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The Era THE ERA Serving York County Sinn 1852 at 30 Charles St New- eacrTarVcorrVer per month Member Canadian Association DAVID HASKELL TERRY CARTER New contract increases garbage collection costs With the signing of a garbage contract this week town council increased the cost of iste removal to homeowners in the old part of Newmarket The signing of the new contract with York Sanitation Co Ltd came despite the fact that there was still two years to go in the old contract at lower rates The new contract means that the new of Newmarket with a population of about 16000 will pay about to have its garbage collected Last year the old town with a population of 10500 paid about 000 for the same service The includ ed the cost of billing and collecting for the The new contract means that the per cost per year will be just under Under the terms of the old contract resi dents of the old town paid per capita per year In all fairness to York Sanitation it must be pointed out that thev were entitled to seek an increase because of increased costs forced on them by new regulations of the provincial Waste Management Act But it should also be pointed out that this increase should not be paid for by resi dents of the old town especially when the town had a contract for garbage collection for another two years Town council should have negotiated a separate contract for the new part of town and date it to expire the same day the exist ing contract for the old town expired Police information blackout rule rescinded Regional Government too big too costly too impersonal This is the growing complaint from resi dent ratepayers everywhere And for a time at least it appeared that the impersonal aspect of the system might spread and include branch detachments of the Regional Police Department But the policy to impose a news black- at the local level and have all releases issued from Head Office at Newmarket has been rescinded by Chief Bruce Crawford Were pleased pleased to know that the Regional Chief retains sufficient confidence in his acting chiefs to allow them to perform this public relations chore Were pleased that the contact between the media and local police personnel will not be broken Through the years York newspapers have enjoyed a close working relationship with police There were however strict rules of procedure to follow when garnering infor mation The police understood this and so did this newspaper The policy we feel work ed well While the single contact system may indeed be best in more urbanized areas such as Metro it is not satisfactory here The communities are too far removed from one another and from Head Office to make it practical As the makeup of the Region changes and branch offices are closed new lines of presspolice communications must be estab lished That time in our opinion has not yet arrived Stouffville Tribune THE Readers ERA This space is reserved or the comments opinions and drawings of The Eras read- Please feel free to send your along All we ask is that you Include your name and address- NEWSROOM NOTES or a minute I thought it was 300 years ago terry carter Dear Editor We have two boys in East Minor Hockey Association and until now we all have thoroughly enjoyed it For the past few weeks our referees have been boys about 12 years of age who have a little trouble keeping an eye on the game due in my opinion to the fact that the spectators appear to interest them more than the game in progress We have no objection the youngsters to get their plates until the last moment I would like to say she I was walking along the north by moonlight the other night and I could have saw a ghostly black robed figure ling me from near the northwest bastion My report didnt surprise any of my fellow guests in the fort cook house when told the tale at breakfast next morning Most had had the same experience at one time or another In fact there is even i legend about the place being haunted All of us felt as though we had been through a time tunnel which deposited us on the century frontier In fact that was the idea We had been invited to spend the weekend at among the the reconstructed Jesuit community and settlement near presentday Midland which flourished between and Just bring your sleeping bag and some clothing I was told Were going to live a3 closely as we can to the way the first inhabitants did 300 years ago The man neglected to mention that the first inhabitants slept on beds of maple cards and apparently at least in the mind of the bedbuilder were all fivefeettwo The settlement complete to a hand crafted iron weather vane on the church steeple has been recreated from the ashes ft on the site when the priests burned it in to prevent its use by invading Iroquois Archaeologists historians and builders using these charcoal lines in the earth and years of research have built the Jesuit mission centre the fortified French community the bark the hospital North Amer icas first liftlocks bastions and many other things as they must have been in the early 1640s Here where Highway meets the Wye River directly below the Martyrs Shrine the