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The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), July 1, 1970, p. 4

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The Era Newmarket AuroraKeswick Out Wrt July 1 THE ERA Serving York County Since WNA DONALD GEORGE Police voice Money problems York County will have a single police force in operation by next Jan 1 Municipal Affairs Minister has decreed It must be forged from the municipal forces now in operation and in the forging the problems and peculiarities of each community in this widely diversified new regional unit must be provided for The police force that will emerge can not be smaller version of the highly successful Metro Toronto force or an enlarged version of a Newmarket or Richmond Hill force It must be an entirely new structure No outsider no matter how experienced a policeman and administrator would accomplish these aims as well as an experienced policeman already familiar with the area and its problems Mr has shown a high regard throughout the whole formulation of the York Regional concept for the preferences and of the leaders of the community We feel the countys police chiefs will have a strong voice in the selection of the new regional police chief should they choose to exercise it Yorks police chiefs should take advantage of that opportunity The chiefs already meet on an informal basis at regular intervals to discuss mutual problems They should meet within the next two weeks and choose the man among them who in their opinion is best able to lead the new county force S u E JOY Buck up old girl little rascal only have eight week and let you know ho The new Region of York has been promised grants from the province to help it for the change from one government structure to another These grants are a temporary measure The new regional government will receive about million in grants next year out of its total budget of million and the grants will probably continue for several years However they are not enough to solve the tremendous problems this area frozen by the TorontoCentred Region plan into a group of dormitory communities serving Metro still faces County and school board officials for instance estimate that of the new region will have to invest million in new schools hospitals roads and other services by This is a frightening prospect for an area which has been told by provincial planners it cant have heavy industry highrise Apartments ami other such tax producing development The solution is special treatment for dormitory areas either through permanent provincial grants or costsharing Editor of filthy unwashed hip- arrangements with Metro pies taking their drugs One way or another dormitory areas must be allowed that there wont be a I5 a share of the assessment of the rich citycore areas whose rock festival on Geor- workers they house and provide with roads recreation parks gin a Island this year sowers and other services are enough hip- After all the city benefits directly from the taxes SnLnislmcoo paid by the businesses and factories of these commuters without having to provide the services for the workers who make the taxes possible hundreds of thousands THE Readers ERA crying like a bunch of babies because they cant gel a cheaper rate Scott Young- from the knew that The Kid our daughti be eight was watching the Saturday who By this I will out of our bedroom and closed the door quietly behind me she was sitting there in her sleepers We waved and smiled at each other talk around place is kept to wandered across the dewy hillside to have a look at the horses That week we had put an electric fence around about 10 to acres of steep pasture that included a poplar bluff with a spring that runs all year round About 100 yards from the house I stop ped on a ridge overlooking the new field Well down below me I could see Big Tom Hes a 14yearold bay gelding half Hackney and half Clydesdale Until last year he was in the mounted division of a big city police force so he doesnt startle Bui there was something about the cock of his heid and especially of his ears that told me ho was looking at something very closely Suddenly he wheeled and tossed his big head The smaller mare Tinker who is carrying a very late foal tinned and meed SO yards and then stopped to stare As this happened a big doe bounded past them up the hill The white up like a flag She Big Tom followed her at a watchful walk giving the doe a careful onceover before he finally dropped his bead and took a bite of grass and then stood there chewing and looking at her I dont think his experience on city streets and then for a spell on another farm kid and the doc I figured the doe must have come along a gully that runs from the cast past the winter apple tree up from the low and dense cedar swamp acres- nut wire fence Sim wouldnt nuzzle the electric wire shes just bound Where would they sleep while they waited to got to the they island In the ditches on the roads on my lawn thats where If they come up here next year and they will over my dead body Im going to get the biggest hungriest dog find to keep them a te type of hockey they did last year In the second place why should the ice for subsidize the their hockey games the Aurora Tigei They say they lost money last year J and will lose this year unless they get a cheaper rate from the arena They have oven hinted that they may not be able away He probably wont go near them though because hell catch the MRS Island Grove Dear Editor I wonder if the The had brought him into contact with a deer before I could almost imagine what he was thinking Hey thats a heck of a big dog Id known that doer were around My wife had scon a big buck in another field one morning Id seen the tracks often around the spring ist a hard frost caught one wild apple tree with a load of apples still Every morning later when theied been a fresh snowfall I would find tracks around that tree if a whole herd of deer had been there eating the apples that fell in the wind Anyway light then I wished two things Thai had binoculars and that Id brought The Kid out with me so she could see So I went back to the house and told The Kid about it and picked up my binoculars She came in her and fuzzy red dieting gown The doe was still there although higher And The Kid hillside Sometimes I think children arent impressed as easily us adults and this was one of those times How could a child brought up on animal cartoons get very excited about a real live Anyway the kid wasnt all that impressed After watching for a few minutes she handed me back the glasses and started back toward the house I watched the doe graze slowly up into the top corner of the field where a rail fence mining north and south met barbed wire mining oast ami west She giaod to within a few feet of the wire and then simply bounded over I went back to the house and got more coffee The Kid his watching cartoons again while she dressed I pressed the issue i little as parents do Pretty interesting that eh I asked in a hazardous business and I wish them well but I dont think they should ask me as a tax payer to help make there next thcni vrottt if they play the SPENCER They By BILL GAMBLE- Dennis again