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st residents find out if taxes to go up or down joan ransberry staff reporter clutching their property assessment notices in their hands whitchurch- stouffville residents are lining up at the ballantrae community centre while the most often asked question of how much will i pay in taxes cant be answered at the centres com munity assessment information ses sion other questions can the local information session began yesterday monday and will carry on until 8 pm tomorrow wednesday whitchurchstouffville residents will get information on their taxes when the municipality strikes its 1998 budget at the end of the month assessment clerk donna waters stresses that she can only deal with issues relating to assessment the sessions were organized by the regional assessment office giving peo ple a chance to discuss the new current value assessment cva which was recently introduced by the province waters said she expects a busy three days in stouffville cva will raise taxes for some and lower it for others town treasurer ed blackburn advises all residents to take a hard look at the assessment notices to read the includ ed information attend the sessions and to ask questions by doing a bit of research some peo ple may find out they have grounds for an appeal people who feel their prop erty has been unfairly assessed can appeal to the assessment review board waters points out one way to question the notice is to find out what a comparable property has been assessed at advises black burn the last time whitchurchstouffville was assessed was 1 984 property value has increased in the past 13 years but it does not compare to toronto there property was last assessed in 1940 taxes taxes taxes senior property assessor michelle karja works with owners at ballantrae community centre monday afternoon the assessors will be on hand until wednesday from noon to 8 pm to discuss the provinces new for mula for property assessment photo by steve somerville tribune tuesday march 10 1998 p 3 lots of gst music mania organizers hosted a goods services and talent gst auction sat urday night at the stouffville legion hall to raise funds for this years production here auction eers bob lewis and dave duggan show off some of the items up for bid p i cheryl johnson police v- vandorf vouth -t- x v t a whitchurchsl ille youth has been charged with possession of a controlled substance after being arrested tt 1 muxbndge police said undercoveroffii cers were on patrol saturday at 1245 am when they saw two male youths acting suspi ciously streets the near king and ash officers detected evi- dence of a burnt narcotic j smell on both youths a search revealed that one of the youths had in his posses- sion a pill bottle containing marijuana and two marijuana cigarettes he was read his rights and taken to the oxbridge police station a 1 6yearpld vandorf youth is to appear in court april 3 acton job appears secure while head coach demoted bruce stapley- correspondent keith acton would appear to have survived the purge that saw philadel phia flyers rookie head coach wayne cashman relegated to the role of assistant coach yesterday monday acton a stouffvillc resident and i fourth year assistant coach with the national hockey league nhl team wasnt mentioned in the teams monday morning press conference announcing that cashman was giving way to veteran nhl coach roger neilson the flyers also announced the demotion of dave brown the teams other assistant coach who was offered a scouting position while acton couldnt be reached at his flyers office monday afternoon his wife susan said she hadnt heard anything suggesting her husbands job was in jeopardy i can just assume that no news is good news said mrs acton from what ive heard on the radio keiths job hasnt been affected but i cant tell you for sure mrs acton said there had been rumours circulating at the flyers game sunday night about the coach ing change acton and neilson are no strangers neilson coached acton as a junior with the peterborough petes in the 1970s before going on to coach the toronto maple leafs they have had a friendship for years said mrs acton boys leave school lie across tracks n from page 1 tragedys effect on our cadets and staff with consultation with a trauma team said coulen the boys left the academy 40 hours before the tragedy coulen said we know they left with two knapsacks filled with several changes of clothes food and money we have learned from their classmates they had planned to go to british columbia said coulen the stouffville youth was in his second year at the the academy the school attracts students from all over the world yes we have a military theme the boys are taught- discipline they even iron their own uniforms said coulen york sprucing up image with slogan from page 1 tourist brochures its exciting and the colours are great regional coun cillor ralph aselin on the regions economic development committee- signs with the slogan will also be posted near big visitor draws like canadas wonderland and the briars resort to tell people york region isnt just a place where people come to sleep we have great tourist attractions said aselin adding such attractions will pay the region for signs a councillor for markham he also wants some large signs along major highways to include the names of all nine municipalities in the region regional politicians chose the trillium design in january not knowing the ontario government would drag its feet over the regions use of the provincial flower last week however the province finally gave its permis- sioh said aselin the region is also planning a 100000 ad campaign to catch tourists attention with billboards radio spots and space in newspapers or magazines over 18 million people visit york region each year and if the campaign increases that by five per cent tourists should be spending 9 million more in the area the com mittee was told we love your opinions send thetri or fax them