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r trle t btj tibavseptember w wffii leafs on the links at left veteran leftwinger wendel clark takes a few practice swings at the yearly leafs charity golf tourney held at emerald hills golf and country club in whitchurchstouffville below the usually staid ken dryden president of the leafs enjoys a laugh before set ting off in his cart for the days round funds raised in the tourna ment go to various childrens charities the maple leafs minor hockey fund readwiththe leafs literacy program and the cana dian centre for abuse awareness photos by steve somerville victory for regions unionized workers municipal workers unions in york region were cautiously accepting a surprise victory thursday after ontarios con servative government promised to make major changes to its new labour bill rotating strikes and eventual- ward 2 has contender joan ransberry staff reporter a candidate has come forward to run in whitchurchstouffville s ward 1 in the upcoming municipal election steve pliakes of vivian road has filed the appropriate papers indi cating his intent to run in the nov 10 municipal election the seat which takes in gormley and vandorf and surrounding areas became vacant following the announcement from councillor ivanka bradley that she is not seeking reelection in ward 1 and after political hopeful chris dymond withdrew from the race pliakes has lived in ward 1 for 23 years semiretired hes mar ried to lilly they are the parents of two married daughters and the grandparents of four a lifelong interest in politics in general and a concern about his community in particular are the reasons behind pliakes seeking a position on local government ive always loved politics said pliakes i feel that ive gained from the ward 1 area and i want to give something back im mature enough to contribute to the running of things pliakes served two years on the york regional police services board from 1992 to 1994 the local election campaign is not without issues stressed pli akes the proposal to build a household waste disposal facility in ward 1 in the warden avenue area concerns pliakes i will do everything i can to fight this he said stouffville is viewed as a dumping ground weve suffered enough weve had enough last week mayor wayne emmerson told the tribune that hes hopeful that the regional waste facility will not find its way to stouffville emmerson stressed that recently york regional council directed staff to look at aurora and new market when searching for the site to take household waste such as paints and oils still pliakes said he will keep an eye on the issue ly a provincewide walkout had been threatened over bill 136 which would have imposed contracts on some public sector workers with no possible appeal the government now says that mechanism and other parts of the bill the unions dis liked will be dropped before the news broke thurs day night members of all cana dian union of public employee locals in the region were called to meet today strike votes would have been held some that same night said brad black president of cupes york region district council if we did not have the threat of a provincewide strike do you think premier mike har ris would have changed even a word of the bill he asked yes terday the harris government in changing the bill has compro mised in a way that gets the unions cooperation during the coming round of amalgama tions its objective all along he said i think the govern ment has really got what it wanted black complained that he was ignored after asking for york region councils support on a similar resolution municipalities in york region had sent letters to amo asking contract leads to cutbacks in sports from page 1 cutbacks obviously its not like it used to be he said were just not going to be able to have the same programs largely due to matters of dollars and cents were simply going to have fewer activi ties and fewer teams leonard said teachers attitudes have changed because of an expectation for them to continue to do more with less they just feel they cant give as much as they did in the past they havent had a raise in over five years connell said while coaches have come forward for the above men tioned programs the future of such things as morning hockey and the schools popular lunch- time sports activities will depend upon whether volunteers can be lined up the physical education teachers will be supervising the gym at lunch in the same way other teachers supervise the cafe teria said connell who said teachers and parents will be asked to assist with the lunch time pro grams student athletic council copresidents brenda robbins and chris weatherill will admin istrate the programs connell said other areas will probably be affected as well i cant see as many exhibition tour naments as we had in the past partly because of a lack of super visors and partly because of a lack of funding the school has made up for a lack of board funding for extra curricular programs in recent years by holding fruit drives and other fundraisers 3 a tbsiris r ni an aac region for what ended up being bill 136 before it was drafted according to black who wouldnt say which communi ties he was talking about we know there were three he said amo changed its mind because its members were told they would be held account able for the bill and that there would be unrest because of it black said by mikeadler and kathleen griffin r thicketwood neighbours houston ford mercury our customers are the foo0s of everhlng we do