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economist sunjtriburie thursday april 12 2601 1v- tdpm0thhutie v ametroland community newspaper 9 heritage rd markham ont l3p 1m3 telephone 905 2942200 416 7987624 fax 905 294 email newsroomeconsuncom j- publisher ian proudfoot general manager mvinbrouwer editor in chief brenda larson director of advertising debra welter deputy editor debora kelly editor jim mason production manager pam nichols distribution director barry goodyear online publishing manager 1 margaret fleming classified manager ann campbell retail sales manager stephen mathieu inside sales manager stacy allen business manager robert lazurko office manager vivian oneil editorial time for residents to make a commitment to recycling programs trash is big business and york region is making it atop priority with the implementation of its new three- step waste process york is committing 8 mil lion next year to build a stateoftheart facility to handle and process diverted trash residents many of whom grumble separat ing waste is a cumbersome time chore will be asked to boost efforts even fur ther to include compostable items such as egg shells food scraps and meat trashers people who refuse to separate household waste- argue fastpaced lifestyles rnalce recycling unfeasible people are already expected to rinse cans bundle newspapers and flatten cardboard many peqplecompiain there are so many items still not accepted in the blue box it has become confusing as to what we can and cant recycle well its time to stop complaining v residentshavetorealizeseparatingtrashisa necearycommitment one all must 1 make to secureahealthy future for our chil- -dren-v- no matter how difficult and tedious it becomes diverting trash should be part of bur xi- daily fegimenmuch like washing our hands and brushing ourteethy 1 brk regionis dealing with adoubleedged j sword wheri it comes to waste residents have said for years they want the keelevalley landfill site m maple closed and they dont wantteashv shipped to an abandoned mine to the north- sonowitstimetbputourmorieywhereour mouths are ft theregi6ns goal is to divert 50 per cent of its solid waste from landfill but we have along way to gox4 y r region is at a meagre 24 percent l york hopes to acriievea lofty 80- percentdiversionrate s vthe region plans to implement a huge edu- cation program tto introduce its new three- y stream process- v yfale thethree method is less expensive than our current system a saving of 9 million a year iit has tribe simple and con- j yenient to get people on board v ifs a giverandtake process but one that is qriything but awaste- v y s- c letters to the editor walkout gives residents time to assess relocating students an open letter to the community of glad park public school in stouffville in a lastditch effort to protect your right to be fully informed and consulted three trustees me nancy elgie of georgina and markhams susan lee pollock walked out of a york region district school boardmeeting- april 9 in order to deprive the board of quo rum and preventing it from taking a vote on a decision beingcohsidered for your school after my motion to delay this decision for a month so as to include you in the deci- sionmaking process j was defeated it became apparent the boardwas intent on pushing ahead with accepting staff recom mendations to relocate the french immer- siqn program at dickson hill public school to your school- before you had been ade- quately consulted trietown of whitchurchstouffville has also passed a resolution requesting full con- sultation on this matter as a result of all this i strenously urge your community to request through your school administra- tion that the board arrange an information evening at your school as soon as possible you may also wish to reserve standing at thelnext board meeting to present your responses to the staff recommendations bob burrows trustee east gwillimbury andwhitchurchstouffville grade 10 test results can only serve to mislead the publication of ranked lists of schools with results of the provinces practice literacy test last fall can only serve to mislead these results include those which count- ed as zero which was all students who didnt write the test absentees deferred new-to- english and learning disabled students and averaged them in add to that the fact that no one knows what constitutes a pass or fail that many test ques tions were written in misleading language that students who wrote too much or too little even if those answers were correct were marked as failures and that the curriculum is still three years away from matching the tests and i have to wonder how this 14million exercise will assist schools improve literacy from now on they will all teach to the test to improve these meaningless scores but does that address the real literacy issues which go beyond and into the homes the media habits the age of technology and the value society places on language and com munication studies perhaps the minister of education the premier and some people from the education quality and accountability office should be chosen at random to see how they fare or do wecount them as zero for not doing the test sturchet unionville fe letters pp li cyt iy-stouflwlelhbunev- vvrelcomes your letters all irv submissions must be less than i audit boaid member ontario press coundl publish or not publish and to n j edit for darlw land space j i r- rtkjiss j it t vwrite letters to the cdltor tirja hertogerd v v z- s markham ont 13p 1m3 vv tjv vwhlwix ia- ill mbulle tribune y serving the community since 1888 r ssjs jf n canadian circulations rcanadlanpubliotlxmaapiucsateafmmitll40319 stouffville tnbune published every thuisday and saturday is one of the metroland printing publishing and distributing ltd group of newspapers which includes the ajavpickering news advertiser alliston heraldcourier barrie advance barrys bay this week bolton enterprise brampton guardian burlington shopping news burlington post city parent coillngwoodwasaga 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worth depressing a few readers if it means they wont have to read about the same horrible thing again thats why i was aghast at what hap pened outside st joan of arc catholic high school in maple last week a longstanding feud between stu dents came to a head last monday when a 15yearold was surrounded by a group of eight students he was knocked to the ground and repeatedly punched and kicked although 100 people saw the inci dent nobody did anything until the school administrators noticed and called 91i the victim suffered a minor concus sion as well as cuts and bruises but these kids should know by now the injuries could have been much much worse this newspaper has been running stories about the jonathan wamback case which parallels this incident so closely its downright terrifying for nearly two years jonathan wamback suffered brain damage he was in a coma for three months he has spent two of the prime years of his life physically and mentally limited by his injuries its unlikely he will fully recover all because a teenage dispute was setded with violence did we publish every detail of that crime for nothing was it an enormous waste of time and effort and ink to cover the resulting trial it seems that way when a group of teenagers goes out and does the same stupid thing again there are those who will suggest the perpetrators of this attack learned plen ty from our coverage of the wamback case particularly from the last couple of stories which described how the guilty parties received oneyear sentences in youth detention facilities a years proba tion and some community service and maybe thats it maybe as long as young people are guaranteed light sen tences they figure theyre free to indulge in all sorts of criminal behaviour thats why the basic concepts of right and wrong have to be planted a little deeper than the intellect in a place deep enough they can put on the brakes even when the emotions take over im not foolish enough to think a newspaper article can do that i dont think teachers or cops can do it either im not even sure a parent can do it alone but we all have to make a concentrat ed effort to instill at least that minimum respect for life if we dont im afraid youll have to read a lot more horrific stories in your local newspaper v c i f f it 1 1 tr 1 1 lljijfjii v asss ipi iii u j ijcwgjfaci