL MANAGER Ban), Black Bob Dean McGuinty. Banning cellphones in school zones and plastic bags in the liquor store is nice. But what we’re asking for is more hospital beds, Dalton. That's it. An expansion. scheduled to begin in 2010, has been delayed, it was learned last week. It’s our hospital, just 10 minutes away, which beats the heck out of trav- elling to Centenary in Scarborough, our former local hospital, believe it or not, newcomers. The two corfimimities it serves have grown astronomically in the last 18 years. The hospital remains the same size. But anyone who has sat for hours in emergency or waited much longer for a bed, knows Markham Stouffville, as it sits, cannot keep up. Stouflvillites, either through personal giving or the multitude of fundraisers, donated many dollars to see the Ninth Line facility open in 1990. Our son was one of the first kids born there. The portable classroom manufac- tures are still in business, but many more school yards are now free to have children actually play in them now. New schools are going up as homes are being built, to which the folks near Harry Bowes and Oscar Peterson public schools in Stouffville can attest. But hospitals? Not so much. Markham Stouffville Hospital is where most of us go when we break a leg, need a boil lanced or a baby born. The two things we need the provin- cial government to provide for us with the Bn’nks trucks of tax money we ship down the 404 to Queen's Park? Somehow, Ontario has a handle on its schools. Remember the days when almost every school in high growth areas of York Region had its yard filled with portables? lim Mason is editor of The Sun Tribune. Hospital bed and classrooms, please, Mr. McGuinty. (SEW-Tribune A little help here, please, Mr. McGuinly but that's unacceptable, Mr. with Jim Mason Off The Top