Jesuits and their lay helpers craftsmen and soldiers established a bustling settlement in 1639 focal point of a Christian mission to the Huron nation Here lived and worked six of North Americas martyr saints In spite of lonely isolation and hardship SainteMarie became in its time a major community at its peak second only to Quebec City Founded before Montreal SainteMarie housed as many as 66 Europeans one fifth of the European population of New France by English and Dutch settlers farther south and pushed by their hunger for beaver pelts to trade this port area on the Great Lakes might have flourished completely changing the outcome of our history Seventeeth century frontier food if our imagination did it justice left no one hun gry We were entitled to bacon and eggs for breakfast as the Jesuits had brought cattle BILL SMILEYS SUGAR AND SPICE Trudeaus wedding the wisdom of age upsets in March The others were Mohammed taking the clobbering of his lifetime and winning an argument with my wife Not from the first have I been swept way by Mr charisma though the omen in my family were At times I have ad serious doubts about his attitude and decisions But when a man has enough sense to wait until he is 51 to get married I feel our minister And a millionaire But when a man marries at hes had it He has just thrown away the best years f his life the second that is For the first 10 or years hes swim ming the tide In more prosaic terms he is spending about out of the hours every week sorting out his kids his finan ces and his woman That leaves him 28 hours to float and dont forget hes going against the tide So where does he float Down- washedup On shore or otherwise If he can keep his head above water dur ing that first period hes a mighty strong swimmer But in the process he has develop ed hardening of his physical emotional and mental arteries And just about then he is pulled out of the water purple and gasping and told that he is entered in another marathon In short his kids are in their teens Swim baby swim It really racks me to think of the gifts I have squandered in nearly years of mar riage Especially when I think of Mr Tru- very much alike Hes a little old er and has a little less hair Probably more unless theyre About 25 years ago we were on equal terms Both in excellent physical condition The only real differences I can see are that he had a lot of brains and a lot of money And I chose to swim upstream while he chose to swim down Perhaps theres one other minor differ ence He does everything well and I do every thing poorly But dont forget hes had two and a half decades to practise everything from skiing to chess while Ive had to catch them on the run Id like to see what a great scubadiver he was if hed had to raise two rotten and pay off about four mortgages Not to mention dealing with a strongminded woman who has a direct line to divine inspiration in beautiful intelligent 22yearold at hh age Hes practically while Im like an old alley cat About all I could snatch up aside from the fact that my wife would kill is a 48yearold with three divorces and pigs and chickens to their outpost even though it meant an 800mile canoe journey with over 50 portages We also know that within a few years the French had made this area into the bread basket of so we can assume in the good years at least there was no shortage of corn grain for flour pumpkins and squash Georgian Bay and the Wye provided fish our cook provided a delicious fish and potato stew and we highlighted the weekend with a great banquet of moose and venison Fortu nately there are also records of brandy and good wines coming over those portages Historical Parks staff has spar ed no effort in assuring historical accuracy Where an item mentioned in the volumes of Jesuit Relations written from could not be traced here historical detectives went to work in France to find out what the item looked like there in the 17th century Then it was duplicated Many of these things tools tamps the forge kitchen ware furniture are there to be hefted and handled Also on the site is a museum and a movie theatre where a film of the recon struction is shown SainteMarie reopens to the public in midMay but director John Sloan says he will happily make arrangements for groups to hold a during the off winter months He doesnt supply the moose and veni son though Take your own grub and take it from me a warm sleeping bag century fireplaces arent all theyre cracked up to be And dont worry about that blackrobed ghost It must have been my imagination The only ghost in the place according to legend is that of a poor Huron woman buried 300 years ago in the little cemetery over in the Indian compound but let have an adult official to control the game Busy Sec Dear Editor In reply to A Deal- referral to people are either too cheap or too the week before was not complaining about the lineup or waiting in it They were complain ing about people like busy sec and the poor overworked ladies in our local of Transport Office who regardless of the line up take dealers and their business first instead of making them wait their turn Did it ever occur to this busy sec