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t wt jsi expert watch clock repairs across from clock tower stouffville stouffville tribune 172 bullock drive unit 31 markham 4718660 vol8 no 37 a metroland community newspaper satutjj september 5 1992 airport government to sell offypickfcring lands tracy kibble staff reporter the federal government wants to unload more than 5000 acres of land it thought was needed for an airport development in pickering just east of stouffville transport canada announced this week it doesnt need 2064 hectares or 5100 acres as part of a- 7530hectare block acquired 20years ago for a future international airport in pick ering the surplus will be sold off in blocks once the ministry decides how much the land is worth and who should get first crack at it announced transport minister jean cor- beil but whitchurch-stouf- fville mayor fran sainsbury said the ministrys announce ment was not well done and wants more details on how the sale of land will affect stouffville there is nothing here but a bunch of squiggley black lines sainsbury said in ref erence to a diagram indicat ing the land surplus boundary lines sainsbury is calling the ministry to be more specific in its description of the land and wants to know how many acres will affect stouffville the sale of these lands should be made fair to all i estate companies she said transport canada press sec retary for the minister of state sandy hutchison told the tribune wednesday that the announcement is only the preliminary stage of the sale she said the ministry is not decision to not evict called illegal whitchurchstouffville coun cil has made an illegal decision by not evicting a baker ave family from their home a resi dent charged this week dr blair mitchell of orchard park blvd said council acted illegally and made a decision for reasons other than for the benefit of the municipality mitchell told officials the municipality would be embar rassed in the long run if they dont evict a family from their illegal 35 baker ave home he accused officials of hiding behind the veil of the province mitchell is referring to coun cils earlier decision to defer action against baker ave homeowners until the province decides if it will legalize base ment apartments but ward 6 councillor ken prentice said even if the apart ments in houses legislation becomes law the baker ave situation would still be illegal because the second dwelling is not attached to the main dwelling on the property thetrouble started when the see not evicting page 3 yet aware of how many acres affect stouffville at this stage in the process were not selling the land now were just establishing the surplus and determining how to go about the disposal of the land hutchison said i wish to stress the reten tion by transport canada of some lands 5466 hectares does not mean that develop ment of an airport there is being considered at this time the minister announced pholosjoero wjtteveen around patrick callahan 5 at left and erin conlin 6 lions club beef and cornroast last saturday have fun on one of the rides at the goodwood many residents turned out for the event fire truck for town approved after five years of asking fire chief bill brown finally got approval tuesday night to pur chase a 500000 customized prentice criticized for slamming towns dump report tracy kibble staff reporter local officials blasted ward 6 councillor ken prentice this week for his criticizism of the towns dump report a story which appeared in the weekender prentice said at a council meeting aug 11 that he was disappointed after reading a 30000dumpfightreport completed by townhired consultants prentice said he thought the report was inadequate because it did not include technical flaws in the interim waste authority twa site search- process he also said as reported in the weekender aug 15 edition that the consul tant findings could be challenged in court because of its lack of technical data but mayor fran sainsbury in the same weekender story said the consultant team was not hired to delve deeply into the tech nical inadequacies of the iwa she said prentice misunderstood the con sultant teams job which was hired in july to find flaws in the iwa process but ward 1 councillor ivanka bradley continually slammed prentice for his com ments to the press she told him he had plenty of time to make his comments known when council first heard the report bradley also defended consultant gartner lees reputation as a renowned and respected firm prentice said he took exception to bradelys attempts to pub licly embarrass him and said he had every right to question a report when tax payers money is being spent its about time we know whats happen ing with taxpayers money prentice said then ward 5 councillor bob ancheril joined the fray despite chairman stephen 7-eller- bs attempts to quash the discussion we all knew what the terms of reference were mr prentice we were to deal with the iwa points about why they chose stouffville sites if we are not on that short list i think we will be happy to have spent 30000 instead of 100000 ancheril said its premature to spend the money now he added fire truck for the town although council had akeady approved the big ticket item during march budget delibera tions brown requested to put out the tenders for a manufac turer for the new pumper aeri al fire truck but ward 6 councillor ken prentice the sole official to object to the expenditure said the chief should investigate an equipment exchange with another municipality we need to be more creative here prentice said he sug gested brown find a municipal ity which might have an equip ment surplus we could try an exchange for a oneyear trial we dont know how many streets this new see truck page 3 swipiim pir month ford plus freight al toes rebate assigned to dealer mcarthurs kennedy rd just south of hwy 7 4741350 extended length dual captains chairs air conditioning 4 litre engine automatic transmission clearcoat paint paint stripes and much more m if w 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