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m wmpimwgwmsffl minister was mathematician rev peeter vankers begins his new duties in un- ionville at bethesda lutheran church sunday the church is said to be the oldest protestant church in york county dating to 1794 sjoerd witteveen by deb bodine champion the rev peeter vanker is to be formally installed as pastor of bethesda lutheran church in un- ionville sun nov 15 at the 11 ajn worship service rev vanker hails from dollard des ormeaux quebec a suburb on the west island of montreal after a 10year ministry there it was a turbulent but also ex citing and challenging decade in quebec and canada politics and history he says born in estonia a country in vaded and occupied by russia during the second world war vanker fled with his family to sweden as a teenager he emi grated to canada choosing kitch ener as his home at the university of toronto he studied mathematics and physics and obtained his graduate degree in mathematics at the university of waterloo i was rather saturated in math so i decided to take a year off to do some theological study before re turning for my doctorate i never went back rev vanker attended waterloo lutheran seminary to obtain his theological education and served a north york congregation for 10 years before moving to dollard des ormeaux 1987 tax bill final payment 1987 distribution of 1987 taxes outlining responsibility jurisdictional control based on an average residence assessed at 3000000 market value 15000000 approximately taxes residential public school current 1987 comparisons 1986 1985 1984 sincreases 1987 1986 1985 distribution 1987 1986 1985 education region municipal town s 126000 23700 27000 115500 22500 23900 110100 21800 22300 102600 19500 22300 10500 1200 3100 5400 700 1600 7500 2300 nil 715 135 150 715 140 145 715 140 145 total 176700 161900 154200 144400 14800 7700 9800 1000 1000 1000 separate school education region municipal town s 128600 23700 27000 118200 22500 23900 112400 21800 22300 105200 19500 22300 10400 1200 3100 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would sugthalin the evert ofapostalstntettat you pay uiism please accept this notice as a formal demand for payment corporation of the town of markham ea barton treasurer tax collector industrial commissioner council mayor carole bell regional councillors ron moran frank scarpittj bud bonner councillors wardl doreen quirk ward 5 gordlandon ward 2 bob sherwood ward 6 elson miles ward 3 fred cox ward 7 mike popovich iwara4 tomnewall ward 8 alex chiu in coming to unionville at this time rev vanker wishes to lend his gifts to the congregation in helping to make the transfer from a small fairly rural community to a more urban situation i thought it would be a chal lenge basically i felt i had served a good block of time in quebec and i was looking forward to getting back to this area rev vanker is interested in creating strong adult christian education as well as youth minis tries he intends to examine ways in which adults can get a handle on their faith particularly in rela tion to their work as well rev vanker has been actively involved for 20 years in family camping programs for the lutheran church i have a very strong commit ment to ecumenical involve ments he says in quebec rev vanker partici pated in pulpit exchanges with local roman catholic and protes tant clergy various congrega tions joined forces for special study sessions and events and for the good friday procession through the community exchanges were not limited to christian faiths in dollard des ormeaux there is a large jewish community and several years ago a special exchange was arranged between the lutheran congrega tion and the reformed jewish synagogue our congregational members were invited to their friday even ing sabbath service where i preached the homily and their rabbi and congregation recipro cated at our sunday morning worship service says rev vanker it created some tension on both sides but it was a very meaningful event to me in unionville one month rev vanker has some concerns both lor his congregation and the com munity at large he faces the challenge of integrating the many new families moving into the area with the longstanding families he also sees a need for imporved facilities at the church particu larly for christian education and fellowship functions the present church office at bethesda lutheran church was formerly a temporary sales office for new homes it was purchased and moved to the church site but was supposed to have been torn down 20 years ago says rev vanker among the ecumenical con cerns of the new pastor is the shortage of affordable housing there are people from mar- kham who can no longer afford to live here he is also concerned about the seniors and hopes to become in volved at union villa rev vanker is married and has two children his wife carol is a school teacher their son mark is studying in montreal and daughter lynn is enrolled in the nursing program at centennial college in scarborough bethesda lutheran church lo cated on union st is rich in tradi tion and history according to rev vanker it is the oldest pro testant congregation in all of york county dating back to 1794 when lieutenantgovernor simcoe of upper canada invited a colony of german settlers under william berczy to come to the area at the formal installation of rev vanker nov 17 the rev gunter oahle assistant to the bishop of the eastern synod of the lutheran church in canada will perform the ceremony and 1 preachlhe sermon all are cor- myinvhed fcv km