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w the tribune thursday september 8 197j wins assessment reduction stouffville the combination of trough research and a well thought out presentation earned a stouffville citizen a reduction in his property tax assessment recently john lorrimer who lives in the baycrest subdivision appeared before judge joseph cornish at a special hearing held at latcham hall recently and argued that his assessment was too high hr lorrimer ex plained that he had compared his assessment to that of similar bouses in other areas of town and found that he was paying far more according to mr lorrimers calculations the average assessment on a stouffville house works out to ap proximately 36 per cent of the current market value however he maintained that his assessment worked out to 41 per cent of market value mr lorrimer cited numerous examples to prove that houses in the baycrest subdivision were assessed quite a bit higher than similar buildings in the pon- derosa subdivision john james the 1 assessment manager for york region admitted that the ratio was not always uniform but said that his department though trying to maintain an equilateral rate would probably never be able to even things out he said the market value versus assessment ratio was not always uniform because various factors which might bear no relation ship to the assessment value affect real estate prices the market is not scientific identical properties can sell for different prices ex plained mr james however judge cornish took a dim view of the discrepancy and granted mr lorrimer a 1000 reduction in his assessment he also expressed admiration for the way mr lorrimer had handled his case and complimented him on his fine presentation mr lorrimer also appeared on behalf of joan mccool another gormley news baycrest resident and won her a 500 reduction in assessment the reductions in actual tax dollars are small approximately 40 for the lorrimer property and 20 for the mccool house but mr lorrimer felt the effort had been worthwhile its better than nothing he remarked and then added they say its hard to fight city hall but we proved that its possible doners host hayride arid corn roast mr and mrs bruce karel of kingston and their four sons were weekend guests of mr and mrs albert yake mr and mrs john by evelyn milsted congratulations to mr and mrs stan dorie nee nancy doner youngest daughter of mr and mrs harold doner doner entertained over who were married in one hundred of their winnipeg manitoba on neighbours and em- august 27 ployees with their former shopkeeper anne raxlin dead toronto ann raxlin who for many years ran raxlin furniture store on main st in stouffville with her husband benjamin died sunday september 4 mrs raxlin who died as a result of a stroke suffered the previous friday was pre deceased several years ago by her husband bennie the couple were wellknown in town and ran the store were stedmans is now located funeral services were conducted mon day mrs raxlin is survived by two sons irwin of toronto and louis of canton ohio and four grandchildren she is reported to have been in good health until her stroke families at a hayride corn and weiner roast at their home on tuesday night four hundred cobs of corn were cooked in the big iron pot on the open bonfire and at least one boy got around more than 20 cobs mrs delbert baker spent two weeks with her sisterinlaw mrs era baker at white lake miss ferae doner holidayed for two weeks with friends in chicago miss murlene wilhelm of hamilton was a weekend guestofrrev and mrs cecil rosen- berger mrs norm brown has sold her home on woodbine ave and moved to testa villa in stouffville mrs brown has lived here for many years and will be missed by her neighbours we welcome mr and mrs murray stewart nee janet wideman who have moved into the home they purchased from mrs n brown mr doug elliott is spending some time with relatives in alberta miss laura rutledge commenced her third year at emmanuel bible college in kitchener this week mr john campey left on the weekend to enter his third year at queens university in kingston the missionary church will hold its an nual corn roast at 730 pm sept 9 on the church parking lot mr and mrs peter beintema and family were sunday dinner guests of mr and mrs roy brillinger the women of the missionary church are in charge of one of the coffee stands at the annual mennonite central com relief sale at pioneer village on sat sept 17 donations of baking preserves candy fresh vegetables handicrafts etcare given by many in our community the proceeds of this sale are used to help those in the underprivileged coun tries of the world the women of the heise hill church are very active in the beking tent and the quilt booth misses adeline and mary reaman assisted by heise hill women demonstrate the art of quilting throughout the day sympathy is ex tended to mr and mrs johan christiansen in the sudden death of her sister in germany mrs marie reaman has returned to her home in duarte california after spending four months with her nieces misses adeline and mary reaman after nearly 17 years as a helicnpter flying traffic reporter eddie luther ol stouffville is going back to a desk job ive had enough of getting up at 5 oclock every morning from monday to friday com mented eddie adding i cant go on flying that thing until im 90 he said the long hours 5 am until 6 pm were taking their toll and he found it difficult to stay up later than 10 pm he started as a traffic reporter with cfrb hut at that time didnt pilot the helicopter he later switched to cftr and the station paid for him to get his helicopter licence he was already licenced to flv an airplane eddie will now go hack to working as a newscaster and will join the ranks of those fighting the traffic on the ground he will continue to record his one hour program reminiscing hut the time will change from fl to 1 1 pm this show features good old tunes of the 1930s to 1950s his twice daily travel show will continue to he heard at 630 am and 130 pm his broadcasts are heard as well on chflfm kddie said he is looking for ward to a whole new life as a result of the change in his career the opportunity came up and i took it he concluded newcasting wont he a new experience for eddie as he was a newshroadcastcr long heforc he hecame a traffic reporter victoria square news pot luck lunchstarts things rolling by marion sandle the