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saturday march 24 2007 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 28 pages1 including gst 3 having fun with her hair promotes serious cause politics 5 opinion 6 sports 9 classified 1 10 saturday focus stoujfuille anthem singer set for competition finals atacc starspangled audition scholarship winner 14 working on us anthem t by jim mason staff writer he season is over for the stouffville spirit jr a hockey club but not for its anthem singer jennifer thunem 14 is a finalist in the real canadian anthem search a competition for southern ontario teenagers spon sored by loblaws companies ltd in conjunction with the toronto maple leafs and raptors the grade 9 student at holy trinity school in richmond hill and seven other finalists will sing the canadian and us anthems for celebrity judges at the air canada centre monday check out our video report at yorkregioncom the winning soloist will sing the anthems at the leafsphiladelphia game april 3 and receive 1000 in prizes and 2000 for the charity of their choice you can go to superstoreca before monday to vote for your favourite singers entered by uploading their video or auditioning in per son at ontario superstores jennifer one of 160 entries sang at the aurora store the vfaitchurchstouffville res ident has been a member of the aurora opera company for five years and participated in many musical theatre and opera produc tions under the coaching of sarah kyle a member of st james see singer page 7 staff photomike barrett dynasty on ice sdss girls repeat as ontario hockey champions jennifer thunem 14 works on the canadian and american national anthems at her familys whitchurchstouffville home thursday the stouffville spirit anthem singer is a finalist in the real canadian anthem search at air canada centre monday you can see her perform tomorrow at stouffville united church third straight medal at provincials in trenton by mike hayakawa staff writer the winner and still ontario federation of school athletic associations aaa girls hockey champions the stouffville district secondary school spartans the defending provincial champions and this years no 1 seed repeated thursday by defeating no 7 seed bishop tonnos catholic secondary school titans ancaster 51 in the title tilt in trenton is that a female hockey dynasty in the works at stouffvilles only high school its the third straight ofsaa medal for the spartans who won silver two years ago the spartans dominated the tourney winning all six games while scoring 25 goals and allowing four in the final cassandra britton scored twice for the spartans who nursed period leads of 20 and 40 hayley hughes her sister heather hughes and karli ziegler added singles its really thrilling it feels awesome spartans co head coach brian shankman said of his clubs repeat gold- medal winning performance the girls came out smoking and they were overwhelm- ing the spartans left the trentonbelleville area immediately after the game to celebrate the win back in stouffville shankman who coaches the team with dan mcconnachie felt the differ ence throughout the tourna ment was depth every team that we faced had a couple of strong play ers but i told our girls throughout that no one has our depth or team speed no one could stay with us he the girls came out smoking and they were overwhelming said the girls won all of the little battles they just want ed it the spartans received a shutout earlier in the day from grade 9 student courtney humphreys in a 50 semifinal victory over no 4 seed trinity college port hope jamie sparks heather hughes hayley hughes brittany crago and dayle wilkinson scored about the only challenge put upon the spartans came in wednesdays quarterfinal contest against no 2 seed notre dame college see second page 8 hot tubs 27hbbta0ibd hamuum 8030 beachcomber not ion 12th annual premiere art antiques in the park markham saturday july 14 sunday juiy 15 1000am 1 560pm fineart showsah tx for more information g j bs fcwi johanne or karen at 905- markham museum hwy 48 just north of 16th ave please cat 292tt0 over i00 artists artisans antique dealers collectors silent auction ll00im- 300pm saturday sunday kreative kids town and country itaiuyjlid 6400888