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SNOWMOBILE REGULATION Bylaw bans them from sidewalks two resolutions and authorized advertisements in local news papers Monday night in an effort to solve problems created by snowmobiles in the township The bylaw passd sly and with little snowmobile I township sidewalks Councillor Ken Smockum said he had wanted the bylaw to include a band of horses and ponies from sidewalks but that dealing with the snowmo bile problem was urgent This is not the end of it but lets get them off the side walks first Mayor Joe Dales said Regional Councillor Boh Pollock stressed that the town- Keswick man hurt in mishap KESWICK A Keswick man was reported in serious condition in Toronto General Hospital Monday following ship was not Irving to ban snow mobiles but only wanted to limit People want to enjoy them but they should not disturb the peace and enjoyment of others Councillor Pollock said The problem was brought into focus near the end of the meeting when resi dent James spoke of the nuisance created by the ma chines on the Pefferlaw Creek have no re gard for anybody he said My family cant skate or enjoy the He said the environment was suffering because the ma chines are going through bush and wooded areas and also con tribute to oil pollution The noise pollution Is un bearable he added whether the municipality has jurisdiction over the river Councillor Rob Coles a re sident of Pefferlaw said the township has policing jurisdic tion over the water I would like to see the onus on the snowmobile associ ation and see what they can do about the problem Councillor of the audience said that exces sive noise was caused by high speeds and suggested that speed limit signs be posted on the river and snowmobilers be al lowed to speed up once on Lake Bruce Welch had problems when he tried to in troduce a motion requesting York Region to allow increased use of regional forests for mobilers even to the point of providing toilets for operators Councillor Welchs motion specifically referred to the re gional forest south of asking for something that has never been denied us Coun cillor Smockum said After further discussion and a coffee break a motion passed that asks for contin ued use of the York Region re forestation area area south of for the use of regional snowmobile pl sanitary and other reason able for the use of asso ciation snowmoboliers A further resolution was asking York Regional on weekends Councillor Welch stressed that most of the complaints come on weekends The advertisement to be published in next weeks Bra stress the legislative power t three local associations The three local clubs are South Shore Snowmobile Asso ciation Georginia Trail Riders and and District Snowmobile Club South Shore Newmarket to Keffers Marine Lake Dr North when the machine spun out of control after hitting a crack caused by pressure on the A spokesman at Keffers Marine described conditions as terrible icy while a ville ambulance attendant call ed to the accident said the injur ed man apparently slammed in to a wall of ice Mr Thompson was taken to York County Hospital in New market suffering from chest in juries and abrasions He was ad mitted to the intensive care unit and transferred to Toronto General Hospital early Sunday morning the respirator unit i condition Later in the day York Re gional Police at Keswick were trying to piece together details of the accident Police were not notified of the accident until curred Fire Hall construction to start Construc tion will begin this week on Suttons new fire hall town ship engineeradministrator Get- store a family affair BALDWIN This is strictly a family operation Ev eryone is partners including o usual gifts and craft items and Mr Leivonen his wife Helen and his two daughters set up shop there in July It was the culmination of years of waiting for such an opportunity It had been in the back of our minds for a long time and about it he told The Era Leivonen saw an ad in the Tor onto Star last January offering the building for sale did not know Baldwin existed until that time he said It took two days for the family to make the decision and a month to close the deal The store opened officially July taken a year off school to manage full He The for the shop easily arrived at Being of the few authentic cobblestone buildings in Ontario made that name a natural But things have not been exactly quiet and retiring foundryman at Gamma Foundry in Richmond Hill while his wife is a nurse for Prudential Insur ance Co of America in Toronto Both commute each day The store is manned by el dest daughter who has taken a year off school She completed high school last year and hopes to take interior de sign this coming Fall at commu nity college Number two daugh ter Carol is a student at Sutton High School The store has an important and unique function according night Era Monday the s since opening day Both Ossi and his wife hold Up now we have don- better than we expected especi ally as we have done little ad vertising Mr Leivonen said where Many of the items are imported from Scandinavian countries especially Finland There is enough mass- produced and poor quality stuff around now We dont need that offer gifts and prices Small it arc both good I lily and unusual Mr added He said that finding un usual and high quality items is ducts personally while finding suppliers of good quality mer chandise rare Mr stressed that he does not want to get rich In his business but hopes that in lime it will provide income en ough for the family and that he his wife will be able to de- vole full lime to the business Presently Mrs commutes miles to Toronto and Mr spends nine hours a day working in Rich mond Hill He and his wife arc phi and lineup new items to be sold a motion authorizing a deben ture of for the new hall and that coupled with a Local Initiatives Program grant of 930000 from the Federal gov ernment will enable the pro ject to go ahead Council accepts roads needs study Georginia Township i for the fire hall though the total price is to be It will be between the Sutton Are and the curling rink with three bays facing on Elm A ambitious and costly It is an ambitious program that will cost an awful lot of money We may have to pare It the mayor said of the SI million price tag Minor shooting incident sees break enter charges the study was all about It Includes a study of the present roads and raffle pal terns in the township and makes projections both for in creased traffic and needed road construction for the next 10 years The study involved inspec tion of township roads traffic studies needed Improvements projected costs and mapping of Councillor Pollock indicat ed that the study found a great number of the roads unsatisfac tory compared with Ministry of Transportation and Communica tion standards It also projects