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stouffville thursday nov 10 2005 hi serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 32 pagessl including gst provincial national champs honoured by municipality opinion 6 town budget 22 calendar 25 classified 28 remembrance day 2005 tomorrow at legion wedded in wartime honeymoon interrupted byretumtoduty by hannelore volpe staff writer stouffvilles bill and irene mowat have no trouble remembering their wed ding anniversary they were married 60 years ago in brighton england on april 28 1945 during the last days of fhe second world war bill a canadian air force navi gator and irene a royal air force aeroengine mechanic honey mooned in scotland a few days later germany sur rendered and the next day may 8 was declared ve day for the victo ry in europe their honeymoon was cut short when mr mowat was recalled to france to the 107th squadron of the rcaf irene mowat joined the raf in 1941 when she was 17 bill mowat enlisted in 1942 when he was 19 they met when both were transferred to the opera tional training station in harwell near oxford as a navigator mr mowat took part in more than 30 bombing runs with his pilot chuck balfour the fighter bombers they flew had four machine guns fixed in the wings four 20 mm cannons in the nose and four 500 lb bombs the flyers would get back to their base in the early morning mr mowat recalled they would get tea and maybe a little rum into us and then we went to bed he said many mornings there would be a bunch of empty beds in the barracks of those who would never return the losses were hard for fellow soldiers and for those left behind at home mrmowat said see postwar page 15 staff photosteve somerville bill and irene mowat stand at the cenotaph at the royal canadian legion in stouffville both were in the air force in the second world war mrs mowat as an engineer and mr mowat as a navigator remembrance day ceremonies will be held at the legion cenotaph tomorrow morning scan york region vital for government looking toward future pm by caroline grech staff writer york region constituents should trust the liberal govern ment because it chose not to hide the sponsorship scandal prime minister paul martin said in a oneonone interview in newmarket yesterday they can trust us because we didnt shove it under the rug we didnt we said well take our lumps because we want to know what happened mr martin said the reason i believe that people can trust us is because we were as horrified as anybody think about it not one person in my government is named in the report while the recently released gomery report exonerated the prime minister from wrongdo ing many constituents remain skeptical how in the heavens name can the minister of finance know in a 180billion opera tion whats going on he asked when people embezzle money from a bank and you have a chief banker and some one embezzles from a bank branch there is no way he can s8vs paul martin prime minister made stops in york region wednesday know about it promising there are exten sive controls in place where financial controllers will be in every government department the prime minister said pre ventative measures have been taken in addition the government has also put audits in place that would have picked up the sponsorship spending within three months mr martin explained the prime minister toured the newmarketaurora riding wednesday in what closely resembled preelection stops see martin page 20 5k your m ometown jfhouston jtr 2 if fa houston ford ltd 578b main st stouffville 305b404541 www billhoustonf ord corn 2004 foftd lincold ls great car g at a price st o 11 e i grey k 25 kms v tell our frietuw 6312 main st stouffville 905 6404646