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W4 i rt THEERA Serving York County Sine 1S52 every at St Ontario by Co Subscript tons Joe two S1000 for one year Single copfa We each The NewmarketAurora Era is one the Inland Wishing Co suburban News Ad- Brampton Guardian Burlington Etobkoke Economist and Sun Mississauga News Beaver This Week and Tribune Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau erf Circulation Second Class Mail registration number Phone Newmarket Char St DAVID ft HASKELL Publisher TERRY CARTER ROBERT MARTIN News Editor Phone Aurora Block Parents program needs a little help 1 I Children are curious creative and imaginative beings and thats what makes them very special But a childs creativity has its place and it does not belong in the selection of the route to take to and from school contends the Canada Safety Council The Council says that left to their own devices children are likely to choose the path that offers the most excitement and one dotted with construction sites troublesome in tersections or blind alleys It urges parents to select the safest route for the child to take to school and then to walk the route with them The Council stresses parents should determine the safer side of the streets teach children pedestrian safety basics and stress the use of crosswalks and intersections where there are school crossing guards All good advice this time of year when balmy days tend to lure children into unanticipated adventures Parents should also ensure that their children are aware that a Block Parent sign in a window indicates a home where a safe haven can be found in case of trouble or danger More than homes in Newmarket alone now belong to the Block Parent movement according to Sharon Nash its chairman in the town More signs are being issued she said In fact the Block Parent program in Newmarket is at a crossroads It was suc cessfully established with the aid of a service club the Kinsmen who footed all the startup bills But Kinsmen Club has gone on to other programs and the Block Parent program now needs a sponsor said Mrs Nash Sponsorship wouldnt cost much one or two hundred dollars a year she thinks what the small Block Parent executive really needs is someone to help out with printing and other chores Individual volunteers are also being warmly welcomed said Mrs Nash one of the organizers of the program in Newmarket Anyone wishing to contribute a little time should call her at 898- 2784 By ROY GREEN o New council would sort i oui requests How much are people prepared to pay for their own recreation That question ties in with my column of last week on fundraising and sponsorship etc for recreation and sports organizations Perhaps a more pertinent question would be how much money do these groups think should be supplied from the community at large Last week the emphasis was on minor sports organizations and this time around Id like to focus on adult recreation groups A couple of them anyway There are the longestablished groups such as the mens and hockey leagues do have sponsors but by and large depend upon a pretty heavy registration fee for the players to supply them with basic equipment and ice time Another new group is the mens football league It would cost you over to join the league and be supplied with the basic equipment to play tackle football move of election date is in right direction Letters to the editor Voters in Ontarios municipal elections wont have to go to the polls in the snow and cold of December anymore Instead municipal elections will take place on the third Monday of November The Era has suggested elections be held on the first Monday of November and the Town of Newmarket recently asked the province to have voting early in the month Still treasurer Darcy move is a step in the right direction Maybe a provincewide November blizzard will convince him to move election day even further back in the year Auroras budget is shaped like a giant vacuum cleaner i The Kinsmen Club of Newmarket will stage a Monte Carlo Night stag May at the Newmarket Community Centre beginning at pm The evening will feature an elimination draw for in cash prizes games of chance and a dinner from to pm Tickets are per person and only will be sold For more information call Or The Sutton and District Association for the Mentally Retarded will be holding a Sat May beginning at 930 am Walkers will be starting at Sibbald Point Provincial Park and finishing the mile course at the Optimist Hall in Keswick The project Is being sponsored by the Keswick Optimist Club Pledge sheets are available at area schools or by calling Endow Aurora will hold a garage sale as its major fund raising event of 1977 Sat May at Victoria St Items on consignment will be split and arrangements can be made to pick up large items that cannot be transported by car For information or donations call Aurora High School will stage an evening of music featuring the junior and senior bands stage band and Dixieland hand April 28 and April Both performances are at pm and tickets arc at the door Newmarket High School will present Showcase 77 May and May 6 at pm The show features drama music art and a gymnastics display For tickets and more information call A tea and bazaar will be held at the Christian Baptist Church on Main St Newmarket Thurs May from 2 to 4 pm Baking fancy work and crafts will be available Pianist will be the featured soloist during the York Symphony Orchestras final concert of the season Sat April 30 at St Andrews College in Aurora Mr Chou who won the Performance Scholarship upon en tering the University of Toronto at age will perform Rhapsody in Blue 0her highlights of the program will include Vaiighan Williams Green Sleeves Bizets Carmen Suite Strauss Die and lxhengrin