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The Era Newmarket Aurora Keswick Ont Wed June Regional nine want strong voice on Yorks future NEWMARKET The regions nine municipalities made it dear last week they will demand a strong and accurately represented voice in the urban development of York The municipal were speaking out at regional council Thursday as a report was tabled on the progress of consideration of a strategy paper for urban development of the region The regions planning committee was at tempting to gain approval of a report outlining comment to date by the municipalities The report was an attempt to sum up municipal reaction to a strategy paper that has been under consideration since August of last year Vocal in their ob jection to the summary of local comment were mayors Margaret Brilnell and David Schiller who insisted their municipalities comments have been misrepresented The issue was clearly important to them as they attempted to determine whether the brief sum maries will be the only material considered when the planning committee sits down to adopt the final form of the strategy paper The mayors were assured by regional planner Herschel that all in formation presented by the municipalities together with minutes of meetings that have been held would be taken into consideration Mayor Britnell had objected to both the factual summary of Kings position and to the general lack of detail in the report Mayor Schiller suggested that several of Richmond Hills positions had been opposite to those listed in the summary and that a similar fate had met the recom mendations from Whitchurch Included in the regions list of municipal concerns about urban development were the following comments Aurora the need to maintain an identity for Aurora separate from Newmarket scrapping of the proposed interchange for Highway at Wellington St delay of final urban development strategy until the Pickering airport issue is decided individual population ceilings for Aurora and Newmarket no regionalization of taxation and the spread of industrial commercial development throughout the region King doubt about the feasibility of obtaining proposed employment concern about the lack of for financing the plan concern about the impact of provincial tax reform population growth ot being bound to inflated employment figures no regionalization of taxation and the delay of urban development plans until development plans nave been made Comment from Newmarket Georgina and East Gwillimbury is expected this week Open courthouse tenders in July TORONTO On tarios government services ministry will to accept ten ders for construction of the provincial courthouse building in Newmarket CROSSING SIGNALS KING TOWNSHIP Automatic signals and bells for a railway crossing on the on the Second Concession of King west will be erected shortly Canadian Transport Commission approval was granted last week and the signals should be within months until midJuly a ministry spokesman said Monday The tender call was issued June Work should start on the site at St and Eagle St by the end of July Completion is expected for the winter of The fourstorey structure will house a land registry section titles office public search and document search offices and lunch facilities There will be space for 15 criminal traffic family and county courts small claims court judge and jury rooms sheriffs offices interview and legal aid rooms holding areas and accommodation for the York Region Bar Association York wants new program guide lines NEWMARKET York wants the province to get moving and release guidelines for health programs that can be funded by Wintario profits The province has indicated that proceeds from the provincial lottery will be directed toward health research and healthrelated en vironmental projects But no guidelines have been released to say which programs might qualify Because some community projects might be eligible for the funding York has asked that the guidelines be released immediately ITU NEVER HAPPEN I What goes up must come down and what comes down on the dunking machine must get wet That makes twice En the last month that unsuccessful Liberal candidate Jim Wilson has been dumped But with Saturdays IT MIGHT HAPPEN I scorching heat it looks as if Jim came up this time as a cool winner Pioneers may not have had monster carnival rides or antique cars in their day but they would have loved last weekends IT HAPPENED I Knights of Columbus Pioneer festival just the same The festival centred at the Newmarket Community Centre drew hundreds of people for a Friday night dance games booths an BUT NEVER AGAIN I auction pottery making a and just plain fun Proceeds from the festival will be used In aid of the St Johns Parish Building Fund St Johns festival draws crowds downtown NEWMARKET Johns Father Bill Scanlon praised the efforts and en thusiasm of the parishioners and citizens who came out to organize run and contribute to last weekends Pioneer Days festival held in the church and at the Community centre It was a fundraising NEW CHURCH FUND BENEFITS venture to help with the building of the new church it was a won derful time for everyone It was great We had more people come than we ever expected and there was a good spirit said the priest We dont know how much was made yet but guesses are pretty high Some local businesses gave large cheques for the marathon pledges and as gifts to the church The bingo game alone cleared a pledge of for the marathon was given as well as several other big ones The ladies at the booths in the community centre raised almost 1000 reported Father Scanlon The Newmarket recreation committee gave 100 per cent support and co operation he said The vast crowds that turned up to the Saturday evening dance at the com munity centre frankly surprised the organizers After a mile marathon and all the physical events of the day no one seemed to have tired out The