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s tribune july 24 1985 a3 girl next door teen mermaid fifteenyearold laura campbell vanzant court stouffville holds a bronze certificate in swimming and is working for her leaders badge this summer next year she hopes to join the lifeguard staff at the town pool jim thomas by jim thomas stouffville mermaids are for real fifteenyearold laura campbell vanzant court stouffville feels as much at home in the water as out her parents jim and heather campbell have both a backyard pool and a sum mer cottage on lake nipissing near north bay laura enjoys both shes our girl next door love of the water has enabled laura to obtain her bronze certificate in swim ming she hopes to acquire her leaders this summer with this creditation shell have an opportunity to serve as a lifeguard at the stouffville pool poss ibly in 86 laura will enter grade 11 at stouffvil le high in september english is her favorite subject and jim rehill her favorite teacher shes been an active participant in both volleyball and bas ketball she also played softball here through several seasons since april lauras worked part- time on the staff of the old country inn at unionville in september she and her father will travel to seattle washington to attend a wedding of her uncle lauras a bridesmaid shes looking forward to the trip a family vacation to canadas west coast both by plane and car re mains a memorable holiday laura praises the closeness of her parents she has a younger brother jamie thirteen sometime soon laura hopes be part of an exchange program to paris france although she can speak the lan guage fairly well now she feels a livein arrangement will make her completely fluent editors mail must face facts dear editor with regard to the reader who feels prochoice people are intellectually bankruptj wish to point out that it is the intelligence of our society that has preserved our democratic rights and freedoms rights and freedoms that allow each of us to man age hisher own personal affairs surely we are not deemed more intelligent by encouraging backalley butchers to perform op erations that could be better dealt with in a well- equipped institution make no mistake if the markham stouffville hospital refuses abortion requests unwanted pre gnancies will not stop so why not face facts that are not unique to this time in mans history and deal with this situation in a mature manner lets stop allowing the church to pump up our emotions and dictate its medieval ways of con trolling society sincerely ed hakonson rr 4 stouffville a talented artist the unexpected passing of mrs vera whetter july 3 at princess margaret hospital toronto saddened many people vera was a very talented person she was a skilled artist and many of her paintings are dis played in homes around the country and overseas her own home is a gallery of these fine works in later years her interests turned to the mak ing of patchwork quilts many of these are also in use over a wide area on oct 24 1953 vera married john whetter then coeditor and publisher of the markham eco nomist and sun they continued to reside in mar kham until 1971 when they took up residence in schreiber ont they remained there five years then moved to bracebridge besides her husband she is survived by two sons richard of toronto vernon of kenora and one daughter lynn in bracebridge also four grandchildren michelle lisa cassie and re becca vera is the daughter of mrs caroline moment and the late thos momentof markham a brother john also lives in markham service was held from the dixongarland funeral home markham july 5 conducted by marion graviss former pastor of bracebridge free methodist church with interment elmwood cemetery markham pallbearers werebill white les hobbs moore terhune ed fisher malcolm whetter and allan holman a prickly situation watercolour by pie stouffville rd 9 pm the keirstead family of artists original watercolous by pie menger oils and limited edition reproductions by colebrook and mitch keirstead reproductions by james l keirstead collector plates oak plate frames art consultation the menger gallery tues fri 1 pm closed monday between hwy 404 woodbine ave gormley 8875795 saturday 10 am 5 pm sunday 1 pm 5 pm iv- w w li br b call display advertising 2942200 or jenni hutt 2948244 ims hym dtfiwred rro mr i ims econocnfal t stwthbunr 4661400 mrolind dnlribuunfc 141079500 we deliver supplements wednesday eatons simpsons color your world building centre sabrina lbuth open sundays 8 am 6 pm