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v Board rejects sale Newmarket mayor may launch suit AURORA York County school board Monday voted down the sale of the Alexander Muir school property to Newmarket and Mayor Bob told The Era he will ask town council to take legal action to force the board into the sale Trustees defeated a motion by Dr John Denison to accept Newmarkets offer to purchase the Muir property for subject to conditions imposed in May and accepted by the town council Nine trustees voted against the motion eight in favor and three abstained Mayor said solicitor has advised that in his opinion the boards May decision to sell the school for a nominal combined with the fact the board accepted the towns cheque and has not returned it constitutes a commitment to sell The mayor also pointed out the boards own lawyer reached same conclusion having advised the board it had sold the school Our lawyer tells us we own it now said the mayor said if the court action goes against the town it will mean a deal isnt a deal any more He said if the board is not legally bound to its com mitment to sell then by the same logic the town will not be bound by its agreement to sell the Valley of the Cedars school site to the board for and then use the sale money to develope park facilities on the land Imagine what such a precedent would mean to the business community said the mayor comparing it to a man who sells his home in the autumn giving a June oc cupancy date and then in March decides because prices have gone up to renege on the deal and relist the property at a higher price Dr Denison in defending his motion told the board he was brought up to believe that rightly or wrongly ones word was his bond Early this summer we gave our word to sell the Alexander school to Newmarket I dont believe we should make our consciences that plastic Perhaps it was a mistake to have made the decision in the first place but we should not compound one mistake with another High school cleared after s main break NEWMARKET The 900 students 50 teachers and four secretaries at Newmarket High School got an unexpected holiday Monday morning when a ripped open a gas main outside the school Photo on page School principal Robert Krol evacuated the school and advised students not to smoke or start their cars in the im mediate vicinity Sam deputy fire chief of the Newmarket Fire Department said evacuating the school wasnt really riecessary There is no danger in volved he said We didnt evacuate the school school officials did The gas is coming out of that line at something like pounds pressure and because natural gas is lighter than air it Spending limit voted down at York council Put a six per cent ceiling on York Regional Councils budget Or heresy of heresies limit the output to the increase of the tax intake Those suggestions came from two regional councillors but they didnt get far at last Thursdays council meeting Page Can awards program survive Will Newmarkets civic awards program survive It may not if it doesnt get a shot in the arm soon Page Soccer victors go home mad When the final game had been played at the Newmarket and District Soccer Association finals Saturday and the champions declared nothing happened say the victors the Bayvlew Soccer Club No one stayed to present them with their trophy Theyre mad Page Ballet star dines with Queen James Kudelka a Newmarket boy who Is one of the nations most promising young ballet stars recently dined with the Queen Page is going straight up You might be able to smell it over on the east side of town but it isnt dangerous right here A spokesman for York Region said the construction work going on outside the school entails installation of storm sewers and road reconstruction A backhoe operated under the jurisdiction of and general contractors ripped up the pipe while digging trenches for the sewers Two remain in hospital week after collapse AURORA Two men remained in York County Hospital Monday a week after an industrial accident injured six construction workers at King Cole Duck Farm east of here Morris of and Roy of 59 Longford Dr Newmarket were both reported in satisfactory con dition Both men were originally admitted to the Newmarket hospitals intensive care unit suffering abdominal injuries but were after several days transferred to other wards A third man Stephen Wallace of was released from hospital after being held overnight for ob servation The three were part of a six- man crew from Donald Wallace Construction Ltd crew working on a roof truss York Regional Police said the six men fell to the ground when the roof- collapsed under the force of a sudden wind David Pegg of R Newmarket David Keffer of Botsford St Newmarket and Harvey Preston of Newmarket were also taken to York County Hospital but released after treatment VOL NO PAGES South Since I 1852 KESWICK NEWMARKET AURORA NOVEMBER A NEWMARKET CENTS FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Aim Hansen photo Aurora Little will be presenting its production of Fiddler on the Roof Nov 23 24 25 and at the Ketchum Auditorium St Andrews College Aurora Shown here are Jim Shepherd who plays the fiddler and Peter who plays going over one of the scenes In the upcoming production Show organizers are somewhat apprehensive about the production because the York Symphony Orchestra which was scheduled to provide the music for the show has withdrawn its services due to a misun derstanding over musical direction PUBLIC MEETINGS IN DECEMBER New highway a step closer NEWMARKET Plans for a new eastwest highway linking Highway and Highway moved a step closer to reality last week Public meetings on the high way proposal will be held sometime in December York Regional Council was told Thursday Plans are underway to construct the highway just south of Lake council was told George Norman from the Ministry of Transportatiorrand Communications and John Sutherns of Rankin Consulting Engineers outlined the various routes that have been proposed and showed council a map on which all the present alternatives arc marked Mr said there are several alternate routes to choose from taking into account environmental factors impact on population and other factors which will be weighed before the actual route is chosen The ministry will be conducting public input meetings in the various com munities likely to be affected by the highway and after receiving the publics views and input from interest groups the ministry will analyze all alternatives Loth present and possible future More the final route is chosen said Mr Sutherns The need for an eastwest highway in the area is apparent since there is no highway running eastwest York Region except Highway People driving through York Region to the region or Peterborough either have louse Highways or or use regional roads A previous study com missioned by the ministry in estimated a daily traffic flow of cars on the proposed new highway by There was some question as to what designation the new highway will be known by and council was