vjtvt inside otters churches events classified 6 10 15 25 tyr stouffville amateur r hockey league founded in north york rink 25 years ago arts culture calendar event men of note in concert when saturday nov 23 8 pm where stoufiville united church serving whitchurchstouffville since 1888 f been there done a that getting lost en route to a york region orienteering class 50 cents including gst 44 pages thursday nov 21 2002 to reach us905 6402612 drinking water law costs region 15million legacy of walkefton lands york in court by jeff mitchell staff writer the provinces new safe drink ing water legislation has already cost york region taxpayers 15 million and has landed the municipality in court the legacy of the walkerton tainted water scandal has meant municipalities must adhere to tougher quality control require ments some of which york region has already failed to meet according to the ministry of environment debbie korolnek director of water and wastewater with the region said the ministry has laid five charges against york region for administrative infractions regarding its waterworks opera tions those charges go to court dec 9 i used to feel we had a real partnership with the ministry of environment those days are gone ms korolnek said they are very quick to issue orders and issue charges new staff must be hired to handle the added work to imple ment provincial legislation including the safe drinking water act ms korolnek said six new positions are requested in next years budget four in the health department and two pub lic works employees dedicated to managing the reams of paper work now required by the sec region page 17 edward street garbage dumped on council chamber floor teen trouble by joan ransberry staff writer enough is enough whitchurchstouffville mayor wayne emmerson has called for an emergency meeting to tackle youth crime after an angry edward street resident dumped a bag of garbage on the floor of the council chamber at tuesdays council meeting longtime resident bob mcneil told council that students from stouffville district secondary school sdss use edward street as a garbage dump on a daily basis the littering is ongoing serious and making it very difficult for peo ple to live near the local high school council was told the residents of edward street are fed up said mayor emmerson having bob mcneil come here and spread garbage in my council chamber is unacceptable once and for all we have to do some thing we have to ask whats hap pening to our young people theres a problem with our youth its not kids from other places these teenagers are ours mr mcneils actions prompted the mayor to call a special meeting to include officials of york region district school board including chairman bill crothers and sdss principal tony lewis and the york regional police including acting insp rodney sine town staff and whitchurchstbuffville council the meeting will be held before the years end well have this meeting and then well go to the people to host a public meeting see council page 16 say cheese for christ church staff photobill roberts fundraising chairperson doug simons eyes a toy camera on sale during christ church anglicans country christmas bazaar saturday in stouffville the church is hosting a breakfast with santa on saturday dec 7 the day of the stouffville kinsmen santa claus parade call 9056401461 for information on the breakfast oh wu fiumiser presents monday f4iht football november 2 wlnanxbox gfc bud girls prizes r 2 fori wings 370i6955lv 202 main st unlonvide toroototomjakt special regular 6995 7fifi5 pefjurmittliiecuonamigitt 3995 35995 i i adirtmonhr ipillll mimm implotton wlt 6996 9495 jorrifipol n t chevplcsc pnri ointe the little dealership with a big system special special 2 wheel alignment power steering flush with printout regular l 4 wjieil alignment power steering f 8995 13990 gnmertt power steering liitihwluifrlntout j 10998 17490 5336 highway 7 just east of mccowan 2941 440 toll free 1 8008922209 tina saunders h