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Region to fund family centres NEWMARKET York Re gional Council allocated last week to bail its four family life centres out of their immedi ate financial crisis The funds are expected to carry staff salaries through June Meanwhile the provincial gov ernment is conducting a needs study to determine whether it will contribute another cat ion the Province has put a one- month freeze on funds for Yorks four centres pending results of the study Before councils ac tion last week the AuroraNew market Centre Davis Dr was in danger of closing for lack Under a plan approved by fits The Regions assumption of the service was contingent on the Province contributing its Local boards of directors are responsible for raising funds for accommodations and other freeze abounded in council last week and Newmarket Mayor Bob blasted a very sarcas tic letter in which a provincial civil servant said York already has a plethora of counselling agencies I have no knowledge of a plethora of counselling services of health and social services Youd think we had ser vices coming out our ears and were asking for something we see REGION page THE ERA South Shore VOL NO ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MARCH York County Hospital gets go ahead for new addition NEWMARKET The On- order on York Hospitals million 154bod addition was lifted Monday by Premier William Davis hospital officials HE TURNED HIS BACK AND Guy parked his car and went to mated by York Regional Police at while make a call from a phone and when he received damage Other than this looked back his Mustang was moving backwards h rcuorc major into the front window of Lukes Drug Store on High St Saturday night It was at he height of Township during the storm the snowstorm Damage to the windows was Bernard photo Bus service cancelled on rural roads officials have been ordered to start processing plans for the expansion immediately He said it could take more than a month before they give final appro to working drawings so the addi tion can go to tender We should be digging in the ground this summer he said students from late for classes Students from St Thomas Separate School Deer Park and Jersey public schools and Sut ton District High School were as much as minutes late when their school bus became mlrrcd A second bus was sent the scene with a third vehicle dis patched later The first two had resumed the route by the time School about run ending at Deer Park Public School at approximately 1030 Following the delays i roads and part of one east- west rural artery came as York County Board of Education ad visors hunched an investigation into the legal Implications of -inci- repre- ting both the hoard and Sim- cover accidents on such roads There has been no indica tion however who would hear responsibility in the event of such an accident While Mm bo aids Icgil ulusors arc study nit the implications of the situa tion Loach dent Joe Livingston said the fin al decision as to whether a road is passable currently with Interviewed Monday Mr Liv ingston said only one driver has the option avoid operating the bus on what the Ill 1 bii In In in road Neither the driver nor the bus i involved in the inci dent were The driver division winch made mi Thursday came a day prior stalling of the bus mi tin Mount Picas nit Side oiler It has been in the planning stages for almost seven years hut work on it has been repeal brought to a standstill incial spending cutbacks The most recent was last fall when Health Minister Dr Richard Potter froze hospital dentition of York Re oil in York Regions por- building fund grant Larry credit for obtaining t approval should go to local newspapers Mr Hodgson said be wants to express ins thanks to the many constituents who wrote plums I mid siti support of hospital expansion After the freeze was by Potter last fall Mr I oil son in the Legis- if tin project flu- hall and The only up with and thai is really premiers decision MPP BItL HODGSON Dales not added to SLS committee NEWMARKET Mayor Joe Dales will have lo lobby in his local council for appointment to the South Lake Shoreline Coordinating Committee he was told in York Council last week The committee was set up last year by the South Lake Sim coe Conservative Authority and Included three regional appoint ees and three from The planning com mittee last week recommended the re appointment of the three regional councillors who served last year East Gwillimhury Mayor Cladys Rolling Newmar ket Mayor Dob and gina Councillor Bob Pollock Mayor Dales said he thought a spot on the committee should ho reserved for the mayor of He noted that his pre decessor George Burrows had chaired the committee In Mayor Rolling replied that I since Council appoint ed three members there is no reason why Mayor Dales could not be a local appointee Coun cil approved the regional ap pointments The committee Is to act as a coordinating body for all agencies involved In the acqui sition and development of prop erties along the south lake Simcoc Shoreline according to a planning committee report Us prime function Is to establish policy for a develop ment plan for the acquisition of lakeshore land for the estab lishment of recreational lies rather than deal with speci fic projects Surprise party for birthday Harris talks of the past Man blinded in fight Sutton man charged criminal negligence causing bodily harm in connection with a fight last November In which anolher Sutton man was blinded In one eye York Regional Police said a man was removed from the Mansion House last Nov following a tight Once outside man push ed his fist through a window and a glass fragment lodged In the eye of ton who had helped escort the man from the premises Mr has lost the sight In that eye police said Charged Is Frank Ron ald who Is In cus tody on another charge of assaulting police arising SUTTON When bill Har ris tern it constable of the Vil lage of Sutton in he had iitl I Hi ii mil lli I the then part time job was princely a Saturday night St Patricks Day member of his family gathered the Anchor Rest aurant to give him a surprise Villi blrlluh party While the wis gome on a new color television set was Installed in his apartment also a gift from his family All that was a far cry from when he first came to Canada as a hoy of years of age His girls In England The home arranged for him to come lo Canada after he read sonic comic bonks showing Hoys Scouts roping Indians and in an interview with The En wanted to do It too He was placed on a farm near Zephyr owned Ixickie The agreed to keep him until he was IB and bought his clothes while he worked to earn room and board At III years of age Mr Har ris left the farm and worked for William Harmons for five years We plowed harrowed sow- those ton kepi on lug until Hie work was done he said He worked In a number of different firms in Hie Zephyr area and in 1029 ho married Is abel Dunn whose father wis the si at Ion agent at the CNR station in They cele brated their 1 Mat In the Harrises moved Sutton and Hill Harris went work for Anderson Hill farm He spent The two men have been friends ever since Mr man lived in Gum Swamp known today as Kim Grove called Gum Swamp heard It Gum Swamp more than at Hill until One he tided hi w is to into the and he hitched a ride lo Toronto enlisted in the Royal Etegiment of Canada Elm with laugh was put on draft call fivo times but never got to go overseas they took mo off draft call I win mid 1 spent of the war it Camp and we had a helluva good time lot he was hired by ho Vil lage of Sutton and in 1018 be came constable of the village Ho had no car so he rode his bicycle when he had to Ills rounds down to Jacksons Point For the first six months In worked for the in the uniform he wore his good suit created a problem be- there no police sta- Student safety could be a major issue AURORA Student safety along in Sutton Is ex pected to be a major Issue when the York County of Edu cation meets here Monday night The boards trustees will bo asked to approve a Chair- plowed from the road The suggestion was schedul ed to he presented during a bo- earlier this month held lengthy agenda When the Issue first arose during the March 5 committee session trustee Mariano fiillan suggested introduction of a seasonal bussing that would eliminate a twomile hike Noting that we really have along ltd faced by many Sutton District High School dents on cold winter days When a staff report indicat ed that the boards transporta tion costs would soar if double the number of buses were used to half capacity rather than the normal load Mrs Glllan agreed to let tho Issue rest had winter up there the trustee suggested that the Region was to blame for the In adequate snow removal along are on the road they have no choice Mrs Gil Ian said Under present board policy student within a twomile radius of their own school are not eli gible for bus transportation Rill Harris gets ready to cut the cake at hta birthday parly Saturday night It was a surprise party and guests Included his three daughter and 11 grandchildren He was well