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p f 3wct mtatfyb xiii st the tribune thursday may 29 1997 p 3 voters down to wire in election from page 1 canadians give liberal prime minister jean chretien the oppor tunity to carry on with his agenda struck three years ago i just wish chretien had kept his promise and gotten rid of the goods and service tax gst said shelly thats a big one he broke the gst promise shellys husband glenn elimi nated the liberals early in the campaign im going to vote pc or reform or leave the ballot blank i find it all very disap- pojriting that you haye to vote for the best of the worst rather than the best person for the job said glenn canadas future is important to the young family the hargraves have three children they both work fulltime live in a twobed room apartment and hope to be able to buy a home someday and shelly hargraves send the kids to university while dairy farmer paul hulsof and his wife thea strug gled with the responsibili ty a decision has now been made im going liberal said paul we should let chretien finish the job chre tien is getting the deficit under control as for charest hell cer tainly help with the the unity issue but he has to get his team together before he takes over the country paul rejected the reform party i dont like reform leader pre ston mannings nattering on but the reform has some good family val ues as for the ndp i dont like a socialist gov ernment canada will be best served by the liberals said thea hulsof im with the liberals paul hulshof torn- he likes pc leader jean charest and he likes liberal poli cies but a deci sion was in order and its been made the 1 8-year- old is voting liberal i margaret rogers let chretien lead for the next four years let him finish what he started marking the ballot is not an easy task firsttime voter john lambersky has found out early in the campaign lambersky rejected the reform party the new democrats and all fringe parties narrowing the choices down to the grits and the tories still lambersky found himself figured liberal is the safest bet it enables us to continue on with our- present course of improvements both economically and other wise lambersky said on monday ballantrae senior kim rogers will vote for local reform candidate ed sarafian the reform party appeals to eng lish canada said rogers im tired of everyone catering to french canadas side of things he said kim is impressed with party leader pre ston man ning man ning is down to earth hes offering a solution to unity which the other parties are not offering he said kim while kims wife margaret prefers to keep her vote secret shes complimentary towards the reform party manning is reflecting what a great many canadians feel that there should be equality for all of canada and canadians this is not hate of quebec or anyone actually this is democracy said margaret john lambersky history comes alive for students in heritage week mike adler staff reporter as an explorer jacques cartier was tragically hip played by hafeez ladha a sixth grader from armadale public school he was all honeyed words and hit songs the ambitious cartier kidnaps some iroquois and sails the st lawrence river then he digs up a big heap of what he believes is gold his response in the armadale recap of history cartier and crew perform i feel good by james brown and why not like other student skits last week at the markham museum it took the facts of histo ry and turned them into entertain ment more than 6000 children and teens visited the heritage fair hearing stories seeing folk dances and listening to songs all of them expressing in some way what it means to be canadian children from summitview pub- service with a smile stouffville tim hortons employee josh mitchell manager dave jones and employees mom liz frazer are cheered on at the donut stores barbecue yesterday by employees kirster fraser morgan horwood and mary lynn thomas it was a special fuhdraising day with the proceeds from every cup of coffee sold supporting a summer camp program for underpriviledged children photo by lori emmerson lie schools bell choir rang out o canada a difficult arrangement they started learning in september in a church building on the grounds the bellringing girls in grades 6 7 and 8 played two more songs thursday before 50 members of the schools senior choir crowded onto the small stage it was a tight squeeze but we managed said choir leader julia topping as eighth graders from armadale told their stories of parents born in 17 different countries they also mimed the sadness the humilia tions and the triumphs they experi enced in a new country canada we are the children of immi grants we thank our parents for their choices naveen raina 13 said at the end of the short play we are canadas future the cast gathered on stage behind him declared matthew yeung 11 another pupil at the markham school had his big moment when he stole a strange rectangular captains hat from sleeping christopher khan 12 who was portraying cranky west coast explorer george vancouver nows my chance ill fool education everyone by making them think i am the captain he cried gleefully before his character is killed by an imaginary arrow in the church nearby ashley- rose edlin 11 had some trouble keeping the shoulder piece of her pioneer costume attached during vive le canadienne the bow came undone said fifth grader who kept dancing her fellow students also per formed ise the by that builds the boat and land of the silver birch while spencer maceachern 11 kept the beat on a xylophone stuart scott public school stu dent jordan fast 14 of newmarket and newmarket actor david morse both took the stage as that hard- drinking father of confederation john a macdonald i was born in another country as well morseasmacdonald con fided to a packed tent of students thursday before urging them to stand up for canada and its values i hope youre just not leaving it up to the politicians like me if you do youre in trouble the cookies have been cast the heritage deli and ice cream parlour and the tribune host ed an election bakeoff with each party represented by a cookie the ndp won over the conservatives with a small margin with 583 cookies sold compared to 537 pc macadamia nuts bought flyer inserts for thursday may 29th 1997 canadian tire papa karls pizza ok- tire centres selected areas only were first in distribution weve delivered 1 9363700 flyers doortodoor so far this year for further information on how we can deliver your flyers call thetrimne arlene maddock at 6402100