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ft j 1 J 1 tit- Vr UP CARTER DAVtD R HASKELL CARTER j fMtorlciChW I p MARTIN ftnd J fc MvtrtWnfl Mmmv Phone Aurora J Li r II i mid J 1 STOP afoot by some town council to pool or erect fence around it TOa bylaw is foolish and for East ROY GREEN k Gwillimbury to adopt It would a and Councillor Jean discriminatory move to the poolfence What of the people who own half acrea What of the people who own five acres ted exam pie of a resident erecting more who have already paid hundreds of dollars and not constructing a fence to fence their pools ngs to do so by town of- And what is the difference bet DO NOT 1 i swimming pool being located on a by meeting lot or acrea danger of a small child asked for a report on how falling in either is the same fence bylaws are worded And why should the owner of small lot havej I didnt say they would amend the to pay hundred of to fence his pool while poolfence bylaw the clearly the owners of five acres or more does not lies they are considering doing so East Gwilllmburys pool fence bylaw One possibility is the Town of Whitchurch- remain as it is and Councillor poolfence bylaw which among other should be encouraged to continue to insist that has a clause in it which relieves the is enforced THE ERA Simcoe is sick we are me 1 Lake Simcoe is sick but is not dying By there were 235000 and after a And from statements by biologists and natural resources ministry drive on smelt the cause of its Illness is just fishing the count dropped to this year people are living hear it Lake once supported 15 per cent of say its fish population is changing at an Ontarios angling population who fished for and lake trout This will undoubtedly drop as the lake will eventually support only smelt perch and carp This change was brought about by sewage road salt lawn and market garden fertilizer example In there were 250 smelt seeping into the lake in the lake We have only ourselves to blame frantic flurry ling rate In 1965 there were caught in the lake to date were I notice from a newspaper report of lis last July meeting that the automatic spending machine familiarly whizzing something like a known as the York windmill In a whirlwind County Board of This latest frantic Education is in fine fettle was to do with the Dont they realize reader asks of parents C1 How long ago were our parents and town councillors flaming youth Newmarket Flag Football will open its 1977 season Siaiday morning Sept at Huron Heights Secondary School Its an over hill league according to organiier B1U No high school footballers will be accepted but anyone else between the ages of 18 can play For more information call Mr Andrews at The Owl Calling My Name and Bill Cosby on Prejudice The films will be shown today Aug 24 at the Mount Albert Community Hall New leaders are needed immediately for both the first East Clubs and Anyone interested should call8S82553 or The second afternoon recital of music by Haydn and will be presented at Skarea by the York Pioneer and Historical and the York Symphony Orchestra Sun at A craft show will precede it opening at 230 Aurora service clubs are combining to sponsor a dance Aug 26 with proceeds going to the Aurora Library expansion fund dance with live band and refreshments will begin at pm at the Community Centre Tickets are available at the centre Community Association for Riding for the Disabled an orgalxaUon which therapeutic horseback rMin for the apped will present a program at Upper Canada Mall Sept and aimed at recruiUng volunteers The group rides at a farm near StouhNUle the Newmarket Red Cross will hold a rial leukemia blood donor clinic Sat Sept from am to pm at Upper Canada Mall Newmarket Baseball Association is holding yearend dance at the Newmarket Legion on Srigley St Sept Tickets are per features music a bar and a buffet For more information and tickets call Or were they ever Dont they realize by the time curfews restrictions and loitering laws come into effect the first step towards diluting the spirits of youth and lessening their op portunity for independent judgement is reached Certainly life would be easier for parents if they could lean on council to have their kids at home by ten in the evening But thats not the important thing Even year olds have minds as recall ROBIN FOSTER Newmarket Wants rules clarified Trie fourth annual of to be at Elderberry HUU farm Sept and featuring several trophies and awards It is a family horse show and entertainment and a day in the country besides a series of com Admission per day is adults and SO cents for children The Lake Arts will be staging a fundraising party at The Red Barn Sept 2 The admission of per couple includes a hot and cold buffet en tertainment door and spot prizes and refresh ments For tickets call the theatre at The Camera Clat is having it first meeting of the year Mon Sept in the cafeteria of the Richmond HiU High School to new members and hear Robin Stewart- Aurora Yearly membership Is per per couple and per student lite