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stouffville carol l clements j money j1 concepts 6424540 i vrtl08nol8ametrotafr j0fitytpliis3gsvl nightmare on woodbine local jeweler and assistant handcuffed robbed at gunpoint by joan ransberry staff reporter i a 36year old stouffville businessman thought fri day was his last day on earth joe dehond owner of jewellery season told the tribune that after being robbed at gun point hand cuffed thrown to the floor and verbally threatened he considers himself lucky to be alive i thought i was going to die said dehond they took 10 years of my business away but im here and my watch mans alive while york recnnrml police carry out an armed robbery investigation which includes seeking two male suspects dehond is making a special public appeal in the hopes that someone will come forward to help solve this crime police reported that thieves loaded 200000 worth of jewelry into a satchel and fled the store located at woodbine avenue and stouffville road the day marks the first time dehold was robbed he relates the experience at 229 pm it was busi nessasusual at jewellery season at 3 pm dehond said a clean cut well spoken asian male of about 28 years entered the store approached the counter and asked about getting a watch battery exchanged this guy spoke perfect english he was well dressed in a black leather jacket said dehold dehold handed the cus tomer over to his 69year old watchman a few minutes later another fellow entered the store and asked dehold if he could look at engage- a ment rings i bent my head down and looked at the rings when i looked up a gun was pointed directly at my chest i was stunned i thought this isnt really happening it was such shock said dehold this suspect described as white about sixfoot and in his late 20s grabbed dehold twirled him around slapping the hand cuffs on one wrist threw him to the floor clamped the cuffs on the other hand pointed the snubbed- nosed revolver at his head d harrowing experience joe dehond owner of jewellery season was robbed at gunpoint along with an employee last friday the thieves handcuffed the victims and threatened to shoot while they made off with dia mond and gold jewelry worth 200000 photosjoerd witteveen ordered him to cooperate or else i told him to take anything they wanted said dehold i didnt care i told him ive got a family ive got four kids i told him to let us live the gunmen did not wear masks they didnt have their faces covered so i figured theyd shoot me we know some of these peo ple kill for 50 i just figured id die before they left the store said dehold while dehold was being handcuffed the customer with the battery problem was showing his true character the watch specialist was handcuffed and he too was being pinned him to the floor with a snub nosed revolver pointed at him the robber said if you move ill shoot you while the armed gunmen kept their weapons pointed at the victims they loaded the satchel with goods they knew what they were after said dehold they took expensive things they took all my diamonds and gold necklaces when the thieves were flee ing the store a customer entered the customer found us dehold said before the suspects sped away the customer managed to get a licence plate number it turned out it was a stolen plate said dehold although the experience left dehold frieghtened he returned to work immediately you just have to go on if i stayed home id relive it over and over in my mind i came close to dying he said anyone with information about the robbery call 773- 1221 ext 7873 microscope on stouffville residents by joan ransberry staff reporter everything you ever wanted to know about whitchurch- stouffville is on file with big brother while the federal govern ment through census cana da prepares for its upcoming information gathering mission set to begin may 1 were already privy to some interest ing data about this town according to 1991 statistics a total of 18360 people called whitchurchstouffville home of those 9180 are male and 9175 are female meanwhile weve got plenty of little dries figures show that we have 740 little boys and 720 little girls ranging in age from one day to four years on the other side of the age scale representing people 75 years and older there are 570 women and 330 men in town when it comes to holy matri mony whitchurchstouffville believes in it there are 9135 people legally married arid liv ing together in whitchurch- stouffville a total of 830 widowed and 530 divorced people live here and if youre looking for a mate the single market in whitchurchstouffville num bers 3380 when it comes to language english is the dominant tongue a total of 16145 resi dents marked english as their mother tongue while 170 resi dents identified french as the first language spoken of other mother tongue lan guages identified 450 cited italian 55 marked german 370 checked portuguese and 35 cited polish stats show that in 1991 there were 6050 private please see page 2 auto jtl cnnndinn tire centre fvllln 0 liltt 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