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englishonly bid given the boot by steve houston staff reporter the town of markham has refused to lock the door on a provincial plan to extend french language services in the municipality instead it has vowed to continue recognizing the multilingual char acter of the town and wont declare itself a onelanguage community the declaration from members came tuesday evening after a pre sentation from david leitch national president of the alliance for the preservation of english in canada apec mr leitch a thornhill resident asked the town for a vote to repeal bill 8 and to request a referendum on the governments french lan guage services bill in ontario he said the bill which was passed in the ontario legislature last year offers special status to frenchspeaking ontario residents he pointed to 1981 census figures that show only 480 markham resi dents speak french at home he also claimed there is evidence of discrimination against english- speaking people in the hiring of civil servants and said the move to extend french services would be supported with tax dollars it is the contention of apec that this act is the opening move to designate ontario an officially bilingual province he said to council but his claim that there is an artificial need for french language services in canada was protested by town officials and regional councillor ron moran noted that any decision by the town would take much consideration markham councillor tom newall told mr leitch that all municipa lities in ontario should recognize canadas second official language we in ontario have a responsibility to come to terms with those communities where there is a sizable frenchspeaking community he said and markhams recognized multicultural character prompted thornhill councillor doreen quirk to comment that mr leitchs re quest for unilingualism didnt belong in this council chamber she also questioned whether language police would be employed to enforce an englishonly standard should a unilingual status be chosen for the town to declare this town a totally unilingual town would be improper and impractical she concluded weekender septefterf2iw beam doityourself central vacuum installation information save 135 or more you dont have to be a doityour selfer to install a powerful easy-to- use plugin central vacuum system whats more well prove it because if you can use a drill handsaw and screw driver you can install a 3inlet builtin vacuum in half a day or less and then whether your home is newor fifty years oldyoull find youll be installing the last vacuum youll ever have to buy beam representatives will be in attendance to answer all your inquiries drop by goof proof dates times location fri sept 18th 1987 500 pm830 pm sat sept 19th 1987 1000 am330 pm 500 elgin mills rd e richmond hill phone 8833325 8954577 8875847 the appliance centre coasamersqas name that building name that building above and you could win 25 in the weekenders name that building contest entries mustbe submitted to either the economist sun at 9 heritage rd in markham or the tribune at 54 main st west stouffville by 930 am thursday last weeks winner was doug smyth of union ville who correctly identified alder- grove public school in mil- liken mills make your pool a party betz pools tuesday sept 1587 730 pm whitchurchstouffville recreation complex 9th line n upstairs lounge brought to you by your friends at bioguard and betz pools rsvp 6401424 psbring a neighbor refreshments prizes