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whitchurchstouffville public lik stouffville sunlribune saturday may 32003 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 52 pagessi including gst she never gave much thought i to organ donation until her daughter needed a kidney letters 6 new you 8 sports 33 classified 34 want stouffville parents after improvements bymitchell brown staffwriter the farmhouse is long gone but the barn is still standing along with an abandoned satel lite dish to anyone else driving along second concession north of houand landing the 40acre field is just another piece of prop erty its dirt driveway cut off by a locked chainlink gate i but to east gwillimbury councillor virginia hackson its the site of a dream that has been too long in the making i was so excited when we bought the land she said stand- ing near the wire fence surround- ingtheland i was bringing people out here saying this is where its goirigto go and here we are still standing seven years ago when ms hackson served as school trustee for the area the public school board bought the property intending it as the site of east gwillimburys first and only high school the plan called for 20 acres to be used for the school itself the other 20 would be sold to offset construction costs although the board was aware at the time the sewage lines in east gwillimbury could not sup port a school that large it bought the land anticipating future development today residents waiting for see parents page 11 i swat team needed to cope with sars and more health official more health crises comin byijsa queen staffwriter a public health swat team is heeded to cope with ongoing med ical emergencies york regions act ing medical officer of healthsays dr hanifkassam said the team would include a range of coordi nated responses to a community outbreak from providing nurses and experts in infectious diseases control to communicating infor mation to the public hes making the proposal follow ing two months of dealing with the sars outbreak which came on the heels of the norwalk virus scare and as the west nile virus season begins sars is just one issue we have had to deal with another is west nile virus and i think there will be another this summer dr kassam said wednesday whether it is hepatitis a or measles or an envi ronmental chemical spill there is always e coli it seems like every season there is a public health emergency dr kassam rhymed off a list of health crises or threats over the past couple of years including contami nated water in walkerton three years ago the norwalk virus which hit hospitals last winter the shigella bacteria which sickened hundreds of residents who ate tainted pasta salad last summer the possibility of a bioterrorism threat in the weeks following sept 11 and the increase of superbugs resistant to antibi otics although he praised provincial see healthcare page 10 nice birdie staff photobill roberts anne murphy of contact birds of prey holds afiveyearold bald eagle during a demonstration at the fourth annual mayors earth day at the former library on main street in stouffville saturday see additional photo on page 32 27 heritage rd markham 948030 beodicomber oi ion honda north markham honda 4611 hwy 7 wosi ol kennedy rd unionville 9054 7 7 024 51 tawh and country realty ltd 6400888