the tribune thursday december 28 1i8 fairy princess at summitview christmas concert every student was a star last week when stouffvilles summitview public school held its first christmas concert the twonight program played to a full house each evening one of the participants was this pretty princess eight year old stephanie barclay cemetery lane stouffville jim thomas omb supports town subdivision blocked stouffville the ontario municipal has upheld whitchurch stouffville town coun cils decision rejecting an estate residential subdivision on the st johns sideroad south of the sixth concession yorkwhich in vestments limited the developer appealed to the municipal board after the planning board and council turned down their application jfon three occasions in 1975 and 1976 the planning board of the regional municipality of york also refused to support the scheme yorkwhich proposed to build a 12 lot development on a 30 acre parcel of land the estimated population of the subdivision was 46 persons at the hearing neither representatives from the- ministry of environment natural resources agriculture and food or from the south lake simcoe conservation authority registered objections against the subdivision plans however both the region and local councils argued the plan was premature and should not be approved until further studies on the impact of it on the municipality were carried out the town was con cerned about the large numbers of developments already slated for con struction and en vironmental damage the homes would have been built in the oak ridges moraine an environmentally sen sitive area the decision was contained in a nine page brief in handing down their verdict hearing officers d d diplock and l wadd wrote the council with its local knowledge and with statements of policy which it has created after receiving detailed specialist advice has made a series of decisions which this board is un willing to interfere with truckloadoftvs theft thwarted markham york regional police working in close cooperation with officers of opp in telligence have arrested five persons in connection with the alleged theft of an 20000 van and a load of television sets said to be worth 80000 the plan police believe was to hook up a borrowed truck with a trailer parked at the quasar plant on denison avenue near woodbine this was accomplished a transfer of the 142 tvs was to take place in the area of ellesmere road and victoria park avenue about five miles to the south at this point however things went wrong officers moved in and made the arrests several of the suspects are school teachers prominent in the markham thornhill communities cffapfgjfeufyeafi j 5 main st w stouffville eweller5 main stn markham oneidas january sale from tribune files of 38 years ago beloved principal died c f what events in the community made front page news 38 years ago to find out the editor dug out file copies dated december 1940 here are a few of the stories be found the little country church at bethesda in whitchurch tup was filled to overflowing as the community paid its respects to the memory of the late isaac pike following his passing at the age of 87 mr pike the old schoolmaster had been a tremendous influence in the area not only as a principal but as a sunday school teacher and minister an initial service was held at the family residence with rev bricker in charge later a service was held in the church with rev samuel goudie bringing the message assisted by lev brubacher rev le atkinson a pupil of mr pike read the lesson the papers heading read this dav a great man has fallen following his retirement from the teaching profession isaac pike carried on as a farmer his salary for the first few years as a teacher was 150 a year pall bearers were clarke and clarence atkinson clare bolender samuel doner william paisley and wesley steckley edgar a storry of bloomington was awarded 5705 against the cnr by an assize court jury for damages sustained in a level- crossing crash mr storry lost his right arm in the accident his auto stalled on the tracks as the train approached he got out and tried to push it out of harms way but failed he was injured in the resulting crash it was ruled that the trains engineer had been negligent in not having it under proper control the jury claimed he had sufficient time to stop the locomotive and avoid collision in spite of a heavy fall tt snow the day before a good crowd attended an auction sale on the farm of finley thompson east of goodwood the top cow brought 87 a sow and ten pigs 40 and fat pigs 14 each a seed drill sold for 175 and a manure spreader for 116 total receipts were 1750 for auctioneer a s farmer it was his fifth day of selling without a break more than 300 people attended a banquet at the king edward hotel toronto held in honor of fred timbers the champion plowman of america mr timbers won the title in com petition at davenport iowa chairman of the gathering was markham twp reeve james rennie york county agricultural representative wm cockburn was also in attendance and spoke briefly ja carroll secretarytreasurer of the ontario plowmans association paid tribute to mr timbers for bringing honors to york county and canada warden re bales presented him with a mantel clock clark young treasurer of the ontario plowmans association presented mrs timbers with a bouquet of flowers in honor of the couples recent 12th anniversary- fred timbers had previously won the canadian international match at st thomas and every other competition at the level from 1932 to 1939 he had not planned topartidpate in the 1940 match out according to the paper changed his mind when pressed by officials after arriving at the site because he had anticipated retirement he had not practised before the event tax collector kr davis reported above- average payments with the final due date dec 1 receipts totalled 3500 midas markham 702 markham at lawmnci phone 4384400 i charge mi das fahwil cutom twtrflfif mims 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