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Era Keswick Out Wed Feb THEERA Serving York County Since 1852 Published every at 30 St New nf by Inland Publithlng Co Limited Subscriptions for two years for one calendar year Single copies each The NewmarketAurora Era Is one of the Inland Publishing Co Limited group of suburban newspapers which Includes the News Ad vertiser Brampton Guardian Burlington Post Gazette Economist and Sun News Beaver TWt Week and Tribune Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation Second Class Mall registration number Phone Newmarket 30 Charles St DAVID HASKELL Publisher TERRY CARTER EditorinChief ROBERT MARTIN News Editor Phone Aurora 7274024 RIBBON AWARD Whats up in Georgina What is going on in Georgina Township Burrows last week for withholding information Weil if youre a councillor legally elected from the ministry of tourism about a trailer park that is thats a good question that council had voted to reject last March The mayor the administrative staff at the The mayor said during councils meeting Civic Centre and the public seem to be coming up that he would accept full responsibility for the with weekly surprises that add a little spice to information being filed and thats all very well public life and a lot of confusion and noble of him was a time when people would call But the question as to why council was not their local councillor to find out what was being given the opportunity to read the letters until done with regard to local issues But these days it after the province had no choice but to issue a seems in Georgina anyway that most of the permit and a building permit had been issued by townships law makers are finding out about the township was never answered municipal affairs from their constituents on the Does council know whats going on Bruce Welch one of the councillors who is If the matters which have come to light illegally elected due to the division of Ward during the past week were not of a serious nature said Thursday night he knew about the problem the misadventures could well yield some ex- of the boundary change going before the gag material ie Did you hear the one Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs or the about the councillors who couldnt get elected Ontario Municipal Board but left the decision up even when they were township clerks department But the matters are serious and in the long After all the administrative staff of the run are going to cost the taxpayers of Georgina township is paid to do councils spade work in Township heavily these and other areas but its possible council After the disclosures of last Thursdays has let some of the finer details slip under their special meeting of council there is still a question noses to whether any legislation passed by council Jan is binding and legal And it will affect everyone from the sub division developer to the man who sought a building permit With a writ to have the entire election con travened close lo being a reality il could cost the townships taxpayer another 24000 to hold another election That means by the time its over the township could be footing close to a bill just to get a government legally elected adding the from Decembers vote and the recount It raises the question of just who is running Georgina Township The confusion has led to what could be six months of fighting writs and staging elections before any more work can be done Meanwhile discussions on the Sutton In dustrial Park proposal which have reached critical stages in the last few weeks and an effective start to Keswicks water and sewer project hang in the balance How many more errors of judgment are yet to come It may be a good time for councillors to sil By ROY GREEN Some good could come from this fight it NMHA answers its critic But in the long run another election may be back and think about their role in Georginas worth the price government and a good time for the taxpayer to Council nearly censured Mayor George think about their decision last Dec 6 Yorks planning bottleneck will be without an official plan for the remainder of this two year term Absent from the planning committee meeting last Wednesday were Newmarket Mayor Bob Georgina Township Mayor During the election campaign for York Region chairman everyone agreed the regions official plan should receive a high priority this year York has been working on that plan since the Irene Thompson inception of the region yet it is no closer to George Burrows and Councillor Alma striking a plan than it was six years ago Walker Out of three meetings of the planning committee called since the first of the year the committee has only been able to get a quorum for one meeting Last Wednesday the meeting was cancelled for lack of quorum after members waited half an hour for one more member One of the matters pending is a motion to adopt as Yorks official plan a composite of of ficial plans of the area municipalities One assumes that would necessitate a review and discussion of various area plans Members of the committee are elected regional councillors elected presumably for their intention to serve their constituents Unless more of the members can manage to attend planning committee meetings the region wish to respond on behalf of the Newmarket Minor Hockey Association executive to some of the suggestions made by Mr w J Berger in his letter which ap peared in The Era on Feb Suggestion We feel Mr Bcrgers suggestion to separate players into A and categories within the House League has merit This year we did so within The Novice age group and have been pleased with the results Any extension of this idea would of course have to be made by next years Executive A particular age group where there is a rather This past weekend was a memorable one for ar disparity in size Irene Thompson of llone s a Mrs Thompson was honored as East Gwilhmbury Townships citizen of the year and boys often undergo at celebrated her 90th birthday to years of age There The Era would like to congratulate Mrs will always be however a Thompson on both her honor and her ac complishment And The Era thanks two excellent com munity organizations the East Gwillimbury Optimist Club and the Community Com municator for sponsoring the event which honored this fine lady gradation of ability on internship learning