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THE ERA Serving York Count Sinn DAVID R HASKELL CARTER JOHN Truth about TCRP is out The truth about the TorontoCentre Region Plan the Ontario governments 30year deve lopment blueprint for the area around Metro Toronto is finally out The province drew up the original design for the without sufficient information McKeough minister of intergovernment affairs and the cabinet member most respon sible for the plan told a group of municipal politicians in Barrle last week Doubtless the news didnt come as much of a surprise to the County politicians it wouldnt have surprised those in York It was obvious provincial planners still hadnt caught up on their homework when the second phase of the then yearold scheme was unveiled last summer for Instance was given a 30year population growth celling that was people under its 1071 population Newmarket Aurora and other communities were given ceilings so low that they would be reached in four or five years Instead of and would not allow these communities to attain the balanced assessment ratios they were striv ing to reach before growth must cease Mr McKeough has consistently slated ho of the TCRP but will allow an economical rale wants local participation in development of the of growth in Yorks communities Recently York Region sent a brief to We hope this is the background Informa- containing more realistic population levels his officials need for their next revision of levels which maintain the planning principals the TorontoCentred Region Plan Keswick proposals need study now Keswick area residents particularly those north of the Jersey River where here is no form of water system at present are facing a pretty stiff bill for installation of municipal sewer and water systems Although municipal officials point out the projected cost of the system isnt much higher than that of similar systems In other York com munities there are two differences One is that new sewer and water systems being installed In most other York communities are going Into new subdivisions and so are paid for in the price of the new houses and the other Is that the area of Keswick affected by the plans is not a wealthy one The average home Is assessed just half the Newmarket average Residents of the area should make them selves well aware the costs and benefits of the new system proposals now white the Ontario Water Resources Commission hearings are still ahead of them However area residents must also keep in mind the septic tank ami water problems which have plagued the area for years If these two projects arent built the area can surely look forward lo increasingly enforcement of public health regulations NEWSROOM NOTES We need to preserve the trees we have left terry carter in England said Mayor Bob the other night at a planning committee meeting you cant cut down even one tree without go vernments approval He made the comment during a discussion on a citizens complaint about a lumbering op eration now underway in what weve always known as bush the beautiful forest tract along the west side of the estate running up the St rightofway to the county farm Some other member of the towns planning committee had asked if the committee should bother doing anything about that complaint Af ter all the councillor pointed out the bush Is private properly and he can cut it down If he likes The mayor agreed there isnt much the town council can do about preserving the trees as tilings stand now but he said maybe its time for some legislation so It can do something The bush Is one of the last natural Heavy machines have through the sandy forest floor and dragged the downed giants trllllums and everything else in the way Piles of freshlycut brush and limb wood litter the newlydenuded land filling the little bogs and valleys When you walk through the bush as I did Sunday you wonder as you taste the sand and dust which the wind Is already whipping up In little clouds from your feet if this is the last summer these few acres of trees and their little stream will he here And you wonder what happens to this land when the trees arc gone And about the other forest tracts which dot the Glcuville Hills just west of the town most of them in King Town ship and about the stately maples along some of the towns older streets which are due for a widening this summer And you cant help agreeing Willi the may or Somewhere along the line people should have to justify the need to cut down a ear- old tree Inside the town limits at least John Lorkc of River Drive Pork ho spent much of his during his retirement sketching Ontarios fast Ontario buildings Above is his sketch of the Christian Baptist Church ItwOsbuilt in mllamrli Declare love not war Although it is illegal to pick the which adorn he forest in York Region at this time of year no law protects he forests This scene was photographed in hush by Era photographer Robert Unite last week- BILL SMILEY A candle to light the way Well you can stop holding your breath biggest thing since the building of the pyramids In the opinion of some people is accomplished Our daughter is married And off our hands after gruelling years It says 1 