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WILD KINGDOM COYOTES ENCROACHING ON URBAN AREAS THE ERA Puofccabomnail 1 INCLUDING GST PAGES Thursday Jan 14 SCHOOLS GEAR UP FOR ALLDAY JK IN FALL MPPKlees blasts timing of program BY TERESA LATCH FORD tiatchfordyrmg com Come fall 39 schools across the region will welcome children as young as three to fullday learning Six hundred elementary schools across Ontario will introduce the fullday kindergarten program in September Full implementation is expected by 2016 with more schools being added each year It is absolutely enough time to ready ourselves Although the province has given school boards about eight months to prepare for the launch the York Region District School Board is con fident the of its elementary schools chosen for the first phase will be ready to welcome students board spokesperson Ross Virgo said In die first year we dont have to construct any classrooms so it is absolutely enough time to ready ourselves he said We are expecting a smooth intro duction The schools were selected based on space available the lack of an onsite daycare centre and school performance indicators The school board plans to begin hiring teachers and early childhood education staff this spring to ensure everything is in place by the begin- I J M 11 Set PARENTS page A7 Lily Yang and Benson share a toy in kindergarten class at Stonehaven Elementary School Starting in September kindergarten classes be fullday programs at schools in York Region including Stonehaven Council approves downtown project Prorogue protest set for Jan 23 B TERESA LATCH FORD tlatchfordyrmg com Newmarkets community urban space project has received a green light Council gave its OK to the proj ect that will transform more than three hectares of public land span ning from the Newmarket Com munity Centre to the first parking lot at Fairy Lake into a cultural hub in the downtown core The project will move through the next design level in anticipa tion of sending it to tender in early March parks recreation and culture director Ian McDougall said For us this is an exciting oppor tunity to bring people together in the town Mr McDougall said Although the main concept including the creation of a key link in the trail system connecting the Tom Taylor Trail with Fairy Lake Park tearing down the arena giving the community centre a facelift inside and out and constructing an outdoor skating rink that will double as a Set COST page M BY TERESA LATCH FORD tlatchfordPyrmg com Liz Jefferson wants the federal government to know she will not stand by quietly Describing herself as just a gal raising her family she follows the news from Ottawa and like many Canadians is distressed politicians wont return to the House of Com mons until March 3 a decision made by Prime Minister Stephen Harper She is now organizing a rally in Newmarket to help other Canadi ans demonstrate their displeasure with the move to prorogue when Mr Harper suspended Par liament last year a move critics say was intended to avoid a nonconfi dence vote by the Opposition I didnt think it could happen again she said But when it did I found 1 was rather angry about the whole thing The decision to do it again is in poor taste she said considering the issues Parliament faces and the number of bills under consider ation that will have to be reintro duced or simply discarded when the house returns The Canadian image is realty suffering she said Think of all the issues the country is dealing PROROGATION page JEFFERSON Newmarket woman planning rally at MP Lots Browns office to protest prorogue Ice dancers seek to cash in at BMO competition Crone Poirier ready to battle for Olympic berth Vanessa Crone and Paul are accustomed to the chase Now they have good reason to fed they are the ones being pursued It comes with the territory as trie secondranked ice dance team in Canada Is discovering The pres sure Is sure to ratchet up a notch this weekend with Olympic berths at stake at the 20 10 BMO Canadian figure skating championships in London The upandcoming team in Canadian ice dance can punch its ticket to Vancouver next month within a few sleeps and stellar per formances starting tonight with the compulsory program at the John Centre Of course some other folks want it too Want it bad Were trying to look at It as any other competition and not chang ing our approach said Mr a resident earlier this week as the couple fine tuned its program including free dance I John number Nocture Bohemian Rhap sody The last month has been all about repeating repeating repeat so that when we get there weve done everything hundreds of times and we can say Lets go attack it Its definitely been a different outlook for us this season Were used o being the ones chasing and now were defending Weve kept mostly to ourselves and are stick ing to our strategy National junior champions in Crone and pushed past Weaver and Andrew last winter at nation als in Saskatoon to finish behind champs Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir Since VutueMoir is virtually a lock for gold this weekend the real battle is for silver and the final Canadian berth for Vancouver next month Friday is the original dance fol lowed by the free program Saturday And then fitting for the Olympics gear Well see Well worry about the other stuff after the competition and focus on what we haw to do said Ms Crone who grew up in Aurora bat now lives in Scarborough to be closer to the couples training facility at the Scar borough Figure Skating Its every athletes dream to Set SECOND- YEAR A3 Roland Digital Piano Floor Model Sale CLEARANCE