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baby made ill families told not to drink water ballantrae two families here have been advised by the ministry of the en vironment not to drink the water from their wells derrick smith a ministry official involved with the case said it is unknown whether the well contamination is a natural problem or a manmade problem but he expressed confidence the york sanitation dump on highway 48 is not responsible he said the dump is located a mile and a half from the wells involved and according to reports the groundwater flow from the dump is in the opposite direction to ballantrae other reasons he gave were that any contaminants would have been diluted by the time they got that far off the dump site and there would have been some indication from the dumps monitoring wells sharon powell learned of the water pollution when her young baby became ill with diarrhea and was hospitalized for 10 days she said the babys condition stabilized when she was in hospital but after returning home became sick again v a specialist suggested they have their water tested and the family called in the york region health unit the iwater was tested in march and again in june three weeks ago the powell family and randy and joyce huskisson the vol 8 no 20 whitchurch stouffville september 23 1976 20 cents 16 pages neighbours immediately to the north were warned not to drink their water the powells were advised not to feed the water to their baby after the tests came back from the march analysis mr smith said in about a month the ministry will un dertake a survey of the wells in the area in an effort to deter mine the source of the pollution the survey will not be un derway for that length of time mr smith said- because the ministrys manpower isalloted in other areas a total of six wells in the area have been tested and ac cording to mr smith the well to the south of powells owned by gord giasson is similar but doesnt have the concentration of contaminants of the con demned wells mr smith said the water from this well is still drinkable he told the tribune that salt sodium chloride in the water is the biggest problem water tests by the health- unit indicate an amount of see unpotable page 9 town plans joint effort in going to ombudsman stouffville the town will approach the ontario ombudsman jointly with the preserve our water resources group on the subject of the high way 48 york sanitation dump following a 43 vote tuesday night j also last week mayor gordon ratcliff sent a letter to mpp william hodgson requesting he set up a meeting with the minister of the en- vironment concerning the dump councillor eldred king said he didnt disagree with a citizens group going to the ombudsman about the dump he said however he felt council should first meet with the see will page 9 library bids over budget back to drawing board stouffville library board members received an ugly shock monday evening when tenders for the new library were opened and the lowest bid submitted came in 123000 over budget council had promised 250000 to build the 7000 square foot structure which is to be stouffvilles centennial project architects fee is 10 per cent leaving 225000 for the actual construction the lowest bid submitted by janin building was for 358000 before tenders were opened the board had been hoping the cost of the 7000 foot building would come in low and there would be enough money left over to add an extra 3000 square feet earlier it had been predicted that 19 plus bids would be received and there was speculation that fierce com petition would drive the price down jonly seven bids were received and the highest of these was from sandgate construction for 428000 library board will meet tonight thursday with the architect to discuss ways of cutting the costs the cost of lighting can- be reduced by 30000 according to head librarian terry verity lighting fixtures were supposed to be available at canadian prices which are considerably lower but at the time the con tractors were estimating the job the fixtures were still only listed at american prices a second cost overrun of about 20000 turned up when it was discovered a portion of the soil underlying theiibrary site irenes good night coffee house opens markham friday and saturday evenings are the k opening nightsfor a coffee hpuse t to be located attfie home of irene turpin south of- dickson op finished held meetings for residents stouffville the official plan for whitchurch- touffville is now completed and public meetings have been scheduled for october monday oct 18 a meeting will be held at latcham hall in stouffville a ballantrae meeting is set for wednesday oct 20 and vandorf residents will be heard thursday oct 21 hill public school on highway 48 irenes good jghtwill was not part of the natural formation but had been built up with fill as the fill is not compacted enough to support the library it necessitated designing for pylons to be driven into the ground to support the weight of the building mayor gordon ratcliff said he would favour a softening of councils original stand that no more money would be forth coming from the town i would not like to see all the money placed in the building and leave nothing left for fur nishings he said he told the tribune he would like to see council ap prove an additional 1520000 if it proves necessary he said he could see little benefit in going from brickas is now planned to cement block or steel siding for the sake of only a few thousand dollars mr ratcliff who is also a member of the library board said the figures dont add up the estimates for the ad- ditional 3000 square feet are especially puzzling janin building the low bidder sub- mitted a price of 160000 which feriirigeys stl mark schoolsjunior kindergarten bears little resemblance from left maura kirby hillary chen julia sorichetti kevin from the stouffville area and around toronto susantcogan who was featured at last years winter nights concert series at lat cham hall is one of the per formers slated to perform for the opening nights a notice posted in stouffville also lists edgar herrell and jerome jarvis as performers mrs cogan told the tribune a lot of other artists will be on hand to play admission is 175 for adults and 1 for those under 16 and over 60 years of age mrs turpin former owner of reliable taxi guarantees good coffee