Newmarket Public Library Digital History Collection

The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), July 12, 1967, B17

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The I 4 It was dry all last week until the week end A summer thunderstorm dumped more than an inch of rain on the al ready soaked ground on Sunday Alex sens home on Ontario St right had inches of water in the base ment Its the fourth f lime this summer hes been flooded Farmers too middle right were hit again as fields are too soggy to work Hut the hardest hit of till were the homes on Wal ter Ave East bury Heights where Mrs Donald hangs out the rugs from her basement recreation room below to dry This is third time for the Hlgcina family I Baby carriages and chairs barricaded East GwlUmlburys Ave last week as house wives top right protest ed dust conditions They won their battle when Reeve Garfield Wright ordered the foreman above of Con struct ton Ltd to clear up the dusty road or stop work on the subdi vision Police were catt ed to the scene below but the liay view house wives stuck to their Kits and got their street of dust Township equipment moved in at the expense and removed the dirt left on the road trucks Ave residents claim they are victims of buckpassing They com 1 plained to the builder who blamed subcontrac tors who they say ignor ed complaints The resi dents contacted the town ship office and were re ferred to the county who in turn referred the complaints hack to the township The builder blames the weather council blames an earl ier council for not mak ing road cleanup part of the subdivision agree ment and the county a has no over the subdivis ion Finally the baby buggy blockade and ip

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