weekender saturday june 14 1997 p3 reta alcorn is senior of year keep it beautiful beavers and cubs from the first stouffville helped the stouffville horticultural society plant the annuals in the planters on main street in the picture as beaver ryan mason 7 waters the plants at right christopher copp 5 matthew stierhof 8 and justin stierhof 9 put the finishing touches on these annuals on thursday j photo by sjoerd wittevken everyone in vandorf loves her ward 1 councillor ivanka bradley was talking about whitchurchstouffvilles senior citizen of the year award winner reta alcorn who was honored at mon days council meeting ive known her for eight years and ive worked with her on the vandorf community centre board alcorn who has been on the board since the early 70s is also a long time member of the friends of the museum she has been president of the board for seven years and has worked tirelessly for the reta alcorn facility since she first became involved said curator dorie billich it was the museum and heritage advisory board that recommended her name to council billich noted shes never said a mean word about anybody and shesalways very accepting of people said bradley whats impressed me about her is that shes always giving to the community not just in vandorf but throughout the area shell do anything for anybody but she does things in a quiet way shes a wonderful person to work with and she really deserves this award cyc lists dream would you like to be one of 140 cyclists to explore the scenic york and georgian bay regions heres your chance this summer on july 19 and 20 the lung association will be hosting the first ever in ontario lungs are for life biketrek 97this weekend extravaganza includes a special guest appearance by three time olympic medal holder curt harnett waterfront accommodations second city entertainment and the chance to win cumulative prizes register today by calling 4 1 6 9229440 ext 234 station will be cornerstone summitview student scores perfect in gauss math contest from page 1 carnrite and charlene morris grade 8 heather lyon ben lowrie andrew george lindsey hutchison ashlee bardell and alison wannop each spring summitview public school has a gauss math club for grade 7 and 8 students who are a math students and are selected by their teachers for putting outstanding efforts into their mathematical work and problem solving said hill participating students share ideas practise problem solving and enjoy mathematical tasks it is an honor to be chosen for the gauss club and an even greater honor to write the gauss contest hill and her colleague ted sheperd who is the other intermediate teacher involved are strong proponents of the contest and thoroughly enjoy working with the young contestants one thing that appeals to thomas about gauss is its relevance to reali ty theyre real life questions he pointed out youre just thinking about a way of solving a problem you cant really study for it you just have to keep practising he and his family moved to stouffville from east york in december and he feels very much at home here this school gives me a challenge because there are other students who can do this as wellthomas said he has known for five years what he wants to do when he leaves school and its a career that will make excellent use of his problemsolving skills im going to be a lawyer from page 1 merce the local business improvement area canadian national railway go transit and the province of ontario by way of a 35000 grant the building will house the tourist train ticket office the whitchurchstouffville chamber of commerce a cn office and the towns economic development office all things came into play to get it done theres been lots of com munity involvement and commu nity interest itll be the corner stone of whitchurchstouffville said emmerson the council and residents of whitchurchstouffville are very optimistic that this venutre will attract many tourist to our commu nity said emmerson the mayor stressed that the pro ject has been a success because of community cooperation innova tive financing and volunteerism it came in within budget on time and is a very impressive looking building said emmerson almost ready mayor wayne emmerson is pleased with the speed at which the new station for stouffville is coming together were first in distribution weve delivered 221 30280 flyers doortodoor so far this year cooperators direct protect for further information on how we can deliver your flyers call sears sears today joan or ruth at 64021 00 biway og ouffviue ultra mart the tribune watch for these flyers on saturday june 14 1997 ap canadian tire milliken weston produce iga- stouffville dominion papa karls pizza stouffville loblaws canadian tire richmond hill selocted area only