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En Arora Kevwkk Vied JanH IMS THE ERA Serving York County Since Phone Newmarket I St If Plum Aurora Regional harmony remains Councillors of the Region of York are on a tightrope On one hand they must represent the municipality which elected them and on the other Ihey must serve the region as a whole As a result there is a tendency to be parochial and sometimes serve the interests of a particular area There has been a suggestion a suggestion only in recent weeks of a northsouth split on York Regional Council But the split if there ever was a split ap pears to have been patched as a result of the election of chairmen and appointees to the various committess of council If the politicians are bickering if they are making decisions on a you scratch my back and Ill scratch yours basis only poor regional government could result This atmosphere at the council level could only result in Indeclsiveness and poor morale at the staff level The regional form of government could revert to the days of county government when the north was against south and individual were pitted against each other The first hint of a northsouth regional split came when a last ditch effort was made to defeat the outgoing chairman Garfield Wright who was up until then the only announced candidate The move to put forth a candidate against Mr Wright was rejected in a committee room prior to the inaugural meeting and Mr Wright was elected chairman by acclamation In recent days chairmen have been elected to three committees and tomorrow the fourth and final chairman will be elected by fellow committee members Southerners Gordon Rowe of Richmond Hill and Tony Roman of Markham was elected chairmen of the engineering and administration committees respectively In addition Mayor Roman sits with Northerner Ray of Newmarket on the regions police commission and his neighbor Buck of Aurora almost certain to be elected chairman the health and social services committee Last year Gladys Rolling of East Gwilltmbury was planning chairman Mayor administration chairman with Mayor Roman engineering chairman and former Mayor Bill Lazenby or Richmond Hill as chairman of health and social services After the small game of musical chairs is over two councillors will switch chairmanships and two near councillors will assume that post two councillors from the north and two from the From this it would appear that all areas of the region are receiving equal representation at the regional level and all will make decisions for the good of the region as a whole And this is as it should be Board split would reduce effectiveness Conflict and confrontation at the York County public school board is threatening to reduce a promising board to one of inaction The board is in a unique position this year with 10 new trustees elected to solve problems which past boards have failed to handle However some of the new trustees have chosen a direct collision course with the retur ning board members on the mutter of hoard re organization Chairman Don Sim vicechairman Craig and several new trustees actively ad- board administrative study which will be presented in March will alternative board structures However a meeting last week the new trustees were adamant in their demand for immediate change without regard for future consequences This restlessness to change the need to prove themselves to the electorate is a valid concern of the novice politicians conscious that they were elected on a wave of reform If however the newcomers expect to live up lo the expectations of the public they must temper their drive with responsibility A serious division is developing on the board between the novices and veterans This internal strike could make the entire board ineffective The York board has many urgent tasks facing it including negotiations for teachers salaries and the quality of education in the region We would not like to see board business secondary to the power struggle between moderate and reform trustees NEWSROOM NOTES Glorious Moments in Chess date hash fit Thats about as close as I got to defeating the Canadian Chess Master who look on all comers at Upper Canada Mall over the weekend That is he took on all comers individually playing as many as at a lime stopping for a few seconds to make his move at one game then moving on to the next player to make a move at that game In all he played games losing only two and drawing four It was an incredible per formance in a game that requires the utmost in concentration My near moment of triumph against Mr reminded me of one glorious moment in chess and one of complete and total ignominy On Friday I arrived at the chess match with my number one son Alec at a Utile before seven oclock We sat down and Alec was dispatched in about minutes In all fairness I dont think his mind was completely on his game as he was headed out to a high school dance I managed to hang in the game for more than two hours before I had to concede The reason for this little success I am sure is the unorthodox way in which play chess I dont know any game plans and at the best of times I can think four or five plays ahead and at the worst limes two plays ahead This unorthodox play of mine momentarily confused Mr which probably caused him to take a little longer than usual to beat me It was at a stag party for a departing newspaper colleague donl ask me why brought my chess set to a stag where beat Arnold two games out of three Arnold is one of the better chess players In Toronto and certainly way out of my league Anyway we sat down lo play and within minutes I had Arnold on the run and eventually trounced him soundly After a while into the second game the word got out at the stag about the chess match But for several heady moments during those first two games I was on top of the worldas if Id scored the winning goal in the Stanley Cup final game or hit a bases loaded home run lo win the World Series IM GONNA HAVE TO PRACTICE SHUFFLING THE Readers ERA Backs Forhun should be increased owned by the Crown e cheers for Bob planners should make or exposing and available their cost I to the covert estimates before the meeting and in time for Sideroad to the middle of inflated with their own the concession and lo power to spend public three quarters of a money with their fleet of mile of St Your helicopters taking pic- awl When young cot crease comparable the rise in die cost living per