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stouffville saturday march 25 2006 b serving the community of whitchurchstouffville b 32 pages1 including gst 1 r7 is it hip to be a square dancer opinion 6 environment 3 sports 16 classified 18 york farmers growing to help sudan 90000 raised for foodgrains project by hannelore volpe staff writer up to 40000 refugees from the sudan can finally put 22 years of war behind them and return home to tend to crops on their own land thanks to a group of farmers in york region many sudanese families had to flee to neighbouring countries such as kenya uganda and ethiopia while war raged in their country others were displaced to the northern part of their own country the york region farmers donated proceeds from their fields last year to the canadian foodgrains bank raising around 90000 that amount is matched by the canadian international development agency four to one for a total of 450000 the canadian foodgrains bank is owned by 13 canadian church agencies including the mennon- ite central committee in york region there are 18 projects growing various crops to support the foodgrains bank churches such as the communi ty mennonite church raise funds to defray the input costs which include seeds and fertilizers the farmers donate their work and their land the amount raised in york region last year is about the amount of the budget for a pro ject currently being carried out see stouffville page 14 provincial budget earmarks money to bring spadina subway north to hwy 7 by lisa queen staff writer if you needed any more incen tive to get out of your car on to pub lic transit look no further than thursdays provincial budget elat ed york region transportation experts say york region had a very healthy transit announcement its a very good day said maryfrances turn er vicepresident of the regions rapid transit corporation the budget earmarked 12 bil lion for transportation including the unprecedented step of extend ing torontos subway into york region and authorizing the region to design the second phase of its rapid transit program i think the budget means a whole new way to look at our future and a new way to move around to see infrastructure being a top prior ity of the government means com muters can look at real answers to congestion ms turner said it comes with sustained com mitment to infrastructure that pro vides alternatives to driving your car officials are trumpeting the 670 million included in the budget to extend the spadina subway to vaughans corporate centre at hwy 7 a decision that takes the train even farther north than the york university terminal supporters had been hoping for im on cloud nine i couldnt get better news vaughan mayor michael di biase said adding the see subway page 12 staff photobill roberts wait a minute hes not a naked lady jim creegan of international recording artists barenaked ladies played music and talked about his favourite books during the literacy evening in the music room at ballantrae public school thursday hot tubs 27 heritage rd markham m8030 wm beachcomber j4 68 88 a v wwwmarkhamhondacom bring it home to honda 8220 kennedy rd markham y 1jy forpeak performance this winterdont open your hood to strangers bring it home to honda ibra comprehensive murti point inspection plus a genuine honda oil and liter change available for most honda models taxes not incuded ftovincial enwonrnental feesjf any excluded ri 18664301512 honda hoktpa genuine 54 tomi and ifcaliylid yjawxk