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offieial village erest designed by local artist stouffville the village of stouff- ville has an official crest designed and sketch ed by local artist george foord main street west it has won the approval of muni cipal council the clock tower do minates the foreground serving as a central symbol back of it is the new flood control dam with the sugges tion ot sparkling water the 1877 date of in corporation is so indi cated the crest will where- ever possible be used in two colors the tower in red and the lozenge shape enclos ing the dam in blue it will appear on all stationery as well as municipally owned buildings and vehicles als the village of stouffville crest incorporates the clock tower as a dominating foreground structure with the flood control dam at back sketch by george foord pavwawwywvwwywvwwywwwvwwvvv call public meeting to air complaints stouffville resi dents within stouffvilles 140home ponderosa de velopment have been cal led to a public meeting feb 8 at 8 pm in the auditorium of st marks school to air complaints concerning reports of faulty workmanship on their properties the decision to meet en masse resulted from a discussion among several owners sunday evening at the home of john brunke 520 elm road all related long lists of problems that included everything from cracked walls to warped basement beams each also told of attempts to contact the builder with little success the majority of houses have been up less than one year many fear that with the arrival of spring conditions will become much worse you havent seen anything yet com mented one of the group another said his list of complaints was so long hed have to mail it in by parcel post the organization that calls itself tht ponderosa grievance association plans a doortodoor cam paign to make people aware of the action pro posed all said that they liked the area and wished to retain permanent resi dence in town they noted however that certain de fects had occurred in their homes that they wished corrected at the contractors expanse old fire truck inadequate chief hydro rate increase likely stouffville hy dro rates will increase in stouffville this year the unpleasant predic tion was announced by reeve ken laushway at a meeting of the public commission jan 20 on jan 1 ontario hy dro upped its cost to the municipality by six per cent reeve laushway said that while the local com mission had absorbed the previous price hike it would be impossible to do so this time december accounts pre sented for payment reach ed a record si 7589 stouffville stouffville council has been advised to give con sideration to the purchase of a new fire truck the recommendation from chief walter smith was contained in a report covering fire calls answer ed by the department dur ing 1969 chief smith said the 1960 model truck could adequately serve the town but the new one would be better for calls into the country mr smith sug gested that the spare ve hicle now 24 years old was serving no useful pur pose reeve ken laushway observed that should stouffvilles boundaries be extended under region al government additional fire equipment would be required under a new 1year agreement with the town ships of whitchurch markham and uxbridge the rate agreed on by stouffville for fire pro tection will be 120 for the first hour and 90 for each additional hour the standby charge is un changed at 800 for whit church 500 for markham and 400 for uxbridge too late for tax relief whitchurch twp a request for tax relief on the property of willow springs camp near le- monville has arrived too late whitchurch twp council agreed at a meet ing jan 19 however the members will attempt to gain more information on the case before reaching a deci sion the site is owned and operated by the cana dian sunday school mis sion in a letter the superin tendent richard ohlman noted that fees were kept to 20 per week in an ef fort to encourage young people to utilize the faci lities he pointed out that special tax consideration was given the parkview home in stouffville councillor merlyn bak er said he had personally visited the camp and spoke highly of the work done there council agreed that the application should have been processed through the court of revision when all other cases of its kind were heard none could see any alternative but to file an appeal later this year liquid industrial waste deposits inviting disaster commissioner reopen whitchurch site stouffville members of the stouff- ville public utilities commission have expres sed concern and shock over the provincial gov ernments announced decision to reopen the bremner disposal site to loads of liquid in dustrial waste most of it from metro the decision was revealed at a meeting of the puc jan 20 spokesman for the depart ment of energy and resources was john hea- man commissioner ken betz took issue with the official he charged that with water runoff to both north and south the bremner property was one of the worst in the area for this pur pose he noted that a small measure of liquid waste could be accommodated through evapora tion but to create permanent pools of sludge was inviting disaster mr heaman explained that the closing of the site had put several firms in a serious position with no other place in which to de posit their refuse some he said threatened to close down and lay off their staffs mr heaman said drill test holes had been made in the area adjacent to the property and it was found that no seepage had occurred at a depth of 20 feet he noted that the water table serving the village of stouffville was at a depth of 120 feet he concluded that stouff villes supply was in no danger of contamina tion reeve ken laushway countered a recom mendation that the village make its own test drills north of the reservoir to ascertain the possibility of pollution he said that if con tamination at this source was confirmed it would then be too late to remedy the problem mr heaman assured the members that queens park was endeavoring to come up with a permanent solution and the use of the brem ner site was temporary he said that an in cinerator was proposed for the metro region but could not be completed for at least 6 months or longer commissioner betz was not impressed he said since other municipalities had refused to accept this waste the whitchurch site would be taxed to an even greater extent than before mr heaman said his department was faced with no alternative he noted that when the bremner property was closed a serious situa tion developed he said loads were then being dumped almost everywhere and in one case deposits had flowed into an open stream stouffville legion discuss membership for nonveterans stouffville the admission of nonterans as members of the stouffville legion a suggestion put forward by the provincial executive that if