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Secondary school teachers awarded second 300 costofliving bonus AURORA Last weeks agreement between the York County Board of Education and its secondary teachers union to increase each teachers cost of living allowance by is a further step toward positive negotiations in according to spokesmen for both sides Its the second cost-of- living bonus for the secondary the county as a whole reached between its negotiating team and the teachers union under which an additional per month will be paid to full- Teachers Federation This is tangible evidence of positive and cooperath chief negotiator Don Nixon The award covers the period from Sept 1974 to June 30 Parttime employees will receive a prorated sum I hope the negotiations will continue in the at mosphere we have created to this point respect for each other and I hope that they understand we have a respon sibility to the county as a whole Mr Cribar said The costofliving grant will cost the board more than 260000 for the approximately employees covered by the agreement The board will pay per cent of the cost out of its spending ceilings according to Mr per cent December under the ar bitration award which covered the same period The decision was prompted by a request by District negotiators that a revised cost of living allowance would help offset the erosion of our pur chasing power Mr Nixon said The board authorized its negotiators to consider the request either as part of the contract or in addition to the THE ERA VOL NO 13 ONTARIO APRIL NEWMARKETS9SM31 Knives out for 35 York budget NEWMARKET York Regional Council has scheduled an allday session today to tackle its budget proposals expected to be in the million range A tense group of councillors scheduled Thursday rejecting wholesale approval of the proposed 158 million engineering budget Council instead decided to send the estimates to the Ministry Transportation and Communications by the March subsidy deadline reserved the right to cut the inccring budget at todays York decision deferred report Rolling after council spent about 30 minutes trying to decide what to do with the engineering budget We seem to talk and talk and talk and do nothing Mayor tolling said A grim atmosphere prevailed at Thursdays session Council and staff were obviously still smarting from the bitter controversy over salaries far department heads The issue was resolved two weeks earlier when council chopped the average raise from moments into Thursdays meeting when several mem bers attacked Chairman Gar field Wright for seeking ap proval of additional travel for two department When it became apparent he was losing the fight Mr Wright tried again to justify his possible sites for a future regional administration complex The report debated at length in planning committee a week earlier outlines the merits of two sites in Richmond Hill and one in Newmarket When the report came to council Thursday Markham Councillor Bob Adams moved that it be deferred Council agreed with no debate The report was prepared in May of 1974 and revised last fall But it remained at staff level until early in March when Councillor Adams and planning committee insisted that it be brought to committee CHAMPIONS Newmarket captain Kelly admires the championship trophy he and his teammates won in the Newmarket House League Tournament last weekend Newmarket teams also won consolation championships In the atom and bantam classes For full details see sports section Newmarket group buys Flyers chairman persisted To a suggestion that staff should make a recommendation to council if they dont like the present travel allowance Mr Wright retorted Thats what Im doing It see KNIVES page A CRStS YEAR FOR YORK Yorks regional government isnt working and is a crisis year for the a year old system Thats the conclusion of Era News Editor John who gives a comprehensive evaluation of regional govern ment on Page Cl NEWMARKET A first place Provincial Junior A team will play here during the 197576 hockey season The Seneca Flyers which Richmond Hill and Purchase price for the Seneca Flyers has been agreed upon and the only fly in the ointment could come from the Ontario Hockey Association This is unlikely because it would take a veto from one of the other teams in the league to stop the Newmarket entry into the league Our team will benefit those towns by bringing Newmarket fans to their home games said spokesman Ray Mr Twinney Is a partner in Sports Newmarket Ltd with cement company president Don Smith builder Rene Bray and optometrist John Cole The quartet will also operate the Newmarket Rays fastball entry in the Ontario Fastball League this year Formal approval of the Seneca transfer to Newmarket will be made at an OHA meeting next week Seneca owners decided to sell because of poor attendance and because of competition from other Metro based Provincial Junior A teams The Junior Newmarket Hodmen were recently pur chased by wealthy horseman John Sikura after having finished last in their league for the past two seasons Mr expects Ihe nucleus of the pennant winning Seneca team to play in Newmarket These will be supplemented by top local The group hopes to have a working arrangement with either a WHA or NHL team Tournament week winds up Grand Championship in the division of the Little NHL Tournament For details and photos see Era sports section played in this area last weekend by some 1 500 boys from all over Ontario as the Little NHL the Newmarket House League and the mid term school break Newmarket won the overall championship at its own house league tournament while in Sharon an Aurora team won the Rled left a German student currently German exchange student awed by Canadas vastness NEWMARKET Heike and Debbie had different reasons for enrolling in a student exchange currently underway between Germany and Canada a Ger man student currently visiting Debbie during the second half of the international exchange had no Tears of the adventure that awaited her I was fed up with things over there she explained Thursday I wanted to get away I saw an opportunity to do that so I wasnt worried For Debbie a 10 year old Newmarket High School student the decision to par ticipate in Ihe exchange wasnt that easy It was totally different for me she recalled 1 didnt want to go at all in the very beginning What finally convinced her were her fathers recollec tions of his stint stationed with Hie army in Germany