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economist suntribune news saturday sept 28 2002 27 colleagues insensitive to residents by opening plant councillor by kathleen griffin staff writer despite the pleas of resi dents and a committee deci sion last week not to lift restrictions on an asphalt plant close to a residential neighbourhood markham councillors voted tuesday night to allow the plant to operate saturday mornings i am very surprised and very disappointed by the decision of a majority of council to allow the saturday opening said ward 6 councillor dan horchik it is very insensitive to the con cerns of the nearby residents especially because the trucks will probably use hwy 7 woodbine and warden more than they would during the week when those roads are busier the constrada aggregate recycling facility was given permission to operate between 7 and 11 am saturday mornings even though the saturday closure was an original con dition of the plants approval a decision that was rein forced by a development sendees committee last week residents urged council to leave the conditions unchanged will suffer we will suffer deteriorat ing traffic on hwy 7 and the peace of the weekend with our friends and family said resident winnifred ng residents fought the orig inal approval with more than 450 objecting to the plant adjacent to the rouge river and 500 metres from their neighbourhoods the plant will crush concrete asphalt and aggregate mate rials which are then used for roads residents are worried about dust noise the envi ronmental impact and the addition of 300 trucks a day in the woodbine avenue- hwy 7 area three to six years but council approved a temporary use three to six years because constrada agreed to an environmental cleanup of the already con taminated site and to fund the extension of rodick road over hwy 407 however the town imposed conditions including the saturday clos ing and a truck ban on rodick road to appease resi dents it feels like we come to these meetings present our cases but we seem to always lose said resident joan dougal a week ago tuesday in a meeting that deteriorated to an almost comical level council spent more than three hours debating the issue including allowing res idents to rehash the original june approval confused confused councillors spent hours discussing a number of proposed amend ments to the motion and comments like this is this the amended amendment or the amended amendment to die amendment were fre quent the clerk had to repeatedly clarify which amendment was being voted on while councillors accused nine humans with west nile in ontario from page 1 bouring regions the virus was blamed for the death of a mississauga resident sept 14 dr kassam warned it is likely only a matter of time before a york resident dies of the disease i think at some point it may hap pen in peel theyve already had a death meanwhile although the province announced aug 1 it was dedicating 9 million to fight the virus dr kassam complained york has yet to receive word about its funding the funding is only available for ini tiatives launched before march 31 2003 but dr kassam argued regions may want to take action against the virus after that date i dont see strong leadership from the province i see there is a noncom mitment or a lack of commitment of base funding he said adding the province has only given vague direction about how public health departments should be tackling the virus i am not being reassured dr kassam will meet with other medical officers of health and their associates in october to determine a strategy for lobbying queens park for funding as well as finding a way to deal with the threat of the virus up to this point the disease has only been contracted within yorks borders by birds and mosquitoes to date there have been nine con firmed human cases of the virus in ontario more than 1700 people in die united states have contracted the dis ease and 84 have died dr kassam urged residents not to panic in the wake of yorks first potential victims of the virus but at the same time he encouraged people to take steps to prevent spread of the disease the virus is spread to people by mos quitoes which have fed on infected birds the best protection against the dis ease is to prevent being bitten by mos quitoes tips include using insect repellent wearing long pants longsleeved shirts shoes and socks particularly in the evening and early morning when mosquitoes are most active wearing lightcoloured dense material to reduce mosquito attraction and to limit the insects ability to pene trate clothing eliminating stagnant water includ ing in pots tires pool covers wheelbar rows and bird baths as this provides breeding sites for mosquitoes ensuring roof gutters are clean and flowing properly the virus can only be spread to peo ple by mosquitoes it isnt contagious dirough other people animals or birds most people who contract the dis ease will not experience any symptoms others may suffer from mild flulike symptoms or a rash in less than 1 per cent of cases symp toms are more serious victims develop encephalitis inflammation of the brain which causes severe muscle weakness headache stiff neck vomiting nausea eventual deterioration of consciousness or mental ability and even death for more information about the virus contact the public health depart ments health connection at 1-800-361- 5653 txr si- heres your way to help a child inschool mentoring only 1 hour per week during school hours those days jenny is with her mentor she is relaxed happy and at peace with the world willing to be helpful to others this program is fantastic ashton meadows teacher johnny speaks very highly of his mentor and is always talking about him to everyone his self- esteem has increased remarkably since the mentoring began an appreciative mother melissas story melissa is 8 years old she wants to play with the older children and fit in but she is a painfully shy little girl melissa responds very well to her teacher and tries very hard to 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