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saturday oct 11 2003 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 36 pagessi including gst 19 45year pen pal relationship led to marriage of stouffville couple opinion new you sports classified 6 15 v22 23 shelvesbare atmany yorlcregion food banks longterm solution needed activist by lisa queen staff writer with a new liberal govern- ment at queerfs park and a rrhunicipal election around the xorner york region poverty aetivistsare lobbying politicians to meet the needs of the poor and hungry r e campmgpl comes as york food banks face one of themost crucial thanksgiving drives in their- history shelves are bare after a dismal easter food drive hurt by the asars outbreakiast spring i the food banks are bask xauy empty the shelves are basically bare said rosanhe v rodgers i communications director for the york region food network focus on politicians tefocihgeglfije about the benefits of economic growth in ontario and thats great but it neve seems to trick le down to the lowest wage earn ers ms rodgers argued food- banks were implemented in the 1980s as a stopgap measure but politicians have allowed them to become institutionalized by fail ing ftp meet the needs of societys most vulnerable lisa disera executive director of the network and a member of see child page 16 harvesthop staff photomike barrett john sampson 12 hopshome in a potato sack race at fall harvestday at stouflville christian school wednesday students at the school just east of stouffville assembled har vest gift baskets to be donated to residents ofparkviewvillage seniors apartments move fast on push federal healagencyy york region everts say by lisa queen c v staffwriter two medical experts at the centre of last springs sars crisis applaud a move to over haul canadas public health system to control infectious disease outbreaks while dr richard schabas chief of staff at york central hospital where sars closed the facility for 20 days and dr hamkassamthe regions associate medical officer of health were often at odds over the way the sars out break was managed both want to se a new canadian agency for public health they are also in favour of 700 million in new federal public health spending by 2007vv vbpth initiatives were among recommenda tions from a federal advisory group which on tuesday released canadas first report investi- gatmg the initial sars crisis earlylast spring and the second outbreak in may q the group headed by i university of toronto dean of medicine dr david naylor handed down 75 recommendations aimed at ending political infighting lack of leadership and miscommunication that marred the han- dlingofsars it islong past the time for all levels of gov ernment to take actionon these issues dr naylor said there is no question our ability to man age this outbreak nationally was impeded by intertproyiricial squabbling and a refusal to sharedata dr naylor urged political leaders to see medical page 13 hot tubs mm