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i tmhldng sei1ing or williamson remax all stars realty inc i r c f r v t b5 mercedes benz repair spkiaust 172 buuock osfve unft 31 markham 4718660 fights on to save post office tracy kibble staff reporter the fight to keep stoufivilles post office open to retail cus tomers is strengthening and has the attention of canada post local politicians last week agreed to back a meeting between canada post officials and a residents committee candidates off and running to oct 25 roger belgrave staff reporter the race is on and local candi dates for federal government are putting their campaigns into gear almost immediately after the election call local candidates were setting up headquar ters reform can didate joe sherren has had an estab lished base for quite some time orches trating volun- attewell teers from 5990 16th avenue unit 218 the telephone number there is 4719470 progressive conservative and incumbent markham whitchurchstoufiviue mp bill attewell is based at his constituency office in the for- mer farmer jacks plaza jag bhaduria run ning under the liberal banner has chosen campaign offices at 5293 hwy 7 east unit 6 for further information call 4710101 grant bhaduria the local new democratic party nominated area develop erbuilder jack grant as their candidate grants recent accla mation has given him a late campaign start but he is con vinced the parly will make its presence felt the cam paign team is still in the ini tial organizing stages to reach cam paign organiz ers telephone 7492233 ma rkham whitchurch- stouffville will be among the more than 150 ridings across canada with a national party candidate run ning for federal election twentyfouryearold sheldon bergson has emerged as the i partys local candidate for the oct 25 national elec tion with lim ited resources and finances the plan is to run a very grassroots campaign there is no campaign office yet but a hotline has been set up at 7545276 known as the save the post office committee sp0c ward 6 councillor ken pren tice will act as councils repre sentative at the meeting where the town will join a unified front of opposition to the feder al corporations move to end retail service at the main street office spoc member stephen sword told the tribune this week that a community- wide petition addressed to markham stouffville mp bill attewell asking canada post to retract its decision has more than 1400 signatures spoc plans to formally pre sent attewell with the petition monday evening and ask what he plans to do on the residents behalf sword added attewell said he will help the group work out a strategy and promises to take concerns to canada post attewell said the federal gov ernment hasnt got absolute control over the crown corpora tion and pointed out that cana da post hasnt received subsidy for several years but there may have been a major area overlooked such as the convenience factor this might not have been researched very well by canada post attewell said sword said residents met last thursday to map out strategic protest plans and decided to hold a multimedia lemonaid extravaganza demonstration in front of the post office on mon day sept 20 at noon the group will rally around the trig lemon statue in front of- the office where town crier marcel bossi will proclaim the objec tions to the proposed service changes everyone is invited to listen to live music enter a number of contests including a plackard competition the group is also hoping to meet face to face with decision making administrators at canada post to discuss what factors were behind the public corporations derision a private meeting between spoc members andcanada post is expected to be set up in the committeetoom at the town offices in the next few weeks sherren welfare investigators eliminate 24 mittion in claims york region welfare fraud investigators have saved taxpayers more than 24 million in 12 months after workers terminated 306 files from yorks mounting welfare rolls a report stated last week and the region plans to continue its crack down on welfare fraud if politicians approve the hiring of two additional investigators to monitor an increasing num ber of suspicious situations the cost benefit report outlined yorks community services and health committee last week recommended the region hire two additional workers to investigate potential fraudulent situa tions through its newlyformed quality assurance department which began operations in july 1992 the department workers- also investigate duplicate payments or overpayments through other agencies such as unemployment insurance uic and would review all files to ensure claims are uptodate and remain eligible for social assistance the department completed a random client audit of 1100 files since last december in which nearly 500000 was recovered or payments reduced a total of 306 cases were also terminated from the welfare rolls resulting in a 24 million cost avoidance to the regions th but york needs the additional two 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