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UK Era Wet November THE ERA Serving York County Since DAVID HASKELL CARTER DONALD JOHN Resist school lot levy York County residents and the municipal councillors who represent them should resist any attempt by the county board of education to impose an lot levy on the construction of new homes The board of education wants this lot levy to pay for new school construction The issue arose last week when the board held approval of the next phase of the Ladyfield subdivision located north of Davis Dr until it received the What this new board policy means is this EVERY new home built in York County will now have an extra tacked on its purchase price It means that the home buyer will be paying interest on the for the term of his mortgage This will result in the new home buyer paying thousands of dollars more in interest charges It also means that the assessed value of his home will increase by This will result in the homeowner paying many thousands of dollars in extra taxes over the years The board wants to impose this lot levy on new homes so that new schools in new subdivisions will be paid for by the new home buyer In Other words the school board is attempting to pay for new school construction by taking the money out of its bank account and paying for it without having to borrow the money York County school board trustees are either living in a dream world or living in the past How many of our municipalities are able to write a for municipal improvements and not have How many of our readers are able to buy a home a car a TV set by writing a cheque these days How many of us borrow the money York County Board of Education trustees should stick jobs educating our children They should not stick their noses into residential devel- but leave that to the people who were elected for that our municipal councillors Prolonging inevitable Aurora Hydro Commission is prolonging the inevitable by not raising its consumer rates on Jan 1 The increase in rates is necessary because Auroras supplier of electricity Ontario Hydro will the town an average of seven per cent at the first of the year Aurora commissioners feel it will be unfair to the rates again since it did so only last August As a result when the Ontario Hydro rate increase goes into effect Auroras Hydro Commission will be operating in the By not raising its rates s mean that the inevitable rate business operates in the red it mt everyone knows it costs money to Equipment purchases and modernization schemes postponed when a business is in a shaky financial position Post poning these could cost hydro users more in the long run Aurora Hydro should not prolong the agony It should increase the rates at the beginning of the year and save electricity users money the first of the year it could will be borrow money to money Scott Young Ill never forget before on the morning of up for maybe an hour lucky chance I anyone else at our house on the mcmbraiice Day and When I turned on the radio low the song being sung was When The Lights Co On Again All Over The World Later while I was making coffee another voice was singing Therell he bluebirds over the while cliffs of Dover tomorrow just you wait and see And still later when I went to the window and looked out into the beautiful morn ing the song was Sad gongs Why sad Well they are always saddest for me on a beautiful Remem brance Day and this one was beautiful In the field below our house the weeds were frosty and glittering in the new sun a dead dullwhite where shaded A plummeted through the air and beyond it southeast over the woods toward the lake the sky was clear and blue I didnt lose any relatives in war A few friends Many acquaintances But all the ones I knew who are so long gone now had known and sung these songs Smiley I have just got home from something as rare and delightful as a personally conducted lour of a teachers staff that lasted only half an hour This is iiivilciit to building the Pyramids in three The songs are sad because even dur ing the war when we were all up singing them in England pubs we knew that many would nt live to see the bluebirds or the or the lights when they went on again or their own private and personal the quick and lovely girls of then who now are mostly mid dleaged In the last few minutes before eight oclock that morning a man on the radio gave a moving reading of the poem In Flanders Fields I liked listening to it alone I was glad that there were no young sters around to ask why I was listening and ask why Ilui the radio dial usually sits This is because I have no desire to harangue anyone especially the young on what the- means to me The truth is that Remembrance Day is for adults only as was Armistice Day when I was young and did not know either Maybe some day if there is no more war Remembrance Day will cease to have mean ing at all to anyone Meanwhile to those of us in our fifties or more the day has meaning in memories and always will Memory of a sandyhaired and stocky young man who was always laughing when I knew him and wasnt a very good Spitfire pilot his squadronmates told me Rut he died flying Memory of other men who arent around to see the sun hit the frosty weeds or the first snow on a beautiful November morning be cause of the 88 they didnt hear coming the tracer that for once didnt conform to the optical illusion of bending upward and overhead the drone in the night of aircraft that werent ours A little snow thai fell a few days ago and melted fast in the towns and cities near our place stayed white on some of the shaded spots in the ditches and fields On the night before Remembrance Day as we drove home at midnight the sky was bright and clear and the white fields were still and quiet outlined by the fences A rabbit was crouched by the wood pile as we came up the lane And when the sun came up the next morning all of this that is so beautiful to the liv ing made me think of the people 1 knew who are long dead and far away This in turn made all the songs seem sad to me schedules are maintained This Is under standable since a bus can only go as fast as an al ready clogged highway al lows Is there any not Who can justify such a scandalous figure hope somebody can I hope the people of this Region will somehow have the oppor tunity to be heard on this matter Hear Editor The Optimist on cable TV last week- end was really a boost ft the club Newmarket and Yardley TV Mount Dear Editor I think the method used by the members of the Regional Council to select the chief administrator for the Region of York was dis gusting A position that car ries with it such prestige and such a salary should surely under any rules of Dear Editor The Editorial this week re Regional Govern ments start is commend able That it should be stormy is regretted but more unity and profitable action soon is anticipated Your columnists article Unfair to smokers should have a reply by non- smokers who do have their rights to unpolluted air It Is likely there arc more nonsmokers than is because they donated ar- tides feel they helped our tiwn In a way which will bring much happiness that of helping someone achieve their goal barbershop