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vol 109 no 1 7 ametroland community newspaper wednesday april 23 1997 vjmssa m m ggeil mm rs fesiass r spring jog pat oleary and kim jones jog on main street in sfouffville on saturday in hopefully the last snow of the season photosjoerd witteveen its the pits contractor leaves open trenches as region inspectors refuse survey by kathleen griffin staff reporter a ballantrae family was forced the spend last weekend staring at a 70foot open trench more than six feet deep because their plumbing contractor could not get a regional inspector to come he said mark hassan is one of several private plumbing contractors hired by more than 900 ballantrae and musselman lake homeowners who are undergoing the conversion from wells to the new regional water system and while he said he has run into this problem before last fridays excavation was one of the worst examples yet we have real trouble getting the regional inspector to come to the excavation sites but the open trenches can be very dangerous the problem is the oak ridges moraine there is water moving through some of these properties all the time ifs ridiculous ifs public safety at stake this resigns should never have happened and theres no way a resident should have to wait three days with wide open trenches for an inspector hassan said hes been told the region is short- staffed that they need 24 hours notice but he says even when 24 hours notice is given theres no guar antee an inspector will show he said sometimes inspectors will come at 10 am before the work has been done and when the pipes are finally in the ground by 1 pm they say they cant come until after hours but the regional director of health protection ser vices oryst zyhar said hassan has trouble with the 24hoursnotice provision this particular contrac tor finds it difficult to follow the standards zyhar said if he knows when a job is going to be ready that information needs to be given to the inspectors in advance zyhar said the inspectors need to be there just as the job is finishing up and its up to the contractor to let them know if not the contractor must rig up snow fencing around the site for the safety of resi dents which hassan did hassan has arranged a meeting with other con tractors regional inspectors and zyhar this morn ing both he and zyhar said they hope the problem can be ironed out the chairman of the whitchurch stouffville library board has resigned board chairman monica vau is said philo sophical differences between herself and other board members were such that she decided to call it quits my philosophy and the philosophy of some members di imari board member linda giles is the new library board chairman is letter of rei ion will be received at a special board meeting to be held april 21 vanmaris said shell remain as a board mem ber until the end of the year she served on the local library bi i fo tota f 16 years and was board chairman for 12 years v u- v i v i i reform expected to acclaim candidate ination papers and background fpuowingrns loss in the markham in oak ridges if s 3kffis8b3 mark hassan a plumbing contractor is down riding reform candidate hopeful and oak ridges riding associa- check fearanan will be acclaimed m a trenches he had to leave exposed over the edward sarafian confirmed tion president jeff turner said that that riding april 24 weekend when regional plumbing inspectors wednesday night he will be ninning barring any problems with his nom- please see page 3 refused to survey them photolori emmerson ijaggtgjfigiga serving canadians for 75 years stouffville canadian tire weekly special motor master 12 volt waxer polisher reg 74 now only 3749 m 399016