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REVIVE YEAR OLD TRADITION AT SHARON TEMPLE Students from Notre school have conducting their own campaign over he past several weeks Above the students sing as they march down Main St currying placards and posters While Photo Pollution expert hopes students keep enthus NEWMARKET Spoaking to two student assemblies at Newmarket District High School last week Dr Philip Jones noted biologist and cru sader for nil pollution legislation told his audience he is discouraged at the lack of sincerity in the adult attitude on pollution Dr Jones warned the students against the Idea that a one week campaign would be all that is required Dr Jones was the guest speaker at both a junior and senior student assembly as part of the week- long environmental pollution week sponsored by both elementary school students in Newmar ket Also at the meeting were rep resentatives of the Ontario Water Resources Commission Mayor Tom Reeve Clare Salisbury of Aurora and a student chorus from Notre Dame Separate School under the direction of leather Randy JONES The Notre Dame pupils sang a lampooning life in the city and pollution problems and five high High School students also involved pollution drive sent a work force to up parks in town Jnne Evnns on the left and Jean fight over piece paper in he conservation area around Fairy Lake The high students also toured I ions Park and some of the main thorough Notre Dame student From left they are Ron and Kick Last the high school students to he Philip J a symbolic coffin for pollution I Mike Kevin the Notre Dame students joined a speech by pollution expert Dr SHARON Musicians will play from the gallery of Sharon Temple this June 7 for the first time in 100 years The occasion is the June meet ing of the York Pioneer and Historical Society at the temple It will feature a musical program by the Metropolitan Music has always been closely linked with the Sharon Temple the tem ples very existence is a consequence of David Willsons love of music The Silver Band of the Children of Peace that offshoot of the Quakers built the temple under the leader the best go It won American championship in 1 This and other aspects of the music of the Children of Peace will be described by Society executive member A at the June meeting In the temple and other pioneer mel glass and instruments of the original band There will also be demonstrations of spinning weaving and open hearth cooking The meeting PAGES VOL NO 15 CENTS Newmarket 8052331 Aurora ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MAY 1970 Newmarket on verge of buying industrial land from Towercrest NEWMARKET The town Is on the verge of closing a plus deal for about acres of industrial land and a parcel of parkland along the Cane Parkway ll was disclosed late last week Town Council has been trying to close the deal with Towercrest Develop ments Ltd the original developer of the subdivision since last fall It already has Ontario Municipal Board approval to bor row for the acres or Indus trial land A subdivision between Towercrest and the town signed over two years ago became the basis of the seven- month long dispute Town council claimed the agreement bound the firm to sell the iit lusti land either to the town or to an industrialist wishing to locate there fixed price firm interpreted it was only bound the fixed price It sold agreement offer to the town The firm has offered to sell all its industrial land ex cept acres plus a parcel of land along the Holland River zoned as open space to the town at 2500 an acre meeting and a new building facing has subsequently gone up there Council made a formal offer to purchase then turned he matter over to sell to industrialists behind closed doors made a second offer They would buy the industrial land at the agreed price but would only pay an acre for the park land At the same time they apparent ly indicated they would parcel to Ontario The package deal offered by Towercrest adds up to about acres more than the town originally counted on buying and so would add about 30000 to the price bringing It to about 130000 Towercrest turned down the sec ond offer but the firm said it would make mortgages available to the town so It could finance what It couldnt pay for The councillors ordered town of ficials to proceed on that basis and the terms of the agreement if any arc ex pected before a public meeting of coun cil this week Edwards subdivision hangs on one vote NEWMARKET Approval of the Edwards subdivision appar ently hangs on a single vote in Newmar ket Council this week An industrial street on which buildings ranging in cost from to would bo erected is also in cluded in the Edwards proposal Total the builder at The subdivision is planned for land west of the Eagle Heights subdivis ion and overlooking the Holland River and future Cane Parkway The agreement between the sub- divider M Edwards and Son Ltd and the town has been under consideration by council since last fall Final wrinkles apparently irtiiicd out at a council