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seeking wage parity caretakers to ratify agreement r york cty although details have not been released caretakers reached a tentative settlement with the york county board of education monday i f the proposed contract is of l vi t j- one year duration commencing on jan 1- 1976 the caretakers will ratify the agreement march 21 and if it is approved the board will deal with it at the regular meeting monday march 29 the board caretakers were seeking parity with their counterparts in the separate school board contracting out cf service was also an issue in the protracted negotiations vol 88 no 45 whitchurch stouffville march 18 1976 20 cents 20 pages f historymaking first for us stouffville this week is a history making firsts for the tribune the newspaper is featuring a full process- color picture on its front page dog loses life saving tvp meii i council seeks speed reduction in ballantrae stouffville council last week passed a bylaw requesting that the province lower the speed limit on high way 48 through ballantrae from the present 45 miles per hour to 35 the matter has been discussed last month in council and was referred to public works committee the committee recom- mended the limit be lowered to 40 but councillor becky wedley introduced an amendment to reduce it further to 35 ive got a lot of calls since it appeared in the press mrs- wedley said people there are worried about children crossing the highway to and from the school- bus j mrs wedley argued that many other hamlets on provincial highways have 35 mileper hour speed limits and she maintained that the request is not out of line tam just afraid that in asking jf or 35 we might not get anything commented coun- cillormerlyn baker jkvjmrst wedley replied people are prepared to petition 9m we dont get it mrswedley s amendment- passed- i p syrup festival at museum bogarttown the annual maplesyrup and pan cake festival atwhitchurch stouffville museum is slated for this coming weekend and march 27 arid 28 v- v during the month of march the maple trees on the museum property are tapped and the sap gathered it is boiled in ahuge caldron outside and maple syrup i made school children from various area schools visits the museum to see how maple syrup ismade the culminationof the activities is the annual festival jpancakes and coffee are available for l the museum will be serving the hotcakes this weekends saturday arid sun- day from noon to 5 pm the following weekend march 27 and 28 it will be repeated j the museum is located on the vivian rd just west of woodbine ave w i debenture r- tstouffville debentures up to 250000 have been approved by the ontario municipal board to finance the new municipal library notification from the omb- was received at the march 9 regular meeting council v stouffville the persistence of a german shepherd dog named soul saved the lives of two men in an early morning fire friday on the uxbridge whitchurch stouffville town line perry feor and russell eugene fled the house located on the town line about half a mile north of the stouffville rd they were renting the house and barn from century city mr eugene told the tribune that he was asleep in his room and was awakened when his dog soul started pawing at his arm he pushed the dog away but soul persisted finally mr eugene opened his eyes and saw smoke in the room he jumped out of bed and ran into the hall and roused mr feor who was sleeping in another room the two men ran down stairs just before the stairs caught fire according to mr feor there was a lot of smoke and the men could not make it up the stairs soul and mr feors yellow labrador retriever major never made it down the stairs both dogs perished in the blaze the two men tried to extinguish the blaze but to no avail mr feor clad only in un derwear ran barefooted to a neighbors to call in the alarm when firemen arrived about 6 17 am the downstairs was an inferno stouffville fire chief walt smith said the actual fire was contained in one downstairs room but moved up the stair case it was difficult to ex tinguish quickly because it burned into the walls and up into the attic he estimated damage- at 35000 both men lost all their possessions in the fire the stone house which was the former howard st john farm is estimated by mr st john to be over 100 years old while there was extensive damage inside the structure of the house was not damaged in an added act of kindness a collection was taken at the winter nights concert friday evening at latcham hall about 50 was given to the two men since their possessions were fully insured mr feor and mr eugene gave the money to chief smith for the fire department benevolent fund the two men are looking for another place to live with a barn and some land to keep their horses former councillor vents his wrath stouffville william parsons local attorney and former village councillor last week exercised his derogative and appeared before council to vent his wrath concerning a number of issues mr parsons who appeared as a deputation started v by warniiigouncilthaticome here riot to praise you i he began with a criticism of garbage disposal in the municipality his garbage had not been picked up he com plained because- it was ac- cording to thegarbageman too far from the road i have never seen things so stringently- enforced mr parsons said the municipality has passed a bylaw saying there is no dumping at the york sanitation dump yet everybody else in the world canlhe said three year old stacy rae is not quite sure how to react to this straight up in the air with all four hooves flying in different direc- he expressed unhappiness jfrisky weekold spring lamb lambs are supposed to be cute and- tioris on account orthishiibita restraining hand from stacys about the calibre of garbage cuddly but this one displayed a rather unsettling tendency to jiimp i father bob was necessary y c johri montgomery bags required by thegarbage l si j bylaw wheredo you buy these v i- bags according uo the bylaw and that they should sell gar bage tbags of the required thickness that not really what i- see wrath pg 19 unfairly singled oiit liiteran bill haif375- raite stouffville k there has been some confusion regarding the interim tax bills issued by the town according to mayor gordon ratcliffv mr ratcliff many people have expressed concern because this years bill is higher than the one from jast year and they are worriedthatthe1976 taxes will beconespondingly higher o v ithis is iiqt true according to the mayor as the interim billing is50 per centbfuhe previous f years bill asthevl975 taxes were higher