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stouffville saturday oct 23 2004 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville b 48 pages1 including gst 23 whats up doc students not fooled by animated hucksters opinion 6 education 7 sports 21 classified 24 hockey parents still under microscope baiting refs yelling good for hall of shame byjohncudmore staff writer canadians are known to play a decent game of hockey but we can also talk a pretty mean game too for years that trait has been a sore spot for hockey in this coun try particularly at the youth level where rarely if ever a season passes without a headlinegrab bing incident involving rink rage hockey is by no means singu larly guilty in this respect but its popularity from coast to coast keeps fanning the fires of out rage unbecoming behaviour occurs at ball diamonds and soc cer pitches too boorish behaviour name a sport and the poten tial exists for boorish behaviour from the sidelines believe some of what you may hear but do not go to the rink for the sole purpose of witnessing riots fights and referees strung up in the rafters by and large hockey parents all sports parents for that mat ter are civilized people who wouldnt dream of making a stink from their spot in the stands but its just that as canadians we place our so- called game under the microscope allowing it sometimes to be overshadowed by office antics see parents page 12 suburban smog worse than toronto hamilton environment ministry reports by patrick mangion staff writer smog wafts up from bustling downtown toronto to taint the pris tine suburban landscape of york region right wrong says the ontario environment ministry air quality data compiled by the ministry indicates smog levels measured in york are higher than downtown toronto and downtown hamilton long considered among the provinces largest polluters but ministry officials said that has more to do with weather pat terns and local pollution than big cities casting a long shadow over the suburbs but it would be wrong to dis count toronto as a source of air pol lution according to some environ mental experts ministry data revealed newmarket a predominantly resi dential town has had 48 days of less than satisfactory air quality due to smog so far this year including two days where air quality was consid ered poor by comparison toronto had 39 days and hamilton 44 a rating of 32 to 49 is considered moderate 16 to 31 is good air quality in newmarket was listed at seven or very good on the ministrys website thursday the ministry records smog lev els at 37 locations across the province including newmarket the peak season for measuring smog levels is from may to september ministry spokesperson see smog page 10 staff photosjoerd witteveen sharp chapeaux at home show lynn barrett left jan osborne joan brown and anneke field of the red rovers of georgina chat with mariea martonwiles at the mennonite products booth on the first day of the markham home show yester day the show continues today and sunday at the markham fairgrounds zoom zoom zoom to markham mazda saturday october 23 for the illors all 2004s in stock are marked down thlfsaturdaytonly smarkham iwazda 5396 highway 7 markham 9052941210 f town and country rcqllyiid 6400888 t t t t