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issrsssxxsssssssssaasss yattiamj sssusssstnamtekt 5 md4 wednesday november 23 1983 saleing along bake and crafts sales are doing brisk business locally as christmas draws closer above linda dennis and betty keeling serve customers at the recent annual bazaar held by grace anglican church below the annual christmas craft show of the markham guild of village crafts drew good crowds to the markham community centre francis king twas the month before christmas and all through the town pens were heard scratching getting story ideas down enter the economist and sunmarkville christmas story contest resident elf francis king invites all you budding dicfcanses to enter the first annual economist and sunmarkville christmas sumy contest this is your golden opportunity to dust off the old underwood put pen to paper and wax poetic v for your trouble you could win the personal satisfaction of seeing your effort in print in the economist sun or the pecuniary satisfaction of a 50 gift certificate from the merchants at markville simply follow the rules below and mail or deliver your entry to the economist sun at 72b main st n markham before the entry deadline good luck and good writing 1 cottmtbopanloalrmldwoln mtrfchw ufmttmn of huun fa tfn cmtgonm undv 151j td aduk ii of olwl 2- mimiwii tongth of mdt story mutt b 12ndurmjr 1000 wor u17 1900 wordt is and om 2400 words 1 slorios mwt wcorporau ovotmw or tfw fuv souon wo tho noryfina but nosd not dotl with owwtmcs ratated lope a al ontnm mwai b original and irtould b uommad no utor tftan woanoadty 0c7tftpjn s oocmlonofthaiudomhrkulfincnmwil bo rudoad on origviatcy inloron and ntorummoni vatuo economistsiin imarkvilk shopping centre land division powers change by francis king staff reporter york regions nine municipalities in- eluding markham have made their wishes known about the regional land divi- sion committee with several deciding to drop out of it five municipalites markham rich mond hill newmarket georgina and au rora have stated they want the land divi- sion powers for their areas vaughan east gwillimbury stouffville and king township have opted to leave their land division with a regional committee the land division committee looks after applications to divide up land lots for hous- j ing and other developments markham taxpayers have contributed about 70000 to run the committee but under the pro vinces new planning act municipalities can take the responsibility back from the regional level the sooner we get rid of it up there in newmarket where land division commit tee hearings are held the better said markham councillor doreen quirk at a re cent planning committee meeting we can at least save people a trip to new market regional councillor carole bell agreed noting trips to committee meetings are often unnecessary sometimes the mat ter is just set aside she said its a pain in the butt and i dont see why we cant provide the service down here added ward 4 councillor bud bonner however councillors expressed concern about the town being forced to continue paying its share of the regional committee costs even after it takes back the responsi bility all five municipalities opting out must continue paying until the region of york act is revised because of this planning committee and council approved a resolution that will mean higher land division fees when mar kham takes over land division the higher fees will offset the regional costs the town will have to pay at the regional level councillors voted to end the present land division structure at the end of next march and request the pro vince to change the regions act regional information officer john scott said that date was picked in order to give the staff time to make the adjustment he added it will be up to housing and municipal affairs minister claude bennett to change the regions act and because of this the region will make its request as soon as possible when youre trying to get legislation changes through you have to work quickly because theres a fairly long lead time be fore the changes are made said mr scott town addition nearly finished the new look at markhams town office building will likely be completed by christmas james brown office superintendent for markhams building department esti mated the new addition to the town offices to cost 225000 will be finished by early december and ready for occupancy short ly afterwards the idea is to move as soon as possible before the weather gets bad he said the addition is being built on the north west side of the building which will be ex tended right out to the parking lot the gar den area in front uf the building will be retained although some repairs will be necessary near the addition site said mr bennett departments to be housed in the addition include parks and recreation basement building and bylaws ground floor and administration second floor roofing and duct work has been done re cently and floor tiling and carpet installa tion will follow drake 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