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Aurora Keiwick THE ERA Serving York County Since DAVID HASKELL TERRY CARTER JOHN Newmarkets parks need protection Plans by two Newmarket senice clubs to enrich the towns park and recreation facilities by sponsoring major construction projects are part of one of the towns finest traditions For many years service clubs and particu larly the Lions Club have made parks and park facilities a major part of their community ser vice programs This year the Lions have indi cated they are prepared to take on another ma jor project its exact nature hasnt been de cided yet and the Rotary Club has announced plans to build a pavilion at Fairy Lake This is a tradition we hope grows stronger in the coming years for if current town coun cil park plans come to fruitition Newmarket will be very rich indeed in park potential Parts of Park have remained un developed for years because the town lacked funds to do the job two new parks one in Bay- view Hills and one in Eagle Hills need work and negotiations are underway to ensure that the banks of the Holland Finer from Dr to Rogers Reservoir become area This latter area will be administered by the South Lake Simcoe Conservation Authority as Wesley Brooks Conservation i to benefit by this fine tradition of community new trees planted in town parks last year have service its citizens must be more vigilant in the been destroyed by vandals care of their facilities Other equipment swings wading pools buildings has also suffered from this abuse Vandals have been taking a fearful toll in cannot to Newmarkets parks For instance last weekend constant patrols in the parks They will how- new trees at Park all surrounded ever take swift action if called to deal with by stakes and were broken off vandals It Is to pa users and park neigh- Parks and recreation commissioner Dan Shan- bors to protect the parks and report instances said that per cent of the 1000 worth of of vandalism Young Smyth It is not often that a person who is as young Perhaps her biggest achievement is her at heart as Verna Smyth reaches retirement age the focus of public health Usually retirement age they are happy l Iron to leave their job because the people they are working with regard them as old fogies who living in the past who will retire June as Regions dircc- Through it all this id spoken lady has continued to hold the respect of her clients and colleagues with calmness and courtesy is retiring and will be able to among the top in the country for of the driving forces behind Ill HI Mint IK in Old J- Ri during his sketching Ontor dioppoorng old Ontario Th Robert HIM homo of Col Holllnako THE This space is reserved for the comments opinions and drawings of The Eras rood Readers ERA along All we ask is that you include your name and address today Why should it to phone me back Vlll lowered Is it to- in a boll hour hall On welfare What inference hours passed and no what as happened lhC i the establishment of Yorks first mental health Surely though if the town is to continue clinic and long dim the and all of her rocks land Inside the house NEWSROOM NOTES te The Maple Leaf Forever 1 years old lorry carter for half me that at the ignorace and 1 a 1 inH 11 tiicn vfilynJl 1 who said she This year marks the anniversary of the writing of I lie Maple Forever a song once hailed as the nations national anthem and it happened in Newmarket The Maple Leaf was written by Alexander in 1872 when he was a teacher and princi pal of a school at the corner of Prospect St and Timothy St Years later in when the town the old school and it was replaced by a new one on the same site the new one was named after Mr and so it remains today The song which was to win Mr na tional fame and the approbation of such promin ent men of the day as Sir John A and Governor- General Lord was the result of a brisk walk on a beautiful fait day According to Newmarkets only written his tory Mr related the story of the walk to Col A vicepresident of the Ontario BILL SMILEY The speaker was speechless put it does have its tips and downs does it not Items I have a beloved aunt and a uncle She was widowed a couple of years ago and he became a widower some years ago They were very close was living alone in a goodsized house They finally decided to pool resources sell their houses and live in an apart ment as company for each other They went It 1 1 id lli 1 mi In ll mail I received news that she was ill with ter minal cancer and he was getting mar- Well Life is the life as my daughter said when she was about five We thought it a pretty philosophical statement at that age It covers a lot of ground Speaking of daughter the bride She and ready And it was 1145 am on the morn ing of the ceremony I sat down and wrote light hut loving tribute to the victim The cere It was a huge success The retiring lady was almost overwhelmed She had expected a lea with perhaps or people and watch brooch her husband id ll to way the 10 mar Goundou tall my uncle is honeymoon kind of a gift Maybe an oil painting pm there were over people the place some of them from over mile away Then the speakers began They He was followed by a couple of former stu dents a couple of former colleagues the local member of parliament for whom she wouldnt vole If it meant she was damned for eternity and a temporary colleague The temperature in the how do you like that word was about 110 The acou stics were hopeless A great groundswell of Historical Society During his stroll through town a maple leaf fell upon his coat and though he brushed at it lie found it still tlieie when he arrived home Impressed by the leaf that seemed to want to slay forever Mr Muir decided to write poem it Liter he read Hie completed verse to his wife and she suggested In sel it to music tin i mini pparcntly one has a choice of traditions One tradition holds thai Mr Muir then Die music himself and another that he took his poem to ids friend Martin Taylor in Holland landing and that the two men worked together on the music Mr Taylor was organist and choirmaster Christ Church Holland Land ing However there is no doubt that Mr could have written those stirring notes Ho was a cheerful and friendly Scot noted for his Glengarry cap ornamented with a silver Scotch thistle and was said to be the first to ever leach music in a Newmarket school The Maple Leaf Forever made its public de- hut at the cornerstone laying ceremony of Hie Christian Church on top of Main St hill July 1874 The congregation is this summer celebrat ing its 1501b anniversary and the cornerstone laying ceremony of this church its third was one of the biggest affairs in the little towns history up to that time Lord Governor General of Canada did the honors and the whole lown was decked out for the occasion Mr Muir and a choir his students and of Young Temperance League members were one of the highlights of the day with their rendition of The Maple Leaf Forever mail At am this tor had been discussed a previous meeting I Nov 11th tend In he Hands the School across the on road lo Inquire iliy the itasca as to ink lo the cash able to register Hi at a meeting I was told per respect in lowering lrindii will fin 1 their Hulled al flags ii 10 months nc ink dial wis Canada had stalled to ituin ii re in i lawn mo half mast was inin So have diaries on St Oilier 1 Why would tills same dnu iocs as Town Hall line fin- the whole pop -ii- lliuif ini will be like 1 a foeliiij had Hans at half mast Komwd morning bach I received a variety York County Hoard of KAY SHERIDAN Mrs 1 iMii Death penalty but not the whip When llniwri of the Presby terian Church of Canada advocated week the restoration m there is little that he reopened a with an October election now there seems little possibility that thought of as an issue agree with llev Brown am ill favor of restoring the With regard to flogging however opposed to it believe and barbaric and serves no rent For example is not a person being flogged be has his crime of violence and the punishment And no useful Due I i he of social problems as law reforms are concerned has been find i penalH which stands in just Hie crime In only one area can flogf said stand in just proportion to the and that is where the criminal inflicts bodil pain on another To advocates of idea of punishing a criminal who inflicts would he like it which reflect Hie a but two of the phrase Hugging ape fear or