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weekender jswaryyi 17 p3 one killed one injured in bloomington road crash a 71yearold bobcaygeon man was killed and his wife seriously injured in a headon cartruck collision tuesday on the bloomington road near the 9th concession of whitchurch- stouffville john plumbtree driver of a west bound 1976 chevrolet was pronounced dead at the scene marjorie plumbtree 67 a passenger was injured in the crash driver of the eastbound gravel truck was peter kontosoros 55 of toron to he escaped injury bill lanning air ambulance rushed mrs plumbtree to sunnybrook hospital where she remains in critical condition force of impact caused the gravel truck to ride overtop the car pinning the driver and passen ger beneath a heavy derrick had to be employed to lift the truck high in the air so the victims could be released a section of the bloomington road was blocked to through traffic almost two hours bill lanning bylaw discriminates against religious group lawyer says by steve houston staff reporter while accusations of discri mination were hurled in council chamber tuesday members vetoed a local solicitors exemp tion request for a religious group from markhams interim control bylaw gary kay a solicitor represent ing the sanatan mandir all faiths church said the towns bylaw discriminates against his clients he bases the accusation on ex emptions given to three other churches the bylaw was passed in may 1985 to halt development in cer tain areas of the town until the catholic teachers reject final offer a sweeping majority of teachers rejected the york catho lic school boards final offer 1106 votes to 103 voting was conducted in the york region roman catholic schools thursday and ballots were counted and scrutinized by representatives of the provincial education relations commission erc marshall jarvis president of the york unit of the ontario en glish catholic teachers associa tion called the result a clear in dication of the teachers views of this boards offer the teachers chief negotiator ed chudak will be asking the erc to call both sides back to the bargaining table but mr jarvis said there is always the possibil ity of a strike although teachers would prefer to work out their dif ferences through further negotia tions teachers say the issues still dis puted are class size pupil teacher ratios and working conditions the board hasnt met those de mands nor has it agreed to the teachers salary increase prop osals the teachers have never gone out on strike during past labor dis putes two cupe locals have regions ok york regional council thurs day approved new contracts with two of its three cupe locals which represent 200 members of regional staff each local will receive a 425 per cent general salary increase in 1987 while 131 workers at york manor who agreed to a twoyear agreement will receive the same in 1988 also approved by council at the meeting were adjustments to rates of pay for specific positions improvements to vacation sche duling and vision care allo wances region chief administrative officer bob forhan said vaca tions will now be calculated based on anniversary date of hire and employees will be allowed 200 bi- annual allowances for eye glasses bargaining between the region and cupe began in late october last year and concluded last week mr forhan noted that this was the earliest that negotiations had been settled still outstanding are agree ments with yorks local of the ontario nurses association and the regions nonunion em ployees town decides what they want to do with the land according to regional councillor ron moran the groups plan to build a church on land purchased near 16th ave and warden ave was cut short when their application was submitted three days after the control bylaw passed the reality is that we are the only religious organization that has been caught by the bylaw said mr kay in an interview his deputation at council tues- day was aimed at having mem bers arrange a special council meeting to consider the churchs exemption to the bylaw the bylaw has been officially objected to and is scheduled for an ontario municipal board hearing later this month despite mr kays misgivings council maintains that the three churches exempted from the bylaw were organizations that submitted applications prior to the may cutoff date mayor carole bell said any im plications of racial or religious discrimination in connection with the applications denial are shocking and insulting the proposal for the all faiths church was simply applied for too late in the game she added there have been no racial or religious prejudices since ive been on this council she stated but mr kay emphasizes that his client had worked in good faith with markam planning staff in its proposal and thought the plan would be duly processed he said members are con cerned about this exemption opening up the area the control bylaw governs thereby setting a precedent for others affected to follow if we had been given any fore warning we wouldvc had plans in prior to the may 5 date said mr kay and he said the discrimination issue is evident primarily in the way the bylaw affects the orga nization it is fair to say that these peo ple do feel theyre being discri minated against the effect of the bylaw discriminates against them he concluded murder weapon handed over by accused crown by ed rogers the crown began the second- degree murder trial of steven greig 22 by alleging mr greig handed the murder weapon a tire iron to charles gloster security guard mulk raj ghandi 70 was murdered april 15 1985 at a new home development near mccowan rd and 16th ave he had apparently surprised two men trying to steal a generator mr gloster 24 pleaded guil ty to seconddegree murder last march and received a sent ence of life imprisonment with no chance for parole for 10 years mr greig has pleaded not guilty in ontario supreme court in newmarket in his opening statement to the nineman threewoman jury crown attorney garth burrow said that mr greigs police statement while not admitting complicity points to the accused being a party to the murder the crown called 10 witnes ses to the stand in the first day of the trial witnesses included the couple who discovered the body and three york regional police officers who cameto the scene mr burrow defence lawyer bill trudell and mr justice wilfert dupont extensively re ferred witnesses to a map and aerial photographs of the area to determine the location of the body and police movements on the scene mr ghandi found face up in a pool of blood with the tire iron six inches above his battered head was discovered by stephen and nancy connor at about 930 that night the cou ple was in the unlit construc tion area to check builders progress on their new home police arrived a half hour later an earlier witness gordon chesney who was also check ing progress on his new home that night testified he saw a beige ford pickup truck haul ing a flatbed trailor enter the subdivision as he was 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