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vol 90 no 37 whitchurch stouffville january 19 1978 20 cents 16 pages dulverton subdivision contracts omb hearing to come snow princess after all the recent stbrnis most adults are sick and tired of the snow but the kids cant get enough of it here bridget butt takes a little breather after trying to get completely covered in the white stuff annegret laniure stouffville last week the longawaited dulverton subdivision took a giant step towards becoming a reality the subdivision which will stretch from the 9th cone to the 10th wili add approximately 2000 people to the population of the former village of stouffville york regional council last thursday agreed to prepare design and contract documents for works that will eventually cost dulverton holdings ltd approximately 2 million contract documents were ordered for an estimated 100 per cent expansion- of the sewage treatment plant and for the construction of a 750000 gallon water tank in addition the region will request on behalf of the town that the metropolitan toronto and region conservation authority proceed with chan nelization work on duffin creek the developer has agreed to pay the towns 50 per cent share of the cost of channelization up to a cost of 500000 the approvals by york region are still conditional on riage pin over counci ns by keith bolender liuxbridge anger ahd disbelief was the reaction at uxbridges t t pinball store ovr councils plan to close down the shop council last week handed in a proposed pinball bylaw to the town solicitor for comments about the legality of part of the i jylaw dealing with restricting jlhat type of business on brock stit other areas covered in the bylaw included regulating the hours and days the percentage of- machines in a store and the age of unaccompanied children allowed in the shop the majority of council bullet hits into markliamhome markham a 22 calibre bullet crashed through the livingroom window of the gordon forgie home on 16th avenue west of highway 48 ibout midnight sunday and lodged in the wall luckily members of the family had retired for the night so no one was injured police said parts of- the bullet were retrieved from the wall they believe it was fired probably by a rifle and maybe from a moving vehicle pickering favored the bylaw as being good for thehownr however both the coowner andpatrons of the store heartily disagreed with councils reasoning and also expressed indignation at their plans jean rowlands who with her husband john are owners of the amusement place said she knows little about the situation no one has told me a thing and as far as i know council hasnt even been in here how can they judge something without checking it out first she asked she commented that the store which opened up last december has had no problems with unruly teenagers jean noted that the police- were in numerous times when it first opened to see the operation and that they registered no com plaints with her and they havent been back since so they must think its all right i love kids and this is a lovely group that comes in here ive- had absolutely no trouble with them in regards to alcohol or drugs or rowdiness they vjust want to i comevhere for a good time and a chance to play thats all she said she then pointed but that she saw nothing wrong or im moral about playing pinball that the kids look on it just as something to do and a place to go mrs rowlands admitted however that she doesnt like seeing the very young under 13 kids come in because they can spend a few dollars a day in the store and shes not sure where they get the money the store has come under particular fire because it deals exclusively in pinball and other amusment machines while the towns bowling alley also has pinball machines it is the ex- elusive use of them that council wants to control most of those playing at the time of the interview also voiced their objections and one person was definitely not your typical teenage player peter muller from udora is a middleaged man and father approval of the projects by the ontario municipal board mayor gordon ratcliff explained that the town has entered into a preliminary agreement with the developer and said the contract papers are being prepared so that if dulverton gets omb approval they can start right after that a municipal board hearing into the subdivision will be heard march 13 the hearing was requested by another development company which owns land north of elm rd the company charged a conflict of interest as the towns former planning consultant max sherman of macroplan was employed by a company which had part ownership in dulverton holdings ltd the town maintains that the planner wasnt directly involved in the physical planning for the subdivision the design and contract documents for the sewage plant will cost an estimated 100000 and the actual cost of con struction could run to another 900000 cost of design and land acquisition for the water tank is expected to be 60000 con struction could bring the cost up to 500000 dulverton has agreed to pay the entire 2 million cost according to the york region engineering committee report the extension to the treatment plant will allow the town to accommodate a population of 7500 mayor ratcliff estimated the population of the former unlikely the town will