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Sim lit PETER GRIFFIN and of Circulation Second Claw Mall Manager DAVID R HASKELL Co Limited V- tor TERRY CARTER one of Inland ROBERT MARTIN St Aurora a lovely idea It for children who It allows services id will never justify d it allows women paper qualifications nee for its centre enjoy of the women a woman contracts service for York own so is allowed a our other children Because live years old and come to her shes paid per day for each each or per week d thats only if they show line a child misses a day ugh Illness or for example a parents she loses the From per day she buys food to serve a nutritional lunch and two snacks buys the materials for their craft and artwork takes them on scheduled outings and does her bookkeeping She pays to maintain the areas of the house used by the children and for household supplies Kleenex first aid supplies heeded to care for them ires a proposal about to be considered by Council which calls for the con- of an amusement type park to be Vaughan Township as sure as the grass is green some oppose it not to be suggested that a citizen should object to anything that a developer or proposes far from it but the on should be valid and not frivolous as is the in too many instances these days For example one man is holding tip the construction of a senior citizens apartment because when it is built it will spoil his m setting Township proposal is similar to Disneyland and Disneyworld but with more involvement e are told it will not cost the taxpayers of Most women in their eagerness supply and spend much more than is required of them And the province counts on that Its a good program and of great value to the children in it It provides a little extra cash but precious little in most cases for women that elect to stay at home with their own children But its time that the public realize the generous program that their governments both regional and provincial are claiming credit for are being carried out through the efforts and goodwill of women across Ontario They deserve more than thanks They deserve more money u Id foot bills the region a cent to install services and will bring hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax revenues into the treasury It will bring thousands of much needed tourists into the province and provide more than 2000 summer jobs for area students is not a garbagestrewn CNE midway operation instead it is as clean as a whistle providing familytype amusement But People Power comes to the fore again on this proposal and there will be at least one frivolous objection Oneway of stopping this nonsense is to make every objector enclose a nominal amount of money with his objection and if his objection is not serious and valid assess him the costs of holding these sometimes thousands of dollars a day Ontario Municipal Board hearings house ffitfL t i i ROY I Worst Softball Team will take to the field again The Jarmain Cable TV Softball coming out of retirement to take on some Softball arts who claim to be pretty good Dont get the Worlds Worst Softball Team confused with the team of eightyearolds in the Newmarket Baseball Association And dont confuse the with the team that sponsors in the Newmarket Ladies Softball League Either one of those teams would likely beat THE ERA water on the brain Friday as its first Tw0cV7Blie Bird Dance held at the Community Centre from to I featuring continuous music from and disc jockey as well as a con- buffet For more information call Amphitheatre Sept 30 Admission will be per couple which includes a buffet door prizes spot prizes and more Doors open at 7 pm with dancing from pm to am For tickets and more information call or An exhibition of works by the York Region Ctab is continuing through Saturday at the KinaTowrmhlpPuHicUbrary The exhibit open owing library hours am to pm Monday to Saturday and pm to pm Monday lo Thursday evenings For more information call GwUUmbury Girls y AModaUoo be holding its regulation for the 1B7778 season Friday and Saturday and Sept and at Upper Canada all On the Friday dates registration will take ace between 7 pm and 9 and between and en Saturday dates The league is to all girls over age seven and the price per is for one for two and 40 for three a family For more call Heather Warrlan Sheep dog trails will be held at Bond Head Saturday and Sunday beginning at am Ad mission is with children under admitted free The site is located on the Line of West GwWmbury A 20mile ride through the York Region Forest near to help raise money to teach the handicapped to ride will be held Sunday Sept The rldeathon is being staged by The Community Association for Riding for the Disabled CiRD and The Remedial Riding of Mississauga The Newmarket Elementary School team will play host to a from Radio in Toronto Sunday at at the Fairgrounds There is no admission charge East GwUUmbnry OMUmers hockey a is looking for prospective players and over The team in a league as and offers a social program For more call Creed The rewdon and will be at iag Gate Park in Sunday at pm Ebenezer on near Newmarket in are welcome Sept 13 at will start another training prospective telephone workers on York Pines United Church KetUeby run weekly on Tuesday evenings to 10 pm plus two Saturdays with the program ending Dec 13 course is and anyone interested call York at 7271212 or 88S1S12 Newmarket Flag Football League will open its schedule Sunday at Huron Heights Secondary School in Newmarket No School players will be accepted but the league is open to anyone between the ages of and For more information call BUI Andrews at 8959871 The Newmarket Cub will hold a fishing derby in the pond at the Upper Canada Mall Saturday A cash prize will be presented to largest fish in the one to 12yearold catagory while and a trophy will be given to winners in the class and the 20 and over class There will be a trophy for the youngest to catch a fish and prizes for the oldest successful fisher man and the smallest fish There will also be ten time prizes of Entry fees are for adults and for kids with a limit of five fish per person A Community Jubilee Celebration is planned in East GwiUimbury Sept 16 in honor of Queen Elizabeths year