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thursday sept 29 2005 h serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 36pages1 including gst stouffville woman at home as president of markham fair opinion 6 calendar 29 sports 29 classified 31 fastfood restaurants close up in west end not enough customers for number of eateries by hannelore volpe staff writer although stouffville resi dents appetites have been large enough to keep almost all the eateries in town hopping a few of franchises have fallen by the wayside three fastfood restaurants kentucky fried chicken coffee time and burger king all locat ed on main street in the west ern part of town closed their doors because of declining sales or sales that never got up to speed burger king closed shop about a year after opening coffee time remained open for about 10 years before closing and a oncethriving kentucky fried chicken takeout restau rant closed after about 20 years in town the burger king may have positioned itself in town too soon before expected residen tial growth stouffville business improvement area bia man ager ruth lebianc said there just werent enough customers coming in she said if burger king had held on business would have picked up ms lebianc believes most towns have a strip of fast food and other stores she said adding once development see businesses page 20 scariest of the fair staff photosjoerd witteveen scarecrow judge pat wheeler pins the first place ribbon on an entry by daniel wyzynski- leonard of markham at the markham fairgrounds yesterday daniel is a grade 6 student at glad park public school in stouffville the 161st edition of the markham fair opens today and runs through sunday for more information go to wwwmarkhamfairca region lobbies against torontos opposition to project by roy green staff writer york region will try to head off a looming environmental battle with toronto council lors hoping to convince them that expanding the big pipe sewer wont cause permanent damage to the water system that feeds their citys creeks and streams a delegation from the region will attend a meeting of torontos policy and finance com mittee next month to confirm the region has approvals from the federal and provincial gov ernments and the toronto region conservation authority for sewer expansion plans particularly a major trunk sewer under construction in markham that will double capacity of the big pipe the citys works committee has endorsed an eightpoint action plan designed to get the federal and provincial governments to halt the project but regional chairperson bill fisch asked toronto mayor david miller for an opportunity to explain the regions case claims that the massive amounts of groundwater being pumped out of aquifers on the oak ridges moraine will cause perma nent damage are wrong said bala araniysundaran infrastructure design plan ner for the region its not having any adverse affect on streams or on pollution in lake ontario mr araniysundaran said if we pump 20000 litres of water a day some goes into the see 39 page 12 opct t ovwiim 0fe3 s tcy when is the best time to buy a mustang v now ihoustoni houston ford ltd 5786 main st stouffville 905s40454 1 3 in- stock vywwbinhoustonfordcorn 2 convertibles 1 coupe all wellequipped f v6 autos 210hp see sales staff for details rarthau jewellers 6312 main st stouffville- r- i 6404646 ate jlzmmatmm c