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whitchurchstouffville public library thursday aug 28 2003 serving the community of wh1tchurchstouffville b 36 pages1 including gst stouffviltepeewees mine silver at e canadian championships in pei briefly jim thomas calendar classified 3 7 32 33 i staff photosjoerd witteveen ungsfers meet daniela figueiredo my of markham meets a little chick held by john dunk at the stpxirfrville gountry market saturday the tenth line market is a busy place saturdays and sundays for more photos see page 13 bytoanransberry staff witer- a heartfelt thank you is being extended to a stouffville teenager for helping save the life of a fiveyearold boy after his lifeless body was pulled from a pool this month at canadas wonderland wme kathryn devries of shane crescent gets ready to start premed studies 1 at the university of toronto she is reminded every lifesaving lesson she received at stouffvilles municipal pools paid off aug 7 meanwhile the family of a new york city child wants to acknowledge ms devries for saving their little kevin from drowning in the wave pool at die vaughan theme park id liketo thank the lifeguard who saved my nephews life celia lee of toronto said this week kevin nearly droned we were told this girl saved him we marik her york regional police confirmed the res cue took place kevin has been released from etobicpke general and has now joined his family at home in new york mrs lee said hes my sisters son they were visiting me from new york and went to wonderland for the day when this happened he was with his 10yearold brother iri the pool she said ms devries account of the day is pencil sharp i noticed a small boy he was content swimming on his back and he seemed to know what he was doing about three min utes later i noticed his movementswere no longer in unison i felt somethingwas dif ferent and then he went completely stiff and his eyes bulged put i knew something was wrong i blew my whistle and was on my way ms devries who graduated from stpuffville district secondary school this year said mtie 17yearold lifeguard reached the boy in record speed i dragged his lifeless body out of the water arid on to shore she saidi ms devries werittb work adrhihistering- see crowd page 12 v race for mayor of v whlfm piiajces inbljstry by joan ransberry staff writer whitchurch- stouffville will be open for business if steve pliakes is elected mayor the candidate tpldan audience monday steve pliakes one of three cahdiv dates bidding for mernayors job in the nov 10 municipal election is the first to launch a campaigh-plat- ifprrhat a public event gflier candidates for mayor are councillpr sue sherbari and stpuffville residentrandy mole about 60 members of the whitchurchstpufmlle business cbm- munity attended a dinner at the other office in stpuffvilles west end to hear mr pliakes outline his platform questions from the audience ranged from industrial development in thevandorf area to traffic conges tion to the ineed for joadiepatiand of course the age old campaign vquestibh 6f whether taxes will go up or down i the town is in the right place at the right time stressed the mayoral ty candidate since whitchiirch- stouffville is within a stones throw of one of the worlds most cosmo politan cities in the world a pros perous and dynamic future iswithin reach mr pliakes said f the town has the time the peof pie the technology arid the trans portation services to make it hap pen he said stressing the importance of respecting the environment he said hell promote attracting a special kind of industry coming to whitchurchstouffville lets put a welcome mat put to encourage more light arid clean industry weve see pliakes page 8 canister vacuum cleaners sales service installations 4355 hwy7 unlonvllte beside railway tracks barthau jewellers 6312 main st