the tribune totffisrasnwfrauipbbw mmi 25000 copies vol 2 no 3 a metroland community newspaper saturday january 18 1986 40 pages 25 cents plan ace- stouffvilles main street from the ninth line to the tenth is due for a hydro facelift this year the total cost is estimated at 90000 chairman herb peach told a hydroelectric commis sion meeting thursday new cedar poles will be instal led complete with highpressure sodium vapor lights the poles mr peach said will be farther apart than at present thus lessen ing the number required in the downtown core albert street to church street there are 38 mayor fran sainsbury said this figure will be reduced to 33 it will be a decided improve ment chairman peach re ported hydro plans to work hand- inhand with bell telephone on the project jim thomas asked to attend the meeting by the bi a busi ness improvement area board wanted to know why the cedar poles couldnt be replaced by up rights made of steel or concrete similar to what had been installed in unionville and some other downtown improvement areas chairman peach said these couldnt be scaled by linemen he explained too that in some other municipalities commissions are better equipped with respect to maintenance as to burying the wires the cost estimated at between one- half and threequarter million dollars is prohibitive the chair man said the expense he claimed would be even greater to relocate the lines at the rear of properties easements would be required he said and under ground lines would have to be ex tended to each of the businesses new lighting will be installed on one side of main street only this will be more than adequ ate chairman peach stated as to covering the cost he said the commission had budgeted funds for this purpose over the past four years it will not pose a burden on the people he con cluded suspect knew details of murder musician guy paul morin knew details of christine jessops death before they were made public a whitchurchstouffville con cert band member has testified mandy paterson 19 told an ontario supreme court jury thursday that she spoke with morin after an evening band practice one week before he was charged with killing the queensville schoolgirl the 26yearold bachelor has pleaded not quilty to a charge of firstdegree murder ms paterson testified that morin who played clarinet next to her in the band talked about christines murder like it was something that happened every day the suspect revealed a surprising degree of knowledge about the slaying she told the court when ms paterson asked morin if the girl had been sexually assaulted he replied that the body was too badly decomposed to tell morin also appeared to know a lot about how long the victim had been held captive and about how she had been killed the woman testified under crossexamination by defence lawyer clayton ruby ms paterson said she felt the suspects apparent lack of con cern about the murder definitely suggested something peculiar two fellow inmates have already told the sevenman five- woman jury that morin admitted while in a whitby jail cell back in july that he killed a little girl the brutal details of the girls alleged sex slaying were linked in the trials early stages to morins interest in the 1980 horror film the shining christine jessop disappeared from her family home on oct 3 1984 the nineyearold girls decomposed body was found near ly three months later on new years eve in a wooded area near the brock township hamlet of sonya still active at 90 unionvilles mildred temple hasnt let age slow her down the community activist who celebrates her 90th birthday tomorrow still drives a car and is still involved in many volun teer programs in the community for a story on what keeps her going see page 7 sjoerd witteveen whats inside drug costs p3 comment p4 entertainment p10 to p12 childrens page p6 sports p18 to p19 classifieds p34 to p39