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dainty donuts deli 18 ringvvood drive buy a sandwich get a small coffee or pop free ihe inbune 8sk ca 6424540 132mialrtt vol 107 no 23 ametroland community newspaper wednesday june 7 1995 12 pages 50t gjpj region lowers municipal recycling fees by roger belgrave staff reporter tyork region has lowered its fee for handling recyclables for area municipalities from june 1 to dec 31 the regions fee for processing municipal recycling material drops to 4850 a tonne from 5750 a tonne the price decrease will apply to core materials like newspa- ambulances improve emergency equipment by roger belgrave staff reporter defibrillators machines used to save the lives of heart attack victims could be in york region ambu lances by the end of the month until now ambulances throughout the region have been operating without the critical emergency care equipment attendants have lacked training to use the devise but training is underway in markham according to regional councillor gord landon i landon who is a member of the regions emergency health services committee said there should be a machine in all 16 ambu lances across york region by the end of june training is taking place at the ambulance station recently opened by the province beside markham stouffville hospital the hospital has been des ignated the base hospital for york region providing training consultation and guidance for prehospital emergency health care workers defibrillators are used to administer an electric shock to heart attack victims and restore natural function landon also said the base hospital program has expressed a willingness to train firefighters to use the devises in many cases fire fighters are the first to arrive on the scene in emer gency situations he added per aluminum cans glass and pop bottles handled at york regions material recovery facility on woodbine avenue in markham regional officials have also agreed to commit a portion of fee revenues to a regionwide waste reduction education and promo tion program miller waste system the waste collection contractor for regional municipalities has also agreed to lower its 10percent share of revenues from the sale of recy cled material while area municipalities pay a fee to have their recyclables processed by the region they also receive 90 per cent of the revenues collected from sale of the materials in march stouffville paid 3976 in processing fees but collected 11285 in revenues from the sale of those recy clables york regional council has also given staff the go ahead to work with miller waste system in making a bid for a contract to process durham region recy clables as the region lowers its cost for processing recyclables it is preparing to increase fees for handling municipal yard waste fees at the regions organic waste composting facility remain at 40 a tonne for 1995 but in 1996 fees are scheduled to increase to 50 a tonne and to 60 a tonne in 1997 municipal officials hope to encourage greater use of home composters and reduce use of the regions composting facility regional councillor gord landon said regional fees for processing noncore materials will be picked up by the municipality produc ing them but revenues from sales of the material will also go to the municipality parkview village celebrates 30 years a giant birthday cake was served up to residents and guests on sunday afternoon as parkview home celebrated its 30th anniversary in stouffville originally opened on june 6 1965 parkview has been expanded in 1971 and 1991 it now contains 109 beds with fulltime nursing care another 240 people live independently in the parkview village wing of the facility more than 200 people attended sundays birthday party pholopaulmateer goodwood court action taken against owner of firegutted store by joan ransberry staff reporter the owner of a firegutted store in goodwood has missed a townshipimposed june 1 deadline order ing her to clean up the property court action has started said alex grant uxbridges chief administrative officer township clerk walter taylor told the tribune that the owner of the goodwood variety deli on hwy 47 has not applied for a demolition permit which is needed to take the building down meanwhile bonnie hocking a goodwood resident wants to know whos going to assume the responsi bility to demolish the building hocking said the building is not only an eye sore but poses a safety threat uxbridges fire chief agrees hockings property backs on to the store which was destroyed by fire 13 months ago while court action has been started grant is still optimistic that the store owner will still cooperate report establishes need for regional airport the need for regional air port facilities has been established by a recent report and now possible locations are being consid ered phase 1 of the regional airport study which looked at the need and justification for regional airport facili ties was completed on april 27 the consultants report prepared by marshall macklin monaghan in association with kpmg concluded that there is a need for airport facilities which serve a regional func tion the report is based on the results of public consulta tion as well as an assess ment of current and project ed air traffic and the role of airports as part of the trans portation infrastructure of a healthy economy an important component of phase 1 was consultation with the public ratepayers groups airport industry business community inter est groups and area munici pal staff about 140 people partici pated in a public meeting and various focus groups overall people were gen- erally said the report based on the ability of a regional airport to attract business investment create jobs provide sched uled passenger service and ensure that york region remains competitive in the future in addition a number of specific issues were raised especially with respect to financing and location many people felt that even though regional airport facilities have public bene fits efforts should be made to ensure that they are self- sufficient and not entirely dependent on taxpayers location criteria identified include ensuring easy access to the greater toronto area keeping away from residen tial areas and protecting environmentally significant areas the study is now moving into phase 2 to consider location options the investigation of short- medium- and longterm options will include a detailed examination of existing airport facilities within york the proposed pickering airport on the east side of the region and poten tial options in northern york region if these steps do not pro vide a longterm solution then the area of search will be expanded to include other possible locations detailed criteria for evaluating loca tion options will be devel oped during phase 2 of the study a public information cen tre will be held to show the findings of phase 1 and to obtain input for phase 2 anyone interested in the regional airport study is invited to drop in on mon day june 26 between 4 and 8 pm the information cen tre will be held in the semi nar room york region administrative centre 17250 yonge st newmar ket for information about the regional airport study call the york region planning department at 8951231 education high school students may face longer walk to school by mike ruta staff reporter mg rally begins pave nichol uses a scottish flag to start off racers in the mgt 1995 stouffville rally which set off from success square on sunday morning preparing to start are the team of frank and connie mount from bolton in their righthand drive 1 948 mg see page 8 for more p shackleton some york region public high school students may have to walk 48 kilome tres to school in 1996 if the recommenda tions of the joint board consortium are adopted the consortium was established by the regions two school boards to investigate possible areas of savings at a february meeting the consortium recommended that the public board amend its busing policy to match that of the separate board in which high school students who live 48 kilometres or less from their school are not bused the public boards current cutoff is 32 kilometres at its recent meeting the public board stopped short of making this move refer ring it to a committee for further consid eration in the context of school bound aries some rural trustees expressed safety concerns for students who have to walk to school along roads with no sidewalks in a related bussing issue the public board will have staff consider eliminat ing noonhour busing and moving to a fullday alternateday kindergarten model they say this could save 15 mil lion dollars per year whitchurchstouffville trustee harry bowes noted that fullday kindergarten has not been a complete success in other boards he asked if public meetings would be held before a decision was made public board chair bill crothers replied with a guarded yes if the board was seriously considering it it would be my expectation that one of the conditions would be they 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