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I The En Newraartet THE ERA DAVID HASKELL Serving York County Since 1852 carter J ALLAN MARTIN JOHN LOTT High school teachers go back to one PD day Parents who became increasingly angry and frustrated with the proliferation of professional development days taken by their childrens I during recent school years will be happy to know that in the two Newmarket high schools the trend has been reversed Teachers at Newmarket High and Huron Heights Secondary schools have voted to cut the midyear days down to one this year The same cannot be said for their elemen tary school counterparts however who are taking the full nine days allowed them The high school teachers apparently con eluded Just as a great many parents have that an extra day out of class a month often a Friday whether it be used for holiday purposes or school activity projects was imposing too large a penalty on both students and on the teachers own commitment to get through a curriculum within a given period of time Ontario legislation allows teachers to take up to 13 days during a school year but in York Region school board trustees got around that by setting the minimum number of in structional days at thus leaving a maximum of nine free days for the teachers Although the teachers union which negotiated the professional development or activity days as they are sometimes called into contracts a few years ago insist for useful teacher development programs or for parent interviews In some schools particularly at the elementary level they developed into just another day off In at least one elementary school a group of teachers last year operated a PD day bridge club At a time when many parents are questioning the qualify of education being provided in Ontario and at a time when the public image of teachers is deteriorating because of strikes salary demands etc we feel our high school teachers have taken a step in the right direction Parents of high school students in Newmarket should be happy to know that teachers there are concerned too and have demonstrated their concern by opting for more time in the classroom We hope they are setting a trend IHK HUH KM Letters to the editor By ROY GREEN A funny thing happened at the ball park It was the funniest thing Id seen in sports in time Perhaps ever I shouldnt really be talking about sports wasnt really sports Many games Tonys and the Newmarket Rays of the Fastball League section but this Dont bar guide dogs shortage of v of Our Farmers need active organizations Railroad at board puU To the Chairman SOCCer third game of the series but the third game had been ruled no contest Thus this game the fourth time the teams had met in the series was the third game That should Idea of what kind it had been up to thai point This fourth game was the weirdest 1 have ever seen It shouldnt be funny when one grown man is punched in Ihe face even if Ihe punch is puny and ineffectual by another man who is much older but who has not grown as tall as the first grown man It be when the game is supposed to be fastball but it was Pardon my laugh The second grown man was Casey who generally manages the ltis of hi Ontario Fastball League Mr li fiu feel tall and looks In tie about years of age He like his baseball namesake Casey Stengel is a battle scarred veteran of his game He has been thrown of many games by many Two important agricultural issues discussed In this weeks Era by York Regions two top farm experts agricultural representative Wall and Matthew Valk of the Muck Research Station Illustrate the need for stronger farm organisations in York Mr Valk points out that since federal Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan advised growers in a speech last March to organize and get federal money to help them solve pressing vegetable crop research problems shipping problems export marketing problems storage problems and freight rate inequities there has been no move on the Holland Marsh to take advantage of these opportunities In the meantime points out Mr Valk Quebec growers who already have some rail freight rate advantages and have benefitted in the past from large federal grants are lining up I Ottawas doorstep again Do we in Ontario have an aversion to federal handouts he asks Marsh farmers It seems unlikely What Marsh farmers apparently have an aversion to is organization longtt of carrots and onions on the Marsh He points out that a planning decision being made during the next days by York Regional staff will probably decide whether farming will continue to remain economically viable in York Regloi decide whether to keep it for food production or allow it to be lost forever to developers According to the Ontario governments long- range plans a lowdensity area will be retained around Metro Toronto What hasnt been decided yet is whether the rich Markham and Vaughan land will be developed and the poorer King Whitchurch and land retained for farming and recreation or whether rich land will be kept and development directed elsewhere If anyone has a more direct interest in the future of farming in York than do the land developers it is the farmers The developers are organized and you can bet they are being heard from Arc the farmers slap per ft of water month period 1 families in this unity do not dm it It at all to reach the ft per three Mr Dim sou Newmarket cm oh of then tit relieved itself declining