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st making a point w l r tribune may 23 1990 p3 move to transfer plumbing duties tracy kibble staff reporter york regions health committee wants all municipalities to take over plumbing inspection responsibilities by january- 1991 but thetown building department has some con cerns in a report last tuesday town building director bob bennett list ed a number of issues he would like the region to address before any transfer of responsibility takes place some of his concerns include who will be responsible for dealing with the plumbers union would whitchurchstouffville be obligated to hire a regional inspector who would be legally responsible for projects completed prior to the transfer if litigation takes place mr bennett said he would not suggest hiring a regional inspector because whitchurchstouffville is nonunion the municipality could legal error behind appeal in drug case photosjoerdwitteveen claremont public school student jennifer barton had an enjoy able afternoon last week when her classmates staged a medieval feast the students donned medieval attire and dined on a feast of fried chicken bread and soft drinks the feast marked the end of the students study of the middle ages tracy kibble staff reporter the toronto justice department will appeal a recent district court deci sion that stayed drug charges against a local man the head of the prosecu tion team announced friday the appeal is based jon grounds there were several legal errors made in the decision graham reynolds told the tribune mr reynolds after meeting the friday deadline to appeal the decision said the justice department wili ask the ontario court of appeal to order the trial to proceed we will allege toronto district court judge arthur whealey madetsev- eral legal errors of law in making a decision last month when he halted the proceedings involving a 50million drug importation ring mr graham said the charges involving 46yearold wayne lambert owner of lamberts corvette in gormley were laid in 1986 when joint police investigations uncovered evidence of drug trafficking and importation judge whealey deemed the case unconstitutional on groundsthe case took too long to come to trial and that the accused would not be given a fair hear ing under the charter of rights and freedoms york regional police sergeant norn miles said last month i dont want to advocate to the public the argument i will take and i cant elaborate on the caseyet mr reynolds said however he did say the appeal will likely not take place until the fall this year v were going to get as early a date as we can but these things require a cer tain amount of time mr reynolds said mr lambert and six others including a canada customs official were charged in 1986 after police uncovered a phony customs stamp and erased records allegedly used to import the drugs from pakistan to toronto well as the entertainment being provided by the toronto philhar monic orchestra these events will be followed by the fire works display which attracts close to 2000 people in the main park ms mckeewetheral said in her report council supported the recom mendation to close burkholder street to vehicular traffic from park drive to market street from 511 pm on july 1 1990 burkholder closed burkholder street will be closed for the canada day evening festivities july 1 coun cil decided last tuesday the strawberry festival com mittee had stressed concern to town recreation director mar- lane mckeewetheral that vehic ular traffic could be dangerous for many pedestrians using the street to get to the event several hundred people attend the cake cutting ceremony as big op little league theatre founder moving east the man who brought little league theatre to stouffville is pack ing his bags and heading off to new opportunities in atlantic canada steve payne a freelance radio and television documentary producer who operated the childrens theatre concept in town for the past three years has taken a position with the canadian broadcasting corpora tion in sydney nova scotia mr payne will do agriculture fisheries and natural resource stories for the cbc as well as television reporting and the development of radio and television series mr payne and his wife bela were actively involved in the stouf fville community in recent years an ardent recycling activist mr payne has served as president of whitchurchstouffville recycling for the past 1 12 years coordi nating the towns blue box program he put on the kiddie land program at the strawberry festival in 1988 was involved with seniors at parkview village and entertained as a clown in the annual stouffville magic festival were going to miss stouffville he said recently we were quite involved here but were going to a great opportunity in nova sco tia the paynes with their oneyearold infant daughter bryden will take up permanent residence in sydney in early july town crier competition the strawberry festival open ing will kick off with a loud and clear announcement from a newlyappointed town crier council decided recently a town crier competition june 27 will be held to choose an offi cial crier for the town of whitchurchstouffville prospective criers are invited to submit their applications prior to june 8 and all applicants will be interviewed by mayor fran sainsbury and members of coun cil it was also decided that if no other applications are received for the job marc bossi will be proclaimed arid appointed the official town crier and will open the 1990 whitchurph- stouffville strawberry festival the criers will be judged sepa rately by a panel of three to five- judges on bell ringing clarity style and speech content and should judged on the person not the costume a report states council supported the competi tion motorists inconvenienced the traffic lights at the cable tech wire co building and mostar street inconvenience drivers says ward 5 councillor doug alles he says he has had many com plaints about the length of time the lights stay red on busy stouf fville road and during rush hour they are a major inconvenience for many many rhotorists councillor alles says he suggested the lights should flash at certain times so as not to hold up the bulk of the traffic council will have staff look into the complaint dirty streets there is too much dust and dirt on the sides of streets and roads in whitchurchstouffville says ward 5 councillor doug alles he adds the street cleaning machine does not work and at times the dust is flying up at pedestrians i shovelled up a ton of it myself he says council will have staff look into the problem not afford to pay the present inspec tors salary the town would have to post the job and receive applica tions he also said the office would have to be reorganized and more staff and bylaw officers would have to be hired mr bennett said other municipali ties have similar concerns but larger municipalities would welcome the addition of plumbing inspections i know markham newmarket richmond hill and vaughan will want it and will even push for it because it is a moneymaker mr bennett said ward 6 councillor jim sanders said he is concerned of the finan cial impact on the town and added it would cost 93000 to start up id like the region to tell us what impact this will have on us id like to see a financial impact report councillor sanders stressed ward 5 councillor doug alles also concerned for costs said the plan would be based on size rather than work performed by each municipality he said the scheme is based on size of the municipality and if there were reimbursements for activity and not performance wed be on the short end of the stick mayor fran sainsbury said she recently spoke to newmarket mayor ray twinney about the plan and she told officials he was con cerned the regionalism would deteriorate and that there would be nine different ways of doing- things mayor twinney feels this will create another normsouth problem and until the union issue is resolved all should do it or none should do it she said council supported staff recom mendations to request the region address whitchurchstouffville regarding its concerns and to set a new transfer date for 1992 stouffville passes water quality testing the quality of whitchurch-stouf- fvilles drinking water meets all health guidelines says an announcement from the provincial health ministry a 1988 report shows seven of the 196300 treated water samples throughout the province were found to exceed one or more of the provinces 1750 recommended health safety guidelines and about 50 municipal well supply systems including whitchurchstouffville were sam ple tested for nitrate and lead con tent from peterborough to port dover extra money become a carrier today call 2948244 or 6402100 attention flyer advertisers we can deliver your flyers for as little as 312 a piece so far this year we have delivered 8502349 flyers doortodoor in markham unlonville mllcken stouffville uxbridge and surrounding rural routes we can deliver 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