inside letter 6 ransberry 7 sports 20 classified 25 3 the man who runs york region set to retire after seven years as chief administrative officer arts culture calendar event york region forest hike when 6 pm wed july 10 18882900337 where hwy 48 between aurora vivian roads jo what is it about lo this game of golf reporter kathleen griffin tees oft serving whitchurchstouffville since 1888 touf fville tribune 50 cents including gst 28 pages thursday july 4 2002 phew york region swelters in heat high temperatures expected to continue by jeff mitchell staff writer ever imagine youd be sitting somewhere in the shade come july pining for a bit of wind chill york region residents can be forgiven for covetinga bit of cool weather given theaye of heat and humidity that sals enveloped the area for nearly a week temperatures soared into the mid30s and with humidity added it felt like 40 degrees and beyond no need for a translation into imperial standards of measure its hot sticky and downright miserable and while there might be a bit of a break with precipita tion anticipated wednesday night we can expect to bear the full brunt of summer for some time to come according to environment canada a huge swath of ontario and quebec has been caught in the grip of an upper ridge system said francois choquet a spokesper son for the federal agency it started last week and formed over central canada in saskatchewan and alberta and it moved slowly eastward mr choquet said basically what you get with that is hot and dry conditions keeping the storm track to the north the back end of the system see cut page 17 keepiricool on canada day photoroger carlsen siblings patrick 7 and erin 9 shanahan managed to find a spot to keep cool during the sweltering heat of stouffvilles canada day festivities monday the celebrations were held as part of the towns annual strawberry festival and featured a family picnic and canada day cakes both at franklin park marquee and traditional fireworks at memorial park to reach us 905 6402612 deficit comm board funding formula must change say catholic trustees by mitchell brown staff writer york catholic trustees voted tuesday night to submit a balanced budget to the education ministry but they made it clear they werent happy about it what were saying to the province is dont take this and think were pleased and everythings ok board treasurer john sabo said clearly were submitting this balanced budget but our real concerns will not go away in fact the york catholic district school board is sending the province a letter warning the province its funding forumla for educa tion has to change we should send a message that if funding does not improve then we will file a deficit budget next year vaughan trustee dino guiliani said i believe weve cut enough were starving peter to pay paul the letter will tell the ministry current funding levels are not enough for boards in highgrowth areas such as york region the boards operating budget of 304 mil lion for the coming school year does not call for major cuts to programs or services for stu dents however several nonteaching depart ments will receive less funding others can expect to be reviewed for targeted reduc- see board page 15 mm tmtmm our puuo 706955 202mnalwonvflk i t j v- jlvjljl 5s555si mm o l d 6 o b i t e dealership with a big ghway 7 just east of mccowan service moottors 730 am 7 p hours ffl73fl8b8p 88l8n1p m s4im0v wjfjgft0j tttit0ml reg special power steering flush 7995 5995 2 wheel alignment inspection with print out 5995 3995 includos toe adjustment only 4 wheel alignment inspection with print out 9495 6995 includes toe adjustment only 2 wheel alignment power steering rush with print out 13990 8995 4 wheel alignment power steering rush with print out 17490 1 0995 b barthau tl jewellers 6312 main st stouffvllle 905 6404646 wwwjondpictesaffloncom