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saturday march 18 2006 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 24 pages1 including gst sports 14 classified 19 nowruz celebrations no longer small sale new year grows with iranian community by simone joseph staff writer when saeed ziaee came to canada 15 years ago from iran he and his wife celebrated nowruz the persian new year in a very limited way part of the iranian new year celebration which starts on the first day of spring involves call ing and visiting relatives and friends you may not have spoken to during the year since the new canadians knew few people there was hardly anyone nearby to call or celebrate with so the two university of toronto students did a spring cleaning of their apartment in downtown toronto gathered seven items that begin with s and tried calling their family back in iran the cleaning they did is the first step in preparing for nowruz in ancient times irani ans believed spirits of their deceased families and friends would come to visit their descen dants and their homes for this occasion the hosts cleaned house the gathering of the seven s items is known as the haft seen or the spread around which the family gathers to celebrate the new year it is the focal point of the celebration ira- nians take pride in putting together a lavish spread to signify all they hope for in the new year see proclamation page 4 cyber crime becoming bigger threat than robbery bymartin derbyshire staff writer cyber crime is a threat to any business just ask aurora cable internet in december the internet and cable service provider was hit by a denial of service attack that has cost the company hundreds of thou sands of dollars general manager linda morrison said somebody got on to its network andforced the companys servers to send out millions of emails slow ing the system to a crawl with limited ability to track or stop the hacker the company was forced to add more servers just to get things back up to speed weve been attacked here and were still under attack ms morri son said there is nothing more we can do to protect ourselves all we can do is handle it as it flows the perpetrators of this kind of cyber crime mayhave done it to try and legitimize a spam email by putting the aurora cable internet e- mail tag on it or maybe they just did it on a lark the fact its origin is hidden behind different servers across the globe makes it near impossible to tell but whether its a disgruntled employee who rendered the net work useless because shes upset with the boss or what cops call a script kiddy who uploaded a serv er scrambling program to impress his teenage buddies detconst phil shrewsbury of the york region- see online page 8 spate i blowin in the wind staff photomike barrett lisa emmons as lily brandishes an umbrella in a special preview performance of motus os east of the sun west of the moon thursday at the stouffville public library children had a chance to see the show before it went on the road