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hockey talk markham library saturday 1030 am wrtbum skateathon unionville arena saturday jan 26 whitchurch stouffville markham uxbridge thursday jan 24 1974 markham councillors win raise markham keeping pace with inflationary trends markham town council accepted a committee report tuesday and voted them selves a raise mayor tony roman will receive 11000 in 74 an in crease of 1000 councillors will be paid 6000 up 500 over 1973 opposed to the pay hikes were councillors bob adams and ron moran judge raps deliberate shoplifter markham a dog collar and a carton of cigarettes cost a 24 year old lady 50 when she appeared in richmond hill court friday charged with shoplifting the woman linda brad bury was stopped by a markham store detective and according to evidence admitted taking the items she declined to speak in her own defence however judge russell pearse had something to say shoplifting is a frequent crime storekeepers are continually being victimized with losses amounting to millions of dollars this was a deliberate theft the fine must be such as to represent a form of deterrent charge dismissed a second lady also charged with theft from a store had her case dismissed jean mary powers rejected a security guards evidence that an item in her purse had been taken and not paid for she said she had purchased it previously and had neglected to remove the price sticker the police officer connected with the case was not in court so the gown recommended the charge be withdrawn judge pearse agreed lions aid guyana boy markham five-year- old mark alleyne of new am sterdam guyana now has partial hearing thanks to efforts of the markhamunionville lions club mark was born deaf and because of this was unable to speak his father neville alleyne an official of the new amsterdam lions club ex pressed his concern to gord pearce a canadian teacher on exchange mr pearce had previously been a member of the markhamunionville lions and wrote to the club asking if members could provide help the result was that in november 1973 mark with his parents came to toronto to be examined at the hospital for sick children the flight and hospital stay was paid for by the lions the tests showed the youngster completely deaf in one ear but able to obtain 30 per cent in the other with a special aid the markhamunionville club paid for the hearing aid mr pearce told the tribune that the only hope for the boy was to come to toronto because there are no facilities for the deaf in guyana the alleynes arrived as landed immigrants and hope mark can attend a school for the deaf in scarboro the cost of helping the youngster has amounted to 1000 according to lion president gord forgie its money well spent he agreed in a recent letter to the markhamunionville club mr alleyne expressed his thanks you have demonstrated to us the truly wonderful spirit of lionism he said old house moves to new home markham residents undoubtedly rubbed their eyes in disbelief friday when they observed a twostorey house moving slowly up the street no they werent dreaming the 30ton structure with bricks removed was being relocated from its original site on church street to a farm on the ninth line north of 16th avenue lloyd baker and sons contracted to move the house and the operation took under three hours don bernard minister to tour 4 site markham hon robert welch minister of housing for the province of ontario is planning a visit to the north pickering cedarwood area to meet personally with local residents the tribune has learned the tour of inspection follows a plea by residents in the hamlets of green river and cedar grove that their com munities like locust hill whitevale and cherrywood should also be spared a spokesman for the cedarwood branch of pop claims the followingdirective from the minister applicable to property owners in cedarwood the recommendations follow d property owners whose home lie close to hamlets or the openspace area and who wish abandonment of expropriation should write immediately to the project director larry forster at the project office with a copy to mr welch minister of houng room 411 queens park toronto 2 property owners desiring appraisal should call the north pickering project office appraisers will not call doortodoor 3 planning activities by the plantown team have stopped until new guidelines are set down 4 residents in ex propriated areas who might wish to regain title to their homes at a later date and whose homes are considered com patible with new planning should write to larry forster with a copy to the minister of housing shootup york region york regional policeiare at tempting to track down the culprit who shot up a section of the provincial courthouse on 18th avenue near bayview monday night four bullet holes were discovered in the building tuesday morning when court employees arrived for work lead fragments were scat tered about the interior no one reported hearing shots a police spokesman said there are no homes close by girls crowd boys for hockey room markham is there room for organized girls hockey in markhams busy recreation program june boys of talisman crescent thinks so and so do fifteen enthusiastic players these gals ranging in age from 12 to 27 take to the ice in the centennial arena every friday night they practice or compete in exhibition games for an hour each week beginning at 11 pm mrs boys is their coach it all started back in may she explained she placed an advertisement in the paper calling for recruits there were 27 replies i was really looking for enough to make a house league and then intended to select the best for an allstar team she said however the