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stouf fville residents like to swim survey shows tracy kibble staff reporter phctobillianning unionville blaze markham rre department says a car ignited to start this fire a 1 44 nadine cres in unionvilje the fire took place wednesday at 627 pm the car garage and the roof of the house were destroyed in the blaze estimated to have caused 280000 damage the driver of the car had just shut it off and was barely inside when his mother arrived home to find smoke coming from the garagethe neighboring home at 42 nadine suffered some damage to its garage as a result of the large flames stouffville wants to cash in on dump clay local politicians would like to cash in on the clay removal from gormley aggregates after learn ing the local company will pro vide the dump lining to the keele valley landfill site in maple regional council recently received information from the impaired driving rules dont sway regional councillors members of the regional health committee rejected a request from a group of woodstock citizens to endorse their recommendations for a government policy on impaired driving the brief of recommendations was submitted by the driving under the influence committee duti based in woodstock ontario recommendations includ ed raising the legal drinking age removing beer and wine advertise ments from print and television media lowering the legal blood alcohol level raising fines and jail terms for offenders and impound- ing the vehicles of drivers whose licenses are under suspension since committee members did not agree with all the recommenda tions it was decided not to endorse the brief but hjewmarket mayor ray twinney a member of the committee did riot rule out the pos sibility of the region developing its own recommendations twinney considered some of the recommendations more anti-drink- ing initiatives rather than drinking and driving deterrents he was unsure the drinking age should be raised to 21 and was defi nitely against confiscating a family car or lowering the legal blood alcohol level if the legal limit were 05 mil ligrams per 100 milliliters instead of the present 08 that would be one drink explains twinney you could have one drink of wine dur ing lunch and you could be subject to impaired if you left right away so i just dont agree with it ministry of natural resources that stated clay to act as a lining for a further pit at keele valley will be trucked from gormley aggregates metro toronto will pay for the 600 truck loads a day back and forth from the warden avenue and bloomington road site to the 26mile route to keele valley but council saw dollarsigns and want to inquire under the aggregates act if the town can collect on the clay per tonnage removed if we can get the six or eight cents a tonne for the clay it would be a great benefit for whitchurchstouffville if it were levied said ward 4 councillor wayne emmerson six hundred truckloads a day is a lot of tonnage and im sur prised york region hasnt thought of this councillor emmerson added council sitting in committee- tuesday voted to refer the matter to staff to inquire if the town can collect on the removed clay under the aggregates act it looks like whitchurchstouf fville may heed a pool but local fitness buffs will have to drive out of town to pump up according to recommendations from leisure- plan international inc a town- hired consultant leisureplan submitted its phase 1 report to council tuesday which outlines the need and public demand for each facility according to the consultants th town of whitchurchstouffville should not develop a specialized fitness facility nor directly provide fitness programs the findings are based on tele phone surveys of 375 homes which leisureplan says is a statis tically valid representation of the population in terms of number of households sex age and house hold type other findings showed there are four other fitness facilities operated in three other municipalities in the region and the number of mem bers at each fluctuated during the past five years whitchurchstouffville residents use both markham s centennial fitness centre and uxbridges uxpool but only represent 7 per cent of memberships at both facili ties the report states the findings also indicate whitchurchstouffville residents s up only 24 per cent of the 28 private fitness facilities in the area and that adults 1954 account for the majority of the users the study indicates however that aquatic use has increased during the past five years and that resi dents use six other pools in durham and york regions leisureplan found half of all the aquatic programs currently provid ed in public pools are expected to experience increases in the number ipt participants in the next three years the report shows swimmingis the most popular activity of whitchurchstouffville house holds and that nearly 60 per cent of all survey respondents indicated they would like to participate in a swim program recreation director marlane mckeewetheral told local offi cials that phase i was designed to demonstrate a need for the facili ties and that phase ii would give more detailed facts and figures but ward 1 councillor margot marshall said council has been led down the garden path when it agreed to the survey times have changed with road repairs more on the forefront people will be thinking less and less of recreation al facilities i dont know whats wrong with this council the sur vey is a waste of time and the need for a pool is not that desperate we dont have the money coun cillor marshall fumed but mckeewetheral said the study was 75 per cent funded by lotterybased grants from the tourism and recreation ministry and that council approved the study last year she also pointed out that the decision to goahead with phase i meant a commitment to continue with phase n she said phase ii would determine the type of pool space site and location requirements capital and operating costs and funding poten tial for such a facility still leisureplan may say yes you need a pool but you cant afford it x she added the study gives council valuable facts and information to help them make the right decision however council sitting in com mittee deferred the study until mayor fran sainsbury returns from a trip to quebec public schools make promises to nature julie caspersen staff reporter for the next year 50 york region schools will keep a promise this promise is to take on an envi ronmental project to help preserve our planet and hopefully keep on making promises for the next 10 years of the fifty schools to submit their pledge to the york region board of education one third are from markham unionville and stouffville the schools decided on an environ mental action project and each promise was placed into a globe which was presented to the board last mon day and is to be on display at the auro ra office the projects will be updated yearly on earth day until the year 2000 following is a list of local school along with their promises to the planet aidergrove public school recycling in the school armadale rs promote reduction of waste and continue to implement a recycling program ballantrae ps reduce reuse and recycle at the classroom level and begin a paper recycling program in the fall central park ps reduce waste coledale ps demonstrate a concern for the environment in the school and the community dickson hill ps clean up the school yard and set up a system for keeping it clean highgate ps educate parents about environmentally friendly lunch packag ing james robinson ps collect pennies to become guardians of the rain for est each 25 collected will help save one acre of the amazon rain forest ramer wood ps continue bottle can and newspaper recycling and imple ment fine paper recycling as well as participate in the area f forest unionville ps continue recycling pop bottles and cans and start recycling finepaper- whitchurch highlands ps reduce waste in the school created at lunch by using reusable containers and keep the schoolyard free of litter as well as start a recycling program at school wilclay rs institute a program of pop can recycling and reduce the use of fine paper students will be reminded to conserve energy at home william berczy ps create an envi ronmental resource centre in the school library and an environment club responsible for upkeep of school com- poster and lunchroom recycling bins markham district high school reduce paper consumption and reuse arid recycle fine paper used at the school milliken mills high school create a litterfree school and continue recycling paper and aluminum cans stouffville district secondary school reduce cafeteria waste by returning to real plates and cutlery and starangaamiposter christine milton chairperson of the york environmental action group sad promises are still being taken from schools wanting to participate local musicians perform after a week of intense practice 76 of york regions most talented young musicians are performing today at ontario place auditions for grade 7 and 8 public school students were held last febru ary for the york region enrichment band and this past week was filled with daylong practices in preparation for two performances last night led by professional conductors bob herriot and brahm smith the band put on a concert at aurora high school at 1 1 am today the students will play at the ontario place forum local band members are kim neill alto saxophone of franklin street public school marcia pritzker flute of orchard park public school julie wong flute joseph doria trumpet and mark scott trombone of ramer wood public school chandra kipfer flute jessica robertson flute and craig marlatt trom bone of reesor park public school andrea coulson flute nicole carrington bass clarinet and geoffrey diffey trumpet of william armstrong public school angela lee flute erica hayashi flute and valerie shin clarinet of aidergrove public school bobby panesar clarinet and edward lam clarinet of milliken mills 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