sixth annual arts crafts and antiques fall at Seneca College King Campas has been scheduled for Sun Sept Approximately local artisans will be able to display their wares and talents at the show For more in formation caU the campus at 8849901 priest Father Dermis Bennett the author of Nine Oclock In the Morning will today Wed Aug at the Aurora west of on the St John Ion for the event is S3 and the program begins at program will be its and those attending are asked to and lawn chain Township will stage Its annual Georgiaa Day today Wed Aug 24 at the Civic Centre Activities wiU get underway after include sports a Gong Show corn roast horse shoe pitching contest and a tennis tournament For more information call the Georgia Community Services Department 474301 or Having come as close to killing someone as I ever hope to get last week Im prompted to ask for some clarification about bicycles It is my un derstanding they are vehicles and should be treated as such on the road However the who ran a stop sign with one in front of my car which had the right of way was treating the situation rather lightly It appears with the increase in popularity of the bicycle among young and old there has also been an increase in the complete disregard of traffic rules in most cases the majority of bike riders taking to travelling in the direction of oncoming traffic and other unsafe practices Im surprised many of them havent turned up as accident victims in your paper Newmarket The East Figure SkaUng Club will hold a skate- Sept at Sharon Arena It will run from 3 pm to pm and proceeds will go to the club For information call 4732625 GwtWnbery library is spotisorihg Come TO The Movies featuring the Newmarket Lions Club will hold its annual fishing derby in the pond outside Upper Mali on Sat Sept 10 In Re article THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS In the above article appearing in the Aug 17 edition of The Era it was stated incorrectly beside the photo of this Writer They mortgaged us for etc The amount was incorrect it should have read They mortgaged us for The figure of notes Era error ina coverage was again repeated in the body of the article Perhaps the reporter confused this with the Writ which is ongoing against the Township by Construction Co in connection with a Hen established against the property prior to the New Unisphere Co assuming the lands and which said Company would not assume May ask you to correct the above error in your next publication Aug 24 MILDRED HOLMES Sutton West Editors note Mrs Holmes is entirely correct In the course of his notetaking the reporter dropped an The Era apologizes for the error We accept at par It was with dismay I noticed your article by Mary McGouenon Aug 3 1977 Unfortunately tend to forgel that they are in Canada The currency in this country is Canadian not American To make our American visitors aware that we will accept their currency at par we post signs to this affect at all cash registers We certainly having American visitors and to show our appreciation we il cone AMD A WOT Or OUT OF FOttC f accept US funds Based on our experiences of the past the has not been granted us when we have visited the United States On the rare occasion when our money Canadian has been accepted the charge has been 20 to 50 per cent above the foreign ex change rate t We welcome foreign visitors However when in Rome do as the Romans do Bridge St Bradford Coverage aided Sutton Fair Thank you tor the excellent coverage regarding the Sutton Fair which I saw in your paper of August 10th I was also pleased with the stories and I thank you sincerely CHARLES EBOYD Newmarket expansion of outdoor education The big Idea now Is to make our country boys and girls more acquainted with what Why the country To give them more outdoor experience send them abroad We send them insane Now were going to have them slogging around In conservation areas staring the of Nature in the eye Ive got hunch theyve already done that if you follow me Markham Trustee Stephen Taylor who seems to be related to the Rothschild or the Rockefellers way he talks plumped for the Board developing its own facility regardless of the time and cost A big land- assembly caper land being on the present bargain list Theres a man wholl go far Lets hope its a helluva long way from where he can dip into our pockets Although Board is without a policy of commitment to this program and is generally vague about it there was realization of the prime the vital need to budget regardless- To get its hands on the money So they did voting to spend about on introducing the children the country children to the birds and the bees why is the grass green and the sky blue It was considered prudent to avoid study of why taxpayers faces vary from fiery red to ashen grey Their haste to budget was motivated by fear Trustees Quirk advocated rushing in and on pointing out that unless the board picked up its option at Scanlon Conservation it would lose it thereby facing the disgrace of involuntarily reducing its