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Parents protest grade 8s move to high school cite drugs public meeting here Friday night The charges were levelled by parents whose youngsters will be among grade eight students attending SDH if school boundary changes introduced Feb 26 are enacted Held at Keswick Public School and attended by SO peo ple Fridays meeting was call ed after school board trustees postponed final approval of the changes pending feedback from the affected areas Opposition to the Georgina changes was summed up by Res- nick resident Bill Laird as he noted The main concern of this area Is the drug problem whic Sutton High The drug by Keswick as he arned that students moved to ght year Keswick United Church min ister Rev Charles Milton echo ed Mr Drapers fears stressing i high school environment going to change and desires of these students Mr Milton said School principal A Mac- told the meeting You that drug problem any- SDH COURTS POLICE CRITICIZED BY VAN CAMP Lack of justice for young people CAS director illustrates the type of injustice offenders sometimes face in criminal courts the executive director of the York Region Childrens Aid Society said last week In a speech to the CAS annual meeting here D Van Camp said the boy had no previous criminal record and was sentenced after running away from foster homes three times while on a years probation for the theft offence Value of the stolen pop cents he said s this Turkey theft brings arrest a bag containing a turkey and a loaf of bread here last week York Regional Police said Greenwood of Newmarket were hitchhiking on 11 at Oak Ridges when they were picked up and driven around the AuroraNewmarket area At one point the driver al legedly threatened them with an axe after learning the con tents of the paper bag police said The boys were finally dropped off on Joseph SI in Newmarket at which time the driver grabbed one of the boys by the back of the neck shook him and demanded the bag police said The boys surrendered the David Alexander 22 of Lake Wilcox was arrested In Aurora two hours later In the name of God i lice asked Mr Van Camp Is this the approach of the courts in the century If so something must he done The youth a Childrens Aid Ward was sentenced in New market Provincial Court by Judge Clare Morrison Mr Van Camp said in a later interview In his speech he stressed that his criticisms were aimed at the Provincial Courts criminal division not its juvenile CAS director said he was uptight about the lack of justice for young people in- occurred in the last two months He criticized the courts for unfair sentences and the police for failing to notify parents or guardians when young offend ers over age are charged or Mr Van Camp also rebuked the courts for placing children in limbo for up to three years during long delays In the hear ing of guardianship appeals In such cases children are taken from their parents by a court and placed under ten- years Before the two years elapse the judge must hear the case again and decide whether Unveil park plan tomorrow Resi dents around Dennis Park have been Invited to a pub lic meeting Thursday to see Newmarket parks and re creation department plans for the park Town council recrea tion committee set the dale for the meeting last Wed nesday It will be held In the pit hall and will start Convict Ottawa man on bigamy amy charge in Newmarket Pro vincial Court last week and was remanded to March 21 for sen tencing after he married a local in Sutton United Church Evi dence showed he was married to St Marys woman at the same authorities Judge Clare Morrison a pre sentence report prevalent in many other facets or society Mr said grade st from the east ern half of the township have attended classes at Sutton High for the past three years and the experience proved not bad at all He later indicated parents of grade eight students current ly attending the school have nev er as a group complained about their students attending SDH School board area Sutton long as four the session It could help to light of school enrol- secondary schools ship will remain constant or drop slightly for six or seven years elementary figures will Suggesting that students at re earlier than ever be fore Mr said the board has not yet able to find evidence that grade eight clas ses in secondary schools have been a bad thing In Newmarket where boun dary changes are minimal only persons showed up at a meet ing called last Wednesday to dis cuss the proposals While Newmarket trustee Craig had said prior to in school board deci sions he later of people of the report The report he said was of a nature to generate little dis cussion locally Determination of the publics desire to take part in board decisions will be better evaluated following a meeting on proposed curriculum chang ed later this month at Jersey Public School Mr said Since ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MARCH KING STUDENT STARTS RECYCLING Donna Grlndicy prime mover behind a recycling project tosses another bundle of papers onto pile at King City depot during Saturdays klckoff paper drive With Donna is Dennis Depots also were set Up In Noble- Ion and Donna a King City Second ary School student hopes to make the paper drives a regular affair Van Halem photo Snap freeze on Ontario funds may doom two family centres Propose 4store plaza for Yonge St property NEWMARKET Plans for a fourstore shopping plaza on the east side of St opposite the GO Transit bus station are under study by the towns planning consultants The proposed plaza would house a bank muffler shop Brewers Retail store and a Consumers Distributing outlet The proposal was made last week to town councils planning subcommittee by Mount Carmal Construction Co Ltd Planning consultant Gordon Brush of York Regions area serv ices branch pointed out to last Thursday nights full planning com mittee meeting the site is zoned highway commercial a designation which would accommodate the proposed use However he said the proposal may be premature because sewer and water services may not be immediately available to the property Mayor Bob pointed out If water is not already available it will be when Cambridge Leaseholds Ltd the firm building a re gional plaza at Davis Dr and starts construction Water mains for this project will have to be built along