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p4 weekender july 20 1985 weekender omment farm land should be left alone governments love studies they would rather study something than make a firm decision and the current study of the pickering airport lands 18000 acres some of which includes east ern section of the town of markham is a case in point the federal government has hired a university of guelph research team to conduct interviews of people living on the airport lands which were ex propriated 13 years ago for a new inter national airport to serve the metro toronto area however intense opposition from loc al residents declining air travel due to rising energy costs and opposition from the ontario government finally forced the federal government to put the air port on hold but the land is still owned by the federal government and is rented out to farmers and others most of the land is being profitably worked by young tenant farmers who are better able to rent land than purchase it there is no reason to change the situa tion and a study is a waste of taxpayers money if however the land is retained the federal government must give a firm guarantee that the pickering air port will never be built speaking out do you prefer the new coke over the old coke asked on wootten way in markham and main st stouffville shawn cuthill markham student i like the old coke better the new coke tastes more like pepsi jeremy pompilio markham student i cant really tell the difference john marshall stouffville teacher i cant really notice any differ ence krista cum- mings stouffville student i like them both the same weekender letters dont cancel vote dear sir i would like to respond to the weekender article some hospital donors can celling i am in full agreement with mr cosburn the hospital chairman who suggests that voting at next years meeting would be a better form of protesting the outcome of this years election than cancelling pledges i would just like to point out that signing a pledge does not necessarily imply mem bership or the privilege to vote at the annual meeting my husband and i attended the meeting last month and we were shocked when some of the longtime dedicated trustees were not reelected we were in the frus trating position of being unable to vote this was not because we are disin terested in the hospital project quite the contrary i was one of the volunteers who went door to door gathering contributions and pledges during the fund raising cam paign at that time my husband and i signed a pledge which has been paid promptly and regularly unfortunately the intricacies of mem bership did not come to our attention they were not in effect when we signed our pledge we could not vote because our annual installments were too small to enti tle us to an automatic life membership although they were way in excess of the nominal 5 annual membership fee we simply neglected to stipulate that part of our annual donation should be specifically for a membership i therefore encourage people in the same position and lam sure there are many not to cancel their pledge but rather to re examine it and then do one of the following two things to ensure they are eligible to vote next year either pay up their pledge in full if the balance owing is 1000 or more and re ceive an automatic life membership for themselves and their spouse or stipulate that 5 each annual contribution be specifi cally for an annual membership once these details have been attended to it must be done three months before the next election of trustees come out to next years annual meeting and join the demo cratic process of electing the hospital board it is not enough to urge them to attend and vote at the meeting next year the technicalities must be delt with first to avoid the frustration of being a donor with out a voice jean port markham jcononiitsun thethbune weekender bruce annan publisher 9 heritage rd markham l3p 1m3 2942200 4959440 6402100 6492292 published every saturday by metroland printing publishing end 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