spending Apparently the school board of Metro Toronto is just lying in wait ready to in and pick up any unused days for its own wee bairns Its all part of a sort of spending contest between rival school boards So like ladies at a knickers sale Trustees Quirk horrified by thoughts they might be left without any spread terror thro the trustees heading the rush to put clamps on the funds for optioning days whether theyre needed or not Who can plumb the depths of education in Ontario Let us be thank ful for this further example of the dedication of school trustees to the principles of culture and economy Let us our selves visit some quiet conservation area To be violently sick SID1LBRITTON Aurora Will the manager of the Ontario Hydro office in Newmarket issue a terse press release in of next year saying You wont Hydro to kick around any more If he did choose to paraphrase Richard Nixon hed be justified as the impending con version of all of Newmarket to Newmarket Hydro has been an election issue since 1971 Thats when parts of East Gwillimbury King and Whitchurch were incorporated into Newmarket under regional government Hydro did not recognize that incorporation actually it was the province that did nothing and those people have continued paying their hydro direct to Ontario Hydro at roughly per cent more than those on Newmarket Hydro Now according to Mayor Bob this will all be changed possibly by January of Another election issue bites the dust Well all be paying our bills to Newmarket Hydro in that onestorey building beside our own version of Newmarket Falls at Water Street and the foot of Main Watching the progress of that debate over the past few years and listening at candidates nights to wouldbe councillors explain how they would force the change reminds one of this I towns first hydro debate Back in the late hydro any hydro did not exist in Newmarket and its eventual troduction was not without debate anger public meetings and even some nonsense At that same corner where Newmarket Hydro now stands a erected a tallow candle set in a stable lantern Others turned barrels upside down on Main is Street and stuck candles on them The town was for most part in total darkness in those days and according to the History of Newmarket by the late Ethel jj Onecitizcn recalls that the streets were so dark he waited for the next flash of lightning that he might see to gauge his mediate steps In 1868 William Roe presented a petition to council signed by residents and asking streets certain of thwn be lighted with coalg oil lamps Much of the downtown area was so lit but progress dictated that the new electric power was soon to come In a fire destroyed the Cane paint shop Cane did not want another fire and so installed the firstever electric power plant in town for own use In the Fire and Light Committee- chaired by that same Cane recommended j that it was advisable to light the town by A public meeting was held and the citizens asked to approve an expenditure of for installation of a complete and firstclass electric light plant A Mr James Allan described in the book as a weighty citizen suggested was not enough and that the town contract to rent hydro from one who operated his own plant Eight downtown intersections were lit this fashion but according to the history nook This latest effort did not measure up tq the expectation of the Council and in the meantime mill was burned Early Newmarket if one reads this in teresting little book was always on fire Its a wonder there is still something left today Anyway in 1893 the town asked for tenders from the Light Heat and Power Company and J W Campbell a new company formed in Newmarket They also agreed to consult ah expert on the matter Over Ihe next few years various plans for hydro were discussed tried dropped faded out and in one case in 1913 the entire council resigned over the defeat of a bylaw on the hydro issue Ive touched on this briefly in an earlier column but those were the days when public meetings and displays would be held by pet ing firms to try and sell their particular form of hydro One such meeting saw two competitors hydro and something called the Metropolitan using electric toasters to toast bread Citizens were asked to compare the taste of the toast A toast taste test a The Metropolitan offer was cheaper and more attractive to the town but for a reason not explained in the history book was defeated by the bylaw Council resigned and the new council in accepted the offer of the Metropolitan on new bylaw That situation existed until 1930 when the company ceased operations Hydro took oyer then I wonder if they conducted meetings then in candlelight And did the council hopefuls promise to put a chicken in every pot and a burner under every pot of chicken So this January we may see a reduction of hydro rates for those areas of town now under Ontario Hydro And when it happens I think Ill take my trusty tallow candle down to Main and Water Streets Then Ill light it outside the office of Jim Beadle of Newmarket Hydro J I il