any team however finely situation The boys we chose to subdivide the deserve credit since age divisions In avoiding hockey is one of the most undue pressure on the difficult sports lo referee players who are less Hopefully we will see skillful on a particular more clinics next year team I have always felt The boys who referee in that the coach is the key our House Leagues need person involved We have verbal support when they been fortunate in Newmarket from my observations over years in the generally high calibre of coaches we have had volunteer Suggestion Clinics We held a relereeing clinic early in the year Two are one the ice Suggestion Mr suggests that we exposure to increased competition with other towns Under the present setup every player in the House League has the possibility of being in that tournament with his own team from the first day of the season Does this foster team spirit Suggestion More support for House League Coaches Pat Murphy of drop the T Team concept our executive organized a or compose it of top Level CAHA Coaches House League players since they receive con siderable extra ice time In fact they re ceive only about eight were held last year by hours extra ice time Mr Glenn Smith our team which is in first Clinic which was held in the fall and was attended by Coaches A Level clinic will be held in March I wish to thank Mr present house league director Our long term policy is to develop referees out of our own House League system This requires un derstanding on the part of parents and coaches that the boys are operating in placeinitsagedivisionas of Jan 31 enters a House League Tournament held received lne con in in the spirit in which spring vacation The were offered purpose of The Tour- is to give House JIM FITZGERALD League players the Chairman chance of a one time Flyers fon blames losses on coach illboord As a follower of the Newmarket Flyer hockey club through the past season I was most disturbed with the just get this game over with Yet Mr Forhan stated in last weeks A free show for schoolage children will be held in the Aurora Public Library Saturday Feb 26 starting at 2 pm For more information call Gwen Teasdale study of how color and music affect people Coffee is provided and there is a free babysitting service Admission is A special program for those who wish to be handy around the house but dont know where to start or what tools to use will be held at the Aurora Public Library on Wednesday March at pm Marilyn who believes the consumer can cut down on repair bills by under standing what goes wrong around the house will be demonstrating some simple doityourself ideas Parents with preschoolers can bring the children to a film presentation which will be screened in the childrens library while the lecture is being given The Park Ave Playground Association will hold a dance at the River Drive Park Com munity Hall Saturday Feb 26 from 8 pm to 1 am Tickets are a couple and music will be provided by disc jockey Paul Torkoff For more information and tickets call Colin Baron at or Mary Young8954747 All proceeds from the dance will go towards building a senior play ground The Newmarket and East Girls Hockey Association will stage a fundraising dance at the Newmarket Community Centre Friday March 4 at 8 pm Music will be provided by a disc jockey and door prizes and spot prizes win be awarded Tickets are a couple and can be obtained by calling The World Around Us lecture series con tinues at York Pines United Church Kettleby 2 at am when Pat Kerr will discuss Music Color The Human Aura and You Mrs Kerr a commercial artist who studied voice and piano became involved in behavioral research at York University These investigations led to a All parents wishing to lend a hand with the Georgina Childrens Choir over the next 10week session are asked to attend a meeting Monday March 7 at pm in the Sutton Public School on Dalton For more information and registration for your child call Edna Sanders 4763753 or Lonrit- The annual meeting of the Sutton and District Association for the Mentally Retarded will feature a pot luck supper Friday Feb at 6 pm at the Optimist Hall If your last name begins with the letter bring the first course and NZ bring the second course Admission is and door prizes will be awarded The Cancer Society will hold a work meeting Thursday Feb 24 at 2 pm at the Sutton Library- Everyone is welcome fir knowledgeable his hockey person could tell Mr that criticizing his players in public will not result in a winning record Since years record Perhaps someday Mr will realize that in order for his players to respect him he the season was Mr coaching ac tivities His attempts to avoid the blame for this seasons dismal showing are old and bushleague tactics However making scapegoats out of the Flyer players will not alter the fact that Mr lacks the character and qualities required for a successful coach Fourteen of the 22 members of the Flyer team were not invited to return next year It is unfortunate for the town of Newmarket that Mr was not among them ROBTHEDORF Newmarket assuming the position of must earn that respect coach he has continually His criticism that certain referred to the team players lacked leadership members as sucks or qualities revealed only prima donnas As for that this leadership was the tag quitters the absent where it should be players themselves will behind the bench Careful writer urges care in reading recall that going into the third period of the critical game against the Weston Dodgers Mr only word of en- Other players were called troublemakers and disappointments but most Flyer supporters would agree that the couragement was Lets biggest disappointment of Hospital staff commended I recently had to spend approximately a week and a half at York County Hospital I was on the fourth floor section C it b in the new- wing I think it is easy for us to say Well thats their job but to work with sick people is a unique job and to maintain that pleasant yet competent The purpose of this a weU letter is to express my sincere thanks to the orderlies doctors and nurses who do such an excellent job done Again my sincere thanks TOM TAYLOR Newmarket PRESET A WEV45 SETCRV OF MEM WKD OF OUT OF vapy Mrs Schlcchter of Aurora might well re phrase her letter to you Feb 16 which throws a spanner in my ancient