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Volunteers AMdnw qum besellingCanaâ€" anne Pajot v (left) andBettY' dian Cancer this weekend, Look for flower salesatrctailoutâ€" lets throughout Stouflville. Vol- unteers will also go door-toâ€"door to neighbours on their street askâ€" ing for support and offering information on the services of the society. BY SANDRA BOLAN sbolan@yrmg.com They say everything happens in threes. If that's the case, the new fire hall/ arena project has already fulfilled its quota and the build- ings are still five to eight months away from completion. The first glitch occurred back in Octo- ber when the site, on Weldon Road nen to Stoufiville District Secondary School, had to be remediated and prepared for construction. More than 6.000 tones of unanticipated contaminated fill ended up having to be removed and disposed of. The cost? An addiâ€" SIIIIE SIGN OF SPRING Costs up, time lost at arena/fire hall project Stoufi‘ville un -'li'ibune tional $454.0“), on top of $12 million paid to Ron Robinson Limited for earthworks and underground service Fill was also required to replace the tonnes removed. “It was expected that the fill would be avail- able fmm town sources at no cost,” Chris Pow- ers, Wlfitchurch-Stoufiville’s chief of fire and emergency services, said in a report to council. “Due to the shortage of appropriate town fill at the time, last summer’s excessive rainfall was a factor, an additional 3,300 cubic metres of clean fill was required to restore the site." The clean fill came to $55,440. which increased the total cost for site remediation! restoration by $509,440, plus GSF. The money is being allocated to the pub- lic works department's capital budget. which means despite the added expense. the project is still within its budget of $26,337,172. The second giitch came when Tom Graham. the municipality’s director of leisure services and department lead for this project, resigned earlier this year. Fire Chief Chris Powers was handed the task of the project’s department head lead. He will be working with Rob Raycroft, Whitchunch- StoufMlle’s manager of and parks The third problem to plague the arena and fire hall’s construction was courtesy of Mother Nature. The frigid temperatures and relentless dumping of snow in December and January slowed the project down by a month-andâ€"a- half to two months “We're hoping they can make that time up in the summer,” said Whitchurch‘Stouffville Mayor Wayne Emmerson at council last week. Noflon Builders now projects a completion date of October for the fire hall and EMS build- ing and December/)anualy for the twin-pad arena. Q Jim Thomas Classified Sports STAFF PHOTO/SJOERD WITTEVEEN (905) 6404646 6312 Min St.