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THE ERA Serving York County Since 1852 Phone NqwmarkellWS St Phono Aurora lit Will we have a community school in January Were York County school board trustees only paying lip service to the concept of com munity school programs in the region when they endorsed it last fall This appears to be the case They allowed a token program to proceed at Oak Ridges Public School because it was funded by an Ontario government grant but they have steadfastly refused to take any action that would help a fullfledged community school operate In Newmarket despite the fact that they have had a detailed proposal before them for many months Newmarket Parks and Recreation Com missioner Dan Shannon has been developing the resources for a community school program In Newmarket for three years and was ready to initiate one this September Then he postponed it to January Still nothing has come from the board and if some cooperation isnt forthcoming soon It may have to he postponed again Newmarkets program has the blessing of of I provincial to help fund it the tune of has been ap proved in principal Yet it is stalled because the school board has tin si hoot d ally dm community not taken a stand on it and without that in sellouts dorsement no decision can be made on which Ifildms immediately culling school to use away the ml time which engulfing the Instead the board appears determined to program should bury the community school administrator lobe opt In i ilii I iiiuii iln program committees studying recommendations from so Mr Shannon and bin colleagues in other other committees and then making further communities will him with and recommendations to more committees should insure Hint Newmarkets January We hope appearances are deceiving and that target date is met Job well done at A grassroots communityschool effort which succeeded is in the news this week A twoyear program by a group of parents in the Meadowhrook Public School neighborhood in Newmarket to build a creative playground at the school is finished The parents and the firms which donated material deserve commendations from the community So does the school board The nowcompleted playground contains a log pyramid a sand box a slide two teepees a playhouse balance beams tractor tire sand boxes a climbing lower three houses a log post balancing unit and a small amphitheatre with seats Tills playground will be an asset to the school and the neighborhood long after the children whose parents built it no longer need it It also demonstrates a grassroots neigh borhood program can the same time utilize and contribute to a school as a community facility Letters to the editor Newsroom Notes J In 1925 a prime minister was defeated By TERRY CARTER lo dig i iiji Ircnih iirmiul iwo i holes Tor donated lar quantity If only plans had been followed Fifty years ago this past week the voters of federal riding the riding centred tin Newmarket cast their ballots in the federal election and shook the nation Legislature who had not run In the provincial election of At the Conservative nomination meeting fir workers in Const traditionally Liberal riding But more than that the Liberal they defeated was Prime Minister the Right Honorable William Lyon Mackenzie King grandson and namesake of the man who established York North as a Reform stronghold In 1935 nearly a century after William Lyon Mackenzie lead the York North Reformers into battle at Montgomerys Tavern the formal title of the group behind local Liberal candidates was tilt Hi form Association of York North King left York North after his defeat he had been parachuted ino the- riding for the His defeat in the very cradle of the Reform movement left a good many local Liberals with egg on hen I man Jackson the editor and or of J he Alio the week before he he editor of the Herald about his supper for the candidate- Herb Lennox The editor the Herald will feel foolish of Oct is the same kind bluff he put up lour years ago when Mr Armstrong wj WO majority by Mr King Herb will buried so deep that he won want face on a political platform in The which the Conservative c cnvi ed nine in York has suffered a considerable jolt Most of the Progressive go to Premier King and many especially among the ladies will vote against Mr lAJinox Judging from report x riding the Prime Minis v ill he with oriiderable And he to that Mr Jackson predicted attitude of York if do not return nominated and accepted but only t the Conservative MP for York North until his defeat by King in The other seven were apparently nominated lo draw votes away from Armstrong and when happening he charged unfair leaving the nomination to Herb I The other seven were William Keith who had succeeded Lennox in the legislature Dr Boyd of Newmarket Wallace of Wood- bridge Clifford Case of Aurora Cameron Curry of East Harold of Sutton and A of Newmarket Herb lennox had established a tradition while He sponsored an annual picnic for his