works I must point out to her that the headline over my letter of Feb Nobody Qualifies for Tax Rebate was yours not mine Newspaper headlines quite often are not scientifically ac curate First Mrs S calls me erudite Thats a dirty one Next thing you know shell have me a member of that learned body The York County Board of Education Then she says I havent adequately studied the matter of Auroras senior citizen tax rebates overlooked widowed pensioners etc I wrote fully about matter to Councillor Simmons a year ago The letter was brought before council and published in the press It covered single seniors I got no action then I am getting action now hope I cant keep opening up the whole can of worms all the time My patience and a newspapers space gets short In my letter to Era of Feb 9 I make no mention of singles But all my references are specifically to married couples paragraphs The onus on Mrs is as much to be completely aware and to read carefully as it is on me to be with it and write carefully The whole matter is of no personal concern to me Short of Tmdeau and his dimwits ruining this country completely I am never likely to qualify for municipal tax rebates under anything like the a The annual brawl between Ray Twinned York Region Police Commissioner and Bruce Crawford York Region Police Chief Is just settling down it seems and it was the worst yet People talk about Muhammed Thrilla in Manila but that cant compare to the Corket in York which occurs each year when Chief Crawford prepares his annual budget J You forgot this whole thing began in a budget debate Right Well it did The police com mission will still have to debate that budget before it is presented to York Region Council The chief says he needs more men The commissioner says he doesnt need more men if he can afford to use so many in policing traffic with a vengeance Then the argument went public The chief according to news reports called Twinney a liar and accused him of using Godfather tactics a la the mafia and McCarthy tactics Joe McCarthy or Charlie McCarthy I mean if youre going to be insulted you should understand just what the said The commissioner in a televised news in terview implied the chief was not quite all there Theres something wrong with the man was one of his comments These two if you can believe it were once good friends Thick as thieves if I can use such an expression when talking about a police chief and a police commissioner But one could see that it couldnt last A police chief and a politician were not made to break bread together They travel very different paths and philosophies The wonder is that they were friends for such a long time They lunched together along with other friends fairly often When they had to travel to police conventions they would travel together And they socialized The chief used to be seen at fastball games featuring teams owned by the commissioner In the early years could almost always be counted on to defend Crawfords policies He would help lead the police budget through its annual fight at York Region Council In short they got along famously Crawford who once confided to me that he had a healthy distrust of politicians must have felt he had met an exception in Twinney used to say that Crawford was the best possible man to head up a regional police force if you had to have a regional police force Then a few years back traffic policing and traffic law enforcement became a paramount concern to the chief Yorks traffic statistics were higher much higher than othi areas Some of those areas were larger thai York Thats when the differences between the twi began It was really a matter of how Crawfoi went about it and how perceived Crawford was going about it Twinney perceived that the chief went it in a sneaky vindictive way That he threats on his men to increase traffic catches Policemen who wished to remain anonymous would tell Twinney of the quotas and threats People would phone Twinney or talk to him at functions and relate traffic horror stories Crawford denied quotas and threats but defended his allout war on traffic offenses Budget time is a natural time for this typef thing to surface and when the chief asked for more men Twinney felt the need was not If some of those men could be relieved the shock troops of the traffic war they could be used elsewhere The politician has to be and ft more responsive to the public and he rebelli It is now very much a black and white isst to both of them The chief Twinney feels hj become paranoid about traffic laws and n only a handful of steel balls to complete tl image of Captain Queeg is grandstanding in Crawfords eyes The friendship is long over Yet the region can actually benefit from this war I dont mean the unfortunate war conducted in the media The namecalling arid existing Scroogelike personality clash I mean the adversary roles rules they will play in future r Some Africans used Crawford will have to make a pretty vincing case for any and all of his proposals- budget increases requests for more manpower etc Hell have to dot all the is and cross til the ts Twinney will have to document any and charges that the chief uses too many men in in to vast majority Its a unreasonable vendetta against motorists HeMI have to ask some of those anonymous sourceslo come forward into the light J They will no doubt be at each others throats again Hopefully they will do it within the structure of the commission and not by taking turns in alternative issues of the weekly papers in York It could be a healthy situation which could result in better policing in the region and politicians are natural adversaries For although the motto is Serve and Protect policing in this time is primarily a restraining the public And politicians if they wish- to rem politicians really must serve the public cats and dogs oil and water night and day Just dont mix to throw their aged to the crocodiles Maybe still do abandoned them to the snow or set them adrift on an icefloe Here they give municipal tax rebates which are paltry and inapplicable stingy start So I speak for the abused and the forgotten Which probably make me a halfwit At that Im still way ahead of the com pletely witless who ad minister our affairs Remember whose side Im on will yer Mrs S SIDHBR1TTON Aurora 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