boyds 1 m v sports atoms rj ready for r i fl next round pf playoffs im see page 13 v i v v r kjs what bugs you 1 flp jvtti m 1 lid eres what really bugs e martin of stoufmlle people whbtoss cigarette butts put the car window where there is an ashtray right beside them in the rar tracy kibble staff reporter whitchurchstpuffville spent nearly 720000 on garbage and another 89000 on recycling efforts in- 1990 council heard last week ward 6 councillor jim sanders a member ofthe commu nitys waste management committee told officials the committee is now aiming tofurther efforts to divert garbage from landfill sites r j v we have been talking about the garbage crisis for several effortby years however the crisis is now upon us sanders said during a report to council he noted that as of march 1 the local landfill site will no longer accept yard waste therefore the local waste committee wants to promote composting as part of jts new strategy to combat waste in i whitchurchstouffvillesahders said we need everyones cooperation in trying to reduce pur waste and reducethis million dollar peryear problem he added waste group sanders said although we have a long way to go in waste management achievements stbuffyille residents have been recycling for a long time ward 4 councillor wayne emmerson said the town should order cdmposters now to have them available to res idents by jhe spring sanders said town public works director paul whitehpuse is preparing a report regarding composters and their cost and will submit it to the waste committee at its next meet ing v y r smoke sends firefighters to mcneil plant whitchurchstouffville volunteer fire department rushed to mcneil pharmaceutical saturday about 1206 pm after security guards reported smoke in the building when the fire brigade arrived on the scene a white mist or smoke was pouring put of the office vents throughout the building and work ers began to investigate the source deputy fire chief murray emmer son said the smoke was not thick enough to activate the companys fire alarms but would likely have set them off if not reported he said after further investigation it was discovered a compressor in a mechanical room had malfunc tioned or blown spilling a non- hazardous oil and creating the smoke emmerson said when the fans were shut down the smoke stopped emmerson said a crew was in the building making the drug tylenol at the time of the call which could- have been the source of the smoke no one was evacuated and crews helped workers clean up the veg etable oillike spill end to false alarm offences emmerson tracy kibble staff reporter the whitchurchstouffville vol unteer fire department answers far top many false alarms and the town should take legal action against offenders said one local official tuesday ward 4 councillor wayne emmerson said he is not going to let this issue fall by the wayside i have a real concern about this there is an astounding number of false alarms here how can we curb some of these and what can be done to stop them emmerson asked emmerson was responding to a recent report from fire chief bill brown that stated the local brigade answered 375 calls in 1990 74 of which were false alarms the high est occurrence of any call coming into the department the number of false alarms is up from 58 in 1989 the report showed bill brown told the tribune it costs taxpayers a minimum of 600 for each false alarm call the depart ment responds to that adds up to about 45000 taxpayers had to fork over in 1990 for false alarms arid who is to blame brown said its a combination of poor maintenance poor education by users and an increase in the number of crimes people are becoming more aware because there is an rise in the number of burglaries and break- ins brown said a few years ago i could count on my hands how many alarm sys tems there were in this town not now brown added town chief administrative officer bob panizza said the town is cur rently investigating what legal please see page 2 gx if the federal government ran mcdonalds like it runs its own departments they would have a minister a deputy minister and under them an assistant deputy minister of hamburgers and assistant deputy minister of fishburgers an assistant deputy minister of chicken burgers a director of ketehup anda director of mayonaisse you could still get a hamburger but it would take two weeks and it would cost695plus gst mike magner president of the york north refcmi party riding association mj last tuesday at the associations information night at latcham gallery 72 n