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the stouffville sun tuesday jan 21 2003 page 3 seniors have wish list for move to old town hall by hannelore volpe stouffville sun renovations allowing the silver jubilee club to move its operations to stouffvilles his toric municipal building could start by this summer town offi cials say local architects arrowsmith and associates recently started assessing how best to turn the buildings ground floor into a large open multipurpose area for the stouffville seniors club ironically last spring the town accepted arrowsmith and associates bid to use the top floor of the building for office space and share the buildings restoration costs with the town however that deal fell through last september at its dec 3 meeting whitchurchstouffville council decided to award the first floor of the building to the local seniors club even though the clock tower theatre association and other groups tried for a number of years to have the building developed into a theatre and cul tural facility meanwhile the silver jubilee clubs members are working on their wish list that includes a large new kitchen stretching p community across the south end of the build- ing as well as facilities for shuf- fleboard and carpet bowling we want to get a new bil liard table and a ping pong table we are looking at an elevator and a set of stairs at the front said clarence fockler president of the silver jubilee club he sees an area for entertain ment in front of the kitchen which could be separated by two or three rollup windows washrooms will be wheelchair accessible and a small informa tion office could be located at the front knocking down some interi or weightbearing walls means the building would have to be structurally reinforced with steel beams the renovations will allow the building to be used for groups including seniors and any other group that may come into the facility noted kelly batt the towns manager of facilities and parks the buildings current heat ing ventilation and air condi tioning systems have to be upgraded the allocation of the second floor will be determined on the square footage needs of the seniors group he added when the municipal offices moved to their new quarters on sandiford drive in 1998 there was some concern about the old building the building was never structurally unsound said nick kristoffy the towns treasureradministrator most of the deficiencies regarding its use as- an office were already rectified the seniors club can apply for funding from ontarios trillium foundation to make the washrooms wheelchair accessi ble he noted outside renovations to the brickwork windows and an out side walkway could cost around 750000 renovations would be in keeping with the buildings designation last year- as a her itage site the changes to the buildings interior will most likely jack the total costs up to just over the 1 million mark the seniors will have a chance to add more input after the first drawings and sketches become available most likely in the next couple of weeks some of the seniors may be visiting other seniors centres in neighbouring municipalities to see whats worked best for them estate planning the creation protection and transfer of your wealth you are invited to an introductory estate planning seminar to help you create protect and transfer your wealth talk to the experts sfft iv yyr fc- a rabjg ubi ah jjfcdsw v i wjfci m ftd wv ihmllabu bjfftpm eric button ba lib button armstrong ness 905 6403530 mike monette cfr fma edward jones 9056409559 anthony raguseo cga turack kusatz associate 905 6401991 www edwardj ones com member cipf 100 pm 300pm tuesday january 28 2003 whitchurchstouffville library ifffcmac call sandi today to confirm jlqwara joilfjss your attendance serving individualinvestors 905 6409559 stouffville d e nture c li nig ustom fitted sportssuardsj repairs while you wait implant dentures bps dentures all insurance plans welcome s a 5 f 3f m v s f mm vv obligation consultation to answer your questions and concerns r v l ap h m available 6424867 j m abri i iain st stouffville x c deegan dd y