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lords prayer school policy treeplanting program stouffville repeating the lords prayer is policy at all stouffviue schools the tribune learned this week in fact at stouffviue high its carried over the public address system with a different student volunteering each morning vkeprindpal ron mercer likes the practice claiming the personal involvement adds greater meaning to whats being said he claims there have been no complaints from anyone attributing this to parents who consider themselves canadians first and foremost and do not necessarily wish to perpetuate their ethnic backgrounds generation after generation while legislating religion into the system may not be acceptable to some he ad mitted it could be ignored completely if left to the in dividual how many families do you know where prayers are said daily within the home he asked at bauantrae school not only is the lords prayer repeated but verses of script ture are read and hymns are sung in every room principal john mclaughlin said bible readings are taken by student volunteers its much the same at orchard park and sum- mitview schools in stouffviue with no outside pressures whatsoever the principals said stouffville earlier this summer mayor eldred king announced plans for a treeplanting program along the main street of stouffviue costing ten thousand dollars while littles been heard of it since council last week agreed to follow through on the project not this year but next and not 10000 worth but 1200 a total of 41 trees wfll be planted ukely early next spring the town will put up 10000 and attempt to obtain the rest o from service organizations getting the people in volved gained verbal support from councillor jim doble he felt local townsfolk should be encouraged to help make the community a better place in which to live councillor bill mcnauey felt the school children could play a part by setting aside time for freeplanting on arbor day however it is not the intent of council to keep pace with the flowers and foliage on the main street of markham most felt markhams effort a little overdone councillor jim sanders pointed to a government grant system for business improvement in which tree- planting would apply he said that to his knowledge the downtown merchants hadnt requested assistance vol 92 no 22 whitchurch stouffville september 27 1979 20 cents 22 pages by jim thomas stouffville we told you so thats what people or planes committee members are saying or should be saying following the release of walter stewarts mindboggling documentary entitled paper juggernaut big government gone mad the 207page report digs below the surface of the pickering airport fiasco and allegedly unearths facts that tiad been rumored for years but never substantiated a 300 million dollar project thats already cost the taxpayers of a canada 500 million with nothing except 18000 acres of farmland to show for the ex- pense- j while thepop people now have something solid on which to base their antiairport arguments jim sanders a member of -whitchurch- stouffviue council looks at the i c issue from another sidehe says hes now more certain than ever that transport ministry officials in ottawa relied too heavily on recommendations from civil servants employees whose only goal was to establish ka second airport somewhere f airport fiook a best seller walter stewarts paper t juggernaut is the hottest seller ever stocked john lord of john lords books 36 main street east stouffviue told the tribune he receiced a shipment of 100 copies thursday evening and by friday night half were gone hes contemplating a re- order this week any time i seu fifty books in one day it has to be hot stuff he said the sale price is beyond the boundaries of metro toronto the cabinet obviously wasnt given the true facts he said in a telephone interview with the tribune while claiming that the transport ministry is too air portprone be doesnt fault the ministers for coming up with what he contends was a totally wrong decision they acted on the advice of their advisors he said adding that in this case it was wrong advice whats even more irritating to mr sanders than this is the fact so much pertenent in formation was kept secret if everything had been brought out in the open from the start it never would have got off the ground jim sanders recalled one instance when a group of pop people attended a rally in ot tawa and bob lewis of bloomington requested a specific piece of information the official said it was back at bis office and when bob lewis agreed to accompany him there to obtain it the offer was flatly refused in councillor sanders misled four nuns create stir stouffville four nuns associated with an organization called apostles of infinite love caused a stir in stouffviue last week by going doortodoor collecting funds while the ladies themselves declined comment on the pur pose of their- visit a spokesperson in toronto said au 1 money would go to erect a monastery in st jovite quebec the original structure that accommodated close to 400 people was destroyed by fire in 1976 she said