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stouffville suntribune thursday april 24 2003 5 town should sdiib mayor by joan ransberry staff writer the building occupied by the members of silver jubilee club should be sold when the seniors move to the old town hall whitchurchstbuffville mayor wayne emmerson said while the fate of the former post office at the corner of market and main streets will be determined by a new coun cil to be elected in the fall mr emmerson suggested the best option is to put the 2500- squarefoot seniors centre on the auction block what our downtown needs most is business mr emmerson said if the seniors move out we should sell the building it would be a good spot for a store it would help improve our downtown it would be a good spot for a store it would help improve our downtown on april 15 whitchurch- stouffville council approved a 12million renovation plan for the old town hall at 19 civic avenue renovations will take about a year the seniors will remain in their present quarters until renovations on the fate of the silver jubilee club at main and market streets in downtown stouffviilewillbeuptothenextwnitdiurdistouffviliecoundl the town hall are complete clarence fockler president of the silver jubilee club told council there are at least 4000 residents of whitchurch- stouffyille 55 years and older suggesting the seniors have outgrown their present quar ters approving the design plan to renovate the old town hall paves the way for federal grants to preserve the heritage look of the building the new council will make the final decision on what hap pens to the silver jubilee building mr emmerson stressed voters goes to the poll to select a new council on nov io mr emmerson is not seek ing reelection while rendering the silver jubilee club building surplus property and putting it up for sale is one choice there are other options chief executive officer- treasurer nick kristoffy pointed out the town could lease the building or it use it for munici pal purposes mr kristoffy said the building was con structed where it sits in the early 1900s he added hown metal ribbon sconce imtal decahtend oaded- miiaom- clocks lampa and muck mote a aijft cttdicate- 04demqm amdmuatiwi fart the new- id cdam to- pleade niche decor interior furnishings and design services 147amain street unionville 905 4798385 want treecutting investig from page 1 feel any is necessary the city is aware rosebarik was formed after the cutting took place but decided to charge the firm along with the three burkholders whose names were on the deed pickering clerk bruce taylor said this week each charge could result in a fine of up to 10000 the first court date in the case is monday april 28 mr colucci is also president of erosion control gabions ltd a company whose phone number and bradwick drive address in concord match those for rosebank farms calls to mr colucci were hot returned however and yesterday an employee said he would be unavailable for two weeks on tuesday mr taylor said the city was riot aware any other com pany was involved in cutting the trees conservationists who hope to keep development out of the area are urging pickering to keep inves tigating the incident the real culprit should be pros ecuted said jim robb a scarborough man leading a group called the rouge duffiris coalition we certainly did not want the trees out of there we did not want that hush cleared out this week municipal affairs minister david young announced he would use a zoning order to stop development on 4900 acres of pickering once part of the former duffin rouge agricultural preserve and including the property where the trees were cut but glenn de baeremaeker president of save the rouge valley system said the province is failing to preserve an additional 3000 acres of the preserve in markham that are still in public hands the lands are part of holdings the province expropriated in the 1970s it announced plans to sell them in 1996 sman es use in york region nearly 300 residents died in 1999 from diseases ischemic this is greater than the sum of all heart disease ihd chronic obstructive deaths from motor vehicle collisions pulmonary disease copd and lung falls prostate cancer female breast can- cancer directly attributable to tobacco cer and diabetes for the same period notice of herbicide application hydro one networks inc forestry services will be commencing forestry line clearing operations in your vicinity the work will include the selective treatment of undesirable vegetation that would if left alone grow into the conductors every effort will be made to leave compatible low growing vegetation which will assist in reducing future maintenance requirements location of work townships of east gwillimbury georgina white hurchstouff ville brock scott uxbridge date of application march 31may2 2003 pesticide trade name garlon 4 pcp act registration number 21 053 name of pest undesirable vegetation brush sucker growth from stumps name of contact person joe mitchell phone number of contact person 18886212040 all property owners affected have been contacted connecting at the speed of life hvdro