on the throne The celebration to be held at the Sharon Community Centre will feature dedication of a plaque and trees bands a ball game and a corn roast from 630 pm to pm A dance will follow with a disc jockey and buffet Tickets are per person and can be obtained from Councillor Arthur Hall It seems to me that an excess number of the worlds witless gravitate to Aurora and congregate in that oversized maladministration build ing expensively straddUng Tannery Creek Anyway at a rough guess Id say that the average has more savvy in his old toenail prunings than total local ad ministrations have in their collective bundled brainboxes I make these seemingly extreme statements because the plain lessons of the past seem to bounce off the heads of the mighty like coconuts off the breast of a brass monkey Take the matter of water for instance If you can just leave the rye alone for a minute Yes I know we all need one A few malcontents have been hollering about water restrictions about he charge for pools Their arguments on this piffling issue have about ivv V Mall nixed her dog General Radio Service Trinity United Church will hold a Festival of Dairy Food Oct 3 and Times will be pm to pm on the first day and 10 am to 4 pm on the second day This project is open to any interested person or group If interested please call the Home Economist Newmarket Plaza Newmarket before Sept I read with some sympathy the letter from Mrs Nora Richardson Aug regarding the Incident with her pet dog In Upper Canada MaU As the owner of a dog so small I could fit her in a purse imagine my frustration upon visiting the mall with the in tention of buying her a winter coat at the pet shop there only to find I was not allowed to take her in for a fitting One wonders how the people who buy pets there sneak them out Of course some mini- dogs owners unashamedly have all kinds of tricks or dogs up their sleeves for ducking under the pet barriers which exist mainly for public safety It would certainly add a rare human touch if those rigid rules could be relaxed to permit small portable canines in as long as they were carried However I- can foresee terrible inter- canineowner conflicts resulting from such discrimination against heavyweight non- portables left out in the cold so I suppose we must bowwow to their greater weight and stand by them outside shoulder to kneejoint Maybe our canines should leer with slavering jaws through the en trance doors looking just ready to rush in and pounce on all those unruly unhygienic lit tering humans who are given free leash to smoke dribble and bulldoze their way all over store goods and other humans On a more serious and positive note I am sure Mrs Richardson will be glad to learn that since the passage of the Government of Ontario Bill Blind Persons Rights Act in July 1976 it is Illegal to deny a blind person using a dog guide access to public facilities encompassing stores restaurants public transit rented ac commodation theatres etc Dog guides are of course working animals being highly sophisticated mobility aids allowing their blind owners a freedom and independence of movement most of us take for granted It is interesting to note that for a long time the Ontario Health Act has exempted dog guides from the no pets rule in food stores and restaurants which in effect is admitting that a healthy welldisciplined dog is not considered a health or safety hazard Now if we could somehow bring all canines and their owners up to the standards of behaviour and hygiene exemplified by dog guides and their partners maybe Mrs Richardson would have to face any more distressing situations and 1 could take my tyke out from hiding in my sorry trade secret Yours truly DAPHNE BARKER Welts St Aurora i Mans RUB eHO woo How for as much scree as the buzzlngs of a blucbotUo We might better have heard from them on vastly more important issues than their own narrow twobit interest such as well here I go again This water furor turned the mighty mind of Mayor Timpson to a masterly solution consideration of a plan to saddle Aurora with a bill for about 3425 water meters at a throw which totals The Banner figured Maybe it calcultated in or This idea sounds like water alright water on the brain To spend a lefty chunk of a million just to gag a fow belly- and when weve all managed quite well thank you minus water meters for umpteen years well can anyone imagine more assinine If the crybabies who petitioned council were given their money back with maybe a for pain and suffering the matter might have thus been settled for about half the price of one water meter Politicians seem obsessed with spending to about the same degree that Jackrabbits are reputed to be obsessed with that nasty habit which is today the centre of human interest and every great novel and movie For besides this water meter bit we have all suddenly been made aware that the rather shabby little backalley known as St which goes nowhere is at last going somewhere Its going to plough into about a quartermillion bucks of taxpayers money being prettied up and rescwered Council is reported to have felt some dismay on realizing what they had signed them selves into but Town Clerk Rodger advised that the contractor Construction could sue if they with drew In this hillbilly town you wonder who signs what with their eyes shut whos for whom whos getting the choice part of the cut who considers he she or it has the greatest right to the general publics money but it seems to me that such wanton and reckless disposal of the very skin off our backs should come under penalties of a revised criminal code unless those responsible can plead And if they dont like my language let me tell them here and now that I like being bled to death thro taxes even less Reading the mayors remarks which ac companied the final crushing tax bill one learns that the perennial deficit problems of the community centre are to be cured with what Why with another big dose of spending this time new air conditioning Ho make it more competitive should also help hasten the forecast hydro blackout One would think that tho community centre deficit might be belter and more equitably cured by raising the price of ice time Failing that 1 suggest knocking