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thursday march 292007 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 36 pagesr including gst scotiabanks birthday party comes to stouffville opinion 6 calendar 10 oporis v x classified 19 stouffville slips into provincial record book boys girls teams claim hockey titles by mike hayakawa staffwriter records are made to be broken at the same time they were made to be established in winning the provincial high school aaa girls and boys hock ey championships stouffville district secondary school became the first school to claim both titles in the same year its definitely a first in hock ey provincial spokesperson steve sevor confirmed noting the girls championship has only existed five years wheres the bunny but its great to see since both teams were classy during their participation at provincials but its great to see since both teams were classy during their participation at provincials he added jamie hewitt stouffville secondarys head of physical education and head boys hockey coach was elated to hear the word of what the clubs had achieved its a tremendous accom plishment by the kids they see championship page 15 staff photosjoerd witteveen bumbling magician hannah stover left and assistant georgia aprile make a hasty departure from the stage after failing to produce a rabbit in the hat during the summitview public school talent showcase tuesday morning students from grades 1 to 8 did martial arts demonstrations and comedy slats sang danced and played piano drums and clarinet enough savings found to drop 8 increase to 39 byhannelorevolpe staffwriter youll be dishing out a little less than you thought in municipal taxes while services will be maintained at current levels this was the outcome of tuesdays budget deliberations in stouffville which saw the proposed 79 per cent hike reduced to 39 per cent and in a surprise move politicians agreed to give the latcham gallery a onetime grant of 50000 to help sustain its operations this year the 39 per cent increase means the owner of a house assessed at 330000 will pay 896 on the municipal portion of his tax bill that amount was 862 last year the towns portion is the smallest of the three parts of your tax bill last year the aver age homeowner paid 862 to the town 1562 to the region and 871 for education the reduction of about 440000 on the 35million budget was done by finding more income and making reductions i am very relieved that we were able to reduce the tax increase councillor susanne hilton said at the same time she said the town is able to keep services programs facilities and infra structure moving forward one cost reduction was achieved through calculating salaries of eight new employees for nine months rather than the full year since they wont be hired until april that means a saving of about 70000 in addition estimates on how many new homeowners would begin paying taxes at var ious times throughout the year were revamped resulting in an anticipated extra amount of about 100000 treasurer m j pourvahidi said two new fire trucks are in the budget and the hunt continues for locations for a new fire hall in town and a new works facility the ball keeps rolling for putting an arts and culture centre into nineteen on the park in the towns see more page 8 gsu specializing in volkswagen audi porsche european asian hybrid 138sandiforddrunit5 9056422886 1877410auto www4103utoca sfotoppp w ijrslielaonlasiiier dr waseema ali dr danktwrjlc j lip oehturist beec0hsultatt0 eon kof man dd 905 642 74f www sinilecliiiical iis 6212 main street just last of the train station checking polishing rarthau jewellers 6312 main st stouffville 9056404646