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stouffville thursday may 6 2004 b serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 32 pages1 including gst plymouth picks stouffville players in ontario hockey league draft opinion 6 wheels 13 calendar 24 classified 28 staff photosteve somerviixe preshow reflections soloists lara feasby left and kimberley hord practise for the stoufrville figure skating clubs 42nd ice show this weekend at the stoufiville arena show times are friday at 7 pm and saturday at 2 and 7 pm life can get worse grieving mom says by patrick mangion staff writer with a gold heart locket containing a pic ture of her 16yearold son dangling from her neck carrie carter remembers thinking things couldnt be worse after being diag nosed with cancer but 18 months after being diagnosed with nonhodgkins lymphoma an opp officer knocked at the door of her richmond hill apartment at 5 am april 20 to deliver the heart- wrenching news the single mothers eldest son andrew had been killed he was my rock he just took over look ing after his brother and sister cooking grocery shopping he did it all ms carter said i sit in his room sometimes half expect ing him to walk in and tell me to get out of his room he was a passenger in a pickup truck when the driver lost control in the north bound lanes of hwy 404 near aurora road and rolled on to its roof shortly after 7 pm april 19 a 44yearold richmond hill man and his 14yearold son fled the scene and were later taken in to custody no charges have been laid andrew was pronounced dead at the scene as a result of head injuries i dont say life cant get worse anymore because you never know ms carter said at her home after spending more than a week sur rounded by family at her parents home in kirkfield she returned with her two younger children hoping to regain some semblance of normalcy in a life that will surely never be the same if he was here hed say pick up the pieces mom lets go ms carter said opp investigators have only said the father and son were released after being detained several hours after the collision and their investigation is ongoing see mom page 20 rates should drop not increase minor fumes over ice hike by jim thomas correspondent joe cprnacchia isnt happy the president of the whitchurch- stouffville minor hockey assoc iation will meet next thursday with tom graham the towns leisure services director to iron out misun derstandings and establish policies on user fees and ice allocations i the meeting is held annually by the town with major tenants of the stouffville arena also invited are representatives of the stouffville figure skating club stouffville amateur hockey league stouffville spirit junior a hockey club and the markham- stouffville girls hockey association mr cornacchia told the minor hockey associations annual general meeting last week his organization had agreed to an ice rental increase of 15 an hour until the current debenture debt on the arenas sec ond ice pad had been eliminated this amount he said should have been rebated when the debt was forgiven by council this year but instead it will increase want the truth im not happy the way its being handled he said all i want is the truth he said the rental rate was des tined to go up 8 to 150 an hour including gst costs related to the arena and other facilities keep increasing mr graham said he pointed to a tremendous hike in utility fees par ticularly hydro which he said increased from 90000 to 138000 see ice page 8 i m m oivi ee r ownvfojrd houston mm hduston ford ltd 57gb main st stouffville 9d5b4q4541 pff mustangs are here new s used to choose from 02 gtconv std incl ford esp 5 year warranty sale thanks mom bjbarthau m jewellers 6312 main st stouffville 905 6404646 mrajundpfckohamondaxn