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mit lidf si stouffville saturdayjan292005 b serving the community of whitchurchstouffville fl 36 pagessi including gst our panel picks favourite beer for super bowl sunday health 4 opinion 6 sports 12 classified 19 transit police roads budgets lose funding by roy green staff writer york region is considering nearly 14 million in cuts to its 2005 budget meaning residents would face a 61percent tax hike instead of the 89percent increase proposed in the first draft regional politicians are hop ing they can make further cuts by the time the finance committee meets next week during a budget workshop thursday councillors looked at staff proposals to trim the taxpayers portion of the budg et from 459 million to 32 million no current services or pro grams would be cut but there would be reductions in service expansion or new services solid waste cut the plan includes 26 million in cuts from transit 3 million from the roads budget and 1 million from solid waste but it also calls for 29 million to be trimmed from the 154- million police budget which must first be approved by the police services board and chief armand la barge police board chairperson dave barrow promised the board will consider extending the chiefs fiveyear plan to hire 378 new officers over six or whats up matthew staff photosjoerd witteveen see more page 10 matthew doyle 6 pops up from underneath a quilt to watch his needle come through during a quilting bee for students at willowgrove primary school on mccowan road his mother claire doyle provides assistance the students made two quilts which will be sent overseas by the mennonite central to assist with tsunami relief public hearing on plan tuesday in markham by mike adler staff writer its time the ontario government properly explained its greenbelt plan to those whose lives it will change conservative leader john tory says tory mpps have stepped up criticism of the plan which would restrict development in most of york region calling it rushed and based on political science instead of natural science but when asked in an interview to prove these charges mr tory only mentioned some mistakes in mapping for the greenbelt such as a garbage dump included in error and a farm that was half in the greenbelt and half out agree on science he did not dispute the greenbelt consulta tion period is longer than consultation for the tories oak ridges moraine protection plan or that the same scientific principles were used for both plans but unlike with the moraine an obvious topographical feature that is the source of local rivers the greenbelts proposed natural heritage system is much more complex and includes enough strange little zigs and zags with no rational explanation at all that some one could conclude its not based on proper science mr tory said such arguments and more calls for com pensation for farmers are likely to be heard see farmers page 9 ml hot tubs 27 herf fage rd khxham 8030 bocchciornbcj iarrjtc mazda 6 sport voted best now family car for 2005 ttfjjtjslt wml mazda 6 sport wagon voted best best new vegon for 2005 mazda 3 voted best new fuel efficiency for 2004 mazda 6 voted best new family car for 2004 mazda 3 sport voted best sports performance for 2004 mazda rx8 voted best new sports car for 2004 mazda 3 voted best car of the year for 2004 automobujejoorkausts association of canada mam 5396 highway 7 markham 9052941210 tbwnarid country reauyjud