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THEERA Serving York County Since iAVhilbyPlrtr DAVID R HASKELL TERRY CARTER J ALLAN MARTIN JOHN LOTT Phone Newmarket Charles St Closed meetings a problem The folly of doing public business behind closed doors was amply illustrated in I Newmarket last week Dogs cats and motherhood are tradionally among areas where politicians tread as though walking on eggs and so when Councillor Peter Hall indicated he planned to table a detailed report on mismanagement at the dog pound and of a quick death practice where cats are con cerned and demand action of his colleagues they saw political dynamite ahead ad- Silver Cross mother disgusted by parade Now This the tactic backfired The animal shelter question was of too pressing a public interest for reporters to leave alone as the politicians hoped they would Despite Ihe closed hearings stories appeared in local newspapers The articles werent to the liking of the administration committee for it then called a mean free access to press rente to supply background from the whether in committee earlier debate and ensure its own vci recorded Ironically the move to secrecy on the Humane Society report is relatively un characteristic of Newmarket council It nor mally does more of its business in public than most other councils It does not seek lo protect the interests of speculators and developers by hearing their plans in closed planning committee meetings as do some of its neighbors for instance It does however hold closed committee of the whole meetings which are somewhat called coordinating committee meetings because Newmarket his a bylaw requiring committee of the whole meetings lo be public These at first were only intended for discussion of personnel and other legitimately private UTTERS TO THE EDITOR Santa had a fine parade l would like through Si and SI added Hi PP were inhibit the leas il ige cm ham si ping from our men Hans those who tin Hi eoiilimuiig n lis lleV la limited In die piinUS mil inn i litis mil lhiv pi tin York it was el- were polite lo may make Utile difference in the news coverage offered the reader and then again it may Bui in any ease as wilh justice public disclosure must be seen to ha dune as ill as lie natter of public concern are d Newsroom Notes hi Anyone know how to play this game M By JOHN LOTT Can the past It was the Into baseball manager Casey Stengel who said of his inept New York in their fledgling years Does anybody here know how to play this game Hint quotation came to mind last Thursday nbers including the chairman Id like somebody to explain it to me too added Chairman Wright Id like the clerks summary of whatever we passed and what happened persisted Mayor This discussion is somewhat out of order said Richmond Hill Councillor lois reminding the ihairman thai things were happened Mr Clerk Read it came the gruff directive from Chairman Wright Clerk Hob Vernon then read from his advising that council had just added an in- a of Councillor Bob Adams who had taken over the meeting for about minutes while he gave bis impression of a wounded soldier trying to win a medal With his customary sledgehammer ap proach Councillor Adams argued that a staff supposition than fact He was so incensed over Ihe report thai he had planning chief prepare another report which said region report was full of solid waste Then York planning commissioner Murray Pound politely firmly said report contained similar aromatic injrcilinls So council agreed in a vote to add a preface which said the York report was not based on quantitative research In the confusing aftermath Chairman finally oiled upon solicitor led who has found thai he not only for advising do hut explain lo lliem what they have done Its perfectly clear to me Not one word of the report has been changed Mr said Thursday s episode is typical i ihe of council meeting under Mr Wnghl manship It would be amusing it werent for the fact thai ruhnlng a government Another of bis distinctive qualities is his acute sense of propriety During a discussion of waste disposal on Thursday Mr Wright said he thought the provincial government conducted a number of studies on recycling and all that nonsense Then he grinned The Region of York is faced the prospect of producing a annually by the year and its mm puis recycling into the category of nonsense Bruce Craw lord is it it us all from perversion of dirty pictures He has warned retailors Ihey risk prosecution on i if Ihey sell the December issue bile admitting Dial the law is vague on Ihe definition of obscenity Chief Crawford reasons that a court case could establish some firm guidelines tor bis morality la follow His enforcement method however is suspect If he really wants those court ynnielinet why warn Ihe vendors II he feels he law is being broken why not follow normal procedure and arrest Ihe and The Bygone Era The Penthouse flunk of the implications il police used philosophy in dealing oil I op pulls up and thai youve li i i out his ticket book he stys you be subject In if you over do it again Maybe Bruce lawinul just trying In In a Ik has 1 mill obMenily exist police inlisl I in Ibis i is ill must be purely subjective rain in MB but it is 1 go lets Mi man was only Mi ill Now thats leadership Elsewhere on the regional si is view obscene He feels a ens would agree with him Bui by warning Ihosc be feels The meaning of Remembrance Day oncer to me as the ears pas or see how much people care lie importance of the iUy and how they care about i I dont even realiie what of a overnuient could be controlling ua now Yet as RAYMOND Remembrance Day DAY J had a dream the other night A strange one yes indeed I dreamt that war with right Mans planted the seeci Newmarkets icemakers need a lesson in artistry By ROY GREEN Ive kept my silence long enough I think its time I just forget the fact that Dan Shannon and are good friends and lime for me to tell the citizens of this town about how Ihey are being deprived This town has two arenas Two ice surfaces They have an ice cleaning machine at each One is brand new and the other has seen affairs better days It works though Youd think with two ice machines wed be right up there with he best in icemachine Newmarket is Toronto of Provincial IceArtistry The organ of Ihe league wont even stud men watch our operators They do send out people rookie indue Newmarket lo see how it is NOT done Weve do lung on i Well got to tell it all Dan and his have done a wonderful job in every other setup is the envy of sorry Dan but department people ion ir The Newmarket other municipalities across the province of them much larger than Newmarket But weve failed miserably in icemachine artistry In fact we may be worst anywhere We are certainly the worst compared to the other towns that 1 get a chance to see in hockey Just last Friday I sat in arena with my friends watched the man on I between hockey and driving Ihe new machine and I he hadnt passed his papers lie was all over ice I flooded areas and sp hi puddles in which almost drown were in evidence The operator broke in Sam book of ice flooding Instead lea precise turns and a steady pace pi stanily changed speeds spun Ins lues narrowly missed who sweeping around the goal iiii hi and slowly Unit he has to do an ijust a scrape no and masters been known lohulll lip tt hockey gillie while hey skim Ihe ice a able sym ploying a system and a soon as 1 1 period ended however was it scramble for seals and number of wen Iliisluil until could restore I Ik house lights dimmed spot came Iheie lit was Sam himself A Bach piece flowed he a system and Sam edged out onto he and fainted and felt myself as Sam rounded the first turn little of snow sparkling in the floodlights the was a convertible model with the top up he ice machine became an instrument of bis and ever changing colors floodlights picked up the speckles piece crowd awed by Die beauty of all once had lie opportunity dont probably know about the league Ihey think you just scrape and flood the ice to it ready for the next game Theyve been unaware of the annual ice championships which are held at Quadruple Rinks each year What the town should do is hire an ice- artistry consultant Maybe the region could do il and all hockey rinks in York could use bis whats wrong with a little color out there How about making the guys I speckled rubber boots if they felt a little wasnt dry eye in the house as we in mi hour leaving the empty arena to Canada The a We miles just to see him do his The arena was deserted during a hockey which featured the Soviet team and Team Shack to Gordie Howe 1 ed a figureeight at help their right up there with other towns we slopped taking a back seat in the PIAL playoffs Lets SCRAPR ourselves off the bottom ami FLOOD our way Into Sam Ice Artistry Hall of