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mayoralty candidates present the issues stouffville while development in whitchurch- stouff wile can not be allowed to go forward helterskelter planning board cannot afford to become negative about every subdivision that comes in in the view of mayoralty candidate cathy joice she said she fears if more and more developers go to the ontario municipal board saying they cannot get anywhere with local councils then more planning control will be taken over by the region and the province jfowever mrs joice said the population in the rural areas must be spread out and not clustered and that hard ser vices should never be im plemented anywhere outside the village of stouffville in an interview with the tribune on friday mrs joice discussed a variety of other issues in the upcoming cam paign as well she will face incumbent mayor gordon ratcliff in the polling on december 6 when asked what effect the new official plan would have on planning mrs joice said it is a fairly restrictive document and weu probably be continuously amending it to coincide with what wed like to see done she said that none of the planning board members were trying to put forth a negative document but one we can work with but its very difficult to know if youve said it the right way one thing she is pleased with in the plan she said is that the oak ridges moraine was outlined in a very definite way mrs joice has some definite ideas as to the role the public should play in coming before planning board there should be par ticipation by the public often they make very good points but council has to be the final body for making decisions and cant be ruled by a mass group we have to be positive enough to feel that what we do is good for the community mrs joice believes that some protesters of housing see regions page 9 cathy joice gordon ratcliff stouffville i would i like to contribute my services for another two years said mayor gordon ratcliff in an nouncing he will run for mayor again mr ratcliff who has served two terms as mayor told the tribune he feels be has been reasonably successful he has been involved in municipal government for the past seven years including one year with the old whit church township council the dulverton subdivision be said is the only ma jor growth foreseen in the municipality plus moderate growth in vandorf the expansion of the sewage treatment plant will allow for more prestige in dustry he anticipates the mayor feels the major issue confronting council is the current power struggle with the region i think the region has too much power but they were established by the provincial government and theyll have to amend it he said it wasnt the municipalitys wish that this power be granted to the region there has been criticism of his performance at the region- he admitted but he maintains i believe i have been a strong representative at the region perhaps i am not as vocal as some but this municipality has received its fair share of representation in response to the complaint that he is too reticent about expressing his views at the region mr ratcliff replied well theres a time to express your views and a time to listen my attitude i believe has been for the best of the municipality if they want to get sombody to shout and pound the table they will have to get somebody else thats not my way he said he doubts the day will ever come when the town gets everything it wants from the region i will press for the upgrading of some of the regional roads said the mayor specifying particularly the 5th 6th 7th and 9th concessions mr ratcliff said he is op posed to the regions policy of see issues page 9 municipal election slate will be much the same as last time stouffville almost all the current municipal representatives have indicated they will be candidates in the december 6 elections ward 3 councillor merlyn baker is the only member who wont stand for election ward 3 councillor cathy joice will oppose incumbent mayor gordon ratcliff for the top office mr ratcliff an nounced this week he will stand for a third term as mayor mr ratcliff was acclaimed for both estate subdivision proposal deferred stouffville a sub division with 38 lots averaging three acres each was proposed to planning board last week to be located on concession 6 on the north side of the aurora road the board deferred com ment on the application until nov 2 the first board meeting following public meetings on the official plan draft speaking for balhalla holdingsltddonald-hindsoh- told the board that the development hopefully would eventually include part of a gravel pit of about 80 83 acres currently operating there the first phase of the development would take place on about 130 acres plus 2223 acres of private open space mr hindson told the board the land consists of blow sand covered with pine trees planner john williams appeared before the board with initial plans for the site previous terms he served as mayor school board trustee harry bowes will again be available for that position and all the other ward representatives art starr ward 1 becky wedley ward 2 june button ward 5 and eldred kong ward 6are all runnuig mr king now lives in ward 3 currently represented by retiring mr baker mr king has not yet announced which ward he will run in stouffville resident bill kamps will contest the seat now held by mrs joice at present the mayoral position is the only one officially being contested um vol 89 no 23 whitchurch stouffville october 14 1976 20 cents 16 pages late rev davis said if i had 1000 lives to live id live everv one as a minister official plan meetings for public next week stouffville public meetings on the long awaited draft of the amalgamated whitchurch stouffville official plan will be held throughout the community next week monday oct 18 the first meeting will be held at latcham hall a ballantrae meeting will be held wednesday oct 20 and the third meeting is scheduled for thursday oct 21 at vandorf community centre all meetings will start at 8 p m abbreviated copies of the official plan will be available free at the municipal offices in stouffville regional development strategy causes concern at town council stouffville mem bers of council expressed concern last week over the regional planning document a recommended strategy for urban development for south central york v the document suggests a population growth figure of 100000 for the rural parts of the region to the year 2000 and also suggests that property taxes be regionalized ward 4 councillor cathy joice handed out a statement to council saying the 100000 population to be allocated to the rural area is rather frightening inasmuch as it is suggesting that the green belt areas in betweli v the major centres will also be counted into this total figure she said that should the green belts become filled in with population very little of the overall figure would be left for rural municipalities while whitchurchstouffville may not ever require a great percentage of the population allocation she said we may want some book ban is rejected york cty york county board of education tuesday night voted against banning catcher in the rye by j d salinger and the ap prenticeship of duddy kravitz by mordecai richler only three trustees voted in favour of discontinuing the books which have been on the high school curriculum since 1970 the program committee f had recommended the books be removed on the grounds they employ blasphemous or ob- scene language previously the board had adopted a policy of offering an alternate book if a student or parent felt a selection on the study list was objectionable ward 6 councillor eldred king said the document should spell out how much growth is to go where in the