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st newsmakers 1993 tribune december 29 1993 p3 marion wells lemonville resident mari on wells plowed headstrong into the council chambers during the budget process which started in 1992 and continued her fight to keep taxes down again in 1993 as one of the founding members of stouffvilles strongest citizen coalitions save our stouffville sos wells has delivered a num ber of wellwritten speeches as the groups voice and has the support and respect of a good many followers and neighbors wells started her crusade after hearing the towns deci sion to purchase a new fire truck in 1992 a move she said the council didnt think through and a luxury she said the taxpayers couldnt afford wells grew more and more vocal as the year unfolded taking her same need for taxhiking justification to the education board wells main focus she has always maintained was and still is to keep taxes down and to ask for more accountabili ty from local politicians and their decisions wells group hit the ceiling when council waived its tender process to hire miller waste for a 2 million garbage collec tion contract a move which prompted sos to ask for the resignations for all politicians who voted in favor of the waiver calling the waiver a sidestep of the political process wells said waiving the tender was irresponsible while she has been fairly quiet over the past few months wells will likely come out to share her views during 1994s budget process dave probert lemonville community activist dave probert was a thorn in the side of both council and the region in 1993 probert took on the role of watchdog taking the town to task on various issues as a member of the group save our stouffville sos and on his own proberts plea for unity among the towns of the region in the fight against the provin cial governments megadump backfired at a feb 25 meeting of regional council the former chair of the environment not economics ratepayers group caused one councillor to sug gest that perhaps funding should be cancelled to all anti- dump groups in the region probert had accused the regional politicians of not keep ing up on dump fighting efforts of the various towns in the region on feb 25 he was par ticularly critical of markham mayor frank scarpitti and that towns dump task force probert pushed mayor fran sainsbury too far in september when he asked the mayor if in return for her vote to hand miller waste disposal systems a five year 2 million garbage collection contract would she get her driveway paved by miller sainsbury demanded a public apology when probert refused the mayor told the lemonville resident she would pursue the matter privately jag bhaduria jag bhaduria hit the jackpot in his second try as a liberal candidate in the riding of markham whitchurchstouffville ousting tory incumbent bill attewell in the oct 25 federal election bhaduria who owns his own man agement consult ing business received almost double the votes garnered by attewell with reform candidate joe sherren a close third bhadurias victo ry was welcomed by the large ethnic population in markham with bhaduria jubilantly referring to the riding as the new canada he promised to ensure the riding would be given special atten tion in ottawa bhaduria a father of three who resides in unionville campaigned on the platform of stimu lating the local economy and creating jobs by providing incentives to small and medium sized business in markham whitchurchstouffville the heavy tax burden currently being born by residents in his riding is another concern he acknowledged he also pledged to work towards amending the criminal code so that racial reli gious ethnic and sexual insensitivity and intol erance would be dealt with harshly young people would be given every opportunity to compete at home and on a global scale under a liberal government he said upon being elected bhaduria said he was look ing to become a hard working mp who would sit on as many parliamentary committees as possi ble he said his connections with such important liberals as keith davey would help his influence be felt in ottawa bhaduria said one of his first priorities would be to learn french so he could help in the fight against the bloc quebecois sep aratist agenda he is also looking to broaden his national perspective by travelling across the country when the house is not in session margaret britton whitchurchstouffvilles citizen of the year margaret britton has never been one to let the grass grow under her feet taking a nononsense approach to every cause she tackles brit ton has achieved major advances for mobility transit in the area and has worked tirelessly for the local chapter of the multiple sclerosis society as chairman of the whitchurchstouffville mobility transit commit tee britton was instrumental in persuading the town to approve a- oneyear pilot project for the service beginning in february 1994 we strive to provide quality transit for our riders on a hasslefree system and this gives our disabled citizens an alternative to staying home and depending on care givers britton said a founding mem ber of the york east chapter of the multiple sclerosis society she opens her home every year for a fundraising barbecue and is actively involved in the charitys annual carnation campaign britton organizes golf tournaments and car rallies to raise funds for the cause and also finds time to volunteer as a palliative care worker at markham stouffville hospital she is a member of york regions transportation advocacy com mittee and visits schools as a guest speaker for the ms society when britton is not busy working on special projects she drives a bus for residents from parkview home and green gables manor and invites seniors and disabled people to visit her at her beautiful lemonville home her involvement as a member of the congregation of christ church anglican in stouffville has given her particular joy as the tribunes citizen of the year she will be a tough act to follow giant vegetable grower norm craven finally gained the inter national recognition hes been striving for in 1993 the stouffville area real estate broker who grows mon ster veggies on his 100 acre bloomington rdhwy 48 hobby farm harvested an 832 pound pumpkin this past fall the mammoth jackolantern earned him a mention in the guiness book of world records a new truck and an appear ance on the regis and kathie lee tv show in new york the pumpkin which exceeded the old world mark by five pounds was eventually ren dered second biggest in the world both cravens pumpkin norm craven and the new record holder were grown from seeds which came out of the previous champion in washington craven entered his beauty at the world weigh off station at port elgin oct 3 it held cen tre stage until news of an even larger pumpkin came in on a global conference call the pre vious record for a pumpkin in this province was 704 pounds before this year cravens biggest effort had been a 461 pounder prior to the weigh in date craven spent several days in bed after hurting his back try ing to move a 400 pound pump kin cravens 10 minute stint on us national tv oct 27 gave him the chance to show off his enormous pumpkin along with a 14 corn cob a nine foot zuc chini and a 53 pound turnip grown by udoras phil lillie craven drove his prize veg etables to new york in the truck awarded him for growing his large pumpkin kids earn extra money become a i carrier today attention flyer advertisers we can deliver your flyers for as little as 40 a piece so far this year we have delivered 30791959 flyers doortodoor in markham unionville milliken stouffville uxbridge claremont dickson hill locust hill gormley goodwood victoria square brougham hagerman corners box grove cedar grove buttonville sandford goodwood leaekdale greenbank udora sunderland zephyr ashburn cannington and all adjacent rural route areas we can deliver your flyers on the day you want to the area you want any quantity from 5000 to 46000 for 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