thctwbiiiie 25000 copies vol 2 no 9 a metroland community newspaper saturday march 1 1986- 32 pages 25 cents closer to sewage solution whitchurchstouffville council has made a move towards solving its limited sewage capacity problem by a 51 recorded vote mem bers indicated interest in hook ing up to the yorkdurham sew age system better known as the big pipe the line extends from newmar ket through to lake ontario serv ing aurora richmond hill vaughan and markham the deadline for making ap plication was thursday council lor jim sanders was the lone dis senting voice because the present sewage plant can accommodate up to 10400 people no immediate ap plication is planned however council has served notice on the region that in the future plan ning of whitchurchstouffville well probably need it mayor fran sainsbury told the tribune that should this occur it will sound the death knell of stouffville as the kind of commun ity we now know she was quick to point out however that without development comes stagnation and unacceptable tax escalation construction of a pipe extend ing from stouffville to a point mid way between hwy 7 and 14th ave nue markham could take up to seven years mayor sainsbury said and cost at todays prices seven million dollars a project of such magnitude would have to be heavily subsi dized by developers she ex plained mayor sainsbury predicted no thing this major would occur dur ing councils present threeyear term she said the council of 1988 to 1991 could in all likelihood be called on to make this decision with respect to growth projec tions over the next several years a twoday study session is sche duled for march 20 and 21 at a location still to be determined theres just once chance left to see stouffville dis trict high schools variety show 86 which con cludes tonight at the high school in the foreground magicians sharon moyer left front and jill keith make spanky jason stronach appear from a box watching the proceedings are front row left to right cathy davis lee carney and kathy gold man and back row left to right stephanie lint- ncr simon gallop lisa fockler charmainc lint- ner stephen barclay annika ilannan kary white and tyler townend sjoerd wittevcen father convicted the father of two young boys who perished in a 1984 fire near uxbridge has been convicted of criminal negligence in their deaths in his decision wednesday whitby district court judge john hoolihan said john arthur begin failed in his duty as a parent to try and rescue the children jeffrey daniel begin six and his threeyearold brother michael died of smoke inhalation in a blaze at the familys epsom farmhouse early on the morning of jan 29 1984 begin 45 has been released on 1500 bail pending a presentencing report march 21 he had pleaded not guilty to two charges of criminal negligence causing death this is a case of human tragedy for the innocent children who died for the bereaved mother and for the accused man who suffers from the illness or sickness of alcoholism the judge said in a harshly worded judgment court was earlier told that the accused man had consumed large quanti ties of alcohol the evening of the fire judge hoolihan determined that even though begin had been drinking heavily he should have made an effort to get his sons out of the burning twostorey structure and he said the father contributed materially to the boys death by starting the blaze testimony established that begin turned a kitchen stove element to its highest setting then passed out on the floor leaving the burner unattended the ontario fire marshalls office ruled the kitchen cupboards caught fire after an clement was left to overheat instead of attempting to go upstairs and save his sons court heard evidence that begin crashed through a window and took refuge in a neigh boring house leaving the stove on didnt amount to criminal negligence according to judge hoolihan but bcgins failure to give the scugog volunteer fire department the correct address did it was an act of criminal negligence particularity when youre right in your own home almost inconceivable he told begin who showed no emo tion throughout the lengthy judgment firefighters from scugog and uxbridge townships testifed during the trial that precious minutes were lost when an incorrect address was pro vided before the epsom location was determined when they arrived on the scene uxbridge firefighters discovered the two bodies begin and former wife darlcne christie were divorced after the fire and he has since moved to oshawa the dead boys mother was in court for the verdict whats inside bsshfi r y heads up j judo partici- h pants tossed j around16 v jk directory comment p4 childrens page p11 entertainment p12 to p14 sports p16 to p19 real estate p21 to p25 classified p26 to 31 toe tickler shes bringing reflexology out of dark ages8