the tribune y mmii 40000 copes vol 6 no 2 a metroland community newspaper friday january 12 1990 a 66paget 25 cents mayor fumes over cards tracy kibble staff reporter whitchurchstouffville mayor fran sainsbury said she is not responsible for cards sent out to residents stating say yes to sunday shopping the bunch of chickens are too ashamed to even say who sent these cards but i am very distressed and want no part of this the region of york has already turned down this bid and this card sending is a dreadful form of misrepresentation she fumed there have been large ads printed in local newspapers during the past few weeks paid for by the committee for fair shopping a group representing the major food chains although there is no indication on the cards as to who is responsi ble mayor sainsbury said she didnt know about it and called those responsible for sending them dictators this is the beginning of dharchy and i wont be a part of their crime the mayor is furious her name postal box number and telephone number were used without her permission and said her stand is with the region where she sits as stouffvilles voice more than 70 per cent of people in whitchurchstouffville have clearly indicated they do not want sunday shopping arid i will not dic tate other peoples sundays i wish i had legal action but they are too ashamed to print their responsibility of these cards stouffville minister leaving for chatham rev craig pitts is resigning before he takes over the senior from the stouffville pentecostal pastor position at the evangel church after eight and a half community church in chatham years of service the pastor will hold his farewell service this sunday rev craig pitts ontario he will be serving a con gregation of 300 and will be work ing in a multistaff environment although excited about his new challenge in chatham rev pitts admits he will miss whitchurch- stouffville and the 200member congregation he and his wife dorothy have worked with for nearly nine years weve thoroughly enjoyed stouffville this is a strong healthy caring church and the people have always reached out in love to the community noting the churchs recent bam renovations as a real com mitment to improvement he says a lot of things have been built up including the 1985 building program when the facilities were enlarged greatly v ft look inside commentipage 4 entertainment page icttp 12 real e3tatepages 18 to 39 sports ii churches classifieds pages 46 to 55 fe him critic pari hughes speaks his mind see page 10 r 38ffil mike muldoon pulls daughter maureen 5 around hole is a favorite yifiriterlihhjskatfng rink for v elgla polriiiif midif idg clay cleanup a model job the whitchurchstouffville fire department spent five gruelling hours cleaning heavy clay off mccowan road tuesday after york regional police reported dangerous conditions at about 1020 am the brigade answered a call from york regionalpolice and reported to the 7th cone south of stouffville rd to clear the road of messy clay according to fire chief bill brown construction trucks were transporting fill to a nearby site i and the spillage turned the road j into a danger zone- wet clay is as slippery as ice it was scary to watch some load ed trucks going sideways down the road chief brown said motorists were losing control of their vehicles for no apparent reason and the volunteer fire department hosed down the mess with the pressurized pumps although there were no reported accidents mr brown said he saw some very close incidents the york regional engineer ing department police and fire crews helped with diverting traf fic for the five hours of cleanup chief brown saidfterj will go after the contractor to cover costs of cleaning up the mess correction in a story in wednesdays stouffville tribune there was an error about the markham stouff ville family life centres finan cial situation it was regarding the york region united way campaign total for 1989 the organization raised 22 million for its member agencies not 22 million as reported jrithetribune regrets terror r 3 i i ii 1 ml 1 u tl