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Recreation departments new concept community programming of schools broader use of school facilities for recreation of all types for the past three years Our eventual goal is the complete of school recreational integration of the facilities of the school board and the recreation department within our town he said This fall commissioner Huron Heights Secondary School will become a multipurpose activity centre It will have night classes sponsored by initiated within the community such as the Mens Christian Fellowship meetings and training centres for athletic teams The goal of the broader program is to have community associations instead of the recreation department take over recreation programming In their par ticular areas Wed like to see community school associations formed in each area of town to work closely with the recreation and education authorities he said In essence all we are doing is community participation The recreation department will Instead of the actual organiser the commissioner Under the concept if community association In Quaker Hill ana for in stance wanted to have a gymnasium available one night a week on a basis for its members the recreation department would sDotl the apace at Rogers school and ensure that someone probably a volunteer was there to the equipment The rest is up to be the communities around Rogers Road school school and Stuart Scott school Mr Shannon This type of program Is unique far town the said the commissioner bin he will be setting the pace in Una ana for other York Ration communities The school board has given Newmarket the use of the schools said existing community associations will be contacted about per- scheme and he Maes new associations will form as The program win start In two w THE ERA vol no it Since 1 Newmarket NEWMARKET AURORA KESWICK ONTARIO SEPTEMBER Town to host party for movie premiere NEWMARKET Town council will be the host tonight to bet- night and will throw a party afterwards at the The 17 minute color feature film was made by cameraman- director Anthony Ontario eases growth freeze on Newmarket Aurora FLAMELESS DRAGON Peter the Dragon was of the hit of the bit week as staff members at Peter Gorman Swimming presented their mill seasons end review Above escorted the tank by Barb and Joanne both members of the pool cheeking staff The legs of re played by and Marriott Drew photo Evacuate residents around Collis fire that forced the evacuation of manlier of people from an apartment building and two The Aurora Fire Depart meat responded to a call to the plant at 8 26pm and arrived on the scene to find smoke billowing from every section of the building The plants night shift had already been four trucks and 16 men The fire was confined to a and vat system that smoke was carried throughout the butkang The blazing bin was located in the southeast corner of the buildings third floor immediately above a chemical resulted in York Regional Police being called in to evacuate nearby residents Fireman drilled through piping to reach the blaze which Crusading doctor wins Red JACKSONS POINT Barn Theatres fundraising party Saturday night Or Vesaema heard about his good fortunate as he was packing to leave for London England where he Is to start work on a PhO thesis Dr Veanema who has been practicing medicine Nam where he had been a doctor with a Canadian government aid program for live years and blasted ef fectiveness of that program Before Joining Dr Russell in Sutton Dr Venema was associated with a clinic in Tanzania and he now has an interest in a similar clinic la Nigeria Single and in his early a Or Vennema was one of the first Canadians to be awarded the Order of Canada He received It in for his work in Viet Nam with one unofficial figure set in the range A cleanup shift was back on duty Monday with a full shift reporting to work Tuesday Ironically three members a that fou mployees Fire department officials said Monday night that the cause of the incident is still under investigation The only other emergency call in the recent history of the plant Beach man 83 drowns at Pefferlaw An man from South Beach drowned last Wednesday after apparently falling out of the boat in which he was a Motel Robert of Island View Beach was also In the boat al he time and Is charged with having liquor in place accordii Police Big it Weekend for soccer baseball big weekend for Association playoff series with and baseball In this area with Newmarket and Aurora hosting soccer tour and Newmarkets bantam club winning a thriller in its Ontario Baseball Stratford The Aurora One won the championship in the Newmarket soccer tourney See details in sports section starting on Page 13 By TERRY CARTER Era Editor NEWMARKET Growth limits on Newmarket and Aurora imposed by limited sewage treatment capacity were eased this week when the Ontario Environment ministry gave a green light to major expansions of the two towns sewage treatment plants Mayors of both towns received word of the long- awaited approvals in letters from the ministry late last week The expansions which will cost an estimated million each will increase treatment plant capacities sufficiently to handle sewage from the equivalent of an additional 6000 Newmarket residents and an additional 10000 in Aurora Newmarkets sewage treatment plant will have reached its present capacity when this construction season is completed According to En vironment ministry engineers the presentlyapproved Quaker Hill homes the homes being built in the Del sub division the Valley of the Cedars subdivision in the north east sector of town several new industries and the new plaza will fill allotments for the present lite expansions will provide sufficient sewage treatment capacity to allow Newmarket to grow to and Aurora to 23000 people No new approvals for residential construction in Aurora have been issued for over two years because of the overworked treatment plant Mayor Bob con tacted for comment on the provincial expansion approval in his town confirmed he had received the letter but pointed out the Ontario governments green light is conditional on suitable financing arrangements being made The mayor said he could not foresee problems with financ ing Its a regional problem but we still have to come up with the dough He said one of his prime concerns will be to ensure that the cost of the plant expansion will not be paid by present