by Wagner The concert begins at 830 pm For information contact Gail Harrison The Happy Valley square dance group will stage its regular gettogether at the Newmarket Fire Hall on Main St April 29 at pm A lunch is provided and all are welcome The Newmarket Historical Committee will hold its monthly meeting at the St Friends Meeting House on the corner of and Eagle streets Thurs April There is no admission and everyone is welcome Folk Night at the Factory Auroras non profit coffee house goes April at the Factory Theatre on Henderson Dr at 8 pm The following week Theatre Aurora takes over at The Factory for its showing of Game The Ambassadors Drum and Bugle Corps will stage an auction bazaar and rummage sale at the Aurora Community Centre Sat May 7 from am to pm The auction with reserved bidding will begin at noon All types of baked goods and dry goods will be featured with the auction involving everything from crafts to refrigerators Games of chance will also be staged The Newmarket Ladles Softball League will hold a dance at the Community Centre May to help raise funds for its Fairgrounds ball lighting project Tickets are available at 10 per couple from Best ilii7 or Mary Hogg graduate semiliterates Can you imagine into a jobless world Often what this policy will do to they are pathetic in the culturally obsessed English and ludicrous In feebleminded school French No wonder trustee I can imagine keeps what it will do to the little grimacing and smoking old couple hanging out the like a grass fire last of getting The provincial the last out of their tea- government calls for bag in the old supertaxed tight budgets So over the homestead No Essex County lips of the aged to finance Board of a Education Topping things off the maiming of the brains Minister Welts insists on the Ontario budget jacks building a Frenchonly P of all that high school In their helps us to forget all that The other week The Era was carrying on because noone was carrying on about what has become the routine budget of the York County Board of Education I had phoned my protest to a lady trustee pointing out that bread was being taken from the The annual fire works slated for May 23 at the Upper Canada Mall Is sponsored by the Town of Newmarket the mall merchants not the Newmarket Optimist Club as appeared Billboard last week The Aurora Minor Hockey Associations Mothers Auxiliary will meet elect its new executive May 2 In the hall of the Aurora Community Centre at 8 pm Kingcrafts annual art show and sate will begin May 6 with a wine and cheese from 730 to pm Painting sketching and ceramics will be featured during the three day show The showing and sale continues Saturday from 10 am to pm and Sunday from to p m An admission of 75 cents will be charged for the Friday wine and cheese St Andrews Presbyterian Church Newmarket will hold a rummage and bake sale May from to 3 pm The Aurora Diggers Girls Softball Club will stage a Las Vegas Night at the Aurora Com munity Centre June 24 to help defray costs of an exhibition trip to Kansas City Mo The evening will feature roulette bingo black jack and a cash door prize There will be a and admission is of the young The lady expressed her deepest sympathy There was almost a sob in her voice However regaining her cool with surprising speed she said she thought the standard and administration of education hereabouts was a fine thing and must proceed on its wonderful way The council of Aurora also passed a resolution of protest inviting others to do likewise Councillor Miller expressed surprise that the victims were not complaining The council of Aurora has now just passed its own budget It is mur derous shaped like a giant vacuum cleaner Guess what dust theyre after Combined with this weeks provincial budget many poor bastards will be hammered to their knees The sins and ex travagances of the Buck- Timpson years have come home to roost The same Councillor Miller who protested the education budget now comes up with the quote of the year People dont mind paying taxes if they can see something for their money I see the new Tyler Street bridge 1 still mind paying taxes The old bridge served well and would another years for the street goes nowhere The new bridge has been built to serve a proposed development on a spoonful of mud fill soggy pack-em-In-llke- sardines development in our once pleasant country town For ihe highest prices in the world the school system continues to slightly To even things up the senior citizen will get about the customary increase in his total annual pension Sam Chapman types may get about times that much like in their sordid grab of October However it all provides the exciting challenge to the patriarch keeps him from lapsing into senility How stay out of the poorhouse The revolution when JERSEY INCLUDED Interestingly that includes a jersey It is not a sponsors jersey It merely says Jets or Colts or Packers or Rams The jerseys are purchased in bulk and supplied as part of the registration cost In short the league is almost totally self- sufficient The Recreation Department must assist of course in providing playing fields and meeting rooms and places to register but the league looks after its own expenses by and large The participants pay most of the cost Not the community In adult recreation that is the only way The community should not be asked to subsidize to any large degree adult recreation groups It might be a good idea for some of the minor sports organizations to consider putting a heavier burden on the benefactors of programs in this manner I realize for instance that minor hockey registration is now quite high The high cost reflects largely the cost of ice time Perhaps it should be higher to reflect the costs of equipment supplied sweaters