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economist sunsuntribune saturday feb 18 2006 police officer hurt in crash a york regional police officer suf fered serious injuries after a crash in near whiteout conditions around 11 am today the officer responded to a van rollover on the yorkdurham line at doane road in east gwillimbury adurham officer arrived soon after and their cruisers were parked on the side of the road when a truck dri ver headed south lost control of his vehicle police said the trucks trailer detached smashing into the durham cruiser the officer inside suffered minor injuries the truck itself slammed into the york cruiser seriously injuring a 33- yearold officer police said he was taken to hospital but is expected to survive durham police are leading an investigation into the incident martin derbyshire conference helps students get behind environment by serena willoughby staff writer while other teenagers focus on ps2 games and celebrity couple britney and k fed two richmond hill girls are busy taking care of mother earth grade 11 students selina anggawinata and elise visco copresidents of the environ mental council at st theresa of lisieux secondary school orga nized an ecology conference wednesday at the richmond hill school the conference was attend ed by students from across the region and was aimed at increasing environmental awareness and promoting youth leadership it all started last april when the girls initiated a recycling program at the schoolto cele brate of earth day 2005 but the program only lasted until november 2005 when the town informed the school it wouldno longer pick up the schools recycling since then the girls have tried to revive the program arid decided holding a conference would be a good way to make peers more aware of environ mental issues its important for youth to recognize the importance of the environment and to find the voice to make a difference seli na said presentations centred on everything from organic food and the dangers of pesticides given by university of toronto students to richmond hills wind power project to a presen tation by local green party rep resentatives michael white and lloyd helferty our school is new our council is new its a good way to elise visco and selina anggawinta organized the ecoconference at st theresa of lisieux on wednesday start a tradition and get as many people as we can who care about the environment to come together elise said the conference was very enlightening said ariel levitsky richmond hill highs student association environment vice president i learned a lot about how food impacts the environment with pesticides im a vegetarian and im going to start buying organic she said generating interest in envi ronmental programs is hard because people dont see how the issues play a role in their life she noted but it helps when students can come together and exchange ideas her group has protected five acres of rainforest in brazil and organized an earth day confer ence at her school selina and elise have been successful with a number of environmental initiatives at st theresa of lisieux including a cell phone and ink cartridge recycling program a fundraiser to adopt a lion from the metro toronto zoo and a live animal outreach show if you start with little things like planting trees environmen tal awareness will grow in the community elise said fm jgl2 ffl wkk wmm l illiilh ttl fflb area bars nailed in blitz its reafy tha best club around iavi b 1 50 readers of te who join mrmmm club markham economist also receive 2 months free discount refers to single annual adult fitness membership program not valid with any other discount offer not valid for present club members discount calculated includes the two months free in your first year of membership offer ends february 28 2006 the shape of ffneeg in markham personal trainers stateoftheart exercise gym free weight room squash indoor swimming pool child care cycle studio aqua fit yoga still waters latin cardio kick boxing pilates 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markham bar with a large quantity of marijuana bookkeeper sentenced for bilking church a newmarket bookkeeper has been sentenced to nine qnthshougrftejgj she bilked a church and day care centre out of almost 200000 marjorie joy hume 55 worked for the grace church on carlson drive her duties included look ing after the financial affairs of the grace church day care centre and the new market and district christian academy a routine audit of the organizations books turned up evidence ms hume had been ripping the church off to the tune of 199000 between march 2000 and march 2005 she pleaded guilty to one count of fraud over 5000 and was sentenced wednes day by justice peter tetley to a 12month conditional sen tence including nine months of house arrest she was also put on pro bation for two years and is required to complete 200 hours of community service sffrwi mssbm i