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j latf stouffville council has requested a meeting on may 12 with ministry of the environ ment director of approvals d p caplice to discuss the results of well tests in the area of the dump the meeting was requested following receipt of a letter from mr caplice saving the water samples will have been analyzed by april 30 i think that will be the time to discuss the environmental hearing boards recom mendations with regard to the dump commented mayor gordon ratcliff adding there is no use in procrastinating any longer 0 council were told to contact paul isles of the central region to arrange the meeting arid this provoked an- angry outburst from councillor merlyn baker i have no faith in any meeting with mr- isles and possibly anyone connected with the waste management branch said mr baker he accused the ministry of being in collusion with the york sanitation dump owners council also received- a letter from the york region commissioner of engineering who seems to be taking a belated interest in the matter according to the letter the regional staff have learned that the town has requested the ministry of the environment to test local water for chemical contamination and the letter states as you are aware the regional municipality of york is responsible for the water supply to the town and therefore we would appreciate further details on this request from the council of the town of whitchurch stouffville v i council voted to send that information to the region council had asked the region to participate in the hearings on the dump site but the engineering committee had declined wht vol 68 no 50 whitchurch stouffville april 22 1976 20 cents 16 pages funds cut off excavation at airport indian dig sites it took two years of work in his spare time for pete van der henne of dickson- hill to build this exact replica of a dutch windmill the design is of a grain mill used in milling flour the structure i i is over eight feet high and the arms of the blades measure seven feet from end to end here rebekah bernard is dwarfed by the large wind mill painted in the authentic color scheme the windmill sits on in the backyard of the van der henne home facing highway 48 don bernard by don bernard pickering federal money to excavate twoindian villages on the pickering airport site will no longer be available after the end of this month the tribune learned this week according to a reliable source the funding stops on april 30 that is the date the one- year contract ends the draper site one of the most significant indian village finds in ontario 88 eviction notices 1 babys cry saves house on airport property pickering the 88 for their properties which were airport property residents who expropriated ai toldtopay up back rent and sign leases or be evicted in i itwoweeks recourse- except to go to the courts in the iyiew of people or planes chair- jnan charles godfrey g the 88 people are in dispute avith the federal government over the amount of money they should receive for compensation farmer says piell poison i stray dogs stouffville anonymous caller an to the tribune said he was going to start poisoning loose dogs that come on to his property f the man who would identify himself only as a farm- ler who lives not far from stouffville said he is getting sick of peoples dogs running all v country i the man added that some of his neighbors have five dogs and dont even tie them up many of the dogs are unlicensed he said furthermore he said the towns not doing anything about it when contacted mayor gordon ratcliff said he wished he knew where the farm is so that the dog patrol could be contacted to pick up strays in the area the dog licensing officer would also be sent in if they knew where the problem was he said there cant tea mass demonstration oversomething like this dr godfrey told the tribune what people have to do is to get the lawyers going again william newman mpp for durham- york the riding where most of the 18000 acre federal site resides sent a telex message to federal transport minister otto lang asking them to sign leases or vacate if these people havent paid rent there has got tobe a reason he said i want to know whats going on dr godfrey said some of the homeowners have received absolutely no money from the government for their homes and therefore are in no financial position to pay back rent others he said are in the midst of negotiations con cerning leases the notices in effect contravene the provincial landlords act by being two- weeks rather than 30day notices he added muss lake a crying baby probably prevented the destruction of a musselmans lake cottage early monday morning bob archibald of balsam rd was awakened about 230 am by the crying infant when he arose he noticed smoke coming from a neighboring cottage and he called in the alarm stouffville firefighters contained the blaze in one bedroom however other parts of the ccttagesuf f ered extensive smoke and water damage the cottage was unoccupied firemen attended for over three hours and the white site can not be excavated without the federal money about half the village on the draper site has been unearthed another year would see com- pletion of the major ar- cheological work the tribune was told the outline of the palisade on the white scene was completed last year another season would complete most of the work about 55 university students were employed last summer on the airport property at that time they were frantically trying to excavate the draper site to make way for a drainage ditch for the airport just after the airport was cancelled- the importance of the find was revealed to the public and the press the work last year was funded by a grant of about i from the federal ministry of transport- to ex- ijcavate the draper site work at thvwhite site was carried on by a grant directly from the national museum of man j- if no money is found then the work will ailbut cease at the two sites included in the 1976 proposal was a survey con ducted by the museum of man to determine if any other ar- cheologically important sites exist in the airport lands instead of providing the money out of mot revenue as happened last year that department requested the money above its estimates the request was turned down the matter will be raised this week at both the federal and provincial levels durham west mpp charles godfrey will raise