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The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), September 16, 1970, p. 2

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lite Era Oat It lfW Charged in breakin NEWMARKET Newmarket are youths were arrested Thurs- then picked out dice lioeup after broke into The Free on Ave and James Ward of Main St appeared in Provincial Court last Friday charged with possession of for the purpose of trafficking and were re manded to Oct for trial Bargain Centre SL Charged with break enter and theft and remand- Jail until Monday George White 17 of Sep- Ave and Wayne Beggs Willow Lane New- Newmarket Police said someone gained entry to the store through the Dropin Centre located in the same building The thieves then forced a door between the centre and the store Cash under was taken Make interest on your money pay the bills Rotary walkathon to aid sports crisis centre NEWMARKET A giant Ro tary Clubsponsored in Toronto designed to raise money for amateur sports in Canada may also rescue the Newmarket Crisis Centre from its financial difficulties The Canadian Rotary on Sept already has attrac ted 50000 walkers each hoping to have a minimum of pledged says Newmarket Rotary president Milne Mr Milne hopes to see a 1000 strong contingent from the Newmar ketAuroraBradford area in the march and he reports that an anony mous Port Credit man has pledged to the Crisis Centre if New market area marchers can raise for the Olympathon If our local kids get out and do this to help themselves I would like to challenge the wealthier people in this area to match the donation by the Port Credit man said the Rotary Club president A strong supporter of the Cri sis Centre Mr Milne termed It an es sential service in the community and pointed out the service the centre pro vides is costing the community far less money than it would cost If hospitals doctors or police had to handle the youth problems He is recruiting Walkers for the from Newmarket High School Huron Heights Williams Bradford Pickering College and St Andrews College but he points out anyone is eligible The walk starts at am at either High Park or Wilket Creek Park in Toronto and finishes at the CNE where there will be a mam moth sports celebration Gladys Rolling turned the first sod to mark the beginning of the construction of the town- Veto duck farm dumping While Photo Mall arena plans are expanding Money regularly invested in Victoria and Grey guaranteed investment certificates or even in special savings accounts doubles faster than youd believe It can grow to twice its size in eight and a half years and all with no effort on your part Make interest on your money pay your bills Put surplus money to work today at Victoria and Grey beer VICTORIAGREY TRUST COMPANY SINCE 1889 MAIN STREET 8955104 town crest There will be dancing and entertainment here including the New market Citizens band a German band and the Legion While all this is going on in the arena the Main St mall Park Ave to Water St will be hop ping The street will be cleared and closed Thurs day at pm and non profit booths and street sales will start Friday morning Friday pm six minor hockey players will officially open the mall They will be in full dress and on roller skates When they shoot a ball through a hockey net the mall will be open Twentyfour gas- filled balloons will be te thered 500 feet above the Friday and Satur day nights they will have four searchlights fo cussed on them These will be loca ted on the premises of Motors Brad Walk er Motors Motors and Boyd Transport and should be visible from as far away as Toronto and Community Tires on St has offered its parking lot for 1000 cars and negotiations are underway with to get minibuses to run be- banners will be in store the parking lot and windows and bumper the mall will be available for Friday night cars going out of town street dances from to There will be an midnight open air restaurant a fish Main St sales pond for the kids and a people will start wearing joust on Fairy Lake German hats the Tuesday More plans next before the celebrations week Conference to study troubled children NEWMARKET York County Council last week voted down a com mittee recommendation that would have allowed King Cole Duck Farms to dump liquid waste on the County Forest in Whitchurch Township Opposition to the proposal was led by Whitchurch Deputy Reeve Norm Barnard who called King Cole Ducks Ltd an industry that has grown too big for its britches and predicted that if the farm were al lowed to dump waste on county lands it would he subject to prosecution under a township antipollution bylaw Deputy Reeve Barnards juris dictional claim was supported by County Solicitor J D Lucas who said York County cannot override the bylaws of a local municipality The proposal contained in a re NEWMARKET A conference on The Troub led Child and the Commu nity will be held Oct at the Anglican Conference Centre near Aurora the York County branch Can adian Mental Health Asso ciation the sponsors have announced The conference is being planned by The Com mittee for the Troubled Child in York County and it alms to involve lay and