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whitchurchstouffville public library inside otters 6 ransberry 7 events 27 classified 37 4 artists want stouffvilles old town hall to become local centre for the arts community calendar event stoufiville kinettes garage sale when saturday may 25 9056405004 where 153 geoffrey crescent stoufiville zz wanna ride 33 bicycles take adult riders on a trip back to their youth serving whitchurchstouffville since 1888 50 cents including gst 40 pages thursday may 23 2002 to reach us 905 6402612 tainted salad likely made her sick siouffville resident thought she had flu by mike adler staff writer like everyone else who expe rienced nausea fever aches and the runs last week stouffvilles megan griffin thought she had the flu it wasnt until she read about others like her in the newspaper the 200 people across the province suffering the same symptoms that she realized she had likely contracted shigella bacteria after eating a greek pasta salad last saturday the outbreak has been linked to etobicokebased tiffany gate foods inc a foodprocessing company which supplies grocery stores and markets with bulk product federal investigators are scouring the plant this week to determine how the product became tainted ms griffin 30 started feeling the effects tuesday afternoon at her desk in a markham law office i got the chills and felt nau seous and by the time i got home i had the runs a headache and fever she said i thought i had the flu by midnight her fever had topped 103 degrees e every muscle in my body was aching i was pretty sick she said adding even a week later shes still suffering abdominal pain and diarrhea see ill page 14 york regions urban mass could stretch to lake simcoe by mike adler staff writer the latest word on urban sprawl in the ontarios golden horseshoe a city oftoronto report released last week says a lot york region resi dents have heard before it says suburban development is paving farm fields at a pace that will consume a land area greater than the size of metropolitan toronto in 30 years it says york is under the heaviest pressure to build and if the trends continue well build over the oak ridges moraine and form one huge urban mass stretching north to lake simcoe but one surprise in growing together prospects for renewal in the toronto region is that it con tains examples of how sprawl can be beaten and some of those exam ples are taking shape here in york the report sees potential for controlling gridlock and sprawl in neighbourhoods like cornell in markham a pedestrianfriendly development with a mix of housing and higher densities than most subdivisions it found new downtownlike environments planned for vaughan and markham it noted redevelopment can strengthen historical downtowns such as in newmarket where a revitalization plan was recently approved were using lands more inten sively said john gladm of ghk canada the consultant who wrote the report for a toronto municipal see nodal page 30 back down to earth the 20th annual stoufiville raiders slopitch tournament was played last weekend in stoufiville memorial park above stouffvilles robert spencer with the raiders alumni team the a s old twisters dives for a ball in the infield for story and additional photo see page 35 staff photoerin riley