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Dave Lawlor has always played the §upporting _role. B_ut now, he will step out from the shadows and into the spotlight to raise money for Parkinson’s disease. The idea to stage Feels Like The First Time, which takes place Nov. 20, came to Mr. Iawlor after seeing the inside of the Lebovic Centre for Arts and Entertain- ment - Nineteen on the Park Sideman steps out for fundraiser “It’s a nice theatre. I’d like to do something here,” he said. “Maybe this would be a great time to sing in the spotlight in front of friends and raise money for Parkinson’s disease." Mr. Lawlor, 42, is raising money for Parkinson Society Canada because his mother loan died from a form of the disease â€" multiple systems atrophy â€" in 2009, after living with it for about 15 years. “It was just brutal," Mr. Lawlor said of the disease’s effect on his mother. Mr. Lawlor started playing guitar when he was about 16 years old and at age 20 he hit the Memories of mother have Lawlor singing (Si‘f'W-‘fi'ibune BY SANDRA BOLAN sbolan@yrmg.com COMING UP See HMTUS, page 14 THURSDAY NOV." 2010 I SERVINGTHECOWUNITYOFWHTCHURGi-WFVILLE I 32 PAGES/$1me I Thanks to a local man. Stoufiville’s Royal Canadian Legion Branch 459’s ladies auxiliary was formed. I t 51m mom KOCKERSCHEIDT Jim Lyon of the Royal Canadian Legion salutes during a remembrance service at the Stoufl‘ville Cemetery Sunday. More photos, pages 19 and 23. During the Second World War, local resident and First World War veteran Bert Lickorish created the Comfort Fund, which provided care packages to the Whitchumh- Stouffville men and women serving Ladies have served veterans, town for 70 years BY SANDRA BOLAN sbolan@yrmg.com ‘WE WILL REMEMBER THEM’ : NOVEMBER 11, 2010 overseas. As more service men and women were deployed, demand for care packages increased and Mr. Lickor- ish appealed to the community to help raise funds and continue what he started. A group of local women came together and formed the Service- men’s VVwes and Mothers Club, which held card parties, bazaars and bingos to help raise funds for SALUTED IN STOUFFVILLE REMEMBRANCE DAY 2010 As a result of the Comfort Fund, the legion created the ladies auxil- iary in February 1953. It has been about 70 years since those first card parties and bazaars were held, but the legion ladies remain just as supportive of the veterans as they did back then. “Over the years, it has been the ladies auxiliary that has kept (the legion) going in many of the com- munities," said Marjorie Smith, for- mer president and life member of the auxiliary. Mm Smith along with Aldene Sinclair, Aurelia Smith and Elsie Saunders are the only remaining auxiliary charter members. At one time, the legion hall, thanks to the ladies auxiliary, was the entertainment centre of See “DIES. page 12‘ 'M)