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mmm m whitchurchstouffville public ubrar suntribune thursday april 24 2003 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 36 pagessi including gst 16 musk manias 43rd show kids off tonight at stouffvilie secondary letters calendar sports classified 6 17 18 22 open due to by kathleen griffin staff writer york region hospitals while still reeling from the impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome are slowly bringing services back on track markham stouffvilie hospitals emergency room and obstetrics unit are open but that will be it until next week at the earliest spokesperson pam brodie said because of the number of sars patients in the building which include some staff it has- nt been as fast as we would have liked she said adding while four patients were discharged monday seven remain in hospi tal one in serious condition in thelcu hard on community we know this has been real ly hard oh our community but we have to be extra careful ms brodie said visitor restrictions remain in effect at the facility as well lim ited to relatives of critical care patients parents of small chil dren and partners of women in labour she added sars screening- continues at markham stouffvilie and unless its an emergency patients are advised to call the hospital before arriving v formore information call 9054727000 or visit wwwmshonca for sars information call teletiealth ontario at 1-866- 797000 or york regions health connection at 18003615653 the york region sars clinic fofpeople who think they may have the virus is open seven days a week between 11 am v and 7 pm at 6824 hwy 7 east of the ninth line in markham gilmour the leaf bunny waves to driven along main street during the bia easter egg hunt in downtown stouffvilie saturday the unfortunately for gilmour the leafs were eliminated from tjie stanley cup playoffs tuesday in philadelphia more photos on page 8 tree time stoufifville family says its inndcent bill roberts photo loootplus trees bymikeadler staff writer v three sons of a stouffvilie farm family and a company in concord each face 332 charges of destroying trees last month on a pickering property the company rosebank farms inc has told the city of pickering it is guilty but farmer chris burkholder says he and brothers richard of stouffvilie and ryan of kitchener are inno- cent v we certainly did not want the trees out of there we did hot want that bush cleared out mr burkholder insisted in an inter view he arid his brothers owned the land near taunton and altpna roads when the treecutting occurred march 19 to 21 j the stouffvilie man also said he and his family made several attempts to stop the cutting which city investigators found reduced more than 1000 trees j mostly white pine or cedar to stumps j t we told them to stop it did not stop mr burkholder said suggesting he and his brothers have no relationship with rosebank or knowledge of the company rosebank was charged after the firm wrote to the city march 3 1 saying it has properties under contract for purchase in the area and admitting trees were har vested to providea local farmer with fence posts it is not clear to us if we have done anything wrong rosebanks president phil colucci said in the letter offering to make reparation should you see environmentalists page 5 f i 11 u i 1 ii 1 v 1 1 i ii fj i v 0 ii 1 i iv i fibttw ipatioopen pfop monday night dumtwallf leaf games v- miafc i i i i i i o h v no lit the little dealership with a big 5336 highway 7 just east of mccowan 2941440 tll free 1 8008922209 sale monthure9am9pm sendee montrturs 730 am 6pm hours fri 9 am 6 pm houib fri 7d0am 6 pm 1 sat9am6pw sat8am1pm r www north po intoch ovoid s c o i lube oil 1filter 15p0int inspection f0r0nly plus taxes on host cm vechicies ftjtpsjp skjwe do it yourselfers fao off all parts with this coupon 0n most gm vehicles not to be used in conjunction with any other discounts ends april 30th 2003 i i i i i i i i im mm engagement barthau jewelled 6312 main st 90564g iiiiiiiiiiiin 1