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ralph salb top student takes year to see world ralph salb stouffville ralph salb top graduating student at sdss at the age of 16 has decided to take a year off his studies to see the world ralph who graduated with a 948 per cent average from grade 13 will be leaving next month to visit relatives in germany and then hell travel to other european countries he was accepted at the university of toronto in the science technology course and plans to apply again- next year besideskalph 10 other year 5 students achieved a final average of 80 per cent or over and are being recommended as ontario scholars which entitles them to a 100 ontario scholarship for his efforts ralph will receive the york county board of education special award of 100 the chesebroughponds academic proficiency award and the art latcham 200 award he will be presented the awards at the graduation exercises to be held at the school in november for more stories and pic tures of the remaining ontario scholars see page 3 um vol 91 no 10 whitchurch stouffvslle july 13 1978 20 cents 16 pages durham farmers want noise bylaw exemption uxbridge durham region farmers should be exempted from municipal anti- noise bylaws says murray clarke mr clarke representing the durham region federation of agriculture came before uxbridge council last week seeking support for a resolution exempting farmers from such bylaws he told council that appeals will also be made to scugog bowmanville and newcastle the main agricultural municipalities in durham referring specifically to an antinoise bylaw in pickering that foiccd farmers to stop operations at 5 pm clarke stated that some farmers have lost money because it stops them from harvesting some crops he pointed out that the farmers did not want total year round exemption but just when harvesting season arrives because farmers dont have normal working hours their hours are dictated by the weather and by the harvest season such antinoise bylaws are unreasonable to the farmers argued mr clarke we wont be competitive if we dont have time to harvest our crops we need some protection he said mr clarke told council that the resolution is part of a campaignto eventually amend the environmental protection act at the provincial level the resolution was drafted at the ontario federation of agricultures november con vention although uxbridge does not yet have an antinoise bylaw mr clarke said that by passing his resolution farmers will be protected in the event such a see noise page two flycatcher wheres the ball well give you a clue its not in jean belisles glove jean who showed great form even though she failed to catch the ball was playing in a stouffville ladies fun league exhibition game last sunday despite numerous cries of ive got it ive got it the ball somehow managed to escape her enthusiastic grasp jeans johns girls team however went on to clobber their markham opponents 164 keith bolender 66 acre hardwood bush part of ballantrae parkland ballantrae a 28 lot subdivision in ballantrae is slowly crawling through the bureaucratic machinery of whitchurchstouffville the subdivision to be located on the northwest corner of the aurora sideroad and highway48 is on theproperty of melvin baker and has un dergone many changes in its 10- year history s a draft plan was approved at the planning board meeting of july fourth the board decided to take a 66 acre hardwood bush as the parkland dedication to the town while granting the developer three more lots in the subdivision plan this park dedication was approximately three times larger than the developers mandatory dedication to the town and was given to demonstrate good faith and with the hope that this would count as a park dedication for the proposed second phase of the subdivision- according to one of the developers planning boards decision not to accept the land as a part of the second phase agreement stemmed from the feeling that decisions regarding phase two were the responsibility of a future town council if the town had decided not to take the mature hardwood bush as parkland they would have zoned the bush as open brian marvin of unionville shows a smiling kelly morning of aurora the proper way to sew up a puppets foot brian is one of the students presently working at the whitchurch stouffville museum as part of their summer program for children seven to 10 years old besides puppet making the museum offers spinning weaving tool and costume displays throughout the sum mer the kids will be putting on a puppet show using what they make at the museums antique car show on august 13 for information on the program call 8954454 the tribune wins two national paper awards pit upsets residents stouffville residents of the sixth line near 19th avenue are concerned and irate over the amount of truck traffic newly generated in that area gormley sand and gravel has opened a gravel pit on lot 32 concession 6 of whitchurch- stouffville the company has been granted a temporary pit license to operate a wayside pit for a limited period of time the license granted under the pits and quarries act allows gravel to be drawn from a wayside pit for a specific purpose the gravel from this particular pit is being used in the upgrading of 17th avenue between highway 48 and woodbine avenue evelyn hadcock a 40 year resident of the area toldtbe