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inside letters r camps sports classified 6 10 18 19 4 let it snow york region farmers say after our unseasonably warm and dry winter community calendar event spring pancake brunch when sunday april 7 11am to 2pm where whitchurchstoufivilie museum vandorf t sod searching t york region missionaries shun societal myths coniforte serving whitchurchstouffville since 1888 50 cents including gst 32 pages saturday march 30 2002 to reach us 905 6402612 announced fewer people buildings on lands neafstouffville bymikeadler staff writer its been 30 years since the federal arid provincial govern ments started to slowly erase the farmsteads arid quiet crossroad communities 6v eastern markham and north pickering justsduthofstoumglle 0ri march 2 1972 the two governments sprung plans for 2 billion in development a pickering airport to handle inter national flights for toronto a city of 150q00 built beside if on 2000 residents who would be displaced through expropriation work on the airport will begin next year arid is expected to be finished by- 1978 or 1979 the toronto star reported the new city will be finished by about 1990 none of that happened because a group called people or planes fought for the homes and farriis most of them on land as rich as any in canada many buildings however were destroyed in 1975 the year the airport was shelved three woriien barricaded themselves in a house in an allput attempt to prevent another demolition in the stalemate that followed the governmerits rented the 18500 federal acres and 25000 provincial acres to tenants but the houses and barns on them see regional page 3 out of its shell for easier staff photosjoerd witteveen lynda sergeant owner of lyndys floral boutique on main street in stouffville shows one of the 1 1 little chickens that hatched in her storefront window just in time for easter york region amends bylaw to allow more smoking by jeff mitchell staff writer in yet another remarkable turn of events- york region councillors voted thursday morning to amend their smoking bylaw to help bingo halls compete with operations in other jurisdictions v markham regional councillor frank scarpitti employed sorne fancy footwork to bring about the change when his attempt to send a report on the bylaw back to the health coihniittee for more consideration failedhe quickly proposed aharnendment that would double me auowable capacity in the designat- ed smoking rooms the halls must have in place by june 2004 the amendment a concession which has been sought unsuccessfully by bingo hall operators arid charities since last fall passed 9 its just terrific news said harvey meek a rrierriber of die markham bingo country sponsors association j the group derives proceeds fqi38 local charities fromijirigos held at the hall they have lobbied the region for the change saying restrictive smoking bylaws affect attendance at birigds here it definitely is moving in the right direc tion finally after all this time mr meek said for the bylaw to have gone through the way it was was just simply wrong for everyone the developments left joyce frustaglio chair of the regions health comrnitteeand the municipalitys v top crusader against see bingo page 7 ft c t i- t town and country realty ltd j v v j t w 6400888