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votinq day oct 21 9 am to 8 pm wht wrifxum east york plowinq match oct 23 vol 83 xo 21- 18 pages stouffylllenvhrrchurchmarkhamuxbridoi thursday october 2e 197 phone 6402101 15 cents sports caravan for town stouffville stouffville has been selected as a location for the governmentsponsored sports caravan project a leadership type program authorized by the federal department of health and welfare the centre on wheels will serve all communities within a radius cf 15 miles including markham on the south claremont on the east vivian on the north and gormley to the west sports 71 as it is called will operate here from nov 22 through 25 all phases of athletics are involved mayor ken laushway has been working for the past week organizing the program at the local level a host committee has been selected with the first meeting oct 20 plowboys win county honors hagersv1lle two junior plowmen from rr2 claremont brought honor to their area oct 13 topping thirteen other entries in the intercounty class at the in ternational plowing match douglas dunkeld and bruce pearse scored 2768 points 5 points ahead of the team from the county of haldimand they were presented with the gulf oil canada limited trophy at the awards banquet held at hagersville friday in third place was the entry from york comprising john sheridan stouffville rri and peter hulshof stouffville rr3 community centre canvass lemonville with the former lemonville public school scheduled for the auction block oct 30 residents in the area have only nine days in which to raise 10 percent of the purchase price if the property is to be retained for a community centre plans for a doortodoor canvass extending from con cession 5 to 8 were outlined before a public meeting in the whitchurchhighlands school tuesday to complete an estimated 400 calls forty volunteers are required committee chairman reginald fairbanks explained if the purchase of the site is not successftfl all monies will be refunded he said if the site is acquired receipts for income tax purposes will be honored a goal of si 5000 has been set to date s2000 has been donated the york county board of education has had the property appraised the building is located on a private road and restricted to institutional use uxbridge in autumn a picture no artist could paint with the chalk lake area of uxbridge township only a thirty minute drive away its not necessary to travel hundreds of miles into northern ontario to view the autumn colors so it was last weekend beauty beyond description and enhancing the scenery even more was pretty 18 year old sally schell daughter of mr and mrs harry schell sunset boulevard stouffville las thomas blame dept for ballantrae school delay ballantrae i think people should know its not our fault this is an example of poor planning by the department of education these sentiments were ex pressed by mrs margaret coburn at a recent board of education meeting while trustees were discussing a report on a proposed addition to ballantrae public school figures submitted revealed that the school with a capacity of 195 students presently has an enrolment of 38g this increase has occurred despite measures taken to reduce it such as placing grade 7 and 8 students in high schools board rejects 30000 offer vandorf thirty thousand dollars for the 2room public school at vandorf that was the highest of five tenders received by the york county board of education and the trustees turned it down while the reason for the rejection was not fully explained when the board met oct 12 it vandorf police office to close this year was later learned that the propertys debenture position had some b6aring on the decision also turned down were prices on the old hagerman school ts22no and pottageville school s27250 fifteen tenders were sub mitted for the hagerman site and seven for the pottageville property to date the only figure agreed on was for the school at mount pleasant the highest of three bids there was sg000 an addition of 105 pupil places was planned last year but ac cording io mrs coburn was delayed by the department the new proposal is to add six more classrooms in addition to the earlier planned increase and to make ballantrae the site of a central school this would more than double the size of the present structure the report noted that the school has been overcrowded for two years now and terms basement classrooms sub standard while the earlier addition has received approval from the department of education no move to begin work has yet been made contracts have not been let nor have construction lenders been called director of education sam chapman replying to questions from the trustees explained that it would be unwise to combine the two plans as this might further delay approval the board voted to build the extra classrooms the proposal now goes to the department for its okay syndicate firm reveals plans 1000 homes five developers involved stouffville the time when signs on the outskirts of town will read stouffville population 10000 was pictured vividly at a meeting oct 15 whitchurch stouffville council sitting as a planning board heard a series of proposals a group of developers recently banded together as a syndicate are seeking approval of a project which would in crease the size of stouffville by 50 percent and double the present population the syndicate includes stouffville developments ltd dulverton holdings suncrest construction fryn in vestments and perivale in vestments in general terms they are proposing to build over 1000 new liomes on the north side of main street the suggested site has its eastern boundary at highway 47 while the western edge is about halfway between hwy 48 and the ninth line the two largest landholders are dulverton which has 138 acres and stouffville developments with 67 acres the other partners hold less than 20 acres each james carthy of the legal firm of weir foulds was retained to represent the syn dicate he explained that dramatic increases in the cost of sewage treatment facilities and channelization of duffins creek had led to the developers ban ding