years Not in the is more acerbic than If anything he 1 IHIKIKH I 111 lUl llu was Mr lime was a back tip the Mr Knight is one of the Tony coaches lie stage for the pugilistic Willi I keeper may ilm mi iil In i use the I at all I must first gives the lime his fourth third gai played the New irk It am id oik nit ij in Hit I its In Ihes re had been a muni 1 of lie or nothing ti Muhanimed AH Tight id mid playt e Wind people the problem TOP IltlOMT rightfully threatened Willi In l in Mm- of Newmarket after with mute lliej Dont forget folks if arc a in ITC as of Sept Have realty Pan i Mr iiv a The Bygone Era Expresses appreciation The Eras File dressed chickens under the auspices of ire broke for the bakery of Mr annual is U cents in tickets tokens or exact Keswick Sharon has water problem 11 was with a great vetlit tit t tit relating the being i bill la lie irly lioodm Hon It- mini Ml fivi 111 hi a llelsui loitiltli boy would lease I i inihui ijoit atoned Mr In the same game Mr whs held in a In i player Mr h Ik- bit in the back with a foul ball and almost knocked unconscious And then there was the protested game The Kays started a pitcher one Lawrence Marshall who hid not in games prior to the playoffs tdos- rule The Oshawa Tonys were aware of this rule and the Hays were not Dont ask me why No one seems to know Mr Marshall left the game quickly Not because of the protest Because he tip four hits and two runs in consecutive sequence Mr Roberto then entered the contest and shut out the IVtns while his teammates placed five runs in the kept for lb it particulai led Hit- problem for you fr Union cwMMtl a in the a day Among the resolutions pissed one lo work for lotal prohibition another ring A nil I lie in all county public schools protesting drawing fa being allowed lo smoke and a com plaints the tempers The electrician is being kepi busy last wet lint ft time ti1 ll I- ml in line ml dm llu is if Iti ml Ihe pullicil soil house granulated sugar for St A full orchestra was in Two years ago last March Mr had his bicycle stolen Information Is Constable Kirk who has bet Newsroom Notes My first years The Era and there were before Booths and games did antral pari was a failure as there carry off the prizes DAVID HASKELL Ten years ago almost to the day Sept I arrived in Newmarket as publisher of The Era In those days however was known as the Newmarket Era and Express So one of Die first things I did was to change the name of the newspaper you were identifying yourself and the other was because a number of wags asked me if I would do some fast transporting for them In lie Era and Express had an eightcolumn formal with inches upon yards of small grey columns It was printed the old fashioned letterpress method by the Examiner The photographs for the paper were reproduced by a machine thai a machine that makes recordings for a Dictaphone But first he changes Sometime during we began to be printed The Telegram and our photographs were reproduced the more modern zilio engraving method It was still letterpress printing though Then in we began to lie printed by the modern offset method just as we are today Photographs were reproduced The eight column format became a column format with bigger type and bigger headlines making it easier for the reader to read The use of color was introduced to The Era more appealing to the eye I must hasten to point out that these Changes for the were not all at my doing or urging my oilier those who pay Of the six of ua are still here Alice Gibbous In office Ed Pollock Martha McDonald and John Wright in the composing room and me Jim Walker and his boys at Boyd Transport are still doing much of the trucking except gi cater use of color photograph Electronic typesetting using TV screens etc is still many years awa because of lit huge initial cost The use of Polaroid typo cameras will come more and into cut costly and often wasteful time in the darkroom The gathering of news for The Era will not change Editors and reporters will still have to go where the news is and then come back lo the office to their typewriters Eventually this will change and instead of sitting in front of a typewriter they will sit in front of typesetting machine But as I earlier this is still many years away iod willing and with the approval my reader bosses and my boss bosses Ill be here for many years to come For the last to years there has not been one day that I have not looked forward to coming to work at The Era during the third inning It Liu- could not observe IUINCi beyond the ley were out there the ad seen them at the start of walked to his teams Mr had wisely decided he would able to see a ball which might be hit from all of the hitting mil the 12th mt levnmevl returned in the seventh nig Mi again to walk in from that he could just be seen ambled up to home plate where addles the umpire It lo leave when Mr Knight shouted Hey whereupon Mr lnpps returned Seconds Mr reached up and pushed Mi list- lower abdomen Mr losl his glass while Mr Knight did not lose his Mr Knight is at least a loot taller and twenty years younger than Mr cheekbone This last action like the push had little effect upon Mr Knight Things cooled out Hi- Itll milled around home plate- Mr was asked to leave the contest which he did after only a mild protest I was standing near the exit door from the field when i Mr reluctantly bowed out If Mr Knight foot how could Mr reach Mr Knight on the