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hrc the tribune is pleased to announce its latest contest residents next weeks prize will be dinner for two watch this space in the will be able to pick up our special tribune buttons at locai retailers coming weeks tor winnerss names and new prizes stop by the and in the trio office this week if you are spied by one of our tri- office for your buttons or look for them in locai stores well be bune button spotters with your button on you will win a prize watching for you t m 4 0 stoujfville e lnbune vol 104 no 10 a metroland community newspaper t wednesday march 11 1992 28 pages 50 cetits changing laws to make streets tracykibble staff reporter canadians deserve the right to walk the streets safely yand raise their children in a vio lentfree society canadas solic itor general doug lewis told the local business community last weekend more than 75 whitchurch- stouffvffle residents attended a breakfast meeting at angies eatery organized by markham whitchurchstoufifville mpibill j atteweuand thewhitchurch- stouffville chamber of com merce guest speaker lewis talked about changes to the current criminal law system changes that canadians said they wanted we hear the people you say youre fed up with unsafe streets you want tougher sen tences and freedom of violence law jabiding citizens must come first lewis said toomuch attention is paid to the criminals and not enough to the victims we need to be caring and compassionate to victims lewis said to an applauding crowd the tbrontoborn law school graduate and former justice minister and attorney general of canada told the audience the federal government is undertaking numerous reforms such as longer sentences for violent criminals victims especially sexual abuse victims feel left out of the system they feel almost as if they are victimized again when they see their attacker in the supermarket line after beingjreleased on parole lewistamented other changes include q modernizing the 1958 parole act for the first time victims will be kept informed of an accusers status and can now attend parole hearings under the current law victims v are entitled no information judges will be given greater say in the length of time vio- lent offenders stay in prison before they become eligible for parole and courts will be made to provide reasons why an inmate is eligible for parole changing the young offenders act formerly the juvenile delinquents act of 1984 young offenders current ly facethr6e years for murder under changes a youth would receive five years less a day waiting time for parole will be sooner and provisions for transferring youths to adult court will be made easier q tightening up gun control the prevention of firearms con version from semi to automatic weapons changing extradition laws so that individuals who have committed crimes in other countries will be sent back to their own country faster q amending immigration leg islation the government will look at a new sentencing act to eliminate system abusers the systemis not perfect but weve listened acted and are swinging the pendulum back lewis said 7 youth centre question put to stouffville teens the need for a youth centre in wmtchihchstouffville will be put to a vote the towns parks and recre ation department received per mission from the york region board of education to circulate a survey to all grade 7 through 13 students in the area schools to assess the desire for a per manent youth centre in town the study emerged as the result of a ihounesponsored forum in december on a youth centre it will be put to the students this month with results expect ed immediately after the survey is collected said peter arnott recreatiph programmer at the town the first of the questionnaires should be circulated to at least one school before the march break with the remainder of the area schools receiving them after the break he added fire giits million dollar estate home tracy kibble staff reporter a 1 million rural estate home was completely destroyed by fire last week leaving a wwtehurehstouffville family of four homeless whitehurchstouffville volunteer fire department responded to a call wednesday march 5 at about 920 pan to hill country dr located on kennedy rd just south of aurora sideroad flames were already shooting through the roof an indication the fire was probably going for a while before it was detected when the crew arrived said fire chief bill brown the family managed to escape the blaze and ran to a neighbors house across the road to report the fire brown said the blaze took more than 114000 litres of water the assistance of mt albert and aurora water tankers and more than 12 hours on the scene before the flames subsided brown added crews managed to salvage only a few pieces of furniture and other valu ables from the inferno making it one of stouffvilles worst fires in the past 12 months the fire marshals office is cur rently investigating the cause of the blaze which may have started in a wood stove see page 3 for more on the fire r