that a lot of people cannot af ford their plates until the last few days and are not cheap or lazy It up about the a y the transport office For in side f or a hour at least for the min utes to pass and if De alers sec is so busy why doesnt she drop off her plates etc at the transport office and pick them up later then they could get filled out not when the ladles a Just sign me busy fulltime worker and housewife and mother MRS MARGARET LA- CROIX Newmarket Dealer Sec had her nerve Dear Editor I am writing in ans wer to Dealers See who wrote in answer to a letter a reader had in your paper the previous line but about the lady coming in and getting looked after Tight away told to si Dealers Sec sure bad her nerve saying them before Did It ever occur to her that maybe these people could not afford to get their plates until the last few days I am not one of the cheap or lazy ones as them I just did not like her nasty comments a- bout the people who must get their plates at the last minute worked ladies In the lo cal Transport they are only over worked a few weeks of the year and get well paid for it From a busy house wife all year ISABELLA 3M Timothy St BILL GAMBLES TOWN CRIER Poetry history and town clock Not all of the mail a columnist receives constitutes either criticism or praise of his column For instance a few months ago a young lady whose name Im afraid escapes me at the moment but who lives on Main the post office called me to enquire This young lady who I believe also writes poetry deplored the fact that a little space was not provided each week in the local paper for verse interesting point which I am working on particularly since occasion ally indulge in the odd bit of doggerel myself Then a couple of weeks ago chap who has applied for a Canada Council grant for the of writing an historical book wanted to know if he would have any chance of getting it and indeed what chance histor ical books had today Well Im hardly an expert on the subject but as I see it the historical book today if heavilymortgaged hovel Let him have his fifty or sixty thousand in salary We have enough to put bread Im not envious He earned it by being smart enough to stay single until he was 51 At least I dont have to bother with platoons of photographers and numberless newsmen when I take out Barbara Streisand No I wouldnt trade him even my old lady for his my kids for his charisma They think I have charisma which is good enough The only thing I get a little wistful about is not being asked to be Prime Minister And I still think I could beat him in a game of Russian billiards Belles iW of York E m Seventeenyearold Alma Carnival fjueeni a lor Hei ghts Secondary Sch- by her class mates in the carn ival contest She sews moil of her ays Hob Dylan re- cords and her still life By Robert While I Mj its to have any success at all calls for speci fic character requirements The first charac ter requirement is for a big muscular brute of a hero with a muskat hanging from his shoulder and a couple of ravishing beauties draped over each arm Both ravishing beauties should be the owners of high proud breasts if anyone can explain to me what a proud breast is and they should be precisely the endurasce he is essentially a sexually voraci ous type But then how voracious can a chap get with two girls who look exactly alike and whose characteristics are the same Better would it be by the beard of the prophet to have one good damsel and one bad one a damsel child is an ancient name for a chick with a problem So to avoid confusion one is ravenhaired and one is flaxen haired flaxen honey is a preperoxide name for blonde Next requirement is for a villain An historical villinn is according to the little of the historical novel a hard intel lectual tvpe with a strong healthy appetite for pigs knuckles old mortgage foreclosures and the high proud breasts of the good girl This kind of typecasting may seem unpractical at first glance but it is one of the captivating conventions that readers have come to expect The vidian should be a thorough scoun drel Have him say Grace before meals or feed stray cats and right away the reader will get him confused with the hero Finally with regard to the prose style the historical novels pages should be liber ally sprinkled with such expressions as Hey nonny Swounds and Ods bod- Nobody knows what an Ods bodkin is but it sounds real historical As soon as I heard that a British scien tist had discovered the awful truth about and longevity I dug up my old slid ing scale and begun summing up the facts This scientist in case you didnt know has come up with the astounding information that two packs of a day clips eight years off your life Now according to my old bedraggled the one I was clutching the day they expelled me from the third grade Id be only seven years old today If I had quit smoking 20 years ago Just think of it Seven years old and knowing what I know todny If I were seven vears old do you know what Id do Id spend all my pennies on those European chocolates that are supposed to be filled with real whis key and Id bootleg them to drunks And by the time I was again Id be a millionaire