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0 if economist suntribune news thursday nov 18 1999 i 5 i staff photomike barrett works crews across york regionare preparing for winter richmond hill plow operatprssteve duthie and mike flemym loader are ready for me first signs of snow v j v reak for winters worst georgma engineer bob mclaughlin said his crews had to deal with as much as eight inches in the nov 3 snowfall getting off with a light kiss from mother nature last year was newmarket where roads supervisor ken bishop said the town uses a 10percerit salt with sand mix and maintains 3500 tonnes of me mixture in a dome last year his warriors had to plow the towns roads 27 times which was close to half the 50 trips they made the previous year the dome was topped up in january and thert again six weeks ago bishop said and it only required 1800 tonnes to top it up ms i dont think we used 2500 tonnes of sand flastj year bishop said i hope its like that this winter t8p it saves everybody money a battalion of plow operators has been on standby jrr markham since mondayrpaul ingham of theroacls department said were ready he sajd ofourjcom bination units are fully prepared arimowyarttbw the town is paying a daily rate to keep trucks ph standby beginning monday a however the sidewalk crews and graders wont be on the job until dec 1 were watching our pennies ingham added f markham supplements its plowing fleet with 10 frontend loaders to clean bus stops aria standing areas and other equipment to take care of wide streets and culdesacs i- iy with only about 170 km of roads to maintain- whitchurchstouffvilles sand and salt requkeinents arenf in the big leagues compared with the region or me three southern towns i were pretty close to full readineorks supetif visor dennis chartrand said were replenishing the stockpiles today 1a aurora operations manager ken lauppe said his- town has 170 km of road surface i arid will require 2000 tonnes ofsalt and 2500 tonnes of sand i by christopher douris r staff writer a small army stands ready to defend us against the worst onslaught prepared to do battle on a moments notice backing up these staunch defenders is a fleet of more than 375 hardy vehicles and an arsenal of more than 241 million pounds of weaponry when mother natures fury flies this winter 10 roads departments will answer the clarion call and meet the invader headon their vehicles placed end to end would lineyonge street for more man two miles from steeles avenue almost tohwy 407 the sand and salt 109600 tonnes of it is roughly equal to the amount of garbage buried at the maple dump in one month the largest battlefield is on the regional roads york regions battalion is responsible for a 964kilometre rdadnetwork to keep those roads clear and traffic moving when the snow flies there are 20 combination sanders and plows in the newmarket yard 17 working out of maple and 13 in the markham yard over the course of the winter they will move the regions 29000 tonnes of salt and 6500 tonnes of sand on to the major arteries that crisscross the regions 678 square miles according to brian harrison the regions dkector of transportation design and construction guarding our south central flank falls to italo bruito richmond hills director of maintenance and opera- tions the town has 835 km of roads the secondlargest network in the region all of them arepaved with the exception of bethesdasideroad which is still gravel were ready for anything right now brutto said the contractors trucks go on standby nov 19 but theyre just a phone call away j first blood this season was drawn by mother nature in a surprise attack the first week of november hit par ticularly hard were georgina and kingtownship s bylaw appeal by joan ransberry staff writer anger and tears dominated a stouffville meeting held to deter mine if a 90pqund dog has to be muzzled for the second time in as many weeks dog owner farshad arriin of ballantrae asked a three- member town committee to delay hearing why hes challeng ing the muzzle section of the new municipal dog bylaw amins lawyer was unable to attend tuesdays meeting when amins rhbdesian ridgeback attacked another ballantrae resident was ordered to put5a miizzlefwthe t champion show dogwheh it was offthe owners property j i the committee chaired by- councillor judy scala agreed to extend the hearing to nov 29 giv- mgamin a chance to have his lawyer m place this is a very important piece of legislation for this municipality mr amin a righttb a lawyer she said we have to rnake sure we do this right when amins dog bit helen hartai she was riding her bicycle nearher home i looked tip and this huge brown dog was bound- ang towards me hartai said sthe dogpyias coming twice as fiot sk i 0 the dog s- teeth tore into harts wound was tieatedtmarkham stouffville pltal lg hartai told the committee she faf jeryj disappointed dnce faga arriveat a hearing only find out me caseiwilinot has disggedqn sin june 13- she smd its cost me tliree days pay jf and ayyeek qf injury ifs ihcorrigi- b1bpsrppheitagain ii5i she tbjdf the committee mat lfhplarias totieiay delaydelay until she cant attend thus- jputting the dog owner in a awurlepsitionh f by setting anb date it gives amin more ammu vnitiori to- buildhds case said tltan hartai trie victims hus band and a witness to the attack the prbcess is lopsidedhe said whendbhriatrempe mother of stouffvilles courtney trempe 8 who killed by a dog in 1998 found out the committee would nt hear from the dog owner she 1 broke down why cant they refuse him trempe said why cant they deal with this and deal with it now why cant they either muzzle or put the dog down- why is this dragging out helen v donaldson of richmond hill was also upset people dont realize the system is failing us donaldson said iii february donaldsons 12- yearold pekinese was killed by a pit bull charges against the bull owner were dropped donaldson said whats it going to take to make people responsible petition- calling for mea sures to protect people against vicious dogs and sighed by 20 res idents of iroquois court iii ballantrae was presented to the comrhittee by ron warned j0ie ballantrae subdivision is now divided on the dog issue ohartai said ive lived there 22 years but now i dont feel safe to gd arqirnd the subdivision were afraid others are expressing deep concern for the safety of their cmdreitvicant understand why an animal has taken over oursub- drvisibn five months ago whitchurch- stouffville adopted a bylaw restiictihg the comings and igoings of dogs particiilarly dogs that have been officiauyidenti- fied fas vicious all vicious dogs must be muzzled when off their qmefs property c v trempe joined the crusade for tougher doglaws after her daugh- terwaiskiiled by a bulimastiff v she said shefe tried to work vwlh the system including taking tarjdsee approach in the hopes that justice would prevail not anymore trempe said im getting angry whafs 1 it ping to take to makepebple responsi- ble- i i y w m i a tnteriors ah ah h 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