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st weekender april 1 1997 p3l business of the year ballinger brothers have great form by joan ransberry staff reporter former mpp bill ballinger is thrilled by the success of artforms the compa ny he and his brother ted started in 1990 photosteve somerville a product invented in stouffville is win ning awards and finding its way across north america the invention was given the name art forms ifs a construction form for ast-in- place architectural concrete base explained business coowner bill ballinger the fouryearold artforms manufac tured out of a 4000squarefoot plant on bethesda road now offers nine separate designs used to give a decorative touch for such things as site floodlights and signs the inven tion is the reason the company was founded the brainchild of civil engineer ted ballinger artforms designs are being shipped across canada and the united states my brother recognized a need said bill it turned into his dream eventually the dream became a design and here we are when bill ballinger a former mayor of uxbridge and local mpp was defeated in the provincial election in 1990 the brothers decid ed to form the company the idea was to capitalize on teds invention and bills marketing skills the brothers believe that a combination of hard work from each sibling translates into success we mortgaged our houses and cashed in our rrsps we sunk every dime we had into it said bill artforms is s a family affair thats turned into a winner a few weeks ago artforms international won the best new consumer product of the year award at the provincial home and hardware show meanwhile last week the company was the recipient of the whitchurchstouffville chamber of com merces business of the year award the ballingers hope this is the beginning of an established family business ted and his wife and bill and his wife donna have five w ys a woman suttermg a knite wound nattxescapeo term1mfobl ii i h eyear probation along with an uninjured woman term meanwhile hes prohibited from owning a a police command post was set up a negotiation weapon for 10 years team complete with a robot was called in after the court was told that in march of 1996 police four hours the accused surrendered and the were summoned to a home on hwy 48 and auro- child was released unharmed ra rd a knife- wielding man was holding a two- tribbling was found guilty on 11 counts includ- confinement assault with a weapon and two f threatening death 5 children between them everybody helps said bill shipments of the lightweight recyclable plasticcoated artforms are being trans ported to such places as new york north car olina california and ohio the new company acts as an ambassador for stouffville every one that goes out of here carries a sticker that reads stouffville ontario canada said bill the corporate world has also discovered the ballinger product artforms has been adopted as a design standard by such compa nys as texaco zehrs mcdonalds of canada canadian tire leons furniture no frills and loblaws this means that any new stores built in the future must include art forms said bill both the cobourg and belleville waterfronts are sporting decorative artforms while the product can been found in parking lots at hos pitals schools and other government facili ties since artforms is new bringing it to the attention of the world requires a major sales job the ballingers are running ads in inter national specialized magazines while art forms will be featured at a total of six trade shows in north america this year recognizing the need to diversify the ballingers have also found a retail application for their product a homeowner building a deck will soon be able to buy an artforms product at cash- way building centres and other building out lets for about 10 each weve got a product no one else in the world has said bill we found a niche prod uct it very exciting earth day events earth day will be celebrated in grand style in whitchurchstouffville on april 22 the first communitywide tree planting project will be launched sponsored by the towns environmental advisory committee the project is designed with the entire commu nity in mind more than 750 threeyearold tree saplings representing five tree types have been donated to the cause by york region everyone is invited and residents can pick up a free tree at either the whitchurchstouffville library or vandorf park from 10 am to 2 pm schools are also getting into the spirit of earth day on april 22 in the morning grade 5 and 6 students from orchard park public school will plant a tree at the towns water tower and students from st mark catholic school will plant a tree in the afternoon gas prices in markham followed by stouffville station owners from page 1 manager what can we do she added shrugging her shoulders larry leonard owner of the petro-cana- da on tenth line said he believes that the price of gas in stouffville follows the price in markham the ringwood petrocanada station follows markham gas stations and the rest of the town follows ringwood thats what i think leonard said he does see some relief from the high gasoline prices in the near future though leonard believes that once the renovations are complete at the ringwood station the prices in the town will be lowered to match those in markham markham is 54 cents per litre now so when they are finished the construction at the ringwood station the prices in stouf fville will come down to 54 cents he said as for gord lake he said hell be shop ping more in markham if stouffville own ers arent more competitive i cant afford to shop here in stouf fville its very unfair no deposit required from page 1 committee principals rejected the deposit idea said spokesperson mike wasylenky partly because of the monumental bookkeeping involved and partly because they did not want to put economic pressure on fam ilies but speaking personally last week wasylenky urged the commit tee to do something otherwise he argued students will continue to damage or lose expensive texts deposits arent required at separate board schools but its schools can withhold report cards from students who dont return books last year public board committee members proposed taking a 25 deposit from students in grades 7 through 12 and a returnable fee of 100 from those in oac they also discussed a charge for consum ables free pencils binders and other items children get free at ele mentary schools the survey said 10 elementary councils in the markham and stouffville area were against the idea six were in favor and one was split on the issue watch for these flyers on saturday april 19th 1997 eatons consumers gas loblawssupercentre iga stouffville sears super steam plan save loblaws biway canadian tirerichmond hill watch for these flyers on tuesday april 22th 1997 shoppers drug mart zellers selected areas only were first in distribution weve delivered 13886710 flyers door-to- door so far this year if you would like your flyers delivered by the best please call 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