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st town needs 4 million pool consultants find weekender mcmwmm tracy kibble staff reporter swimming was named the number one recreational pref erence in a random telephone poll last year of 375 whitchurchstouffville house holds in light of this the town should build a 43 million aquatic centre next year to meet the needs of its residents john steven- most demand throughout the community and to steer the town in the right direction in providing a range of services for the next five to 10 years in formulating the towns leisure services masterplan final report with emphasis heavy on recreation steven son said the town needs to be more proactive with volun teers to steer and enhance its son of leisureplan international told an audi ence of about 35 people at latcham hall last tuesday night although the pricetag has raised eyebrows in and out of council chambers stevenson said a 4373000 pool would give the town a lowend chevrolet pretty basic aver age aquatic centre council of the day in 1991 had turned down the notion of building the recommended indoor pool as an expansion to the recreation centre due to funding restraints the issue has not been discussed by todays council and a pool has not been included in the 1993 fiveyear forecast stevenson was hired in 1991 to find out which recreational and leisure services are in there needs to be more of an emphasis on quality of life john stevenson leisureplan international recreational needs through to the next decade there needs to be more of an emphasis on quality of life by planning and providing and facilitating recreational pro grams stevenson said he added the town should set up satellite recreation departments in vandorf and ballantrae to offer more acces sibility and convenience to rural residents stevenson also said the town should increase its awareness of teen needs and set up an advisory committee the recreation department has already been working closely with volunteers in the formation of such a committee to get a youth centre off the ground the town currently operates and maintains one indoor ice surface 12 community cen tres halls and meeting rooms eight sportssoccer fields 10 tennis courts and 17 ball dia monds stevenson said the town needs to adopt standards of parks and recreation in its official plan making leisure services a higher priority recreation has evolved histori cally without guidance and plans to set out a mandate stevenson said the towns recreation mas terplan public process has not brought about much residen tial enthusiasm however enticing only 20 residents at three separate information sessions held last year but some angry cherry street residents said horse riders needs and concerns were not mentioned in the consultants report sending a message that equestrian ser vices are not a high town recreation priority stevenson disagreed with the comments however claim ing trail uses were discussed and included in the plan people this is no uncle buck kate gilderdale correspondent stephen buck has two fulltime careers fire fighter and father and he considers himself a fortunate man im very thankful for the work i do but my family comes first stressed the stouffville res ident three weeks out of four bucks schedule enables him to be at home during the day with daughters sarah 10 and kaitlyn 7 while his wife marion is at work there are other firefight ers doing this buck point ed out the children are both at school full time so its quieter these days when they were smaller the neighbors kids would usually come here because ive always believed that kids should be encouraged to play at home during the day there would be five or six of them running around the place and it didnt bother me a bit at one time when the family had the only swing set in the area their back yard was the focal point for a large contingent of neighborhood youngsters if theyre around your house youre more involved and you know whats going on with your kids said buck who is a regular parent helper on school trips i sit at the back of the bus and get into trouble he observed with a grin the family moved to stouffville from toronto in 1986 and although buck has always felt very comfortable in his parenting role he acknowl edges that he is the exception rather than the rule at the toronto parenttot group we used to go to i was the token dad our situation is almost a traditional role reversal my wife comes home from work and says im tired i dont want to deal with the kids right now and thats fine with buck who has no desire to turn back the clock to the days when all too iff theyre around your house youre more involved and you know whats going on with your kids stephen buck often a father was less a loving parent more an imposing figure who came home and gave discipline nowadays he said most families have to have two incomes just to make ends meet and life is often stressful and hectic as a result its a race to get from here to there get everything done and still take time to listen to each other because hes home during the day he looks after the housework and he and his wife share meal prepara tion his wife usually decides what the family will eat and i get started on it she comes home and finishes it off while role reversals can create problems to me its a matter of priori ties said buck whats important are you in this world to work in my case its for my fami ly a full time career on the other hand gives him the advantage of being able to interact with other adults something he thinks is a necessity for even the most devoted parent buck has been a firefighter with the city of toronto for 12 years and a member of whitchurch volunteer force for the past three years its a tough but rewarding job he says and the publics high regard for fire fighters is a definite plus buck grew up in british columbia and laments the loss of childhood freedom in a rapidly changing and sometimes frightening world i remember being made to brush my hair and my teeth and then i would be gone for the entire day today if my kids are going to go around the block to a friends house they call when they get there he said kids today are almost imprisoned and i think thats sad starry night pholosjoero witteveen a cbctv movie small gifts brought crews and trailers to the whitchurch conservation area last weekend to shoot scenes stouffville gets 64k for blue box program the town has received a 64600 grant from queens park to help run its recycling program and purchase 500 new blue boxes it was announced this week the grant which falls under the municipal recycling support program mrsp was announced by durhamyork mpp larry oconnor on behalf of newly- appointed environment and energy minister bud wild- man to promote municipal blue box programs across the province oconnor said nearly 75 per cent of ontario households now use the blue box system to recover valuable materi als that would otherwise end up in the waste stream through the efforts of communities like whitchurch- stouffville more than 420000 tonnes of waste is diverted from landfill sites each year i am confident that with this strong local support the goal of the ontario waste reduc tion action plan for the year 2000 will be reached and that means a minimum of 50 per cent less waste going into our local landfill sites whitchurchstouffville plans to use the funds for the pur chase of 500 household bins for the operating costs incurred by the program as well as for the promotion of the benefits and ho wtos of the 3rs program kids i earn j extra j money 1 become a i carrier i today 3 j call i 6402100 stouffville j www attention flyer advertisers we can deliver your flyers tor as little ai if a piece so far this i year we have delivered 5355841 flyers doortodoor in i markham unionville milliken stouffville uxbridge i clarcmont dickson hill locust hill gormlcy goodwood i victoria square brougham hagerraan comers box grove i cedar grove buttonville sandford goodwood 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