during the war and more importantly some gentle encouragement from her boyfriend The exchange covers a total of eight months with the Canadian students spending four months in Germany and the German students returning the With the German students now in the final month of Iheir return visit and Debbie reminisced about the exchange during an interview Thursday Both girls were awed by the physical differences between their homeland and the country they visited The dimensions are a bit different said Its big added Debbie explaining her new friends impression of Canadian cities street the Newmarket student Its true continued The towns are smaller Theres also a marked difference in the German and Canadian school systems said The system is totally classes at Newmarket High has had its drawbacks noted the German visitor In eight classes a student meets more people than could be all day she said At that same time there arc only limited opportunities for developing friendships in such a system said You know many of them she said but you dont get close to many of them But the lessons learned during the pilot exchange program go much deeper than comparing the physical dif ferences between cities and schools in Germany and Canada After four months of being in another society I put less value on material goods now explained Debbie Its like somebody taking your mind by change f such a superficial way of living Its a philosophy that the German student has developed through peoplemeeting a particularly rewarding part of With half a dozen penpals In countries as far away as Egypt she enjoys meeting and ex changing ideas with people Her greeting in Canada has been terrific she reported Thursday 1 think its terrific that you can up to someone and say In and start a conversation Terrific is one word that girls discussed the ahead but looking around you Her four months abroad were far from being a vacation she stressed It wasnt a big holiday noted the Newmarket student I think Ive grown up a lot I feel within myself a difference in philosophy I met so many interesting people The first three months of return visit have provided the German student other matches with an opportunity to disco a special uniqueness about I had a terrific welcome Debbie said of her four months in Germany Canada Its terrific that this is what happened said Debbie of the exchanges overall success I think and I have a terrific relationship she ad- You Canada that even Canadians may fail to value fully I would be a great pity if t forget this is a lot project said Debbie The application form for the was so general The had to write a complete character sketch of themselves It was sort of who you were matched with Health unit budget may be halved NEWMARKET The York Regional Health Unit may have to trim its programs by per cent as a result of budget cuts ordered last week by the Board of Health according to Medical Officer of Health Owen Slingerland Proposed budgets for the health board tregional health unit and the health and social services department are up by per cent over last years actual costs to York taxpayers Both budgets are heavily subsidized by the provincial government The proposed net regional cost for both budgets was million before committee debate last week The health board approved a per cent increase over the 1974 actual cost of for the health unit The proposed cent hike To fulfill the boards directive and cut regional dollars would mean a gross reduction of said Chief Administrative Of ficer Jack Rettie The health board expenses are subsidized by per cent from the province This would mean slashing nt medical health However he said it could be trying to say it cost 52 per cent more to keep the same programs we had last year asked Aurora Mayor separate bodies with essentially membershi p The Thats right retorted Dr Slingerland We slash our programs but we find for the family life centres lamented Mayor Buck We have to ac commodate that The Board of Health and regional councils health and not members of regional hours last week debating budget proposals The social services com mitlee decided that 300000 earmarked tor expansion of the day care centres program should be lopped from See details on Page 9 petition to found Band returned to Newmarket NEWMARKET The original subscription list circulated in the Village of Newmarket in to raise money for the founding of the Newmarket Citizens Band was presented recently to the Newmarket Historical Committee archives The framed document was presented to the Committee at its March meeting by Philip an executive of Holland River Investments Ltd The document a possession of Mr Boylens family for many years brings with it a hint of a tragedy which struck the little village three years after the band was formed The appeal was written on June by Walter Roe then 16 and the eldest son of one of the towns first families Walters father William was one of the first settlers one of its first merchants and fur traders and was its postmaster Walter and his younger brother Fred were the prime movers of the petition for funds to start the band Even as a 16- yearold Walter was acknowledged as one of the villages most accomplished musicians and was at the time organist at the Christian Church now the Christian Baptist Church He had won the post because the organists chair at his own church St Pauls Anglican was filled Three years after the founding of the band on May 31 both Walter and Fred were drowned in Lake Simcoe while on a fishing trip Walter was Fred 15 Their bodies t recovered from the weeds of Cook Bay until June and particularly for the remaining Band members member of the Roe family later A long poem of lamentation was composed and subscribed to by the Newmarket Band and the family plot in the old cemetery on Eagle St playing the Dead March and other funeral music But in when 12 village boys circulated a plea for funds to start a band these tragic events were far in the The boys wrote whereas we the undersigned think it a disgrace to the inhabitants of Newmarket that they should have on all festive occasions to send to the small villages of Aurora or Sharon for a band we have determined with the consent and assistance of our fellowtownsmen to form one of Eightyone citizens signed the subscription list pledging a total of Among them appear such names as John Joseph later a leading financial figure in Toronto and Robert Simpson founder of the Robert Simpson Co Lid