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stouffville suntribune thursday june 8 2006 stouffville says by hannelore volpe have you encountered road rage asked in stouffville chris hall i used to work in downtown toronto where road rage is so much more prevalent either you are stopped in traffic or someone is try ing to cut you off peter alcorn m m ph mikm hi m yfc all the time when im driving the snowplow for the municipality people get anxious and race through traffic to get around us theresa bray it is everywhere i watched two men going up the 404 doing at least 140 km they were yelling shaking their fists at each other and hanging out the window jamie redshaw people dont like being stopped for road con struction or repairs people yell at us in pub lic works and i have had to jump out of the way of cars when working on the road staff photossjoerd witteveen ria koning walks along the trail followed by volunteer kari harrington during the york durham aphasia centres walkand rollathon last thursday the event at the centres parkview village headquarters was to raise awareness of the abilities and needs of adults with aphasia and to promote fitness for everyone sixty people took part stroke sufferers in the swim ashley williams rolls with help from volunteer anne treeby at parkview village after a stroke many people find them selves unable to talk they come to the york durham aphasia centre at parkview village in stouffville and several other locations in york region for help this year the centre received funding to open three new locations there are now aphasia centres in stouffville markham with service in cantonese whitby peterborough newmarket and maple with italian service although they are funded by the ministry of health and long term care the centres are still required to do additional fundraising that includes the june 1 walkrollathon in stouffville a swimathon at the lebovic leisure centre is taking place today the centre has also set up a display to explain apha sia and some strategies for coping with the condition it is not very well understood said ruth patterson a speech pathologist and the centres communications program co ordinator the yearly fundraising goal is 10000 and all locations together raise almost 9000 the centre provided services to 105 new clients throughout york this year to join the swimathon or make a pledge call 905-642- 7529 briefly suntribune second three times at nationals the stouffville suntribune came home with three secondplace awards at a national newspaper con vention in quebec city may 28 the suntribune was runnerup overall and for best front page and editorial page in its circulation class 6500 to 12499 at the canadian community newspapers association better newspapers competition there were 22 papers in the class the suntribune was second overall at the ontario convention this year too for more information go to wwwccnaca donations instead of birthday gifts when stouffville resident benjamin foppa turned 13 he invit- ed a bunch of his friends to his birth day party but wasnt looking for gifts he asked them to bring donations for the stouffville igoma project to support the african village which is in the process of getting wells to pro vide clean drinking water the young people raised more than 260 it was a really thoughtful thing for him to do project chairperson peter neufeld said benjamin wanted the donations to go a worthy cause he knew his mother sibylle foppa who sings with the bach to blues chorus was part of a fundraising concert to benefit igoma and wanted the birthday party donations to benefit children there he was also inspired by a friend who had asked for donations to the wwtchurchstouffville food bank as part of his birthday party last year hannelore volpe quoteworthy everyone knows who i am and people were expecting more of me provincial champion sprinter natalie geiger see story on page 21 contacting us have a news tip please phone us at 9056402612 email us at jmasonyrng com fax us at 9052941538 stouffvilee demtal o e-n-tvr- e toronto street g- e-n-t- r- e 05s8523782 bv sedation programme starting soon call for more information yovr confident smile is our goal new patients welcome the dental centre covers all aspects of dentistry i iimastprcofd visa dwhhw5