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st weekender april 26 1997 p 3 business of the year th j hi v jiiiy developer lebovic loves his town by joan ransberry staff reporter a man with a 40year career beginning in a sawmill in a small ontario town to become one of southern ontarios major builders and land developers cites luck as the key to success joe lebovic was born in czechoslovakia where his father and grandfather were sawmill operators and lumber dealers educated in budapest hungary and later in england where he studied theolo gy and economics lebovic set his sights on a new land lebovic arrived in canada in 1949 from a business standpoint the man never looked back lebovic enterprises was established in 1953 and is now made up of subsidiary companies involved in residential com mercial and industrial development hes the brainchild and builder behind many condominium residences and single family homes as well as commercial and industri al projects inside and outside of stouffville two weeks ago the whitchurch-stouf- fville chamber of commerce recognized lebovic for bis many accomplishments and contributions the recipient of the chambers corpo rate citizen of the year award was delight ed with the recognition stouffville is a beautiful place he said an outspoken proponent of allowing the development industry to solve ontarios housing problems rather than govern ment he served a total of three terms as president of the urban development insti tute twice in ontario and once in canada on the homefront lebovics giving to stouffville has been extensive he support ed the york durham railway st james concerts the library the local high school town museums the local mobility transit minor hockey and the cemetery market restoration fund as well as contributing to the towns strawberry festival lebovic created the stouffville cultural foundation during his acceptance speech he encouraged the community to take full advantage of this particular foundation lebovic is also the largest contributor to the towns growth management study which is underway now lebovic has left his mark beyond stouf fville hes the founder of the joseph and wolf lebovic foundation and secretary treasurer of ner israel yeshiva college lebovics interest in health care is ongo ing his donations to the canadian cancer society and to a number of torontobased hospitals earned him the governor gener al of canada medal to celebrate canadas 125th birthday also hes on the board of governors of mount sinai hospital baycrest centre for geriatric care and scarborough cente nary as well hes served on the scarbor ough hospital board for 20 years hes been active in the united jewish appeal and israel bonds lebovic is also a former member of the east metro youth association when pressed for the answer to success lebovic admitted that hard work is part of the picture helene johnson president of the local chamber of commerce said joe lebovic has demonstrated to the community by making it stronger and a more responsive place to live and transact business lebovic has been a good ambassador for stouffville hes been very kind to stouf fville were proud to call him one of ours said johnson joe lebovic has left his mark on his chosen community the developer was honored as one of the top business people of the year photosjoerd witteveen watch for these flyers on saturday april 26th 1997 james tan opportunity to learn culf0rd associates walmart m m meatsstouffville loblawssupercentre iga stouffville sears dominion biway loblaws independent pool group canadian tire richmond hill a p weston produce watch for these flyers ontuesday april 28th 1997 shoppers drug mart zellers selected areas only were first in distribution weve delivered 15080382 flyers door-to- door so far this year if you would like your flyers delivered by the best please call arlene maddock at 6402100 the tribute attention flyer advertisers we can deliver your dyers or as little as 35 cents apiece in markham unionville milliken stouffville uxbridge claremont dickson hoi locust hill gormley goodwood victoria square brougham hagerman corners box grove cedar grove buttonville sandford leaskdale greenbank udora sunderland zephyr ashbum cannington and all adjacent rural route areas we can deliver your dyers using the most up to date market demographics including census tract lifestyles fsa neighbourhoods etc call us to discuss your needs we can deliver on the day you want to the area you want any quantity up to 501 50 for distribution inquiries call stouffville 905 6402100 or fax 905 6405477