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inside opinion 6 f arts 14 sports 15 classified 16 4 inquest jury makes recommendations in baby seat infant death mother shares her views festival highlights c event strawberry festival opening fireworks when today starting at 730 pm where memorial park 1 a everyone in the jv family from beginner to expert can enjoy a day of fishing run serving whitchurchstouffville since 1888 wliitchufcfistquffvlile pabiic tibpj 50 cents including gst 1 32 pages thursday july 1 1999 j0reach us 905 6402100 i carpet by rick vanderlinde staff writer pol claassen the lone suspect in tammy lamondingagnons disappearance rented an indus- trialstrength carpet cleaner hours after the 20yearold woman was inside his sisters stquffyille house claassen rented the easyway steam cleaner at a 24hour ap store a few blocks from the millard street home where police seized several items including a large carpet york regional police det sgt denis mulholland said any foren sic evidence inside the carpet cleaner would have been badly contaminated since police learned about claassens rental after several other customers had used the same machine the machinehad been rentr ed about 30 times after he rented it mulholland said homicide detectives uncov ered the 653 am may 29 rental after glaasserihanged himself in his familys varidorf business june 7 mulholland said after investi gators discovered claassen had withdrawn l00 from a royal bank atm machine in the store they quickly learned one of the nearby carpet cleaners had been rented by the 27yearold gopdwoodarea man easyway vicepresident wally kopkp said claassen would have been required to show two pieces of identification and sign his name before he could leave with one of the machines police seized a may 29 rental sheet from the ap store the 1 see police page 5 i clockwise from top regional chairperson bill fisch artist dorothy clarkmcclure awardwinning writer robert sawyei hightech execu tive kly ho school board chairperson andoiympic champion bill crothers share their views about canada in the future 1 york region residents tninkabo by roy green staffwriter there are as many views about the future of canada as there are canadians here in york region we asked a few canadians for their canada day thoughts on where we might be headed on the eve of the millehnium- the regions first citizen bill fisch is in a very positive frame of mindabout canada i think what makes canada great is our cultural diversity and our ability to work live and play together in safe communities and healthy environments says the york region chairperson in york region our future like 1 that of canadas is very bright bob sherwood a former markham councillor and a mem ber of canadians for a united ganada tempers his own opti- mism with concern for the unre- solved issue of quebec separation canadas got a great future the economy is good and things are going weil and even quebec is doing better than it was two or three years agoj says sherwood who now lives in aurora tm proud to be a canadian b3s see global page 3 ijfgf screen j r btkwhobtom i is cpmmgto north markham ml come in- arid check pomlbzuiqzv rates wy 7 j west of kennetiyd 4t 4 7 7t 2 4i5