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m flash conflagration vol 88 no 28 whitchurch stouffville november 20 1975 -i- 20 cents 28 pages parents group itview renovated byted wilcox stouffville a parents- organization from summitview school is planning to request action on school renovations from york county board of education janet arends of manitoba street who was elected president of the group told the tribune they expect to appear before the board in january when they draw up the 1976 budget i- a meeting of summitview parents wiil be held dec 1 8 pm- at the school to discuss the situation without proper facilities our children are not getting equal education mrs arends said wewant the same as any other school one factor holding off a decision by the board has been the uncertainties of future years with a new school slated in the north of town to ac company the dulverton sub division however mrs arends predicts a new school is at least eight years off i dont feei theres any reason our children should suffer for eight years she proposes the board go ahead with renovating the school adding a new classroom and an auditorium and then continuing summitview in use along with the new school for the north of town mrs arends also feels that by law summitview could be closed because of the fire hazard there earlier this year the on tario fire marshall told the york board that certain renovations were needed to make the school safe the parents group plans to have meetings the first monday of every- month- their primary reason for coming together has to do with the facilities at summitview but another issue they will discuss mrs arends said is getting the grade 8 students back in the public schools she said that keeping summitview in operation along with a- new school would facilitate having grade 8s within the public schools instead of sending them to stouffville dist secondary school the board had- included renovations for summitview in this years budget but it was not a top priority item mrs arends would like it moved up on the yst next year a spokesman for the group will be selected to appear at the first meeting of the board in january and mrs arends says we hope to have strong support from the parents they also plan to attend and voice their opinions at the planning and building com mittee meetings of the board the parents group hopes to persuade members of the board to personally visit summitview to view the needs there mrs arends said stouffville local residents have started a fire fund to aid a family of six after completely destroyed their home monday afternoon the fire left mr and mrs peter troian and their four children homeless the house was located on the 7th cone south of the stouffville rd cause of the blaze and estimate of damage have not been released it is under in vestigation by the fire mar shalls office and the york regional police police constable eugene kerrigan said that he saw the smoke and went to investigate he found the frame house a blazing inferno and turned in the alarm w around the same time a neighbor saw the smoke and also called the fire department mr troian was home along with her 15month old baby martha she smelled smoke and then left the house with the child ac cording to constable kerrigan three of the children were staying with a neighbor the alarm was turned in at 132 pm the fire was com pletely out of control by the time firemen arrived they attended until the early evening the blaze was so hot that the fire truck had to be hosed down the house was owned by the big trealj estate co of toronto earlier in the day stouff- ville firefighters had responded to a garbage fire in the back of the same house but mr troian had it extinguished by the time they arrived he was at work when the blaze destroyed the house later in the day the family needs clothing and a place to live the stouff ville kinettes have agreed to gather clothing for the family a troian- fire fund has been established with an account at the bank of nova scotia in town anyone with items to donate mav contact mrs stanley grant at 6404903 or 64056 jmo fine on late taxes stouffville council their municipal taxes on account last week made arrangements of the mail strike to afford relief to people late in the payment was due oct paying the fourth installment of 30 and usually a one per cent a airport is dead york region regional planners should proceed with the official plan- on the assumption there will be no pickering airport provincial treasurer darcy mckeough said following a closed meeting with york regional council monday- hedenied omheairportwould mean a o complete disruptionin the planning work being done on the officiarplan ghief administrative officer jack rettie said two weeks agouhat the airport cancellation would set the op back six months it is alreadytwo years behind schedule 1 mr mckeough agreed that the airport decision would have repercussions in york region but felt that the major impact will be in durham region he affirmed that the province will not provide the 400 million needed to service the airport the minister told the press that the provincial government would not renege on a promise that metro toronto will not be allowed to expand northward to annex southern portions of the region agriculture minister william newman who accompanied mr mckeough said the province is anxious to preserve farm land and that food isas important as houses other cabinet members at the meeting included en vironment minister george kerr and housing minister john rhodes month charge would be levied according to clerk- administrator ralph corner the number of people who have paid is about the same as last year at this time last year about 27000 had been collected and this year over 38000 has been received because of new residents and increased taxes the precentage is about the same explained mr corner the taxes go through a computer and if not paid on time the penalty is automatically added to the bill for this reason mr corner suggested a -petty- cash fund be setup in cases where it was felt the deliquency was genuinely due to the postal strike the penalty would be paid out of the fund mr corner said many cheques are coming in dated october 30 but he was of the opinion many of themhadbeen backdated i dont think theyd do that commented councillor becky wedley i wouldnt bet on it replied mr corner people who are habitually late in making payments will hot be exemptedfrom