taxpayers in the town Under the legislation establishing the Region of York all municipal debentures must be handled by the region but the cost of the debentures is assessed back to the benefiting municipality Both Mayor and Regional Councillor Ray Twinney said projects by the two major now working in town SdUckedanz Developments Ltd Homes will be likely candidates for part of the new three million gallon sewage treatment capacity The mayor said some capacity must also be allotted to the new industrial park Hie linn needs the capacity to complete the final phase of its Quaker Hill subdivision including apart ment buildings and stores on the Yonge St frontage and wants to develop property on the north side of Davis Dr east known as the Watson farm The town will then negotiate with developers for the balance of the capacity and some in- tilling of vacant land in the existing urban area will have to be provided for Well simply have to negotiate the best deals we can said Mr We would be in the drivers seat The incumbent town council has required developers to provide the town with major subdivide and that we get the funds to pay for the sewage treatment plant expansion so it can be made without cost to the existing taxpayers said the mayor Both he and Mr Twinney said they will consider seeking a new library and the mayor said a major expansion of the Davis Dr fireball is also a possibility The mayor said the towns new official plan spelling out general land uses for the next years will be presented to the public in October Heaid if it la acceptable the council would negotiate a detailed fiveyear growth plan with York Region which would include phasing and rate of growth to coincide with the new official plan He said such a detailed plan would allow council to establish priorities for the new municipal services it must acquire from developers and for the new parkland it will need north of Davis Dr According to an an nouncement made last year by the Ontario government the sewage treatment plants in Newmarket and Aurora must serve for about another 10 years By that time a trunk sewer will have been built to lake sewage from this area to a plant on Lake Ontario for Treatment Sewage treatment capacity is the biggest tool Ontario government planners have to control growth in this area Move a I lows Au rora to grow to 23000 AURORA The approval last week of Auroras sewage treatment plant expansion wont bring an overnight population explosion to the town We havent really set any priorities ClerkAdministrator KB Rodger said Friday But Im sure that we just cant open the doors When the million ex pansion is finished likely sometime next year the sewage plant will have the capacity to accommodate a population of about 23 Thats a jump of almost 10000 from the present population However it is unclear bow quickly Aurora will grow once a imposed growth ban in effect since is lifted Two factors will help an swer that question the amount of population allotted to ora by the new York Region official plan and the fate of the provinces plana for a major At any rate an Im mediate rush to development in Aurora 1b improbable given those two factors and the posture of the present council Mayor Evelyn Buck la an Aurora to retain its basic small town characteristics Her council so far seems to agree While council has set no specific development priorities its probable that owners of two unfinished subdivisions will get the green light to complete their developments The first phase of the north- end Ashton Dene subdivision was AURORA Page SLSCA asks councils for own versions of dump fill regulations NEWMARKET Members of South Lake Con Authority continue to handle proposed floodplain regulations lake a hot potato At a special meeting Thursday night the authority derided to take the regulations back to councils for input Councils will be asked to recommend limits they can live with Adoption of the provincially drawn up set of regulations which would control develop- in supped dill i ltd hi June after strong protest led by mayors Bob The floodplain restrictions came up Thursday night at the authority was reviewing minutes of the last meeting Newmarket again led the op position Mayor Buck was not George Richardson Newmarket member of the Authority and vice chairman of authority said the regulations would cripple downtown Newmarket Mayor said that municipalities are having their powers usurped and that we have to keep this particular power at the local level for right business and industries adversely affect the town economically If adopted the floodplain controls would mean that the authority would review developments in the regulations aren as restrictive chairman Lambert Willaon of thing Prof Smith said Im municipalities without as Mayor made them Aurora deputy reeve Jack glad live on top of a hill in East further consultation with their out to be They dont mean that Fennel of West Gwillimbury and councils no development can take Prof A Smith a provincial However even those The motion moved by East place he said government representative on authority members who wanted Jack Rye calling Favoring implementing of the Authority the regualtlons adopted were for council Input passed the regulations were authority I think theyd be a good reluctant to impose them upon unanimously eyes two Georglna s ites for parks on the basis of the hill twee of storm similar to Hurricane Hazel in 154 Mayor also noted that the town having a engineering study made of the of of before any controls are set Jim Gosnell resources manager for SLSCA said the NEWMARKET South Lake Conservation Authority has its eyes on two properties in Georglna Town ship staff is making a detailed study of a four west of Jackson a Point It used to be the location of the SwjUnauhjiamndby chairman of the SLSCA committee con cerned with property acquisitions feels the site would be an excellent one for recreational purposes He said tbereisapoasKullTtallteould lata be to the west The authority also recently Felloe and Don Mills Jim Gosnell told meeting Thursday night the owner would prefer use for the over development Mr Lyon whose committee at twoul J for for recreational ttseage The committee will also visit St Gerards Novitiate on the fifth between property authority the property for conservation baa bean pushing to have a township is currently having a study conducted to the of converting the novitiate building to town of fices