there was no y insurance on the building and government funding has been refused the sect that has come under media criticism operates outside the church of rome however it is federally registered as a legitimate charity and can solicit donations for its cause finals stouffville junior fastballs equivalent to the world series will be played in stouffviue this wgekcdcl it wiu be stouffviue against kirkland lake here saturday at 4 pm and again sunday at 11 am if a third game is necessary it will be 3 pm sunday stouffviue defeated kirkland lake for the ontario juvenile championship last year and earned the right to advance to the junior finals in 79 by beating out smiths falls and fullarton there were 61 entries in the north york plowing match words it was a fairy story mere were ei entries in we ivoruiyoriciiowing iviatcn r fro start and ffievke 1495 frbnrthe start and theykepf building on it he strongly supports pops green door policy whereby much of the govern- mentnowned agricultural land would be sold back to individual farmers through a farm credit corporation or longterm low interest mortgages clark muirhead a former uxbridge twp councillor said he always had strong suspicions that unsavory manoeuvres were going on behind the scenes the book he said bears this out pat mcclennan of cedar grovesummed it up this way the whole thing would be hilariously funny if it wasnt so tragically sad 48 the novelty class for nonfarmers included a plow of a different age handled here byfred timbers of stouffviue ernest davis a left the eventual winner of fers a few coachingtips jim thomas legislation townfights tax increase v stouffville the town of whitchurch-stouffviue- is prepared to fight a proposed assessment equalization program that if implemented by the province could raise the taxeson the average home here by as much as 40 a year mayor eldred king revealed this week that the municipality had joined forces with georgina east gwillim- f bury and king to check the y validity of calculations used and if found incorrect to file an appeal before the ontario municipal board assessment figures based on 1975 market values would eight unit subdivision whitchurch the region of york has given draft approval to the creation of an eightunit residential sub- division on ninth line north 4iear hiusdale drive musselmans lake the property owned by kenneth rat cliff rr 2 stouffviue was first presented to town planning committee three years ago- mayor eldred king told the tribune the site is part of the bauantrae- musselmans lake secondary jpian describing the proposal as a logical request mayor king said notification would be dr- culated among homeowners in the area giving- them an op- portunity to register opposition if they so wish v force whitchurchstouffviue to pick up an additional 144000 while georgina would be stuck for almost a milion the mayor said while the proposed plan would have a detrimental effect on the four municipalities named markham newmarket and vaughan would enjoy a tax decrease be stated the final appeal date is nov 7 so fast action is necessary mayor king explained the firm of mccarthy mccarthy in toronto has been retained to research the planned legislation the legal costs wiu be divided four ways according to the assessment of each the mayor said he said other towns and townships across ontario hard hit like whitchurchstouffviue would ukely be fighting it too eldred king says he has no objections to the town paying its fair share but he wants to make sure the factor used in arriving at the finalized figure is correct if so he feels the in crease should be spread over a two to three year period in dollars and cents it would mean whitchurch- stouffviue would have to raise an addiuonal 68000 for regional purposes 76000 for pubuc school education and 5000 for separate- school education viv while the tax increase would vary with each property the mayor said those residing on 25 acre lots with a non- agricultural use wfll really get clipped two brothers plowkings like his father brian degeer rrl 3 mount albert has won many awards at both branch and international matches success often depends on correct plow adjustments jim thomas motherdaughter aid to injured whitchurch the king bros rod and jan of stouff viue rr 4 came through with superlative plowing per- formances saturday two win three classes and two specials in the 57th annual north york atch at jiin sabistons farm bloomington road west of hwy 48 rod king placed first in class 3tractor 18 years and under and class 10tractor utility 17 years and under he also won the william simp son memorial trophy and fif teen dollars for the best plowed land in tractor classes by a resident of north york 18 years or under jan king took class 2- tractor 15 years and under in addition he receives the stouffviue dist credit union trophy and 25 for the best plowed land by a resident of north york 15 years and under fred timbers an executive director caued the work ex ceptional especiauy by the boys he said a high growth of alfalfa and some stone presented a challenge to the lads but didnt faze them including