it down selling the valuable land paying off the debentures and giving balance to needy of this town in the form of tax rebate Mayor is an unattached young man living at homo with his parents possessor of two good incomes one Cadillac one large cabin cruiser and very little personal responsibility The average probably has about one- third his income ump teen times his financial responsibilities and both feet on the ground Probably right IN the ground the tax load he carries The mayor also wrote in his tax report Every member of council is aware of the seriousness and severity of such a tax increase and it is not lightly that the increase is ap proved If this isnt pure straight uncut humbug will mayor and council now tell us why they threw everything kitchen sink into this years taxes and why judging by their present performance theyre on the way to piling up another record tax bill Just last spring they were reprimanding that other gang of bandits the board of education for its irresponsible spending then proceeded to make it look frugal compared with their own This town is already staring hard times in the eye Week after week we hear of some Aurora industry either laying off workers or considering closing down Year alter year we never hear of a soul ah industry going into the conservation area known as the in dustrial park The way this town is run who would come in for a scrutiny of our accounts and taxes indicate con sistent mismanagement The way we are now going well finish up a mere coUection of half- empty shopping plazas frantically trying to unload the unwanted and the unnecessary on the unfortunate and the unconscious So whos for worth of water meters and all the other goodies of Aurora Now speak up sharp or you might get left out Aurora I spoke the WWST in an earlier column and it is only now that some of my fellow em ployees are beginning to talk to me again For some reason they were angry when said I played for the As a matter of fact the team quietl disbanded shortly after that column and never played another game We left the game of to the Haskett Mens League the ladies league and of course the who are right in the middle of their playoffs Now we are making a comeback From obscurity we will return to the playing fields where we are anything but obscure Its all for a good cause Muscular Dystrophy as it is known is the particular charily of the Newmarket Fire Departments They are always looking for ways to raise money for MD They have formed a softball team and have asked other wellknown teams like the WWST to join them in a benefit softball tournament We will play against the firemen a from McDonalds two allbeef patties lettuce sauce pickles cheese etc and a socalled team from the Aurora Banger newspaper Im not worried about the gang from Mc Donalds as they are a bunch of hamburgers And the firemen will probably get called away to a grass fire or a burning Volkswagen as soon as the game starts Its those upstarts from the Banger that pose thereal threat to we members of the WWST They arc riding high because they have a game or two They beat the staff of The Era but that wa only because Publisher Haskell and I were kidnapped and held until the games end The Banger has not scheduled a rematch with The Era The Banger has not taken up a challenge from the WWST either It took the firemen to schedule this minitournament to get the Banger to play And that was before the Banger knew WWST would be playing dont know the starting lineup of the Banger but suspect that John Lett Banger Editor will play John Lott is a catcher in baseball but suspect he knows nothing of the finer aspects of the game of Besides he fell off his motorcycle and hurt his throwing arm a while back No problem handling him If the Banger puts John Scott in the lineup they are crazy He is not at all like the John Scott that toils for the Toronto Blue Jays Only In the sense that the Jays Scott drops the ball from time to time and strikes out fairly regularly The John Scott of the Banger is NOT fleet foot He is stumble of foot The John Scott of tl Banger is well to put it kindly portly He should be playing for the WWST Joel Banger Sports Editor will likely be playing Dont let the title fool you No one can play the game properly with a camera around his neck I will instruct Fast Fred our pitcher to throw his famous Lens Pitch rendering Colomby pictureless The Banger also has girls on their team Not being a fool I will say nothing more about this i We hope we can convince some of the lady staff people at Jarmain Cable to play for just this one game Then we may have a better chance against the Banger The Worlds Worst Softball team currently holds record of 0 wins and 5 losses in our five games prior to premature retirement The Banger according to Editor Lett and and has a team batting average of 456 says without a trace of human modesty that he is personally hitting 708 Norm Slunden a former member or Richmond Hill Dynes Jewellers is next with 615 Lott claims Slunden has worked for Banger for 30 years and was not conscripted for his hitting ability 5 The Worlds Worst Softball Team is not this match lightly Fast Fred Firth is practicing his and now has two pitches which do not before reaching the plate Bob Groundhog has memorized the order in which he must run bases First then second on to third base home We have drilled it into his head He a carries a small card in case he forgets Dave Dreadful Wulff has lost his the ball in field but still wears a catchers when he bats Its coming though John and Doug Noodles Noble will also play forming counterpart of the famous Tinkers to Chance combination We call ours Trip Stue and Fall I will of course play in the game Moc prevents me from saying too much own softball ability Suffice to say that the was planning to send me to the farm clt more seasoning when we folded up The game or games will be play Friday at the same diamond wherein play at the Fairgrounds at It may be the same again Help in the fight against MIX Come and watch the Worlds Worst Softball the Newmarket Fire Department and hamburgers from McDonalds And the from the Banger Can the Worlds Worst Softball team with a batting average of parted the waters didnt he Km f 7