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whod go for a joyride on a seventon bulldozer taken from his property friday and discovered certain hed have found it eventually after all a and called police the dozers thats what paul bolender of rr2 stouffville sunday at the bottom of a sixfoot deep pond bulldozer does leave tracks he said two dirt its immersion sons john and would like to know the widetrack machine was although paul had no idea where to look hes bike riders saw the exhaust pipe above the surface again the next day none the worse for bruce had it going jim thomas stouffville quality t7s dojuo jeweller ymmzzi october t is jeweller opal month 24 main st stouffville 6404646 serving whitchurchstouffville vxhridge area vol 98 no 22 a metroland community newspaper wednesday october 2 1985 countrye lyme realty ltd dont keep your house a gm secret list with the esi countrye folke g 6495090 6405090 1 38 pages 50 cents i mayor critical extravagant election costs stouffville it may nof 6e gentlemanly to hit a lady but for the first time since the mayoralty campaign started tom wood has come out swinging hes irritated by the fact his opponent councillor fran sains- bury is soliciting funds and has established an expense account that could reach 10 v mayor wood says he has in his file a letter signed by mrs sains- bury in which shes requesting financial support 5rthis scares me he said its never been done here before its the type of tactic thats used in provincial politics mayor wood claims such dona tions set a dangerous precedent since the giftgivers can later re turn and demand certain favors i dont like the turn its tak ing mayor wood continued everything was always open and above board before he expects to keep his election expenses below 3000 wood feels the municipality should pass a bylaw making it mandatory that all donors of student killed in twocar crash i by jim thomas stouffville bruce and mary watters sat in the quiet of the oneill funeral home mon day evening accompanied by friends and former neighbors herb and alene hoover v their pastor rev jim clubine read passages of appropriate scripture and led the group in prayer ij mrs watters sobbed softly on her husbands shoulder and mr watters fought back the tears for them daughter christine and son david the whole world had suddenly come crashing down sharon their 17yearold was lead victim of a tragic twocar collision late saturday night at 16th avpnue and the ninth line of markham i sharon had been a passenger in a northbound car driven by marek alexander 18 of toronto and formerly of stouffville marek was seriously injured and remains a patient in scarborough centenary hospital less serious- lyhurt was 19yearold kelly car- rick church street north stouff ville the driver was wearing a seat belt his two passengers were not both were thrown onto the roadside by the impact the second car also north bound was driven by anthony vetter 18 of 15 henry corson place markham john morrison and ronald gib son both of stouffville were two of the first on the scene they ren dered first aid to the injured and assisted in releasing marek from behind the wheel sharon a grade 12 student at stouffville dist secondary school was a participant the careers coop course at sdss with a placement only last week at the chickadee day nursery on albert street following graduation she had hoped to work with handicapped children children loved her mrs watters said funeral service will be held wednesday today at 1 pm with interment stouffville cemetery funds in excess of 500 be identi fied a full statement he says should be made public 90 days fol lowing the election further a re cord should be kept of all ex penses and receipts should be issued for all donations over 100 hes promised if reelected to personally introduce this legisla tion mayor wood decried what he called a razzledazzle election campaign its all very profes sional he said if the public is fooled by it so be it wood also sees the likelihood of party politics entering the cam paign he doesnt like this trend either while an admitted prog ressive conservative he says hes never allowed this interest to influence his actions at the muni cipal level ive been offered help but ive always turned it down ill run my own campaign as a municipal campaign he concluded toymaker injured ringwood toymaker paul simpson is recovering the ringwood man noted for his creations of wooden toys suf fered a deep cut to his left leg when sliced by a circular saw the accident occurred wednes day at upper canada post beam limited hwys 47 and 48 where mr simpson is employed parttime although his activities will be curtailed the local craftsman hopes to keep pace with toy orders as they come in he doesnt expect to return to his other job for at least three months request new wells ballantrae town coun cil has made application for the replacement of 72 wells in the bal- lantrac area of whilchurch- stouffville the cost if approved by the en vironment ministry would be close to 800000 mayor tom wood told the tribune each of the wells draws water from shallow and medium aquif ers a flow area thought to be con taminated by road salt fertilizers and effluent from septic tanks only two wells are deepdrilled into the lower aquifer theyre re ported problem free j council is asking the ministry to absorb 100 per cent of the cost mayor wood said to poison rat hideout li v hospital location the markhamstouffville hospital will be built at the original site ninth line north of hwy 7 the decision announced tuesday by trustee glenn crosby was reached at a board meeting monday night the public meeting will still proceed oct 8 at markham dist high school a groundbreaking cere- mony is planned for novcm- ber with completion of the 35 million structure slated for late 1988 rats some larger than this fellow have been seen in the ballantrac area of whitchurchstouffvillc residents believe they arc migrating from the hwy 48 landfill site whitchurch officers of york regions public health branch will place poison around the periphery of the hwy 48 land fill site in an effort to kill the thousands of rats that may be hold up there mayor tom wood said hed spoken to dr owen slingcrland the medical officer of health concerning the problem and was assured action would follow im mediately according loan authority on rat reproduction between five and fifteen thousand could be entren ched in an area that large although dr slingcrland con siders it unusual for rats to mi grate great distances residents of ballantrac three miles to the north report seeing the long- tailed creatures on the aurora sidcroad and even in their own backyards several of the rodents have been killed since the landfill site is now closed its believed the rats may be leaving the dump in search of food one caller claimed health offi- cials should have thought of this problem and taken action before the migration began its too much for the individual to handle its scary she said another caller noted that if the rats are prevelent as far distant at ballantrac think of the problem for people living closer she de scribed the one she saw as as like a large cat but with a longer tail the tribune contacted the town library and discovered that under favorable conditions a pair of rats could raise as many as 350000000 offspring in three years control measures follow rat- proofing buildings eliminating nesting sites removing food and water supplies poisoning fumi gating and trapping