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The En Newmarket Avon KetitttOal Wed Aug XT 1975 THE ERA DAVID HASKELL Serving York County Since TERRY CARTER limuM el IMPt J ALLAN MARTIN Btivir Thi SMulfvllM Tr Phone Charles SI Phone Aurora Future of old registry office questioned Electiontime and the answers come I easily or so we who are frequently baffled by the Queens Park bureaucracy like to think this campaign one of the major I of his last term is the new courthouse and registry office being planned for the corner of and Eagle Streets We understand the plans for this edifice are almost coiiiiete and a start on construction is not too far off I A major accomplishment to be sure but it leaves one small nagging question unanswered What will happen to the historic North York Registry office a landmark on Newmarkets Main St since and on its present since when the registry records move to their market received word that the a til be moved to the new St complex lie town ion wrote the Ontario Public rks minister suggesting that the turned over to the town for a sum for use as a museum So fai there has been no answer from the The building with its modern record storage behind the original office would be to house a small museum and a York archives and plans are air for I of such an The Newmarket Historical has undertaken establishment of the archives as its major longterm goal and foresees the lime Newmarket will house a large microfilm I collection of documents newspapers photos and Anther material related to this area as well as many original documents books etc The committee already has a small but growing collection of artifacts which could furnish museum display material for the old part of the registry office long and colorful historic past is preserved and So how about it Mr Hodgson The archives kept available to local scholars and enthusiasts needs a What will happen to the old Much valuable material has already been lost Registry Office Can we get an answer during the yearold Historical Committee is this campaign Civic Awards done a lot for this town If you have now is your chance something about it You can nominate that person for a Newmarket Civic Award Its easy to do and the only qualification is person of information I Heres how check the criteria the judges dinner and dance on Oct Redistribution proposal ridiculous THE Readers ERA Once again it seems the residents of East and Townships have been cast adrift on the political seas Provincial riding redistribution saw the two communities shuffled off to Durham North- a riding which stretches from Pickering Township on the south to Township on the north The eastern boundary is Victoria County with little hooks to the west through the old counties of Durham and Ontario and finally into Georgina and East Gwillimbury In 1972 proposed federal redistribution would have kept both East Gwillimbury and in riding dropping parts of King and Tecumseth This proposal died with the federal election and last week new- riding boundary proposals were made The core of York would now be known as YorkNewmarket and be comprised of the towns of Aurora Newmarket Whitchurch- Stouffville and Richmond Hill Gone would be Bradford Alliston King West Gwillimbury and other communities East Gwillimbury and Georgina voters would cast their ballots at the same time as residents living in Peterborough County Lindsay Palls and in the proposed new federal riding of Vicloria- Simcoe Under this proposed redistribution it is possible for a resident of Holland Landing to represent Victoria Simcoe voters in the House of Commons who live miles away in Peter borough County It is also conceivable that a resident of would be the friendly local MP to the residents of Sharon We fail to see what anyone living in East has in common with someone living in fail to see what anyone living in King Township has in common with someone living in Georgetown fail to see what anyone living in Bradford has with someone living in Federal riding redistribution is necessary but this latest proposal is ridiculous St widening unwanted Worling claims region engineering MI Iiil I- 3 kept employed irting to snide imicixlo necessarily filling that it is correct Are the all wise Are they Mr fight t NEWSROOM NOTES Wells day care policy makes sense Mm Does Mis deny Hie beauty and civ of SI is sham people street live in some in sonic in King mil region is ired many who thai there is no need in ill illow ime Mrs Buck would be better served by trying to gel Queens Park to get on than to engage in name calling and belittling citizens who asphalt and throughout the region I wonder if Mrs Duck mild like to elaborate on the cxpcnsivi main Ipriflnce of the road proposing the safe and efficient use of a road She is talking about destroying homes cut- prcading lin down lull iiiaknu Mall is building walkway manager order has bee the irigcT in crossing than Slip lights however of this walkway is Thanks to a man whose job was in jeopardy before he even was appointed York Regional Council now has the chance to forge its first mmonsense policy to govern municipal day re operations Alan Wells was on the spot from the first day he assumed the rather prodigious title of Director of Administration Department of Health and Social Services The job was credited of the administrative burden from Owen Slingerland Yorks Commissioner of A number of vocal councillors particularly Aurora Mayor Evelyn Buck fought hard to block the new position They saw it as and their cynicism remained when the time me to put a body behind the new desk From the staff grapevine and from Mayor Bucks occasional and pointed remarks at public meetings after his appointment Mr- Wells was well aware of his precarious position To com pound the situation Mayor Buck chairs councils health and social services committee the body to which Mr Wells reports through Dr Slingerland Mr Wells report on the regions day care should dispel any doubts about the need social services administrator Council has long avoided coming to grips with the complex problem of how to deliver pay for and prioritize day care services Mr Wells has provided a long overdue and concise set of guidelines for council to follow First he cuts through the staggering pile of statistics found in a day care needs study the region commissioned two years ago That report said everybody needs day care sometime About the only prerequisite for need was the production of a child But as Mr Wells notes the persons surveyed werent asked whether their needs might