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legion ladies to sponsor colorful fashion show latcham hall stouffville is the location for a promenade will be lovely loretta lavell 97 rose show wednesday may 30 at 8 pm entitled avenue stouffville the event will include fashions ahoy sponsored by the legion refreshments and door prizes with admission ladies auxiliary one of the participants in the 300 jim thomas bill kamps f massive growth stouffville were tin no big rush to push 9000 people into this community a firey councillor bill kamps told david i greenspan solicitor for alliance developments we dont want to turn this town into another markham or wood- bridge s councillor kamps sharp reply seemed to summarize the feelings of most planning board v members after the company that owns property north of elm road west of the ninth line presented subdivision plans with an elaborate slide presentation may 15 none appeared impressed as each speaker indicated the board intended to keep a tight lid on residential buildup in the former village mr greenspan reminded members that the 1977 official plan for stouff ille called for a population of 9000 by 1982 in his opinion the town should act immediately if it wished to provide housing accom modation for that many i dont give a damn if we dont reach that limit most people moved here to get away arrest man for assault stouffville at 230 pm may 12 an alleged in decent assault occurred at the grandstand in the town park the victims were described only as two young girls following investigation by a detective and two officers from no 19 division york regional police a 72 year old uxbridge man has been arrested and charged he is scheduled to appeaf in court may 29 gross indecency in another case this one involving a boy a 34 year old ninth line stouffville man stands charged with indecent assault gross indecency and buggery the arrest was made by police may 16 at the suspects home he was taken to the station at richmond hill then to court for a bail hearing no trial date has been set from massive growth and ac companying pollution let the population blow up occur somewhere else i want con trolled growth here shot back kamps the solicitor said he wasnt seeking subdivision approval right away but wished only to have the land zoned residential so as to cut down on time later he said alliance would be willing to enter into an agreement with respect to expanding the sewage treat ment plant and provide a site for a future public school mayor eldred king threw his support behind the stand taken by councillor kamps we want to see how our new official plan fits and what kind of community it brings before we go ahead with more building he declared peter martin president of the canadian institute of planners advised the board to begin planning now for the inevitable population increase that would undoubtedly come by 1990 you cant put a wall around the town he said explaining that pressures from developers realtors and local merchants would reach such explosive proportions that planners could commit irreversible errors in their haste to correct the situation firesmoke damage stouffville an explosion and fire at the sefton home 29 lloyd avenue monday night caused an estimated 10000 damage and forced members of the family to seek tem porary accommodation with neighbors the blaze broke out in the kitchen sending flames shooting to the ceiling and filling much of the house with smoke although one of the children 14 year old john was in bed none had dif ficulty getting out both parents were away at the time board offer 6 stouffville therell be no backing down by york county board of education in connection with its current contract dispute with the secondary school teachers federation not as far as town trustee harry bowes is con cerned 4 our offer is final he told the tribune stating that a meeting held following the strike vote had confirmed this stand he said that to his knowledge thered been no further word from osstf the whitchurchstouffville member said that compared to other contracts put forward across the province ours is right in there he said he had no idea what the for and against vote count had been at stouffville high claiming the ballots were all dumped in together so no one could tell if and when an agreement is reached it will be for two years instead of one retroactive to aug 31 1978 and extending forward to aug 31 1980 mr bowes said tragic accidents elderly lady dies markham one person was killed and three injured in two separate motor vehicle accidents in markham last week killed in a iwccar crash at the intersection of cone 10 and 14th avenue was 98 year old marion graham of 526 kingston road pickering she was a passenger in an auto driven by her daughter muriel balfour 78 of the same address ac cording to police an eastbound car driven by john davison 18 of box grove skidded out of control and struck the balfour vehicle mrs graham was pronounced dead on arrival at scarborough centenary hospital following the collision davisons car caught fire the blaze was extinguished by firemen from markham on thursday evening a southbound auto went out of control on the 5th concession warden avenue south of 19th avenue and flipped end over end several times the driver larry easterbrook 22 of cordova avenue etobicoke was rushed by ambulance to toronto east general hospital with serious head injuries soccer kiekoff stouffville saturday is soccer day in whitchurchstouffville its the start of a brand new season with proceedings to begin with a main street parade at 930 ajn teams will lead off from success square main and stouffer streets and travel to the playing field at stouffville dist secondary