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stouffville auto wash soft cloth automatic and 24 hr coinops ihe inbune cii 6424540 u2mlnstrt stoulwmc to 107 no 12 a metroland community newspaper wednesday march 22 1995 12 pages 50 f wpluj cit rail shutdown strands stouffville commuters by joan ransberry staff reporter go train sits idle at stouffville station go transit users from stouffville were forced to find alternate trans portation monday morning while the federal government is poised to legislate an end to the nationwide railway shutdown most torontobound commuters in stouf fville took the go buses to the scar borough town centre and linked up with the subway street cars and city buses cn crews who run the trains for go walked off the job on saturday forcing go transit to suspend all train lines the walkout affected some 50000 commuters in the toronto area stouffville go train users must have been well organized local commuters buy their tickets from storehouse travel sally thomas spokesman for the travel company said no one turned up to buy a train ticket it was announced late monday that should the strike continue a late bus will be leaving for stouffville from union station at 730 pan the bus will then travel to uxbridge from stouffville go transit has established an infor mation hot line stouffville commuters can call 18003877049 for more infor mation swimming pool wins trib poll by joan ransberry staff reporter everybody into the pool according to a poll carried by the tribune over the past week the preferred recre- arena poll finds pad support the results of a poll carried out at the arena in stouffville over the weekend indicated a strong desire for a second ice pad copies of the poll pub lished by the tribune were handed out at the arena the ballots were collected in a box and delivered to the newspa per office on main street on monday morning of the 488 ballots 360 were for a second icepad while 83 ballots were marked for both an ice pad and a swimming poll of the ballots cast at the arena 35 showed a preference for just a pool while 10 ballots were marked neither an ice pad nor a pool ation facility for the resi dents of whitchurch stouf fville is an indoor swimming pool a week ago whitchurch- stouffville council struck two separate steering com mittees one will look into the feasibility of building a second ice pad while the second will investigate other options including building a pool when the tribune pub lished its poll readers were asked to indicate their pref erence the choices on the ballot were an ice pad an indoor-pool- both or neither of the 210 ballots cast at the tribune office 136 were for a swimming pool 36 were for neither 22 were marked for a second ice pad while 16 ballots were marked both residents did more than mark the ballot most added comments one thing is absolute recreation facili ties is a big deal in whitchurchstoufrville the following is a sam pling of comments included on the ballots q we need an indoor pool before an ice pad q its outrageous that the town would even consider capital expenditures on recreation when items of necessity such as the bal- please see page 3 helping hands jean smith working diligently washing dishes gets some moral support from friends from left gladys clarkson mary hamerston and lillian johnson at the st patricks day bazaar and tea at the silver jubilee club saturday photosteve somerville biul63 oconnor supports municipalities durham york mpp larry oconnor is breaking party ranks and does not support the new conflict of interest rules affecting municipal politicians a segment of bill 163 dealing with what a politician has to disclose to the public is being challenged at queens park even though the bill is expected to receive final reading in the legislature next month most municipal councils including whitchurchstoufrville council are adamantly opposed to the new rules applying to conflict of interest florist james white killed in car accident a stouffville man is dead and another is in police cus tody after a car struck a hydro poll on bethesda sideroad sunday night york regional police reported police reported that james white 66 of stouffville road died two hours after being admitted to markham stouffville hospital james white owned james white hydro crews worked well into monday afternoon to free this car so a new power line pole could be put in place after an accident that claimed the life of local florist james white on sunday pholoandrew mair florist on stouffville rd louis trudel 31 has been charged with failing to remain at the scene of an accident and failing to ren der assistance police report ed police said trudel was apprehended at a residence near the scene later in the evening the accident was reported to police at 1030 pmwhile the 1985 pontiac is registered to trudel police do not know who was driving at the time of the accident the accident resulted in a power blackout for residents of the immediate area ontario hydro officials reported that they had to cut off power in the bethesda sideroad area just east of mccowan road hydro officials reported that power was to be restored late monday the accident remains under police investigation joan ransberry whitchurchstoufrville mayor wayne emmerson pointed out that there has been a serious backlash from the munic ipal sector regrading what a politician has to disclose about him or herself theyre watching the wrong politicians said emmerson i phoned oconnor and told him theyre laying the heavies onus j emmerson is also taking issue with how the bill was drafted there was no municipal input he said the association of municipalities of ontario is asking its members to lobby the local mpps and the cabinet asking that the conflict of interest segment of the bill be deferred oconnor has accepted the challenge from whitchurch- stouffville in a letter to ministry of municipal affairs minister ed philip he has suggested that the conflict of interest rules in bill 163 not be proclaimed in april while i certainly agree that the public have the right to good government free of conflict of interest my concern is one of fairness said oconnor meanwhile the association of municipalities of ontario amo is asking member municipalities to lobby theirj mpps asking that the conflict of interest segment be deferred in siding with the local governments oconnor said it- has been pointed out to me that the changes made to con- flict of interest rules that govern provincial politicians are now not the same as those governing our municipal politi cians our municipal elected representatives should not be treated any differently then those at the provincial level joan ransberry stouffville fitness closes i by kate gilderdale correspondent after four years in busi ness stouffville health and fitness spa formerly stouf fville fitness resort is clos ing its doors the facility located in the town square will shut down effective march 25 owner frieder schuemer stated inj a press release monday in looking at 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