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stouffvitte saturday march 29 2003 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 40pages1 including gst 5 recognize her police cant id woman found wandering in stouffville letters 6 sports 12 registration 14 classified 19 york rapid transitmay money in budget for focal go ft bymikeadler by me summer of 2006 rapid transit inyork region may be worthy of the name three years is enough time to build rail separations on go transits bradford and stouffville lines giving commuters to toronto more trains and fewer delays and for the first widely spaced stations of gos inter regional busrapidlransit sys- tern to appear along the hwy 407 corridor this weeks budget statement promised ontario would match federal arid municipal dollars for gos brt and other improve ments the federal government pledged m35millionfpr go and york region transit wednesday but me biggest changes for travellers in the region should come through the quick start program fof 150 million t the cost of a pnetkilometre subway tunnel the region and its private part ners will cover 80 to 90 kilometres of bus routes that have all the fea tures of rapid transit in three years quick start will place approximately 69 transit stations one or two kilometres apart along selected major roads each with a ticket vendor arid a name it will not be a mud puddle see quick page taking precautions staff photosjoerd witteveen yvonne rowan right community resources s coordinator and judy weir community resources secretary at markham stourrville hospital wear protective masks thursday because of sarsrelated precautions there are four suspected locatcasesof sars sars scare four cases confirmed so far clinic to open in markham by kathleen griffin v staff writer markham will be the location for a special clinic to treat people in york region suspected of having severe acute respiratory syndrome four confirmed cases of sars have turned up at markham stouffville hospital prompt ing severe restrictions in visiting emergency and outpatient care we are functioning on an emergency basis right now said dr jim maclean msh president arid chief executive officer parents upset children back from hong kong not banned from schoolpage 3 staff members were directing traffic away from the building thursday afternoon as it- scrambled to follow strict provincial directives aimed at halting the spread of the highly con tagious disease v ontario declared a provincial health emer- gency wednesday dr maclean confirmed friday the york region sars clinic will be housed in the old versacare building at 6824 hwy 7 at the ninth line the aifn is to have it open by saturday or sunday he said fire and municipal officials were inspect- see local page 3