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stouffville saturday june 23 2007 serving the community of whitchurchstouffville h 40 pages1 including gst 3 for the love of stouffville program kicks off today business 4 opinion 6 sports 15 classified 19 centre a voice for those who cant speak stouffville program spawns offshoots by hannelore volpe staff writer for most of us talking is as automatic as breathing we gab away easily finding the words we need to express ourselves thats not the case when you have aphasia after a stroke or head inju ry you might be able to think what you want to say but you may not be able to say it or you might have trouble under standing what others are say ing some people also have trouble reading after a stroke or head injury learning to cope with apha sia becomes a lifelong effort for help people with apha sia can turn to the york durham aphasia centre it started as a grassroots volunteer initia tive in stouffville in 1989 and expanded to five municipalities throughout york region as well as whitby and peterborough the centres serve more than 200 clients and their families annually from a variety of lan guages and cultures about 40000 people in ontario have aphasia speech pathologist ruth patterson a stouffville resident was one of the volunteers who started the aphasia program along with vera and john hall and anne wells mrs patterson saw the need see aphasia page 9 staff photosjoerd witteveen audrey gibson is whitchurchstouffvilles citizen of the year one of the founders of meals on wheels she was photographed at the stouffville lawn bowling club her husband ron practises in the background she also volunteers at st marks church the silver jubilee club and with the heart and stroke foundation and the canadian cancer society 99 30plus years of volunteering recognized with award by jim mason staff writer it was only right that it took three days to notify whitchurchstouffvilles hew citizen of the year she had been honoured and when she was tracked down she was too busy with her volunteer duties to be interviewed audrey gibson was about to lead a group from stouffvilles silver jubilee club for seniors on a theatre outing to georgina thursday morning retiring high school legend wayne nugent to receive sports person of year award at strawberry festivalpage 7 she will receive the award next thursday evening in memorial park during opening ceremonies of the whitchurchstouffville strawberry festival also honoured will be wayne nugent who was named sports person of the year this week both awards are sponsored by the stouffville suntribune the selection committee included 2006 citizen of the year cliff dunkeld mayor wayne emmerson and suntribune editor jim mason mrs gibson was nominated by regional health care officials and local seniors who benefit from her work im still amazed by this mrs gibson see stouffvilles page 8 ffmmhgeb hot tubs 27 heritage rdn mmwhah 2948030 beoehcomber dont open your hood to strangers for peak performance this summer bring your wttc e home to honda for a ccntprehensive mutepoint inspection inducing a genuine honda oil and fi ter change asblebfrfohcod9moctelstisnotinaxkd ftovindalenvinanrnenta fecsifaryexduded wwwmarkhamhondacom mum it home to honda 8220 kennedy rd markham 18664301512 honda jlftwn and country realty ltd 6400m