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THE ERA Since VOL NO PAGES NEWMARKET- AURORA KESWICK ONTARIO CENTS tern i is Can Aurora core be revived Can Auroras down town shopping core be revived Thats the question posed by a full page feature highlighted by stories and photos on page A8 Trustees approve British trip York Region public school trustees have ap proved a trip to Britain despite qualms about sending principals on one plane Story on page A- and an editorial on page A- Couple married for 65 years Kate and Ellis Staden married three days after the sinking of the Titanic celebrated their wed ding anniversary on Sunday Story and photo on page Bn NTCs newest effort underway Rehearsals for Newmarket Theatre Centres production of Charleys Aunt are now underway Picture on page OH disputes pesticide scare Pesticides are not dangerous if handled properly says Matt Valk a senior muck crop specialist for the provincial agriculture ministry Details on page DIRECTORY Billboard Business directory Church directory Editorials Mary Mount Albert Roy Green A4 Valk on vegetables Mews from Fairy Lake A4 IT HAPPENED IN YORK AURORA A couple celebrating their loth wedding anniversary got some unexpected well wishers when a car drove through the front of their HUT Dr home Saturday night According to police a car on Hill Dr at pm hit a parked car veered over the curb across the sidewalk The car then made an abrupt turn back across the road went up over the opposite curb and through the front of the boose owned by Mr and Mrs Stanley TainUh The bouse suffered damage In the collision while the car received worth of damage The parked which the vehicle Initially struck received damage Private services cTripoff Hughes AURORA Private animal control services are ripping off the taxpayer Ontario Humane Society executive vicepresident Tom Hughes has charged Despite his concern over the quality of animal control ser vices in Newmarket and East Gwillimbury Mr Hughes said there will be no attempt at the present time to charge John Hackson animal control officer for the two municipalities When the humane society operated animal control ser vices in both Newmarket and East Gwillimbury there were threeradio controlled trucks in the area at all times he said We lost the contract because we couldnt provide the services the municipalities were willing to pay for Mr Hughes said in an interview prior to the York County branch annual meeting here last night Monday Newmarket clerk Grant Blight said the with drawal of OHS patrol services appeared to be a move by the society to get out of the patrol business because it was too expensive East Clerk Jack Hopkins said Mr was hired because he offered a lower contract that was later found satisfactory by the OHS when it agreed to continue to provide pound services Private contractors moved in but are now providing worse service at a higher price than the OHS operation Mr Hughes charged Municipalities said Mr Hughes are not in a strong position contracting a vital service such as animal control to a private operator His comments came on the heels of an earlier dispute between the Ontario Humane Society and Mr Hackson In a private letter to Mr Hackson chief inspector Don Hepworth warned the animal control officer that he could be charged if he continued to bring injured animals to the humane society shelter in Aurora Both Mr Hackson and Peter Hall the Newmarket councillor responsible for animal control matters have claimed that the animal control officer has never left any injured animals unat tended at the shelter A confidential report prepared for Mr Hughes however lists instances were injured animals were brought to the Aurora shelter between March 1976 and March In at least three cases in jured animals were delivered to the shelter when no staff was present the report which Mr Hughes was expected to discuss during last nights meeting stated Although the cases all represented a lack of proper procedure and several were direct Criminal Code offences Mr Hughes said will not prosecute at this time The letter sent to Mr Hackson last month represented the first formal warning after an see HUGHES page A2 Board wins approval for St Pauls project RICHMOND HILL Ap proval for construction of a permanent facility at St Pauls Separate School in Newmarkets Quaker Hills subdivision has been granted by the province York Region separate school officials announced here last week While the province still has to approve sketch plans and working drawings for the Youth sentenced to community service NEWMARKET A provincial court judge has or dered a 21yearold Keswick youth to become involved in community service as part of his sentence for attempting to hide a bag of marijuana from York Regional Police Colin Peter Donnell was placed on a twoyear term of probation by Judge S M Harris and told that part of his probation will be to work with York Regional Police in dealing with youthful offenders Donnell was charged last August after he attempted to hide a bag of marijuana from police He was in a car stopped by police outside the Spot Tavern in Georgina Township The driver of the vehicle arrested by police as he was getting out of the car threw the bag of marijuana into the back seat to who according to police handed it out a window a few minutes later allowing a youth to escape with the evidence Your actions not only attempted to cover evidence they led to the escape of another person from custody Judge Harris told last week project board officials said architects are already completion of the working drawings We went ahead and took a chance in order to speed up the process board business superintendent Ed Joyce ex plained Friday Normally the board could expect an IB to month delay between the submission of a building proposal and com pletion of the school the business superintendent noted With the speedup however we expect we could better that by 12 months he told The Era We knew they could not delay things too long he said of provincial approval for the project These people have