sin liked they by BILL GAMBLE fig leaves instead of slacks A digital diagnosis The a Meetings as such are In hell for anyone who ha business anil attended at least one sometimes I wo every working day of the flip i I lake out llirir onal frustrations by frustrat ing else These people have their little Raising mints of order moving amend- d ink if to the able times seconds by and haggling for intermin- if knows what to do with The chair In Its own way as much a part of the countys history as the rogues gall ery of portraits of the lie past wardens that hang all Occasionally a meeting produces a clash a conflict of personalities or ideas that light the Stygian gloom I well remember one town council meeting One of the councillors somewhat the wear for something or other called one of the other councillors a gibbering old ba boon A nice thrust He wasnt too far off be mark but was in no condition himself to burl such charges The offended party promptly stalled peeling off hi jacket and offem hi thrash the oilier with in an inch of your life The other councillors and even quailed Chiefly because councillors were well into the seventies 1 add that the only blond shed was verbal thai was a meeting- Staff meetings are not quite that bad but they inevitably produce in me a headache fierce thai only a great dollop of soma sedative beverage can allay it Authority about the In prove menls hes making the Thornton Dates Const age I ft became the county seal Its faeen used by York ounty wardens as long as can remember It serves a belter fate than wind up In someones Unfortunately New- tike to have available the research that would allow It to put up historic plaques and markers In Its conser vation areas Another Job far an historical society credit with originating the Idea of responsible govern ment In the llrlllsh Empire the Hon Robert headed the Upper Canada government which Inaugurated respon sible government here ltev Henry the Ive seen adults haggling bitterly for half an hour over the chewing of gum Where i be chewed when it should lie chewed ami how il should In- chewed open or closed The only result was that the kids went on blithely chewing gum wherever whenever and however they could gel away with it Deep moral social ami psychological issues are involved in problem of this magni tude Is gum bad for the teeth What do yon do if you send a kid to the office he removes his gum on the way and swears angelically that it was the teachers he was really chewing his cud out of sheer nervousness Is it better for Hie student In chew gum than to chew his fingernails down to the blood Jesus wore long hair and a beard didnt he How In you counter this one a fav orite by the way among mate students Do OK Muster turn that blackboard into an This particular staff meeting was about girls wearing slacks Human experience has showed that girls will wear whatever other girls are wearing And girls these days me wearing slacks Thev are fort able they look smart they are warm in our frigid prevent buys from peeking up the stairs as Hie girls ascend in miniskirts and thev have probably contributed more to containing the pop ulation explosion than the oldfashioned when asked for his ap praisal of feminine attractiveness At the mere drop of a sombrero he will expound the virtues if beauty can be described as a virtue of shapely legs a sylphlike figure a swanlike neck a satiu- angelic face shimmering and a of attributes to elegance and symmetry Personally 1 judge the depth of a womans charm and delicacy by her hands I realize that my standing with IM IMa Kappa may bo greatly imperiled by this admis sion bid leis face it girls you were not all born with a Dietrich found ation ring exploring a a Dior or a car rying a Bible dialing a number and intercepting another hand And all this despite the fact that they are frequently in hot wat er occasionally in the soup and sporadically in some sort of jam As with the rest of us a wo- mans baud is constructed of four fingers and a thumb If the fingers are long and slender and the fing ernails are ostensibly alive with scintillating twinkles of she itistk hats the whole point of down to go through a par- in the wardens chair wearing cap go society the south shore of Lake Slmcoe has one and theres the York Pioneer lllstorl- Society but theres none Cordon Cook of week this need has come the last warden told to mind Once during a they could lake Jack were deeds mortgages a will and letters almost all related to his area and among the people involved and the signatures were many names from lh his tory of both the Newmarket area and Ontario Among them John Baldwin and the Hon Robert Baldwin members of the prominent lamp Printer York The whale bundle was rescued from the trash heap and certain destruc tion When there is no his torical society interested In their preservation how many more such bundles of history will be destroy- Anyway 1 expected a marathon About three hours They can wear slacks hut only once a week can wear slacks but they cant wear jemis tit my class is going to wear slacks If its all right for the boys to wear blue jeans why cant the girls And so on It was fantastic but the openly and bluntly expressed feeling of the majority was that girls should bo allowed to wear whatever was in style And that was that One commercial teacher who could have been expected to come down heavily on the side of no slacks said she didnt rare If they wore fig leaves as long an they were neat and tidy Id like to hear what you think about long hair girts wearing slacks and all the other things that unacceptable In our day Drop it line by A womans bands are many things being traditionally known as cradle rockers holders and sometimes with finger in more than one pie they arc quite often their chief means of hand than an auctioneer could rhyme off with three sets of lips A womans bands are absolute artistry with a needle and thread sheer ferocity with a rolling pin complete indiscretion with a bail pen and cheque bonk and pure elegance in a pair of white gloves They are capable of carving the Sunday roast or slapping a mans face with equal apply ing a lipstick or caressing a sick childs forehead with equal tender- To the numerous things a womans hands do well may be add ed measuring a Indder dissembl ing a bouffant displaying an en- gentle passionate and proud If they are shorter she is hardworking loving and deeply sentimental Of all her fingers a lias a particular leaning toward the third finger of her left hand It is her pet and is seldom called upon to do anything but wait The index finger on the oth er hand ignore the pun may be said to be the busiest it is constantly being used for pointing beckoning scolding scratching her teeth with when shes worried pres sing electric appliance buttons and licking to ace which way the wind The middle finger when laid up owing to another with the carving knife Is used for drying the inside bot toms of drinking glasses Its the only one that will reach Hut the Hercules of the bunch is the little finger This Is the lit tle stalwart that really denotes You should never ever the strength in vjj mans little finger It usu a man wrapped around It