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stouffville thursday sept 1 2005 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 24 pagessi including gst wp 7srl rivl 3 legendary main st law firm proud of its stouffville heritage opinion 6 calendar 8 sports i jv 16 classified 20 humble innings for successful terry fox run by hannelore volpe staff writer when dixie sellers beulah king and barb schell walked and re- walked the route for the first stouffville terry fox run in 1982 they were laying the foundations for 24 years of local support for terrys dream only a few dozen people came out for the towns first run last year there were more than 800 partici pants in one of the most successful terry fox runs in canada participants have raised more than 500000 over the past 23 years stouffville was the 11th highest fundraiser in the country last year this years run starts from the stouffville arena at 1 pm sept 18 with registration at noon a fivekm route has been added to the usual 10km course so more people can participate also new this year is national school run day in which all whitchurchstouffville schools are participating sept 16 students across canada are being encour aged to complete the run at the same time at the beginning of 1980 terry fox who had lost most of a leg to cancer decided to run across canada to raise funds for cancer research he began his marathon of hope in st johns nfld running 42 km each day after 143 days and cov ering 5373 km he was forced to stop his quest outside of thunder bay cancer had appeared in his lungs he died in june 1981 at the age of 22 the nation rallied around his dream however and many commu nities held their own terry fox runs see runs page 15 staff photobill roberts npiys damian kercz left of the state farm insurance squad collides with marco accettone of stouffville rotary during under10 action at the whitchurchstouffville soccer clubs tom morton cup day tournament at bruces mill conservation area saturday i teenagers arrested after vandalism spree youths need more activities police by joan ransberry staff writer a york regional police officer is calling for more organized youth activities in stouffville following a weekend of arrests and alcohol- related incidents some involving 13yearolds stouffville is a very good com munity inspt robertson rouse said but there needs to be more activity for youth theres very little for the young people to do in the evening hours boredom seems to be partly responsible the young people are just hanging out more needs to be made available for young people at night whitchurchstouffville mayor sue sherban said while their isnt much for youth to do in the evenings growth will bring more organized activities growth will help assist with problems with our youth mrs sherban said as an example we dont have such things as a movie theatre cosmic bowling or a dropin centre an extra concentration of police during the past two weekends net ted results through a summeryouth ini tiative policing program we had a team of officers concentrated in such areas as main street and town parks insp rouse said we had some results that we would prefer not to have police responded f to an act of vandalism last weekend at latcham hall on park driveafter toilets were smashed police arrested four youths laid see police page 15 t ori a pbi houston v houston ford ltd 57b6 main st stouffville 9056404541 www billhoustonford com bvb wii jrr r bbj b i lowest prm 2004 lincoln is v8 auto 4 dr 39 8 cyl tundra ext tan leather rear wheel fog lights moon- roof all poptions 2 to choose from 2nd one gray ext black leather 20000 km 15000 km 33995 time for school w p arthau jewellers 6312 main st stouffville 905 6404646 x