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The Era Newmarket Aurora Keswick Wed June 1VR THE ERA DAVID R HASKELL Serving York Counl Since fc TERRY CARTER JOHN Newmarket 8952331 Charles St Phone Aurora Farreaching events for York farreaching effects on the residents of York Re- First federal Transport Minister Don last Wednesday told York realtors ga ls thered at a luncheon that the decision to build Metro Torontos new international airport In neighboring Pickering Township Is irrevocable Mr went on to point out that for I York residents the new airport will mean the creation of many more em ployment opportunities in the area he said it and Malton together will ultimately provide jobs spur development of hotels and other ser- iliul Mir el mum factories which traditionally locate around air guarantee that the large buffer zone aro und the airport will remain parti cularly the area to the north of it speed up development of recreation op portunities in this area including acquisition of The third item on our list is Premier Wil liam Davis weekend statement that Ontarios current financial reforms wilt soon make provi sion for much broader municipal tax bases a need long felt by overburdened homeowners Mr Davis said many presently taxexempt properties will have to pay their shares into municipal tax coffers Newmarket and Aurora particularly will benefit by this reform Both towns have private schools which are now tax exempt Newmarket in fact carries a stagger ing load of such taxexempt properties rang ing from York County Hospital to a Metro To ronto home for the aged The fourth Item which York Region resi dents can look forward to some benefit from the longawaited provincial policy on park- servation area and other uses However the did not indicate how the provincial planners anticipated all this land would be purchased Repeatedly The Era has pointed out land prices in the area are climbing steadily opportunities for prime sites are slipping by and it has advocated a firm provincial policy be established in this regard Existing municipal governments simply cannot afford to Implement the provinces fine plans Now it seems Ontario will finance a system of provincial or regional parks in York Now York planning commissioner Murray- Pound revealed to Aurora council Saturday an announcement of this provincial policy Is Im minent Its unveiling will mean York Region resi dents finally will know exactly what the To rontoCentred Region Plan is going to mean to their communities during the next years It will be the teeth in the provinces promise for York Region Ontario Park has spent sketching Ontarios foal St Andrews Presbyterian Church on Eagle Si in as built In A church on Timothy St Two fine community efforts This 20year 127 million scheme will pipe sewage south from Newmarket to Lake Ontario eliminating the eight sewage treatment plants now dumping effluent some of which is not too thoroughly treated into our streams and Lake The longrange effect of this scheme will be twofold it will clean up oar rivers the Holland Don and particularly and through the design capacity of the sewer trunk se in area to the control am in effect give the provii predominately rural The Era would like to commend two fine community efforts Last week Newmarket area residents over of them enjoyed one of the best trade fairs this area has seen in a long time It was sponsored by the Newmarket Clvltan Club and as an additional boon to the commu nity the club raised over by its hard the fair and this moi for Its support of the Association for the Mentally The second group we mention is the vol unteer Meals on Wheels program This program which was started by a few ladies last February had by midJune served needs support from the community It needs donations because it must subsidize the per meal it charges this week the This space is reserved for the opinions and drawings of The Eras feel free to send along All wo ask is th your name and address We Objects to tills in Lions gave it needs volunteer drivers and assistants particularly during the summer mon ths and it needs help in finding senior citizens near Friends and convalescents who could benefit from its You will or Die shutIns the people with the nil ioiks outside their homes hardest tor the volunteers to thai many of the dents our hhihway are attributed to paired driving by other building Tine If- mentally retarded child id many folks directly it but redly became of broke the ridiculous homes or parents live physically menu I or morally of limine consumed beverages Starr Elms NEWSROOM NOTES Trials of a familys first camping trip johu BILL SMILEY Candles couldnt hold the cake Dont worry my friend said You wont get cold We have a tent heater And with that reassurance the family decided to display an uncommon sense of ad- ping trip veiling at borne In downtown Cedar Valley but Provincial Park it was cold to see your breath While I was shivering the kids we hosts a family of six from at this sort of thing and we figured wed in good hands especially since they had Having been reared on a farm enjoy the and went on odd camping trip a kid But I approached this expedition old and in thf her first tooth And we werent endowed with the ultimate My of knife and a found freedom Our two- old frolicked about tripping over tent rop es and having a generally good time stopping on cue occasionally to water a nearby birch or poplar tree Toilet training can be fun when Mother Nature is your potty And our daughter found the rich loam soil much more appetizing than her baby food While the kids were enjoying themselves was standing with furrowed brow as our cus todian of the tent heater was disassembling that instrument