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thursday jan 4 2007 b serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 20 pagessi including gst museum expansion plan depends on funding opinion 6 sports 15 calendar 16 classified 17 challenged to adopt villages stouffville sets example in africa by hannelore volpe staff writer the stouffville igoma project is looking for other communities to twin with an african village to support residents there the stouffville organization would act as a mentor two weeks after returning from a factfinding trip to igoma in tanzania pastor lou geense told the stouffville suntribune we want to find other commu nities that would do the same thing that stouffville is doing the pastor of eastridge evan gelical missionary church was among people from 13 churches who built igomas first medical clinic in 1998 in the summer of 2003 the town of whitchurchstouffville adopted igoma as a partnership town a doctor was hired for the clinic shortly after medicines and equipment have been sent along with volunteers from stouffville on subsequent trips it is the only medical clinic for igomas 40000 inhabitants the clinic has now developed to the point where it is run by people in the village that means markham nurse glenna cumminspeterson who went to igoma in 2003 will be able to devote time to giving basic health instruction to peo ple in neighbouring villages she returned to markham in june buckets of fun see water page 13 staff photobill roberts eliza wiseman gets doused by her friend kamillia grove at a holiday family swim time at the lebovic leisure pool snow tires scrapers sit unwanted on store shelves by patrick mangion staff writer a record warm december expected to extend well into january should translate into a lot of savings for most of us temperatures of 5c or better are expected to continue erasing any possibility of winters arrival during the next two weeks however it will likely mean fewer back injuries for wouldbe snow shovellers savings on your heating bill and keeping that money set aside for snow tires in your wallet a little longer while pundits weigh in on whether the balmy temperatures are a byproduct of global warming or simply an anomaly it seems only those dependent on snow are disappointed by the vancouverlike conditions this time last year snow tires were flying off the shelves canadian tire general manager daniel lubimcev said were fully stockedwith every possible win ter tire we carry he said the first blast of winter also usually sends shoppers out in droves to scoop up shovels scrapers wiper blades and salt by the bag load instead the staples associated with a typical canadian winter sit idle on shelves im sure it will improve mr lubimcev said but the operators of the richmond hill golf club are hoping for just the opposite the warm spat including todays expected doubledigit temperatures have been a boon see golf page 8 cheery os parthau jewellers 6312 main st stouffville 9056404646