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variety show hs auditorium dec 21 tonight christmas pantomime latcham hall dec 22 and 23 vol 89 no 30 phone 6402101 whitchurchstouffville uxbridge markham thursday december 21 1972 20 pages 15 cents too many cars too few roads ballantrae weve run cut of roads commented a harried ontario provincial police constable sunday as torontobound traffic the heaviest ever for this time of year was backed up solid for several miles in several directions the congestion occurred around 3 pm as families departed for home after spen ding a few hours at various christmas tree farms near ballantrae vivian and ux bridge some vehicles without snow tires plus a few minor collisions added tc the mayhem particularly on the vivian aurora and bloomington roads theres just nowhere to go replied a york regional police officer when questioned con cerning the holdup much of the overflow was finally directed west onto don mills road and south to toronto in stouffville on saturday the traffic exceeded anything seen last summer deputy fire chief fred castle said it took him 20 minutes to travel from the ninth line to the firehall in response to an alarm swiss trip fan support stouffville stouffvilles bantam hockey club including 20 players will leave next month to participate in a series of exhibition games in swit zerland the boys will have plenty of fan support with 56 spectators including team management- making the trip personnel are mr and mrs art latcham mr and mrs jack watson miss sharon watson mr and mrs ed grimshaw mr and mrs gerry acton mr and mrs wilf morley and michelle mrs june button mr and mrs murray roberts mr and mrs wes oswald president of the omha mr and mrs jack campkin mrs edithe milne mr and mrs bryant mr bill hill mr and mrs merv turner mr larry malone mr dave roberts mr and mrs ray tomisto mrs diane morgan mrs nancy phillips mr and mrs ken jones mr and mrs ken hamm mr and mrs sam hamilton mr peter hamilton mrsrevea williams mr and mrs harvey feasby mary haines mr and mrs ken wagg mr gary murphy mr and mrs harry whitehead mr and mrs ron whitehead mr bill barry mr les todd lee turner dana turner jill turner and mr and mrs frank barkey car a weapon stouffville a stouffville man alleged to have used his car in the form of a weapon has been charged with assault by york regional police it is reported that on dec 15 thomas yip main street became involved in an argument with lloyd myles of caledon east and began fighting on newkirk drive richmond hill following the skirmish police said mr yip got into his car and give and take for town in boundary shift york region enlarged a gift at christmas that iasts all year long stouffville whitchurch- stouffville will lose a small portion of land at its south eastern corner to a new municipality which will com prise sites for the planned airport and its attendant north pickering community of 200000 persons conversely the town will annex areas in uxbridge and pickering townships the ex treme southwest and north west corners respectively which do not form part of the airport zone these new boundary align ments were revealed dec 18 when ontario treasurer chas s macnaughton and his parliamentary assistant donald r irvine mpp for grenvilledundas unveiled a provincial proposal to establish regional government directly east of metropolitan toronto the proposal covers 1168 square miles a population of 236000 restructures 22 existing municipalities into 9 and in cludes the urban centres of oshawa whitby uxbridge ajax bowmanvifle newcastle port hope cobourg and port perry at whitchurchstouffvilles easterly boundary an amalgamation of uxbridge twp town of uxbridge and part of pickering twp north of the 7th cone which is excluded from the airport lands will form one of the 9 municipalities this configuration alone with the airport municipality to the south leaves whitchurch- stouffville with a small square appendage of land at its south east corner the rationale for this align ment of the adjacent boun daries as explained in the proposal is to incorporate all land directly associated with the airport to avoid jurisdictional problems in the future golden retriever pups every boys dream of a perfect christmas gift mr and mrs bob mason rr3 stouffville north of altona ha ve not just three but ten of the cuddly little pets now 7 weeks old the sizeable family is a first litter for ginger the mother the pups or most of them are for sale jim thomas staff inspector wally harkness no proof of arson in jiojf clubhouse blaze stouffville staff in spector wally harkness of york regional police claims there is no proof whatsoever that the 250000 blaze early saturday morning that levelled the lavish clubhouse at sleepy hollow golf course north of stouffville was the work of an arsonist mr harkness noted that while the property is close to sites of other unexplained fires in vestigations by his department and the ontario fire marshals office had uncovered no mayor will report to the people stouffville in answer to a pre election request for improved communications between town council and the people mayor elect gordon ratcliff has agreed to speak to the electorate via a column in the tribune each week the inaugural meeting is jan 4 at 730 pm the meeting to conclude business for 1972 is dec 28 also at 730 while the mayors post is looked on as full time mr ratcliff said he intends to establish a schedule of office hours and make himself available to the electorate during these times struck both mr myles and his wife neither was badly hurt evidence that the blaze was purposely set he said he wished to allay fears among residents in the whitchurch stouffville com munity that every blaze in the past three weeks was at tributable to some kind of maniac or fire bug he ob served however that his office was anxious to work closely with the people in the district and all information would be welcomed the sleepy hollow fire was first spotted by a york regional constable around 2 am although the stouffville brigade responded quickly the structure was a mass of flames