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Get involved. Your community has a his- tory of warmly welcoming steady streams of new residents during the decades. Most of you: long- time neighboms also moved here at some point â€" and chose to stay and put down roots. Party with purpose at our festz' val Newcomers are a hot commod- ity. Organizations are looking to add them to their rosters. to provide fresh blood and insight into what the “new Stouffviile" wants from its community. nations. govemmems and chum es that ignore this are miss- ing the boat. It's the equivalent of running I business and not I§Iening to your customers. In this edition of The Sun-1h- bune. a Markham theatre company. which is setting up a satellitelopcm- tion in Stouflville, is advertising for volunteers and anon. Similar appeals have been issued by churches, charity runs and othet organizations. . That's smart. Enjoy the festival. Celebrate our top citizens during tonight's open- ing «monies. 'Thkc In the fireworks and dig into a slice of birthday cake on Canada Day. Walk the closed Main Street. eat shop and hook up with old friends on Saturday. “kc in h concert. comedy night or the church service. all under the big top in Memorial Park. _ Have fun. but also check out the good works of our town The fesllval is a showcase of our community. It's one-slop whopping for those looking in get involved. Have fun. Whilchurch-Smuffvillc. while compIeting your wvekend homework assignment. Editorial “ agood Coyotes were in Stouffville before new houses anived "AVE you“ 8" RC‘WWSmWUt ’Whatdoyoumitofmmo: WW We’m’wwmbya'm' omzswmmmemm Wampum-a3. _ . _ * A_ --_l‘.\____ “â€" “wt ofthisarea. need‘w WWW remember we've moved into the Wild- mnaxa. where they used to“ inhabit invading the m time “In kn“: We'vg' taken (way their hunting grounds and an- , squeezing them out of space. All amund us. néar the lebmric Ici- sum (lemme. is precious given space whth cwmes‘live. These cuymes are out prowling fut his cats wander around outside. These rats are prime food for coy- mes in the area. The catsJo the coyotes 81¢th prime rib dinner to us humans who choose to consume It. I'd consider speaking to‘your new» bouts and asking them to I:ch their feline friends insideand not helping themdmvitednwyom-s into mumddenualaml'mmyoumd ymrchfldrcn mufeeluuxmuch safer. Myourncighbourwfllstfllbenblcto mioyhis felmefriends. 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' COLIN HIOMPSON \‘ n n M’FFVILLE Help'with saeen doot, anyone? lhavcascmendoorttutbockson to myyand. medogummboequendy tiwcatshaverippedthesueenaflof its moorings Ihawcilled stomandother assortedphonen deflvedfmm whenpace and found no solution to "Iva- Sum. if] want a brandoncw door mey’willbehappym meSSm otSGOOJ‘h’emwen-aoo' ufoutfits in1bmn!owmconwtoduehome.but not houses as far amyfifioufivflle ldid hmverflndasmonYou- [Ube that gave a series of step-by-step videos to do it myself. ’lhc bottom line? Is there ne (ml them in the WhitchurchSI aura who fixes screen doors? There mus! be a bunch of us animalvwning‘ urn-cwdoorists who need help. 6290ma WfiMLM 167 wwan GARY REID s'n >1 'FFVN l :- Bumqu-r Deborah!» An e-mail from Ygrk Regional Police got me thinking has! week. It promoted one of the service’s recruiting events. held across the region throughout the year My thoughts? What kind of people row up wanting to be policeo lcers. And thank God for them. I can't think of many mugher careers. You're ’constamly under microscope. be it through the court system. we in the media or the public at large. lathe Smart The": men? a lot of happy times. You're delivering bad news. be it Im theformofa ' ticket. orwmsc charmer ' afamilytheirkM-d one has been injured. or worse. Protecting our lives and propâ€" erty. working nights. weekends and holidays. I know people wan! to be cups. from theklds in kindergarten career days to some of my high schoul buddies Thank God for them. One of the biggest hoc key superstars in our neighbouthood watched his police partner get shot to death during a gun call in 1978. Anothet frlénd' battled hard to get on a police force. any force 0n last check. he was climbing up the ladder of the OPP while seeing all corners of lhe pmyincg. Newly“! death of York Cons! Garrett SMQS hits home for us all. BY now. we all know he was run over while making a traffic stop on Hwy. 48. just north of Whitchurch-Stouffvifle's border. a road take oflen by so many of us. A young father of Mo. A fellow York Region resident. He could have been your son. your brother or your neighbour. He was the tenth officer m York killed in the line of duty. Sadly that list Includes two members of our former Whitchmch force. (lonst. EdWard G. Holdsworth in 1968 and Const. Gould F. Milk in l968 Thank God for them ' It’m Mason is pdimr a] 7720' Sun Baum Thanks for taking thankless job with lim Mason Off The Top Duncwn. Amnsmu. Dim-mum Nu'oh' Hr!er WWI. ( ’PIIAUONB Barry (Mark