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-rk- v 5 jts 40000 copies vol6noll a metroland community newspaper friday march 16 1990 48 pages 25 cents stouffville says no to nofault insurance plan tracy kibble staff reporter stouffville council backed fair action m insurance reform fair tuesday and voted to pass a reso lution in opposition to the ontario governments nofault insurance plan warren skinner an uxbridge res ident and spokesman for fair told council a letter from yorkdurham mpp bill ballinger is inaccurate and urged town officials to back his group mr ballinger states the benefits will be enhanced under nofault legislation to 3000 and yes they have doubled but his word choice is interesting he says the benefits are guaranteed there is no such thing a person still has to apply to the insurance company for benefits and if the company doesnt feel the person should get benefits they wont mrskinner stressed mr skinner read through a copy of mr ballingers letter to council in response to the towns concerns after first hearing fair and point ed out several areas he said are inaccurate many critics of nofault are simply unprepared to acknowledge the important principle of the plan mr ballinger wrote but local council backed fair on the principle the legal- language will be questioned if the legislation passed as mr skinner pointed out a lot of people think nofault will take income from lawyers but in five or 10 years lawyers will get very rich if the plain passes third reading mr skinner warned people will fight what the lan guage means what is permanent what is an important bodily function and what is serious and continuing will be questioned he stressed the government has already made up its mind and they talk to us about it after the fact we dont even have a choice said ward 2 councillor ron robb ward 6 councillor jim sanders maintains he hasnt seen or heard anything about nofault that makes me feel comfortable we havent been told a lot about it except that its supposedly a great thing it sounds scary based on fairs research council sided with mr skinner and now supports fair the government has not done its homework theyve spent 50 mil lion on studies that they themselves have ignored concluded mayor fran sainsbury gary fisher stouffville postmaster retires today marks the end of an era for stouffville postmaster gary fisher who is taking an early retirement from canada post after almost 32 years of service mr fisher joined the stouffville post office in 1974 and moved into town in 1975 now mr fisher and his wife wanda are planning the biggest move of their lives with daughter elisa 11 were hoping to sell the house and move out west to join wandas family who moved to ver non last year explains mr fisher weve been planning this for about two years in the meantime hes ready for a complete change in other areas of his life as well ive come up through the ranks at the post office istarted off as a letter carrier but got my big promotion to postmaster when i came to stouffville now im taking a breather its a welldeserved rest for mr fisher who has also been active in community life for many years his involvement in the strawberry festival goes back 10 years to the first canada day celebrations in stouffville last year he took on the job of chairman and his love of railways and old steam trains drew him to the york durham historical railway association of which he is currently treasurer although im retiring from the post office he comments you could well see me at the villager mens shop helping out tom thompson duij ing the holidays and on weekends stouffville resident darrell rolls was instru mental this week in helping police catch a suspect being sought in connection with the weekend murder of a scarborough woman mr rolls was quick to respond when he spotted a car matching a description broad- pottce chase phowrick madonik cast on a radio newscast and called police a chase throughout the eastern part of york region ended with the suspects capture mr rolls is modest about his role in the inci dent and says he hopes others will become involved to help police fight crime stouffville man hailed as hero for spotting murder suspect tracy kibble staff reporter whitchurchstouffville is home to a hero darrell rolls v quickwitted response to a provincewide alert for a metro murder suspect helped police capture the man following a regionwide chase monday a man wanted in connection with the stran- gulation of 20yearold cheryl baines whose body was found in a freezer in her parents scarborough home last weekend was taken intocustody in newmarket following the chase m rolls 48 spotted the suspects vehicle monday afternoon in stouffville at about 230 pm after hearing a description of the suspect and his car on a radio news broadcast mr rolls recounted the events leading up to the chase- in an exclusive interview at the tri bune yesterday it happened in one or two minutes said mr rolls he first spotted the 1990 chevrolet cavalier in front of the ida drugstore on main street and rushed h6me to call the metro homocide squad i dont know whether it was dumb luck or what but i got back into my car and checked the plazas the officer told me not to go near him mr rolls said he then proceeded to the a p plaza on stouffville road where he noticed thecar parked and pulled in beside it i went into the brewers retail and there were no customers in the store i saidcall the police right now i think the clerk thought i was screwball at first mr rolls said after updating metro police on the suspects whereabouts mr rolls went back to his car and waited a few minutes later tie saw the man get into his vehicle he casually proceeded out of the plaza and looked over at me i pretended iwas listening to the radio said mr rolls when the suspect backed outmr rolls once- again went to brewers retail to contact police at that time a york regional patrol car pulled up the officer took off irhmediatelly the whole thing happened in about 12 minutes mr rolls said i did nothing really the only reason i am doing this interview is because id like more people to get involved in helping police the whole thing was a total team effort between york arid metro police and a citizen if more people would get involved rather than turning a blind eye we could solve a lot of problems he added police captured the suspect in newmarket after cruisers blocked off the southbound lanes of hwy 1 1 north of bristol road the suspect ranimed into a blockade lost control and spun the car into the eastern lanes he was unhurt in the crash the way i look at it is i wouldnt want to find my daughter in a freezer mn rolls con cluded jeffrey theys 28 of lambeth square in scar borough was arrested and charged with first- degree murder in the womans death