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cat on a cat she drives caterpillar15 directory comments p4 sports p8 p9 entertainment p16 p17 real estate p19 p20 classifieds p21 to p23 awaits start new theatre manager can hardly wait16 the tribune vol 1 no 12 a metroland community newspaper saturday august 31 1985 25 cents plan redistribution study with residential buildup occurring in a number of areas of whitchurch- stouffville mayor tom wood says hell recommend a redistribution study over the entire town if reelected nov 12 the whole thing has to be looked into mayor wood told the tribune at a press meeting thursday wood mentioned specifi cally wards 2 and 5 where residential construction is either underway or contem plated he stressed the fact councils size would not change but instead ward populations would be more evenly distributed i think its something we should take a look at he said noting that ward boundaries hadnt been altered for many years ward 2 councillor ron robb was cool to the idea saying that while extremely busy he has no problem keeping pace with com plaints he says he spends between 35 and 40 hours a week on town business since his ward is one of the largest in the municipality i knew this when i ran for election he said the majority of comments i hear are positive most people seem happy councillor robb agrees that personal contact with the people is difficult if not impossible during a three- week election campaign to overcome this he obtains help from volunteers but even then we never get to meet everyone ward 5 councillor wilf morley claims redistribu tion is a little premature he says the people in his ward are extremely under standing and id hate to lose any of them buildup he feels hasnt reached the stage where it poses a burden the fact is i dont receive that many calls morley stated that in re cent months only one issue that of sidewalks on aspen crescent had come up i kind of enjoyed it he said even though the majority of residents didnt agree with my recommendation on the money markham resident cliff thorburn one of the top snooker players in the world tried out a 20000 tabic for sale in the new sears christmas cata logue mr thorburn demonstrated his skill at a special session last week in toronto sjoerd wittvcen ambulance strike stalemate its likely a mediator will be called in soon to try and settle the lldayold strike by stouffvillc and uxbridge ambulance workers says a representative of their union pat rooncy of the whitbybased ontario public service employees union opseu told the weekender he ex pects a mediatator will be appointed by the ministry of labor he said union president james clancy discussed this possibly in length during a aug 27 meeting with ministry of health officials the union is representing the nine fulltime and six parttime ambulance attendants in bargaining with their private temporary controller whitbybowmanvillc ambulance services the legal strike began aug 19 after opseu and ambu lance service operators failed to reach a settlement in earlier mediation a main demand of the striking workers is wage parity with their counterparts employed directly by the ministry of health the salary average of stouffvilleuxbridge em ployees is 1050 an hour compared to the 1178 an hour earned by ministry drivers a mediator can only do so much the two parties have to agree mr rooney added its a matter of equal pay for equal work