the novelty class open to nonfarmers there were 61 entries judges were les smith of blackwater and ed gray toronto results fouow class- 1 -anthony- featherstbne milliken wm gorrell oakwood class 2 jan king stouffviue tom robin son cookstown john robinson cookstown class 3 rod king stouffviue eric timbers stouffviue ken wells stouff viue class 4greg timbers sandford kevin wells stouff viue lome britton clarembnt class 5 floyd forsyth stouff viue brian degeer mt albert ken ferguson stouffviue class 6 jim ferguson sunderland euis britton claremont gord bradfield peterborough class 7- bob campsau dale snodden sunderland ivan bacon ux bridge class 8 don dunkeld zephyr gord bradfield peterborough floyd forsyth stouffviue class 9- kevin wells stouffviue greg timbers sandford lome britton claremont class 10 rod king stouffviue ken wells stouff viue kevin grose mt albert novelty class ernie davis stouffviue fred timbers stouffviue art mitchell sut ton howard timbers aurora nudity who cares stouffville some members of town councu are offended by pubuc nudity and feel people should be protected from it mayor eldred king admits he cant get too excited over the issue one way or another particularly if the prevention is going to cost the taxpayers of whitchurchstouffviue a lot of money vm the mayortold the tribune- that the firm of mingay associates has been instructed to look into the preparation of an antinude bylaw if it can be passed and enforced our solicitors wiu prepare it if it cant they wont he stated blunuy he said members concern related to shows auegedly being staged at a restauranttavern in bauantrae mayor king said he per- sonauy had contacted ten people in the immediate area and none voiced complaints he noted too that despite au the publicity he had received no phone calls at his office an honor stouffville no they didnt win repued gloria grove of bailieboro and for merly of stouffviue when contacted by the tribune concerning results at the canadian plowing cham pionships near fredericton new brunswick herb jarvis of sheppard avenue agincourt placed 10th she said lloyd grove came in tweuth they would like to have done better she said but stul considered it an honor to get that far the weather for the match was good she stated and the people extremely friendly mr jarvis is competing this week at the international near chatham markham a mother and daughter both registered nurses assisted at the scene of a carbus crash thursday morning that injured four persons one seriously pat warriner rr 2 markham approached the intersection of 17th avenue and mccowan road only minutes after the accident occurred two of the passengers from the east- bound car were lying in the ditch one was unconscious she immediately returned for blankets at the same time calung to her- daughter valerie for assistance togeluor they helped comfort the victims until ambulances arrived most seriously hurt was marde hubbard 15 of rich mond hul she remains a patient in sunnybrook hospital where her condition is reported as critical the cars driver lizuarte tavares 17 of no fixed ad dress and a second passenger linda schneider 16 also of richmond hiu were treated in hospital and released emile arnott 22 of pickering driver of the bus suffered only minor injuries despite the fact the travelways vehicle flipped over on its side there were no chudren on board -v- pouce said the auto a stolen car was traveuing east and failed to stop the bus was headed north tavares stands charged with possession of a stolen vehicle dangerous driving and driving a motor vehicle without an operators ucence fair opens today markham markham fair opens today but the official opening wiu wait until saturday noon eugene whelan former minister of agriculture wiu officiate at the noonhour ceremony along with dignitaries from au levels of government as weu as executive directors of the fair board the president this year is mac cosburn if good weather prevails the class a country exhibition is expected to draw close to 100000 people over a fourday period its the fairs third year at the present site 18th avenue and mccowan road i theadopted theme is year of thechud while a fuu list of events is published in the tribunes markham fair supplement the fouowing attractions are printed q below for readers convenience thurs sept 27 the sky hawks parachute team 12 noon holstein cattle show livestock arena 615 pm the dong show indoor stage 7 pm quarter horse racing 730 pm fri sept 28 pet show 5 pjn tractor puu race track 7 pm salf sept 29 baby- contest indoor stage 10 am official opening 12 noon chip off the old block contest indoor stage 130 pm standard bred horse racing 130 pm commercial steer auction livestock ring 4 pm horsepuuing competition livestock arena 7i pm fiddlers4 contest- indoor stage 7 pjnquartethorse racing 730 pm sandy sept 30 spelling r bee indoor v stage 130 paf greyhound racing 130 pjn sale of apples general exhibits buuding 5 pm regular fair admission this year is 2- adults and 100 senior citizens chudren 6 to 15 wul be charged 1 on saturday and sunday fifty cents thurday and friday mac cosburn v z i