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i st the tribune thursday october 9 1997 p 3 south african visitors given warm welcome kate gilderdale correspondent three of 12 delegates from the methodist womens network of southern africa recently spent several days as guests of lemonville resident jean nauta their trip was organized in cooperation with the york presbytery of the united church of canada through its face to face world outreach program and the three flew to canada from holland on sept 19 arriv ing in lemonville sept 29 megan higgs doreen mamputa and mary van balla had a hectic but enjoyable stay they were invited to judge home baked goodies at markham fair took a tour of markham stouffville hospital visited the whitchurchstouffville food bank and spent an afternoon at markville shopping centre a corn roast was held in their hon our at lemonville community centre on oct 2 all three were visiting canada for the first time and were very impressed with the positive attitudes towards equality for women and minorities we come from a very poor country and we are struggling to empower our women said higgs the support and encouragement they have received in canada has been incredi ble she said but people here just dont know that they are living in the land of milk and honey we have been asking to see the poorest of the poor but we havent seen anything like the poverty we see at home my first impression was the fact that so much is being done for the disabled observed van balla everywhere we went we could see facilities for disabled people i was also very impressed that the family unit is still strong our divorce rate is one of the highest in the world we have a lot of single parents and because theres family dysfunction one finds a lot of social prob lems as a result said mamputa you find a lot of street children from broken homes and mary van balla left doreen mamputa centre and megan higgs enjoyed a corn roast at the lemonville community centre last thursday the three are on an exchange program from south africa photo by sjoerd witteveen thats very sad although the government has set up some centres for these children more centres and additional funds are des perately needed added mamputa a dea coness who has been involved in fundrais- ing activities for the centres through her church one of the things weve noticed here is the number of women who are in the cler gy noted higgs south africa has a long way to go we love our males but our women need to be supported the three women who met for the first time at amsterdam airport have become firm friends since they arrived from the day we came here the welcome has been fantastic or as mary would say fantabu- lous and our hosts have been wonderful said mamputa van balla herself would love to settle here im just going home to sort my life out and my family out and im going to be right back in canada next year as far as nauta is concerned her visitors have been a source of joy and have also given her a renewed appreciation of her own country this couldnt have been a better experience for me she said the methodist womens network was established in 1985 when a group of methodist women met and looked at the role of women in the church and society its goals are to give women a stronger voice allow them to share ideas and work towards peace and acceptance both inside and out side the church ward 2 gets a candidate and loses one this week joan ransberry staff reporter a musical chairstyle election race is shaping up in whitchurch- stouffvilles ward 2 yesterday just as a third candi date was coming forward to run in ward 2 candidate roland kont- gen withdrew from the race as it stands now helene john son- will face off against mark car roll of musselmans lake concerns about the environ- x pj is ment lifestyle and the isolation of the towns northern communities are sited as the reasons behind carrolls entry into the election race carroll 35 is a landscapes born in markham hes lived on elmvale blvd in musselmans lake for 1 1 years im worried about the nat ural environment about the lifestyle in our area about the lake carroll musselmans about the fact that were cut off from the town said carroll the current council had a fivetotwo vote problem said carroll the two votes were always from the northern part of the municipal ity and the five votes were from the rest of town it favoured the downtown and we in ward 1 and ward 2 got left out he said married to to kelli carroll is the father of samantha and jennifer kontgen told the tribune he did nt have the family support that he needed to be a candidate indoor pool on tuesdays agenda ph vsm nti-skr- up by his mom after the first day at gladi park public school in stouffville which opened for the firsttime on monday behind him teachers discuss the first days events with principal walter chewchuk top right photo by sjoerd witteveefi zmrwo by sjoerd witteveen v j m mm the plan to build an indoor swimming pool at the recreation complex is being presented to council on oct 14 at last tuesdays meeting the towns parks and recreation advi sory committee agreed to ask council for the green light enabling them to proceed to the next stage of a multistage process the next stage is critical since it deals with costs stressed commit tee chair cheryj johnson we want an okay to go forward and look at the dollars and cents of it she said as part of the research for the local project committee members have toured pool facilities in other municipalities including vaughan and aurora johnson said a plan to build an indoor pool in stouffville has been in the works for about three years a great deal of public interest has been demon strated mayor wayne emmerson said that while he expects the pool to be built in 1998 it will be the new council that will make the major decisions linked to the project the new council will be elected on nov 10 joan ransberry corrections decision 97 kicks off tomorrow at 5 pm town clerk michelle kennedy reminds everyone that 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