tribune trucks have taken gravel from the pit as far south as steeles avenue mrs had cock worried that the road would take a pounding and that it wont get fixed until they do the rewidening the rewidening of 6th line is a project to take place at a future date that many of the longtime local residents oppose mr hicks of gormley sand and gravel said that fears of the pit becoming a permanent fixture in the area are un founded our license extends until june of 1979 but we expect the project on 17th avenue to be complete by the end of the summer he explained that the opening of this temporary pit saved the company a substantial amount of money allowing them to use fewer trucks on the job the companys closest pit to this job otherwise is just north of lemonville on the fifth line and it would entail at least twice as many trucks to meet the requirements of the job from that site many of the same roads would have been used regar dless of which pit we used pointed out mr hicks in reply to complaints that many truckers had not been using the most direct route to the job site mr hicks agreed that there had been some cause for complaint but that these problems have been dealt with and that all drivers are aware that they must follow the most direct routes to the job he went on to say that it was not always possible to take the same route as the job progresses particularly during the reconstruction of culverts and bridges mayor gordon ratcliff had received complaints about trucks from this pit travelling north into stouffville away from the job site and has filed a report with the ministry of natural resource he has received no reply to date from the ministry the niayor felt the arrangement made between the town of whitchurchstouffville and gormley sand and gravel to open the pit was a sound idea as it also saves the taxpayer money the pit will not be per manent said the mayor he feels that the company is doing its best to comply with the requirements of the license the tribune has won two 1978 national newspaper awards it was learned this week the paper placed second for best front page tied with the campbell river courier of british columbia and another second place award was won for best sports photo in our circulation category last year the tribune won the canadian community newspaper associations blue ribbon award for general excellence our sister newspapers the markham economist sun edited by stouffvilles jim thomas tied for second place for best sports photo and the newmarket era tied for third place for best front page this year all 10 newspapers in the inland publishing co ltd chain of weeklies won national awards in the tabloid category the top three positions for best newspaper overall in the top circulation category were won by inland papers oshawa this week oakville beaver and ajaxwhitby news advertiser our award winning sports photograph was taken by sports reporter keith bolender the picture showed the finish of a 100 meter junior girls race held at the annual stouffville and district public school meet last june robbie engels leans into the work of weed picking his friend in the background loves hard work and like many of ns could watch it all day this unique style is not part of the experimenui test project being run by the markham community conservation centre more details page nine space making it useless for commercial development the internal road system in the subdivision will run along the south boundary of the new development immediately to the north of the existing lots fronting on the aurora sideroad this has been done to allow- owners of the lots on the aurora sideroad an opportunity to sever their long narrow lots at some time in the future the newly created lots would front onto the internal roadway the routing of this internal road was opposed by councillors bill kamps and eldred king they felt it would cause piecemeal development in the hamlet the region earlier objected to the positioning of the project entrance on the west side of highway 48 the approved draft plan now meets the regions requirements with the entrance moved 1200 feet north of the lights in ballantrae site plan for plaza is signed stouffville the town of whitchurch stouffville has signed a site plan agreement with arrowhead construction the firm constructing the new harding gate plaza at the towns east end the plaza to be constructed at the corner of highway 47 north and main street east is the first phase of the develop ment which will feature small stores but no food store a food store will likely be included in phase two of the harding gate plan mayor gordon ratcliff said that construction might begin this summer the project was un successfully opposed by the whitchurch stouffville chamber of commerce at a recent ontario municipal board hearing youth drowns a scarborough youth who was attending a family picnic sunday afternoon at preston lake near vandorf drowned while swimming with his step brother police said ricky joseph richard 17 22 meadow avenue scar borough and his brother tom saunders 16 were in the lake near the preston lake camp grounds at 140 pm when ricky had difficulties and sank the camp shore patrol was alerted but were unable to find the boy york regionajpolice marine i division wefeisrcahedto thecl scene commencedragging operations about 2 pm and located the bodyinji2 feettpf water fr