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Clippers off to Ottawa for tourney, worldjuniors -'Ii'ib une ( SUNDAY, DEC.28,2008 I SERVING THE COMMUNITY OF WHITCHURCH-STOUFFVILLE I 16 PAGES IN 2 SECTIONS/$1 INCLUDING GST Stoufi‘ville Sun BY MICHAEL HAYAKAWA Staff Writer The Christmas holiday period is usually a time when youngsters are away from school and enjoy- ing downtime until the new year. But for several Stouffville Clip- pers rep hockey teams, the Yule- tide season represents a busy but enjoyable period when they take to the road to compete in the numerous high profile touma- ments staged this time of year. Among those entn'es spend- ing the holidays away from home are the Clippers minor peewees, minor atoms and atom AE squads. All three entn'es will be mak- ing the trek to Ottawa to compete in the Bell Capital Cup from Dec. 28 to Ian. 1. Shawn Leonard, Clippers minor peewee head coach, noted the event is the world’s largest hockey tournament with 485 teams from eight countries in attendance. Leonard noted plans to par- ticipate in this event began in August when they made an appli- cation. From there, they had to wait for confirmation. “The kids like going to any tournament and they’re pumped,” he said. 3 squads in Bell Cup, world ’s largest hockey tournament To seed the participat- ing teams, they had to submit gamesheets from last season and 294-8030 27 HERITAGE”! Sec “"5, page 94 Whjtchurchâ€"Stoufl'ville bylaw officers Linda Mainprize and Keith Saunders sit among the toys and food more than 200 people donated in lieu of paying their parking ticket during the Toys for Ticket campaign. Parking violators paid tickets with toys Here’s one heartwarming story from the Christmas we just cel- ebrated. The town says more than 200 overnight parking tickets were paid forwith toydonations instead of cash, during the third annual ‘NECESSARY EV|L’ 0F PARKING TICKETS DOES GOOD FOR NEEDY CHILDREN HELPED BY LIONS CLUB BY SANDRA BOLAN Staff Wrirer Whitchurch-Stouffville Toys for Ticket campaign. “We don't like issuing tickets, but it’s a necessary evil. The camâ€" paign is a great way to give back to the community," Keith Saunders. Whitchurch-Stouffi/ille's senior bylaw officer said. The Toys for Ticket campaign lasted 10 days starting Dec. 1. All toys and food donations went to the Lions Club's Christmas Ham- per program. Each ticket had a monetary value of $50. During the cam- paign, overnight parking violators were given the option to either pay the ticket or pay the town with $50 worth of toys. “We could have taken the Opinion ‘ Sports . . ‘ Classified money and bought toys with it. but then that would have been using taxpayers' money." Mr. Saunders said, and they didn't want to do that. Although residents were gener- ous, Mr. Saunders did note more people opted to pay the $50 cash instead of buy toys this year versus the previous two years. Sam Carridt enjoying time with Brampton Battalion