St he said Rubin reelected at YCH NEWMARKET Larry Ru bin of King was elected lor Ms third oneyear term as chairman of the York County Hospital board of directors All three other members of the boards executive were also returned They are James Ham med of Newmarket vicepresi dent William of Newmarket secretary and Don Glass of Aurora months it opened for bus- to close shop because of no money The Province last week or dered a onemonth holdup on per cent share of funds York Region Mr Van Camp aid Both appeals came after the initial two years had el- and the society had been given permanent guardianship he said in an Interview launched he said In one stance It will he almost year before the matter gets which Is spent away Is this fair to anyone this fair to the child Is this fair to the anxious parent Mr Van Camp conceded ly humanely In his second example the director told of a CAS word who along with three other youths was charged with break enter and theft The boy subsequently returned all tit stolen articles ho said He said the hoys refused Sec CHILDRENS AID page II other experts in Juvenile deli- fluency on a panel with kin lined To final out why EG firelighting budget hits record SHARON East Iwry last week approved the highest fire budget in the town ships history A total or more than was budgeted by council for fire departments in Holland land ing Mount Albert and Queens- Council accepted the oriituemlflUohs from lis commun ity service The Mount Albert depart ment will receive the largest single portion of budget Fire department offic ials In Holland landing will oh I is while budget wis set at approximately The 1071 total up more than from last years fig- of just under in- Albert one of recommenda- iritis In an Marshal Fire Protection Survey Council also agreed to the need for hose drying towers In lie expulsion currently under way at the Holland a and In a new fire hall under consideration for Queens although funds for the towers were not included In the budgets for either department Plan celebration for new arena opening mark the official opening of the lie Construction work on the finished lasl work hut if have an opening now we be in mud up to our hips com milieu chairman Hay He pointed out thai with minor hockey schedules wind ing up for the season there no immediate need for he extra ice surface The committee agreed to However said Mr to Hie arena is turned i the town by the and Newmarket officially becomes owner of the arena The structure was built as part of Del Homes The official opening week end festivities should include a beer garden and an afternoon dance for teenagers said Com wait until sodding and other Dan Shannon Milk store rezoning vetoed NEWMARKET A application to allow a building on the southeast corner of Eagle St and Lome Ave to be replaced with a jug milk store has been turned down by town councils plann ing committee In rejecting the spot rezoning the committee backed a recom mendation by Its planning subcommittee and reversed an earlier educational services In the Re- tentative approval of the project given before a public meeting held Dr Owen com missioner of health and social services said Monday the York demolished surfaced at the town hall meeting Residents of the study apparently Is the only area presented two petitions against the and official plan one of Its kind ordered In the change Province The rezoning and plan change are necessary because the present giving business was established before the area was put under a zoning bylaw and therefore Is a legal nonconforming use To put up the new store the owners need the corner zoned from its present resi dential designation to a commercial zoning The proposal by Investments Ltd was for a one storey jug milk store surrounded by parking spaces This was the third proposal made by the firm for the property during the past year All have been rejected con appeal the decision to council and if rejected again can appeal the Ontario Municipal Board Neighbors to see proposal NEWMARKET Neighbors or the former Victory Baptist Church building on Arthur St will be Invited to a meeting sometime In April to discuss plans to turn the building Into a private club before rezoning to allow the change to be made Town councils planning committee decided last Thursday to hold the meeting before It made a decision on the Newmarket Optimist Clubs application to have the former church site reioned from its present institutional designation to a commercial use The club wants to use the building as a meeting hall for banquets and other functions Mayor Bob warned the committee It must take Into consideration the fuel that the Optimists may not be there forever They could sell some day to any kind of private club if the property Is commercial with a private club restriction as the committees planning consultants recommended he pointed out it was also pointed out to the committee that houses will be built In the vacant land behind the church property some day soon New post office for 76 NEWMARKET Expansion of the Newmarket post office facilities Is tentatively scheduled for Public Works Minister Jean Dube said In the Commons last Wednesday He was answering a question by York Simcoe MP Sinclair Stevens The minister said his department has not determined the date when tenders will be called for the construction or leasing of any such Improvement or extended accommodation Mr said he future of the existing Main SI and Park Ave building will be determined when decision has been made on the new accommodation He said no renovations are planned for the present post office in the meantime provincial release of the funds York Regional Council al ready has given tentative ap proval to a expendi ture lo staff the four centres tills year subject to the Prov ince contributing half that Meanwhile the need for family life centres in York has been proven and Is becoming even more necessary as time goes on he said Resides the two now cent res In Newmarket and Rolhaven established centres exist In Morkham and Richmond Hill The two older centres might be centre directors say the freeze puts our backs to wall and urge public donations to keep the service going Newmarket apparently that centre Is in dire need of government funding Dr Sling- said With two counsellors one on staff and one on loan from See FAMILY LIFE page I