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The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), September 7, 1977, A01

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Mends or Quakers in the dinner for early days Among to the dinner are Old college In and later became McMaster University and Boys of management College organizer of the Stratford t Wends of Ihe school and present in Ottawa and founder summer seminars was Head of the English students and teachers department John Lockyer headmaster at Lake student and teacher at his recent Pickering College those photographs and ana headmaster at Lake student and ohald Herry arid School uhtil his recent Pickering dinner memorabilia Fellowstudent Prof Ber- year of anniversary Mr Perry taught at the nets W JacksonV presently at celebrations at ha I PI ft NEWMARKET CENTS Br At u I fi DPI program i v S J NEWMARKET Despite the fact that some of its recommendations would seriously affect the region there will be no official comment from York on the Rob arts Report There wont be because not enough regional councillors showed up at a speciallycalled meeting last week at which the report was to have been con sidered York has been given until Sept to submit comment on the report conducted by former provincial premier John into the structure of Metropolitan Torontos government A previous resolution of council had called for the meeting to proceed if five councillors were present A V8 iberal i With Ihe return to the classroom photo three nights and two mornings a week paid off with more the yearold division of lister Lisa To meet all the members ByMARIEWHEELER correspondent Vf times be has won 25 Midas On four occasions over the on another occasion he was a KESVVICK Graham West past years he has been a winner and Thursday night he w- hit the big jackpot of Mr West and his wife Virginia have lived in the area for years and have two sons John a 28yearold Gray Coach driver Craig who is a student at Seneca College always knew would always sajd that Though many scoffed it came as no surprise said Mr West Oyer the years he was worked as a policeman a pilot In the air force and an insurance investigator lie has also worked for and more recently has been employed as a tran sport driver taking him all over the country Asked whether he intends to keep on working Mr West said that he will but has plans to drive locally allowing him to spend more time with his wife and family The Wests plan to share their windfall with their sons Craig will have a new car to go back and forth to school while Johns money will be used as a on a home For photo and another story please turn to page NEWMARKET A third hat has been tossed into the federal Liberal ring John a 3Kyearold Bolton resident has announced his candidacy for nomination by the YorkPeel Federal Liberal Association Mr a phar maceutical firm manager has named improved health cafe national unity unemployment wage and price controls and energy as the issues he will campaign on if elected Mr Donnely has served on the executive of the Bolton Ratepayers Association He joins Hector and Richard Whitehead in seeking the nomination which will take place in next Wed nesday But when six of the coun cillors together with regional chairman Garfield Wright showed up Clerk Bob Vernon suggested that at least nine members representing municipalities were legally required for the meeting to proceed Councillors were split 33 oh a decision to continue the meeting expected to have lasted several hours unof ficially and to have council ratify its findings at its Sept 8 meeting The tie was broken by Mr Wright who voted to disband the meeting Mr Wright had previously warned the council that several of the Robarts recom mendations would cause serious problems for and had urged that a meeting be set up at which they could be considered Among the recom mendations of concern to York is a suggestion that those parklands now controlled by conservation authorities be turned over to the municipalities in which they are located for maintenance and operation The move would mean those holdings in southern York now operated by the Metro Toronto and Region Con servation Authority would be turned over to York Such a move would cost York thousands of dollars to maintain parkland mainly for use by Toronto residents Mr- Wright had earlier cautioned Official comment from York Is no longer possible although individual councillors are free to forward comment the province an option open to them In any case Present at last Wednesdays meeting were Richmond Hill Mayor David Schiller and Councillors Lois Hancey and Louis Aurora Mayor George Timpsph Georgina Councillor Eric and Whitchurch Stouffville Mayor Gordon Ratcliff I I I si rgin names new rian tells ByANNSPROULE Era correspondent Queensville veterinarian led the Ontario Humane Society to a Kettleby Arabian stud farm that was raided last March Dr Robert Henderson told a provincial court trial here last week that he called the society regarding conditions at the farm While he had performed services for William Sheets over an eightyear period the veterinarian said he had suspended all but emergency calls because an account remained unpaid The 43yearold Sheets has been charged with neglecting animals at the farm During the third day of the trial last week Dr Henderson udge P he had nized a program to deworm herd of over 100 horses twice year because he found that the problem was animals were doing as well as he had ever seen them He denied that he tried to influence other veterinarians from servicing the Sheets farm but admitted that he told other veterinarians that Sheets owed him money Dr Henderson also denied telling Sheets that if his bill was hot paid he would call the humane society The vet said he and his associate had in fact gone to the farm following of ficial suspension of services to answer emergency caljs and added it was on these visits that he had noticed a deterioration in the Condition of the animals barns and paddocks Dr Henderson said he saw days days of manure indicating that the boxes had not been cleaned out for some time Horses were eating off the manurecovered floor he said and reinfecting themselves by doing so v He described a pond on the farm as stagnant and KESW1CK Kris Nielsen is the Georgina Township Chamber of Commerces new manager He succeeds Tom Foster who resigned earlier this summer Since MrV Fosters resignation Georgina council has withdrawn a grant that covered industrial and tourism development services provided to the township by the chamber Following the move ma4e as the chamber was completing final interviews for the post chamber officials said they would continue to finance the operation Independent of council The new chamber manager is 56 years of age married and has a schoolaged son L L1 E Currently a resident of Willowdale he will soon be moving to Georgina The chamber considers itself most fortunate to obtain the services of such a highly qualified individual as Mr Nielsen chamber president Michael McDonald said last week As a result of this decision a significant increase in the services the chamber can offer is anticipated Mr Nielsens background includes posts as a consultant on Olympic souvenirs during the Montreal games president of a chemical company and manager of marketing and analysis for American Motors Canada Ltd Ne wm a r ket bantdhri 1 e crown fc NEWMARKET The Newmarket Restaurant Tykes defeated Midland in two straight games last week to win the Simcoe Baseball League championship Wayne tossed a five hitter struck out as It 4 r t i tm see ANIMALS page A2 vi He said he had taken initiative in planning the am after speaking to Mr atcOTditioibut not NEWMARKET- The official sod turning for York Regions new Scheduled for at the courthouse site on St Im- services but not medtely south of Eagle St the sod turning will mark the start of a church service en- the worming am when Sheets account terribly high and said construction on a complex which will include county court facilities offices and consolidated criminal traffic and family -7- until the program a Sept more details on the sod turning see BUI Hodgsons Queens tinued last September the Newmarket won the series opener Scott Cole led the attack with a homer two doubles and two singles David Winstanley contributed three singles and John Velema two Winning pitcher Mitchell Perry struck out seven con tributed three singles and made four assists on ground balls to lead the Longhorn Tykes to a victory in the second game Tom Gray and Velema who played well at shortstop each had two doubles and two singles hit a double and a single Larry Wilson had three singles and terry McRae a triple The Tykes begin Ontario Baseball Association playoffs this weekend against a to be announced later j

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