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inside ers 6 travel 18 sports 25 classified 27 r gj former spirit goalie community calendar comes back to wk 10th student music scholarship concert stouffville to haunt old when friday nov 1 730 9056403455 team in junior a hockey where stouffville district secondary school serving whitchurchstouffville since 1888 3 celebration of the arts york region bursary recipients wow audience at gala evening 50 cents including gst 44 pages saturday ocx 26 2002 gotta have beyblades the latest toy sensation tops fly off shelves of york region stores by mitchell brown staff writer just as parents are heaving a sigh of postpokemon relief along comes this seasons gotta- have toy for the preteen set this time though japanese toymakers have gone back to basics to if youll pardon the expression put a new spin on an old favourite theyre called beyblades and the battling tops are already so hot stores can barely keep them on the shelves not surprisingly that means there are also plenty of knock- offs trying to get in on the action but dont think the kids cant tell the difference you gotta have the metal bot tom said paul szabo 13 of stouffville that means its real they sell them over at the convenience store and at the flea market with plastic on them but theres no balance and it falls apart he prefers to buy his beyblades at the book connection a small bookshop on stouffvilles main street that stocks the toys and the stillpop ular yugioh cards a pokemon progeny among its selection of bestsellers and childrens books the demand from kids is there sure store owner marco benevides said three or four months ago i was lucky to have some people who gave me a couple of boxes see stouffville page 7 the form of a champion staff photosjoerd witteveen natalie geiger of summitview public school in stouffville was the winner in the grade 7 girls york region elementary school cross country run held thursday at bruces mill conservation area on stouffville road to reach us905 640261 1 7 teens wee complaints led to surveillance at stouffville arena schools by kathleen griffin staff writer teenagers trashing stouffvilles main street intimidating residents and smoking pot in full view of families trying to enjoy pub lic spaces will no longer be tolerated by york regional police in fact officers arrested 17 youths last week and charged them with a variety of offences including possession of a controlled sub stance trespassing breach of probation and assault in an initiative that will continue through the next few months as officers respond to increasing public complaints the problems result from kids trashing main street hanging out on the sidewalk not letting people by drug use trespassing drink ing vandalism you name it its there explained 5 districts sgt frank auld head of the markhamstouffville stations community oriented response cor unit up to 20 or 30 youths gather at the pavil ion and people cant get through they wont move out of the way and people have to go around them they have destroyed the gazebo on main street the pickets are kicked out and garbage including bags of dope is every where they just dont care in what has become an ongoing police blitz undercover cor officers patrolled stouffville for four days last week looking for liquor violations drugs vandalism anything of a nuisance nature we could deal with sgt auld said see drug page 10 town and country realtyltd 6400888