Whitchurch-Stouffville Newspaper Index

Stouffville Tribune (Stouffville, ON), January 6, 1993, p. 3

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st tribune january 6 1993 p3 local officials may ask grier to resign local politicians will decide this week whether to ask for ontario environment minister ruth griers resignation whitchurchstoufiville council was expected to discuss last night whether grier should step down from her post in light of the recent landfill site search conducted by provincial crown corpora tion the interim waste authority iwa officials are being asked to support a city of brampton resolu tion calling for griers immediate resignation due to what they call a complete disregard for all environmental and agricultural concerns since the iwas short fist of dump sites was announced last november brampton officials are requesting support from all municipali ties within the greater toronto area the resolution states the province has ignored alternate waste management options such as energyfromwaste incineration methods even though other options have proven to be less dam aging to the environment than burying garbage in rural areas in thegta welfare figures rise from page 1 cates that 29 per cent of its nearly 500000 population cashed a welfare cheque in november a half per cent increase from the previous year inability to find regular work is still the number one reason social assistance each month another commonly used rea son to turn to social assistance is that the family lacks a prin cipal provider temporary illness and ineligi bility to keep collecting unem ployment insurance commis sion benefits are also high on the list photoioerd witteveen fetch john and doris brown play with whittaker the doberman and his friend rudy in stouffvilles memorial park on the weekend mild weather made a great close to the holiday season destreaming big issue for 93 given as to why people turn to local man wins cash stouffville is home to the provinces first winner in the ontario lottery corporations olc special christmas ticket sales wayne lambert is one of 40 people across the country to cash in on the seasonal tickets a christmas gift from his girlfriend according to a spokesman for the olc lambert instantly won 1000 on the scratch ticket last month and was to attend an allexpensespaid new years eve bash in toronto where he was guaranteed to snag at least another 5000 lambert 50 a selfemployed mechanic told lottery offi cials that he would likely pay off bills with the 6000 jackpot prize julie casperson staff reporter destreaming of grade 9 stu dents is the big news in schools in 1993 both york region school boards cite the ministry direc tive as one of the changes to education happening in the next twelve months york region board of educa tion chair bill crothers said along with the destreaming trustees will cope with anoth er government mandated pro gram junior kindergarten is slated to be in place by september 1994 and the board is balking at being ordered to provide the primary program crothers said the board will see a change at the top with the hiring this spring of a new director of education to replace retiring director bob cress- man who is leaving the board in 1994 another initiative is the evaluation policy which includes the implementation of learning outcomes in september this will address some of the parental concerns about measuring the quality of edu cation crothers said terry ryan chair of the york region roman catholic sepa rate school board said money is a major concern of the board which went into 1993 with a 30 million deficit the budget is going to be a cruel process he said teacher contracts are up for renewal with both boards this year the last sets of negotiations left public board teachers with six and five per cent pay hikes and separate teachers receiv ing salary increases of 375 and 45 per cent banner year for babies at hospital it was a baby boom year at markham stouf fville hospital the original estimate was that the hospital opened in march 1990 would see 1000 babies born in a year but in the first 12 months the estimate was off by more than 100 babies nearly 500 more babies than expected were delivered in the second year of operation with 1433 babies born at the ninth line hospital in 1991 in 1992 thew number of births rose by 14 per cent to 1663 as of dec 29 with 10 moms ready to deliver in the final two days of the year the monthly norm in the birth place during the summer was 145 deliveries per month and a record was set in may with the delivery of 172 babies compared to 116 deliveries made in may 1991 altogether 17 sets of twins were delivered in the past 12 months and the markham stouf fville hospital celebrated the birth of its first triplets oct 14 town may snub group local officials will decide tonight whether to join a group which repre sents municipalities across the province whitchurchstoufrville had previ ously snubbed the association of municipalities of ontario amo for its yearly fee hikes and had hinted the town would bow out of the associ ation if membership fees continued to climb but amo a nonprofit organi zation representing issues faced by local governments promised to review its fee schedule this year the town has already spent more than 7000 in fees since 1990 amo is charging the town 2562 to join for 1993 a zero per cent hike from the previous year to convince the town of its influ ence in fighting issues on municipal matters amo listed the following benefits derived from membership the group vows to spend more than 2 billion this year investigating many issues including controlling municipal police bud gets preventing the province from unfairly increasing municipal opp costs working through disentangle ment and provincial downloading forcing an amendment to bill 143 waste management act that would give the province power over municipal systems local officials will vote tonight on whether to join amo for another year photojoerd witteveen closing in on goal mike pennanen 10 wards off jason shouldice 13 left and matthew pennanen 7 in some pond hockey action at the 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