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jftarkham tteattttj ar c0wxt10mng systems 1 72 bullock olive unit27maikham 4711748 tribune focus community sports leisure entertainment serving whitchurchstouffviue uxbridge area 3220 1 success square greens 6407211 ofstouffville your neighbourhood meeting place a metroland community newspaper wednesday may 24 1989 austin reesqrl y jane hencher markham man leaves sweet proud legacy the memory of austin reesor is as fresh as the apple blossoms at the markham district tmuseum i mr reesor died last october of a heart attack in his 85th year one of his proudest accomplishments vas the planting of a heritage apple orchard of miniature trees at the markham museum five years ago he planted all different types of apple trees of various old varieties it was his project up there and something which is a great memorial of him says john lunau historian for the town of markham l mr reesor was one of the builders of the markham museum and was in charge of photography and the copying of pictures for the museum austin had a wonderful setup of copy cameras and equipment to reproduce the pictures says lunau he took a great interest in that way and saved the community thousands of dollars he says f- mr reesor is remembered well for doing many great things and getting activities started in cedar grove he collected and copied school class pictures and names dating back a hundred years from the cedar grove school house where he attended school k the old school house was built in 1820 and four generations of reesors served as trustees mrs austin reesor olive harrington was the last teacher to teach there before the school became the cedar grove community centre in 1966 in which mr reesor was a founding member mr reesor was a lifetime member of the markham district historical society and devoted much of his time and work to the museum most of his collections of antiques cameras phonographs and radios went to the museum his applebutter kettle and equipment is also kept at the museum in the cider mill i his devotion to apple growing and the cedar grove community extended to the organizaion of the applebutter festival in 1962 the festival was a form of fund raising to maintain the upkeep of the cedarena rink mr reesor was active in establishing the cedarena outdoor rink in 1927 because money was needed to pay for equipment and maintain the rink the community started a garden party where local and toron to professional talents came to perform beginning in 1928 and running for the next 34 years on the first saturday in july thousands of people came along the tenth concession to attend cedar groves garden party an activity organized largely by mr reesor j when the invention of television became a threat to the success of the garden party since it robbed tjiem of talent for their fund raising mr reesor came up with the idea of the oldrfashioned applebutter festival to continue to provide money for the maintenance of the cedarena the festival was held at mr reesors woodland park during thanksgiving weekend it continued until 1973 when the land was expropriated by the government he continued to make applebutter at the an nual museum festival supervising the making after giving the equipment to the museum the reesor family settled in cedar grove in 1804 mr reesor worked on the great lakes on lake boats for 40 years as a wireless operator during this time he gathered a fine collection of boat artifacts which he donated to the marine museum in toronto he was a very communityspirited man and a great neighbor says lunau i worked cosely with him and learned many pages of history from austin mr reesor was active in establishing the cedarena outdoor rink in 1927 because money was needed to pay for equipment and maintain the rink the community started a garden party where local and toronto professional talents came to perform four generations of reesors served as trustees at ithe old cedar grove school house before the school became the cedar grove community centre in 1966 mr reesor was a founding member one of austin reesors proudest accomplishments was the planting of a heritage apple orchard of miniature trees at the markham museum five years ptiolosjoerd witteveen ago a tribute in appreciation of mr reesor inset who died last october at the age of 85 is being held may 29 at the cedar grove community centre a tribute in appreciation of austin reesor is being held may 29 at the cedar grove community centre the night is called an evening of nostalgia and there will be an unveiling of a scroll and a photograph of mr reesor a collection of photographs of life in cedar grove has been put together into a film to be shown that night as well as a shorter film of one of the applebutter festivals the rest of the evening will be for reminiscing with people bringing in old photographs scrapbooks and memories one of the builders of the markham museum reesor was in charge of photography and the copying of pictures for the museum most of his collections of antiques cameras phonographs and radios went to the museum above most of mr reesors collections of antiques cameras phonographs and radios went to the museum his applebutter kettle and equipment is also kept at the museum in the cider mill above tribune news if youre receiving focus on its own this week youre missing news about other happenings in stouffville and whitchurch this week in our tribune news section you missed a breakdown of the 1989 ontario budget as well a developer has made a move toward putting 10 apart ment units in a local shopping complex a local merchant hopes to build a patio onto his restaurant ciepite some resistance and the tribune shows how town roads officials acted quickly to prevent a broken water main from flooding local houses why not get the whole story on stouffvillewhitchurch and the people who live and work here to subscribe to the tribune call our distribution department at 8402100 i ktolie warriner ikes the long road bacj mm serious sports injur 17 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