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top student coppins corners the top student at uxbridge secondary school 18yearold ann griffin rr 1 claremont plans to study medicine at queens university her overall average was 89 per cent in the fall ann will attend the school taking a general arts and science course she hopes to qualify for the medicine program after her second year beyond the schools established reputation ann chose it because she was offered a 700 scholarship something shes quitepleased about ann is also interested in politics and law but she said she decided on a career in medicine because its important for her to feel shes doing something positive her favorite grade 13 subjects were biology english and economics music is also a favorite with her ann played in the school band her ambition is demon strated by the fact that she took grade 43 math and physics courses while still in grade 12 while shes looking forward to the fall ann says shes a little apprehensive about her new life im scared stiff about going away from home and having to wash my own clothes she joked v last year ann was a lifeguard at dunbarton pool this year shes working with fyo other girls under a canada works grant for the uxbridge- scott historical society 4 jjrainfl- 1 ann griffin ban on firearms partially revoked seventeenyearold julie todd and laura peers 16 are working under a young canada works program grant compiling information for the national archives in ottawa and geneological societies in their job they transcribe information from tombstones often julie has to do a little digging with a trowel to unearth buried grave markers edschroeter girls employed in grave work pickering a ban on firearms in the township will be removed on a parcel of property west of altona road the towns executive committee has decided they voted to accept the proposal from councillor gerry fisher in mr fishers original resolution which they passed the discharge of weapons was prohibited on almost every piece of land from lake ontario to highway 7 but councillor fisher asked the committee to consider removing the ban on land from the fourth concession to altona road and up sideline 34 to highway 7 councillor fisher ward three regional councillor met with opposition from ward three local councillor norah geraghty who felt the towns original proposal should remain unchanged councillor geraghty told the by ed schroeter uxbridge twp you might say ann griffin laura peers and julie todd have grave jobs the three girls rr 1 claremont goodwood and rr 1 pefferlaw respectively get some very odd looks astheygo about their business in the v cemeteries of uxbridge township we get a lot of people who run over thinking were trying to exhume uncle george laura quipped of course the sight of three pretty girls calmly lunching in the shade of a tombstone is jk enough to unnerve anybody fire aid ballantrae a benefit dance is being organized for john walley an employee at farquharson real estate in stouffville it will be held on july 27 at the ballantrae community centre i a fire early monday morning completely gutted the third concession home near siloam destroying all the walleys belongings john and his wife yvonne were away at their cottage at the time j tickets for the dance are 15 per couple for advanced tickets call 6402223 or 473- 3600 no the girls arent gravediggers working under the auspices of the uxbridge scott historical society they spend their days transcribing the information on tombstones and plotting the burial sites on a map irecords bejkeptitfor- geneological societys and in the national archives iri ottawa the material will aid people tracing their family history laura peers a resourceful 16yearold originated the project with family roots deep m the area she developed a keen interest in local history i spend most of my sunday afternoons in graveyards researching family trees anyway she said she approached the ux bridge scott historical society which assisted them in ob taining a grant under the young canada works program its a ten week project for which the girls receive 120 weekly plus incidental ex penses ann the project leader is paid slightly more julie todd 17 years of age is another local history buff im interested because of my mothers work her mother eleanor todd of goodwood is writing a history of the district l i did it last year for my mother free why not get paid for it she joked v though ann griffin 18 has never studied the regions history intensely shes always been interested in the subject while mapmaking and processing the raw data into typed booklets is time- consuming the girls agree the t mostdifficult-partoflkeirvofk- is being as accurate as possible copying becomes more difficult as the sun gets hotter and the days wear on7 t and the girls literally can v leave no stone unturned using a metal probing tool they must search for longburied grave markers usually found at the end of the plots or near depressions and uncover half- buried stones were wary of probing too deeply ann added theyre not eager to make any unexpected discoveries f any initial feelings of squeamishness have passed they say you land of get used to it- laura and julie noted so far theyve actually found the job quite intriguing for example they discovered in 1873 there was a rash of deaths in goodwood puzzling over this the girls surmise there was a famine or outbreak of disease then i things have remained fairly quiet in the burial grounds the girls hope things will stay that way body discovered ait preston lake vandorf the at mosphere of an outing was dampened sunday evening when a picmcker made a grizzly discovery at preston lake york regional police say f the badly decomposed body of a woman was found m a swampy area on the west side of the lake about 710 pm york regional police were able to ascertain the identy of the body taken to the centre for forensic science intoronto it is that of pauline ruzycki westminister avenue m toronto she was reported missing to metro toronto police in november of 1978 thewomen was known to h and had journeyed as far as streets- ville and hamilton the woman about 65 years of age was wearing a black