the penalty according to the resolution that was passed peter troian his wife and four children were left homeless when their house on the 7th concession was destroyed by fire the family lost all their personal possessions in the blaze as the building tf svvrr t was an inferno by the time stouffville fjre department arrived a fund has been started toaid the destitute family v john montgomery youths crash car hunted by police stouffville police are still trying to learn the identity of three- men who smashed up a car threatened local residents and then fled the scene the incident began last wednesday when a car went into the ditch and hit a pole on the gormley rd the resident in the house in which the accident occurred went out to help and when he approached three young men one barefoot ran away across the fields the man who said he fears retribution and so asked that his name not be used in the story set out to follow the fleeingmen packed house at sdss g ivi thomasjvvells right is shown heri accepting the yorkcounty board of education award for the v o 4 top grade 13 student at sdss markham trustee donald cousens made the presentation stouffville besides being the graduation ceremonies for 158 students friday night at stouffville dist secondary school was an evening for quotable quotes most of us truly waste life- sdss faculty member jim rehill said in the graduation address my wish foryou is that you may truly learn to live on a lighter note david harris inhis valedictory speech noted that it only takes a short time out of high school to realize that the most underdeveloped area in the world is just under the hairline a total of 49 students were among those to receive their honor graduation diplomas 19 of them being ontario scholars principal g d mccartney called it a considerable achievement for a school of this size mr mccartney also had a pithy maxim to leave with the graduates be careful what you seek he said some of you sought the p r and found mr mercers office on hand at the friday ceremonies was a crowd that packed the sdss auditorium and all but two of the honor graduates- returned to receive their diplomas three new awards were presented friday they were the canadian legion branch 459 poppy- fund awards the lions club art award and the music mania performing arts award v also featured at the graduation night were musical selections by the school- band directed by emhawley and it greetings to the graduates were brought by trustee donald cousens of the york county board of education in his address mr rehill also told graduates that our in- dividual influence in the world canbe profound and he urged the graduates to invite others to live a person lives as long as he experiences life as having meaning when we are true to ourselves- when we are in volved in the lives of others he said give your life to others and it will come back to you one of the men allegedly yelled stop or ill ishbot- you the warning was repeated twice more and the resident and a man accompanying him turned back the two men then went anti phoned the york regional police and were waiting for the police to arrive when thethree men returned and- said they were going to start the car and leave r at this time an ontario provincial police cruiser happened by spotted the ac cident and stopped the three men again fled across the fields to the south a short time later police received a call from a motorist who reported he was driving south on the 6th concession when a man jumped out of the ditch and attempted to flag the car down a resident on the 6th reported seeing three men skulking around in the ditch and crouching behind- the fence across from his home i alarge quantity of beer was v found in the car although the one man threatened to shoot police say noone saw any sign of a gun i police traced the car and learned it had been sold that day at the 401 auto auction in scarborqs- and that the pur- chaser york auto sales of duridas st w toronto had turned the keys over to a young man who- was jiired to deliver the vehicle ta the companys offices f a period of seven and nine hours elapsed before thecar was involved inthe we dont know hqwcrazy- thesepeopleare commented the gormley rd resident ive taken precautions to look after my homeand family they couldcomeback after us pioneer son dies stouffville funeral service was held yesterday nov 19 for one of the remaining members of pioneer stouffville family christie armstrong died monday in his 93rd year he was hospitalized last week as a result of a fall and was in uxbridge cottage hospital at the time of his dealth mr armstrong was born in stouffville and was a tailor by trade he had two brothers sam and bill who predeceased him christie had worked for john- monkhouse for many years mr armstrong also outlived his wife maizie he lived by himself in his albert st home prior to his fall he leaves nephews russell and murray nendick and bill armstrong and a niece ruth nendick parking spot lost to buses stouffville coun cillors cathy joice and eldred king put up a last ditch fight against the bylaw to remove a parking spot from main st at edward st the corner of main and edward streets has been the subject of some controversy as school bus drivers have com plained of difficulty negotiating the corner due to parked cars and poor visibility in spite of the continued opposition the bylaw to remove the parking spot was passed mrs joice said she felt it would make no difference to the sight line she told council she had gone down there in the morning and that a truck was parked further down the street and it still obstructed the view mr king said the problem exists at every intersection in stouffville and he agreed that- removing a parking spot wouldnt help the bus drivers but would only make it more dif- ficult for the merchants there he expressed bewilderment that tractor trailer trucks could go in and out of edward st to make deliveries without ex periencing any difficulties and yet the much smaller buses had great problems it is not ou of line to give them that extraspot rebutted councillor becky wedley she argued it would be hard to find another street in town with that much traffic in the morning and at night mayor jgordonmratcliff suggested the space be used for parking during the summer but there was some doubt as to whether this could be done council will attempt to ban parkingon the spot only for an thour in the morning and an hour i in the afternoon i