grow that large during the five year period as the demand for housing is declining once omb approval is granted it seems there will be little delay before construction getsunderway probably this spring the town recently issued demolition permits to clear the buildings recently vacated by gar lehman the former owner of the lands to be developed the farm house on the property one of the former stouffer family homes was a stouffville century home vofonehe wasplaving- -pinballv- village approximately 5500 and saw no harm in him or any teenagerplaying i come from germany and pinball is very common no one raises a fuss over them i am a parent and i know this is a place for the kids to hang out but where else or what else would they be doing- if they werent here there is no recreation in the area so the kids have no alternative they could be doing a lot worse things than playing a harmless game jim imboden 18 also felt he could do worse than playing pinball its a lot better than buying pot or booze the bowling alley has the same things but the crowd there is not as behaved as the kids here we are not here for trouble just for some entertainment whats wrong with that bill watson 19 of uxbridge considers himself a regular at the place and when asked for seebylaw page 3 mr ratcliff said the town expects the hew plant will ac tually accommodate 9000 people and leaveanother 1000 population figure for local in dustry we feel the plant will handle 10000 but we will have to check the efficiency before allowing another subdivision after dulverton said the mayor the towns new official plan which is not yet approved shows a population of 10000 in the former village by the end of the five year term of the plan mr ratcliff said it is who was that masked man no thats not the masked marvel in reality he is steve sinclair and he was just one of the many participants involved in last sun days cross country ski championship at dagmar the unusual face mask was just one of the ways the skiers tried to keep warm more pictures page 9 keith bolender man ordered to move horses stouffville a woodville man charged by york regional police under the dead animar disposal act was or dered last weekend to move 35 horses to more suitable tax increase pickering there will be no local tax increase in the town of pickering this year according to mayor jack an derson mr anderson announced at monday nights council meeting that the towns executive committee had finished its budget r deliberations last friday while the exact figures on the mill rate and town ex penditures were not available the town is expected to generate about 10 million in revenue this year t the towns local mill rate is ised for services such as fire protection recreation and hard services still to be added to the total tax bill are the budgets for regional council and school aboard large increases in the tax bill usually come from the school board surroundings or sufferthe consequence police said on oct 23in formation was received con- cerning a barn on the 9th con cession onehalf mile north of the bethesda road where animals werefound in allegedly deplorable conditions investigation revealed 35 horses were confined in a 35foot square building where there was ample waterbut food was in short supply and the animals were unable to move abouti also the carcasses of six dead goats were found at the rear of the barn and a pig and goat which had been dead for two weeks were inside the building the owner was finally traced to woodville and on jan 13 alan stanley pascoe 40 rr 1 15th line woodville was served notice it is alleged the animals some purchased at the stouff ville sales barn were being held for shipment to a glue factory the ontario humane society required that the animals be moved to a satisfactory location ballantrae gets otivn lions club bill watson in white coat tries his band at the racing machine in the uxbridge pinball store on brock st the store is being threatened by uxbridge council who want to restrict exclusive amusement machine operations those interviewed in the store were dismayed at councils intentions ballantrae the community of ballantrae may soon have its first service club tom wood is presently forming a lions club for ballantrae and said he already skate party for adults stouffville the adult population in town gets a chance to show off their skating skills at the adult skating party this weekend the event will be held at the stouffville arena this saturday jan2l at 8pm clarionjbaker will provide the skaters with live organ musicand admission is 150 per person the event is sponsored by the stouffville figure skating club has the required amount of charter members needed to form the club mr wood who is treasurer of the stouffville lions said the club would bring the- com munity closer it would help them in many ways he commented he is still taking in people who wish to become charter members which he said was considered to be a great honour he hojes the club will be operating sometime in march and that their first social func tion the charter night dance would be held not too long af terwards the dance is to raise money to get the fledgling club off the ground and mr wood com mented the event is usually a big money maker anyone interested in becoming a charter member at a fee of 10 calltom wood at 64iw680