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thursdayoct42007 b serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 28 pages1 including gst ig fatherson team tackle marathon c3 to thank hospital tor sick children opinion 6 things to do 17 sports 22 classified 24 ontarioesyotes keyissues victims rights analysis who will support yorks growth by david fleischer staff writer growth may be the single defining characteristic of york region the region is growing fast and while that growth is bringing great wealth and enterprise it is also bringing a host of problems which often seem to fly below the radar that certainly seems to be the case in the current election camr paign where very real issues are being buried or ignored while 905 municipalities wait with their hands out looking for cash from higher levels of government the battle against urban sprawl is being waged on many fronts but what is often lost in the equation is that suburbia is not just endless homes and malls it is people and families to give credit where it is due the liberals have implemented legislation aimed at curbing urban sprawl with the oak ridg es moraine act the greenbelt act and places to grow the latter is the centrepiece of the provinces efforts to ere- ate a new kind of suburbia the growth plan which won a prestigious american planning award directs municipalities to concentrate 40 per cent of all new growth within their current see little page 16 staff photosjoerd witteveen conservative party leader john tory left stops on main street in stouffville to chat with jack webster right as oak ridgesmarkham candidate phil bannon looks on on tuesday police shooting faith funding foreign imports on votersminds residents challenge tory during walk by hannelore volpe staff writer it may have been the larg est slowmoving media scrum in stouffville history when john tory came to stroll along main street tuesday afternoon the collection of photogra phers and reporters tory assistants and volunteers far outnumbered the few residents greeting him in the downtown core media from a number of tv and radio stations were present it was a rare visit here by a leader during a campaign liberal david peterson did it during his illfated election of 1990 stopping at parkview village the late larry grossman was here too the pc leader accompanied by his wife barbara and oak ridges- markham pc candidate phil ban non visited main street merchants and employees and talked to resi dents after awhile the scrum teeming with cameras recorders and note books began to resemble a moving parade as assistants some in blue team bannon tshirts and holding phil bannon election signs up high travelled alongside the party leader and the media at one point mr tory came face to face with willie reodica whose 17yearson jeffrey was shot in the back three times by toronto police officers in 2004 the teenager died in hospital three days later police had respond ed to an altercation between two groups of teenagers police were cleared of any wrongdoing by the special investigations unit mr reodica wants an overhaul of the justice system he told mr tory he wants to see police officers who investigated serious offences in the line of duty tried in criminal court and not just by the siu expressing his condolences mr tory said i cant substitute my judgment for the siu and they tried their best exonerating the police officer involved was a miscarriage of jus- see funding page 19 speciauz1ngin volkswagen audi porsche european asian hybrid 138sandifbrddrunit5 90s22886 1877410auto wwwaioautaca dr sheldon lazier i dr waseema ali i dr dan kobric leon kofrnan dd dehturlst beecohsultktio stiy 9056427474 wwwsmileclinicca iw 6212 main street just east of the train station jifc j p garthau tewellers j 6312 main st vos6404646