will be served fon4just four j walls yet the price -for- the main building which includes installation of all services isonfy 51 per square foot the building would have to be built at 32 asquare foot to erect a 7000 foot library for the amount of money granted by council mduonmimlingea picketing airport cdti pickering v ottawa may be holding back on efforts to alleviate- congestion at old games return t o mar idiamf aii markham spectators and participants alike should enjoy the toronto internationalairport in order r to create the need for pickering airport a confidential provincial transport ministry memo states h johnstonexecutive director of the ministry of transportation and communications planning division is dated june 11 and was to the presslast week v tribunes t6 museum i bogarttown copies of the tribune most dating from before the turn of the century that were sold recently by auction have not been lost to the community the papers were sold at the auction of the property of merv and eleanor bunker who were expropriated out of their altona home jean barkey and wes brillinger purchased 43 jf newspapers for the whitchurch- stbuffville museum at the auction v the lot included seven copies of the stouffville pilot and 36 tribunes the oldest paper was from 1888 and the newest from 1904 according to mr brillinger who is chairman of the museum board outstanding articles will be reprintedfrom the papers and sold to museum patrons the papers sold for an average of 17 each totalling just over700 v develop any facility- which will help to relieve the pressures at- malton according to the memo a third terminal at maltoh is necessary and a site for it already chosen- but when mr devitt suggestedvthe idea to canadian airttransportation administration director william huckhe was told tbfprgetit mrs johnstonalsb says that revival bfoldtime contestsscheduledfbr the markhani faivnexf r godfrey mpp vsomeofmrdevitts comments week v fordurham westand chairman about the airport are valuable along with such perennial favourites as the beautiful- baby p f e onessuch las the statement that contest there will be a rubber boot throwing contest a rocking chair memo substantiates what i a second airport may ihe competition for senior citizensa log sawing contest spellmgbee a1 dong necwsa my the future r t j ui- t iriiitu the memo cites opinions by aithqughnot a hugh deyitt a former manager major international one for youngsters and an eggthrowing cbmpetitionfor- couples the latter should prove especially interesting as the distance increased for each toss catching a raw egg from fifty feet could prove amessy business ii in a more modern vein there willbe hulahoop and yb-yojcon- tests a pony party sheep dog trialsand greyhound racingand a horse pulling- competition the fair runs sept 30 to oct 3 i at torontolnternational airport v retired vjune i 30 in suggesting thata closed mind attitude exists which is- ob- rviously part of a master plan to about the leaking of the document to the press mr johnstone said that obviously- it will be interpreted- as something which represents the official position of the ministry and it is far from that it is just recording some comments that made during the course of a conversation dr godfrey has suggested that if malton was used to its fullest capacity that it could handle the volume of air traffic until 1985 or 1990 l hesays that he feels the w money being proposed for the airport in pickering couli be better on ground tran sportation li- y i bill ramps declares stouffville william mr kamps said he didnt barn gutted shortly after cattle moved victoria square a barn worth 40000 was destroyed by fixe saturday at a farm owned by gerhard schickedanz as firemen 5 were on the scene from 1245 am to 630 pm dousing the blaze the farm is located about v mile south of victoria square on concession 4 j the fire call was turned in by the wife of a farm manager and five rigs from markham and uniohville and a tank truck from stouffville attended the scene without a fouracre pond at the farm that was nearly drained by the firemen chief smith said that the damage could have been greater than 1000000 the day before the are iso beef cattle had been moved out of the barn a candidate for mayor bfv i think the councils doing whitchurchtbuffville well he addedbu i think we vvi haveno axe to grind should have a bigger voiceatthe green belt between markham ahdusrmfor controlled growth mr kamps now serves as a member of the committee of adjustment and was a planning board member for three years two of- which 4 served as chairman- he points out that- while he was on planning board the asyet unrealized dulverton subdivision was first approved im also for better sports facilities than what we have right now the means of get ting the facilities he said would be through self help and by grants we r havent received because we havent asked for it former gravel pit resident of stouffville for j6 years he is the father of six children and is a- pharr maceutical representative by occupation it was not your average groundbreaking ceremony sunday at the sodtnrning for the new markham fairgrounds on concession 7 andisth a venuemarkham participants all palled on long ropes attached to a ploughwhich broke the earth symbolozing that the markham fair- requires everyone- polling togetheras falr president harveybrown pujjtjcaiding the ploagh for the ceremony were mayor tony roman- federal agricultural representative ken charles and mr brown- 4 vii f ifr9 may be subdivision r i stoujffville a gravel pit may be proposed as a site for a subdivision council was in- formed lastweekjv a- lettervfroma b earl mwstiyresoorce district pfbloomingtbn rbadin con- cession 8- is now being con- sidered as a potential sub division woman acquitted on theft charges toronto lynn downey formerly- of stouffville and now of willowdale was last friday acquitted in county court of theft charges cr judge rodgers ordered ah acquittal when the crown attorney chose not to call evidence charges were laid in the spring of 1975 after the stouffville law firm vof william g- parsons reported t alleged shortfall of about 1000 in a trust fund ni the tribune wishes to apologize to mrs- downey for the tone taken in the original story about the charges which appeared in the paperatthai time this report caused her unnecessary additional anxiety v v