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dainty donuts 5 deli 18 ringnood drie buy a sandwich get a small coffee or pop free ihe lribune tsycmjr money working 06424540 llbluilwl i r j 07 no 29 a metroland community newspaper wednesday july 19 1995 10 pages election expenses sainsbury spent most sainsbury by joan ransberry staff reporter the big spender did not become the big winner in the whitchurchstouffville municipal election held in november documents filed recently at the local municipal office show that former mayor fran sainsbury spent 9039 in the bid to hold onto the job however present mayor wayne emmerson came out the winner after spend ing 6637 on his cam paign mayoralty candidate doug alles spent 6204 while ken prentices attempt to capture the mayors post cost 2708 under provincial law can didates must file election expenses by july 1 the law stipulates that a mayoralty candidate could spend 5500 plus 50 cents for each elector for a total of 12801 in whitchurch- stouffville whitchurchstouffville council ward candidates were allowed to spend about 4500 each ward 2 councillor ed lyons was the big spender in the ward races having spent a total of 2809 documents filed show that ward 1 councillor ivanka bradley ward 5 councillor judy scala and ward 6 councillor mark kostandoff each spent less than 2000 on the individual cam paigns ward 3 councillor margot marshall and ward 4 coun cillor cliff dunkeld were acclaimed defeated ward candidates courtney newmarch stephen sword marie adams norma urquhart richard farmer raymond preston lynda norman and helene johnson each spent less than 2000 on their campaigns ward candidate eric lec- cese failed to file an election expenses form leccese has been notified by the town that he now has 30 days to comply said municipal clerk michele kennedy securing a spot on the york region public school board bowes taking to the trees steve price of pioneer tree experts cuts down a poplar on spring street in stouffviue one of its branches landed on the car of bob thornhill and laura metherak during friday nights storm pholojoerd witteveen does not come cheap the act allows a school trustee can didate to spend 9760 for the one local spot on the regionwide board even though school board candidate george blake spent 3190 he didnt win local school board trustee harry bowes was successful after spending 2909 dickson replaced atsdss after six years at the helm of stouffviue dis trict secondary school principal alan dickson is being transferred to a high school in richmond hill dicksons career with the york region board of education began in 1970 at markham district high school where he taught in the english department for 15 years he was promoted to vicerprincipalin septem ber 1985 at larigstaff sec ondary school in rich mond hill where he stayed for one school year before moving to huron heights sec ondary school in new market where he served as principal for three years dicksons transfer to alexander mackenzie high school was approved by the board on july 10 replacing dickson at sdss this september will be rod leonard who is currently princi pal of king city sec ondary school julie caspersen storm causes damage bymlkeruta correspondent town fire and hydro offi cials all remarked that fri day nights violent storm could have been worse but churchill drive resident ben willemsen figures it could have been a lot better during the blast a huge branch came off a neighbors tree crushing his boat and landing square on top of willemsens shed i have no idea what the state of the stuff inside is he said adding that hes await ing someone from a treecut ting service to do some clean ing up willemsen has reason to worry the shed contains a computer a brand new snow- blower and two tenspeed bikes among other expensive items willemsen said he has already determined that two snowmobiles in the shed were heavily damaged the branch would have totalled his 1987 ford tempo as well he said if not for a power line which was just strong enough to sustain the considerable weight he said the car did receive some dents and many scratches adding that whitchurchstouffville hydro was at the scene yes terday to remove the tree hydro manager nick tatone said the town escaped relatively unscathed we were kind of lucky but we had a lot of lines down he said lightning hit the trans former at montreal street disabling it and a curious squirrel paid the ultimate price for getting too close to another transformer which was also knocked out eight homes on elm street were without power until satur day and tatone reported that a large tree on rose avenue fell on to power lines by 4 pm saturday afternoon he said everyone in town had power by director of works paul whitehouses count the storm knocked over 20 large trees deputy fire chief mur ray emmerson said the town got off reasonably easily com pared to other areas we were out on a few calls he said we didnt have any fires fortunately there was a lot of potential with all the wires down health lodge takes over blood clinics by joan ransberry staff reporter the business of collecting blood will con tinue in stouffviue a red cross official has confirmed faye roberts red cross blood donor clin ic coordinator for york region told the tri bune that despite the fact that the local clin ic organizers have now retired the practise of collecting blood in the town will still be carried out members of stouffvilles masonic lodge will pick up where the ladies canadian legionladies auxiliary left off said roberts red cross officials were notified in febru ary that the ladies will retire meanwhile a search for new clinic sponsors was launched after nearly 50 years of service officials of stoufivilles canadian legionbranch 459 ladies auxiliary decided it was time to pass on the responsibility of promoting and run ning the blood clinic to others wliile the masons will now coordinate the clinic the legion ladies will still help these women have a wealth of informa tion well use them in a resource capacity said roberts a grass rootsapproach will be taken when promoting future blood clinics in stouffviue said roberts were expecting community involvement and sponsorship it will involve volunteers with juice cookies and smiles said roberts the first masonsponsored blood clinic will be held on oct 6 at the legion hall the red cross will take on the job of noti fying all registered donors for the fall clinic said roberts there are a total four blood clinics held each year in stouffviue about 800 units of blood are collected from this community each year said roberts we certainly want this clinic to continue it is very important said roberts when it comes to donating blood stouf fviue rises to the challenge two weeks ago 179 units of blood were collected the annual mayors clinic mayor wayne emmerson said next years goal has already been set the mayor is aim ing for 200 units the toronto blood centre is responsible for collecting testing processing and dis tributing blood and blood products for 61 hospitals in toronto and central area including stouffviue cleaning up peter woessner right and charlotte mcquade clear debris from fridays storm at their home at the comer of bloomlngton rd and mccowan rd many homes in the area were damaged by falling branches and trees vsoem wtmvtxh pmmerson doesnt back photo radar on york roads by joan ransberry staff reporter photo radar is not welcome in whitxhurehstouffville although last week york regional coun cillors voted to have the regional staff look into the possibility of administering photo radar in the region it did not get the back ing of whitchurchstouffville mayor wayne emmerson emmerson is not a photo radar enthusi ast 1 dont think the photo radar helps the problem of speeding on municipal streets or highways said emmerson emmerson is not alone york regional police chief bryan cousincau is also opposed to any move to bring photo radar back two weeks ago ontario premier mike harris kept an election promise by killing the photo radar system provincewide instead harris has beefed up police traffic units the move to get rid of photo radar impressed the york police chief cousineau has never supported its use as a deterrent to speeding im with the police chief on this one said emmerson emmerson is suggesting that the best way to discourage speeding is to have police officers stop violators and issue speeding tickets complete with having the demerit point system in place speeding is a problem and whitchurch stouffviue is not immune yes we have speeding problems too said emmerson i