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thursday may 26 2005 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 36 pages1 including gst 1 e music man latest is offeringfrom academy opinion 6 calendar 28 sports 29 classified 31 staff photosjoerd witteveen truck driver seriously hurt students ok students are escorted from a bus after it collided with a pickup truck with serious injuries the uninjured students from markham on die ninth line just north of nineteenth avenue yesterday morn- gateway public school were on their way to a track meet at stouffville ing the pickup truck driver was airlifted to sunnybrook hospital district secondary school see story on page 21 mother aches to know why son murdered by martin derbyshire staff writer dealing with the fact her son luke shiesty marson was found shot to death on a deadend streetjust north of musselmans lake three years ago has been hard on cathy stephen but what has been even harder is living the past three years without knowing why its a deeply sad feeling because the case hasnt been solved the people that did this havent been put away she said vl know there are people out there that know what happened i just want to look them in the eyesand ask why i know its not going to bring luke back but it could bring some clo sure i just need to know how and why a struggling rap artist luke had recorded a few demos mrs stephen still listens to them regularly just to hearhis voice writing rhymes was his life he was doing it since he was 13 or 14 years old she said when he was younger he had some trouble expressing his feelings and i told him to write down what he felt thats where he came up with the rhyme i write what i feel so yall can feel what i write thats my favourite his death devastated her i remember that day the detectives told me and i remember being at the funeral i kept looking at his coffin and thinking he wasnt in there she said no way not my son every time she hears a police siren or a hel icopter above her newmarket home she thinks officers have found the answers she so desperately seeks butevery time she has been disappointed youre just holding your breath waiting for that phone call- she said i dont know what im supposed to do with lukes murder still unsolved mrs stephen is a part of an evergrowing list of families looking for answers the manual on how to cope with the mur der of a loved one hasnt been written yet once a month she calls the lead investi gator in the case york regional police det see cops page 15 claim discrimination over card policy challenge by hannelore volpe staff writer a manager of a stouffville group home for the intellectually chal lenged is demanding the whitchurchstouffville public library board- put an end to what she called discrimination against two of its residents in december2004 a group home resident was denied a library card because he was intellectually dis abled and living in a group home silvia de abreau told the board last week a second resident from the same home had his card taken away until he could bring back a user agree ment signed by the group homes executive director ms de abreau added this resident had spent sev eral months working at the library on a volunteer basis definitely discrimination whitchurchstouffville accessi- bility advisory committee member wilf morley who attended the meet ing to support the residents told the suntribune the incidents were definitely discrimination on the basis of mental disability how can you not allow these people to have alibrary card and allow someone else but the librarys hew ceo carolyn nor dheimer james said the incidents were more a case of mis- comrhunicalion rather than dis crimination there was an unawareness on both sides of what the issues were she said the misunderstanding came see new page 12 houston ford ltd 57ss main st stouffville 9056404541 www billhoustonfordcom hif rigt befcem memo 2003 ford mustang convertible true blue wgrey leather 38l vb auto pony kg int upgrade pkg handling pkg loaded uuoptions nice driver laooo km 22995 bjskhk coming rarthau tewellers v j- xjt 6312 main st stouffville 9056404646 ici- i if i jv pla