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inside letters 6 v ransberry 7 sports 23 classified 25 fyfj daycare centre for alzheimers and dementia patients in the works for stouffville whitchurchstcniffvilta pubfifc libra arts culture calendar event arty party sale of retro treasures when 7 pm saturday 9056408954 where latcham gallery main st stouffville 3 children often say- goodbye to parents with alzheimer long before they die serving whitchurchstouffville since 1888 50 cents including gst- 40 pages thursday oct 17 2002 to reach us- 905 6402612 kyoto good in long run teenager tells mp companies that cant adapt will lose out by mike adler staff writer ratifying the kyoto protocol on reducing greenhouse gases is like buying a higherefficiency fur nace it costs you money but youll save more in the long run says andrew ng of richmond hill the university of toronto schools student was one of sev eral voices at richmond hill and markham events last week saying the price of canadas inaction on climate change will be disaster how can you have a healthy economy without a healthy envi ronment you cant argued the teenager part of a kyoto protocol panel hosted on friday by oak ridges mp bryon wilfert whose riding includes northern mark- ham and vvhitchurchstoufrville there will be some losers in this game but ultimately the losers are the companies that cant adapt mr ng agreed with climate experts that kyoto an international agreement the federal government is preparing to ratify in december is only a starting point in reducing green house gas emissions in order to slow global warming it doesnt make sense to talk about kyoto unless you look beyond it said dr danny harvey a university of toronto geographer on the mps panel canada has procrastinated he said and should have had an see controls page 18 york region food banks thanksgiving drive poorly orchestrated ents res crisis by lisa queen staff writer a poorly implemented new sys tem of collecting donations nearly gutted the annual thanksgiving food drive according to york region food network communications director rosanne rodgers it was rather poorly orchestrat ed all the wonderful plans that were made never really happened however residents have responded in the past few days after desperate food banks issued pleas through the media not to let the poor go hungry this winter so far just over half of the 169000pound goal has been col lected since the drive began last thursday usually by this point in the cam paign which officially ends oct 25 the food drive has reached the threequarter mark thanksgiving really is the big weekend ms rodgers said i expect it will be dribs and drabs now ms rodgers acknowledged there may be other reasons why the drive got off to such a disastrous start including cashstrapped residents hit by two months of hefty hydro bills but she pointed to shoddy implementation of the new collec tion system as the single biggest reason for the lame kickoff instead of delivering paper gro cery bags in newspapers organiz ers encouraged shoppers to donate directly at their grocery stores grocery stores across ontario see church page 5 crowd support staff photosjoerd witteveen public school students in the whitchurchstoufrville area including this group from ballantrae and glad park cheer on runners in the cross country event at bruces mill park conservation area on stouffville road tuesday morning m stfiwatcfloraocse now open for lunch k dinner 119 main street unlonvillc 9054800094 buh sp1i aju jt mum wmfm yv wftrmmn le little dealerhtsmwiffi 5336 highway 7 just east of mccowaiit jiq monthurs 9 dm 9 pm sflrvtoo monfri 730 am 6 pm loliri fri 9 am 6 pm houfl sat 8 am 1 pm sat 9 am 6 pm w andy male 30 point safety moit cm vehicles starts oct 3 ends oct 31 tom waterman