rural areas i mayor gordon ratcliff spoke against a regional plan for servicing contained in the document saying that whit- churchstouffville can maintain its own services more reasonably by itself than can the larger municipalities the council voted to have the mayor and planning chairman prepare a document to comment on the proposed regional strategy mrs joice in her statement said that while the regional document says that growth in the green belt areas must be controlled it does not say how she said that the strategy gives more clout to the region and to the southern serviced municipalities all of which already have more represen tation at region and therefore more power in the view of mr ratcliff some of the powers at the region should be send back to the municipalities stouffville few ministers in the area have been better known than rev douglas davis of warriner ave who from 19411961 was pastor of the stouffville unitedchurch monday at scarborough centenary hospital rev davis passed away he was in his 86th year mr davis had a long career asajninister from thejimehe began preaching in 1912 through a variety of posts around the province even in retirement mr davis often preached in area churches in a synopsis of his life written in 1965 mr davis said if i had 1000 lives to live id live every one as a minister of the church born at portsmouth england in 1891 mr davis sailed for canada in 1907 and spent seven years farming in the boltoncastlederg area mr davis first preached on the palgrave circuit and in 1914 was recommended for the ministry after attending albert college mr davis was sent to ardbeg near parry sound a fivepoint charge that required cycling and walking 20 miles through the bush each sunday at his next post at dun- church in i9n6 he graduated to a horse and buggy and four preaching points each sunday services took place in a school house and in lumber mills in june 118 mr davis was ordained a minister in the methodist church and in the same year on june 25 he married macil boyce of palgrave a word that appears often in the synopsis of his ministry written by mr davis is hap py he called his time at smooth rock falls near cochrane six happy years in a hole in the bush while his time at king city which began in 1930 he called 11 very happy years mr davis became director of camp ahsunyoong on addition to fertilizer rptont is requested for nonconforming usage georgina island in 1932 a post he held for 23 years soon after coming to stouffville in 1941 the familys second son george alvin was killed overseas while a pilot in the royal canadian air force the event according to mr davis cemented a friendship uxbridge b about to shoot the first goal in the opening game of junior c action bnt the stouff ville clippers potted one in a few minute later to stouffville although the united cooperative fer tilizer plant on concession 6 in cedar valley is a non conforming use the coop would like to expand the facilities there planning board was told last week the current owner of the property john bosworth ap peared before the board to request that the coop who would like to purchase the land be permitted to build one 200 by 600 foot building rather than the two 60 by 100 foot buildings now existing there solicitor j lachlan cat- tanach answered two v plaints by some nearby residents about the plant that dust is being created by the operation and that the truck traffic on nearby roads has increased as a result he told the board that loading and unloading in the new facilities would be enclosed to eliminate dust and that the truck traffic now is less than it was under the previous leasee fertilizer is unloaded from trains at the plant and taken by truck to both coop outlets and to farms councillor becky wedley said that there have been complaints that truck traffic has increased since a year and a half ago and that some people have wondered if fish dying in a nearby lake might be due to the operation legal action is threatened stouffville preserve our water resources powr the local group that has un successfully fought the ex pansion of the york sanitation dump recently issued a warning to the ministry of the en vironment they informed the ministry they are having the case documented by legal counsel and will sue the members of the ministry responsible if pollution mass contamination deformity or death occur as a result of this cancerous mound r following a year long en- tjsyftt z5t3 vironmental hearing the t 1 5y1ailpfeg3 ministry allowed the dump to even the score the ken may clippers won the expand and continue- in fastpaced game handily with a final tally of 52 operation for an additional five aanegretlamnre years t mr cattanach said the operation is nontoxic and odor free and that under the proposed new facilities outside storage would be eliminated it was denied that the dying fish are caused by the plant mr bosworth said that complaints by nearby residents have all been by johnny-cpme- latelies and that he has never been approached directly about a problem with the operation mrs wedley asked if the plant would not be better located in an industrial area but mr cattanach said that a railroad siding is necessary as well as a location that is suited to serving the agricultural area there is a siding in van- dorf too said mrs wedley she said she didnt think she could support the proposed expansion mr cattanach argued that the plans are such that they would improve the appearance and environment of the existing property it would all be of benefit to the existing situation he said that the current maximum daily traffic at the plant which is for part of the year only is 2025 trucks he said that by contrast the previous leasee cil had a traffic flow of 35 trucks daily the solicitor also said that no appreciable noise would be created by the operation there is no working after dark and that the applicant would create a planting strip for screening of 15foot or greater trees planning board chairman eldred king remarked that the problem of having the plant located on a nonconforming use is that the municipality has no direct controls at present he said the town would have to rely on the provincial ministry of the environment for protection solicitor for the coop bowden mclean was also present last- week he told planning board that the coop as a farmerowned organization wants to be good corporate citizens he said they have yet to have any formal complaints about an existing operation such as that one councillor cathy joice said we can only wait for the for mal application to come in at which time any opposed to the expansion will have the op- portunity to object k j in this community that can never be forgotten at the time of his writing the synopsis in 1965 mr davis said he had baptized almost 1000 married 325 couples and con- t ductedbout 600 funerals besides his wife mr davis is survived by five sons ken- neth g of toronto bruce cecil of maple douglas norman of cardiff donald sinclair of georgetown and john wesley of burlington and two daughters floral emily mrs william young of brampton and lillian macil mrs russell prouse of brampton the funeral service will be held today 2 pm at stouffvile united church with interment following in stouffville cemetery gas bar employee gone with the eash stouffville an empoyeeof the canadian tire gas bar main st west allegedly disappeared with 504394 in cash last week according to york regional police the gas bar manager contacted the bank of com merce oct 5 to learn that the cash receipts for sept 30 and oct 1 had not been deposited the receipts wereto be deposited daily at 4 pm by an employee of the gas barfh fe attempts ito3 contact the suspecta woman aged 24 have beerisiunsuccersful and a i warrant has been issued