suddenly become wants if they had to pay the full cost He also points out a deliberate bias in the study it excluded from its sample most singleparent families the people generally regarded as most in need of day care Regional council is committed as com mitted as it is to anything to providing municipal day care but it has been treading water because of the monumental cost of building new day care centres Mr Wells however says the region can deal with the problem without huge capital from the north west side of the in of and pedestrians to lights at the Hit which Hie hue Cutting through a classic syndrome his report points out that the region already has a multitude of potential day care centres private homes Mr Wells urges regional council to encourage a system of home minicentres each accommodating from three to five children The institutional group centres would be retained and some new but small ones built where need is established But the main thrust of expansion would be put into private homes with the overall program still supervised by the region Another major recommendation in the report is that infant care be excluded from any new group facilities instead moving that level of care into the minicentres Infant care in a day care centre now costs almost twice as much a week as care for a preschooler Mr Canada Mall parking lot Wells thinks the present institutional costs can be cut by about onethird but privatehome centres for infants would be relatively inex pensive to run because they require a minimal pit investment for only two or three children Besides the obvious cost savings the privatehome centre concept offers other ad vantages The kids would be supervised in a home setting The guidance and teaching would be carried out on a more personal level both for teacher and children And the system itself represents an example of how regional govern ment often accused of being remote can deliver a needed service at the grassroots level without institutional trappings Social services reports often issue a righteous plea to politicians to fill some newly identified need no mailer what the cost The Wells report only asks council to approve the proposed goils his staff he says will set up the machinery to encourage the growth of private day care by both private enterprise and chair- table organizations Its not a cureall but its a sensible ap proach and regional council should buy it Mayor Buck tells me that even she is impressed Thats not a bad start Municipality if I III iil 11 Pave St widening it helped reader cut red tape I would like to tell you Hodgson at Queens Part how much Rill Hodgson be looked into Ihe matter our local has done and got immediate of from the depart speak from personal Recently has a with IICUE government red tape and too I soon as 1 reached Bill i rges crackdown on Many Canadians politicians ha believe ihat the until- Iiriil which Mrs spend thrift Jontfomwl lauds of Summer is af leeting and winters Flyers are here already By ROY GREW Im still clinging steadfastly to but other people like the Newmarket hockey Flyers are already gearing up for the Winter The Flyers and this seasons hockey picture Newmarket are the only good thing about I hate winter All of it But if we must ve it in and into next year then Im glad have the Flyers For anyone who has been on the moon or who refuses to pay attention to local events the are Newmarkets first venture into A hockey Last year they were the Seneca Flyers and the season in first place in the Ontario two Jutdor A loop This season with many of the same players 11 be playing out of the Cedar St arena and already running very high Just imagine the terrific competition well this year The Aurora Tigers the Richmond raft tennis from the Toronto got a team from North Hay i So have the coaches Bill and Brian Million So in repetition if we must have winter Im glad we have the Flyers For the present though it is still summer and thats probably the reason that I cant get the least bit interested in the upcoming provincial election Many political pundits have predicted that the 30 year reign of the Progressive Con servatives in this province will be severely threatened in this election and if there is truth to that it should be a busy noisy election cam- Here in York North it isnt much better Liberal hopeful Mnrg has fired off a few guns about regional government and people participation in government Progressive Conservative Incumbent Bill Hodgson has fielded the statements in an off hand manner and Bob Lewis of the New Democratic Party says hod through the and armies of civil servants at Queens Park Ho hum 1 guess well have to wait for candidates meetings and the big TV debates to get election fire going There is just no way people can get In terested In August Incidentally the local can didates night sponsored by this newspaper will be held at the Community Centre on Thursday Sept Hmmm Ive talked about hockey and about the election and I still have half a column to go How about a or two the Newmarket Baseball Association Heres a group of people ho dont have the big thing thai ininoi hot key has people There arent Hint many people involved in minor ball Its been basically the same coaches and managers of the tenuis for the past few years all hard working types hasnt changed considerably either Still Newmarket does extremely well competitively and more importantly the majority of the kids have good time A special round of applause must go the the umpires Never mi enviable job small group of fellows have ignored cries of kill the um pire for couple of years now and for some reason keep coming back Is it just my imagination or do people give umpires a harder time than they do referees in hockey Minor ball has to compete In the summer with lacrosse and soccer and this year there They split the available kids into the bantam and tyke divisions and from all Ive heard it worked well Im not knocking minor hockey on his as I realize they have their problems in finding people to do the thankless jobs but I really feel everyone connected with minor ball deserves a big round of applause this season Now for something a little different It is now too late officially anything about my lawn It has fought a good fight all summer but was usually not home on the night when it was OK to water and it did not receive enough water It has taken on a sickly tan color which is in contrast to neighbors green grass The grass next door looks as though it was imported from Kentucky tender on Astroturf or Tartanturf for next year