Ontario Community Newspapers

The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), April 19, 1972, p. 2

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The Era Newmarket Aurora Out Wed April II MOTORS LESSOR LTD Spring Fever Were Sold on Service MOTORS LIMITED Hi of D NEWMARKET See a SLESSOR SALESMAN TODAY Use our GMAC Time Payment Plan Library service planned for Marsh King board tells township council KING Klng Township library Ball said last week He Was presenting a 1072 budget with a built in Jor alms of the almost budget The oth er two are a stepped up hook replacement pro gram and an extension at the two existing branches He snid the 1mnl plans to keep the berg and bra- open longer hours and to provide the township library a I lo climb and In a small budget a largo amount and as it wis first full year the new library if In them Mr HOLLAND RIVER Beside the dike channeli zation Improvements between Timothy SI ami Davis Dr wo uld be added as a further flood- control measure Mr also suggested removing the lock near the sow- age treatment plant to further aid in lowering the river level among the first taken in only with the airy Dam and Davis Drive The Dillon proposal in volved a mud larger area and could imcslnilmn into a diversion of Tannery Creek around Newmarket to the west Mr said The Philips proposal con tains five phases the last including detailed She noted that funds boms open and prog required for extension of rams and events aimed amices tend to level at making th c library off In succeeding years once a workable mini mum level has been the community Mrs Ellis at- There was an Incre ase of in books lock budgets provided by the over a matter from Ontario Government gifts There was an In crease of t in circul expected In a mod- ation Membership incre ased by wilh books are films microfilms have made a beginning Wont she said that we arc expected to provide a wide range of materials and the facill- age He pointed out in Ihem The library is quite evidently we Inherlt- community From llic Annual closed we are asking id prist the i extension iii- showed an increase suggested t achieve in services in terms of this with flood very expensive method said Philips engineer A to acquisition of the flood ploin areas from private land owners to prevent building Philips second alternative channel improvements with recreation zoning in the flood plain appeared preferable to officials present Richmond Hill Councillor Don representing the regions planning committee said rezoning of flood plain land from industrial to open space would require in Ontario Municipal Hoard hearing and possible substantial cost to the loci municipality which wo uld have to acquire the land in question Potential town acquisition of flood plain land could scare the devil out of some landown along the flood plain land Mayor Forhan said We could planning design Mr MacKreil re- the town and authority commit decision could be which alternative to follow bas ed on information compiled Cost of trio first two phas es of the Philips plan is esti mated at between SI and The Dillon proposal which does not include engine design criteria in its pre sent form would cost about The will now choose either Dillon or Philips lo con duct the imlnl studies Tin- pro vincc will pay per cent of Derek Sterrilt said channeliza tion measures are the second phase of flood plain manage ment in the Holland Landing watershed Implementation of such measures he said could free up large tracts of land now frozen from development by flood plain standards imposed in a controversial report com pleted last year by James Mac- Delay endangers firemen Aurora exreeve charges Aurora Lions Club 6th monster BINGO Wednesday May 3rd 1972 AURORA COMMUNITY CENTRE 100000 5 Early Bird Games PM sharp PLUS 20 REGULAR GAMES prize SPECIAL GAMES per line lor full cord SHARE THE WEALTH Top line Bottom line roll cord half the poll ADMISSION INCLUDES ONE DOUBLE CARD FOR ALL REGULAR GAMES calls service dispatcher bad to once Friday night contributing to the delay and enabling Mrs Rucks call to roach police first After alerting Aurora firemen the dispatcher tailed police answering service calling then asked the police dispatcher to hold because she had to answer the liie intercom telephone When she finished with the fire intercom call she switched back to the line to police and found the dispatcher bad left the line Mr Rodger said When she redialed and contacted the police dis patcher again she was told Mrs Bucks request for police assistance had been received That was at I itercom call that interrupted the answer er dispatchers call to police was from fire- sling police for traffic control Mr Rodger Vaughau for simultaneous and that regional fire pic mentation of a regionwide service late last year Mr Davidson fire chief sent his re commendations to York Council on Jan Council voted to scud the report to local councils an fire chiefs for study When Mrs Buck referred to the Davidson report Monday night Aurora councillors said theyd never heard of It provides a hour answering service manned by trained personnel Mrs Buck said and King Township purchases its fire alert service from Vaughan Aurora could too she added Councillor Davis said Aurora should review fire alert system In light of Fridays events and llltyd 1 Inly fol I hope you to it tomorrow she replied When councillors said theyd never seen Davidson report to regional council Mrs Buck s in obvious reference to Mayor Illingworth that everything done at regional council would of regional officials local fire fire chiefs would probably be discuss Chief Davidsons report iltc he suspected that molehill he said the Chief Davidsons report it has failed to reach the potential for i This is due primarily either to the lack of tailed knowledge of the system or the feeling of fire chiefs that it may reflect upon their adequacy Chief Davidson told The Era on Monday th instantaneous alerts to fire and police could be a by the Vaughan equipment ho refused to comment the Aurora last Friday or whether a different to avoid the time lag should be Implemented Ive made my comments he region and Iv been more or less ostracized by the other chiefs want keep it local Chief Davidson said they have their own reasons for that Under the present conditions 1 have no Jim Arnold vicepresident of Standard Services which owns the answering service o The that delays in Aurora fire calls often from dispatcher having to wail for a Thai sometimes lasts several minutes slid iil prevents the dispatcher police during her wait police arc notified Immediately after Ihe men he said In Newmarket the answering service picks up a special phone when she gels a fire repeats tin- address of the fire continually how many firemen have i

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