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thursday april 1 5 2004 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 24 pagessl including gst 19 york universitys athlete of year was reluctant to play field hockey opinion 6 wheels 9 calendar 15 classified 21 staff photosjoerd witteveen y focus on footwear stoufiville district secondary school senior spartan brad hulshof keeps a close eye on a teammates studs as the ball is picked up by another spartan in exhibition rugby match at uxbridge secondary school tuesday the stoufiville seniors lost 150 and the juniors were defeated 250 see additional photo on page 19 m v message to town has been involved with mobility transit and is a member of thewhitchurchstoufirville acces sibility advisory committee his newest undertaking was the role of dame in this years traditional english pan tomime put on by the youth group at christ church anglican in stbuffville mr feasby described his appearance as the dame in the march 5 and 6 production of aladdin as resembling mimi from the drew carey tv show but a thinner version with red hair he played aladdins rhother and was very firm in stating i think i am a betterlooking woman than charlie parker who played the role for many christ church performances see teams page 17 by hannelorevolpe staff writer as wayne feasby and luke anderson wheel along stoufiville streets june 13 they will keep rick hansens anything is possible message alive and raise funds for spinal cord injury research the rick hansen wheels in motion event comes to stouffyille for the first time this sum mer people can walk run or wheel a five-rkilo- metre course leaving the stoufiville arena at 1 pm to support research and improve quality of fife for those with spinal cord injuries mr feasby and mr anderson suffered injuries that changed their lives abruptly but did not diminish the stubbornness and inge nuity they needed to hecbrhe successful mr feasby 49 is general manager of a car leasing firm while mr anderson is a newly graduated engineer who has again begun to pursue his profession a water skiing accident in 1979 left mr feasby a paraplegic he spent three months in hospital arid seven months at the toronto rehabilitation institutes lyndhurst centre it took him a long time to get going again he recalled but every day you get up with the attitude you have to make the best of what you have he drives a car with hand controls and with a little planning is able to get almost everywhere he wants the stoufiville resident new firefighters oked ice rental rates up town tax hike reduced to 89 by hannelore volpe staff writer the town portion of whitchurchr stouffvilles municipal tax bill is increasing 89 per cent not the 12 per cent originally proposed in a marathon 11hour budget meeting tuesday councillors and staff reduced the tax hike and found enough money to hire four fuutime firefighters that new figure means an average home valued at 330000 would be charged 74 more in taxes down from the 100 projected at the 12percent rate a municipal tax bill includes regional and school board compo nents councillors cut short a march 4 operating budget meeting and asked staff to come up with taxsaving options in the 5 to 7 per cent range without changes the municipal tax would have gone up by 136 per cent after adding 16 per cent for the new firefighters the capital budget was passed feb 10- department heads were on the hot seat tuesday as councillors reviewed where they could cut costs delay or do without to save money the role of this council is to set broad policy decisions we are ques tioning the judgment that these people have acquired through many years of experience councillor ken ferdinands said after prolonged grilling of staff fire and emergency services chief tim beckett and deputy chief paul stover had to sweat it out the longest it wasnt until almost 11 hours after they see fewer page 15 vacxjum cjoahtma vacuum repairs to ah makes models sales service installations 43s5hwy7unlonyfll bcifcfe railway trcto picked diamonds barthau jewellers 6312 main st stouffvide 9056404646 cs