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st weekender saturday may 9 1998 p 3 munro spreads economic good news in town joan ransberry staff reporter job growth is at a record level in ontario 60 members of the stouf fville business community were told thursday durham- york mpp julia munro was the guest speaker at a break fast meeting hosted by the whitchurchstouffville chamber of commerce between feb 97 and feb 98 more jobs were created in a one- year period than in the entire histo ry of our province said munro the economy is indeed on an upswing stressed the local mpp ontario can once again feel con fident prosperous and big heart ed shesaid when finance minister ernie eve filed the provincial budget tuesday the small business com munity noticed the government is bringing in legislation to cut the small busi ness corporations tax rate in half giving business owners some breathing space as well eves included 36 new tax cuts in the budget many of these tax cuts affect small business munro reminded the audience that tax cuts will help more than 90000 small businesses continue to grow and create jobs in the province residents of ontario have told the government that they want a strong economy tax cuts jobs and growth with an emphasis on work not welfare said munro in the past year alone the econo my has created 265000 new pri vate sector jobs she said as well ontarios welfare num bers are down by almost 130000 cases munro pointed out the mpp also touched on health care education child care and crime pretension the past two years have been dif ficult for everyone in ontario said munro all ontario has shared in the sacrifices people have demon strated patience and courage in helping to make the necessary changes for sale york regional police sgt lloyd dow shows some of the scores of bicycles which will be up for auction today at the markham fairgrounds doors open at 8 am and the police auction starts at 930 am photo by sjoerd witteveen 2mbib markville jl ifftwmifkvntefordlmcom e mail address mabkvhle8c0mpuservec0u 4072 hwy 7 4707044 markham york region police constable monica lees shackles stouffville mayor wayne emerson to mcdonalds restaurant employee josie quesada so he can serve customers on mchappy day wednesday at the medonr aids restaurant oh hwy 48 and i6th avenue mcdonalds reported that more than s3 million was raised across canada on mchappy day for childrens charities photo by sioerd witteveen under the b big winners joan ransberry staff reporter when it comes to bingo stouf fville is the place to be for the second time this year the provincial super star bingo jack pot was won at the stouffville country market louise moore of ajax walked away with 61998 on wednesday moore is taking a common sense teachers lobby to sa ve shop classes teachers of elementary shop and family studies are trying to convince york regions district school board to save their endangered programs the board has 22 shop ciasses and 22 family studies classes for eighth graders this year and buses some students to schools offering the cours es board staff will recommend cutting the classes said joe all in an associate director i dont think well be delivering these programs iri this form in the future he said last week the programs are relevant and very popular with students said al sikorski a shop teacher who lives in markham it doesnt make sense its an area where kids cant wait to get in the door allin said the education ministrys new science and technology cur riculum will cover much of what is taught in sikorskis design and tech nology course this should not have come as a surprise to the teachers of this program since the program is rare outside of toronto he added sikorski however said the shop class and new curriculum share only a miniscule amount teachers will present a case for saving the pro grams to board trustees at their budget meeting this month he said mikeadler approach to luck you cant win if you dont play said moore earlier this year daisy rudd of uxbridge won 1 6234 in a provin cial game played in stouffville in the super star bingo rudd and moore competed for the jack pot against thousands of others playing at halls across ontario through a computer network superstar bingos offer guaran teed major sized jackpots seven days a week at about 200 partici pating bingo halls in ontario introduced a year ago superstar bingo is a joint effort of charities bingo hall operators and the ontario government wednesdays local charity win ner was the whitchurchstouf fville girls hockey association its estimated that the province- wide bingo will generate about 100 million in sales in its first year forty per cent of the proceeds is returned to players in the way of prizes charities pick up 22 per cent the bingo halhgets 12 per cent the ontario government takes 13 per cent while the remaining seven per cent goes to operating costs explained laura gannon manager of the stouffville bingo how should school councils operate from page 1 paper being mailed 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