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12 the markham economist si sun community saturday june 24 2006 global goes hyperlocal news brought to you from unionville by simone joseph staff writer unionvilles bandstand was converted into a mini television studio thursday as globals news hour with leslie roberts was broadcast live from main street the global news team was in town as part of its weeklong series news from your neigh bourhood while global has broadcast live from different neighbourhoods in toronto this marked the first time it broad cast from the 905 area curious onlookers includ ing canines were allowed to watch the show from the side lines i watch them every day it makes you want to see how they do it said mary kay a rich mond hill resident who works in markham ive never seen anything like this there are so many cables around its cool mr roberts interviewed don cousens in a pretaped segment in which they spoke about devel opment in markham and the mayors health the teams cover age also included a historic gar den tour around the town with mark cullens i wasnt aware of how quaint it is you have this image of suburbs and this breaks the stereotype you can tell there has been a lot of thought put into urban planning here but it also showed markhams traffic problems it was a reality check mr roberts said to live in this com munity with this quality of life theres a price to pay thursdays visit marked the news anchors first time in unionville i feel like im in a new eng land seaside resort he said adding that he mentioned this to mr cousens who jokingly instructed him not to tell too many people about it the look of unionville took mr roberts by surprise he said i wasnt aware of how quaint it is you have this image of sub urbs and this breaks the stereo type you can tell there has been a lot of thought put into urban planning here he said globals news director said the team found an abundance of stories to be told in markham we could come back once per month for two years and never get through all 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