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powr lawyer backed by town stouffville council has decided to back the powr preserve our water resour ces group in their bid to send a representative to the judicial inquiry being conducted by mr justice hughes the hearings are being held to investigate an alleged 35000 donation made by disposal services ltd to the ontario progressive con servative party in 1974 while the company was seeking approval for two landfill sites in maple disposal services is the us parent company of york sanitation which is operating a landfill site just south of ballantrae on highway 48 powr contends that the site is environmentally unsuitable since it is located on the oak ridges moraine and should never have been approved but evidence as to the merits of the site has been deemed inad- missable at the inquiry so far the inquiry would only hear direct evidence of political in fluence frances sainsbury president of powr feels that there is at least a chance that john swaigen the lawyer retained by the group may be granted a hearing and she requested that the town help out financially since the powr group has run out of money we cant keep knocking on the same doors explained mrs sainsbury in a voice choked with emotion she read out a long statement see letter page 5 explaining powrs position and ended with an impassioned plea for town backing we need to know that the town is behind us she said legal fees could be as little as 50 or as much as 2000 depending on whether mr swaigen a member of the xsi canadian environmental law association is admitted to the hearings if he is heard and later the case is lost it is possible although unlikely that powr may be assessed court costs which could total up to 2000 councillor becky wedley advocated backing powr all the way and setting no upper limit on costs but councillor eldred king disagreed you cannot just go out on a limb and sign an open cheque he said mr king brought a motion that council advance 200 but this was voted down as was the suggestion that the towns own lawyer paul mingay be sent the latter was deemed im- practical as mr mingay had no time to prepare and is not an expert on environmental law councillor jim doble subsequently brought a motion that a maximum of 1000 be set and this was approved when the mayor broke a tie vote in favour of the motion councillors bill kamps eldred king and june button voted against it rideathon this weekend stouffville it is still not too late to enter the card community association for riding for the disabled ride-a- thon to be held at vivian forest this sunday the 20 mile event which has already attracted over 300 riders is being held to raise funds for the organization riders have to have a minimum of 90 in pledges in order to be supplied with a horse by card but there is no limit if you bring your own horse anyone interested in par ticipating in the rideathon or sponsoring a rider is asked to call al or norma humprey at als tack shop vol 90 no 19 whitchurch stouffville september 15 1977 20 cents 20 pages for as long as she can rememher debbie stackhousehas dreamed of having a coachandfour at her wedding and two weeks ago her wish came true as she and her brand new husband rockv copithorn left the stouffville united church in a horsedrawn carriage passersby were delighted with theoldfashioned vehicle and quite a crowd gathered to watch the newlyweds set out for iatcham hall where the reception was held john montgomery boarjd accused of ba walter hope of goodwood cuts cedar shingles with an old cir cular saw at the markham heritage festival held last saturday more pictures page 9 such saws were often driven by horse operated treadmills and supplied the early settlers with their lumber needs between 2500 and 3000 attended the event uri cogan planning board rejects 3 zoning bylaw applications stouffville an at torney representing a major developer accused planning board of unfair dealings bad faith and inequity in regard to his client when he appeared before them last week david greespan acting on behalf of alliance developments ltd attempted to convince the board that his client deserved special consideration since he has been badly treated by the town speaking in a soft but ac cusing voice mr greenspan managed to convey the im pression that planning board had much to be ashamed of at the heart of mr greenspans grievance was the fact that the 70 acres north of elm rd owned by his client were not zoned residential in the new offical plan even though an amendment to the previous plan had classified the land as residential mr greenspan said that the residential ruling had been approved by planning board in 1970 but that it had never been passedby the omb because of the formation of regional government at that time an application for a zoning change in 1975 was turned down amendment nine was good in 1970 it cant be that bad in 1975 argued mr greenspan he said his company had been informed that there would be no further residential development approved until the new official plan was ready but this was denied by councillor june button she informed him that planning board meant that there would be no further plans after dulverton the lands were already zoned previously confirmed planning board chairman eldred king mr greenspan called the decision made in favour of the dulverton subdivision a total violation of the integrity of the planning process he said that the over 200 unit subdivision should not have been approved before the new official plan had been made public since this precluded all meaningful public input he also said that dulverton had preempted almost all new sewage capacity and so prevented any new develop ments mr greenspan alleged that dulverton lands- ap- see developer page 8- one found dead 30 dogs seized from barn stouffville following numerous complaints ontario humane society of ficials raided a barn on the 10th line south last friday and seized 30 dogs over the past several months complaints were received by the humane society police animal control and council about numerous dogs being kept in the barn upon investigation one dead dog was discovered in the barn directly south of stouffville cemetery the body of the animal has been sent to the university of guelph for an autopsy charges have been laid against ethel blaedow 59 of stouffville under section 402 of the criminal code the charge is failure to provide suitable in keeping with its new get- tough policy planning board last week rejected three ap plications to amend the zoning bylaw and permit severances of small lots the request of joe apreda to sever three acres of land from a 10 acre parcel to build a house was rejected mr apreda wanted to build a restaurant on the remainder also refused permission to divide her land was margarete todaro who wanted to sell her present house on the ninth concession and build a house on the back of the lot mrs todaro told council that the traffic going by the house caused her and her husband great distress and she requested permission to build a new residence 200 feet further back the board was sympathetic to her plight but felt that building another house in such a noisy area was a bad idea putting two wrongs together will not make a right planning board chairman eldred king pointed out mayor gord ratcliff also spoke against the idea if we started to rezone the property of all the people who are victims of noise we would have to rezone up and down every road he said howard lee who owns 50 acres south of musselmans lake was refused a severance as well he wanted to slice off one acre of land in order to build a second dwelling for hired help however he was refused permission since the severance would not eliminate the possibility of a second dwelling on the remaining 49 acres ccna tribune wins blue ribbon ga blue ribbon award stouffville the tribune has won the blue- ribbon award in the canadian community newspaper associations better newspapers competition the blue ribbon award was presented to the tribune for scoring 80 per cent of the score awarded the first place newspaper in the 7500 to 15000 circulation category winners of the award are permitted to wear the logo shown at left on the newspaper masthead for the next year don loscombe leads this pitifully thin pup while bruce parry holds the animals tail the two ontario humane society employees with several others seized 30 dogs from a barn directly south of stouffville cemetery ethel blaedow known locally as the dog lady has been charged with neglect one dead dog was discovered in the barn v john montgomery food shelter water or care humane society staff en tered the property around 11 am friday accompanied by york regional police officers and quickly rounded up the approximately 20 dogs inside the barn the other 10 animals were running loose outside and it took considerable time to lure theni back inside the building inspector dick parry and his son bruce stayed at the barn- until 9 pm friday and returned to capture two or three more dogs saturday according to chief inspector don hepworth a further check of the site was made sunday but no more dogs had turned up as far as we know we have got them all mr hepworth told the tribune they got all the ones they saw 1 there was a great deal of litter and garbage around inside and outside the barn and there was a terrible smell 1 dogs were found on both the first and second floors of the building and many of them were tied many of the older dogs seemed to be accustomed to people and had obviously been trained but the younger dogs were quite wild and could not be approached by society officials the dogs were described by mr hepworth as being in good health but undernourished and some appeared painfully thin the humane society staff conducting the raid had no trouble with the majority of the animals but some panicked when they were handled and at least one dog went into shock when it was removed theres no two ways about it its a dirty job and thats all said bruce parry while roun- ding up the animals lt there have been frequent complaints- about the dogs see find page 2