equipment needs and costs and takes Into account inflation when est ah increases in fixed costs over the 10year period townships share of the 10year need is and is determined by taking in to account the various subsidies provided by the ministry for roads and bridges the report We are under no compul sion to follow the figures In the report However in order upgrade our roads we will have to stick close to the report Councillor Pollock said The report established a yearly average for construction at to to 040000 10 ye government leaving the In- for the township of ruction Tho report has a large ap pendix section that details nil the township roads and sets priority giving each road a Councillor Pollock empha sized hat the cost was not astronomical compared to the townships overall annual bud get of million HOSPITAL CRISIS York County Hospitals are I workload being forced on then The situation la becoming m serious that the health of our community threatened the hospital board warns Heres why York County Hospital Is overloaded now that ft la serving the community as an emergency care hospital outpatient faculties are so overworked the hospital beard has termed the situation critical the average length of a patients stay at fat days compared to a provincial average of days by 1976 will have active care beds per of population It has now against a provincial guideline of four and a provincial average of five per thousand With the new wing YCH will have three per thousand about 10000 new residents will be added to the hospitals service area this year alone York Region residents are paying for hospital sendee whether Its available or not through hospitalisation f and Income taxes If Premier William Davis and his cabinet take action to lift the freeze on the hospitals building new beds will be In service fay Next week two legislators from the area served by the hospital BUI Hodgson and Art Evans will take the hospitals case before the premier Tbey need your help They need concrete evidence that their communities back their plea that construction of the hospitals new wing be allowed to start this spring If yon support them clip out this box and mall ft to Mr Hodgson or Mr Evans Ontario Legislature Queens Park Toronto Overwork has reduced YCH to emergency facility Rubin NEWMARKET Faculties at York County Hospital are so over worked the hospital has been reduced to the role of an emergency care hospital the hospitals board of directors said In a terse hard hitting brief which two wiU present to Premier William early in February The brief and an accompanying letter terms the hospital facilities most inadequate for the volume of work being carried out express the hospital boards serious alarm over the consequences of the recent freeze of the hospitals building plans by the Davis govern and makes a strong plea for a green light on the new hospital addition Signed by board chairman Larry Rubin the brief is due to be presented to York Regional Council tomorrow and will be placed before the premier by MPPs BUI Hodgson and Art Evans In it Mr Rubin says the hospital directors are seriously alarmed over the situation and that they feel anxiety and apprehension over the future of the communitys health care The brief pointing out that delay has been on delay since the expansion program was started in 1968 charges that natural justice in the matter of providing medical care for York Region resi dents has been sadly lacking in the past five or six years It says overcrowding and delay have become the rule rather than the exception at the hospital and in summing up the directors de plore the fact that the citizens of this community are forced to suffer the consequences of such government decisions and the fact that these decisions are applied uniformly without regard to the consequent ef fect on the health and welfare of the citizens affected In his covering letter to Regional Chairman Garfield Wright Mr Rubin said the board recently learned its expansion plan has been delayed for at least one year by the provincial policy Construction was to have started this spring He said there is an Imminent health care crisis in the Region and pointed out the pressing shortage of hospital facilities wUl be aggravated by substantial Increase of popu lation within the Region Population in the area served by York County Hospital is 89600 sec HOSPITAL BOARD page To salt or not to salt is big question by a letter from Kenneth Wal- roads claiming that the salt and sand make the roads dirty and messy Mr Wallace suggested the roads be plowed and that sand be added to pro Councillor Ken Smockum of the townships engineering com mittee suggested that residents pie want without being told EngineerAdministrator Ger ry Mintz explained that the salt and sand Is pre mixed and town- putting sand only on some roads Councillor Erik said that he did not feel the salt was responsible for damaging hedg es on Hedge He suggested that snow piled high exerted pressure on the hedges and see SALTY ROADS page Juveniles York Regional lice reported Police said two 14year olds were shooting a 22 call- fare rifle Into the 4 Ice on Black River on day afternoon when a piece I of a bullet that had frag- Stolen property recovered four charged ton The Juveniles were char- with that break in and later with another at he I home of Louis Blake Burke St They also are charged I with possession of a restrict- weapon One boy la char- with dangerous use of a firearm ROCHES POINT More than In stolen property has been recovered and four Metro men charged In connec tion with four breakIns at sum mer homes here York Region al Police reported Saturday The arrests were made Fri day by Metropolitan Toronto de tectives following the theft last Thursday of In furnish ings from the summer home of Maurice Black Balfour Beach The suspects also are char ged with brcaklns at the bourne St homes of Doris Green and Dr Howard and the Balfour Beach home of Maurice Included In the items stolen from the Black homo were a number of antiques a buffet cabinet mahogany bat radio stereo large oil painting with antique gold frame silver ser vice and an Indian rug Charged are Michael Rob- arts of Toronto Paul son Mitchell 18 and Joseph Frederick both of and a fourth man who Is In custody on another charge In Don Jail The man Is custody will be served a warrant on the Roches Point charges police said Fishing derby Feb 14 for Region bash for York Regional Council on Valentines Da but Mayor Joe Dales said Monday the township would not provide the soclologi- cal anesthetic The bash politely called a fishing derby is to be held Feb off Jack sons Point with dinner afterwards at the Twin Sea sons Motel The purpose Is both to exalt beautiful Lake Slmcoe and cement relations with those who control a large part of our taxes and car- i of our services May-