professional people who Graham Tucker Director of the Anglican Conference Centre Dr J ex ecutive director of the Met ro Toronto Social Planning Council will be guest speak The conference plans to foster greater pub lic awareness of the mag nitude of the problems sur rounding the care and treatment of children and adolescents suffering from mental emotional and so cial handicaps to services available to child ren and adolescents in York County and to demonstrate that there is much that citi zens can do to ameliorate the problems by efforts in their port from the Agriculture and Refor estation Committee would have al lowed King Cole Ducks to pump liq uid waste onto approximately acres of county forest lands Recommended was a oneyear agreement at a charge of to the farm Committee Chairman Gar net Williams reeve of Vaughan Town ship said the proposal represented a temporary solution to the pollu tion problem at King Cole Duck be terminated after a maximum of Farms He said the agreement would two years J D Griffiths management for ester for the Department of Lands and Forests and King Cole Ducks had incurred considerable pressure See KING COLE DUCKS page 13 Water vile Lemar residents NEWMARKET Residents of The St Wildwoud Dr area have been plagued with vile water Fred Browning a resident told residents of the council meeting to demand action but went away with advice Mayor Tom Surgeoner explained becomes foul The mayor said a new well and mains planned for the area next year would cure the prob lem according to the engineers He advised the group to write Ontario Water Resources Commission officials who must approve the project urging them to hurry Mr Browning described the wa ter coming from taps in the area as having an like odor ex cessive sediment and discoloration He said because of the bad wa ter meals were ruined and had to be thrown out clothes were stained and some children wont drink the water even with sugar in it Mr Browning said hed often heard it said that Newmarket was a dry town but didnt think it was a literal expression He said little if any water is consumed on the east side of town unless it is first boiled He asked the town to consider a flushing program an iron filtration system at the Srigley St Well or some means of hurrying up the on the new Sutton Town engineer Mike Perkins said OWRC engineer Gerald met with council last May to discuss the iron filtration system but no re port had been received from the en gineer Councillor Doris Blair pointed out later Mr Duffield told the May meeting he was leaving for British Columbia shortly Mr Perkins said he recently called OWRC about the report and found nobody had been assigned to take up where Mr Duffield left off He said somebody will be soon OFFICIAL PLAN Continued from page 1 graphical mapping which is necessary to accurately assess serving costs a- gainst new developments Reeve Clare Salisbury said he backed the mayor I do not feel this is the time to spend for plan ning Councillor Bob Forhan charged it would be very bad planning for us to wait until 1974 He pointed out Regional council will have to plan and service the highlyurbanized south end of the county first We would be doing a disser vice to our people not to look at plan ning parks schools roads etc for the next five years Theres been igh bad planning in this town Mr pointed out the pro vinces TorontoCentered Region Plan has designated Newmarket to grow to people This is basically what the Reg ion of York plan will say along with where the major roads and sewers will be located he said He said regional officials have roads our own density of population as long as we slay under that 25000 celling Somewhere theres been a mis understanding of the Regional func tion just as there was a on how reassessment would work it hasnt benefitted the peo ple of York Councillor Herb Elines a plan ning board member said there are quite a few subdivisions before planning board and we dont get anywhere with them because the board always needs studies done be fore it can consider them The biggest thing here Is the time limit four months against four years 1 feel if we can get a plan that wo can work with we should go ahead he said TAXES Continued from page This will give council a pretty clear picture of the political implica tions who it will be helping and who it will not be helping before it passes the budget bylaw Mr Hec tor said It will also postpone the deci sion until after the Oct 5 election Then we are accepting these industrial and commercial reassess ments Were not going to do anything about them asked Mr You hive no choice The minis ter wont budge said the auditor It seems a shame said How can you justify all thli stuff being reduced How can you accept market value of something you know the market value of he de manded Earlier he had charged that assessors hadnt reassessed industrial properties at their true market value Mayor Tom Surgeoner said We must move ahead He assured Mr the fight will go on next year Then the mayor asked la ft wish of this council that we dent out any tax bills and let the miniate worry about It No action

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