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mhayakawa@yrmg.com Parents take note. Ifyou want your youngsters to play minor hockey next season, it will cost more. Exactly $100 more per player, which works out to a 25-per-cent bike for many. In unveiling registration fees for the 2010-11 campaign Wednesday, the Whitchurch- Stoufl'ville Minor Hockey Asso- ciation said youngsters born in 2002 or later will pay $500 per player. That's up from $400 for the 2009-10 campaign. The organization’s fees this past season were among the low- est of any minor hockey associa- tion in the regions of York. Dur- For those born in 2001 or ear- lier, it will cost $550 per player, up from $450. ham and Simcoe Association, president Don Easter said. As well, they hadn’t risen since the 2002-03 season. “We’ve managed to hold the line on fee increases over the past eight years despite annual increases in ice rental costs. Since ice represents 70 per cent of our Taxes, fees, programs lead to 25% hike Hockey fees set to soar SWe-‘li'ibune a: 73 E C A BY MICHAEL HAYAKAWA See RENT, page 4 SATURDAY, APRIL10,2010 I SERVINGTHECOMMUNITYOFWI-IITCI'IURCH-STOUFFVIJI I 28 PAGES/$1NCUJDINGGST SPRING INTO STOUFFVILLE. SEE OUR HOME CARE SECTION ON PAGES 7 TO 13. Harry Bowes Public School student lason Romanin, l3, puts a pie in the face of teacher Emma Sullivan as Alex MacKenzie, l3, cheers Thursday. It was all part of a successful $8,500 fundraising campaign at the Stoufl'ville school to build a school in Kenya through Free the Children. Students are still collecting donations to pay for school supplies and uniforms. Stimulus projects on track:Town BY SANDRA BOLAN sbolan@yrmg.com Whitchurch-Stouffville has received $276,604 of the $2.48 mil- lion it has been awarded by the province for five stimulus projects, but town officials are not con- cemed. Money has been received for work done on the rehabilitation of the Stoufiville Sports Fields next to the Stoufiville Arena ($42,166.50), Memorial Park’s softball dia- mond overhaul ($89,375) and for improvements to the Stouffville Arena ($145,062.50). “We're all very excited about these projects,” said Mayor Wayne Emmerson. ‘ WHTTCHURCH-STOUFFWLLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FACIAL, TEACH? Because money has been received by the municipality, it means some of the project work has been completed, which is con- trary to a recent Ontario Minis- try of Energy and Infrastructure project update, which lists all five Miltchurch-Stoufl'ville projects as not even being started. “They’ve nbt up to date," said There are, however, two projects yet to be started and therefore have not received any provincial money - the rehabilitation of McGowan Road between Vandorf and Aurora roads and the 9,000-square-foot Marc Pourvahidi, the town’s direc- tor of finance and treasurer. See MUSEUM, page 2‘ STAFF PHOTO/SJOERD WITI'EVEEN