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ann gage music director for this years annual stouffvllle music mania show led participants through an early runthrough at a meeting this week from left gage addresses the troops gives them a lets get down to business speech says lets take it from the top then finally has a laugh and says lets try it again this time in tune photossteve somerville music mania celebrates 35th anniversary bymikeruta staff reporter this years performance will be the 35th put on by stouffvilles music maniacs over the years the show has brought a lot of people together and the friendships have continued long after the music stopped we love it said carolyn duggan who with her husband david has been a music maniac since 1988 weve gotten to know so many peo ple in town its a wonderful way to meet people the duggans moved to stouffville in 1986 then saw the show the fol lowing year and were hooked this year they will be in the chorus and david will also participate in some skits david is a former music mania director and producer carolyn said the show had its ori gins in a smaller less formal setting the united church couples club started music mania she said a core group of people started doing skits for themselves i guess they thought at some point it would be fun to do a real show and give the profits back to the community duggan said this year marks a sec ond milestone as music mania will pass the 50000 mark in terms of funds given back to organizations and individuals like markham stouf fville hospital the couples club is still an impor tant part of music mania she said theyre always out there doing something you have this blend of a lot of people with experience and new people coming in said duggan this years show to be continued was going to be centered on a com parison between the first show and the present production but the maniacs decided instead to look for ward the main thrust of it is just what the title says said duggan we keep on going sharron and jim brazier have been music maniacs for 32 years its become a way of life really said sharron for the first 17 years she was a dancer in the show but there comes a time when a dancer has to retire she said sharron will be singing in the cho rus this year and helping with the stage choreography david works on the set and takes part in skits performing runs in the family the braziers youngest son is a singerdancer in new york another son was unlucky enough to be born in the wrong month all of his childhood he never had his birthday on his birthday because he knew it was music mania time said sharron it had to wait music mania is always held on the last weekend in april york region ride numbers stable despite stopping more cars by mike ruta staff reporter this christmas seasons ride program saw little change from last years pro gram said staff sgt bill pos- till of the york region police traffic unit we had a few more charges but we stopped 52 per cent more cars he said theres no change in my estimation while the number of alco holrelated charges was up from 21 to 30 he said 10000 more vehicles were stopped this year compared to last in fact with 30137 vehicles man in hospital after plane crash from page 1 off power to the area and consumers gas cut the gas lines to toys and wheels within min utes markham fire department has recently completed a training course on responding to plane crashes and airport emergencies we can never take for granted the highly trained professionals who are standing by to protect individuals and our whole community said markham mayor don cousens the plane was hoisted from the roof by crane yesterday afternoon the crash is under investigation by transport canada stopped the number of charges laid may actually have decreased when taken as a percentage the ministry of the solici tor general gave york police 13571 in funding to beef up this years program postill said this meant that two fourperson teams could operate from thursday to saturday instead of one this years figures show that 16 people were charged with driving over 80 com pared to 14 last year 10 motorists were charged with impaired dri ving compared to seven last year 71 people received a 12- hour suspension of their license compared to 51 last year four motorists were charged with refusing to take a roadside test no one was charged last year postill admitted that he hates the stats because they can be so misleading the figures are there but dont read too much into it he said for example while 20 more people had their licenses sus pended for 12 hours postill emphasized that 200 more roadside tests were administered the ride program will operate mainly on long week ends until december stouffvilles rick banz laned this cessna 210 centurlan on the roof of a toy warehouse by markhams but- tonvllle airport thursday night he is recovering in hospital from the crash photosjoerd witteveen kids earn extra money become a carrier today call 6402100 stouffville attention flyer advertisers we 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