inside opinion 6 moguide 17 scoreboard 20 classified 22 provincial government considers finding for private religious schools m tight of un decision arts cuiture calendar event the chud is coming when sunday dec 5 3 pm where springvale baptist church 5136122 whttehurchsiouffville public library 1 j woody and buzz are back together in toy story 2 coming to theatres tomorrow serving whitchurchstouffville since 1888 50 gents including gst 724 pages tuesday nov 23 1999 to reacw us 905 6402100 mayor wants to talk to respondents york region amalgamation survey by joan ransberry staff writer the mayor of whitchurch- stouftville wants the 29 people who tookpartin arecent amalga mation survey to give him a call mayor wayne emmerson is taking strong acceptation to the peoples choices and to their remarks about his municipality of the 29 surveyed by the stouffville tribune as part of sur vey by york regions metroland newspapers only 18 per cent want wwtchurchstouffville to maintain the status quo while the remainder want the town to be part of a one or two city sce nario amalgamation is not neces sarily better stressed emmerson the amalgamated city of toronto is anticipating a tax hike this year hesaid how can that be better emmerson said one stouffville resident sur veyed said the town had too many fire stations and not enough fire trucks this is just not true emmerson said those taking part in the sur veydo not reflect the general opinion of the community he said emmerson wants the survey respondents to call his office to set up a meeting we run an open government i want them see respondents page 2 tense testimony as officer who fired shot testifies at inquest fatal shot foraotten by kathleen griffin staff writer det robert wiche doesnt remember firing the shot that killed markham teen faraz suleman he told an inquest yesterday testifying for the first time about the june 19 1996 shooting on trafford crescent wiche told coroners counsel brad kelneck he recalls the early morning chase and he remembers moving around to the front of the stolen jeep suleman was driving after it came to a stop he had his weapon drawn and yesterday described in detail being struck by the vehicle as it accelerat ed but when asked if he recalls fir ing the gun he replied i must have i dont have any independent recol lection when it happened it obvi ously did during the crossexamination sulemans mothers lawyer paul copeland reminded wiche about the notes he made at the time notes which were not written until five days after the shooting because wiche was too upset he testified he drove at me and struck my left shoulder copeland read from wiches transcribed 1996 notepad 1 bounced from the left fender portion of the jeep as i bounced away i maintained both handson my gun i fired one shot into the rear portion of the drivers win dow now you say you dont remem ber anything you dont remember how the gun went off copeland asked see wiche page 2 staff photosteve somerville let them eat cake employment facilitators ruth robinson and heather graham celebrate the first anniversary of the neighbourhood resource centre at stouffville district secondary school j wtmi i- i mmui stouffville rotary club presents york regional police male chorus sunday dec 5 730 pm tickavai jsjsrz- t- slvne financial services insured deposit rates i savings account 410 1 year 530 3 year 610 5 year 630 raies subject to change gic rrsps mutual funds life insurance rrifs ken prentice cfp ringwbod dr stouffville 6429507 vvvvvvvvv