had substandard accommodation long enough The sq ft school will accommodate up to 481 students and include a double kin dergarten home economics and industrial arts facilities The boards current schedule calls for sod turning in early fall said Mr Joyce FLYING HIGH Paul Cati Photo THE SOUND OF MUSIC Pholo The annual Lions Music Festival begins next week and one of Huron Heights Secondary Schools bands has been getting In some last minute practice Back row left to right are Jan May and Doug Holmyard while front row left to right are Esther Proud and Ruth Buckle Ad judicators for the secondary and elementary band class scheduled Monday and Tuesday are Ed mund J Marty and Bramwell Smith both provided through Yamaha Canada Music Ltd and Fred Boddington Music Ltd festival organizers announced in Newmarket this week Two formal objections not likely to delay OHC project NEWMARKET Two formal objections to plans to build a senior citizens apartment building on the former Office Specialty factory site on the south side of Timothy St seem unlikely to delay the project An objection filed by Cookson 233 Prospect St claiming a ninestorey building would be out of place in down town Newmarket and that it will destroy the character of the area was labelled frivilous by Mayor Bob A second objection filed on behalf of the South Lake Simcoe Conservation Authority is not based on fact and therefore is not valid said the mayor Council referred the SLSCA objection to the mayor for adequate disposal and for warded the objection with its frivilous label to the Ontario Municipal Board where it will be heard along with the towns application to rezone the apartment site from its present industrial designation In his letter Mr Cookson said he is concerned that ap proval of the highrise senior citizens building on Timothy St will lead to construction of other highrise buildings in what is primarily a twostorey residential area Mr Cookson also claimed the site is unsuitable for an apartment building because of its proximity to the railway tracks You always have one or two objections to anything you try to do commented Regional Councillor Ray who said he agreed the objection should be labelled and sent to the OMB Pointing out the present zoning on the land is for in dustrial use Councillor Peter Hall said maybe he Mr Cookson would like to sec a large factory there The SLSCA objection claimed the apartment building would be constructed in flood- prone land According to the mayor none of the apartments will be in the flood plain The whole of the downtown would be completely destroyed before the water would get that high said the mayor BOARD PASSES NUTRITION MOTION Students eat whats there Martin McKeuna Is flying as be prepares for Fridays boys competition The Huron Heights student was member of one of It teams that took part the competition at the Newmarket school Each team had three participants entered In each of the six events For a full page of pictures and results torn to of this weeks Era By BOB MARTIN Era News Editor NEWMARKET When Annette Straber Payete and Sharon Parker sat down for lunch In the Newmarket High School cafeteria one day last week they had two sets of sandwiches orange juice grapefruit juice barbecued potato chips regular potato chips and Oreo cookies amongst thern Less than a week earlier York Region public school trustees had approved a motion calling for a staff investigation into both using existing programs to emphasize nutrition in the regions secondary schools and stressing balanced meals in school cafeterias The motion appeared to have little affect on lunch hour lineups at Newmarket High last week Potato chips chocolate and white milk honey buna and CCK meets KING CITY King Township planning director Nancy Phelps will be guest speaker during a Concerned Citizens of King Township meeting here tonight Scheduled for ft pm the meeting will be held In the King City library candy bars were all in evidence while few hot lunches were being served A 16ycarold Grade student at the school Patti normally brings a lunch con sisting of sandwiches oranges and an apple Her 15yearold Grade companion Annette may buy chips or a chocolate bar she told The Era usually 1 dont eat If shes still hungry after eating her lunch from home will buy a bag of potato chips honey bun or sandwich from the school cafeteria operated by Eastwood Catering Services Her decision on what to buy isnt based on nutritional value Youll eat whats there she explained and theres a lot more stuff that isnt nutritious than is For Patti her meals are more to satisfy the appetite than meet nutritional needs My mom takes care of that she noted Eastwood supervisor Lynn Trimble said planning school menus isnt just a matter of reaching nutritional standards Instead of having students leave the school during lunch hours its better to offer them some incentive to eat in the cafeteria she argued Under its contract with the board Eastwood must provide a full course meal hot snacks salads and fruit Its here for the kids who want it stated Mrs Trimble but most of them dont want it What they do prefer are junk foods consisting of chocolate bars potato chips French fries and cakes all of which must be approved by the school principal before being sold in the cafeteria To discourage the sale of snack items such as cakes explained Mrs Trimble the cafeteria price is a few cents higher than the price of the same item in a variety store The cakes are still popular at Newmarket High J If a kid wants it added the Eastwood supervisor hell pay cents With responsibility for a total of five secondary schools in Newmarket Sutton Aurora and Thornhill Mrs Trimble views the eating habits of more than just NHS students The Aurora resident described Sutton High as unreal a real snack school Students at York Regions most northerly secondary school eat lbs of French fries daily At the same school fewer than half a dozen students regularly purchase hot meals Principal MacQuanie makes no apologies for the sale of French fries in the school see CAFETERIA page AS