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The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), February 10, 1971, p. 2

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2 Era NfrairketAanraKenrick Oat Wet If Georgina hires a new recreation director Township Co- Rockwell at a According be to seek out the need for recreation facilities and initiate programs This will include man agement of the areas extensive sports prog rams swimming baseball lacrosse NEWMARKET TOWN HALL NOTES r 10NGH0RN 4784848 On Don Mills Rd Miles North of possible for arts crafts and other cultural acti vities in the area Coun cillor Pollock hopes the new commissioner will encourage increased us age of existing recrea tion facilities such as community centres and arenas He will be ex pected to initiate of Georgina society said Pollock Mr Rockwell is a university graduate and A new bylaw was passed Monday night instituting a committee of adjustment for the township of Georgina Members of the com mittee holding office for one year are Ken Steven son and Harold Philips with J Taylor and Mrs Jean Smith being appointed for two years Three members bold tenure for three years Merlin Gordon John and council also ap proved proposed expen ditures for roads totaling and supplemen- ary roads estimates of with the Edwards firm and the town is now Involved In a len gthy Ontario Municipal Milton made off with the gold again for the second year in a row the Milton hockey team won the championship at the the town Coun fare costs are exceed ing a month and will probably go higher unless the r crossing guards but It will not pay them The commission told Newmarket council It feels municipal govern ments should equip and pay the guards Regional councillor Ray Twlnney a police Local CNR service in the Newmarket area Toronto to will be Train after 1 the railway Informed the town this week is discontinuing t Jim Pearson receive the first place trophy from Newmarket Recreation Director Dan Shannon Tournament was last Saturday May- numbers 107 and 1 The claims the revised Super Continen tal schedule will provide That dinner town will pay The council by York Regional a 54 vote refused to ice commission will train sign a agree- and keep a check on rket residents with a more convenient service than the two trains are presently pro viding NEWMARKET Newmarkets last plan ning board got its free Christmas party after Last week the towns new planning committee decided to pick up the tab for the bo ards dinner and drinks at the Aurora Highlands Golf Club in lieu of the work they have done for us this year and might still have to do one new councillor The dispute arose after the planning board ignored a warning from the 1970 town council that it would only pay for one Christmas party last year to which all committees and boards were invited Instead members of the planning board with their sent the bill to the co uncil The board point ing out it was due to be dissolved Dec said it would be its last The council fumed about it when the bill arrived at the last meeting of the year but refused to deal with it Instead it was sent back to the board which by then had held its final So the bill wound up before the planning committee of the new council last week All members of council sit on that committee Mayor Bob said he felt members of the old planning bo ard should pay for their own dinners He wanted them to be billed Its just the same down there ing and sending the bill to the town he pointed PRESCRIPTIONS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED BESTDRUG STORE 8954091 CHRYSLER LOWERS NEW CAR PRICES FOR A LIMITED Chrysler has introduced a program help dealers reduc inventories This saves you TIME ONLY depending on model IN ADDITION SB SELL THE FOLLOWING CARS TRUCKS AT DEAD COST DEDUCT THE CHRYSLER DISCOUNT lor handling plus a small charge far pre delivery service mult be added Licence plates and Ontario sales lax extra SATELLITE 2 DR FURY 111 DR HARDTOP FURY DR SEDAN OUR COST HARDTOP 1971 CHRYSLER NEWPORT DR HARDTOP tlc OUR J7500 School board keeps town in dark Forhan NEWMABKETMayor Bob doesnt think the school board is keep ing municipal councils in formed about school de velopments in their mu nicipalities Council learned Mon day the board is plan ning an addition to Maple Public School this the mayor was only sup ported by the Council lors Aubrey Smith and Ontario Municipal Board hearings on the Highland Heights sub division will resume March at am in the council last spring when Ed wards and Son Ltd ask ed the OMB to force the town to sign a subdivi sion agreement with the firm so it could start work on a sub division in the south west sector of the town The town council had refused to sign the agreement by a vole No they didnt PRESCRIPTIONS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED BEST