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tf a i h m re i 1 1 i h ti ii 1 1 just visiting photorick maoonik the gervais family checked out the new markham stouffville hospital on sunday as the public was invited to roam the halls before the march 5 opening of the new building here the family tours the surgery unit at the hospital when opened it will service an area from steeles avenue to hwy 404 to uxbridge and all points in between ministry involvement deemed standard in musselman project tracy kibble staff reporter concerns from the ministry of natural resources mnr regarding the proposed musselman lakeballantrae water works project are standard procedure said chris tschirhart mnr resource liaison officer mr tschirhart said friday his ministrys involvement is a step that has to be taken before any major water project plan can proceed it is all part of the standard environmental study report but is separate from the tripart study performed last year by the ministry of the environment lake simcoe and region conser vation authority and york region health unit the towns engineering con sultants giffels associates limited are required to ap proach the mnr for its com- stouffville animals not being claimed says shelter tracy kibble staff reporter of the 66 whitchurchstouffville dogs and cats the kennel inn animal control centre took into its shelter from october to december nearly half were put to sleep the quarterly report indicates a large number of animals mostly felines were not claimed and had to be euthanized in order to make room for the floods of animals the centre temporarily cares for for a one year period the kennel inn took in more than 300 animals unfortunately euthanasia has to be done in this business you cant put a sign on the front door saying sorry centre full no room for any more animals says manager dan lawrence mr lawrence says when people think of a pound they think of dogs and consequently all but one of the cats were put away most people come in for dogs and the ones who are looking for cats are looking for kittens he says according to the itemized report 39 dogs and 27 cats from the whitchurchstouffville area were picked up by the centre of the 39 dogs 4 were euthanised six were dead nine were adopted and 20 were claimed by the owners cats were not as fortunate of the 27 cats the centre housed during the three month period 26 were put to sleep and one adopted kennel inn also made 13 wildlife calls including skunks roosters and starlings 19 emergency calls and issued five provincial offences the offences are issued under a municipalitiy bylaw guided by the provincial offences act the centre issued five offences including running at large 28 no licence 28 and continual complaints for barking kennel inn located in aurora also services aurora king township richmond hill and vaughan and the centre is completely separate from the ontario humane society he says the humane society has the money to advertise the need for adoptions money the inn doesnt have in its budget but urges people to adopt the animals i would like to get the message across that we always need more people to adopt these pets for more information about adoption call the kennel inn at 8881129 merits and did so in january mr tschirhart said any environmental study report is circulated to almost every ministry in the federal government he added when asked why the municipality did not undertake the necessary steps before discussing the proposal to outrag ed residents he said local council made the right move for the past 20 years govern ment has tried to include the public if they whitchurch- stouffville council had gone ahead with the reports first the residents may have demanded why they were not approached first its sort of a damned if you do damned if you dont situa tion he added giffels wrote a letter to the mnr for comments and the ministrys main concern was the water pumping from the project may cause serious draw downs of the water table we dont know if the pumping of water would draw down the table and based on the informa tion we have now we dont know enough to arfswer those questions mr tschirhart said the mnr acts as a custodian to the department of oceans and fisheries but hes not sure yet if that area of provincial govern ment should be involved the department of oceans and fisheries would need knowledge of this if there is a drawdown but we wont know un til giffels performs a pump test if a pump test shows a drawdown were sure the fisheries would be affected and we would contact them he added it is now up to giffels to answer the mnrs concerns and to set up a pumping test in reply to the letter it would then be decided if the oceans and fisheries depart ment should get involved he said the tribune wednesday february 28 1990 p3 councii update remove obstacles to housing needs minister asks council housing message ministry of municipal affairs minister john sweeney wrote to whitchurchstouffville council about the new land use planning for housing policy to identify and remove obstacles which im pede the creation of suitable housing for young families and others the affordable housing policy is already in effect in most municipalities and whitchurch- stouffville has taken the first step with a survey questionnaire that will be distributed to some residents by the starr group in the next few weeks to determine someof the local housing needs reduced load the regional engineering com mittee will allow whitchurch- stouffville to pass a bylaw that will restrict traffic load on cer tain roadways between march and- april 1990 the routes to have reduced load restrictions designated will be stouffville road at the york durham line aurora road between hwy 48 and the york durham line and the york durham line between markham and stouffville at steeles avenue and stouffville road warden avenue between 16th avenue and bloomington road 9th line between 47 and bloomington road 9th line one kilometre north of bloom ington road and aurora road and vivian road between wood bine avenue and hwy 48 york transportation the region of york is forming a working committee to organize a regional transit system part of the strategy is to urge the ministry of transportation to im prove the stouffville rail cor ridor to enhance peak period service and introduce offpeak service to he town of markham as part of the program the com pletion date would be estimated for 1995 the committee will also recommend that the ministry in crease provincial subsidy for roadway construction for the york regional road system sewage share whitchurchstouffville will be charged 73 per cent more this year for sewage costs or 147 per 1000 gallons as part of the regions costs of operating the pumping stations and trunk sewers within the region stouffvilles annual sewage costs total 513000 just less than keswicks cost of 570000 and nearly five times as much as mount alberts costof 101000 a year chilly ride photorick madonik chris leonard 13 at left and chad 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