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jjsaji- i vvvv vv the tribune 46ooo vol6no10 a metroland community newspaper friday march 9 1990 tf 56ages- 25 cents stouffville gun club bid okayed tracy kibble staff reporter a shooting gallery will likely be a reality in whitchurchstouffville after council supported staff rec ommendations for the goahead tuesday town building director bob bennett supports the request to open trillium sports a shooting club with supervised sport target shooting and firearm education to community members and recom mends a permit be issued to the owners the group made up of former police men propose to enter into a lease agreement at 14 stalwart industrial dr to open the private club under the industriallight zoning already in place mr bennett supports the move only if trillium sports owners comply with all government stan dards but ward 6 councillor jim sanders is against the idea of a shootinggallery close to home it doesnt seem sensible to me to encourage the use of firearms when studies have shown that when you increase the number of i firearms you increase the number of violence in a community he stressed butward 2 councillor ron robb disagrees sorry sir but one violence doesnt have anything to do with the other controlled environment shooting gallery if people in the underworld want guns they will get them this is a business controlled by the federal government and run by respectable people i have no con cerns at all with this councillor robb maintained trillium sports owners made a presentation to council last month and said the operation would be controlled they also said it would educate young people about the safe use of firearms council will vote on the bylaw amendment to permit the gun club at an upcoming meeting photossjoerd w1tteveen ii aim the art of science orchard park public school la stouflvffle hosted the area e science fair last week and a number of local students par- ticipated in the event at right jeremy tloa grade 8 student at ba ic school displays his fats oils and our diet project in the above hide from the judges but slm project on garbage being examined 8ttnit 1 1 ier i t 7 m tview public ryingto r his ente 9 is a grade 4 touffville m no portables stouffville gives gouheadfor st marks school expansion tracy kibble staff reporter town politicians cut red tape tuesday evening so st marks school can begin construction without delay on an addition to hold the students presently crowd ed in portables architect dana saccoccio retained by the york region roman catholic separate school board presented the planning committee with blueprint drawings for a minor variance request to add enough teaching spaces to avoid portables at the glad park- avenue school she said in order to begin construction quickly ms saccoccio said the separate board is requesting the site plan be exempted a control for development that could take con siderable time she said the request for exemption is a timesaving request she added they dont want to hold up con struction and are in need to get the children out of the portables the addition supported by direc tor of planning michael saunders will consist of a 2012 sq metre 21657 sq ft singlestorey addi tion to be added to the 18460 sq ft existing building the plan also consists of a kindergarten fencedin play area and an additional 30 parking spaces for teachers including land scaping and interlocking brick mostly visible from glad park avenue in order to get the building under way the intent of the sepa rate school board is to do consid erable landscaping and construc tion under code that have to be complied with by the committee of adjustment ms saccoccio told council during the 20minute pre sentation but ward 6 councillor jim sanders voiced concern the plans may change without a site plan control and said we might miss something you dont know what could happen mayor fran sainsbury wanted to ensure the plans shown are based on a what we see is what we get basis without the site plan control but ms saccoccio said she was quite confident things wont change during construction william saccoccio senior part ner in the saccoccio weppler architects inc firm assured council that we would have a commitment to come back here if there were any major changes ward 3 councillor nick tatone stressed concern in the design for childrens safety when buses are unloading students but the archi tect said weve chosen the safest method the lane is wide enough so students can proceed past buses ward 5 councillor doug alles supported the site plan control exemption as long as everything is done by the book anything we can do to speed up the process and yet maintain the appropriateness of the building i support the situation there is abominable with 14 portables he said the separate board must still get final approval from the ministry of education but ms saccaccio said that was currently being processed the allocation is in place and the dollars are there the planning committee voted by majority to grant the site plan control exemption to st marks school town gives the town wiil award the stouffville district secondary school community track hoard 40000 towards the project it was decided tuesday evening council voted to fill the track coffers with the onetime grant if the york region board of education conies through on its verbal promise to donate 125000 clerk coordinator pat oakes told council the board has made room for the contri bution in its budget as out lined in a february board the 300000 project to build the 400metre oval track with sideline bleachers and neigh boring tennis courts will be used by the whole community stouffville is one of the only york region schools to be without one in a resolution passed by council it is stipulated the york region boaffsdulj tiohwillawrokbffl all maintenance of munity track am council also wants wttssosuw ticf m ame pi 1 j 1 f 1