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Boy, 17, faces graffiti charges BY SANDRA BOLAN sbolan@yrmg.com A 17-year-old Stouffville boy has been arrested and charged in connection with a rash of graffiti found throughout the com- munity late in 2009. On' Tuesday morning, the youth was arrested at school by police without inci- dent and charged with eight counts of mis- Visitors examine photographs taken by homeless residents of York Region at the Latdmm Art Gallery on Saturday. The exhibition, called Hidden in Plain Sight: livingHomeless inYork Region, runs till Feb. 13 at the Main Street For more,go tolatchamgallery.c3 MARKHAMSPRING HOMESHOW m l’.” 1| 1." (SW-Wham LOOKING FOR THINGS TO DO? GO TO PORYORKREGION.COM OR SEE YOUR PLANNER ON PAGE 14 More arrests possible: York Regional Police chief under $5,000. “They are the ones we believe can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt," said Supt. Robertson Rouse of York Regional Police. The accused cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. The arrest was made fonowing almost two months of investigative work by the ANOTHER WORLD York officers. Graffiti first appeared on commercial buildings in late October. At the end of November, hydro and mail boxes in down- town Stoufiville were tagged. The town managed to clean it all up in time for the Kinsmen Santa Claus Parade in early See POLICE, page 7‘ STAFF PHOTO/SIDE RD WITTEVE EN If you tune into 102.7 CIWS-FM on Feb. 1, you may hear nothing but silegce. That's because after months of negotia- tions between WhiStle Radio and its Main Street landlord, the parties have not been able to come to an agreement, which means the station will be without a studio. “We have nowhere to go right now, so right now it looks like we'll have to go off the air and we don’t know how we'll get back on the air.” said Jim Priebe, chairperson and founder of the station. “His need for our tent quite exceeded our capacity to pay. We paid the utilities, but (the landlord) donated the space. It was a very good arrangement for us that we knew wouldn't last forever.” Although WhiStle Radio will be without a studio come the end of January. its volunteers are trying to figure out how to keep the not- for-profit community station on the air. A meeting to discuss its options will be held on Jan. 18 at 7 pm. at the station. 6280 Main St. One possibility is for volunteers to con- tinue producing their shows at home and loading them onto the station's server for broadcast. The station could also continue to broad- cast Stoufl’ville Spirit Jr. A hockey games live because. that again, is not done in a studio. “There’s always been a crisis like this that ‘Unlikely’to retum to airwaves, but station volunteers will try WhiStle Radio to sign off BY SANDRA BOLAN sbolan@yrmg.com Sec WE'LL page 8‘ STOUFFVILLE