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blue box to die under new from page 1 householders separate recyclables from the rest of their garbage he says and he says in those municipalities diversion rates have reached 60 per cent recycling on the other hand while a good first step just hasnt achieved the necessary numbers the provincial diversion average is only about 23 per cent despite the fact 85 per cent of ontarians recy cle markham has achieved a diversion rate of 40 per cent among the highest in the province but will still fall far short of the municipal tar get of 70 per cent by the year 2000 georgina has achieved 50 per cent diversion through its controversial user pay program but even with those successes the regional diversion average remains at 25 per cent which means 75 per cent of the regions garbage is still going to the landfill convincing societies in industrialized countries to reduce con sumption is a behavioral change of astronomical proportions and largely unrealistic landon says the next best choice is to opt for greater diversion within the existing waste stream but theres huge dollars involved landon with regional chair bill fisch and other regional staffers recently toured a new wetdry facil ity in halifax a new sorting station a centralized composting facili ty and a new land fill site cost a total of 45 million excluding land costs once the political decision had been made in halifax it has taken over three years to implement he said we in york region have three and a half years until keele valley closes landon wants to form a steering committee of local and regional councillors as well as members of the public to explore this option as well as find ways to create an ongoing dialogue between staff and res idents while we seem to bemoving quickly its because the clock is tick ing rapidly toward 200 1 he said taking its toll gladys clarkson collects donations saturday on main street during a car toll for the whitchurchstouffville museum volunteers raised more than 2400 to help restore vandorf public school iia unutvi v v- v i v vy v v m1 t j photo hycheryltfohnson thirstquenching business kate and amy schlussler of ironwood crescent take to the business world and open a lemonade stand saturday for thirsty neighbours and friends photo by cheryl johnson politicians say go may be run private mikeadler staff writer go transit may one day go private as the answer to its money woes three york region politicians say go isnt getting the money it needs to expand and one way to get it is to turn it into a private corpora tion like the greater toronto airport authority regional councillor gord landon said last week maybe the private sector should run it agreed richmond hill mayor bill bell who chairs york regions transportation committee a member of david crombies who does what panel on transportation bell said all the talk in the group was of privatizing go bus routes and making the province responsible for putting together a larger go train network the second idea is still something that should be done he said adding the panel finally decided a greater toronto services board should run go the gtsb should get its chance but the privatiza tion option may be suggested there markham mayor don cousens said all three men say the province should be giving go money to expand and are disappointed it has stopped its financial support for transit the province cant just wash its hands said cousens bell said hes interested in twoway train service to transportation union station it blows my mind why trains dead- load up here in the morning and pick up passengers landon who chairs markhams transportation committee said the town must be built around the go system since even widening every street wont be enough to handle future traffic itll get worse and worse and worse he said pastor officially ordained during open mike service kate gilderdale correspondent gord alton who is pastor at the community men- nonite church was officially ordained sunday at a special service at the memorial christian church on main street i came into the markham stouffville area as a pastor at hagerman mennonite church five years ago right from seminary explained alton i was hired on a parttime basis and they gave me permis sion to do work in the community particularly with the aids committee of york region he was a founding member of that committee he said i had two brothers with aids at the time and now i have lost both of them ajjout half the congregation at hagerman men- ribnite church which is located at kennedy rd and 14th ave consisted of stouffville residents who wanted to establish their own congregation in the community a yearandahalf ago an arrangement was made to share space with the memorial christ ian church the other part of my work in the last five years is in what used to be called home care alton spends one day a week at community care access centres in the region visiting people who have lifethreaten ing illnesses it started as a parttime project two years ago our government doesnt have a mandate to provide spiritual care and health care in the com munity and there definitely is a place for it sundays service included an open mike session where members of the congregation shared recollec tions and paid tribute to his ministry it was very w i a jftrtfivtvv i r i fl u v