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wednesday may 11 1983 sa5 air ulterior motive i dear jini i read with interest the press coverage given for the past two weeks in the tribune about durham regional councillor ston- ers fears that the curve on the 9th conces sion is a hazard several accidents have occurred on this curve over the years one in particular where i offered assistance to an injured driver while the stouffville fire depart ment used a saw to cut through the door to free him the very nature of my business leads me to believe that all accidents arc serious particularly when bodily injury is in volved it is not my intention to downplay the happenings at this corner but i take issue with the way the situation is being presented i have travelled this road about three days a week for 17 years in both directions and i drive approximately 60000 kilo meters a year having thus negotiated this curve more than 2500 times i feel my opin ion should be given as much consideration as mrs stoners but im not running for public office at the speed limit or under the curve is no more hazardous than 5000 others in southern ontario if mrs stonerwould take the time to investigate the occurences that have taken place im certain she would find that they all resulted from speeding driving on the wrong side of the road icy conditions or lack of attention human irresponsibility not the fault of the road my interpretation of the tone of your arti cles is that mrs sterner is trying to stir up enough response to create an issue if she is truly concerned about the accidents at this corner then it would seem the logical move would be to make the corner more visible with a danger or a slow sign the inference i read into the article is if enough noise is created by her york and durham will have to improve the road and mrs stoner will get the credit notwithstanding the fact that politicians seem to ha ve a voracious need to be visible the cost to the public of her visibility could be very high i understand this is federal government- expropriated land an engineering study planning and design and reconstruction of this corner could cost 200000 or more according to road design engineers ive spoken to this is a lot of money to pour into a road that may be obsolete now and more particularly if ottawa decides to do some thing differently with it if mrs stoner was to quietly arrange for a danger or a slow sign to be erected in this area then give some thought to edu- eating motorists to be more cautious id think more of her and of you for supporting her promoting politics with large headlines and photos may be good for votes and newspaper sales but lets not lose sight of the fact that taxpayers must bear the bur den of the result sincerely donald vale clarcmont editors note saving lives and not news paper sales was the only thought we had in mind when we lent support to this issue dea- jim im not sure if youre interested in this but it could makeiyou a lot of money with a small investment of only 50000 cash since you are such a wise person and a prudent investor and have all that money i figure you have enough to swing it im inviting a few good friends to invest with me in a large cat ranch in whitchurch- stouffville near the dump we would start with about a million cats at the rate cats multiply this will give us12 million cau skins at the end of the year with two million- cats remaining for brood for the fol lowing year white cat skins bring about 20 cents each and black ones about 40 cents realizing revenue of about 4 million dollars a year this averages out to about 11000 per day including sundays and holidays a good cat man can skin about 40 cats working parttime each day for 365 an hour it will take 663 men to operate the ranch employment for all teenagers in stouffville so the net profit would be over 9000 per day your 50000 investment would be recovered in just 53 days the cats would fed exclusively on rats who multiply four four times faster than cats we would start a rat ranch at the dump adjacent to our cat farm if we begin with a million rats we will have four rats per cat per day the rats will be fed on the carcasses of the cats we skin this will give each rat a quarter of a cat so as you can see this is a clean self- supporting and automatic business the cats will eat the rats the rats will eat the cats and we obtain the skins eventually i hope to cross the cats with snakes so they can skin themselves twice a year this would not only save thelabor cost of skinning but give us two skins per cat let me know if youre interested a deal like this wont last long and im rather choosey about who get into the skinning operation im reserving a very attractive en graved certificate for you on receipt of 50000 cash looking forward to our partnership sincerely alfons ilubbens stouffville ps if you dont like the catskinning business how about a piece of york sanita tion a saddle but no horse close to 125 young people and their parents attended an olde tyme square dance in the gymnasium at stouffville dist secondary school thursday night the event was a fundraising project for grade 7 stu dents at orchard park this pretty little gal in appropriate western wear is a few years out of grade 7 but she enjoyed the activity like all the rest shes jennifer goldman daughter of vic and daphne gold man elm road stouffville jim thomas eight york north 4h homemakers received county hon