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Ms Morgan isn’t the only Stoutfvillite to enter the com- petition. Other entries from Mlitchurch-Stouffville, accord- ing to the CBC website, are Orest Hrynewich, Robert Volk, Mat- thewV01k. Marion Drexler, Aaron Clubine, Caleb Winters, Iggy Natoli and John Wolfl v BY ALYSHIA HIGGle Whitchurch-Stouflville resi- dents are proving they really do love the good old hockey game. In addition, CBC will pay the songwriter half the royalties for the public performance of the theme. Hopefuls had to submit a jingle or song, an instrumental or song with lyrics. While this may seem hard to many, Ms. Morgan said she came up with her theme right away. “I just couldn’t not do it (cre- ate the anthem)," she said. “‘1 was sothrilledtofindoutlwasinthe top-rated section.” CBC created the competition after the rights to the song were bought by'ISN earlier this year. The winner of the competi- tion gets $100,000. Bonny’s song near top in CBC-TV contest Bonny Morgan, a musician and Stoufiville resident, has entered CBC’s Hockey Anthem Challenge, and is sitting in the top one per cent of the 15,000 entries. 37??? we - SATURDAY. SEPT.27.2008 I SERVI THE COMMU WHITCHURCHâ€"STOUF LLE 1 INCLUDINGGST “I had to give it a try because a song came to me almost imme- diately and that was just it." She shoots, she’s scoring with hockey anthem Judges from the network will See VOTE, page SATURDAY, SEPIZ27,2008 I SERVINGTHECOMMUNWYOFWMTCHURGl-STOUFFVIUL I 32 PAGES/$1 INCLUDINGGST Dan Busato, whose family owns LM Gardens Ltd. on Tenth Line in south Stouffville, gets mums ready from the greenhouses for shipping to retailer Sheridan Nurseries last week. MllM’S THE WORD STAFF PHOTO/SJOERD WITTEVEE N BY PATRICK MANGION Staff Writer York Region’s hospitals have been flagged as having among the province’s 14 poorest- performing hospital emergency departments because of growth demands, not service, Minâ€" istry of Health and Long-Term Care spokes person Mark Nesbitt said. York’s rapid population explosion has heaped added pressure on Newmarket's Southlake Regional Health Centre, Markham Stouffville Hospital and Richmond Hill's York Central Hospital, where the number of annuâ€" al emergency room visits ranges from 50,000 to 70,000 a year. Patients wheeled by ambulance to any of the region’s three hospitals today would be forced to wait up to 30 minutes for care, but that's all about to change Oct. 1, the province vowed this week. After receiving $375,000 from the prov- ince, the region's three hospitals are expected to hire six new emergency room nurses to address ambulance delays. The much-maligned system â€" in which frustrated patients and backlogged EMS teams are caught in the same web of health care bureaucracy â€"â€" has reached the breaking point and a solution is just weeks away, Mr. Nesbitt said. New nurses to shorten Rather than paramedics waiting in que for patients to be admitted to hospital, those patients will, instead, be turned over to spe- cialized nurses. The pilot project means paramedics can respond to more calls across York Region. York ambulances, paramedics will be back on road faster Jim Thomas Opinion . . . Sports . . . . . Classified .. Sec TOO. pagc 8