Ontario Community Newspapers

Stouffville Sun-Tribune (Stouffville, ON), September 14, 2006, p. 1

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stouffville thursday sept 14 2006 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 28 pages1 including gst 3 moving times parkview home opens its new home for the aged election 10 calendar 18 sports 20 classified 22 ijsffigsshi 1 tough choice staff photosjoerd witteveen bill brown of stouffville sits in his 1964 corvette with his 1955 and 1956 ford thunderbirds in the background hes preparing the beauties for the motorfest car show at novopharm saturday proceeds go to teen challenge ranch at the event put on by eastridge evangelical missionary church hundreds of vintage and classic vehicles mus cle cars hot rods and military vehicles will be on display admission is free for more infor mation turn to our community calendar on page 18 or go to wwwmotorfestca new cultures welcome in stouffville holding school new schools coming but not for two years by hannelore volpe staff writer if youre moving to a new sub division chances are your chil dren wont be able to attend a nearby school for two years some families with young children have expressed con cerns to the suntribune that a school wont be ready for their children when they reach junior kindergarten age the two schools planned for subdivisions in stouffville arent slated to open until september 2008 one is on the extension of greenwood road in the hillmount estates subdivision west of tenth line and north of main street the first 116 homes should be ready by spring the other school will serve new developments to the south but a location hasnt been picked names for both have yet to be selected one potential school site is in the mattamy homes subdivision west of ninth line and south of main where almost 800 families will move in over the next few years another larger subdivision by lebovic enterprises with about 1500 houses is being built east of the ninth line and south of hoover park drive in the meantime students from these subdivisions will call glad park public school home designated as a holding school by the public board about 150 of glad parks 650 students come from new subdivisions the school is unique since it is an englishlanguage facility and the municipalitys only french immersion school the facility still has room to grow principal val taylor said having a holding school means the children know they will be there for the two years and wont be shunted from school to school we are enjoying seeing so many new families ms taylor noted seeing children from other cultures is something new for stouffville they have a lot to contribute most new families coming to stouffville are from other areas of see newcomers page 9 garthau jewellers 6312 main st stouffville 9056404646 n

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