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tribune 35000 copies vol 3 no 23 a metroland community newspaper saturday june 6 1987 56 pages 25 cents gravel dispute is heating up in goodwood by chris shanahan two goodwood residents face mischief charges after rate payers apparently took their fight against heavy truck traffic to the streets durham regional police arrested and charged the cone 3 ratepayers one aged 30 and the other 34 with two counts of mischief after two gravel trucks were allegedly attacked while driving through the hamlet last saturday morning both accused are scheduled to appear in ajax provincial court june 25 according to police two vehi cles were travelling through goodwood on cone 3 when con fronted by one person armed with a 2x4 board and another tossing raw eggs the trucks travelling on a portion of road enfored by an uxbridge township municipal bylaw prohibiting heavy traffic were smashed with a 2x4 and pelted with eggs police report one of the gravel rigs allegedly received about 6000 damages when a piece of wood was jam med into its grill a police spokesman said no charges are pending against trucks involved in last satur days incident and the munici palitys bylaw enforement de partment was not pursuing the matter when contacted by the weekender on thursday ward 1 councillor cal avery chaired a recent meeting of ratepayers concerned about safety hazards posed by gravel trucks using roads in their area at that gathering in good wood community centre ham let ratepayers served notice that theyd had enough of truck ers who violate speed safety noise and other laws last months session also marked the formation of good wood ratepayers association which meets regularly to imple ment procedures forcing driv ers to adhere to the rules of the road mr avery was unavailable for comment on recent develop ments durhamyork mpp alleges grit theft by chris shanahan the first volley has been fired among candidates in the provin cial riding of durham- york even though an election date has yet to be set progressive conservative mpp ross stevenson who was de clared his riding associations nominee thursday night wasted little time in criticizing the way the durham- york liberal associa tion conducted its candidateselection meeting a week earlier at uxbridge secondary school id just like to say we met here uxbridge arenas community centre tonight as peaceful lawabiding citizens according to mr stevenson who alleged a school microphone disappeared fol lowing the may 29 grit meeting the mpp said he has personally offered to replace the audio equipment which belongs to the uss students council if the responsible party fails to produce the missing item mr stevenson also claimed a sound room at the school was broken in to on the night of the liberal nomination meeting bill ballinger who received the liberal nomination over vic wilson was unavailable for comment on mr stevensons allega tions in accepting his nomination mr stevenson attacked the liberal government for its inflated budget spending and for the substantial increase in the number of civil servants whats inside