DRUG STORE Ray who last year was an East Gwillim- councillor Mayor said the town will write the school board asking to be kept informed about developments inside the town Then somebody asked what the new Ro gers public school in the Eagle Hills subdivision will look like School board let the contract for it two weeks Bill Steele Kids made it but no teachers AURORA The kids made it but the tea chers didnt Students at Pino Orchard were at school for an hour last Friday morning before a parent showed up and told them go home Education director Sam Chapman told York Monday evening that a directive had gone out to all principals that schools were not to be closed during inclement and teachers are to mako a determin ed effort to bo In atten dance to do their Job Council needs goal from page terchange of ideas about why we were all there Dr Den- ison said Monday nights meeting continued on the same tone Small discussion groups were set up with instructions from Dr to decide the groups reason for existence By the time the meeting ended that purpose was still unclear But a nominating commit tee was formed to select can didates for an executive com mittee and Dr Denison asked the departing group to think about just what that executive should do The groping searching process is a mandatory birth pang for any new group especially a group seeking to wrangle with grave social ills that politicians and profes sional people have been the group seemed to need something to react to and up to now It hasnt found it The meeting Monday re vealed a of intellec tual concern versus real Is sues and very few real issues emerged One concrete suggestion arose from a study group whose spokesman was Fred executive director of Blue Hills Academy His dis cussion group crystallized around the need for a deten tion home where juvenile of fenders could stay from the time theyre picked up by po lice until Family Court issues a judgment on their cases Mr group dis cussed the cases of three young boys picked up on ar son charges after fire de stroyed a home in King Town ship One of the boys was sent to the Metro Juvenile Family Court on Jarvis St In Toron to where he was detained in basement quarters The hoy was seven years old He was terrified If police fear a Juvenile of fender will repeat his crime before his case comes before Family Court if for exam ple police believe a young arsonist might set another fire the child is sent to the Metro facilities York Region has no detention centre But suggested Mr Roy Rles public health worker who works out of the York Region Health Unit sug gested that the Council must function In the context of an Issue The nature of the council will change with each issue Mr said The context of CARNIVAL made during a discus sion of how to inform public when school bus es had been taken off the Mr Chapman said the decision to cancel buses was left to the judgment of area offic es where they were best qualified to assess con fer the ra- THIS WEEKS SPECIAL 19B7 MUSTANG Dr Hardtop 1295 will be held the arena between periods lit the Redmen the semifinal playoff series against Toronto Maple Bombers is scheduled for Saturday- Now if the had only won that first game against the Bombers in stead of it they would bo in a position to top the carnival celebrations with fourstraight victory in the series However If they win Saturday theyll have to go back to Toronto Sun day hopefully for the clincher At least two public schools Prince Charles and J Bell have Indicated they are putting together teams for the snow sculpture competition at Brooks Conservation Area And a tug of war marathon is shaping up for Saturday at Aurora club members to a Then the Downtown Merchants challenged Newmarket Legion and the Legion followed with challenges to Legions in Au rora Richmond Hill and Wood- bridge Mall organizer Jack Groves says the tugs will go on until a grand champion Is declared The tugs have been moved from the Main St mall how- ever where the original sched ule placed them They will be held at Wesley Brooks Conser vation Area softer landings HIGHLIGHTS Other highlights planned or changed since last weeks re port the Teentown dance has been moved from Friday to Sat urday Main St merchants will be putting up prizes for the 8 am pancake breakfast on the mall Saturday and free snowmobile rides will be provided Saturday from the parking lots to the Main St mall by and the or so merchants participating in the mall project will be giving each customer a free chance in draws for one of free helicopter Sunday free snowmobile rides free sleigh rides free beans and free seats In the snow for the game between Newmarket and Auro ra town councils and for the great joust on Fairy Lake And dont forget ohjT junior HOCKEY JSI PLAYOFF NEWMARKET Toronto maple I

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