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stouffville auto wash soft cloth automatic and 24 hr coinops chang reacime or site lhe iribune nnltoqrtfanpimiilucfle cu 6424540 132 main stmt vol 107 no 13 a metroland community newspaper wednesday march 29 1995 24 pages 50 1 tl gouncil town wants 39 m civic centre by joan ransberry staff reporter a 39million new town hall is being considered for whitchurch stouffville the tribune has learned a new town hall is includ ed in budget talks sched uled for tuesday merlin dewing adminis trator of whitchurch-stouf- fville confirmed that the new town hall will be on the municipalitys capital pro ject budget agenda conservation migration robert marshall was among a group of hikers who took a walking tour of the bruces mill forest on sunday as part of the save the rouge valley system program photasjoerd witteveen the plan calls for a town hall office design to be passed for 95 while office designphase two is slated 96 with construction start up scheduled for 97 anew town hall could also be part of an existing build ing stressed dewing at this stage no one knows where or how it would be built said dew ing the old town hall on civic ave has outgrown itself and wed like it all under one roof said dewing whitchurchstouffville council is expected to strike a budget soon politics liberals pick dave marquis by joan ransberry staff reporter business i bia calls for opening of side streets by kate gilderdale correspondent many residents are unaware of the range of goods and services available in stouffvilles downtown said sandra stronach as a result they go out of town to shop and that hurts the local economy noted the bia president and owner of freckles to counter the problem she and her fellow merchants are working hard to encourage people to shop locally we are not going to try and do anything new but to spruce up what we have to make it attractive and busy so that people will see the downtown as a going con cern she cited the town crier formerly the stouffville deli as one example of the renew al that is taking place this year she said merchants are planning many special events and activities to bring people into town weve got all sorts of things organized starting with the legions may 6 ve- day parade were going to have flags up and down the business area and displays in store windows- we have something planned at least once a month during the summer including the strawberry festival the horticultural society are doing our planters this year so were working hand- inhand with them we want to make people feel proud of this town the bia would like to see side streets in town opened up to local traffic to improve access to the downtown for residents from groceries clothing and books to jew ellery photographic equip ment and crafts as well as a good selection of restaurants and the local park downtown stouffville has a lot to offer stronach said people should at least take a look at whats available in stouffville before going else where said tom thompson of the villager which sells womens and mens clothing and a selection of gourmet coffees they will find that in many cases the prices are the same or a little less in town if people are not will ing to give local merchants a chance he said stores will close and property values will decrease the street openings are extremely important what the present system does is to cut the town literally in half he would like to see works from the latcham gallerys sculpture walk moved onto main street to advertise the gallery and enhance the streetscape a lot of people dont even know the gallery is here he pointed out his other suggestions include damming up duffins creek to create a pond with a fountain and putting a band shell in an accessible area to encourage both visitors and residents to stop and look around stouffvilles down town its up to the merchants and the town he said this town is too fond of saying what if something goes wrong instead of why not and we as merchants have to do more research as regards to what it is that people are looking for john and maureen breen of the town crier are relative newcomers to stouflvill hiit they have already built up a loyal clientele recent reno vations have created a delightful- neighborhood restaurant and bar and john breen plans to have sidewalk tables and chairs out in the summer he has found town staff helpful but would like to see more signage to adver tise the stores and services in town as well he would like to see speed bumps installed in the downtown area to frank cassano of villa italian bakery and food town on edward street the cure for what ails the town is obvious open all the streets its ridiculous he said since they put that gate up here north of his store they just cut our legs off its not just ourselves stores on main street are also affected by it people dont shop in town because of the access problem he would also like to see attractively designed wooden signs directing peo ple to the businesses and the restaurant on edward street if a spring election is called in ontario durham york will not be caught off guard the progressive conservatives pc are ready the new democrats are well organized and on sunday the liberals picked their candidate putting all three major parties in a position to fight the good political fight david marquis a brock township dairy farmer won the liberal nomination by defeating lynette flanagan of hol land landing about 400 party faithful turned up at uxbridge high school to pick the grit candidate carrying the local pc candidate banner is sutton resident julia munro while riding j incumbent larry oconnor will once again run on the new democratic party ndp ticket marquis is a former regional and local councillor during novembers municipal election marquis lost the mayoralty race in brock township by 30 votes marquis alifelong resident of the area the 41year old marquis is also the former chairman of the lake sinicde conservation authority marquis said hes quite prepared to fight any attempts to locate torontos garbage in durhamyork marquis said neglect of the provinces finances is one of his major concerns the ndp has failed to balance a bud get since it came to power five years ago said marquis the liberal government was the last government to do so and we even paid down the debt marquis and wife brigid have three children larry austin president of the york durham liberals said now that a candidate is in place the riding association is eager to launch a campaign markham east sewer may be oversized to assist stouffville markham will be asked to oversize its sewer system to accommodate growth in whitchurchstouffville if council goes along with a proposal tonight tuesday whitchurchstouf fville council is expected to review an engi neering report on sanitary sewer oversiz- ing town staff has suggested that on receipt of approval from the town of markham to oversize the region of yorks environmen tal services dept be asked to approve the project on the basis that the cost will be funded by a development group arranged by lebovic enterprises of stouffville markhams engineering department has indicated it has no objection to the oversiz- ing providing it bears no cost to markham lebovic enterprises officials confirmed their request to oversize the sewers which are being designed and installed for their east markham community to accommo date future servicing needs if markham and york region go along with the plan an agreement would be struck with the development to provide the necessary funding joan ransberry council to hear golf business proposal by joan ransberry staff reporter a stouffville business wants to build a golf dri ving range at the corner of bloomington road and hwy 48 a public hearing deal ing with the application is expected to get under way in the whitchurch- stouffville council cham bers tonight tuesday march 28 the driving range is slated for 23acres of land the parcel of land is presently vacant and developers want to put it to use as a driving range it is bordered on the north by rural land and a commercial site the area includes some industrial land the application to rezone the land for a threeyear period was submitted by eglinton golf enterprises ltd and council was to debate the proposal so far town staff is in support of the applica tion maim opens office janice harrison mothers against drunk driving york region chapter president cuts the ribbon to open the new madd office in stouffville last thursday dignitaries from stouffville aurora markham and the police service were on hand photosjoerd witteveen new old for old old we utmltt be happy to consider yottr existing furniture in part exchange for a sihxhatos slitf antiq refinished beyond compare mastercard visa tel 9056404564