by the time they arrived nothing was saved club manager gunther murk said a wedding reception had been held at the site earlier in the evening he said he left the building about 130 am less than 30 minutes later flames were shooting out the sides and through the roof he termed it unbelievable that a fire could spread so fast bert turcotte of toronto is a principal owner he also operates clubs at buttonville and peterboro on sunday several members visited the fire scene hoping to salvage at least a portion of their belongings while the steel lockers remained intact the contents inside were lost one golfer stood among the ashes holding only the cleats from a new pair of golf shoes the stouffville kinsmen club also lost some equipment the clubhouse had been their regular meeting place mr murk said the banquet hall had been booked solid throughout the christmas and new years period he said the majority of companies had submitted deposits in advance high pollution risk at pitdump site be stopped and that con sideration be given to removing any wastes in the pit stouffville if en thusiasm filtering down through the ranks of students given a preview of the secondary schools variety show last week is a prelude to the per formance to be presented tonight dec21 then the en tertainment we can expect will be anywhere from neat o to super the stow originating with the schools drama club aujmenttd by glee club singers and individual talents will feature rrusical numbers and skits written by the students mrs diaine stuart english teacher anj co ordinator speaks highy of the 50 per formers and 150 helpers in volved and particularly of director jim brodies efforts in practically every phase of the production this is the second charity variety show presented by the students proceeds from the previous ofe went to victims of the fire wl ich razed the ratcliff block in 71 througi sale of tickets adults 125 under 12s 50 cents students with activity crds 75 cents students without 1 the scholars hope to aid crippled children student activities and supply j craft material to green gables manor mrs stuart explains that interest in the manors craft program was sparked through the beautiful rug hooking work done there by an elderly gen tleman to help promote this skilled work and occupational therapy proceeds will subsidize his material outlay a rug has already been acquired by the student body and donated to the library last year a near capacity audience turned out to support the fire fund concert the theme of this thursdays show which starts at 830 pm in the school auditorium is youth and the youthful student troupe once again deserves full support for its charitable efforts stouffville an ap- plicatiorrjeceiyed by whit church stouffville planning committee over a month ago to permit disposal of clean in dustrial waste in the former roberts gravel pit bloomington road received comment in a letter from the ministry of environment dec 15 the site the ministry ob serves is 2000 feet upgradient from wells which supply the towns water and the potential to pollute is extremely high clean industrial waste is a vague description and though the deposition of inert fill such as bricks or broken concrete would not degrade the ground water quality soluable wastes could find their way into the site the ministry concludes that policing of wastes arriving at the site would be impractical if not impossible and recom mends the proposal be rejected the letter also referred to the water quality branchs stand following unauthorized dumping that took place on the site in april when it urged the practice child hurt stouffville a 4 year old lemonville girl is a patient in toronto sick childrens hospital but still hopes to make it home in time for christmas following an accident on main street stouffville dec 15 heidi hirsch daughter of mr and mrs hans hirsch stouff ville rr4 suffered a fractured skull when she ran into the path of a car driven by james stanley brown watson drive stouff ville the victim was taken first to york county hospital at newmarket and later tran sferred to toronto when the seriousness of her injury was learned york regional police con stable graham morris con ducted the investigation no charges were laid student walkathon raises over 4500 angel by candlelight candlelight services were held in many area churches during the past week including st james presbyterian in stouffville looking every bit the part of an angel on earth is pretty 4 year old michelle lacarte daughter of mr and mrs dan lacarte altona uxbridge if all pledges are honored the 10mile walkathon sponsored by the staff and students of uxbridge secondary school dec 14 will raise 4509 more than 600 young people grades 9 through 13 took part along with 14 teachers proceeds will go to the canadian save the children fund thursdays trek marked the fifth year or the project since 1968 the school has raised 15614 exclusive of this years walk the route is changed each time principal peter bernhardt said that of the 600 plus par ticipants who started out only three or four failed to finish some were on horseback and these counted as long as those who pledged were made aware of the mode of travel mr bernhardt said no problems were encountered and entries were accorded generous support the route was patrolled by both the opp and uxbridge police as well as private volunteers arson attempt stouffville attempted arson is suspected after an unidentified person hurled a burning ball of paper into a barn on the property of wayne tyson r r 2 stouffville fortunately the blaze burned itself out without igniting the contents of the structure york regional police were called farm residents in the whit church stouffville area are uneasy due to the rash of fires in barns during the past three weeks a fire bug is believed responsible but no arrest has yet been made not milk stouffville a stouffville youth found drinking beer in the stouffville plaza dec 14 has been charged by york regional police with consuming as a minor in a completed report on the incident the lads age was listed as 10