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inside tts e home 13 sports 17 classified 18 7 more than 1300 new homes for southwest stoufmie on town councils agenda tuesday community calendar event car show and swap meet when today and tomorrow where stouffville country market 1 ff donors sought for j 35 million york regional police safety village at bruces mill serving whitchurchstouffville since 1888 50 cents including gst 36 pages saturday july 20 2002 to reach us 905 6402612 dry weather prompts fire ban across town chimineas wiener roasts are nonos by joan ransberry staff writer whitchurchstouffville resi dents are obeying an openair fire ban that has been in place since wednesday this action was taken due to the increased dry conditions explained whitchurchstourrville deputy fire chief tim beckett while the drought conditions have been posing a serious con cern for more than a week now residents of whitchurch- stouffville have been quite responsible all summer the fire department has not been hit with a rash of grass fires this year since there is no indication of significant rainfall in the near future fire officials are very con cerned about fire risks especially in two municipalities in york region so far across the region an openair fire ban has been put in place in whitchurchstouffville and east gwillimbury no openair fires will be per mitted including fires for cook ing or heating said deputy fire chief beckett this means no wiener roasts it includes the use of chimineas outdoor ceramic fire containers officials at the whitchurch- stouffville fire department are concerned that openair burning in these dry conditions could result in fire spreading to the dry see fine page 7 school some host families not needed due- to low attendance arrivina from maine by hannelore volpe joan ransberry stqff v when claudia petramala helps to welcome 51 american pilgrims to stouffville monday night they wont be cloaked and footsore with staff in hand as in chaucers time instead these modernday pil grims heading to torontos week- long world youth day events are travelling by bus from auburn maine to stay with whitchurch- stouffville families oneehefe theyll be provided with a wyd backpack tshirt and hat two of the pilgrims are 18-year- old males who will stay at the petramala family home mario and erminia petramala who run marios hairstyling in downtown stouffville will help their 20-year- old daughter make their guests feel at home meanwhile claudia is one of more than 50 young people between the ages of 18 and 35 from whitchurchstouffville who will join the pilgrimage to toronto seeing a pope in person is indeed a onceinalifetime experience said ms petramala a student at the university of toronto earlier this month she helped to carry the wyd cross when it arrived at st justin martyr church in markham during its crosscanada trek as well two women both 26 years old will be staying at the home of consuella tabone a teacher at st mark catholic school each morning theyll be driven to the local go station by their host see registration page 7 highschool spelling staff photosjoerd witteveen ivan harris of the village engraver in stouffville installs new lettering on the side of stouffville district secondary school this week students will see the new signage when school returns in september town and country realty ttd 6400888 ft f v 4 f 4 jk m 441 i v t kst 4 tg b si st r m if i 3 vt t u svi i v i if u t rc lwf jt k i j i tcw a v ft r t r 9 t ri sv3 c ft yt 1 j