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sadder but wiser after bike ilieti stouffville mrs j w morrison of south st is sadder but wiser after the theft of her daughters 10speed bicycle the bicycle a blue ccm targa was parked in a bicycle rack near the morrison house when it was taken on may 28 fifteen year old cheryl morrison had worked weekends at houstons pharmacy to save up the money for the racing bicycle r she had one more payment to make on it when it was stolen deputy chief robert hood of york regional police told the tribune that 15000 bicycle registration cards were distributed to schools in the region last year the cards noted the serial number make style and color of the bicyclev the police received only 1500 of the cards back deputy chief hood said if bicycles are on file the owners can be found in past years the regional police auctioned off lost bicycles this year they are being returned to the finders he said he said that more cards were distributed this year mrs morrisons daughter failed to note the serial number on the bike which makes it difficult to trace she still hopes to get it back and asks anyone having information to call at 640- 2530 vol 88 no 7 whitchurch stouffville june 18 1975 20 cents 24 pages new twist in dispute town mayor being sued camping out can be fun grade 4 students from whitchurch stouffville public school took to the wilds a field behind the school last week to learn firsthand about survival shown here left to right oh top are laurie shaw susan newman and brenda crompton on the bottom vicki lloyd julie hisey and carrie armitage more photos on page 19 don bernard resident voices objection to vivian rd subdivision stouffville councils approval of an official plan amendment to allow an estate 1 residential subdivision at vivian rd was ratified by by law last week the bylaw covering the 70 acres owned by chicamauga investments to be developed into 27 homes was passed without comment except that councillor cathy joice said objectors will get an opportunity for a public meeting earlier that evening council had -beeri- berated by vern j morrow a nearby landowner who strongly- objected to the proposal i woman killed after pkssing markham an agin- court woman died monday after her car careened out of control and struck a car pullinga trailer on highway 48 near 17th ave anne simmons 68 was southbound and attempted to pass other southbound cars she pulled back into her lane the car went oh the gravel shoulder then veered thenorth- s bound lane into the path of a car driven by terence harris 34 of kirkfield mrs simmons was dead on arrival at scarboro centenary hospital v mr harris his wife florence 32 and another- passenger mary ewart 60 of- toronto were all taken to hospital with undetermined injuries i the harris car was pulling a j house trailer damage to the vehicles totalled 5500 bicycle parade opens fair 1 goodwood a decorated bicycle parade will open the second annual goodwood fair to be held saturday june 28 at the goodwood community centre the parade is at 1 pm with pet show slated for 230 pm there will be lucky draws on a a bicycle at 4 pm hand made quilt at 415 and an oil painting at 430 l the baby show will start at 145 with the major draw of the day on a live beef at 1030 in the evening the fair also includes arts and craft exhibits arko 4 the wonder dog whue elephant sale horseshoe pit ching exhibition and various childrens exhibits bake sale historical exhibits antiques a midway are also part of the fair admission is 50 cents for the day and 5 per couple for the dance in the evening c mr morrow who appeared as a delegation before council said his views were not necessarily shared by everybody but that more than 50 per cent of the neighbors had grave doubts about the sub division he said the first people have first rights and they should be accorded some priority he accused conroy dowson the companys planner of- presenting a snow job trivializing the jconcerns of the citizens and doing if so arrogantly and with so many inconsistencies you wonder how people can be so two faced he claimed the people immediately affected hadnt signed- the 85 name petition submitted by mr dowson at an earlier planning meeting he said those who signed fell into threecategoriesfriends of the grose family who own the property older residents of the area and deople who hoped to subdivide their own land he said not a single person who originally opposed the development had signed the petition councillor becky wedley told mr morrow she was pleased to see he appreciates good agricultural land and she asked him how large a piece of property he lives on as he was objecting to two acre lots mr morrow replied he lives on two and a quarter acres by john montgomery stouffville the cedar valley land use dispute took a new twist last week as lawsuits wereinitated against mayor gordon ratcliff and the town of whitchurch stouff ville a writ issued on the ap plication of professional syn dicated developments ltd owners of 86 acres in cedar valley which has been turned down for industrial develop ment alleges they relied on the municipality for the zoning of the land town solicitor paul mingay told the tribune the town had never given the developers formal indication in writing of the zoning arid in fact the in dustrial zoning they relied on had only received temporary approval from the ontario municipal board the writ contained no mention of the amount of damages the company hopes to recover from the town but one observer estimated the developers could have lost as much as 300000 council has passed bylaws to change both the officialplan designation and the zoning from industrial to rural which waslillegaily subdivided but saidhead i no knowledge of vvajombhearing on this when he purchased the property councillor merlyn baker asked mr morrow to wait and give planning board a chance to look at the proposal with a view to good planning mr baker said he was presenting a very selfish opinion and had as selfish an interest as the developers where do we put he people just like you who want to live in a rural area asked councillor eldred king centennial committee favors library project stouffville stouffville centennial committee meeting on wednesday has recommended a new library as a centennial project preferably as part of a recreational com plex the centennial committee had been asked by the municipal council