school following brief remarks by the league president and the mayor eldred king will put his toe to the ball to start the schedule off on the right foot wrihum vol 92 no 4 whitchurchstouffville may 24 1979 20 cents 18 pages stevens wins in a landslide sweeps all but four polls york peel it was sine stevens by a land slide the popular progressive conservative finance critic now in line for the finance ministers post rolled to an easy victory tuesday defeating his closest opponent liberal richard whitehead of bolton by more that two to one wally gustar of the n dp ran a poor third with libertarian wayne kollinger trailing the field at press time x it was stevens24t810whitehead 12252 gustar 6669 kollinger 384 closer to home the pc standardbearer swept every poll in whitchurch stouffville garnering 61 per cent of the popular vote it was stevens 4079 whitehad 1591 gustar 983 and kollinger 56 mr stevens called it the most successful campaign weve ever waged and were only a whisker away from forming a majority govern ment this is a historic day for canada a day in which we can look forward to finally having responsible government he continued commenting on the ousting of two area liberal cabinet ministers norm cafik and barney danson stevens showed no sympathy thats exactly where they shoud be he said he described the result as a victory for joe clark and a i defeat for pierre trudeau he promised that tax rebate proposals introduced as a main plank in the pc platform n would be brought in with the first budget wally gustar admitted he was v felt he would have done better he predicted the minority conservative government would be shortlived eighteen months at bestr- at the stevens campaign headquarters in stouffville workers were ecstatic while the trend was clear from the start they remained until the report from the advance poll came in about 930 pm then they packed up their signs and left to join the pc victory party in the legion hall at newmarket sinclair stevens region okays lawyers fee stouffville bakery tlieft5 stouffville york regional police are in vestigating the reported theft of 5000 in cash at the stouffville bakery 57 main street west the money was removed from a safe in the building may 12 between 11 am and 1 pm auto breakin also on saturday joy horton rr 4 stouffville locked up her vehicle after parking it in front of the vandorf store woodbine avenue when she returned around 6 pm she discovered her purse stolen along with several rings glasses and personal documents their value has been placed at 4000 l cash stolen police have a description of a suspect they believe responsible for a breakin saturday evening at don burds trout pond property hwy 48 north of ringwood a box containing 300 cash and 100 chargex receipts was taken york region york regional councilhas agreed to pay legal fees amounting to 113250 for the defence of two police constables charged last year the police commission received word of councils decisionat ajneeting may 15 vicechairman gladys rolling admitted the region was being called on to cover evermounting legal bills in connection with officers charged in private complaints the public purse gets it from two sides observed judge donald couture the boards chairman taxpayers he said must pay through regional costs as well as through legal aid although over the years several constables have been charged not one has resulted in a conviction the commission was told mayor ray twinney of newmarket a former com missioner had suggested steps be taken to recover money paid in legal fees from those persons laying charges delay date stouffville the stouffville swimming pool will not open may 28 as originally planned mechanical repairs will not be completed by that date program director heather glenn told the tribune tuesday the pool is undergoing a major overhaul this spring on orders from the ministry of health the work has been authorized by the community centre board a revised date will be published in the tribune when repairs are closer to completion truck driver badly hurt gormley a 31 year old stouffville man is recovering in york central hospital rich mond hill from injuries received in a school bustruck collision at the intersection of leslie street and the stouffville- gormley road bob marshman north street was westbound in a pickup truck when the vehicle was rammed broadside by the bus property damage was estimated at 10000 the truck was hauling a trailer and boat at the time driver of the bus was jocelynpratley 21 of gormley she escaped injury despite the fact the front of her vehicle was ripped apart by the impact it is believed the brakes on the bus failed as it approached the corner there were no students on board tragedy plagues family markham tragedy continues to plague the ron reesor family eight years ago his wife the former marilyn johnson was killed when struckby a car as she walked along the side of the road in mississauga on saturday a son danny age 16 died as the result of a drowning accident at malton before moving to the mississauga area ron and marilyn reesor lived on main street north markham v surviving besides his father and- grandparents are jhree town resident honored by postal authorities t il 1 5 sisters andjtwo brothers friday according to mr gilligan the stouffville servicevwasjheldtwedi mans actions april 21 frightened a way wonldbe nesday from the dixon garland thieves after they had entered the bonding chapel with interment second nothing was stolen edsehroefen markham tsr bob gilligan postal investigator right and acting stouffville postmaster larry ross left presented jerry ratcliff with a certificate of merit and a stamp collection at a ceremony 1 i v baptist jcemeteryj