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THE PAGES VOL 117 NO 10 CENTS Since I NEWMARKET AURORA KESWICK ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JUNE 19 19 Newmarket Aurora Keswick Eviction for mother 5 children Frantic search for home By SUZANNE ZWARUN Era Staff Reporter NEWMARKET Twoyearold Den nis cries when he sees his mother go to the door Dennis is afraid his mother is go ing to go away and leave him Like his father did one day last spring And his mother Donna Hamill has been going out a lot lately Dennis is too young to understand that she must go if she wants to keep her family Donna is looking for a now home Shes one of the people caught in the Golden Arcs acute housing housing shortage is no ab stract problem for Mrs and her five children Or for Mr and Mrs John Campbell who share the house with her at Prospect St Both families a combined total of the countryside looking for a place they can afford to rent They have found nothing Hut here Is my heartache No one Hill rent Ihese children a home seems there are too many or them In each family Wont someone please help to keep them together Has every one forgotten that they were once little children That plea came into the Era office this week sent by a relative of one of the families involved The families themselves are on the verge of desperation Ive had my cry sometimes you get so far down in the dumps you cant stand it But then you pick your self up and try again Donna managed a laugh when she said that She had just driven to but the lip of a house there didnt work out She cant afford to pay a month She almost has t have a house Apartment owners she discovered in the past month throw up their hands in horror at the thought of five children in any apartment they own In the past month Mrs has looked everywhere for a home for her brood Newmarket Aurora Oak Ridges and Keswick Sec HOUSING Page 2 Town to assume Photo East Gwillimbury objection Brown Camps issue flares again SHARON The Brown Camps contro versy reemerged Monday night at the East Township Council meeting The controversy started last year when founder John Brown began buying homes in the area to care for emotionally dis turbed children Homeowners protested bitterly at first but in the past few months there has been a ceasefire neighbors The t the Two challenge gang High Noon at Jacksons Point ended Monday when Councillor Ray Twinney brought the lat est rumor before council and suggested that East residents raise as much as possible before they arc taken advantage of by larger munlcipall- Camps raised the ire of East residents last July when John Brown the exdirector of Warren- dale Homes I Children beg planned to use the houses Gwillimbury in Aurora to for emotionally Lurbed children Each would contain children and one or two counsellors in noninstitutional setting For each Childrens Aid Society per day from govern sum that raised eyebrow at lb Rut Lloyd Richardson director of CAS called the cost per day lo said thai was ll averse child per day in the province The strain on school facilities and lit need or extra transport to take children lo other schools was the main complaint raised by East residents NEW PROBLEM The situation became less tense daring Iho winter but Monday night Mr appeared problem JACKSONS POINT about setting up a vigilante committee to justice to the motorcycle gangs died Monday before the plan was fully Talk of the vigilantes started Sunday afternoon while lOO to spectators help lessly watched flood claims AURORA Town Council said Mon day that i would take liability for the longdragging flood claims damages in the south end of the lown A Beardall of Johnson Road whose claim is one of more than a dozen awaiting action informed council several weeks ago say ing that if no firm decision would mad then his lawyers would move the case Into court Because the city has taken action on this issue taxpayers will be saved the burden of court costs that would have resulted Last year a claim against the town of totalled after legal fees were added Other back claims will also be handled which resulted on the Assump tion Dial the towns sewage system failed to handle spring thaw adequate ly causing water lo back up and flooding Due to problems with the towns insur ance company there will be a check made on the feasibility of Aurora carrying its own insurance much in the manner thai is being done in Toronto Release source Fire Chief medal down the source of the information result ing in his award of the Canada Centen nial Medal recently The recommendation for the award came from the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs ami their executive director Jim Arnotl Mr was evidently Interested in Fire Chief Gibsons long family history A lone policeman and an exArmy were the only two people who trie stop the destruction Hes got equalizer on his hip Why doesnt he use it said one specta tor in disgust referring to Sutton Police Chief George Kings gun But when the fracas was over and the motorcyclists rode of lown four abreast residents agreed the police chief handled the situation well Had lie lost bis cool the whole lown would have