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The Pickering 52 PAGES ✦ Metroland Durham Region Media Group ✦ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2006 ✦ Optional delivery $6 / Newsstand $1 IT’S PERFECT THE BIG DAY Honda product Fits the Backwoods Players serve bill for first-time buyers up wedding surprise Wheels pullout Page B3 [ Briefly ] Ears an Easter idea for Pickering The cost of Pickering governance PICKERING — There’s no entry fee for participating in this year’s Taxpayers spend mittee March 27, detailing money His expenses came in at $16,841, meetings Pickering hosted, as well as Easter parade in Pickering. paid to members of council for sal- which included $5,212 for his cell- costs of meeting with residents. It begins Saturday, April 15 at 11 more than $450,000 ary, travel, expenses and benefits. phone and blackberry, $3,587 for “I must do three or four (meals) a a.m. at Sir John A. Macdonald Public on politicians in 2005 Ward 2 City Councillor Doug Dick- meals, receptions and promotions, week with people who are coming School at 777 Balaton Ave. and fin- erson topped the list for expenses and $3,483 for conferences. into the city or with constituents,” he ishes at the Royal Canadian Legion, this year, outspending Ward 3 Re- The conference expenses were said. 1555 Bayly St. in Pickering. Enter a float, dress in costume, decorate By Danielle Milley gional Councillor Rick Johnson by mainly for the American Public Tran- Coun. Johnson had the highest ex- your bikes or wagons. Staff Writer $246. sit Association Symposium in Dallas penses in 2003 and 2004, but said he After the parade there will be an PICKERING — Democracy in “My only explanation is I do this last summer, he said, as well as some made an effort to decrease them after Easter lunch along with other various Pickering came with a $465,000 price job on a full-time basis and because one-day workshops closer to home.
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