together mr carthy stated that his clients were prepared to pay a fee of si 000 for each lot as soon as plans were registered he emphasized that development would proceed by stages each phase being decided by engineering factors and subject to review by the municipality a formula he said would have to be found which would be ac ceptable to everyone special initial costs amounting to over a million dollars were cited ex penditures of a quartermillion dollars are envisaged for each of two stages of enlarging sewage treatment facilities pumping capacity improvement is budgeted at 550000 a new well will cost 55000 and a new water tower will be built for ap proximately 500000 this work would also be done in stages to correspond with construction mr carthy and magnus paulson planner for the group explained that the size of the proposal was no real problem size is a necessary part of what were trying to do said mr carthy were trying to break the logjam on planning and theres no other way to achieve this council members listened carefully to the proposals and asked a number of questions amalgamate town of uxbridge and township brief asks abolish county school boards vandorf for the past 25 vears theres been a police station in the hamlet of vandorf first was the o p p then the whitchurch force and now a branch of the york regional department as of dec 1 however this arrangement will end the vandorf office will be closed and the personnel shifted to a central quarters at newmarket closed also at the same time jvill bo police stations in aurora king and a smaller one in newmarket the king and newmarket buildings will be returned to their respective municipalities the vandorf and aurora stations will be retained for a time pending a study of future requirements the recommendation was djscussed only briefly at a meeting of the regional police committee monday chief bruce crawford said the move would make more officers available for highway patrol the request was approved unanimouslv skating sunday stouffville for the first time since its opening 22 years ago the stouffville arena will offer public skating on a sun- dav the date is oct 23 and the hours from 2 to 4 pm the regular saturday night has been taken over by the wexford jr b raiders due to the fire loss of tamoshanter uxbridge twp the hands of municipalities have been tied by antiquated and inadequate provincial laws no more regional governments should be formed in ontario uxbridge township should be amalgamated with the town of uxbridge and all county school boards should be abolished these and other forthright statements were contained in a brief submitted this week to uxbridge township council councillor frank hendy author of the report made an exhaustive study of the regional government question with special reference to the oapad study conducted in the oshawa area the breakdown and rejection of the study justifies the retention of county govern ment said mr hendy referring to rejection of the report by ontario county he said many people were glad it was turned down mr hendys brief claimed that regional government had not been accepted by the people of this area he suggested formation of a rural region to include the northern ontario county townships this he said could be called the region of ontario and would be selfsupporting a similar suggestion was explored by the oapad report mr hendys report covered a number of areas of concern some councillors impressed by his presentation expressed an eagerness to study the document while reluctant to comment further before reading the report in full council members seemed generally to disagree with the plan that would amalgamate the town and the township copies are to be made and distributed the report will be discussed fully at a future meeting he kissed her hagersville it took a little persuasion but head table guest clark young of unionville went one step farther than to shake a contestants hand at the awards banquet in hagersville arena friday he kissed her mr young was asked to present a bulova wrist watch to the winner of class 31 a pert 18 year old wendy opersko of r r 5 waterford came forward mr young the elder statesman on the opa directorate went through the routine of the customary handshake until someone from the audience called out hey clark you can do better than that kiss her he did the matters of approval at higher levels financing schools industrialresidential balance traffic patterns and a c n level crossing were all discussed mr carthy stressed the flexible nature of present plans and a desire for close con sultation with the municipality it was decided that the solicitor would draw up an outline of the proposals covering all aspects were heavily committed to our zoning review at present observed mayor ken laushway he suggested the two groups might meet again in november parking for a goat stouffville manager jack chambers of the stouffville iga thought he was seeing things saturday when he looked out into the parking lot at the rear of his main street store there in one of the pre- marked stalls was not a car but a fullgrown goat the animal was found grazing in the park by 6 year old ricky ewing main st east and the two soon became friends so much so that the goat refused to leave albert brown tenth line south took billy in tow and at present he remains unclaimed in the farm pasture these supermarkets sell just about everything now days commented one shopper cyclist injured claremont two young men were injured one seriously when the motorcycle they were riding went out of control on the brock road north of claremont and rolled into a ravine paul finlay r r 1 good wood driver of the machine remains in the intensive care unit of searboro centenary hospital with multiple frac tures his passenger nelson lund of richmond hill was treated and released i theft spree stouffville a 19 year old stouffville youth appeared in court oct 14 charged with seven counts of theft from newspaper boxes in markham whitchurchslouffville and vaughan edward joseph dion main street was arrested by detective bruce findlay and patrol sgt donald hillock york regional police