Stouffville names charity parking ticket plan for late worker Linda Mainprize

Manager of municipal law enforcement died suddenly in June

Yorkregion.com
December 7, 2018
Lisa Queen

A longtime holiday staple in Whitchurch-Stouffville is taking on an additional heartwarming and bittersweet touch.

For more than 15 years, the town’s Toys for Tickets program has allowed drivers who received a parking ticket to donate toys and gifts to the less fortunate instead of a fine.

The program will now be known as the Linda Mainprize Toys for Tickets program in honour of the town’s late manager of municipal law enforcement.

With the town for 17 years, the popular Mainprize died suddenly on June 2.

“This program is a wonderful way to make the holidays a little brighter for less fortunate families in the area,” Mayor Iain Lovatt said in a statement.

“Renaming it after Linda recognizes what a wonderful, caring person that she was.”

Anyone getting a parking ticket between Dec. 1 and 16 can pay with an equal or greater value donation of non-perishable food, toys and clothing for babies and children and gift cards for teenagers.

Gifts must be in original packaging with no batteries or glue required. War toys will not be accepted.

All gifts are donated to the Stouffville Lions Club and the Stouffville Food Bank.

Drop donations until Dec. 18 at the town hall at 111 Sandiford Dr. in Stouffville from Monday to Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.