than those frorii 1974 naturally theinterim charge is higher -i- 7 i municipal taxes arevex- pectedf- to be higher- though eg trustee iustifies siatementis spademan didnt pareritly he has had aproblem because of board of education i with bags breaking y and regional costsa ijvv he suggested the town print an explanation of their bylaw the first installment of the interim levy is march 31 v i vandorf east have the matter brought before 1 school forl this year arid some gwillimbury trustee joy the whole board costly optional courses such as it was then that mrsf flight training payers detailing some of her concernsthe letter suggested a number of areas where the horton feels that she was un- fairly singled out by fellow trustee don sim on a point of personal privilege last week v mrs horton said that she herself 1 had never indulged in personal attack and her statements to the press came only after she was thwarted in attempts to have budget issues brought out into public she said that a letter to the chairmans committee to have her concerns put on the public schools board agenda was ignored a confidential letter to theother trustees still failed to 4 regidri lowers limit v to 25 mph on9tk muss lake regional council mast week approved lowering the speed limit on the 9th line in the musselmanv lake area to 25 mph i w the action came when council considered a clause in the engineering committee reportathe report favored the lower speed limit but recommended that the section of the road be returned to the townof whitchurch- stouffville- si yt mayor gordon ratcliff told regional council that the road should remain under regional jurisdiction as most of the traffic is from outsidethe area w it should belongtomhe region the mayor said that recommendation was deleted and the lower limit was approved- the new speed limit applies to the 9th line from 500 feet south of f hillsdale rd to 450 feet north of cedarvale blvd the rest of the 9th line north to the aurora rd- will have a ppeed limit of 35 imph v rvwx boards budget of 691 million could be cut those cuts included staff cuts by attrition arid a hiring freeze cutting programs or options putting bureaucratic middlemen many of whom are qualified teachers back into the classrooms eliminate at least for the time being smorgasbord courses in the high schools cut out summer rinan interview- with the tribune 5 mrs j horton istated that all i wanted was public rp fnr hov hiihtrnf mif- exposure for her- budget cut- tin proposals i action last week the- board instructed its staff to consider cuttings 500000 from tthe budget trustees were asked tc submit possible areas that should be cut v in a front page story in last weeks tribune exerpts were published of a written statement by mr- sim in whichhe stated s mrshortphhad failed to state specific areas the board r budget can be cut s i t- k i he suggested that the school board budget was notcuttable beyond the 500000 cuts ordered ne last week mr sim also accused mrs horton of not having her facts straight and of bringing her concerns to the press before bringing them cbefore her colleagues on the board n mrs horton maintains that trustees refused to listen to her concerns and that her only alternative was to present her case directly to the taxpayers ob gravel rriiningiimiis nvbdmnr u 5 jnxuxbridge i uxbridge ivthe impact of sand and gravel mining is not given due consideration in durham regions study paper inthe view of councillor eleanor todd the goodwood councillor commenting in a letter to the region on the study plan for the regional official plan saidsheis t worried the plan would allow sand and gravel to be mined indiscriminately in prime ex- tractive areas township rj ig f one problem she foresees is that lack of adequate roads for transporting the gravel on the f source to constructiorisitesitr she said that since durham has an adequate aggregate supply provided forjn its official 4 plan arid bylaws that there is no reason whyeravel extraction overseco by don bernard york region f planner maxshermari and whitchurch stouffville council received what amounts to a slap s the wrist last week when york regional council approved a- j recommendation from planning committee i- in the report regional staff complained about local municipalities preparing secondary plans for hamlet areas without prior reference and discussion with regional planning departmentstaff j included as i an appendix was a clipping from feb26 issue vof the tribunev which described c the- contents of secondary plan recently com- dieted by planning consultant max sherman mr sherman who operates macroplan ltd was hired last year after the area services branch of the region had failed to provide fast enough service the area services branch was later disbanded v mr sherman had been an employee of the region and had worked with whitchurch- stouffville council on a number of studies before resigning i in 1974when the town withdrew from area services mr sher man was hired as the planner trsincethat time a number of reports i have been i presented j l the secondary plan for the ballantrae musselmans lake area however is the first major report the s document v was presented to a public meeting feb 26 and will be discussed further at the planning board level r mayor- gordon ratcliff stressed in an interview with the f tribune an full wellwhat we were doing in areas of concern involved mayor ratcliff told the vi suclothings as studies dealing tr tha the regional with urban growth- en- -v- ii rvironmentallysensitiveareas planning departmentknew recreational considerations r recommends that york regions chairman garfield wright write to the regionaliareamunicipalitiesiiwhenhe interview wim tgmg them to liase closely with v was makingiupthesecondary fftss regional planning department f plan for thatareawasxinv mat swfatanearlystagerinthe with preparation vof secondary 1 ii- it gordon ratcliff probtenilvcould ta imvinrdimussidnstaee at anearlystagermewnstantcommurtcatipnl is just in theaiscussion stage the regionithemayorsaidi the mainshltedtiuitrthvf mam vnnlhvhnvavhppnt v- theregional- committee recommendation charged that in many cases secondary plans are being prepared independent of- anyv regional input and withoutregard to any policies establishedby the regional council plans mayorv viwiuuu r queriedregiorialscouncilasto cleared up with aphone call- why whitchurch- stouffville had withoutbringirigiarecom- been singled ut forattehtion mendatloriforwardvfromithe mrpoundsaidthatthetribune article was included aexam- specifically singles wout pie whitchurchftwffle2r j- iw i l x j j t i a i r 3r v vo