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stouffville weekender term mortgage gic rsp 1 7625 665 3 825 705 5 845 75 rate iubicct to change ccs were mam wos uhe ksurance annuities iws tmprewraton mortgages mvkham 47 1 231 1 c vol 11 no 39 ametroimid 1 community newspaper saturday september 30 1995 56 pages 50 c 47plasjt people crack costs recordholder 50000 by joan ransberry staff reporter the mother of all pumpkins was born and raised in whitchurchstouffville tipping the scales at 1010 pounds the worlds largest pumpkin was grown and har vested by ballantrae farmer steve hoult tm numb its overwhelming said hoult the monster pumpkin came within a hares breath of earn ing hoult 50000 unfortu nately while the pumpkin was being loaded on a truck on thursday evening it sustained a crack because it was damaged it was disqualified from a new yorkbased international com petition sponsored by the world pumpkin confedera tion having it crack was very sad said hoult it was just prize piimokiii steve hoult with his worldrecord 1010 lb pumpkin the small crack at left means the ballantrae res ident is ineligible for a 50000 american prize for growing the first pumpkin over 1000 lbs photosjoerdwftteveen help food bank this thanksgiving the tribune is once again pleased to be able to assist the whitchurchstouffville food bank this thanksgiving the canadian progress club stouffville is placing grocery bags in next weeks tribune fill the bags with as much nonperishable food items as you can manage and drop them off to the tribune office the iga ap or care and share shoppe on main st your contributions will help fill the food banks shelves for the coming winter watch for the bag in your paper if you need more bags stop by the tribune for extras thank you for helping those in need one of those things that hap pens to qualify for competition and to pick up a cash win a pumpkin must be free of cracks at least 80 per cent orange or yellow and weighed on a accredited scale crack or no crack nothing can change the record its the biggest ever grown in all the world hoults pumpkin grown on his parents farm was weighed on an accredited scale also as is required the weighing was officially witnessed giant pumpkins are no stranger to this area in fact pumpkins have put whitchurchstouffville on the map in 1993 a pumpkin grown by local resident norm craven set the world record meanwhile the seeds from hoults pump kin came from craven norm gave me the seeds im a stu dent of norm craven said hoult craven didnt give hoult any old seeds the seeds that grew the winning pumpkin came from a squash that last year won the worlds largest green squash competition explained craven craven said hoult was indeed playing with world class seeds what started as a hobby is now a business hoult a 39- year old bachelor is now a commercial pumpkin grower mayors meet on sharing an arena by joan ransberry staff reporter the concept of uxbridge and stouffville sharing an ice pad will be explored when the mayors of both munici palities meet next week mayor wayne emmerson said hes proposing that municipal officials look into the idea of joining together to build one or two ice pads to be used by residents of bbth- communities its my idea said emmer son early this summer a pro posal for a second ice pad for stouffville died at whitchurchstouffville counr- cil- meanwhile a plan to build a second ice pad in uxbridge is now in limbo the cost of a no frills ice pad for stouffville would be about 13 million while a 2million arena was pro- posed for uxbridge having neighboring com munities share recreational facilities is not something thats done in ontario however thats not to say it couldnt be beneficial said emmerson we should look at it he said emmerson along with mer- lin dewing whitchurch- stouffville s chief adminis trative officer cao and alex grant uxbridges cao will attend a luncheon meet ing with neighboring mayor gerri lynn oconnor 3t- x h