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10 m write to santa claus at the tribune santa gets his tribune every week and if you dont want to send your letter all the way to the north pole drop them into the tribune office and well try to get your letter in the paper so santa can read it those we dont get in well send to the jolly elf at the north pole in time for christmassend your wish list by dec 6 1993 to the tribune 6244 main st stouffville i4a 1 e2 or fax them to 6405477 stouffville auto wash kow featuring soft cloth 37 winona dr 6422712 see inside ad page 5 ihe inbune mm 6405466 vol 105 no 47 a metrbland community newspaper wednesday november 24 1993 32 pages 50 cents physiotherapy clinic hit by cuts bruce stapley correspondent a publiclyfunded stouffville physiotherapy clinic may have to turn away patients as a result of the provincial govern ments social contract legisla tion stouffville physiotherapy clinic located on main st has been told it will likely have to limit itself to patient volumes based on the past three years if clinic owners across the province are successful in con- yitieinlgnhe ijoverrimmt to allow them to be selfpolicing in terms of social contract cut backs but the clinics new owner joe lee who took over in mid september of this year is arguing the clinic should be exempt from such a base con trol mechanism because he has upgraded the facility since tak ing over greatly increasing its patient load according to lee the approxi mately 100 publicly funded physiotherapy clinics in ontario have been told they must split 393 million in ohip contributions over the three year period which began last april 1 the majority of clinic owners voted in favor of the selfpolic ing base control mechanism which lee said will serve to protect their larger volumes lee said since his clinic is the only public operation from lake simcoe to steeles ave to the northsouth and from picker ing to richmond hill to the eastwest he should be entitled to expand upon the patient load maintained by the previous owner who was semiretired its very unfair for this clinic to be judged based on the past three years he said i will have to turn patients away if the government accepts the proposed base control mecha nism lee said he supports the gov ernments initial suggestion that a call back mechanism be used by the publicly funded clinics under such an arrangement individual clinics would be required to pay back the government based upon their percentage of the total remuneration package if the 393 million figure was exceeded r i would rather take my chances on the call back formu la said lee id lose some income but at least we could carry on im not asking for extra funding the 393 mil lion is there and i think we can live with it lee said he has been advised please see page 3 prentice calls for fed inquiry into postal cuts one local politician is call ing on the federal govern ment to conduct a full review of canada posts decision to end retail ser vice at stouffvilles down town post office ward 6 councillor ken prentice will ask for council support next week to send a resolution to prime minis ter jean chretien minister responsible for postal affairs david dingwall and markham whitchurch- stouffvillempjag bhaduria requesting the federal governments please see page 3 recreation more power given to town parks advisory board tracy kibble staff reporter stouffville politicians agreed this week to give added recognition and strength to its recreation board after much wrangling and debate the parks and recreation advisory board prab which was formed five years ago in conjunction with the towns recreation department will now make rec ommendations directly to council it was decided tuesday night the decision to change prabs terms of reference came through staff recommendations which said the committee had the need desire and interest to be an integral part of the delivery system of recreational services additions and improvements stated a report for recreation director marlane mckee wetheral during a delegation prab chairman casey van maris told officials the group feels frustrated and very ineffective with the current setup the groups feels that they have served their apprenticeship and feel that we now deserve to become a committee of council van maris said he asked that prab be given the opportunity to make monthly recommendations to hold decision making power to be stouffvilles voice for recreation al matters and to form the towns framework and links with other groups and with council please see page 3 m i fa i i iil9 i r i i t i i i i t i 1 t i t i t i t 1 t i i f i t v rrvrvrrtnr