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14 economist stsunfrribune municipal affairs saturday march 11 2000 model ho ballantry homes will be selling all of its designer furniture from the award winning cornell model homes sale starts saturday march 11 2000 hours monthurs 18 pm fri closed weekends holidays llam6pm d a z 8 u 2 q it x dc lu j x 2 h a n model homes 2 cornell meadows ave b i cornell park ave umsmsiouffwif cspid hwy7 hwy 407 i 905 4724488 sale of hydro utility gets green light more than 5 million could be generated for public purse by joan ransberry staff writer whitchurchstoufrville is positioned to score a multimil liondollar windfall provided a local utility makes it to the auc tion block the plan to explore selling whitchurchstouffville hydro got the goahead tuesday the sale of the whitchurch- stouffville hydro commission could generate more than 5 million for the public purse explained hydro commissioner and councillor peter dobrich sound financial health town council heard that the local utility is in sound financial shape with about 500000 in the bank when the utilitys 3500 cus tomers get their hydro bills later this month a letter explaining the pending sale will be includ ed sale or no sale hydro rates are going up in 2000 wwtchurchstouffville mayor wayne emmersbn said wayne emmers0n mayor says hydro rates will go up in 2000 sale o mo sale a lawyer has been hired to assist in the preparation of the request for proposal said dobrich it could be a complete sale or an amalgamation possi bility with markham he said meanwhile the condition of sale includes job guarantees for the employees last year the commission opted not to renew the contract of manager nick tatone in the interim however the local com mission appointed its chairper son charlie jackson to oversee the operation dobrich said adding jackson is paid by the hour treasurer nick kristoffy said the 3500 local customers who live inthe old part of town repre sent a small percentage of the total power users in stouffville provincewide move others including residents of such hamlets as preston lake musselmans lake vandorf and ballantrae are already served by ontario hydro the proposed sale is part of a provincewide move to get rid of municipalowned electric utili ties major change came in october 1998 when the province passed the energy competition act bill 35 as a way of introduc ing competition in the wholesale and retail sectors of ontarios electrical utilities