told the ministry refers to it as the Highway that is not necessarily what it will even tually be called Highway stops at High way and the ministry used the extension name for the time being to clarify matters said Mr Sutherns Public meetings regarding the highway extension will be conducted sometime in December according to Mr Sutherns At those meetings the public will have the opportunity to voice any objections they may have to any or all of the proposed routes could cause problem Burrows SUTTON Failure to win approval for a private members bill to legalize Townships ward boundaries could put hundreds of council decisions in question Mayor George Burrows said Monday Any decision not taken on a recorded vote would be left open to question he told The Era Youre talking 200 to 300 bylaws resolutions and sub division agreements the mayor added He made his comments as the township and its opponents prepared their respective cases for Thursdays hearing before the provincial legislatures justice committee Each side is expected to send its own busload to the hearing York North MPP Bill Hodgson sponsor of the bill that would legalize the changes in ward boundaries said Monday hell attempt to secure a larger meeting room for the committee hearing on the bill Opponents have sought union support in their attempts to kill the bill Miracle needed to reach UWgoal RICHMOND HILL It would take a miracle to enable the United Way of York Region to reach its goal of according to Bob executive director of the campaign Mondays total is which is well short of our goal but keep in mind the industrial campaign in south Don Mills and Concord havent reported yet said Mr Higgs In explaining what sort of miracle it would take to reach the goal Mr said If everyone in York Region stopped and thought about what the United Way is doing for its 14 member agencies and stopped to give a donation we might come up with the aimed for figure The United Way has already extended its campaign past the original shut off date of Nov but Mr Higgs said they have not decided on a new date to end the campaign think were effectively looking at the end of the month as a shut off date he said It doesnt look as if were going to reach our goal but every now and then there are pleasant surprises and were certainly looking for one now Larry Dolson a Sutton businessman scheduled to make a presentation opposing the change in wards said his biggest fear is the precedent that would be set by approving the boundary change retroac tively It will be one of the first times in history that theyve permitted retroactive legislation he noted But Mr Hodgson disagreed In an interview from his Queens Park office Monday the York North MPP said per cent of all private members bills seek retroactive legislation to correct a technicality This is not a precedent as far as Im concerned he said Mr HodRson said the committee has three options approving the bill in com mittee rejecting the bill or adjourning any decision until a court battle over last Decembers municipal election in is settled Mr questioned committee consideration of the matter when it is still before the courts He said approval of the private bill will also deny citizens the right to comment on changes in the ward boundary Mayor Burrows no ed however that the ward changes were publicized in and there were no objections at that time The real problem were into here is that the people who want to throw out the whole election want to use this to strengthen their case said the mayor Really what theyre saying is they want to pletely disrupt business Most township legislation would be even if council resigned the mayor added This is the only route thai can correct the problem Mayor Burrows stressed Even having council resign wont do But councils opponents are adament Mildred Holmes of Sutton said her chief objection is not the change in boundaries but the method that council used to alter the boundaries ve means never having say sorry DIRECTORY Billboard Editorials At to the editor Word for the Week Al AT sports Classified ads era AURORA For two weeks I sat on Death Row in the Ontario Humane Society Shelter here waiting for someone to come and take me home Fortunately someone did or else I would have ended up like a lot of other cats and dogs dead All because nobody seemed to care or want us and If thats not a dogs life what is Right now I have a person who would rather not have his name mentioned in this story but hes remarkably well trained Ive only had him three weeks but already he knows when its time to feed me Ive trained him to take me for walks although I must admit hes a little hard to handle once I get him on a leash but hes learning And of course he insists on sleeping on my bed leaving not much room for me but all in all hes a pretty good person Anyway back to my original story How I ended up in the shelter dogs refer to it as the slammer was really strange You see these people were given to me when I was a cute little nipper about knee high to a flea They used to play with me a lot and take really good care of me But through no fault of my own I started grow and grow and grow and suddenly just like that they stopped playing with me and threw me outside in the cold and rain By OB as told to f PAUL HUNT Era staff reporter coat How was I supposed to know they didnt want me going to the bathroom on the floor nobody ever told mo you were supposed to go outside Well anyway one thing led to another and I ended up In the slammer and thats where I learned what kindness is all about Judy Sandra and Vince 1 always wondered if they were from the same litter none of them have the same markings are the people there and theyre really nice Every morning like clockwork one of them would bring me in a big bowl of food usually dry but occasionally canned and after that Id get to take them for a walk Some of the stories I heard in the slammer are enough to curl your coat And could you Imagine a black lab with a curly For instance there was Charlie a little mutt who was abandoned by his people on the highway and got run over by a car ending up with a broken leg I Just cant imagine what is wrong with people who just throw out their frifinds and leave them to their own devices If the turned I wonder how they would like being stuck out on some lonely deserted highway with no food no water scared and tired with all those cars whizzing by I heard stories about cats mind you Im not overly fond of cats being set oh fire Sure Ive chased a few in my time but actually setting one on fire And of course I still wake up barking at night when I remember the little baby bird that some goof used for a golf ball While I was waiting for my stay of execution I heard a lot of what was going on in the slammer Did you know that last year alone the humane society looked into 1588 cruelty complaints and let 51908 animals use their beds all of which takes money Money has to come from people Oh sure the government chips In a 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