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jt 6 stouffville suntribune thursday dec 2 2004 tstouffville suntribune a metroland community newspaper 34 civic ave 3rd floor stouffville on l4a 7z5 publisher ian proudfoot editor in chief debora kelly business manager advertising director retail fixer sales nicole fletcher distribution director circulation barry black marketingpartnership director debra weller robert lazurko irector production interactive media john futhey advertising director classified real estate events management gordpaolucci director circulation systems lynn pashko york region printing general manager bob dean editoria words not enough to save sinking ship for doctors if you want to turn around a losing hockey team you have to get the players to buy into a new game plan if you want to make a moneylosing company prof itable the employees have to embrace its strategy it can take some convincing and it may take incentives stronger than words to turn the ship around but nothing worth doing was ever easy the dalton mcguinty government finds itself in that position with the provinces doctors after 59 per cent of them rejected the latest contract health minister george smitherman came fairly close to convincing doctors the incentiveladen contract would reward physicians while putting some important reforms in place it was a good start an important first step in trying to end ontarios doctor shortage and reducing waiting times but in the end there wasnt enough in the fouryear deal to appease the majority of physicians for the most part those physicians appear to be the older established doc tors and specialists their concern is matching the financial packages avail able in other provinces ontarios health care system with long waits for surgery and more than a million residents without their own fam ily doctor needs the help of these doctors to fix the system and fixing the system is what this deal was supposed to be about so far the liberals have come up short the- easy answer would be for ontarios doctors to forget their personal financial progress and embrace reforms that would help streamline the system for patients but thats as unrealistic as asking any employee to make sacrifices out of the goodness of his or her heart so an employer can implement a plan so mr mcguinty and mr smitherman must try harder like any labour negotiation it may come down to sweetening the pot a little if a certain segment of doctors need a little more incentive to buy into much needed reforms then that challenge must be met no one wants to give away the keys to the treasury but a standoff with doctors wont move reforms forward ontarians are already paying dearly through their pocketbooks their patience is wearing thin the liberals must deliver sat dec 4 stouffville kinsmen santa clqos parade- 2rm letters to the editor just say no to walmart stouffville re another big box plan for stouffville nov 25 who wants a walmart i dont know two developers want to give us a walmart mr lebovic on ninth line mr geranium on hwy 48 we have a chance tobe different than anyone else we could be the only walmartfree town in north america and all we have to do is say no no to the american sense of economy running our country and changing our priorities telling us that people dont matter only profits so letis cherish the idea of a walmartfree town where people really matter stouffville will survive and walmarts will survive without us stouffville not the home of walmarts randy mole stouffville pickering airport makes no sense does the proposed pickering airport make sense given that fossil fuels area fast depleting limited resource air traffic demand will decline in the future not increase air transport will be replaced by more cost- efficient methods as the cost of fossil fuel increases as scarcity raises the cost of fossil fuels importing food will be more expensive pickering airport will displace prime agricultural land at a time when we should be conserving this valuable resource for the future of our children destroying agricultural land to build unneeded air traffic capacity makes no economic sense pamela courtot stouffville the stouffville suntribune welcomes your letters i submissions must be less than 400 words and must include a daytime telephone number name and address the stouffville suntribune reserves the right to publish r or not publish and to edit for clarity and space write letters to the editor 34 civic ave po box 154 stouffville l4a 7z5 email jmasonymgcom dont turn country into city re disease fear shelves ballantrae bat boxes oct 28 if all you city slickers are so afraid of wildlife why dont you go live in the city instead of trying to turn the country into a city i grew up in ballantrae as did my four children and eight grandchildren we always had bat boxes on our rural property our children have played with garter snakes and none of us have ever been harmed or bitten i have a neighbour who complains about me feeding the birds in my back yard poor fellow the birds wake him up when they sing in the morning a couple of weeks back you published a letter from a resident complaining about a reckless driver who killed her innocent cat this person allowed her cat to run wild killing birds chipmunks and other small animals and thinks its cute does anyone stop to think about the diseases cats are bringing into his home after a night of prowling or how they soil the neighbours gardens take a ride to the toronto wildlife centre in downsview park and take a long look at the wildlife your cats have seriously injured the centre could use your financial support to care for some of the damage your cats have done jlee stouffville editorial editor jim mason jntasonymgcom assistant editor news frank king jking0yrngcom administration office manager vivian oneil vonellymgcom production manager pam nichols pnlcliolsymgcom advertising classified manager ann campbell ncampbellymgcom managing director new business flyer sales dawna andrews dandreiusymgcom new business manager steve kane skaneyrngcom managing director real estate mike rogerson mrogersonymgcom events management shows manager staceyallen sallenyrngcom editorial 9056402612 fax9056408778 advertising 9056402612 classified 18007433353fax 9058531765 distribution 9052948244 canadian ontario orauttos il press art boam umber comal suntnbune a york region newspaper group v community newspaper the suntribune published every thursday and saturday is a member of the metroland printing publishing and distributing ltd a whollyowned subsidiary of tbraar corporation metroland is comprised of 70 community publications across ontario the york region newspaper group includes the liberal serving richmond hi and thomhsi vaughan citizen the economist sun markham the erabanner newmarketaurora stouffville suntribune georgina adwicaieyork region business times north of the city vorkregioncom and york region printing off the top with jim mason overture curtains lights might be in our future the time might just be right for whitchurchstouffville to get its own theatre heavy on that word might fellow taxpayers after more rejections than that bachelor tv show has seen the theatre is back for more the proposal once again is to turn the old town hall in downtown stouffville into a centre for the performing arts the ventin group hired by the town to study the possibilities presents its findings at a public meeting monday night at the new town offices in west stouffville christmas could come 19 days early for theatre supporters a thumbs up from ventin would beat anything under the tree for this growing and loyal bunch ventin should know the build ing and the local political landscape intimately since this is the consultants third study of the town hallwannabe theatre jilted often during their nineyear dance with various proposals for the old building the resilient supporters keep rising from the canvas for more and theyre as creative as their artis tic passion suggests they held press conferences complete with artists in front of the old building young fiddlers greeted those attending one of the plethora of council meetings on the topic and theyve got some coin behind them now 750000 from town council for 2006 its a start as is the encourag ing news that money for such projects is available from queens park now just show us the rest of the money the project fell flat at the start ing line once because there was insuffi cient financial will out there in stouffvilland the pool and library in the lebovic complex were already the subject of campaigns those days are done although the new parkview home is raising funds in an interesting twist the seniors home may have to raise more than it hoped if the same town council doesnt change its mind and waive development fees and moneygrubbing for stouffvilles third arena is at least a couple of years away potential tenants from music mania and the york durham academy for the performing arts to several stouffville dance troupes are surpris ingly numerous in a town that has never had its own theatre but its time might be near jim mason is editor of the sun- tribune