the matter in the ontario legislature and gordon fair- weather will bring it up in the house of commons in ottawa licence granted for olympia park owner sdssphysed teacher stouffville yes jim rehill is going to oregon next year mr rehill a lontime phys ed teacher and coach at stouffville- dist secondary school has been granted a one- year sabbatical byyork county board of education the leave of absence was in doubfuntil the april 12 decision by the board when mr rehill was one of two teachers in the region granted a sabbatical i mr rehill told thetribune he is free to use the year as i council to ask tatoa for lake bus service stouffville council will petition the head of the toronto area transit operating authority tatoa to provide commuter bus service to the musselmans lake area the decision came following publication of the results of a survey conducted in the lake area which indicated 42 people would use the service on a daily basis and as many again would do so on an irregular basis mayor gordon ratcliff suggested one of the buses coming from uxbridge could easily be routed through musselmans lake y tatoa chairman- a t mcnab will receive a letter and another copy will be forwarded to the york- regional representative garfield wright wish but he has definite work cut out for himself his plans are to come up with a course of study for the province in the area of aging in oregon he will examine a k12 program instituted in the town of dallas in which children arc taught about and have ex perience with the elderly he will also be talking with and interviewing people in the field of gef ontofgy askings what they would do to im plement a course of gerontology in the public school system mr rehill also plans to travel to berkley california where a variety of techniques are being implemented to keep older people physically active his work will be through the ontario advisory council on aging a government agency the rehills will be leaving stouffville for the west in mid- july and intend to camp in a trailer along the way jim rehill stouffville council last week agreed to issue an operators licence to olympia park for a oneyear period park manager john buga was told the licence was granted on a performance basis andthat if council is not satisfied with the way the park is operated this year then he will hot be given a licence next year to get his licence mr buga has to promise in writing to keep motorcycles off the front slope of the hill on the farm and to prohibit motorcycles with over 400 cubic centimetre engines from using the property l mr buga who had a big fight with council lastyear when they refused to give him a permit for a mdtocross com petition apoligized to council for his behaviour then before storming out of the council chamber last year mr buga had threatened to sue the mayor and council he promised to keep bikes off the front of the farm and said if the members of the private cycling club dont agree to that condition he will close the club down a decidingfactof in coun- cils renewal of thelicehce was thatmrobugahad gone around to his neighbors and the majority of them had signed statements saying they are not opposed to his continuing the park there man drowns near tweed vivian an r r 3 stouffville man was drowned good friday when his canoe overturned in a river not far from tweed ontario peder christensen 36 was canoeing in the 1 skootamatta river when thecraft capsized and he was drowned the mishap took place about j miles north of belleville guilty pled in lake spree york region two musselmans lake youths who appeared in court last week pleaded guilty to a total of 11 charges each involving break entry and theft theft over theft under and mischief carl edgar bishop and george- e doolittle were remanded in custody pending sentence april 30 judge cp opper requested a presentence report the court was told the youths had broken into homes on oconnor dr windsor dr and cedar vale blvd in the musselmans lake area and had stolen bed linens food liquor dishes clothing radios and three car batteries doolittle was also charged and pleaded guilty to thetheft of a car from a musselmans lake man counsel for the two accused youths described the offences as a three week spree he told the court the two had each been thrown out of their homes by their parents and had lived in a car until it was repossessed they then took shelter in a barn and began to furnish themselves with stolen articles they do not have parents or friends they can turn to counsel told the court of the two he added that if the two of fenders had been able to have a different family life they- might not be in so much trouble- s they certainly r have records now judge opper told counsel adding they could get life imprisonment two arrested after high speed chase through town stouffville a high speed chase through the village of stouffville last tuesday afternoon resulted in the apprehension and arrest of two toronto men wanted for robbery with violence j the incident began in oshawa when a man entered a drug store shoved a salesgirl to one side and grabbed an oz bottle of cough medicine valued at- 10000 from the shelf an attempt by the manager and two em- ployees to stop the man was unsuccessful he fled outside and hopped into a waiting j the car driven by an accomplice was heading south on simcoe st when it was picked up by a durham- region police cruiser an swering a call to investigate the robbery ythe car refused to stop and police gave chase the ontario provincial police became y- i 3 involved when the car fled along highway 401 at high speeds during the chase a durham region cruiser was struck by the get away car causing slight damage to the vehicle the car turned north at highway 48 and york regional police attempted to intercept the car nearringwood the vehicle turned east along main st- and then headed north up the 9th before heading west on blobmington rd the robbers were chased over to the 6th cone where they again headed north the car was finally stopped at the vandorf sideroad and the 6th cone charged with robbery possession of stolen goods valued under 200 car theft and dangerous driving arc robert digiovanni 22 and mario donofrio 23 both of toronto 2 this gorgeous angora rabbit visited the pioneer girls of heise hill church jnst before easter admiring his foixy looks are left to right valerie baker christine gee donna vanderbant rita van wy i