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The Era Newmarket Keiwkh Wed Jan THE ERA Serving York County Since 1852 DAVID HASKELL TERRY CARTER JOIUI LOT I BARRY WALLACE Phone Newmarket Charles SI Phone Aurora A welcome decision from the The Ontario Municipal Boards swift decision last week clearing the way for con struction of a million civic administration centre on flood plain land in Aurora the decision came about minutes after the hearing ended has saved York taxpayers a con siderable amount of money In approving the project in the manner It did the OMB not only eliminated the need for a costly postponement of the Jan 15 construction start while a decision is awaited but it also granted permission for Aurora to dispense with a plebiscite on the project Hearing chairman Smith said the board was in a better position to assess and rule on the highly technical evidence than is the general public Since the OMB hearing had already added an additional to the cost of the joint Town of Aurora York County school board project we feel the panels decision here was a wise The hearing centred around whether the new Aurora town hall and county school board headquarters can be safely housed in a structure spanning Tannery Creek and with its foundations In the flood plain The ruling in this regard was that the building plan need only demonstrate a general to the flood plain restrictions ad vocated by the South Lake Conservation Authority and need not conform to them in exacting detail The ruling will directly effect development policies in every community in York and perhaps the province Conservation authorities across Ontario have attempted to hold up projects which are all or partially on floodprone land unless the developer can prove the water storage capacity of the flood plain remains precisely the same after the development as it was before In approving the Aurora project the OMB opted for a commonsense approach to flood plain restrictions rejecting the SLSCA argument Flood plain restrictions have posed thorny problems for municipalities and the OMB decision requiring reasonable adherence to the policies and advocating the policies general application are welcome York needs youth detention centre We welcome the establishment of a three- officer youth bureau within the York Regional Police Department The new bureau will initially concentrate its activities in the south end of the region and will operate from a base in Richmond Hill but we are confident that as soon as budget and manpower commitments allow the bureau will be ex panded to cover crime involving young people in the entire region Formation of the bureau brings to the fore another crying need yet to be faced by York Region the need for a juvenile detention At present those offenders over 16 who are being held in custody prior and during arraignment in provincial courts in Newmarket and Richmond Hill must be taken to Toronto and locked up in the Don Jail With remands and court procedures the way they are these young people could spend several weeks in the Don Jail where they must mingle with the most hardened criminals under the most distressing conditions The Don holds everything from convicted rapists to dope pushers It has been repeatedly condemned by grand juries over the past half century This spring the Ontario government wilt start construction of a new courthouse on St in Newmarket and it will become part of a multigovernment administration complex We hope these plans include a York deten tion centre for young offenders If they must be in jail they should be near their homes in surroundings that do mitigate heir return to a useful role in society MUST MABE CAN GIVE IT SOME LIFE THE Readers ERA Give police sufficient case As if he frustration that the police officers rentier urges When are you going quit giving Peter hurt as well When the Board of Education a month before Its inauguration and thus discredit not only the Board but the people and their popular mandate bo Fortunately most people and we need all the public finally settled out of pa vl impressed by sensationalism As other papers reported all through my own campaign discussed issues openly and frankly wo years based on Change school bus law to protect children i ridiculousness of the and situation would The law designed to protect children who are getting on and off school buses remains inadequate and in need of change despite repealed from many areas for its change including one from York Norths own MPP Bill Hodgson Last May Mr Hodgson urges his govern ment to prohibit passing of a school bus any time it is stopped to pick up or unload passengers regardless of the speed zone Section of The Highway Traffic Act states that motorists must come to a full stop when a school bus is taking on or discharging passengers in speed zones over miles per hour except where there is a median strip It makes no provision for areas where speed limits are lower than 35 As it stands the law is confusing to both drivers and children In many areas speed limits vary from to within short distances and a school bus which stops in a zone might make its next slop within a few hundreds yards but in a mph zone A child could easily assume that vehicles which stopped for his friends minutes earlier will also stop for him In fact some drivers do but that just adds to the confusion the clement of confusion for the driver following a school bus Narrow winding subdivision streets which seem to be the vogue in new developments art zoned for and so drivers arc required to stop for school buses loading or disembarking children The hazard hero is Hit parents look them in hand the police wouldnt have to lake them in I dont know how we even yet men as job If you do wrong if you dont youre wrong The ones that arc right read the paper are the Stolen lights sometime after It is lime the Highway Traffic Act was amended to require drivers to stop for school buses no mailer where they arc picking up or unloading children can com municate directly with the Board Office without long distance I have planned with the Com munity Communicator a weekly column designed to lei the people know what changes arc being -profile- Shes still an active gardener at 82 f runt rates police officer lengthy article about homes leniency of the courts juveniles its pity that these pen have nothing belter on the first day of the Year than to vandalize homes The residents of these provincial Tory Jarmain Cable wants 79 for Holland preparing a brief for the to DICTATING these bearing on Jan 2 against the story seemed JANET At one time I knew everyone who lived in Newmarket says Miss Mary Lloyd long lime of Eagle SI You feel you should know people in your home