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5m ufi‘bille n 41:1:qu WURDAZMYSJOOB I SERVINGTHECOMMU WHITCH RCH-STOUFFVILLE 36PM r 1 NCUJDINGGST Marijuana grow operations will continue to be a problem until they are no longer profit- able or sentences are so severe that people will not want to get involved, York Regional Police Armand La Barge said. "uulte IranKJy, there 1s so much profit to be made in these types of illegal operations that what we’re finding is we’ll knock off 20 or 30 in a major project only to find we have a whole new group actively involved in them,” Chief La Barge said. “Where there is profit oppor- tunities and also, too, where the sentences are not really reflective of the severity of these type of “Quite frankly, there much profit to be made i1 impaired driving. such as imme- diate 90-day licence suspen- sions, the same “teeth” have not been used in sentencing those convicted of growing and distrib- uting marijuana, Chief La Barge Right now, the sente1 many people receive are vie as a “cost of doing business‘ Marijuana grow ( will continue to be 2 until they are no Ion; able or sentences are While the government has introduced strong penalties for b For more on this story and the names of those who face diarges, go to yorkregion.com impaired driving. such as imme- diate 90-day licence suspen- ---_- ‘LA _-_... “‘AAAJ.” L _ _ _ _ A 4 Chief wants tougher grow-op sentences See 11, page are is profit oppor- Jso, too, where the not really reflective Jeremy Reesor and his 95-perâ€"cent average topped a large graduating class of Ontario schol- ars at Stouffville District Secondary School. See the full list on page 10. WEEKEND FOCUS Once a future farmer, super scholar Jeremy Reesor now eyes career in medicine STAFF PHOTO/SJOERD WITTEVEEN a farmer. Now 17 and this year's highest-ranking graduate of Stouffville District Secondary School, he’s set to take a different path. He’ll take his 95-per-cent average to the Uni- versity of Waterloo in September and study sci- ence, with a specialty in biology. Longer term, he's thinking medicine. His dad, Richard, runs a farm on Warden Avenue with properties in southern Ontario, Georgia and Florida. Mth the Reesor block from the new lug them. His marks from the first term include 95 in biology, 94 in English and 92 in functions. The second-term numbers have yet to be released. ships to Wa Millennium award. This week, Jeremy, his brother, ers were picking sweet corn, pan summer job since age 13. 95% tops ' class of 2008 at SDSS He’ll take BY HM MASON Staff Writer eremy Reesor always thought he would take up the family business and become a a bank account full of scholar- terloo, including a $4,000 Canada Scholarship Foundation excellence Sec TOP, page 10‘ family home SDSS, he didn her, Ben, and oth- part of his annual ome less than a didn’t have far to