dance was a tremendous success said Father The auction sparked a lot of in terest and the wrap- up picnic at Fairy Lake Sunday finished it off with a bang A crowd of 500 attended There was a feeling of enthusiasm and warmth Besides the money we made and we need every penny there was a real feeling of com munity getting all the church families together Nothing like that has happened in a long time FROM FESTIVAL L The kitchen sink remained but everything else went as John Bloie left and Bill Armstrong auctioned off everything from accordions to baby dolls or Newmarket wasnt all that sure she really wanted to ride a pony but with a little prodding from mother Judy she decided that riding the ponies wasnt so bad after all After all Olympic equestrian riders have to start PHOTOS by KEN KERR Era staff photographer Health social service review faces antagonisms By CHRISTINA MONTGOMERY Era staff reporter NEWMARKET The board of education wants to be represented on the regions health and soda ser vice review committee and has called the committees refusal to let it do so dreadful The remark was made by trustee Quirk Monday night when she learned that a request from the board to have a representative appointed was rejected as unnecessary by committee chairman David Schiller I Board chairman Craig Cribar told the board that favor Schiller had phoned him to say the board need not sit on the committee because were not doing anything anyway At least one trustee Margaret Coburn said would attend the meetings on her own despite the boards decision to take no action on Mayor Schillers The boards reaction seems typical of a growing suspicion about what the committee is doing and why more agencies and concerns are not represented on it The committee is meeting biweekly until fall to determine what sort of regional planning body if any might be suitable for York Confusion has arisen among area agencies which are not represented on the committee and which are experiencing difficulty in understanding its work The antagonism in many cases more a matter of concern than of annoyance has arisen among those confused agencies that have assumed the summer group is the actual planning body Faced with a growing opposition that is due for the most part to misunderstanding the committee through its chairman David SchiUer Is now wrestling with the task of function to a region of curious agencies The job will not be an easy one It comes at a time when committee members a disparate group of agency and provincial officials are trying to get to know each other and sort out for themselves their task The goal is a recommendation to regional council that will advise whether any sort of planning body Is necessary whether it should include health or social services or both and which people should sit on It Committee members for the review work were selected from hospitals and health groups social service agencies and from the regional government But with only members there are many agencies and concerns not represented Until a public meeting on July 12 when oral and written presentations from nonmembers will be presented written submissions have been accepted The two briefs received to date illustrate the sort of confusion that exists After its first meeting a letter explaining com mittee composition and goals was sent to many agencies not on the group Along with the letter went a request for comment or suggestion Craig Shields director of the York Centre for Learning Disabilities took the committee at its word He returned a letter expressing concern about the lack of educational representation of the group Attached to his letter was an alternate composition suggestion outlining a broader range of represent Mr Shields concern was at least in part due to the fact that he confused the review committee with the actual planning body he told The Era Although he had heard generally of the com mittees work he thought the letter he received was from the planning body and that its composition had been decided finally Saying that there was a lot of confusion Mr Shields suggested to The Era that questions had been raised in peoples minds about the committees work and that it would be well for them to outline their work more clearly A second letter from Ken Allsion was written to suggest that a planning body have recreational representation Although he later told The Era he was concerned more about composition of the final body than about that of the review committee he admitted the distinction had not been made clear to him What will the committee do to correct the con fusion Mayor Schiller has considered sending a letter of clarification to agencies that have been contacted already He has expressed hope that as members get to know each other and begin to talk with other agency representatives over the summer the committees task will become clearer Until then submissions indicating confusion will be answered individually by committee staff NDAAAR sponsors NEWMARKET The Newmarket and District Association for the Mentally Retarded Is sponsoring a travel lot tery which could send any member off to Disneyland Mount joy or Iceland The destination is up to the winner who will receive a travel voucher for any package tour for two worth with a further spending money for each traveller For one ticket a member has a flvehundred chance of winning due to a limit on ticket sales All tickets are dropped back into the kitty for subsequent draws If there is a good response the NDAMR may set up more lot teries association executive director Joe told The Era The first draw is scheduled to take place on Aug when a num bered token will be drawn On the first of each following month until I July another name will be drawn Each person who buys a 60 ticket will have the one chance in oil consecutive draws For information and tickets call at 8983000 Newmarket Travel at 6131 or call in at at Bogart Ave Newmarket j