ors certificates at an achievement program in keswick friday night the four girls above are left to right crystal allan 15 vandorf joanne allan 14 vandord suzanne wong 15 bogarttown and linda mineur 15 bogarttown jim thomas investmentof sorts start a rat ranch the four other recipients of county honors diplomas are left to right suzanne mclean 15 mt albert gayle bailey 18 keswick joanne emsley 16 keswick and donna canning 15 queensville jim thomas awards goodwood a wrestling team from goodwood public school re cently participated in the junior divi sion of the durham region finals plac ing seventh out of nine entries although relative ly inexperienced several individuals gave strong per formances for the third suc cessive year chris winn captured the gold medal in his weight class 384 kilos scott koogje won a silver medal for his second place finish in the 354 kilos class bronze third place medals were won by john humphries brad ley miller and brent gould winners of fourth place ribbons were daniel hum phries and trevor stewart three 4h members received provincial hon ors certificates they are left to right danielle gervais 18 pine orchard patricia davis 18 pine orchard and wendy grimmctt 18 van dorf the presentations were made by york re gion home economist beverleybrook brigitta gamm vandorf road whitcli- urchstouftville was one of several con cerned citizens in attendance at the mini- cabinet meeting in the newmarket com munity centre since then she had written a letter to the hon larry grossman ontario minister of health outlining the following concerns a copy of that letter follows v the honorable larry grossman minister of health queens park ontario re health study in whitchurch- stouffville dear sir at the minicabinet meeting held april 27 the newmarket community centre you were asked by charles parker of the concerned citizens of whitchurch- stouffville when stouffville residents could expect the promised health study to be completed the 12 million study mr parker referred to was approved by your predecessor mr timbrell in 1981 as a result of an informal study carried out by our group our study revealed over 145 cases of various serious illnesses around landfill site no 4 which prompted your ministry to order a feasibility study which was subsequently carried out by dr robert steele the results were finalized in december 1982 and our group was in- formed by dr owen slingerland the medical officer of health for york region at that time that indeed the feasibility study proved that the proper one could now proceed to our surprise an article under the heading province flipflopping on stouffville study appeared in the toron- to star of april 19 as a result mr parker asked you the question obviously you did not realize what study he was referring to and passed the responsibility of answering on to mr norton he declined to answer and as you will remember shortly thereaf ter all questioners from whitchurch- stouffvillc were barred myself included however i patiently waited and was able to redirect the same query to mr nor ton after the question period he seemed just as surprised that you referred us to him as we were but promised to look into the matter and report back me on may 2 his deputy minister mr ban- nell phoned and assured me that indeed the plans regarding the health study had not been changed and would proceed however he could not give me any further details since obviously health studies do not fall under the jurisdiction of the minis try of the environment i would therefore ask you to clarify the situation for the residents of whitchurch- stouffville and let us know in writing when the study will proceed and when we could expect to be informed as to the result mr- grossman the fears of the residents that the dump is leaking and causing the illnes ses reported to our groups illnesshotline are real and have not diminished just be cause the ministry of the environment our town council and the chamber of com- merce for their own reasons have signed an agreement with waste management the concerned citizens of whitchurch- stouffville would welcome an opportunity to meet with you to show you our own health study map which prompted your predecessor to authorize the scientific study i sincerely brigitta gamm health committee concerned citizens whitchurchstouffville cooperation dear jim on behalf of the united church cou ples club we would like to thank the audi ence of over 2000 who supported music mania 83our 23rd show music mania is a unique community pro duction that involves over 100 local people working together to bring o the rest of the community a topnotch evening of enter tainment thanks to the tribune for your support with pictures and comments other groups in the community the boy scouts and cubs who helped with the par king the hic from the united church who served refreshments at intermission a s construction for use of their shop facili ties cards hardware who sold tickets stores that displayed posters all made the show successful proceeds from music mania 83 will be donated as follows high school award for performing arts 100 marjorie griffiths sports award at the high school 200 markham stouffville hospital fund 300 with the remainder going to the new whitchurchstouffville community re- creation centre sec you all at music mania 84 or better still become involved too sincerely jim and lovanna sanders presidents united church couples club