and socks etc DOING FLIPFLOP backyard This is neither up to percent economy nor democracy ln penalties for This is lunacy and owning a car or a house virtual con- In further restraint They might extra government money have been devised by is to be made available Marx himself for increased French the most going to school understand boards who spend the lha local money Well just And car licenses are to it comes could be bloody Or we may decline to a lothrate world power separated gibbering a little feeble English dutifully voting Trudeau In and in forever guzzling As one who urged that minor baseball swing over this season to a sponsorship program realize that 1rii doing a complete about face this time on this matter 57000 are unem In York Region NDP Its just that I cant ever recall hearing so many merchants and businessmen locally becoming so concerned oyer what appears to them as a constant parade of people with their our and wat- hands ching the hockey Maybe a sports council such as I mentioned here last week would help to better balance the needs of all the groups which seek to raise funds in this area Such a council could urge groups to fully investigate financing from the pockets of the ultimate benefactors of the particular program before heading out into the community looking for money Aurora Locating accurate unemployment figures percent for York Region is almost as frustrating as being unemployed and looking for a job In attempting to find out the number of jobless people locally I con tacted the Unem ployment Insurance Commission suboffice in Newmarket and my questions were referred to the Barrie office contacted the office and was told that unemployment figures were not available for particular areas but that Statistics Canada would have this information At Statistics Canada was informed that the rate of I February release showed that Metro and surrounding area had an unemployment rate of percent with a par ticipation rate of percent The figures for the area showed an unemployment rate of percent and a par- The southern part of York Region is in the Metro and surrounding area for Statscan pur poses and the northern portion is in the area These figures in terpreted would indicate that between and people are unem ployed in our Region The majority of the unem ployed are in the lower age brackets In the northern part of Region there were only 60 available jobs of all types listed with the Department of Manpower and Immigration Unemployment is one of the most serious problems in the country today More than people are out of work in Ontario The financial soda and psychological Heres a consequences of this are incalculable Yet our governments are doing little to solve problem Ontarios Minister of Treasury Economics and In tergovernmental Affairs in his recent budget speech stated that he was prepared to accept an unemployment rate of 53 percent as being full employment With one stroke of the pen he wipes out 200000 peoplel Some of these are residents of the Region of York That- figure Is reactionary cynical and unacceptable It Is the Governments respon sibility to solve the unemployment problem It Is time it began IAN SCOTT NDP Candidate York North A sports council might even initiate a once- only fundraising drive and allot funds to the A groups Yes I know it sounds like a United Appeal But a group trying to raise money would at least have to satisfy the council that they had raised all the money they could from within V t The council might suggest higher registration fees The council might also ask the group to show the need for their program Whats to stop someone from starting a Newmarket Minor Tiddlywinks League and set about looking for sponsors t A sports council could put an official stamp on a legitimate fundraising drive after it had been satisfied as to its need It would withhold approval from groups whose needs it considered frivolous or whose aims might be selfserving Im sure the community at large would appreciate one fundraising effort once a year at a flat rate as opposed to letters phonecalls and personal contact by an army of people looking for money Such a council would have to be made up of merchants and representatives from community organizations One or two members of Newmarket council might also serve SUBMITBUDGET to Quebec reader Dear Reader We are disturbed by discussions of the possible breakup of our country Canada How can we express our goodwill to our French speaking fellow Canadians Organizations anticipating a drive to raise money from the community would be asked to Quebec who composed submit a budget show the need for their plan and Canada show cause why the funds cant be raised in Families quarrel but with love and willing hearts the quarrels are resolved because the Union family is important So Peel Street Suite Is with our country with Its beauty freedom and Montreal Quebec diversity With one of members gone Canada is incomplete It was a French Canadian born In Are you searching for another manner friendship ttw5n IS people In Quebec Please user pays plan cannot raise sufficient funds to write a note or postcard finance the program If the program is totally expressing your feelings sufficient in terms of equipment and places operate they might be questioned as to the need for at all I know there are businesses in this com munity that enjoy sponsoring teams They also realize that there is some public relations benefit to be obtained by doing so But there is a growing number of pimple are deeply concerned oyer what appears to be a about this Important matter in French or English to of Quebec Council of Canadian MRS proliferation of organisations who all feel their 471 Briar Hill Ave cause is most important and that is v I bottomless I 5 v v