lateness of the hour made it difficult for some of the girls to continue june comes by her hockey interest honestly at age 13 she was a performer with a team in west hill she retired five years later june feels the age spread between the girls is too great however she endeavors to give them all equal ice time regardless of experience tammy peterson and debbie coxworth share the netminding chores the lineup also in cludes heather dunkeld vicki mcdonald carol clarke linda elliott julie parish heather whittall linda ireson jo- anne montgomery cathy adamac pat ireson donna clarke sandra krainyk and kelly fenimore bob riddell of riddells towing has given the team a tremendous boost through the purchase of sweaters and socks he also pays half the icerental fee reconsider watermain taxmayor markham a 10 inch watermain has been installed along the east side of hwy 48 between 16th and 17th avenues under local improvement the town of markham had expected each owner to pay a share of the cost on a frontage assessment of 96 cents a foot over a debenture period of 20 years however council learned tuesday that residents have no such intention a delegation headed by lloyd coxworth markham rr 2 urged members to look into some other financing method for a service that not one of us wants mr coxworth suggested that since the watermain was installed initially to serve the needs of emerson electric co ltd and since the town as a whole benefits from the in dustrial assessment it provides then the entire municipality should assume the cost paul mingay a markham lawyer appearing on behalf of his mother pointed to the fact that her property with frontage of 1000 feet would be taxed almost 1000 per year by comparison he said emerson electric would pay only 750 he termed it a travisty of justice councillor ron moran in whose ward the project is located urged members to find some way to relieve residents of the tax in primarily agricultural area such a levy shouldnt be charged on a frontage basis he said councillor bob adams said action of this kind was common he admitted however that the town had been remiss in not notifying the people personally councillor roy muldrew suggested an arrangement whereby owners would be taxed only after they hooked up to the service a recommendation by mr mingay that the ontario municipal board be asked to review the original application was questioned by councillor harry crisp he doubted that such authority existed he wondered too how the municipality could spread the cost overall when none of these would benefit mr mingay suggested the council arrange a meeting with representatives of the delegation in an effort to work out a solution mayor tony roman promised to review the matter in detail he said too that the court of revision would be re convened and all residents would be notified of hearing dates don deacon urges cedarwood inquiry markham the new plan for cedarwood that would preserve three of the original hamlets in the area and provide a greenbelt buffer zone around the exterior does not earn the praise of don deacon liberal member yorkcentre mr deacon in a press statement this week calls it just a poor attempt to adjust a terrible nightmare into something less disastrous mr deacon is calling for a full public enquiry into the cedarwood plan that would provide people an opportunity to present alternatives to the continued metro sprawl mr deacon admits to a housing need he observes however that the current crisis is caused by a shortage of land on which the building of a house is permitted he feels more nonagricultural lots should be made available for this purpose the cost of such a procedure would be a fraction of the amount involved in the governments present land- buying approach he says it would also eliminate the serious injustice being done to those who own land in frozen areas and for whom the government provides no alternative guest speaker markham don deacon mpp york- centre will address a meeting of the markham- unionville newcomers club monday jan 28 at 8 pm in the auditorium of the markham centennial library mr deacon will touch on such current topics as regional government the north pickering cedar wood development and the pickering airport late hugh macdonald hydro manager tammy peterson guards the goal for the markham girls she shares netminding chores with debbie coxworth the team includes fifteen regulars ranging in age from 12 to 27 jim thomas markham a former well known ontario hydro central region operating superintendent hugh s macdonald latterly operations manager for northeastern region died jan 16 in north bay mr macdonald was widely known in markham and district he was active in local affairs and was a former president of markham tennis club memorial service for mr macdonald was held at st andrews united church in north bay saturday hugh macdonald joined ontario hydros engineering staff in june 1955 after graduating from the university of saskatchewan with a degree in electrical engineering he served at head office and in the niagara region and was operating superintendent for georgian bay region before coming to central region as operating superintendent in 1965 he continued in that post until jan 31 1971 when he was appointed station manager for sir adam beckniagara stations and transferred to the niagara region a year and a half later hugh macdonald was promoted to operations manager for northeastern region and transferred to that region on july 1 1972 hugh macdonald is survived by his wife vivianne and three sons ronald graeme and john the family resided on walkerton drive for more than six years when they lived in markham they now live in north bay hugh s macdonald