adopted would affect all branches is expected to arouse argument here president arthur dixon told the tribune that the issue would be discussed at the next regular meet ing further debate will be held at the ontario conven tion in may mr dixon said that a poll of 20 other legion branches had indicated opposition to the scheme the stouffville legion has a membership of about 75 veterans plus a very active ladies auxiliary group mr dixon said that if all veterans in the area would play an active part the membership would exceed 400 ringwood post office the end of an era v j v y m postmark ringwood ringwood the end of this week marks the end of an era for an estimated 40 residents of ringwood the community post office serving the area since before confederation closes down on sat urday the location is ken phillips store history recalls the name of george h sil vester as the first postmaster in 1856 he was succeeded by his son fred others to follow were a w lehman 1909 joseph m grove 1915 roy b grove 1930 mrs wahneita grove 1955 and ken phillips from 1956 to the present day a total of 478 post offices have been closed throughout canada during the past year and another 303 are scheduled to be shut down under postmaster eric kiernans program of reform vol 81 no 35 stouffvillemarkhamuxbridge ont thursday jan 29 1970 15 cents ponderosa homeowners want properties repaired plan school sites publichigh school integration system proves successful stouffville if two major residential developments on the north side of stouffville are permitted to proceed three new elementary school sites will be required plus an addition to the present high school property it was learned this week the information follows a meeting in stouff ville jan 22 that included representatives of the york county board of education the york county separate board metro planning board stouffville planning board and members of council residential buildup is contemplated by stouffville development ltd to include 84 acres west of cone 9 between concessions 9 and 10 an additional 134 acres is on the draw ing board owned by dulverton holdings ltd homes on these properties could produce 982 elementary and 231 secondary school pupils the sites would be serviced by an enlarged sewage treatment plant to be financed by the developers board of education spokesmen commended stouffvilles planners and council on their fore sight in arranging the meeting they said it marked the first time they had been consulted at such an early stage cooperation urged in school cost levy stouffville while the council of the town of markham has refused to pay its quarter ly share of the york county school levy by march 31 stouffville has adopted a much softer ap proach members agreed at a meeting jan 22 to meet with the trustees and dis cuss the issue in 1969 the education support payment was not requested until dec 15 stouffvilles share was about 400000 in 1970 however due dates have been set for march 31 june 30 sept 30 and dec 15 to meet the march date means that stouffville must borrow funds from the bank since the village budget will not yet be finalized and no tax mon ies will have been received council has already ap proved one borrowing by law to cover expenditures to that time reeve ken laushway said he doubted very much if the school board would have its own bud get finalized by march 1 in fact he said the requi sition pertaining to stou ffville might not come un til the 1st of april councillor ethel mole said the request could have been handled much easier if it had been re ceived sooner she urged a meeting between the two theres no use con demning the school board said the reeve we should cooperate and attempt to reach an agree ment satisfactory to both parties theyre just as strong as we are per haps stronger mr laush way said he wished to find out if the board was able to borrow money at a lower interest rate than the municipality top speaker bill bogers rr 4 stouffville will advance to the next round of com petition in the lions club oratorical he placed first at a contest held in the masonic hall jan 12 1000 legacy stouffville a si 000 legacy has been re ceived by the session of st james presbyterian church from the estate of the late ralph walker a resident on north street stouffville mr walker a farmer on cone 10 markham be fore moving to town was a regular attender at st james receipt of the gift of money was revealed at the congregations annual meeting jan 21 conduct poll among teachers students stouffville in september the york county board of education gave its approval to an experimental program whereby elementary pupils of grades 7 and 8 would be partially inte grated into the secondary system of stouffville high school with five months of the school year now com plete both students and teachers have had suffic ient time to assess the benefits of the move they can also point to some of the problems a detailed 5pagc report on the project was aired before a meeting of the board by principal w e duxbury monday he has concluded that the majority of pupils are satisfied with the ar rangement as it now stands the teachers too he says feel the system is workable although not ideal a similar questionnaire was sent to 54 par ents seeking questions and comments out of this number only 1 1 were returned none was highly critical mr duxbury said and most opinions were favorable for the students the principal said the strong est complaints concerned too little time available in the gymnasium and too short a period for lunch advantages noted were the numbers of special subjects available and the use of a rotary system that provided a variance of teachers three parents observed that for children living in the country a school day extending from 730 am to 530 pm was too long two suggested that under the new program elementary pupils tended to feel older than their years although not ideal mr duxbury concluded i feel the plan is quite satisfactory and workable for any length of time the fact that we have very few real complaints seems to indicate that the experiment is successful assault charge stouffville the proprietor of stouffvilles mansion house hotel remains in custody pend ing appearance in rich mond hill provincial court jan 30 on three charges of assault norman casamiri 143 main street west has been charged with two counts of indecent assault on a female and one count of common assault the charges were laid through the stouffville police department on a private complaint kin family wins 1000 jackpot this pile of money mials one thousand dollars it is the amount won by mrs russell holder elm road stouffville in the khvestment lucky draw sponsored by the kinsmen club and held jan 21 dreaming up plans on how to spend the sudden windfall are left to right michael 8 cathy 5 and debbie 10 their father is a kin member jas thomas