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charged with a traffic offence former metro police officers will assist you in court dalton paralegal services inc the traffic court defence experts hwv748 markham weekender edition woocopks vol6n037 4722438 aamwland community newspaper saturday september 15 1990 mptiges 25 cents i market village chiropractic and dr george traitses doctor of chiropractic are now accepting individuals and families as patients at their new office in market village at kennedy and steeles for an appointment please call 9408778 new teachers ease burden at stouffviue high tracy kibble staff reporter up to sevenextra teachers will be- added to stouffviue district sec ondary schools current staff of 48 to accommodate 139 new students attending the school this year the temporary crowding situation which has seen as many as 60 students in one classroom sharing textbooks has been tackled this week by educa tion board officials and school staff says wayne houston superintendent for the whitchurchstouffville and markham area the operations of the education board has approved the hiring of six or seven new teachers mr houston- says the local high school was asked in august to be a holding school for markham markville and milliken mills high schools which are already overcrowded sdss principal alan dickson said last week tip leads cops to pot plants a tip to york regional police has led to the recovery of 70 marijuana plants in vandorf and the arrest of a 23yearold sarnia man according to reports police stationed at vandorf sideroad and kennedy road tues day said they watched a man going into a field at about midnight police said a man walked into a field and emerged shortly afterward with three big marijuana plants said sergeant norn miles the officers returned the next day where marijuana plants some as high as seven feet were found growing all through the area sgt miles said some had already been harvested but police officers destroyed the remaining crop and charged the sar nia man with possession for the pur pose of trafficking the new students many of whom are new canadian citizens with little english speaking skills are being bused in from the markham area to attend the stouffviue school for the 199091 school year sdss which usually houses about 700 students is now teaching about 839 however the school can func tionally operate to a maximum of about 850 says mr houston classes holding as many as 60 stu dents during the first week of school are being juggled around and split up to keep the numbers down to a normal 24 to 30 studentperclass ratio mr houston adds the teachers are being hired this week the classes are being split and retimetabled everything should be back to normal by monday mr iiiili tkkltnlmmimlakimlil ulnanufmi krimhmuiw tha mtmbbep istfoderit day competifiiir fewer accidents more killed on york roads this year the good news is there were fewer car accidents on york region roads this year the bad news more people were killed in the crashes york region police released figures recently detailing incidents that hap pened between january and june this year and compare them to the first six months of 1989 by the end of june 1989 five drivers six passengers and one pedestrian had been killed in motor vehicle accidents this year nine drivers five passengers and five pedestrians were killed drivers passengers and pedestrians suffered fewer injuries this year but injuries to cyclists involved in car colli sions soared by 465 per cent altogether there were five per cent fewer motor vehicle collisions last year citizens demands for services fell by an average of 42 per cent this year compared to last year york regional police sgt norn miles said part of die reason is a false alarm warning system the yoik region force started jan 1 if more than two false alarms are called in from a com pany or residence perhaps due to a faulty alarm system police will send the owner a warning stating that their officers will not respond to further false alarms after two additional false- alarms the police will withdraw service for one year or until the alarm system is fixed sgt miles also said police experi enced a drop of 1000 parking com plaints which he attributes to the provincial governments parking enforcement program although our demands for service are down it doesnt necessarily mean we have a lot of free time sgt miles said crimes against persons saw a 144 per cent hikcin the first six months of 1989 there were 1607 compared to 1839 this year these are crimes from murder to harassing phone calls and include assault intimidation and robbery police handed out nearly 25 per cent more drug charges this year drug occurrences rose from 260 last year to 291 an 119 per cent hike also 13 more weapons occurrences were dealt with this year over last years 97 in total the number of criminal charges handed out climbed 24 per cent the number of adults charged dropped by 342 from 4424 in the first six months of 1989 to 4082 this year however the number of charges laid against young offenders soared by 355 from 1384 to 1739 charges terry fox run tomorrow residents of all ages are invited to take part tomorrow in the annual terry fox run to raise money for cancer research as in previous years the challenge goes out to stouffviue schools number of committee hopes to make the terry fox video available to schools and has also supplied the event will be al hope on april 12 1980 and fin- cancer spread to his lungs he 5564 june 281981 houston says hopefully the classrooms will be back to regular sizes by monday we already have the data on which classes need to be broken down and which classes need to be added mr hous ton says