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The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), July 23, 1975, p. 4

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Era Aurora I THE ERA Serving York County Since DAVID R HASKELL TERRY CARTER JOHN J ALLAN MARTIN P hone Newmarket 8952331 Charles St Phone Aurora Shortage or not yer hubs water supply pales beside Creeks lumpy stuff Save water the firemen may need it The drought has left Newmarket short of critically short during the periods when towns reservoirs are empty Town council tried to alleviate the problem banning lawn watering and other un outdoor uses for a week while the perienced in Aurora durin the last few weeks Springhill Nova Scotia where most of the broken out in Newmarket whtm water reserves downtown area was wiped out Sunday by fire were negligible and pressu re clown as has been because of a droughtrelated the case at least twice in tv weeks the results would have been disastrous just how disastrous In short when we need it Will market lose station next To be successful it relied on the common eree of the citizenry It was not successful After the restrictions which were backed by fine were lifted the obvious fact water so the situation would The restrictions on unnecessary outdoor water ended last Wednesday night Thursday the town pumped an estimated of a million gallons of water more it usually does in one day The usual figure i million gallons During that one day nearly all the reserves up throughout the week of restrictions By Thursday evening pressure in the municipal water system was dropping and officials had to order it cut ven more on a normal day it hovers around unds per square inch to homeowners that mething was wrong and to think twice about water Had a major fire such as the two It appears the Canadia National Railways Is determined to close all the small railway stations in this part of the province An order issued ret sntly by Railway Transport Committee calls for the removal of station agents at Aurora Albert Sutton Maple Richmc Hid Hill and As Sinclair Stevens 1 MP York Simcoe states in his Ottawa Report published on page five of this weeks Era tt means that the removal of these agents will virtually close down these stations In Aurora he points out after July 28 it is planned to have only a ticket idler at this station minutes a day just the Toronto commuter train goes south in the morning Several months ago thi station agent at Bradford was removed bet ween 4 pm and midnight A station agent besides elling tickets and answering inquiries could o assemble trains For example the let station agent could add passenger or freig ht cars to a train passing through if they were required The station agent also forwarded arrival and departure times or passing trains At the moment only the Newmarket station on the line is open for business as For example if an Aurora resident wanted to purchase a train ticket or seek some in formation he or she must travel to Toronto or Newmarket to do so except for a brief mlnute spell five days a week early in the morning Those wishing to pick up express or freight parcels except at Newmarket he would have to go to an agents premises which could be located in anything from a service station or to a residences basement And when it comes It wilt be done without any public consultation hearings or notice as was the case in these most recent changes in the service provided by these small railway stations Cratchet Creek water They was alius water enuf to drink and keep the dog from panting but not to water yer lawn or fill up the swimming pool People who done anything like that was likely to get fined I rcckin thats hard you to understand bout he lawns and swimming pools I know that up to the Creek you laid any water down In front yard youd have a swimming pool right quick Even if it were a mite brown and lumpy But down to yer Hub folks has grass on their lawns and it turns brown quick you dont lay some water down to it They is also a lot of swimming pools and what with people a jumping in and out of them they tends totose a mite a while there a lot of grass had turned rusty browny color and some of the Hubs best swimming pools looked like milk pails from tired But it rained up a storm hero Friday week and I the problems is solvent fer a little while anyway I showed the water jug you sent to some folks here and they was surprised to see that drinking water up to the Creek has some solid stuff in it Folks is different down here and they like to be able to see right through their water with nothing floating around between them and tother side of the jug I know it sounds funny to you but they cant the reaction when I tells them we eats it up to the Creek In yer Hub folks only like grass Teacher accuses columnist of grandstanding salaries 11 IN THE Readers ERA like lo I editorial of the editorial ls stock in grandstanding hard qualified it either category On the face it my letter wis if anything hardnosed J beneath the free which basting teacher lgly one rarely object called much though expects such epithets should ferv have some basis in An earlier letter of m kind of sardonic levity which in his reactionary Green may diatribes and as by consideration let me implication greedy and offer the following thoughtless public em- The settlement of the value the public places on of The the service the hours professional provides inor- Teaching is light years which Mr PROFILE Historys her hobby By JANET ARNETT SUTTON So often its the outsider with view of the area who comes into a and gets things going Nena Marsden describe her Our local history stays ri here she says The museum is the societys present project It is to take the form of a re stored pioneer village and Nena has been elect curator The first two buildings of this villai a log house and a stucco church probably be open to the public this summer A general store from Baldwin will join them next ear and other buildings in the future as finances make growth possible reasoning mid logic Such settlement tint wis an attitude seems all the imposed by Hum more strange coming recent for teachers i filing rests firmly on Hie the cost of hunt of freedom of is it IlmM is expression and whose is in Hie nations capital unions in this our settlement editorial were not merits the hue ami cry Reader labels criticism of pay pact unwarranted Please remove my When I read a news name from your home paper I expect deliver subscription list record of fac as quickly as possible and editorial Hie paranoid