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Aurora school beats schedule but lacks road By EVELYN BUCK Drive South was part of the towns planned road pattern But of the school property was sit- J on the planned ft tension According 1 1 town policy on new road development the school board was asked to deed half of the road allowan ce to the municipality The board argued that it was not its policy to deed property to a purposes The dispute was finally resolved when the town agreed to purchase its share of the road allowance from the school board hafld- Nov with eaoip- installed and tor- Dished ready for see ear- for ly in me east side of t road allowance So is Aurora Last week after opening tenders ranging from to for the ad with Del Con- property on the east aide of the road allowance to see if a sharedcost program can be devised Were committed to the road theres no doubt about said Mayor Dick Theres real urgency to this been held with the ow ners Del Zotto Company stjon of the costs for i the road and services In 1969 Del Zotto was the successful bid der for a contract from the Ontario Housing Cor senior citizens apart ments phis public sent to Town Engineer The ached site on Wellington Street West was purchased by the former Aurora and Dis trict High School Board At that time aid Drive north of WeB- ington Street had not for a similar apartment project was also subseq uently awarded to Wim- Homes Ltd The bu ilding on Aurora Orch ards Drive has been for several months Whether the south ern extension to Mac- Donald Drive will be completed in time for the new high school wo uld now appear to dep end upon Aurora being allowed to exceed pro- vincially imposed growth limitations Del Zotto continued interest in de veloping the properly and speedy completion of negotiations with the MUSEUM OPENS The new Whitchurch Museum located in he former Bogarttovvn was officially opened last weekend by Mayor Ken Above former Whitchurch Township Reeve George Richardson dressed as a pollution control Death ruled accidental However last month who was crushed under a 20ton ditching machine after less than a hours work death of John because of a gap in re gulations covering con struction machines According to coron er Dr C Noble tire ma chine was moving from where it was parked to the Highway Traffic Act or the Construction Safe In light of this the jury made four recom- prevent a similar incident from That the operator be in full legal command of a machine when mov ing from one job to an other and should be sub ject to the Highway Traffic Act or regula- Operators of all construction equipment be properly licensed Operators of all construction equipment l be taught by a qualified individual No rider signs be displayed on all vehicles I According to Dr No- if the incident had taken place on the con- I struct on site then char- could have been laid i under the Construction Safety Act There is a gap in i the regulati covers the machine v it is in transit Dr concluded WHY BOTHER THE ERA DOES IT ALONE Since January The Eras circulation has shown a spectacular increase Her are The Eras circulation figures No Jaiiij 8419 February 8581 March 9154 April Publishers subject to audit ending Die 31 3 Hills Mar 31 I77S 8 Mils Mar 31 1819 Certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulation AURORA ACTIVITIES Topics of The Town holidaying in Mr and Mn of enjoyed last week- The Misses St John have returned borne af ter a holiday in Eng land and Europe weekend with her grand mother Mrs Graham George St Thirty members of by The Harmon ies the to a musical program was given by The Form er church members were present from Toronto St chase convenor of ba zaar Mrs A convenor of aft- Horo or competitions circulation figures Banner Braifor Witness 6 months ending Mar 31 5498 Mar 31 3451 Certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulation Canadian Advertising Rates and Data Publisher Statement and children of Clinton Mr and Mrs Java have returned to Aorora from Victoria Hay of has return ed home after enjoying a via with her ad daughter Mr and Mrs Walter HdJview Road Mr and Mn Dav id of Montreal visited Mm Wilsons pa rents Mr and Mn E H Clarke at York Man- Walter Smith opened with a poem June The program was in charge Miss Thflma Hayes Hoi Guest minis- for the day was president of Ontario Circle on Wednesday June 2 Mr Cecil Adair chairman of the nomin ating committee presen ted the slate of officers for 197172 as follows past president Mr Charles program con- I venor Mrs It J As there were no further nominations the slate was accepted J Mr Coleman paid tribute to Miss Mabel Smith for her faithful service as corresponding i secretary since the club REGIONAL SPENDING from page 1 the formation of regional governments are desig ned to be used strictly for reorganization the However Mr Bales major note of concern seemed to be that during the transitional period new regional govern have undertaken substantial spending for programs which have no relation to the reorgani cation process In other words the money is not from time to time lefUatioo covering these government may seed amendment to permit ad justment to meet unfore seen difficulties Mr Bales said The minister did not specifically mention York Region which re cently unveiled an million budget which has yet to be approved regional council In his elaboration of the ministers speech but t has as long as tax payers have indicated they are willing to pay for such things as gold- plated schools closer look at regional spending of grants de signed specifically for transitional purposes Ironically another Queens Park official disagreed with Mr Mun- on provinces con trol over municipal spending heres believe the situation wont change amendments Bill 102 which created York Region would aid the regions taxpayers the finance branch official pointed to the controver sial cost ceilings Im- a bit and the public was in f support of I Mr told The Era the province will not stand by and allow provincial budget government regard the department at the have the power to tall municipal spending aniii t the official said We provinces right to inter- creases that burden sue programs which would not have been un dertaken under the system of Add thorn up and youll too why Tho Era it ALONE Banner and Witness together 8954 The Era ALONE 9154 AND If you spend to advertise in BOTH the Aurora Banner and the Brad- ford Witness it costs you a total of to reach only homes For a SI in Th Era you SO WHY BOTHER THE ERA 8952331 Serving ALL of the Region of York