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stouffvule suntribune m thursday may 11 2006 p stouffville idol mustsee singers american idol never watch it canadian idol never watch stouffville idol wouldnt have missed it the big show hosted by the mayors youth council played before a packed latcham hall friday night ten finalists were featured ranging in age from 12 to 18 years brittney ewart a grade 8 student at orchard park public school emerged the winner runnersup were john sampson 15 and rebecca lowe 18 both of stouffville district secondary school other finalists included st mark students karissa stefoff sarah stefoff taylor macpherson nicole chen and kaitie cooper and tiffany little of st brigid taylor wrote her own lyrics john wrote the words and music to his song judges were jim priebe of whistle radio recording artist iain lovett and argo cheerleader kristy redshaw the evenings coemcees were mackenzie gott and ashley smith brittney s rendition of the very beautiful because of you transformed deafening reception into reverential silence as her voice vibrant and alive rang from the rafters her vocal instructor is jim mcmillan of stouf fville no stranger to the stage brittney has won several awards in competitions sponsored by the newmar ket lions club she has also participated in school talent shows and has sung the national anthem at stouf fville spirit hockey games still she admits it was a little bit scary performing before her peers her mother and youth week facilitator leslie wilkinson encouraged her to enter her favourite vocal artist is kelly clarkson following graduation in june brittney will enrol in the arts program at unionville high for her win brittney received 200 plus four free vocal lessons the first run nerup was awarded 100 and a gift certificate the second runnerup received 50 and a gift certificate the band armageddon closed out the concert while the focus of audi ence attention was on the 10 idol finalists a group of nine skilled ropeskippers opened the show and tem porarily stole the spotlight dubbed the stouffville steppers the performers won repeated cheers and applause for their intricate onstage manoeuvres caitlin wagg completed a difficult ropewithinarope solo while kashtin callaghan was brilliant in a roaming around with jim thomas freestyle routine other par ticipants were caitlin wel- ham courtney humphreys melissa carr robyn paxton lauryn renzella madison langlois and stephanie kot- sopoulos coaches are nerine jacobs and tricia flaherty over the past five years the girls have visited several schools in whitchurch- stouffville encouraging staff and students to involve themselves in fundraising for the heart and stroke foundation through their efforts thousands of dollars have been earned in march the stouffville steppers were invited to perform at the honda win ter carnival in alliston remuneration from this appearance was used to purchase uniforms design work was completed by par ent penni paxton ms gott chairperson of the youth council expressed delight with attendance stouffvilles been very supportive of everything weve done she said this makes us want to do even more for the community ashjey smith the coun cils vicechairperson was similarly appreciative the whole evening went really well she said we hope to do it again next year last year ashley said the event was called a talent show similar in format to stouffville idol except for a name change and use of judges mayor sue sherban referred to fridays talent as awesome brittney ewan blew me away she said mayor sherban heaped praise on show organizers they put it all together they did themselves proud the competition was part of youth week in whitchurchstouffville other activities included a downtown garbage clean up a games night and a road hockey tournament jim thomas is a stouf fville resident who has writ ten for area newspapers for more than 50 years bbsffisflrscb these are the dinner of choice for many we begin with pork tenderloins which weve trimmed nicely and then we stuff them with a bread which is full of fancy dried fruit the result not only do they present even better reg 995 lb well they taste off this week many folk from the trade come to visit our store to see what and how we do what we do usually theyll ask how we got started in the frozen entree business it seems to me that weve done it forever but when i think back doreetis chicken pies were the first thing and for the longest time the only thing that we made when it came to having a huge backlog of orders we realized that our customers were telling us something so this is it folks the charter member of our frozen shfif a entree business that hasea p fi grown quite large indeed w bbsfa cj reg 1495 ea w h off serves 3 resh local the local product is now in its a great time of the year mlst cream of cauliflower this is a chickenstockbased soup with onions celery cream white wine and seasoning its really good either hot or chilled reg 599 ea serves 3 4 off this week whats exan sausages these are a fairly sparky pork sausage with enough bite to notice we use coarseground pork and j mtf we make them a little fa q bigger than most others reg 399 lb his week well be making lots of beautiful desserts for this weekend you might wish to order if you have a specific dessert in mind we- will not be making some of pur usual items in order to concentrate all of our energies and space on these strawberry shortcakes made with layers of white cake whipped cream real of course topped with chocolate- dipped strawberries two sizes available mostly because families and appetites come in w offi this week utside in a word a whole bunch a load of small stuff has arrived if youre ready to make urns and planters i just helped unload the first truck of mixed hanging baskets some patio pots of assorted colour and some balkan geranium window boxes mother geraniums are arriving in great numbers and apparently as well geranium hangers in straight colours with mixed plantings in fibre pots and some ivy geraniums as well the first tuberous begonias in baskets are here lots of lobelia in fibre in many colours some azalea standards just ready to bloom ferns have soldout till the next shipment arrives martha washingtons are running low hibiscus are just starting and sunflowers are looking happy add to all this colour some enthusiastic and exuberant staff and youve got the full picture in colour jr us different sizes and mnk 3akes ma with white cake layers pink icing and decorated j 9 with a mothers day motif a4 j3remj3 bejoles pur usual raspberry j vanilla bean and grand marnier p mousse qujs these are in our ramekins as well usual refund applies and the flavours will be chocolate lemon white chocolate and raspberry ea j5 lly jqlls only one type this liwm ea mm roasted red pepper from the dip fridge well have a feature on our roasted red pepper variety weve got a whole aisle of biscuits just itching to get hold of this dip off this week ea 2- week that being with mixed fresh berries j2 moijssj cmibs either fresh raspberry pistachio with white chocolate and bur ja9s black and white ea strawberry owstard ftans made in a shortbread crust lots of fresh berries jj drizzled with dark chocolate a and chqcqia3s dipped stem berries in both white or dark or tuxedo style ec1airs the genuine article as you would expect fresh strawberry pees ma in a pastry crust with lots of custard filling lots of ftesh berries- whipped cream and a touch of amaretto pralines and cream cares made with an oreo cookie crust white chocolate mousse iq9s j- pralines and sparkedup pecans o and lm gifthaped chocolate cake filled with whitechocolate grand marnier mousse decorated with marzipan ribbons and flowers mt cheesecakes in either lemon with- os swirled curd fresh raspberry or strawberry 12 and 7v a raspberry filling and vanilla custard 0 and xv jeeppisji pies in either apple raspberry or one of my faves peach 14 and lastly well be making a limited supply of our cinnamon buns on a first come first serve basis moms like desserts in ease youre not sure ea 95 95 village grocer quality foods specials in effect until closing sunday mat 14 hours mon 1100700 tuesthurs 900700 fri 900800 sat 900600 sun 1000500 548 carlton road unionville 9401770