to put forward some recommendation there was some discussion regardiriglocation but it was finally agreed that the matter of location was one for council decision committee discussed plans for a dance or dances for the july 1st weekend 1977 as part of the old home- week celebration to be sponsored by the stouffville fire brigade chairman keith sutherland showed the committee a sample of a sketch book containing old homes and other historical buildings which had been produced in another municipal centennial and bruce burton was named to look into the production of such a book for stouffville 2083 the bylaw which designated the land industrial was adjourned monday at the request of mr mingay he told the board the bylaw no longer has municipal support and the bylaws passed by council to designate the land rural are now awaiting provincial approval he asked for the adjournment pending this approval and for the automatic withdrawal of bylaw 2083 after approval of the new bylaws mr mingay said the new by laws may trigger a hearing of some magnitude the owner of the property is not happy is hardly the word mr mingay mentioned the developers had made no representation at a- public meeting to hear objections to the dezoning and in fact they had sent no representatives to the omb hearing board member p m brooks granted the ad journment but warned cedar valley residents who were present that if the developers objected to the land being returned to rural then another hearing would be required under the act spokesman for the residents tom marshall ex pressed horror at the thought of going through another hearing he argued the whole matter had been covered in other hearings and said he had never heard in my life someone being bent over backwards to like this town calls for parking stouffville the parking problem in front of the new post office has cometothe attention ofcouncil in a move somewhat reminiscent of closing the barn gate after the horse is- gone they last week passed a resolution calling for the government to provide parking adjacent to the new post office parking around the building was described by councillor cathy joice as a terrible situation they also discussed the possibility of purchasing the abandoned post office but were told by mayor gordon ratcliff that no money isinthis years budget for purchasing buildings beef dinners at lions club barbecue stouffville the lions club barbecue which for 20 years featured succulent chicken will make beef lovers happy this year to be held wednesday june 25 at stouffville park the annual feed will get- underway at 430 pm four large quarters of beef will be cooking all day over a hardwood fire and four cutters will be busy dishing up the meat lions ladies have baked 150 pies for dessert the meal in cludes beef with salad and home made pies or fresh strawberries for dessert cost is 250 for adults and 175 for children following the meal there will be bingo and childrens games the stouffville dist secondary school band will entertain a 75toncranewith ia 105 foot boom was needed saturday to lift frenchmans bay in lake ontario mr mccurdy the wanaleia from its spot in don mccordysbackyad on building the 36foot trimaran montreal st- onto a waiting float truck for the journey to y spent 5 years don bernard the parkview apartments which were completed earlier this year have proved to bea pleasant and economical place for irnany senior citizens tolivejtabove albert ilitchen tends his tomato plants in the small greenhouse atparkview ited wilcox loneliness seniors concerns by ted wilcox stouffville how to make ends meet the problem of loneliness and the shortage of housing were among topics discussed by several local senior citizens interviewed last week the interviews were conducted by the tribune to coincide with senior citizens week currently being celebrated across ontario the lot in life of those-in- terviewed varied according to their financial resources and their family situations frances dellsa badgerow 89 of musslemans lake was one senior- citizen who has no immediate housing problem her frame bungalow home where she has lived for the last 22 years has been completely paid for wheriyou have home and haveitall paid for- then nobody can push you around she says the least pleasant part of her life now tends to be her social contacts or rather her lack of them there have been weekends when its pretty blue she said when the weathers bad she finds herself sitting around walking from window to window or door to door her television remains on when she is alone or else its like a dead house a different problem is ex- perienced by mr and mrs norman pellett also of musslemans lake with heating costs in their rented- some climbing to 70 or 80- some months last winter they are finding it increasinglyhard to make ends meet fortunately the- pelletts will probably move into the ontario housing corporation apartments on elm road soon where residents pay a flat 20 per cent of their income for rent but not all senior citizens who need cheaper housing in york region are able to get it according to betty van nostrand of the ohc while stouffville and aurora are not v badlyoff v ats present newmarket is the placed i- almost dread because theres such a backlog of applications she toldthe tribune in ordinary private apart ment buildings senior citizens oh their set incomes have t r o u b 1 e a y i n g the escalating rents she said- the rents are just going out of the picture- the case of mr and mrs kenneth aird of robinson street markham illustrates the see relatives p 7 teachers board ratify contract york cty high school teachersin york region will receive increases of between 25 and 40 per cent under a new one- year contract ratified bythe teachers and the york county- board of education last week a teacher in the lowest category will jump from 8400 to 11800 an increase of 40percent at uie upper limit the scale will move from 19000 to 23700 v there will be two increases the first will come sept l when the contract takes affect the other on janl 1976- the contract also calls for a cost of living adjustment to be paid in january and june nd a plan for- the board to pay half the dental bills for teachers and their famhies a press release- from osstf vdistrictll said the negotiations have been conducted in a cooperative manner and the affect i will be to inspire a happy satisfying situation in the schools i 1 i