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st build indoor pool at rec centre mayor the tribune thursday june 191997 p3 joan ransberry staff reporter the place to build a new indoor swimming pool is the whitchurch- stouffville recreation complex on the ninth line said local mayor wayne emmerson emmerson said the local recre ation centre seems to be the choice of most meanwhile last thursday a group of interested residents met to discuss if where and when a public pool will be build in stouf- fville a clear consensus to proceed with an indoor pool as soon as pos sible was the main result of the meeting said susan harmsen chairman of the pool committee the key concern was how soon a pool could be built she added the 30 residents attending the meeting gave strong support for several pool programs water safe ty education swim clubs aqua fit ness seniors and family swim ming therapy rehabilitation and school swim programs cost of the new facility is not known at this time cost must be carefully controlled said harm- sen its realized that the commu nity benefit of an indoor poll would be greater than any operat ing deficit which may or may not be incurred said harmsen the committee is continuing its research into costs em the swim residents meet to give their opinions on the details of building an indoor pool in town photo sjoerd witteveen cemetery plan on agenda from page 1 construction on the woodbine avenue site to begin local companies will be used in the construction if their tender prices are reasonable stressed carmichael this will be an eco nomic spinoff for stouffville businesses he said in february memorial gardens was granted the right to come to the local municipality after win ning a challenge at the ontario municipal board omb while the town lost at the nine- day omb fight memorial gar dens continued to be a good cor porate citizen here in stouffville memorial gardens have donated to the local fireworks display the annual mayors golf tournament and the whitchurchstouffville chamber of commerce golf tournament clean start bride and groom jen lehman and jeff taber start their new life together on the front end of a manure spreader after exchanging vows saturday afternoon at the stouffville missionary church on main st photo by cheryl johnson hazardous waste depot opposed joan ransberry staff reporter a plan to bring a 135000- household hazardous waste depot to stouffville is being challenged gormley resident olive komar is questioning why waste from newmarket is heading to the regions waste yard on woodbine avenue and st johns sideroad situating the facility on an already busy stretch of woodbine avenue can only lead to further congestion in this vicinity said komar york regional council is expected to deal with the pro posed stouffville facility this week as well as with two others one for markham and one for georgina before the york region facility can be built the plan must under go public scrutiny and be approved by whitchurchstouf fville council now household waste which includes paints pesticides and oil is taken to mobile collection units which are set up for a few days once a year at the whitchurch- stouffville recreation complex stationary depots are viewed as not as costly more convenient and safer meanwhile they are overseen by the ministry of the environ ment komar wonders why the depot isnt built in newmarket since last year 927 vehicles dropped off hazardous waste at the mobile unit in stouffville while 2945 vehicles dropped off hazardous waste at a mobile unit in new market newmarket seems more logi cal site for a permanent depot said komar komar also takes issue with safety factors i am concerned that such a small site will not accommodate all the waste of such a large area the site if not properly moni tored will become full before the scheduled pickup and conse quently toxic waste will be left outside she said komar has expressed her con cerns to the region grade 3 tests results sent home mike adler staff reporter as if report cards werent bad enough ontarios third graders are getting a second reckoning this month schools in york region are send ing home results from the first provincewide grade 3 assess ment a 10day test designed to show how well each student reads writes and uses math the public board has promised the reports will reach parents by monday the separate board says most results will reach homes by tomorrow and the rest by wednes day when school ends some schools dont have them yet said daria lindsey evalua tion officer at the publicboard it is coming but its coming at a stag gered pace parents will be able to compare a childs scores in the three testing areas to provincial averages said betty goulden coordinator of pro grams for the public board but how each student performed in smaller parts of the assessment will have more meaning for teach ers who could use the scores to adjust their teaching methods she said this week the testing an ambitious pro ject withl40000 pupils in april didnt cover all subjects taught in the classroom and teachers werent able to explain the material as they can do in the classroom goulden added teachers unions and individual instructors have praised and criti cized the assessment run by the provincial education quality and accountability office chaired by markham parent barb smith about 925 of catholic teachers who responded to a union survey thought the difficulty of mathe matics used in the testing was unfairly high local teacher monica lysay agreed the math was difficult in some ways for her students and said the testing included some things they had not learned but she was optimistic it could be used to help the children i thought it was a good way of determining the childrens reading and comprehension ability said lysay but public school teacher bob burrows has argued students were asked to write stories draw pic tures and solve problems which may have more than one solution and teachers who marked them had no idea who each tested child is he said a great deal of the evaluation will be totally subjective in nature burrows concluded in a letter after the testing goulden said its possible to send the test booklets back for remark ing if parents disagree with the mark their children receive in one of the three major sections ring it up basically bagels officially opened its doors on main street monday and on hand to celebrate were from left councillor cliff dunkeld manager azim kassam mayor wayne emmerson kass kassam and chamber of commerce president helene johnson photo by steve somerville