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st the tribune thursday july 3 1997 p 3 police hunting for suspects in local car arson a burning vehicle left on a woodbine ave property by an arsonist was discovered by the property owner early yesterday morning police said they had no sus pects or witnesses man charged metro toronto police officers with a warrant arrested a 21- yearold stouffville man on charges of assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm he was arrested sunday morn ing near aurora rd and percy wright rd youth robbed a 15yearold youth was robbed and assaulted by two other youths saturday evening about 930 the victim was walking through a park near burkholder st and park st when he was approached by two males from behind they called out his last name indicating they knew him police said they approached him from police behind striking him in the elbow with a skateboard they demanded he empty his pockets and the victim complied the suspects made off with a pack of cigarettes and a quarter the victim suffered minor injuries theft value is 425 thief nabs 3000 a suspect managed to escape with 3000 worth of jewelry and cash before waking sleeping homeowners sunday at 3 am the suspect pried open the garage door and moved through several areas of the executive dr house before disturbing the sleeping residents they caught sight of the sus pect who was wearing a ski mask leaping a back fence police say they didnt realize until the next morning items had been removed from the home police continue their investiga- council gives 36000 facelift to playgrounds joan ransberry staff reporter new playground equipment valued at about 36000 is being put in three parks in whitchurchstouffville as well the tennis courts in vandorf are being repaired the tennis courts in vandorf are about to get a facelift while new playground equip ment will be installed in the hamlets park last week whitchurch- stouffville council agreed to spend 37750 to repair the tennis court play will resume soon in addition playground equipment is also being installed at stouffville memorial park and at green wood parkette located in northeastern stouffville the new equipment will community replace 11 yearold wooden playground equipment in the downtown park playground equipment must meet the canadian standards association regulations in the case of the equipment in the stouffville memorial park staff reported 1 1 contraven tions festival on july 1 9 20 look to see many stouffville area artists at this years art in the park 97 run by the tribune to be held in elgin park uxbridge art in the park is much more than a fine art show and sale there will be weekendlong activities for young and old alike including a full production of shakespeares much ado about nothing feciring the driftwood theatre company art in the park runs july 19 20 from 10 am to 6 pm admission is just 5 for adults 10 for a family 3 for seniors and students and children under 5 are admitted free e m u y- swing time rosiris robinson and her twins samantha and ryan play in the memorial park playground which will be upgraded in the near future council is injecting 36000 into local parks and another 37750 to improve the tennis courts in vandorf photo by sjqerd witteveen stouffville students make the grade this year 16 stouffville district sec ondary school students earned the title of ontario scholar top sdss ontario scholar is meghan kirby with a score of 933 per cent average from her top six grades kirby is the local high schools nominee for the provincial carter award the compe tition for highest average in ontarioray- mond woo also an ontario scholar with an average of 898 per cent won the schools chapman award for math woo earned 933 per cent total made up of a calculus grade of 100 per cent 92 per cent in alge bra and geometry and 88 per cent in finite math heres a list of the sdss top students from each grade grade 9 stephanie jull 904 per cent anna neprily 897 per cent rachel shanahan 874 per cent grade 10 jeanne carey 923 per cent education laura boyd 895 per cent lisa gaston 865 per cent grade 1 1 michael evans 923 per cent duane epp 918 per cent stephen klug- man 895 per cent grade 12 michael jammer 93 per cent ian hazlewood 893 per cent melanie hutchinson 883 per cent york regions top public school student was adrian mucalov graduating from john m denison secondary school in newmar ket with an astounding 9983 average mucalov performed perfectly in french calculus algebra and geometry finite math and music the board said 1386 of its stu dents this year are ontario scholars mean ing their marks in six school courses were 80 per cent or higher 3t c i kirby cho 933 923 cameron ribble 908 raymond woo 898 david robinson 895 zoe liadis 883 dana ann cox 852 james bowen 845 jennifer easter 845 rebecca morrison 842 erika haefele 833 jason kalmbach 823 luke jordan christina jocelyn anderson butcher foster geense 82 817 803 80