first meeting of the fall to start things off for the womans institute and the united church women will take the form for people with a taste for something muder among contemporary smokers mildness is the word what you are looking at is a new answer to that quest for mildness du maurier special mild its not the mildest cigarette you can smoke what we have produced is a cigarette with all the quality and style of du maurier only milder if you have a taste for something milder pick up our elegant silver pack today i available in king size and 100 mm 1 v ltvj warning health 2nd welfare canada advises that danger to health increases with amount smotedavoid inhaling to per cigarette 100 mm 15 mg tar 10 mg nicotine king size 13 mg tar 09 mg nicotine pf a pot luck luncheon to be held in the sunday school room on wed nesday september 28 at 1230 pm the guest speaker will be florence maclllvride of claremont who will give an illustrated account of her work in jamaica all ladies in the community are invited to attend please note change of date the annual auction and rummage sale of the victoria square district lionsclub will be held in the victoria square community hall on saturday september 17 the rummage sale is at 11 am auction sale at 1230 pm and the bake sale at 2 pm good used saleable articles are still required for this sale also home- baking for pick ups contact lions jack walker 884- 2882 dave beadle 773- 4190 don boynton 887- 5348 or any other lion member give them your support sunday church service is every sunday at 1130 am with the rev alfred day in charge everyone welcome when mr and mrs don boynton and girls were on holidays recently they called on former residents of our com munity mr and mrs terry besley and family at windsor birthday greetings to joy mortson september 9 kenneth petty sep tember 10 mrs l ashton september ll barry case september 12 carl and cathy vanderkooy september 12 v- susan hibbard has returned home after spending the past two years studying wild life in australia and the surrounding area as school commences this week we wish all the children who are beginning their school term for the first time every success also to those who are entering a higher grade s e a 1 1 endaiie e prevents evaluaiio ii of robarts report 4 newmarket despite the fact that some of its recom mendations would seriously affect the region there will be no official comment from york on the robarts report there wont be because hot enough regional councillors showed up at a specially- called meeting last week at which the report was to have been considered york has been given until- sept 15 to submit comment on the report conducted by former provincial premier john robarts into the structure of metropolitan torontos government a previous resolution of council had called for the meeting to proceed if five councillors were present but when six of the councillors together with regional chairman garfield wright showed up clerk bob vernon suggested that at least nine members representing five municipalities were legally required for the meeting to proceed councillors were split 33 on a decision to con tinue the meeting- expected to the lasted several hours unofficially and to have council ratify its findings at its sept 8 meeting the tie was broken by mr wright who voted to disband the meeting mr wright had previously warned the council that several of the robarts recom mendations would cause serious problems for york and had urged that a meeting be set up at which they could be considered among the recom mendations the concern to york is a suggestion that those parklands now controlled by con servation authorities- be turned over to the municipalities in which they are located for maintenance and operation the move would mean that those holdings in southern york now operated by the metro toronto and region conservation authority would be turned over to york v such a move would cost york thousands of dollars to maintain parkland mainly for use by toronto residents mr wright had earlier cautioned l official comment from york is no longer possible although in dividual councillors are free to forward comment to the province an option open to them in any case present at last wednesdays meeting were richmond hill mayor david schiller arid councillors lois hancey and louis wainwright aurora mayor george timpspn georgina councillor- eric larseri arid- whitchurch stouffville mayor gordon ratcliff petitions region saves m newmarket- margaret watts went out on a limb last month and it paid off the fifth concession resident petitioned the regions engineering department in august on behalf of a large sugar maple tree that was slated for destruction she won the treein excellent health at a height of 70 feet and girth of more than nine feetis located watts property that had been recently ex propriated for the reconstruction of the gormley sideroad concerned that the region might be con sidering removal of the tree the nature lover asked that york try to avoid damaging it she was given a 99 per cent gauranteeof its continued good health by regional engineering commissioner bob on a portion of mrs hodgson election date shuffle doesnt bother region newmarket regional council is nothing if not flexible earlier this summer council endorsed a resolution from the city of cambridge suggesting that the municipal election date be moved from the first monday in december to the third monday in october the compelling reason at that time was the bad weather that seems to prevent voters in many municipalities from exercising their franchise j then last month in a further consideration of the provinces proposed changes to the municipal election act the ad ministrative committee endorsed a change to the third monday in november finally regional council last week en dorsed a change of date to the second monday in november display of local art an exhibition of paintings by edna bentley of uxbridge is on display at the whitchurch stouffville public library from sept 1 to 15 a complete miniature landscape modelled in plasticene will also be shown there during the whole month of sep tember the work modelled by michael redqucst a sdss student shows a castle streams bridges and a complete town in meticulous detail and includes throngs of tiny people about the size of ants the next display of art will be an exhibition by george ford his work will be displayed for the balance of the month