and commenting that hed have to write the manufacturers a letter only been used once he said Finally he found the heater would work only when turned upside down and then only for about three minutes At this point I had visions of freezing to death along the rocky beaches of Lake Huron bed clad in a teeshirt long Johns and a winter coat and hoped for the best I dont know how cold it was If I had known it probably would have I awoke to growls and snarls coming from out side the tent Then here wore growls and snarls from several of the 10 persons bunched togeth er on the tent floor And then the baby started ibe Great furry three eyed fares to take us all away to their ernes ami us on a spit in one By this time there was great and that 1 had a horrible sore throat And a headache How doing my wife asked If this isnt fun what is i replied gamely night though I benefited from About one more birthday party and they can include me out Last Friday was my birth day and arrived homo exhausted to discover thai friends of ours had invited ihe whole gang lo dinner lo celebrate My birthday I was overwhelmed I didnt think anybody cared any more Even though Kim gave me a kiss and a big hug and two golf halls when 1 got to them later My accounts of their wedding have tripled my fan mail to three let ters a week The party was a roaring success A roar ing success is when everybody is roaring at ev erybody else over some idea that examined the next morning seems about as exciting as a have been New housing programs John Roberts YorkSim coe MP There was much cackling and guffawing from our hosts as I staggered off to bed lean ing on Kalhy for stability But I was warm Immobile perhaps but warm It took four wag of his tail I was wined and dined and punched in the ribs into the small hours I id t mind the winning dining but got a little sick of the pokes the ribs My Three nights later last night to be exact Monday night made it It was not one of my most on the job Im afraid I didnt make minds flower But I pulled through was a captain in the German army His is a Scottish Belgian Another couple dropp- in In fact it was the perfidious couple held the first birthday party His wife an war bride And us My wife is And of course Courvoisier was there large quantities No hes not a Frenchman with a big family Hes a liqueur that and Dont DillyDally on the We put a terrible dent in that Frenchman and ate about four pounds of highly cheese and would probably still be there belt- out lili and I Belong Tae Glai had not our host with that German dash that makes them win battles but lose sprung to his feet and announced that he Mr the Minister for announced several new programs Canadians with housing problems programs are imaginative and open ford are designed to work in six major areas A new neighborhood improvement pro gram providing a system of federal loans and grants to finance community improvement act- Federal financing will cover planning program of Federal assist more families for homo mi profit corporations in their lis id suit We renlil for ll elderly and others who need Stress Is placed on the preserving ami upgrading existing neighborhoods and tor improving the housing of the homes are el rt persons or others who might not he able to afford the repairs their dwelling sin nil lino When necessary grants will be available from the Federal Gov ernment where the other levels of government match the assistance Similar grants will lw offered in the case of re- lousing m improvement of municipal A residential rehabilitation program been introduced providing federal loans and matching federal provincial grants geared to income for the re habilitation of substandard housing An assisted homeownership program providing federal lowcost loans and federal signed to facilitate residential and to reduce the cost of housing be i providing t there rentals of the large part of this neighborhood sing corporations and cooperative housing These community sponsored have been successful in providing for the elderly and other forms of special purpose housing and will be given access to broader federal financial assistance An expanded research and development program through Central Mortgage and Hous ing Corporation into new housing technology to develop new and lowercost housing Bill Gambit Kin nut Belles of York fl Our Belle this week is lovely Gayle Hall a recent grad uate of High who plans to attend Uni- has plans go info He Held urban plan ar throughout the winter She was a school enter leader leading rolls in senool plays and Boris pari lime by Robert White J wound up with two golfballs and My German friend was luckier His imitation was rather a spur of the moment thing so we had no chance to buy him a gift not even a ball for golf which he thinks is silly game which it is when you play as I do My wife bought him a threequart jug of milk and a tie she bought at the milk shop fit was a real beauty as you can imagine and hamburger which she ate herself I was rather nonplussed but dived into tool box hes a great carpenter for a doctor of philosophy and came up with a beautiful key father which I had inherited beautiful little thing A family heirloom witchblade I can tell you there eyes as he ran his finger over the teeth of little rusty dull beauty and murmured thing like Himmel 1 think that in English means something like Dear God its heavenly Never did I think that Id see a captain from Rommels troops break down like that over simifle little sentimental thing In fact he was so touched that he offer to come up and fix my picnic table suppose well have to have a birthday party the blasted picnic table which is old this week Oh well maybe can hack it for birthday party