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planning briefs public to consider pd for rezoning the town has called a may pub- licmeeting to consider a rezoning bid on hwy 48 the meeting was called to con sider a redesignation of lands on the northwest corner of hwy 48 and 16th ave from agricultural and rural residential to commer cial if passed at the public meeting and by council commercial uses including professional offices medical clinics restaurants banks or day care centres would be permitted the land because of the agri cultural zoning is being removed from the towns interim control bylaw to update its designation within town boundaries prestige office plan approved day care duo town councils masterplan for given hearhlff service centre in buttonville planning committee deferred imperial oils attempt to build a service station and gas bar at the corner of woodbine ave and 16th ave until its official plan re view is complete two buildings on the property are included on heritage mar- khams building inventory list a planning staff report said the need for the service centre could only be dealt with when consider ing future land needs approval of the plan would involve extension of markhams current urban boundary 16th ave lands surrounding its forthcom ing civic centre is starting to take shape planning committee tuesday approved an application to con struct a threestorey office build ing on town centre blvd west of unionville high school an architectural firm plans to use onethird of the building as a head office and lease the the re mainder of office space a planning committee report indicates this is the first phase of what is expected to be a four- building office complex buttonville an stalled pi oil giant imperial oil ltd was delayed tuesday in a bid to build a two local businessmen plan ning a markham day care centre had their proposal clear another hurdle tuesday with planning committees vote to forward it to a public hearing an application by ian bucha nan and gord gontier to open the centre on 16th ave at elizabeth st requires rezoning to permit the conversion of a home into a childrens centre the centre if approved will su pervise up to 40 children a crea tive playground will be installed in the backyard last april council rejected an application by the pair to convert the ground floor of the house into a restauranttavern talks continue with rc teachers york catholic teachers and the school board burned the midnight oil this week during their last ditch contract negotiations negotiating teams for the two sides returned to the bargaining table wednesday morning with mediator dr william marcotteat the inn on the park hotel in mid- town toronto they were given until yesterday to work things out the outcome was not available at press time neither side will speak to the press until either a settlement or a deadlock is reached if negotia tions are succeeding but the teams need more time to come to a final agreement they can ex tend the talks past the deadline of midnight last night teachers are set to strike against the york region roman catholic separate school board if an agreement is not reached by next wednesday ed and clatidette 50pples weekender march 21 the macs milk store en wellington st west in markham is now selling condoms the chain of convenience stores decided to stock the items to help fight aids which is usually transmitted by sexual intercourse sjoerd witteveen markham convenience store selling condoms by paul pivato staff reporter you can now buy a pack of condoms at your neighborhood macs milk store condoms have been selling at the macs outlet on 206 wellington st west for about two weeks said manager yeghishe derjalstanin and he added theyve been selling pretty well the other markhamarea macs outlet on 227- main st north has yet to stock condoms but manager paul park said he expects to begin selling them any day the nationwide chain of convenience stores approved the sale of condoms last month according to macs executive vicepresident russ egerdie he said macs decided to sell condoms after he got a call from a vancouver radio talkshow the topic that day preventing the spread of aids they wanted to know if we would begin sell ing them in our stores said mr egerdie we had a meeting and we approved their sale in all our 790 stores the condoms will be sold behind the counter but displayed openly said mr egerdie concern about the spread of aids was the main reason for the decision to sell the con troversial product he said condoms help pre vent the transmission of the aids virus which can be spread through sexual intercourse more people especially young people do their shopping at macs than at a drug store he said its just more convenient so far macs has had a very favorable reac tion said mr egerdie the becker milk co which owns scarboro fair convenience stores does not sell condoms but several privatelyowned convenience stores in markham including hasty market and kwik stop have been selling condoms for sever al years now iftjqfri do you also sell life jackets fd j7 strike looming york regions public school caretakers have voted overwhel mingly to go on strike within two weeks at a meeting on sunday the boards 400 caretakers voted 272 to41 in favor of striking on april 10 if mediation talks with the board fail the caretakers members of canadian union of public em ployees local 1196 maintain 75 public elementary schools and 16 high schools in york region both sides have agreed to meet in early april for mediation talks but a firm date has not been nailed down the caretakers union reported ly wants a oneyear contract and higher wages the board has offered a twoyear conract car frames taken in theft police said 20000 worth of fib- reglass moulds for car bodies were stolen from markville motors on 12 heritage rd mon day night the lock to a trailer at the rear of the building was pried open i they pass on pass a new rail pass for the toron- tohavelock commuter train service has so far failed to in crease ridership says a via rail spokesperson these things usually take a while to catch on claimed be- verley smith vias regional manager of public affairs were running at about 80 passengers each way and thats about the same as it was before the new pass was intro duced the commuter train runs with two coaches one of which is for nonsmokers and in cludes stops at myrtle dag- mar claremont and locust hill en route to union station the new pass called take 10 allows passengers 10 same- day roundtrip tickets for use over a 21day period cost is 100 for myrtle passengers we deliverl we can deliver your flyers for as little as 35 each call advertising at 2942200 or distribution at 2944244 1987 flyers delivered economist suntribune 1736500 melround distributing 44987900 flyers with weekender fantastic sams pizzaville yc chow son piano canadian tire unionville heating ap kfflysfiv adam mcmiller ma