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stouffville 91 1 signs still pose p 9 whitchurchstouffville residents are not reading instructions when posting their 91 1 signs says a local resident edwin raymer a whitchurchstouffville resident and volunteer driver for home support services chats says he drives senior citizens to and from appointments every day and has noticed many 911 signs are not posted properly v i agree with mayor fran sainsbury you cant see 90 per cent of the 911 signs on bloomington sideroad mr raymer says he is referring to a recent statement mayor sainsbury when she said many of the 911 signs are not visible from the roadways and are splashed with mud and snow from trucks she added at a recent meeting ithat the signs would not be clearly visible at night when york regions 91 1 emergency service is in place council had debated before the signs were available for pick up by residents whether or not to let them erect their own signs as opposed to hiring someone to erect them local officials now regret the decision and may hire someone to properly erect all signs mr raymer says he picked up a sign for one chats client and adds instructions come with the numbers which are easy and clear to understand they have to be a certain height and a certain distance from the road some ive seen dont meet these specifications mr raymer adds mr raymer told the tribune that markhams 911 signs are uniformly- posted but are more expensive to obtain because the town hired a contractor to erect the green reflective signs according to markham public works officials residents dont have to pick up their signs the department posts them meanwhile whitchurchstouffville fire department officials confirmed last week that 30 per cent of residents have still not even picked up their signs each municipality must have the signs in place by the endof the year before the region is eligible for provincial funding to bring the 911 system into effect whitchurchstouffville deputy fire chief murray emmerson says people may not realize that it is to their benefit the signs are posted properly he urged people to pick up their signs before last fridays deadline here are some of the specifications to follow if you have not posted your sign or if you fear your posted sign is not properly erected for rural residents the post must be erected no more than six metres about 10 feet from the centre of the driveway the number must be seen from the highway and bevisible at all times the post must not be erected more than five metres away from the roadway to ensure emergency crews can easily see the number stouffville fire chief confronts local man armed with shotgun whitchurchstouffville fire chief bill brown was faced with the wrong end of a shotgun when he tried to calm a distraught man sunday at 2 am dec 2 a stouffville man called his father in minden according to york region police the man sounded distraught and the father phoned chief brown a friend to drive over and visit the son- chief brown along with wayne morrison and alan sisco arrived at a dorman drive address and were greeted by a man armed with a 12guage shotgun chief brown remained calm and showed a lot of poise york region police sgt norn miles said monday he said chief brown succeeded in convincing the man to point the gun away but not in turning over the weapon when the man loaded a shell into the shotgun chief brown and his friends quickly left the scene police arrived and surrounded the house a stouffville man 20 was arrested at 5 am and charged with pointing a firearm chief brown was unavailable for comment on monday at press time 1 i ft 1 i 1 h i i s sb if i 41 m si i v- i 94 r i m i v