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inside opinion 6 crime 13 sports 16 classified 17 7 your money or your life drivers wul pay either way if they run stop signs police warn atfrs cuiirure calendm event craft night when tonight 7 pm where springdale baptist church 8875651 r3 3 fevifonmentalists plead for review of 407 extension through rouge park lands serving whitchurchstouffville since 1888 stouf f ville tribune 50 gents including gst v 20 pages tuesday march 7 2000 to reach us 905 2942200 overtime goal brings spirit back from brink victory places team in semifinals by bruce stapley correspondent the spirit of stouffville spun straw into gold sunday night at therec centre chris larges overtime goal sent a standing room only crowd into a frenzy as the spirit erased a fourgoal thirdperiod deficit to defeat the newmarket hurricanes 54 in the provincial junior a hockey league playoff match the win clinched the best of seven north conference semi final series with the spirit taking the set four games to two newmarket which finished first in the conference won all six games played against the fifth- place spirit during the regular season lets play couchiching said an exuberant spirit head coach brian perrin the spirit will contest the con ference championship against the couchiching terriers r these guys are phenome nal perrin declared of his play ers they raised their level of play even higher newmarket carried a 40 lead into the final 20 minutes sunday as a seventh game seemed all but certain but large triggered the storybook comeback with a power play goal early in the third jon smyth stolethe puck in the hurricanes to cut the lead in half with team captain dan oshell see tide page 5 municipal budget containing no tax hike goes before council today tax freeze in the books by joan ransberry staff writer once again whitchurch- stouffville is about to enjoy a tax freeze the tribune has learned if a 132million financial doc ument is adopted this afternoon local taxpayers will not face an increase in municipal taxes this year a few months ago after council struck its 2000 capital budget reflecting a 75million expendi ture over five years plans were made to deal with the operating budget in early march and if all goes as planned coun cil will give the nod to its 132-mil- lion operating budget mayor wayne emmerson confirmed im pleased to be able to pre sent another zeroincreasebudget emmerson said yesterday we did this even with our pool and library project the 53 million for the pool and library complex to be built at memorial park south will come from reserve funds and not out of the towns general account staff under the direction of town administratortreasurer nick kristoffy worked with great effort and skill to bring in a budget that once again keeps a lid on taxes emmerson said staff worked very hard to bring thisin it the budget is adopted the average homeowner in whitchurchstouffville with a see cost page 8 staff photosteve somerville the wait is finally over trevor mackay of rapid photo on main street ponders whether spring is here to stay warm temperatures are expected for the next couple of days and the official end of winter is just around the corner financial services i insured deposit rates savings mcow 4 500 1 var 5550i 3 year 6250 c year 6400o ftaks subicct to chance gics rrsps mutual funds lite insurance rrifs ken prentice cfp ringwood dr stoufrville 6429507