Bill Smiley- sugar and spice the termites who want a holiday weekend The grand old of May with scorched fingers and the pungent stink of firecrackers has been whittled into just another Monday holiday speeches about our great Dominion the Fathers of Confederation ties with Empire and what a holiday into great guy the Mayo Theyi chipping away at And the only day of truly national Canadian importance celebrating the birth of our nation is due to go under to the pressures of commercialism Hardly anybody calls it Dominion Day anymore and some Industries and business firms simply ignore it When I was an urchin it was an impres sive holiday There were bands and baseball parades and panoply and interminable hoisted raffljffl W Canada Aurora has stolen a stale of the A It meant that school was really over at last that the endles summer had finally begun It was a strong punctuation mark in the If you had a cottage it meant your dad hid i day off to dint the f imily there get them settled gel the boat out It was often an allday job for the old man with ail average of about three flat tires en route If you didnt have a cottage and most didnt you wont to the ball game or swam in tin- fishing had family picnic If yon had a car Many didnt Those were peaceful days in the small frantic scramble for the there were few tourists take it easy The days located of luun decorat ed with bunting anil flags hoisted all own predating terry carter So far we havent been able find out what happened at thai meeting Campbell w early days of confederate both John A George Brown had Newmarket hi 1867 about the benefits foreign influence in our lure Canada Day have more significance II works are being displayed In the stores and there will be no parades or picnics in Hills ratepayers mi wrier- meshed nicely with and Major Tan The first Dominion Day celebrations here set a pattern for the years that followed a parade cricket match and a huge box lunch picnic complete with band In the woods and fields where Rogers Reservoir is and the hand has launched twoday birthday Mills i of I has several the or and the Rich- all them will traffic Wouldnt It be nice If revived Its Can- Day celebrations too he two towns joined Mr suit is going to meet with Campbell last week and registered in Metro Could it he that Mr Campbell Is saving the to strengthen bis bargain ing position in when Metro and the Region York must their common boundary towns There was tourist dollar been wore and long The smells and childrens and parents recking on the front porch Lemonade or an cream cone topped off the day which seemed hours of enjoying life What a change in those comparatively few years Today with good roads a car in every and i utiles- populace summer begins back iroum Easter with thronging the highways to get somewhere I m imt inmpl or trying to hold Up progress whatever thai is Just feeling a bit nostalgic about the leisurely pace of those days and wondering why were all rushing around like mils today Hut 1 can tell you one thing The clipclop of a horse and buggy on a soft summer evening was a lot than the squeal of tires and the bellow of motorbikes This summer Im in a bit of a dilemma Id half planned to go to England and Scotland and just nosey animal looking up some old pubs old and old girlfriends Hut my wife isnt keen Shes not much for pubs considers one old cathedral much like mi come to blows with the old girlfriends To clinch the latter Mb our student tic the vast ai my of the unem ployed At lost Hugh hasnt a job Last report Kins had one sht explained when she called to ouow money on the strength of her job but it was handling food and shes been knocking over glasses of milk and diupping cups since she Was one so we figure shes been fired Rut theres a beautiful alternative to the over tup In lot let to weekly editor- 1 suggested I might hire a liailci Ibis Hie lcjimi w is whelming though I I fishing for invitations warning them so that they could got out of town Alberta steaks Nova Scotia seafood and i urn tuna ishmg off In- Me Madame ape Breton And a dozen thing from lo liliallons Cant you see hundredpound tuna on the It is all too frequently a bane lo newspapermen that when they report politics and quote jrnli- they are invariably accused of not gelling their facts straight This writer has often been subject ed to such singular argument in the past Now however the shoe has suddenly found its way to the other foot Mayor nine- point reply to questions I posed two weeks ago in this column regarding the Dennis Crescent affair literally oozes crooked factgetting In this sense I use the term crooked as opposed lo straight No iddilion In the Post Office recommended avoid postal and Dennis Or Now if there were no peo ple living on Dennis where did the Post Office encounter confu sion To whom wore thev deliver- Why did the similarity Blvd cause when for year- between Donne doc nt appeal ed them a moment of dishonesty intended For instance in the first part of his ninepoint reply the mayor stales Prior to Cen tral Mortgage and Housing Corp developed plan and a street Dennis and them confusion The truth is that in late 19G8 there were no people living on either Ave or Dennis Crescent During that winter a construction company called Colony Ltd was busily laving curbs preparation for the This is incorrect The iyor refers to is named and joins Andrew St that The quest it follow that to Post Mrs William Van who lives on Ave and who by the way graciously brought this fact to my attention following my first Dennis column says that having a Blvd and a Ave in Ave on the other hand starts at Lome Ave in the Toworcrest sul division and ends al Rogers ltd This mean that we have Ave Denne Ave and Donne Blvd all named after the same yet Dennis Crescent named after another family had according lo the mayor to bo chan ged to Cr to avoid name Office in fact And if so why was it complaint The Fedora seldom if ever statements unless they mil in quadruplicate Nor is it usual for municipal governments to instructions fro Two fiulhei point- diet iich other states On t plan line just be the best theyre tinkering in make some of them It may imer yet despite the fact that round with The First of July example he the registered and street names of and Dennis In another part of his reply the mayor says In late the town passed a bylaw to change the Dennis street name to Roy- wood At this time there were already a considerable number of people residing on Dennie Ave But the most I asked and one which to have glossed over with consummate skill was Did the solicitor for the town in form Judge Martin that Dennis had It appears that to get the right answer to that quttion one would have to go direct to Judge Martin or to the Law Society of Upper Canada I cant help feeling that in of Dennis Crescent a com ity of justice has of the plote red To i Indiangiving by the Town of Newmarket The Dennis family which had owned and farmed that land since 1795 and had finally seen a street named after it was then accosted with the indignity of having that honor snatched away from it again The mere naming of a park Dennis Park will not blot out that indignity

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