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saturday nov 3 2007 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville b 32 pages1 including gst new canadian tire marks stores big additions to stouffville landscape opinion 6 entertainment 9 sports 12 classified 15 in your fac stouffville district secondary school spartan matt raguseos block backfires during his teams win over milliken millls at the markham school wednesday the milliken players are eric chin and bob khan for more high school sports see page 13 staff photossjoerd witteveen stouffville musician citizens groups protest pickerings possible effect by hannelore volpe staff writer stouffville musician grainne ryan is so concerned an airport could be built in pickering shes putting a petition opposing the project online at gopetitioncom shes encouraging as many resi dents as possible to sign the peti tion the greater toronto airport authority is doing a needs assess ment study for a potential pickering airport which will likely continue until the end of the year a decision on the airport wont be made until at least 2009 and then another two or three years would be needed for construction said scott armstrong spokesper son for the greater toronto airport authority ms ryan is worried lowflying jets would cause air and noise pol lution over whitchurchstouffville and other municipalities and local hamlets and towns could be affected if there were to be a build up of industry around the airport site it might create jobs she noted but it would also affect the environ ment and wildlife air travel is one of the largest contributors to global warming and the green house effect ms ryan said rouge park which is close to the possible airport site is one of the last remaining untouched habitats for many species she added some of the species could be wiped out locally if an airport were operating in pickering with a longstanding interest in the environment the singer song writer has recently been using her music to make people more aware of what can be done to preserve the environment one of the songs on her newest cd ml tlxe money called tree frog deals with people joining together and changing things for the better the pickering airport lands com prise around 18600 acres in picker ing markham and uxbridge the land has been owned by the federal government since 1972 and is man aged by transport canada proper ties have been leased by the gov ernment to residential commercial and farm tenants since 1975 airports in general are econom ic generators providing direct jobs mr armstrong said also you get more activity around an airport he added that could include freight stor age manufacturing and other com panies peter rodrigues a member of land over landings is particularly concerned about planes circling to land at an airport in pickering planes landing at pearson airport- see groups page 4 27 heritage rd markham 248030 beochcomber hoi if ii s to u f fvi i le co n n e cts co m our mission to maintain a thriving prosperous stouffville check the site for coupons ap and ida jobs artists local businesses v j any questions call ian batt safes representative sutton grouptown and country realty ltd brokerage independently owned and operated off ice 9056400888 not intended to solicit parties already under contract direct 4168819544 town and country realty ltd 6400888