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ijj ii wi wftva l f i i the tribune tuesday une 2 1998 p 3 woman dies in crash a 27yearold markham woman is dead after a single car accident early saturday morning in stouf fville york regional police said oilin irene chiu was driving her 98 honda civic eastbound on bethes- da sideroad just west of warden ave she was travelling at a high rate of speed still undetermined and lost control her car rolled several times before coming to a rest on its roof chiu was ejected from the vehi cle and sustained lifethreatening injuries const brad joice said it appears that excessive speed caused the accident but said the investigation is continuing chiu was transported to sunny- police brook health sciences centre sat urday where she remained in criti cal condition she succumbed to her injuries early monday after noon she was not wearing a seat belt kathleen griffin club honours youth if you know a young person who deserves special recognition the optimist club of stouffville would like to hear from you the club plans to present two new youth awards at this years strawberry festival said doug benedict one will be for com munity contribution and achieve ment and the other will be for a young person who has overcome some type of adversity to be eligible nominees must be 18 or younger and residents of stouffville plaques will be pre sented to the winners at the festi vals annual awards ceremony fri day june 26 said benedict we hope this will be the first of many such awards nominations which should include a brief summary of why you support the nominee can be sent to him at po box 55 stouf fville post office stouffville l4a 1ao for more information call 6408109 new name for former latcham different strokes albert miller cracks a shot from around a tree at the maples of ballantrae golf club last thursday afternoon during the stouffville chamber of commerce annual fundraiser golf tournament plmto by steve soerville the latcham gallerys former space at whitchurchstouffville public library has been renamed the art latcham cultural centre when the art latcham founda tion made its generous financial contribution towards the new library building in 1977 it was with the proviso that a portion of the space be named after the donor since the library board voted to cease operation of the gallery earlier this year however the latter facility is now run by an independent group and is no longer located in the library build ing the gallery is occupying space at the new stouffville station until a permanent location can be found a membership drive is under way and forms and information are available at the station kate gilderdale storm spares stouffville kate gilderdale correspondent fallen hydro wires resulted in a rash of emer gency calls to the stouffville fire department sunday said fire chief bill brown it was just one of those weekends there was major damage to the lines s many went down we couldnt keep count according to ontario hydro spokesman john earl the storms that went through sunday made quite a swath across orangevi he newmarket and up to barrie there was a lot of tree damage and a lot of trees falling into the lines some rural customers were still without power monday he said most of our main lines in the area are back up but there could still be customer outages in the rural areas no injuries or major property damage were reported in whitchurchstouffville earl said that barring unforeseen circumstances power should now be restored to all affected areas board in vests 1 8m to improve student performance from page 1 this theyve really picked this up and ran with it everyones telling me its unheard of to ask for some thing and get it six months later he said and obviously the north embodies a lot of the problems identified here i expect the schools will be relieved they will be provided the support they deserve called performanceplus the program was conceived in janu ary when the board struck a steer ing committee to advise on the special needs of particular schools the team of 27 educators and board staff reviewed the gr 3 test results and identified 18 schools performing below the norm they then looked at an analysis of these schools to identify com mon community characteristics that could influence student out comes in one instance sixteenth avenue public school principal sherry hoshizaki a member of the performanceplus committee told the board a child was discov ered who hadnt eaten in five days and while it was the results of last years grade 3 eqao which prompted the call for action test results will be just one of the items considered when determining if i school is at risk just as in an effective class room some students still need extra help there may be commu nities that need extra support explained whitchurchhighlands public school principal gord killer also a member of the com mittee and the program will go beyond schoolage children says killer we have to start thinking out side of the box and how we deliv er programs to kids who arent even our students yet he said preschool early literacy pro grams may include a plan for staff to offer courses at night to assist parents and encourage them to work with their children the bulk of the 1 8 million will be used to pay for 20 teachers and support staff to be directed to the performanceplus program it was nice to be able to go after that money so people couldnt say youre taking it from somebody else said killer other criteria used in evaluating a school will include income the level of education of parents eng lish as second language and how single parent families live in the community that information will be gathered from statistics cana da data the tribune is pleased to present citizen oki fliio year 1998 nominations for the whitchurchstouffville citizen of the year will be accepted until friday june 191998 at 500 pm l- iff would like to nominate for citizen of the year name address please attach supporting reasons for your choice one nomination per person please nominations with no supporting reasons will not be considered mail or drop off your nomination to he tribune 6244 main st stouffville ont l4a1e2 everyone reads the tribune