turned into a battlefield And is wasting any sympathy on Ihe Sutton man who touched off the disturbance who crouched in the back of the police car while the gang members pelted him with flowerpots and who was left with a maimed convertible afraid the gangs might conic after him again Police Chief King was all by himself in the midst of iho real action Sunday nobody came to help him As soon as the fight started every one in area started phoning for extra police help a resident said Monday An SOS was also radioed out Bui North Ontario Provincial Police and police based from four to miles away didnt respond Geor gia police the last machine and roared out of town Hie other two detachments followed The only help Police Chief King bad was Raymond fitter retired Second World War army dispatch rider who Hie motorcyclists attacked the con vertible They jumped up and down on the hood of the car smashed the lights lore the upholstery ripped off anything that would come loose Then they started throwing iHitled plants from a mil stand display at the police car One kicked Jackson in the face A twomile traffic jam built up in three directions from the intersection where the fight was going on When the gangs finally fled no one was charged leaned against his injured con vertible and wondered what to do next The gangs would be looking for him again The police werent too concerned This is first time Iioudreau and bis pal ever looked lo lis for help one said If theyre butchered then maybe well I that Inchl I ible night ami stay ed overnight at Point Park with out Incident Most of the lo the fight re mained silent and So did an group watching from a nearby park they were members of Satans Choice a motorcycle gang from Toronto They watched curiously bill didnt got the camps he said in an Interview Tuesday have to do something about their plait Brown Camps latest plan according lo Mi is lo take children now la llasl camps move them to and perhaps Scarbor ough They would be replaced here by brand new kids from Oak Ridges The move says Mr Is unfair to Ibis area As he sees it raised such a fas about Brown Camps In their area that camp directors are going to pacify them by giving them children who have settled down East which look Ihe arrival of the camps more calmly will then he stuck with all the new and most troublesome children Mrs Jehu director of the On division of Brown Camps denied on Tuesday that there was any such plan director she decides where the illy disturbed iliildreii will be placed lid the camps dun ever group iliildien curding to their problems Ill fact she says the i amps policy is Mrs admits Pitler man is ami he Is only five feet eight Inches tall and pounds And the eight motorcyclists looK- at him for a long lime Then one shrugged turned his hike and drove away The object of the gangs animosity was Patrick Iioudreau who had been driving Donald Ducky Jacksons convertible Saturday night and who had cut off one of the gang and ran hint Into the ditch When the gang spotted the car and Iioudreau Sunday they forced him to Four of lie filth Air Cutlet during were the order of the day tit Country Fair sored liy United ChunIt on Saturday Honda Rets Ihe feminine urge a bargain when she sees these shoes on sale for a nickel Holder Photo never even thought of grouping them by their behaviour problems in fart some of our most severely disturbed ones are In Brnmnlen and will stay Mrs Brown said she would be de lighted lo explain Iho proposed moves lo Mr and to show him around the camps Mr says he hasnt talked to Camps about the transfers The story started he said when one of the camps children told a neighbor If you think wero bad wall till you got the ones Tho story spread through the neighborhood rind Mr clucked with children in oilier camps They confirmed thai lltey would ho trouble at first Its the neighbors not tho coun sellors who groomed these kids And now theyve settled down But be dammed If Im going lo start groom- lug Ihe next group says Mr To combat the possible Influx of new children Mr Twinney proposes to col lect people with beefs and gather them together at a public protest meet ing The meeting will be held In Sharon as soon as complaints are collected Mr appealed to everyone concerned lo air their grievances against he camps People expect us to do some thing about the problem but theyll have six in to us lltelr support Roberts refutes parachute candidate implication Roberta pointed out at a press conference held in Aurora Highlands Calf Club lie confessed that his entry Into tho liding had Income somewhat of a local and some people were worried Ibat might disappear Juno Mr Roberta reassured voters that he will not only up resi dence In the riding ho will also on ho can ho reached by his constituents Liberal candidate John Roberts denied Friday Dial ho was a parachute candidate In YorkSi riding lit fact said tho candidate from Ottawa if anyuite parachuted Into the riding was exSenator Wallace Me- his Progressive Conservative opponent At least the nomination was contested anil voters werent handed llielr candidate on platter Mr See l mi II Pago candidates at Huron Heights SS Sunday at