The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

stouffville thursday may 1 7 2007 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville 28 pages1 including gst harvard university honours for inspiring high school teacher opinion 6 calendar 20 sports 22 classified 24 residents but newcomers ignored in process councillor by hannelore volpe staff writer stouffville residents talked as passionately about memorial park as if it were their own back yard at mondays open house for the parks draft plan and thats what consultant brian basterfield has seen in the previous two open houses the town has held to gather residents input into the park planning process while many of those at the lat est open house were pleased with park plans some like councillor rob hargrave feel the newer res idents in town havent been ade quately represented at these meetings bloomington resident bob lewis agrees hed like to see any construction on the park drive extension delayed until more people in the new subdivisions to the south of the park have had a chance to have their say on the other hand resident and business owner maureen wood was pleased with the park plans particularly that a skate park and lawn bowling facility are included in the plans about 60 people came to hear mr basterfield and rob lockhart at the third open house at eastridge evangelical missionary church they included business own- ers politicians town officials and mostly longtime residents who see one page 10 jack burrows 17 months and his brother owen 3 enjoy a snack at the football toss booth during orchard park public schools fun fair saturday for additional photos see page 17 animals suffering say residents calling for rodeo ban stampede stirring up storm by simone joseph staff writer when the rodeo comes to the markham fairgrounds as it will may 25 and 26 at the great markham stampede it undoubted ly stirs up controversy letters to the editor have called for the event to be banned a stouffville resident asked that a poster promoting the rodeo be removed from the window of the suntribune markham councillor erin shapero said she has received tele phone calls from about 100 resi dents since the event was first held last year there has been calls to ban this kind of activity she said adding people came to protest last year i hope we will be looking at this going forward this years rodeo is going to happen i think we will have to look at this issue moving forward she said they dont think this is humane that we should go to feelgood events where animals are suffer ing she said the york region media group including the suntribune is a sponsor of the stampede bl princes company the rawhide rodeo company runs the event he travels around north america putting on rodeos arid says he has noticed an opposition to the rodeo in markham which is unique to this community markham is unrivalled im not sure of the specific reasons maybe it is the lack of a rural area see animals page 9 otto specializing in volkswagen audi porsche european asian hybrid 138sandiforddrunit5 9056422886 17m10aut0 www410autoca stoljfe famil inrwl k f if fff a fe slieljon lazier dr waseenia alj or dan kdlnie i nfhtuwst loon ivoitnan 11 2mbbffimgmm dentuwst fbeeconsulwiom leon kormah dd 56427471 wwwsimileclinidida 762i21viain street just bast of the train station exclusive forever theworjds mosl brilliant diamond parthau jewellers 6312 main st stouffville 9056404646