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thursdAY, may 19, 2016
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Light up the weekend Town hosting free fireworks in Ballantrae Sunday
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Citizen of year? Nominations open for annual Sun-Tribune awards PAGE 17
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Shane, Liam and Niall Kavanagh of Stouffville enjoy popcorn in the on-site jail cell during a York Regional Police Police Week Event at the Community Safety Village in Bruce’s Mill Conservation Area Saturday. See additional photographs on yorkregion.com
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Fort Mac wildfires ‘mind-boggling’ By Ali Raza
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WhiStle Radio founder evacuated from oil sands
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Out of the frying pan, out of the fire and thankfully back home. Former Stouffville resident and WhiStle Radio founder Jim Priebe evacuated his Alberta work site with several hundred other workers as the Fort McMurray wildfire grew out of control.
The former candidate for WhitchurchStouffville council had been working in the area for the past three and a half years. He worked an hour south of Fort McMurray near the town of Anzac on an oil sands project. “Think of the smoggiest day you can imagine, and it’s a hundred times that in terms of air quality and debris,” Priebe said. “The fire spread so quickly, it’s mind-boggling.”
On occasion he went to Fort McMurray, but the last time he was there it was the beginning of the massive wildfire that soon engulfed the region. “There were a lot of police cars around shutting off access to different roads,” he said. “The air quality was just horrid, you could really See TENSE, page 38.
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