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officials sift through razed farmhouse ar6a woman says fire has wiped out all her childhood memories authorities continue an investigation into the cause of a fire that destroyed a vacant farm house in whitchurchstouffville last week as was reported in the weekender whitchurchstouffville fire crews battled the 100000 blaze last thurs day for more than five hours to confine the surging flames emanating from the bethesda sideroad home fire chief bill brown said the department was suspicious of the cause of the fire after hours of investigation mainly becauseit went up so fast brown called in the authorities york regional police and the fire mar shalls office are still investigating arson is one of the most difficult things to prove and it could take months for authorities to come to a conclusion brown said meanwhile a local resident who lived in the house as a child offered some history of the old farmhouse dorothy waggafter reading the weekender story said the fire wipes out all childhood memories of her and her two sisters margaret and reta wagg said the farmhouse was originally owned by james wagg in 1872 and then by vincent wagg in 1926 the sideroad was then known as wagg sideroad until vincent retired to stouffville april 30 1961 it then became bethesda sideroad wagg recalled she also said the barn and some adjoining buildings burned down 11 years ago on feb 4 1980 arson was also suspected then but i never heard anything else wagg said a picture of the house and barn appeared in the tribune may 1952 as an aerial photograph the tribune ran a contest to see who could identic fy various land in the area via snapshots from a plane wagg added today the farmhouse is completely gutted but the roof remains stand ing the blaze began at 1041 am march 21 tribune march 27 1991 p3 recycling for discussed by waste group whitchurchstouffvilles local waste management committee wmc is looking into the idea of commercial recycling for business es in the community ward 5 councillor doug alles a member of the wmc told officials last week the group has been dis cussing the idea and wants staff to investigate the possibility of such a hdmeshowis ready to roll space at the upcoming home show is fast becoming a rare com modity according to the cham ber of commerce who is sponsor ing the april u12 and 13 event at the remax imperial centre on sandiford dr display space for merchants is nearly sold out the event takes place on the fourth floor of the complex program the program would involve retailers which would supply recy cling bins in their place of business however the town is not eligible for grants for commercial recycling programs and that didnt make the local downtown stouffville presi dent too happy sandra stronach owner of main streets freckles told the tribune monday that businesses shouldnt have to pay for a recycling pro gram on the job she said she cant speak for the entire retailers group but was con fident the majority of local business people would be opposed to anoth er cost ait this time nothing is confirmed yet and staff is still investigating the possi bility of commercial recycling the matter will likely be brought up again in further detail at an upcom- dumb dumber dumbest jackson fumes at canada post after mail wrongly delivered tracy kibble staff reporter don jackson is hopping mad at the canadian postal service after receivings more than 10 letters in his super- mailbox yesterday that arent his jackson owner of stouf fville travel centre and a stuart street resident received five baby bonus cheques only one was his own for whitchurchstouf fville addresses on booth drive main clark and obrien streets canada post proves my theory of dumb dumber and dumbest ive always thought they were dumb and on occa sion theyve proven to be dumber but this is the dumb est thing theyve ever done jackson told the tribune jackson also received a lawyers letter for a person living on rupert avenue a letter from a doctor for a resi dent on percy lane a min istry of healthletter to a local doctor and two church letters one for lloyd street and one for sunset blvd how would anyone like to be waiting for important lawyers papers and have them delivered to someone else jackson fumed jackson said he would not contact the post office but would contact each individual owner of the mail himself ill take care of this myself to make sure it gets done properly jackson said don jackson holds some of the baby bonus cheques he received in the mail last week inquest set in gormley mans death a coroners inquest has been called into the death of a gormley man who died last year in a picker ing industrial accident donald bruce kirk 41 died september 20 while operating a power auger built onto the back of a flat bed truck to dig post holes for ontario hydro kirk was working on valley farm road just south of the third concession when the auger burst into flames the truck tires explod ed tilting the vehicle and trapping the man kirks body was burned beyond recognition the inquest into the accident will be held april 10 at durham region council chambers 605 rossland road east whitby board deficit not as high as predicted julie caspersen staff reporter although the york region sepa rate boards deficit numbers in the millions of dollars its not as steep as predicted york region roman catholic separate school board trustees were presented with the good news that the projected 1990 photosteve peer garden club opens the garden centre cafe recently opened in stouffville owner joe colicchio stands proudly behind his counter at the remax centre deficit was inflated by 41 mil lion there is still a very significant monkey on our back but it doesnt seem to weigh as much director of education frank bobesich told the finance and property commit tee last thursday the projected deficit was set at 185 million but due to restraints throughout the board hiring new teachers instead of experienced ones and not filling vacancies the figure came in at 144 million it is illegal for school boards to budget for a deficit which the board did last year and the min istry of education has ordered the board to eliminate it by 1995 bobesich said he hopes the boards mandate of rigorous restraint gains credibility with the ministry although the director called the unexpected variance good news some trustees pointed out the real ity of having a deficit no matter how small i find it difficult to visualize how far we can go with restraints what is going to hap pen next year and the next year markham trustee maddalena smirnakis asked business and finance superin tendent john sabo answered that restraint in all areas will need to be practiced for the next five years the 1989 deficit turned out to be higher than anticipated at 59 million instead of the projected 32 million three teens arrested three stouffville teens were arrested last week by york region police in connection with a break in at a markham car shop the burglary took place 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