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stouffville suntribune thursday nov 16 2006 3 stouffville says by hannelore volpe which issues should the new mayor and council tackle first asked in downtown stouffville jim mcmillan invest in the visual appearance of the down town area to attract more people and raise the visibility of the arts in the community angle thompson do a bangup job for memorial park think big so there is something there for every body mario petramala doing something about the traffic on main street is most important a lot of older people find ft almost impossible to drive during morn ing and evening rush hours or make turns melinda hodgson parents say we should have a movie theatre like the roxy in uxbridge we have had a beautiful main street this year and hopeful ly they will keep improving the downtown briefly staff photossjim mason we havent forgotten kenneth lo 16 of silver star squad air cadets in markham plays the last post at whitchurch-stouf- fville remembrance day ceremonies saturday at the royal canadian legion legion president jim lyon from left blair emmerson and bob lewis salute and look on war vet and town councillor harry bowes lowers a flag in front of the large crowd that braved cold and wet weather at the legion cenotaph saturday joan marshman left of the legion ladies auxiliary and judy bond of the legion prepare to lay a wreath sainsbury loses bid to stay in politics former whitchurchstoufiville mayor fran sainsbury is out of poli tics mrs sainbury mayor of clearview township for the past three years fin ished second in a threecandidate race for a council seat in the collingwood- area municipality monday the creemore resident was mayor of wtatchurchstouffvffle from 1985 to 1994 the 70yearold decided not to run for mayor this year due to the death of her husband denis last year 1393 not on voters list more than 1300 whitchurch- stoufiville residents could have shown up to vote monday only to discover theyre not on the voters list even if they were previously whythey were not listed as cana dian citizens stouffville resident doug benedict phoned the town office monday morning to find out where to vote only to be informed he wasnt on the list he has lived in stouffville since 1984 and hasnt had a problem in previous elec tions he then went to his polling station at latcham hall and was able to vote after filling out an amendment form to confirm that he was indeed a canadi an citizen however no one at the polling booth could tell him why he wasnt on the list he said voters lists are compiled from information obtained from the municipal property assessment cor poration mpac which receives its data from sources such as income tax forms elections ontario and elec tions canada residents who werent confirmed as canadian citizens were sent a letter from the town asking them to confirm their status as citizens and correct any other information andrew brouwer the towns deputy clerk said the town received responses to more than half the letters out of 18218 resident eligible to vote in whitchurchstoufiville 1393 have their citizenship unconfirmed thats lower than the unconfirmed voter number of about 9 per cent found on provincial voters lists the town has an obligation to cer tify that the people on the voters list are qualified mr brouwer said contacting us have a news tip please phone us at 9056402612 fax 9056408778 email us at jmasonyrng com visit our offices at 6290 main st in downtown stouffville