cent when you took per In view of generosity to people by denying the road allowance Crown now owns How many additional millions of taxpayer dollars will it cost to expropriate the lands tor How about the dont show people Whoever it is 1 hope beats him to obtain similar benefits and that the Director of Education will not con sider lie is entitled to 90000 CONNIE Wis themselves Let us pot that Let us to the badly needed funds but let us remember social or emotional who perhaps do not need or Opposed salary hike widening the present road allowance would en croach on major forest tracts Actually there arc no major forest tracts go have a look People were grouped around our table whispering Haskells beating this is unbelievable impossible and such After I defeated him in our second game and started into our third caught on to my unorthodox moves and his chess skill soon my bumbling play to defeat me easily il mi 1 IK- i worse is that the diver would cut up much arable land into that would go to weed as it would appear that you did not intend your counterparts in Ottawa lo you If ihey can give themselves a per per cent I suggest you follow the government decision cul salaries by per cent as an example in these Support FIX she urges York council An open letter lo Mr Garfield Wright Mr Bob Mr Hay All Regional Councillors fees on a sliding scale according o their ability bul obviously I chilly Lets The Watchers of Church Newmarket on Regional matters to help those in our com munity who need help good thing The more established centres of and Richmond Hill are proving their worth Are the people of question of whether matter needing and widened a admit that this presented earth matt firm decision Only question beyond the knowledge competence of my Son His joy was unbounded as he defeated me with a Fools Mate which involved two moves by me and two moves by him Number One Son was under seven years old at the time Chris spoke out clearly against this raid on the taxpayers packet book One wonders what the who works a full felii hour aid earns a year will mil family counselling individual and group help parent effectiveness Let us stand up a fiinily life which is after all the basis of our society the benefit or a tew people in different ways members who for a partime receive urge all of you ti help those of us only reasonable criterion forget Ihe cents a mile however doesnt s To go the Centre you be young Our councillors final say Let us hope and pray ihey use their votes thoughtfully and wisely I am sure they will NANCY Queens Newmarket Can the mail beat inflation or is it too slow By ROY GREEN Dear Maw I dont know when you will reseeve this letter at Cratchct Creek am riling on Ihe of Jan There has been a talk about slow mail here in the hub and I am beginning to Yer last letter from the crock am looking at now after jest finding it in my moil box the one where you say Ihe kids was out swimming in the bog As you didnt put a date on it I am you mailed it in the summer or jest let set there till you found a stamp Please let me know in yer next letter I will take this tetter it Is finished down to yer Posies Canada Post office and they will let me put it into the Creek box myself And if you ever get one of them zipper codes toOteCreeklamsureilwellspeedupmatlout to way if not here in the hub I am told you must receive more than Jest one letter ever few weeks the area to have a zipper code So I hope someone lother than me to rile some letters to folks up to the creek am considering pulling name on a junk mall list but so far I been able to find out where this junk mail comes from On the I have seen a for Canada says the mail is doing a pretty good job of it reckon talking about yer Hub In this commercial they is a doctor who sends a sample lies gotten from a young girl In the mail to one of them places thai anal- eyes samples Well heck and durn afore Is over the dang thing has been analeycsd and happy ending hey didnt find anything 1 dasnt know how they could find anything In a one minute girls mom and dad was sure happy I reckin this could never happen here in yer hub Any samples which is mailed here wont be back seen a long lime you Jest know that it must be good Mind you there has been talk of some folks a that I guess it is now full winter up to he creek depending whensl you this letter and you will have brought the sheep Inside till the nice weather How Is he 1 reckon he has been given my old room and I would you and Paw that Ill be visiting come spring and druthcr not flghl him agin fer the bed And leave the win dows open fer a spell after you have taken him nulla there Up to yer 1 reckon I was wrong and was Wright Old has been elected to stay In same Job lies had send he rcgin begun a while back I had opined hat someone else would have re Garf according to the Eery paper he plan lo dump never got the hack they couldnt come with a someone else and was hack In afore you could lip hat said something about the whole thing being an electrocuting moment but dont think any of them would have gone lhat far to gel rid of him Now that all yer and school boards has had yer inhogyerhall balls they can git down to the business of rising their pays The school board has gone from lo the regin looks like theyll all go up and some of yer local will be more soon reckon I reckon you cant blame them when nil tho members of Common House down to Ottawa Is workin on a nice fat rise themselves Ysce Maw this here Is a time of lolsa in flation and yer polullctans is the fellas who Is gonna hafta lead us outta these limes and inta the good ones reckon the this is gonna be their biggest challenge so theyd best git some more money if they is gonna hafta fight yer Ihe problem gits harder solve I reckon theyll hafta give themselves more money and work jest that much harder guess thats the only way to lick inflation Meanwhile the PM Mr has asked the rest of us people them lhat cant vote their own rises lo help the cause by not asking fer large rises and by spending less I gonna have no trouble spending less bul reckon I would I was lo ask and git a largo rise Then Id have extra money 1 would spend on things like clothes and morgage So 1 am having trouble sleeping some nights whilst out ways to fight inflation And 1 know what to do about that rise I was on asking fer I was on nling a Jitter to Mr but with the Canada Post problem we have here inflation probably be over afore he got it loving ton Jj-