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p10 weekender august 1 1987 at left chris uchid 7 left of preston lake helps claremont magician dan laffey centre during pride and preston lake day saturday jennifer rogers 11 helps out above carolyn collins left of preston lake and whitchurchstouffville mayor fran sainsbury stand beside a frontloader full of weeds alan shackleton super centre mall will be open civic holiday mon aug 3rd until 6 pm for your shopping convenience sopercentre mall people pulled in pride preston lake residents showed a lot of pride in their community last saturday as scores of them turned out to help tackle the lakes weed problem weeds are threatening to over run the lake and if left unchecked they could turn it into a swamp on saturday the residents de cided to fight back the event was billed as pride and preston lake and residents spent most of the day cutting and collecting the lakes weeds its been a great success says jim mcveigh of south shore residents association who helped organize the day weve had so many people come out to help the lake weeds in the lake were cut by nylon rope strung between two steel poles and dragged underwa ter across the lake by small motor boats once cut the weeds floated to the surface and were collected into other boats and brought to shore mr mcveigh estimates a couple of tons of weeds were col lected saturday though its hard to be certain as they werent weighed however there were enough weeds to fill a dump truck by the end of the day the truck trans ported the weeds to the land of a local farmer who intends to use them for fertilizer next year the day wasnt all hard work though as lunch turned into a community social event featuring claremont magician dan laffey who was on hand to entertain the kids a number of local dignitaries including whitchurchstouffville mayor fran sainsbury also attended the event and mayor sainsbury who cant swim even went so far as to crew one of the weedcutting boats for about half an hour police find stolen car york regional police reco vered an 11000 car stolen from a gormley man on march 17 at the aurora highland golf course a local youth was charged with theft and possession of stolen property breakin nets fishing tackle thieves broke into a johnston st home in markham sometime in july and made off witli a bottle of whisky a large quantity of fishing gear and a ceremonial sword police said the stolen goods arc worth an estimated 500