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mammm mmm dainty donuts 0eli 18 ringwood drive sundays seniors freedom with beverage ihe inbune cu 6424540 1m mali street m 107 no 17 a meiroldnd community newspaper sales barn fire merchants lose everything in suspicious blaze wednesday april 261995 14 pages 50 1 h7tpijw by joan ransberry staff reporter inspectors from the ontario fire marshals office returned to stouffville mon day morning to continue to sift through the remains of a firegutted building meanwhile local business owners are taking stock of their loss the 240000blaze com pletely destroyed three busi nesses each situated in one building located at the stouffville sales barns on the 10th line no one was in the building at the time of the 3 am fri day blaze also none of the 15 firefighters attending the ninehour fire was injured the building and all the contents of tommys dollar barn frank battaglias shoes and country market clearance centre are gone for ray thirgood owner of the market it was a 50000 personal loss it was just too hot noth ing survived thirgood told the tribune it was also a complete loss for tom ashby owner of the dollar store confirmed rob shannon manager of the sales barns he had no content insur ance said shannon everything is gone thirgood operated coun try market clearance for 10 years he carried no content insurance on the business the insurance premium rates were too high the building was too old to cover it thirgood said im try ing not to be too upset battaglia has some insur ance but certainly not enough to cover the entire loss said shannon while arson is suspected in the middleofthenight blaze a final report from the provincial fire investigators is not expected for at least a month and possibly two months said whitchurch- stouffville fire chief bill brown the entire investigation has been handed over to the fire marshals office con firmed the fire chief its one thing to know it was set its another thing to know who set it said brown arson was however sus pected from the outset said brown it was a stubborn blaze it was very windy said brown firefighters were worried the blaze would spread to the new multimillion dollar building using the towns new aeri al ladder firefighters hosed down the main structure to keep it from catching theyre lucky that it didnt go too said brown business owners arent the only ones affected by the fire staff of the burned out retail outlets are now won dering about their future thirgood employed a man ager and three parttime employees at his store the parttime help are students he said while nothing is definite thirgood said he will to try to place these workers at amegos hardware located at the sales barn thirgood also owns amegos ill try to place them he said although fire struck 24 hours before the grand opening of this years stouf fville country market offi cials took a theshowmust go on approach the fire scene was roped off and the grand opening was held on schedule on sat urday the fire was a terrible thing it was a tough couple of days for us especially fri day but we opened said shannon shannon said he expects the ontario fire marshals office and the insurance company to release the burned building from their jurisdictions by midweek we hope to be able to demolish it and clean up the scene sometime before the end of the week said shan- music j da opens tomorrow doris harvey puts her all into an operatic viking aria during the skit song foolery at rehearsals for music mania on the weekend the 35th annual version of the popular show opens thursday for a threeday run at stouffville district secondary school photosjoerd wttteveen budget push for pool expected as town council meets by joan ransberry staff reporter a call for a green light for an indoor swimming pool and a red light for a new civic centre was expected to be made at tuesday nights town council meeting sue sherban advocate for the pool project plans to remind local government that interest in an indoor swimming pool continues to grow in stouffville meanwhile a councillor is expected to ask council to cancel a plan to authorize the design plans for a new civic centre total cost of a new centre has been estimated at 39 million a survey carried out recently shows 58 per cent of the residents of stouf fville cited a pool as the memorable 50th anniversary burt and helen paisley photo above celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in style with a ride through stouffville in a horsedrawn carriage photo at right just like any other vehicle on main street the carriage was subjected to the stouffville firefighters voluntary toll to raise funds for chari ties here firefighter pete reesor offers congratulations for the couple while collecting the toll from driver murray grove photosjoerd wttteveen most wanted recreational facility we have spent the last 10 years paying off the existing arena and have invested a lot of time and money sherban told the tribune it is time we start to sup port the rest of our recre ational needs for the prena tal infant senior citizen handicapped and youth she added while whitchurch-stouf- fville council is expected to ratify its operating budget and a oneyear capital bud get tonight the towns full fiveyear capital forecast has been put on hold instead council will hold a twoday strategy session in midmay to deal with a pro posed 22- million wish list while the list does not at this time include a swim ming pool or a second ice pad theres a great deal of community pressure to build both facilities now advocates for a second ice pad have long reminded council that the town has outgrown the existing arena there are now 1300 ice users in town a lmillion ice pad is pro posed meanwhile the capi tal cost of a pool is between 19 and 38 million but remember no one from this pool delegation has please see page 3 beyond the ordinary skjatwjhuudnriilwllf 2495 mastercard visa trades welcome antiques refinished beyond compare tel 905640 4564