The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

inside letters calendar sports classified 6 17 20 21 j a tempers flare as fi stouffville teens ask council to turn hall into theatre not seniors centre community calendar event 8th annual free christmas dinner when wednesday dec 25 11 am where stouffville country market 9058523534 whitchurchstouffville public library 3 if you found a kids walletwould you track down the owner some did others didnt serving whitchurchstouffville since 1888 50 cents including gst i 32 pages thursday dec 192002 third rapid transit plan has cheaper route smartride would go to markham airport bymikeadler staff writer a group of companies york region rejected for a partnership to build rapidtransit lines has launched a rival proposal span ning the greater toronto area smartride consortiums 25- billion plan for a lightrail net work is certain to compete along with a go transitbacked set of busways for provincial funds next year all three proposals would bring rapid transit to york but smartride relies on a finch avenue hydro corridor to con nect routes to vaughans corpo rate centre markham centre richmond hill lester b pearson international airport and down town toronto the regions transit plan uses hwy 7 where the region wants to concentrate growth over the next two decades as its eastwest con nection smartrides refusal to run a line along hwy 7 was one reason york rejected the consortium then known as fastride when it approached the region earlier this year the region instead chose york consortium which would build along hwy 7 north on yonge street to newmarket and south to subways from vaughan corporate centre and markham centre for 2442 billion the hydro corridor line see smartride page 16 stouffuilles little angel staff photosjoerd witteveen stouffyille missionary church presented its drama the christmas chronicles on sunday at the dress rehearsal at the main street church on saturday angel cassy roberts above delights in her halo and wings see additional photo on page 9 to reach us 905 6402612 trustee residency trouble returns burrows miffed public board isnt investigating trustee by mitchell brown staff writer the controversy over trustee residency has come back to haunt the york district school board after richmond hill trustee denis middleton moved out of the region after the last election in 2000 the board attempted to prevent trustee bob burrows who represents wwtchurchstouffville and east gwillimbury from taking office claiming he lived in durham region the education act requires a school trustee to live within the boards jurisdiction but at last weeks board meeting trustees voted to ask the ministry of educations advice on mr middletons case rather than launch ing an investigation a decision that didnt sit well with mr burrows the fact is if trustee middleton is not eli gible to be a trustee then he will sit here and vote on matters that he has no right to vote on im just astounded frankly at the response to these remarks mr burrows said mr middleton told the board he had moved out of the region two weeks earlier i have asked for advice on this question and have been told the education act at this time just says residency in the region is required when youre elected it doesnt say anything else further he said if ive been given wrong information then fine i think you should go ahead with your motion for an investigation and have some other people check see residents page 10 pumgbille monday night 2 for lyings during hlhejsnaptojflfe catch all the action on our large screen 470955 1202 main st untonvffli el il i r i t inte m o jb i l 8 the little dealership with a big 5336 hfghway 7 just east of mccowan 2941440 toll free 18008922209 uubl i umlbmslii a v m service monthure 730 am 7 pm j l hours fri- 70 am 6 pm f sat 8 am 1 pm bring this coupon in and receive r most am vtokim wf to m umd m common mm mt ran omeouttn mm utvwj at aooz tina saunders