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fe t i j i st weekender november 16 1996 p 3 gas leak forces residents from home by john lambersky sdss correspondent a gas line break forced the evacuation of one household on the tenth line thursday a fire official has confirmed at approximately 315 thursday afternoon the wtiitchurchstouffville fire department received a call alerting them to a gasline rup ture at the construction site on the east side of the tenth line one of the machines working at the con struction site had dug too deep rupturing the gas line said a fire spokesman consumers gas arrived on the scene promptly however the local gas officials needed spe cialized equipment to properly repair the gas line the official explained while the equip ment from toronto was enroute the gas work ers temporarily plugged the gas pipe the final repairs werent complete until close to midnight thursday one individual was evacuated from the home directly north of the site only two houses temporarily lost gas service because of the damage residential island could be added to ninehole course by joan ransberry staff reporter a residential island will be built in the mid dle of a new stouffville golf course if local government agrees the plan calls for a 115unit condominium complex to be build along with a ninehole golf course addition on 265 acres at emerald hills golf course on warden avenue n on tuesday whitchurchstouffville council heard the details of the expansion of emerald hills owned by clublink properties ltd an economic ripple is felt in whitchurch- stouffville from the local golf industry a com pany spokesman said there will be 65 detached and 50 attached clustertype units on site the plan will soon be further reviewed by staff council and the public community testa donates 500000 to town from page 1 involving a private developer the town and the school board was in the works the goal being ah indoor pool for stouffville emmerson suggested the pool could be located at either the stouf fville recreation complex or the local high school testa was unable to include a public swimming pool in his plan to build the fourstorey apartment building in downtown stouffville the residential complex was given the green light tuesday testas money was pledged through a threeway installment plan the first 200000 install ment was authorized wednesday morning when testa signed the sfflbusfffty in remembrance megan knox of orchard park public school ensures her poppy is on straight for the remembrance day ceremonies in stouffville on monday photocelia bronkhorst final papers for the complex the last payment is to be honored in two years testas generosity is noted its wonderful said emmerson sue sherban spokesman for the whitchurchstouffville indoor pool committee said the situation looks very promising theres a great deal of interest in the pool said sherban apartment plan is a go from page 1 told the tribune that site clearing will begin immediately i can clean up the land and get it ready right now said testa site readiness will include demolishing the stouffville machine and tool building it will be taken out of there said testa testa visited the local town hall on wednesday and signed all the necessary papers major construction of the 12-mil- lion apartment building will begin in early spring weather permit ting- the first tenants will move in the fall the first floor of the new building will be designated to accommodate units for people with special needs in about a dozen units counters and light switches would be low ered while the washroom would include hand rails these units would be oh the first floor said testa a small chapel is also planned if people cant get out to church because of weather they can come to the chapel we could have a priest or a minister or a rabbi come it would be a place for people to pray together said testa testa hopes that the complex will house a common meeting room a recreation room a small cafeteria and a beauty salon it will be a nice place to live said testa investigations into contract talks here may be last ever by mike adler staff reporter factfinding investigations into york regions pub lic school contract talks could be among the last ever done in ontario thats because lawyer leon paroian a friend of education minister john snobelen is saying the provincial tories should rip up the legislation which assigns them in a dispute in a report presented two weeks ago paroian rec- ommended scrapping bill 100 or the school boards and teachers collective negotiation act and replac ing local bargaining with teachers with regional negotiations he also wants the education relations commis sion which supervises negotiations between teach ers federations and boards disbanded recently the commission assigned a factfinder richard jackson to examine talks with high school teachers and after a complaint forced the board to scrap plans to have them teach seven of eight daily periods it has agreed to hear a similar complaint from elementary teachers and has assigned a factfinder to those negotiations too besides helping opposing sides reach a deal fact finding by the neutral commission is a way of telling the public what is going on jackson who wrote a book on factfinding under the law said in his report if the system is to be shut down then the public has a right to know why he said reaction from teachers unions to paroians advice was angry it took a provincewide teachers strike on dec 18 1973 to achieve collective bargaining rights begins a letter from ontario english catholic teachers association president marilies rettig if it needs another to retain them we will call for one local catholic teachers representatives had told paroians review committee that the system works well and strikes are rare as a result but karen barker chief negotiator for the public board said she welcomed paroians report as an opportunity for people to understand how flawed negotiations are under bill 100 watch for these flyers on 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