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weekender september 13 1986 p3 two hurt in crash a scarborough man was charged with careless driving after an accident on hwy 48 near 14th ave thursday morning a northbound volkswagen bee tle was approaching a line of traffic when it careered out of control and collided with a south bound dodge lancer driven by unionvilles robert smith at about 758 aim the volkswagen spun around and came to rest against a large truck both drivers suffered minor injuries charged with care less driving is paul ravenhill of scarborough bill lanning region wants to know how you get from place to place york region is studying how its residents get from one place to another in an effort to more clearly de fine travel patterns of york resi dents including those in mar kham and whitchurch- stouffville the region has joined neighboring areas in a compre hensive sixregion survey dubbed transportation tomor row the confidential telephone survey will contact approximate ly five per cent of households in durham halton hamilton- wentworth peel york and metro toronto it begins this monday and runs until dec 5 1986 data will be compiled and a report is expected next spring a total of 75000 households will be surveyed by telephone on fami ly travel habits 6000 of which live in york region its the first survey of this mag nitude since 1964 the 800000 cost will be shared by participat ing regions yorks portion after the provinces 75 per cent con- ed and claudette wti im not a golf fanatic tribution is 16000 york region transportaton director john ireland said the survey is needed here to update current data on travel patterns by people coming into and going out of the region daily he said figures tallied in a 1979 regional survey are now outdated because the regions population has since increased by 50 per cent participants will initially be contacted by letter one week prior to the phone survey each inter view is expected to take approx imately seven minutes calls will be made wceknights between 5 pm and 945 pm and on saturdays between 10 am and 5 pm hopefully the survey will pro vide a basis for transportation facilities which would best serve all the people said region chairman eldred king man fined after girl assaulted a former uxbridgc township man was fined 1000 in whitby district court after being con victed of indecently assaulting a young girl in handing down sentence aug 27 judge william lane also placed morlcy webb 61 on prob ation for 18 months ordered him to stay away from the victim and to receive all counselling recom mended by his probation officer webb has 120 days to pay the fine a charge of sexual assault was withdrawn noah would be proud yet another storm passed over rainweary markham this week causing floods in several parts of the town again ministry of environment officials said the twoday rainfall accumulated a total of 88 mm on the ground over wednesday and thursday the monthly average for september is 66 mm town of markham engineering department spokesman neil mortson said the area again had its share of flooding and closed roads as a result of the rain a portion of the 9th line between 16th ave and major mack enzie dr was shut off for 12 hours thursday to let the waters recede markham hydro was spared this time with little lighten ing accompanying the rain bill lanning fire damage was estimated at 7000 in an early morning blaze yester day in a markham apartment building gill lanning fire hits apartment an ontario hydro inspector and markham fire department are investigating the cause of a fire early yesterday morning at a robinson st apartment in mar kham firefighters were called to a fifthfloor apartment at 118 robinson st at 5 am the woman occupant was awakened by a loud bang and managed to escape along with two young girls the three were given oxygen and taken to a friends house by ambulance fire chief ken beckett said it is believed a television picture tube exploded causing the noise smoke and fire damage to the apartment is estimated at 7000 he said mr beckett said the cause is electrical but the source of the problem is unknown he said the inspector will examine the televi sion an electric heater and an air conditioner he added that the apartment was unequipped with a smoke de tector and said the woman was lucky she heard the noise he stressed the need for smoke detectors in all homes and apart ments to increase safety we deliver we can deliver your flyers for as lillle as 35c each call advertising al 2942200 or distribution at 2948244 1986 flyers delivered to jut 1 economist 4 suntribune 5760900 melround distributing 147147400 flyers with weekender crothers pascals canadian tire mothers didicr ica hillcres mall biwiy scars sunday greg ferris