constituents And if anyone had any doubt that he planned to stay in politics after leaving the Legislature his Civic Holiday picnic in at Island Grove should have dispelled them According to Era reports 17000 people attended in autos and the rest coining by platform speakers Included acting Ontario Premier George Henry It was announced on the posters thai the picnic was political but speeches on the Contrast this with the Great Liberal I Jem oust ration and Picnic in honor of the Hon Mackenzie King hi Richmond During the eight week King sent is newest speak on his behalf in York Norlli and himself in riding fur he timl filling Ann a rally night before the election and speaking oilier meetings King had stood on his record here and across the a record of expanding trade reduced by per rent and he country prospering in a world peace He was defeated home by slipped 117 seats In 1D1 in the Commons No won i in but the wis h defeated that Mackenzie King it IKK in ilut Jl incumbent declared his intention seek the leadership his parly and prime I hi Stevens In Id i illy Newmarket Centre of which is the old Newmarket Arena In announce his aterials and picnic tables in Ihe targe number of playground for use during students and MP from Vancouvi who dealt the coup gras to King department and was Harry Stevens who spilled the soidid details on the flooi of the House of Commons forcing King to resign and band over power lo the Conservative Hi where expansion could followed there should Urges cut in budget Several deputations on the Regional Council with Hie plans Is difficult not to gel emotional on the Vet the morning long before real thoughts ilu methods of The Bygone Era From The Ems File building mil indicated developments just Secondly since the Reports been commissioned Mechanics Institute classes for mechanical and been formed under the direction of Mr Newmarket Woolen Mills and will testing eye gla Grand in a joint in ting I ibei lit thilano will be a in Newmarket when i will delivered by I that lime because of the lease his Newmarket Sugar Heel Factory The ex cellent results from the analysis of the beets already sent from Newmarket to the College is the attention of capitalists in this section Mr lundy who has taken an active part in this beet indutr eei since it was first agitated and has latch the sugar industry in Michigan is very confident that a wouldlea paying for the whole eiunmuiuty tie itvened a letter from a New York capitalist Informing him that he si oiihl ikw as a iW factory to be built lit market prov the rest of the capital was furnished in this locality list night the owing to the failing to do The months of a includes the by the it has indicated it will The real story behind the plot to pollute our water ROY GREEN SATIRE Many people think that the dumping of lot tentacles which stretch across the nation even into beautiful downtown Newmarket A Newmarkets water dastardly plot was hatched when one of the In I iliy ill hi men i operatives inform me otherwise and I now have in possession a secret report from the federal government which outlines a detailed plan to purposely pollute a the No one else at had that typo of experience and the board of directors bowed to The authors of Ihe report are employed by man federallysponsored company Syn- knowledge The il ii mum was easy Why not in Sim Stevens tiding He was an tug Ins loi lint It I ship the toyal that wck the would Inko away Ins big nun I lie die was swili hut it ami lh oil company driver did his thing We all know the thai lisi drain pi in flush dram gig spit I engine Nit one iced the tow truck Newmarket at that time Other people were which came to low his car away unhappy Columnists were ashamed of them- selves for making up bad jokes about w Hie blight nun ttw Editorial cartoonists fell the iset the bright young lley were net lust ten puied iho diner All the people at Syncrude turned their on the lovely gasstained town of Newmarket and hastened their efforts to get oil out of sand with large strainers at the Tar Sands money and a few bucks from s i try this theory out Where e oil companies the next question let It backfire as wen if it doesnt work out they all reasoned The bulk of Syncrudes efforts is directed towards the Athabasca Tar Sands where they hope to extract enough oil and strain it to provide for the countrys energy needs are unaware that Syncrude has and the municipality the governing take the blame lit drove up and coolly pal a and funnel into the gas lank of his car Then ha funnelling the water topped with gaanlino into The Region and the town and the Ministry of Ihe Environment were left with the problem ig announcement had lo share time of this writing I have just put a tho Imh ttXj of ice cubes in my which la Wgli the something will it and Veedol or Oh golly another bad gasoline- I II st water joke And there you have the story of bow we old Now miking with got gallons of gasoUne Into the was luioi than It was In towns water supply