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the tribune vol 1 no 17 a metroland community newspaper saturday october 5 1985 25 cents friends pay last respects by jim thomas editor friends said farewell to a friend wednesday more than 400 mourners the majority students of stouffville dist secondary school filled the missionary church to capacity for the funeral of sharon watters russell street stouffville sharon 17 died sept 29 in scar borough centenary hospital fol lowing a tragic twocar collision at the intersection of cone 9 and 16th avenue markham three others including the two drivers were injured fay miriton director of the oneill funeral home described it as one of the largest funerals in her memory originally sche duled for the chapel the service had to be switched to the mission ary church when hundreds indi cated a desire to attend one of those in attendance was chuck roche sharons grade 12 math teacher for whom she had great respect one of the six pallbearers was kelly carrick a passenger in the death car on the night of the acci dent kelly was released from hospital just two days before the funeral many of the students wept un controllably during the service at the cemetery a number re mained behind and placed flow ers of remembrance on the casket rev jim clubine described the great hurt felt by a cross sec tion of the community the tragedy of sharons death is heightened by her youth he said to have friends one must be a friend sharon was a loyal friend your presence here today indi cates this the pastor continued rev clubine spoke of sharons appreciation of her school and her love of children it was her hope he said to assist those less fortun ate than herself particularly children with special needs the minister addressed the question on everyones mind why should someone with so much potential be taken from us why so senseless a death life is a gracious gift from god let each of us live it as the gift that it is he urged he also requested those closest to sharon hold onto and cherish the good memories be thankful we had her among us for as long as we did in addition to kelly carrick other pallbearers were scott mellor doug mcquigge murray pattenden bill hughes and jim davis interment was made at stouffville cemetery arcade still open despite ruling a stouffville arcade oper ator will go to court rather than comply with a town by law limiting the number of machines and the hours of op eration council has rejected an ap plication to extend the busi ness hours to include sundays and increase the number of machines allowed on the pre mises at 61 main street east a request for a place of amusement licence was also turned down at a meeting sept 24 it will hurt business or else we would reduce the num ber of machines said norm landry on behalf of his wife lillyann operator of l l family amusement centre but we wont close sundays because its prejudicial according to provisions of bylaw 7992 an arcade can accommodate a maximum of 16 machines mrs landrys establishment now has 22 but the operator argues this fi gure takes into account non- mechanical units such as three pool tables if it has to go to court it will because we have the financial backing to do it mr landry told the tribune adding that it was business as usual last sunday and will be on future sundays a golden opportunity blair seeley 13 of unionville wasnt able to go for a spin but he did try on the helmet and sit on one of the motorcycles prior to wednesdays performance of the opps golden helmets at the markham fair with him is cpl john arnold ride master with the precision motorcycle group the fair continues to- day and sunday at its mccowan rd and 18th ave site sjoerd witteveen whats inside mexicos agony unionville man gives firsthand report8 v directory comment p4 childrens page p13 entertainment p18 p19 sports p16 p17 classifieds p25 to p27 still unbeaten mdhs seniors crush huron heights16