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weekender february 141987 p3 honorary lion after a 15year association with the lions club dr pk basu was awarded an honorary membership in the unionville club last week dr basu director of ophthalmic research at the university of toronto and director and one of the founders of the universitys eye bank was also told more money from the lions club for eye research is on the way funding dr basu who now lives in union ville and working with the blind is very much a part of our district says dave gascoigne chairman of the lions club a16 ophthamology foundation the 49 lions clubs and 16 lionesse clubs in district a16 pitched in 6000 last year to help dr basus work from the leaft are bill houston past district governor district a16 dr basu and dave gascoigne sight convenor chairman the waiting game it takes patience to wait for your big sisters next volleyball game david higgins grade 1 at wm berczy public school leans against his sister stouffville seeks regional recycling ma bells jokes too costly says one irate parent nicole higgins as she and her midget volleyball unionville wolves teammates wait for their game bill lanning whitchurchstouffville will re quest york region council to undertake a major feasibility study to determine the best approach to recycling within the region a resolution supported by coun cil incommittee tuesday con tained the following points whereas several area munici palities in york region are study ing their waste management needs york region is also studying waste management from a re gional point of view recycling is a major part of waste management established recycling prog rams in the area municipalities are currently being reviewed which could result in a series of independent and unrelated action plans the provincial government is funding recycling feasibility stu dies and programs with grants of 4 million and the soft drink in dustry is providing an additional 5 million in grants for recycling feasibility studies and programs armed robber makes getaway by bruce etheridge a guntoting man held up the bridle trail branch of the toronto dominion bank on wembley ave yesterday morning dave eng an employee of the canada post office located beside the bank said that just after 11 am a female bank employee en tered the post office and called police to report a robbery in prog ress inspector george kydd of 28 di- vison in newmarket said the woman was helping a customer at the green machine in the lobby of the bank upon realizing a rob bery was taking place she dis creetly left the separate enclo sure with the customer almost simultaniouysly the alarm was sounded police arrived a few mi nutes later inspector kydd confirmed that at approximately 1105 am a white male in his midforties en tered the bank approached a female teller and demanded cash after making threatening ges tures with a firearm an undisclosed amount of cash was taken at the time of the hold up the man was wearing dark clo thing a toque and sunglasses early reports said the suspect was armed with a long rifle or shotgun but inspector kydd said it might have been a handgun mr eng said another post office employee may have been parked behind the getaway vehicle at the rear of the building but the man was unavailable for questioning and police refused to comment police are looking for a light brown fullsize car possibly a chevrolet identification officer detective nick broadhead photographed footprints and tire tracks behind the bank this was the second time the bank was robbed in the last six months police havent made arrests in the previous incident although both appear at this time unrelated a stouffville parent claims dial- ajoke and other specialty tele phone services are no laughing matter david barthau is concerned that the taped messages are espe cially appealing to children who dont realize charges for each call are added to a households bell canada phone bill and some whitchurch- stouffville council members shared similar concerns about the service called teletalk during an incommittee meeting feb 10 i think bell canada has misled the people mayor fran sains- bury said of the pay service be fore supporting mr barthaus re quest and recommending that bell be asked to rectify the situa tion in a letter to the canadian radio television and telecom munication commission crtc mr barthau said his annoyance is not with teletalk itself but with the ease of the service or enter tainment being just a phone call away and no mention at the begin ning or the end of the message ab out the charges for the service in a written complaint that was also forwarded to mayor sains- bury the dorman dr resident claimed the ease of being able to dial a story or joke has turned the phone into a slot machine you dont put money into mom and dad just get a bill next month for it i found this out upon receiving my last phone bill peer pressure at school may also force kids into dialing for this ser vice when he called bell about the situation the companys reply was well you should know and so should your children that any thing with a 1 in front of it you are charged a longdistance fee however mr barthau replied that his children arc all under 10 years of age and that all a phone number is to kids is a bunch of numbers in a particular order that makes it possible to reach someone you want to talk to added the stouffville man we do not put a 1 in front of long dis tance phone numbers in our per sonal phone book and i have not seen it listed in the public phone book that way either so the chil dren could not make a long dis tance call without knowing that a 1 preceeds the number to date they have never made a long dis tance phone call until 1976 mr barthau feels two things should be done immediately to correct what he describes as an oversight on the part of the crtc in permitting these lines 1 advertising and operation of this service should be stopped un til some safeguards can be insti tuted 2 reimbursement to those with minors who have fallen prey to this novelty he suggested several possible solutions 1 have the service available to those who would like to subscribe to it with the use of a decoder much like those used for pay tv 2 have it charged to your credit card 3 have it charged to your bell account with the use of a bell card 4 upon inception of the plan advertise it as a 976 number with in the 416 area code and to treat it the same as a longdistance call but to advertise it is a 1976 number is wrong and children naturally call the number and run up unexpected phone bills mr barthau added hearing set for sept 15 by ed rogers the brougham man charged in the feb 2 traffic death of paul maybury 44 will return to ajax court sept 15 for a preliminary hearing court heard on thursday john mcgrath 30 is ac cused of criminal negligence causing death and four counts of criminal negligence caus ing bodily harm he elected to be tried by a district court judge without a jury paul maybury was driving south on brock rd in picker ing with three passengers on his way to a minor bantam hockey game when an oncom ing pickup truck apparently crossed the centre line and crashed headon in mr mayb- urys van his son david todd ger- rard and kevin green were in jured in the crash mr mcgrath is also charged in the injury of basil mcdougal a passenger in the pickup we deliver we can deliver your flyers for as little as 35c each call advertising at 2942200 or distribution at 2948244 1986 flyers delivered economist suntribune12252700 melroland distributing 306622900 graham crowder flyers with weekender saturday feb 14 contour window fashions kids stop airway tours travel biway fantastic sams canadian tire ap