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saturday aug 28 2004 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 40 pages1 including gst 1 ballroom dance brings couples singles together opinion 6 registration 9 sports 17 classified 22 what really scares you obia a series public speaking haunts many by lisa queen staff writer the richmond hill man had been given the honour of saying grace before dinner at a family wedding but as panic threatened to consume him the honour almost felt worse than a death sentence perhaps thats not surprising given fear of public speaking tops the list of peoples terrors or at least ranks in the top 10 depend ing on the study common fear googlecom offers up three surveys putting fear of public speaking first second and sixth among the most common pho bias of north americans one found the dread of speak ing in front of an audience out strips all other fears including heights bugs financial problems and deep water in the second survey only fear of snakes surpassed public speaking which beat out claus trophobia spiders and insects see pubuc page 12 spiderman unmasked staff photobill roberts jake espey 7 in his spiderman pyjamas imagines revving up an atv at the atc corral dis play during midnight madness on stoufrvilles main street thursday night markham mayor threatens judicial review by roy green staff writer hydro one says it has decided on the route of the giant transmission towers to increase power supplies to york region and it runs from markham through aurora and into newmarket but markham mayor don cousens says he has assurances from hydro one that the deci sion has not been finalized at a public meeting in newmarket wednesday hydro ones director of system development announced the company was prepared to file the necessary paperwork for its preferred option for the 230kilovolt line the existing 24kilometre 115kv line corridor now running from the parkway transformer station in markham to the armitage station in newmarket weve considered all the options weve heard from citizens and councils and protest groups and were ready to make the recom mendation for the parkway solution carmen marcello told an audience of about 100 peo ple at newmarket theatre were going to file the paperwork with the environment ministry but the markham mayor said thursday he had received assurances from the highest levels at hydro one there has been no deci sion on the route im satisfied they have not made that determination mr cousens said theyre looking more seriously at that route narrowing it down but they made it see antitower page 7 itwhhwmtyw r r t- mmmmmm make jfpfi ic 200 best new economy car weblv vz004 best new family vehicle- i ssl s 2001 best new sports ceupeseaans3i000 i jtv h6 nssu- 2004 best new sportspcrformancvchlcje sem22fci- our lot isull our savings arejncredible tvmt mmz inazarj niazda5 vc a j i v i 56 htg hmav ry mark ha mi sir cium re emn mancingl for 60 roths lonmpvcj cbrintry riirjld a 1 a a a a v44i ai4aa4aaaa k a a