coat three sweaters a black dress a silver watch and a number of crosses and rosaries as yet the cause of death remains undetermined committee she agreed with the towns proposal because it provided more protection for the public x however mr fisher maintains the whole concept of confining areas for the use of firearms was to protect the pickering trail and hamlets the idea waso protect the people using the trail and i think weve done that said coun cillor fisher but if you look on the map im proposing it doesnt effect the pickering trail according to mr fisher the request was to clarify where the boundaries are with my proposal we use roads as identifiable lines it was councillor ken matheson who made the original suggestion of using roads as boundaries the two explored the area and reached an agreement councillor don kitchen expressed concern about jar- mers who wish a gun for pest control as it stands if a farm is within the area where firearms are forbidden he is not allowed to use agun the committee approved the suggestion by a vote of four to three with committee chairman laurie cahill casting i the deciding vote statistics reveal crime up mtuwww stanley milroy local farmer t one family claremont 1 wherever we go we will always remember our days at claremont public school darlene gammage told fellow students and parents in her valedictory address there were times of despair and times of hap piness she said recalling some highlights of the year the trip to midland a snowshoing- acuiaignpaiiu ecaiiiping trip im very honored to be part of the grade eight class she stressed its sort of like one big family some of us have known each other for a long time our class has driven teachers crazy darlene joked but she thanked them and their parents on behalf of the entire class for helping them to grow within themselves darlene said now the class must look forward to new schools new friends new ex- 4periencescoheetingnew in formation and meeting the new challenges of high school she told parents and teachers they will try to live up to the standards set before them and work to the best of our ability jt i i kl i it i rod cook or green river a grade eight graduate of claremont public school recently was presented with the muriel gostlck award for citizenship at the schools graduation exercise edschroeter cedar grove this community was saddened with the sudden passing of william stanley mhroy atscarboro centenary hospital june 30he was 68 mr milroy the son of the late mr and mrs aw milroy was born and raised on the family farm located at the corner of the 10th line markham and steeles ave stanley lived at the milroy property all his life as his grandfather and father had before he carried on the family farm operation working in both dairy and grain stanley was affiliated with the united church and was sign gravel agreement goodwood local aggregate producer bob harris became the first to sign a historymaking gravel agreement with uxbridge township the document which was introduced last year imposes tough controls on gravel pits and calls for tmanciai remuneration from the operator on the order of six cents per ton extracted this is five cents a ton over and above thenew provincial pits and quarries legislation the new lands to be rezoned for gravel extraction are located on concession four mr harris estimates it will take seven years to work out the two million ton pit extracting at a rate of 300000 tons annually when the pit is worked out mr harrishopes to rehabilitate the lands and develop them into a subdivision- councillors pointed out the opening of the new pit will coincide with the closing of another harris pit so the licenced tonnage of gravel in uxbridge will not be increased actively involved with the cedar grove community club mr milroy is survived by his sisters jean mrs wf richards and lilian mrs m dean and one brother leslie he is predeceased by kathleen mrs ab bonner and stewart the funeral service held from the chapel of the dixon garland funeral home july 3 the pall bearers were ab bud bonner kenneth milroy colin richards gordon milroy ron dean and bob dean interment was in the zion cemetery cedar grove f v durham region in the first four months of 1979 violent crime in the region has increased almost 15 per cent over the same period last year a police report shows the report prepared for the regional police commission revealed jxriice investigated 766 acts of violence compared to 655 violent crimes for the same period in 1978 crimes against property were up by about 11 per cent in the first quarter of the year with 4972 incidents in vestigated even considering ex pansion into more of the region the report shows there has been a ten per cent increase in crime over last year tehief jon jenkins said he told the commission the lb force recorded a 57 per cent success rate in dealing with all incidents investigated in this period with an 87 per cent rate in the violent crime category a breakdown of the violent crime report shows there have been 440 nonsexual assaults so far in 1979 up 57 from the corresponding period last year rapes and other sexual offences went from 25 to 30 arson crimes have doubled with 28 reported this year damage in property rose in every category this year 963 incidents were logged com pared to 838 for the first quarter of 1978 county court judge joseph kelly told fellow commissioners that judging from the arrests made the police appear to be doing a good job of solving crimes was lost dog returned brougham bouffons back and his masters donna and gary kidson are more than pleased j the huge black male dog part newfoundland and part german shepherd had been missing for about two months the animal was returned to the kidson s farm by a woman who found him wandering near the cedar glen golf course and adopted him friends who read about the lost dog in the tribune told her of his owners 1 aph students receive achievementsawtsf r 7 jt 109 valleyview pnblic school principal john hinch presents sanchia mooney rr 2 claremont and john byberg greenwood with awards for ouuunding- academic- effortiv the students are member of this years grade eight graduating class t edschroeter s 1 v