V school the sweetheart Teaching is in law are entitled settlement Ill make lawyer or doctor or loin in as it itegardlcss of the I In for entitled In hold opinion they wish of us Kill i the i robots to iicejit deigns to our the re out in left field the world subscription list record of factual data and editorial comment based on fact I Kibbling of is energetic dedicated all the lentials needed to et the history ball and keep it involves train volunteer staff to supervising the plantings or cedars has taken seminars from the Ontario Museum Association One such unse on the problems of a restoration in progress was centred at the Friends Newmarket She has received a LIP grant venerable buildings to the village site at the Her interest she explains started at about 1 marriage years ago She taxied collecting antiques for her home at ending auction sales and amassing books furniture and decorative things from ears gone by She has never been interested in Meeting in the sense of hoarding a lot of one ype of thing she says but rather has always things she needed and could use in her If she needed a chair she bought a chair be put in a corner and used Thus as she explains it she started with things rather than with history itself She fesses to having had no particular interest in when she was in school but from the things she purchased grew an interest in e people had owned those things From here it was a logical step to being interested in houses and then the communities those Theres a lot of history in this area she of Georgina a lot of very interesting Maybe it listoric It sometimes takes to see that Mrs started the Historical Society Her first meeting 12 people today there are or 80 mem As in any organization she says there are e members who simply like to come to the and listen to the guest speakers while for the workers to get involved in The licatton of a local history booklet a pioneer dings survey the establishment and ongoing only ttw highlights of things the archives have grown from Mrs Mars labors and ate strongly the e of information in the in be used by students grade school Beatgraduate expenses involved in getting the The main source of funding for the village however comes from an annual antique show which whips into shape for the August Civic Holiday weekend The show its now in its ninth year and has she feels a rcj for being a quality show where young get- ling started in antiques can find tl lings of in terest This year there will be 16 little stores at the show plus a dis play by the historical society Although the pioneer village is her clubs project she very much wants it to become a community affair with all the sen ice clubs ladies groups schools and other organizations whole new thing from historical work Ive got a lot to learn theres so mm Jilo learn not to do Its lot of detail work a hole new field Im learning from the ground up Its a big job I hardly knew how big until I got inl to it restored two houses the W illiam Henry home and a small house in the town Itself Now she has a perfect Georgian twost or log home silting in her backyard and she will be restoring and furnishing that too each detail accurate to the period and location This house she explains is her own private little project but she will open it to the publ even tually if anyone wants to see it Even with this as a warmup exercise she says that the amount of work involved in i opening a pioneer just boggles the mind r she has her volunteer staff trained to It act and speak like century ladies and gen tlemen then she hopes to start a crafts program But you have to start slowly Start si nail itll grow Its going to be fun Speaking of green They Is something funny on over to Scott and streets here In Hub Seems ever three four years this white goo comes a running down the ditch in front of the houses Ever time it happens a bunch of fellows comes out and takes some of it away to find out what it is Well so fur they been able to say It I know it sounds unyousyal that In this day and age them goo experts couldnt jest up and say that it was goo from here or goo from this or that but Bobby the mare of the hub says thats the way it is Mebbe the paper has it all wrong they knows what kind of goo It is but they know jest exactly whos goo it is I done some pondering on that and thats what 1 reckon is the real story I keep my mouth shut case I gets anyone in trouble but youll mind the time that them crazy Thadprod boys up to the Creek upped and started making there own kind of moon Youll also mind when they forgot to close off the of the vat that day and a whole weeks worth of Thadprod Shine went its own way over to the county hyway Aside from melting rocks and eating right threw the trees it left a pile of goo on the road that stopped them Detroit machines afore they knew what hit them And jest afore the army come in to blow it off the road youll mind what color it was Was white it Without the finger at anyone I reckon someone is cleaning out the vats long about ever three or four years and thats what comes a running down the ditches Only reason them goo experts been able to pin it down is because they got anything wont melt ever time it touches the shine Also the ducks down to yer Fairy Lake is where the goo sometimes winds up has been known to act strange ever three or four years that aint prove I dont know what is Now mayhaps that dont stand all that serious to you but whats gonna happen when that socalled Big Pipe comes along to Hub If any of that goo somehow finds its way into the Pipe and down to yer Lake Ontariarario and then touches up to tother side in the U and S of A we could have what you call yer international incidental What you have to look at Maw is what they call the big pitcher And I am I know way to turn I dont wanna get no one involved with the law but Id sure hate to see the S and A down with an export quota on Canadian home made jest because a fella opened up his vat Sides I dont reckon them folks who is always trying to swim across Lake Ontarlario would be helped much by all that moonshine getting into their maypull stirrup I reckon Id best make sure by going down to the ditch and doing one of my own on the goo Then Id know what to do Can you have Paw send down some blasting caps long long fuses and that old gas mask And while your at It Maw can you send along that old pair of running shoes in my room all now Goodbye and God bless LeRoy THE CEILINGS ARE FAILING WORKMANSHIP SO MUCH FOR THE HOUSE THAT WELLS BUILT

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