town but now the town has grown so much I just look at people and wonder who they art Mary Lloyds family moved to Eagle St in when site i 12 ye old father Edwin C Lloyd a retired far mer was well known in the town until his death in at the outbreak of World War II The Lloyds came to Newmarket from Kettleby where they had farmed the homestead property settled by Mary Lloyds greatgreat grandfather circa 1800 The famous Jessie Lloyd of the Lloydtown Rebellion was her great-great- great- uncle The Eagle St residence built by Allan Howard c 1890 lias been Miss Lloyds home for the past years The two storey brick house is Still surrounded by an acre of land the remains of a sixacre hobby farm her father worked alter his retirement Here she engages in her favorite pastime and gardening Miss Lloyd was the first person in the Newmarket area to grow zucchini squash and recalls with amusement her discovery that the squash was a hybrid and could not be grown from its own seeds In those days she says we always planted more than we needed of thing so that some could be saved for The changing limes show not so much on house itself as on the neighborhood There were only three houses in the i Christmas My cost to themselves It h chance been a joy to s sides ihese sma homes ministrative complex in carry C Aurora on the flood TO We to until the new board has be CHTC Canadian MARY seed Although she is now she still grows a full range of vegetables squash Chinese celery endive lettuce and nurtures one of the most impressive flower gardens in the town Notable in her garden each summer are beds of large orange poppies and masses of an oldfashioned bush rose of a clear yellow shade Her favorite flower she says would be either asters or tulips At one lime I had more than 1000 tulips but age takes its toll and theres somewhat fewer now During llie winter her attentions turn to potted plants of which she has an excellent collection The Lloyd house has except for wiring and plumbing remained as it was when purchased in iJOi and much of the original furniture still graces the large sunny rooms house in Newmarket and theyd find Eagle Street was just a dirt road then with wooden sidewalks Lome Avenue didnt exist there was just a dirt path connecting Eagle with the next street What is now the old Town I lall just off Main Street was the market place It didnt sell vegetables as the farmers market does now everyone grew own vegetables then but it was a great place for butler eggs and fowl It was always busy at Christmas or any holiday Then the street would be full of horses and carts in from the farms Mary Lloyd is known lo many in the lown lor alter graduating from the Alexander school on Prospect St she worked in the registcry office She was for many years an active member of Trinity United the church she still attends She taught Sunday School and worked in the and still attends UCW meetings For years Mary Lloyd taught music lessons from the stalely Eagle Street home giving both music skills and friendship to a whole generation of Newmarket residents munily One where older people like lo live and show the Spirit of the Coming of the Prince of weeks for the commit lees candidates lowing this public democratic election of discuss modes of officers he accident and an open hand to be found at the Rectory at just sheer mischief 1 can only say stop and think the next time it may be something more serious than a few Christmas fjghts application because when the inaugural meeting doesnt take place until Jan in Aurora High School The open door policy to were myself and the officer Since l other Asks for help in new job Many people have nan had asked me why in the last When Ihe Topic Magazine Ivan begins broadcasting from ill also present The The movies I missed and what they might have been By ROY GREEN a chance to go to the anymore the promo films on television and decide that a particular film might be very in teresting Then I read the reviews in the dailies to learn in many cases they ARE interesting But I still dont get out and see them Occasionally you can catch a fairly recent movie at the local or in the summer at the drivein but still manage to miss alt of them What intrigues me the most is a little game I of plot guessing Thats for movies that shown a TV promo and I have no idea what they are about And as dont get out to movies 1 have to be content with my little game To make it more fun I usually take the title and apply it to a situation lluitiixists in litis area Hires what mean THATS ENTERTAINMENT MOM Complete edited coverage of the twice- monthly meetings of York Region Council with award winning per fori nances by staff and elected official Script is rewritten each per formance to highlight all cast members DONT JUST UK THERE SAY SOMETHING Proposed theme song for each meeting of Newmarket Council THE STING Regional and local councils revealing their annual budgets after provincial grants THE SAVAGE IS LOOSE Regional and local councils deciding that its time for a raise in pay This film premiered in Ottawa TOWERING INFERNO Chief Bruce LONGEST YARD Dan Shannon looking out Ins dining room window and contemplating mowing his lawn stingy handing out invitations to the Region York inaugural meeting THE THREE MUSKETEERS The Mayors of the southern York municipalities meet to discuss the appointment of a new chairman for York THE FRONT PAGE If there hasnt been a council meeting either here or at the region and if the Newmarket Library Board hasnt met this will be a very dull film THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN Tlie man from the provinces housing ministry comes to town to advise how many homes we will be allowed to build GONE WITH THE WIND A documentary outlining Ihe progress of the Toronto-Cenlred- DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY How some politicians view citizens groups or delegations to council THE ISLAND AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD Citizens across York Region discuss how they would like to see growth and development controlled now that they live here AIRPORT 1975 How York intends to get into the air transportation service by taking over j Hare Field in Holland Landing and turning it into So Dave he dev do Gar Field Many thanks to John Scott BLAZING SADDLES York Police open a mounted division to track down speeding equestrians THE GODFATHER PART TWO Ray Twinney receives another acclaimation as Regional Councillor THE FRENCH Quebec learned about handle sewage from the big pipe PLEASE DONT EAT THE DAISIES The effect of spray irrigation on a small rural community in East Gwillimbury THE EXORCIST Era publisher Dave Haskell fires columnist Roy Green for writing silly columns