committee of tho whole meeting May 12 but opponents of the subdivision objected to the mayor call ing an immediate council meeting that evening to finalize the towns approval A test vote on this question re sulted in four in favor and four against The major broke the tie by voting in fa vor but was reluctant to push council outside its subdivision on Cane Park way and the existing St in stead of paying lot levy the own would usually require on a lines the The about six acres of the industrial land the town hopes to buy from Towercrest Opposition to the subdivision is apparently centered around Deputy Reeve Bruce Eves contention hat the whole subdivision should drain south instead of just part of it However the subdivis ions engineering has the approval of both former town engineer George and present town engineer Mike Perkins Ontario Water Resources Commission en gineers and provincial Energy and Re sources Management department engine- There is also a rumor that some members of council will attempt to block the Industrial portion of the subdivision by tabling a motion to rezone the indus trial land for apartments However this suggestion has ne ver been discussed in a public meeting of council Mr Edwards has told council if approval of the subdivision agreement is not forthcoming from council we are go ing to apply to the Ontario Municipal Board to fix the terms of the agreement GEORGINA POLICE ISSUE Charges unfounded says judge Ontario Police Commission said last Two former officers on the force Kenneth Bromley a veteran of 21 years on the Metro Toronto Police and James Davenport 33 charged last month Mr Bromley a probationary fired by Chief Leonard ivenport resigned in protest Judge Graham said Commission investigators found the Police department to be in pretty good shape He said the force did issue officers with baseball bats in cases of emergency such as attacks by dogs Mr Graham said all police were issued with standard billy clubs and the bats were merely for extra protection Judge Graham said the police were given a regular issue of bullets for their service revolvers Extra bullets above the regular supply may have purchased by some police officers for ex tra practice the judge explained All the allegations are generally Mr Graham said Town ship Reeve Ernie has since told the policemen they can have all the bul lets they want The judge also said the departments radio communication sys tem has been improved Its not too bad a force for its size However we were pleased to see that the department will be unified with the rest in York County to form one large force he said Judge Graham said there is no way Constables Bromley and Daven port will return to the police department unless council voles to take them back Reeve said last month that this would never happen BOUNDARY TALKS TODAY NEWMARKET Newmarket and East councils have been summoned to Queens Park today to dis cuss mutual boundary problems with Municipal Affairs Minister Darcy Keough Mr MeKeoughs twoweek old York Region report recommended that Newmarket annex the urban portion of East Township but left the question of whether all of the township join Newmarket to be settled by the two municipal councils He warned that the decision must be made before the York legisla tion is drawn up The minister has called a the Inter- Municipal Committee a This meeting will decide boun ces and finalize size of councils and form regional council representation Newmarket council indicated they prefer a nineseat council eight councillors and a mayor but they want their second regional representative di rectly elected Mr had said this second seat would be filled by coun cil naming one of its members Aurora this week opted to retain its nineman council but turned down a In the north end of the county of the municipal councillors from North and town ships and Sutton met Municipal Affairs department officials making a whirlwind tour of the county Friday to seek reac tions and to explain the implications of regional government These three municipalities bo come Township under regional Consensus of the meeting was that the name Georgina would be relained that a ward system would be initiated but that ward representatives wouldnt have to live in their wards and they asked that the method of naming the areas second regional council member be left open Close assets under gavel NEWMARKET The supplies cars anil equipment of Art Close Chev- Ltd at Davis Dr and Highway will be sold by public auction on May The building and property has been sold to accommodate a new Gray Coach bus terminal Auctioneers are J and by It trustees in bank- In the event of a MAIL STRIKE We will attempt to deliv your Ero to you as it will be business as usual For our mail subscribers Newmarket and Aurora where we carriers you will receive you For the Pick up addressed copy The the following depots BradfordDavis Pharmacy Holland Land Generc Holt- General Store SuttonBiv Store Cedar ValleyCedar Valley Post Mount Drug 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