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saturday sept 30 2006 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 36 pagessi including gst 8stouffville woman has designs on new reality tv show opinion 6 education 12 sports 13 classified 14 when should police cut the chase main street pursuit raises safety issues note a story on wednesdays police pursuit that was to appear in thursdays sun- tribune did not the informa tion is included in this story and is also on yorkregioncom by martin derbyshire staff writer thousandpound monsters made of steel rubber glass and plastic flying along the streets at breakneck speeds twisting down side streets through all manner of traffic signs and signals high speed police pursuits can be dangerous just ask the two youths who flipped a stolen van when they were tboned by a pickup truck after being chased through the streets of vvwtchurchstguffville wednesday afternoon two hamilton youths 17 and 18 were both arrested at the scene no one was seriously hurt but it could have been a lot worse witnesses saw the van driving wildly through busy downtown stoufrville with two cruisers in tow whitchurchstouffville resi dent judy dunbar stepped out of the way just seconds before wednesdays chase hit stouffvilles civic avenue where she was walking if i was an old deaf person i would have been just a spot on the road she said luckily i heard them coming and got out see pedestrian page 7 races in all six whitchurchstouffville wards by jim mason staff writer three candidates with election experience were lastminute addi tions to the list of hopefuls in whitchurchstouffvilles nov 13 election pamela courtot who has run for the ndp provincially and federally and 2003 mayoral candidate randy mole joined the mayors race yes terday afternoon fred robbins who has run in his home ward 4 registered to run in ward 1 thursday also registering this week were justin altmann ward 2 elizabeth tracey ward 6 john white ward 5 and mj perry ward 3 jim priebe withdrew in ward 2 there are now races for all six council seats and the mayors office the deadline for registering of withdrawing was yesterday at 5 pm ms courtot is up against incum bent sue sherbari former mayor wayne emmerson and political newcomer don barker after running unsuccessfully in oak ridgesmarkham in januarys federal election ms courtot hinted at running for local office the stouffville resident who holds an mba from the schulich school of business is a business and marketing consultant and a teacher at durham college she is on the board of the community legal clinic of york region she decided to run because so many people have asked me to she said ive even been stopped in the grocery store and asked to run ms courtot said the rapid growth of those requests prompted her candidacy people have confidence in me she said protecting the local quality of life public safety and creating an environmentally sustainable com- see courtot page 2 staff photosjqerd witteveen