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thursday april 5 2007 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 24 pages1 including gst former spirit genera manager j lands same job in collingwood opinion 6 calendar 15 sports 17 classified 19 staff photomike barrett stouffville students krista bradshaw from left 13 and david trembetzky 11 learn about the hometown of visi tors sebastian amaya 1 1 and daniela samperio 1 1 thirty students from mexico city are visiting students and fam ilies from glad park public school this month for more see story on page 3 institute founder also a lifesaver by alyshia higgins sheila richardsons family has a history to be proud of not only was her grandmother the first president of the vandorf womens institute she also saved her life when mrs richardson was two years old she and her grandmother gertrude van nostrand were attacked by a ram in a neighbours field mrs richardsons grandmoth er did not survive the attack but managed to protect richardson who walked away with only bruises i dont remember the event mrs richardson said i wish i did faces places ms richardsons mother was also a member of the womens insti tute which recently celebrated its 100th anniversary to mark the event the institute made a book presentation to the whitchurchstpuffville public library at the vandorf community hall the book for the home and country was donated to by mem bers of the branch about 70 people attended the presentation including mayor wayne emmerson councillor ken ferdinands library ceo carolyn nordheirner james and womens institute ontario presidentelect joy trimble there are more than nine million members worldwide in womens organizations the vandorf branch has 11 mem bers including three generations the branch was started in 1907 the branchs oldest member mary see womens page 9 buyers want money back from realtor sentenced to 5 years byjoefantauzzi staff writer a woman taken for 50000 by disgraced stouffville real estate broker courtney wallis simpson says she learned a lot from her experience on monday ms wallis simpson 40 was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay back 45 mil lion to her victims after plead ing guilty to a charge of fraud over 5000 in august 2006 according to york regional police detfred kerr in 2005 markham resident chitwan brar tried to buy a commercial plaza in the main street and ninth line area of stouffville after writing a cheque for 50000 ms brar didnt hear anything from ms wallis simpson she said we didnt receive any papers even though we put the cheque in trust to her compa ny she said when a stop was put on the cheque ms wallis simpson got in touch with ms brar again saying the money was crucial to the deal going through ms courtney wallis simpson former stouffville realtor duped investors and buyers out of 15 million york regional police say wallis told ms brar she hadnt contacted her because she had been out of town ms brar wrote another cheque for 50000 but never saw any return she hasnt seen a dime of her investment since its good shes been sen tenced but we want qur money back she said those were my savings that i used for gro ceries and mortgages im hand to mouth now ms wallis simpson defraud ed more than 60 investors while she operated york region realty on main street between see it page 7 mdd specializing in volkswagen audi porsche european asian hybrid 138sandiforddrunit5 9056422886 1877410auto www4lbautoc3 stouffvill famil dentis ssiflfihkfl h dr sheldon lazier dr waseema alt dr idankoimc fsmhsyj dehtur1st freecohsultatior leon kof man dd 905 642 74 74 jj wavwsnnlecjinicca 6212 main street just hast of the irani station coti for easier bunnies parte t je 6312 main st stouffville 905 6404646