hope theres some ancient saying like Stormy wedding day sunny marriage Not that there was anything stormy about the wedding itself It was positively seraphic and some people were smiling with sheer delight for the first time in years But the weather was something else The day before was sunny and still The day after was the same The wedding day was the worst rotten day of a long rotten spring Driving rain and bonechilling wind Iknow was there Out in it doing all the each other Chaos chores ice cubes cream for the cof fee smokes mix dry cleaners etc I have neither a hat nor a raincoat and I couldnt find my wifes umbrella so I was soaked to skin from the navel both ways jeans and Tshirt with one hour to go before tho ceremony But this was good because Shelby Is a great mixer and later on when we ran out of mix he went out and got some Next guests were two drenched urchins who had hitchhiked through the torrent some miles Soaked right through 1 didnt know what lo do with them Son Hugh alt the way from Montreal for the day provided a solu tion that no middleaged square would have thought of He took them downstairs had litem take off their jeans and threw them the jeans kids in the dryer Then both front and back doorbells lo ring like a five alarm fire and your Hut chaos often works letter than logistics his was to he a llahai ceremony The bride groom with their typical acumen had not Shelby kissed the rings put them rn the appropriate fingers The couple kissed Four beautiful nicies each brought one white rose lo the bride And it was over IM going to have a think my laughter said goodbye I nobody else did Now how a i some grandchild Its Victoria Day morning as I write this Lolutnii and outside in lit warm spring atmos phere can be heard the occasional rip of a fire cracker a sort of prelude to what we may ex pect later win n daylight silently fades into darkness Hut firecrackers make loud noises and loud noises make me think of bombs and bombs make me think of war and war makes me think of student demonstrators and student demon strators make me think of the slogan Make love Not war and the end result is that just sit and wonder 1 wonder if any one of us really knows the answer if we know the dif ference between privilege and prupriol and panacea prejudice anil preservation Now is questionable if tin worlds lending nations will ihi 1 sonic breach of treaty declare against each other if they ever do heres one wliu ho aaiitst In runit merit office door hours before they open it Granted the prospect of war is not lo thiol i I Im li iljnl Hi mm ivoi lions alternative What will lit- Hie result years from now Nothing I am almost certain short of i cataclysm natural or manmade im priwnl Hit worlds jjopuh ion from In in lW iVi by the year less than off li the most vigorous population i Look at Japan There the birthrate ha been naked in 10 years from per thousand lo This has been done by intensive goVeri merit propaganda and provision of measures all resulting in the fact that now per cent of married couples in Japan family planning Yet inescapably the lion there has shown an increase Now il will 110000000 i This is because deathcontrol Is However 1 mustnt though I until the And that Somehow as it so often happens everything fell Into place Her old lady her way out of the hospital then went three solid days and nights without one wink of sleep She was so nervous and exhausted she was positive shed have to take to her bed before ceremony But from that subterranean depth which most of us dont possess she not only made it but came through with flying colors took off their boots A gang of boys had arrived the day before to rake up the lawn This was good But It was bid because everybody was too wet to notice her apartment with all year There is an old cliche The bride was beautiful in a Well Im hero lo you that the bride was beautiful in a long svelte borrowed dress that looked as though slit stepped out of a painting long an subconsciously from the Book of Common Irayer mazurkas rippled quietly in sang a hong in French without one ember dropping on the rug A single candle was 111 from them bride and groom faced fit li to eye and personal oaths not repeating Little by little Crete mixers Trees multiply in content With the grass id up for buildings and highway 1 Consequently Sounds bleak- The total deaths in World War iiMderitbh than the annual incr lie worlds population today A might decimate the populatio How Im giving up lovemaking right i As if I hadnt enough to worry about I just read where there are to be more changes in the rules of popular sports such as hockey and cor and such It is clear that the world is crying out for such changes But why in my sport I have to drift along with the same boring rules decade after decade When was there last a change In the laws of noughts and crosses However things are one comforting bit news appeared last week to banish the gloom Police Chief Crawford told the York Regional Police Commission that crime in the Region is up per cent All In all the situation looks good said the chief God just imagine in the midst of all the other gloom we might also have had a reducj tlon In crime