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Perhaps someone should remind them that they walked into the purchase of their homes with their eyes wide open. Ifyou are a family that has fofir or more cars, then don’t purchase a home that only provides a single-car garage and a single-car driveway. As I understand it, most of these homeowners do not even use the garage to house their cars. This is a choice made by them and the town should not be burdened with this problem. Seems to me that a little common sense on the part of the homeowners is all that is needed here. L. CONWAY STOUFFVILLE Market Street needs a little help for the Lebovic Centre trafic, but that is a planning problem. There A little cul-de-sac should have been built at the end with parking space. I can visualize pathways exiting that parking area to the various favourite places to be found in the park. Quiet places with shade trees, safe with no traffic. a place to sit, rest and enjoy a great park atmosphere. Common sense would solve problem Provide more access to Memorial Park The road from Hoover Park Drive to the Lebovic leisure ACentreAin southern Stouffville is great. Dianne Mahoney Bonnie Ro Wm Anvmmsmc Special Events Manager w Mm“ Pam Burgess m_____ .._.___> pbumasOyrmgxom SEW-Tribune PUBLISHER Ian Proudfoot 6290Maln8t. Wfiflifl 167 manm Letters to the Editor Pnonucnon were a couple of public meetings on Memorial Park where 1 suggested we hold ofl building the road through the park to Main StIeeLWait and see what would really work when the new residents moved in and, let, them have a say in the matter. Cancel property tax hik'e, McGuinty The property tax assessment values established by MPAC should be rolled back to the original values. It’s been stated the value of homes has decreased by 10 per cent in the GTA and eight per cent across the 905 area Well like a broken recbrd, again, I say “wait and see". But do it with parking available in a culâ€"deâ€"sac at the south end of the park. Premier McGuinty, we are asking ybu, once again, to _car_1cel unjust property tax increase. If Mr. McGuinty fails to react on my concerns, I can guarantee I will appeal the MPAC assessment before March 31. MPAC may not be able to handle all the appeals I believe it may receive. Mr. McGuinty should not’consider this letter a threat. It is simply the concerns of a senior property owner. How can MPAC increase property values when realty property values are decreasing? And we still haven’t felt the full effect of the economic problem. Once before, the Ontario government found it necessary to cancel the assessment value increases as a_result a property owners' rebellion. Bum): m Cmu Debora Kelly ADVERTISING 905-640-2612 Classified: 1-800-743-3353 FIX: 905-640-8778 Fu‘ DISTRIBUTION 905-640-2612 905-640~26 l 2 xx: 905640-8778 EDITORIAL BOB LEWIS WHITCHURCH-STOUFFVILLE GEORGE GORRINGE S TOUFFV I LLE Nicole Fletcher You Ramon Panama Gm MANAGER Bob Dean A York Region Media Group community newspaper The Sun-Tribune, published every Thursday and Saturday. is a division of the Metroland Media Group Ltd, a whollyowned subsidiary of Iorstar Corporation. Metroland is comprised of 100 community publications across Ontario. The York Region Newspaper Group includes The liberal, serving Richmond Hill and Thomhlll. Vaughan Cltizen.1he Era-Banner (Newmarlret/Aurora). Markham Economist Sun. Georgina Advocate. York Region BusinessTlmes. North of the City, yorkregioneom and York Region Printing. Last time I went to the horse races. Uxbridgeâ€"Stouffville harness legend Cam Fella was still running. The Pacing Machine retired in 1984. I know there's a mix of fun and charity in it all. But I also know I've got a better chance of walking on the moon than winning large. The pmi/ince didn’t build its chain of casinos. race-track slots and lottery kiosks to give money away, did it? Getting what’s left of my hair cut later in the week, the talk had elevated to casino gambling. The barber shop cho- rus weighed in on the benefits of all things Rama, Niagara, Georgian Downs and Port Perry. It’s as if this is Atlantic City or Las Vegas. You can’t get away from it, even have in Ontario the pure. The woman in front of me at the Main Street convenience store had it down to a science. Or so she thought. Her lucky numbers were on one side of her big red wallet, her unchecked tick- ets on the other and the cash to feed the habit tightly in hand. After what seemed like 10 minutes, she geefully left with another mirtful of tickets, many of them rewards from earlier games, and dreams of a jackpot. I could only hope the milk in my hand hadn’t soured. Back at my desk, the faxed (yes, some people still use them) media releases rolled in from what should be called the Ontario Ministry of Gambing. “LOTTO 6/49 draw worth an estimated $16 mil- lion!" and “Toronto couple thrilled to win $13.6 million jackpot" were two headlines in the pile. I have been in exactly one casino in this province, while tagging along on a group outing way up north one night. Dalton McGuinty won't be building too many hospitals on the $15 I dropped. I must admit, I don’t get it. Gambling is not one of my vices. I haven't bought a lottery ticket since David Peterson was premier. Iim Mason is editor of The Sun fiibune. Saw-Tribune Should trip to variety store be a gamble? with ]im Mason Off The Top