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Since VOL NO It PAGES NEWMARKET AURORA KESWICK ONTARIO JANUARY NEWMARKET Area theatre groups busy Theatre Auroras production of The In nocents a Canadian Drama Festival entry will begin Feb and continue Feb 5 and 12 at the Factory Theatre Henderson Dr Aurora Newmarket Theatre Centre meanwhile will present Jean on March and For stories see page THE 1 The other Newmarket The above logo will become a familiar sight to Era readers this year as York Regions oldest weekly celebrates its anniversary It will appear on items of historic in terest or relating to our anniversary celebration This week it marks a tale of the other Newmarket on page i Town curlers take title Ernie Sokols York Curling Club rink went undefeated in the Canada Life Saturday at Curling Club winning the Senior Trophy Details appear on page 19 Board sets salary ceiling In its initial budget deliberations the York Region public school board has agreed to a concept limiting its salary budget to a six per cent increase Story appears on page 9 This pools for more than swimming Theres one pool in town where the emphasis Is on more than recreation For a look at York County Hospitals therapeutic pool turn to page Catholics form private school A private high school that will assure Yorks Catholic students of a kindergarten to Grade education without having to leave the region has been announced For details see page DIRECTORY Editorials Mary McGouen Real Estate Births deaths Roy Green Letters to Editor Topics of Town Billboard High school news Page Page Page 20 Page 24 Page 4 Pages and 5 Page Page Page f to open NEWMARKET February will mark the start of two am bitious programs by the Newmarket and District Association for the Mentally Retarded Country Acres a livein facility for 20 mentally retar ded adults will be officially opened and unique parental respite program will also be launched A token capital grant and provincial funding covering 80 per cent of operating costs has helped Country Acres become a reality Joe executive director of the association said Monday There are probably in excess of people in this area who need this service he ex plained The emphasis is on in tegrating the retarded into the community to as great a degree as possible he added Said Mr Dwyer In tegration and normalization are the two big words A full and parttime staff of 20 will be headed by Margaret recently hired as director of the residential program While staff members will be counsellors rather than houseparents the emphasis will be far from institutional noted Mr Its not an institution he explained were striving for a homelike environment Located on the east side of Yonge St south of William Roe Blvd Country Acres is ex pected to be open by mid- February Also scheduled to be operating by the middle of next month is the associations parental respite program The two bedrooms kitchen and living room facilities located in the association offices at Bogart Ave will be used for weekend programs for the handicapped that will enable their parents to have at least one weekend a year away from their youngsters We feel we can serve 300 sets of parents across this area during a year said Mr Dwyer For information on the parental respite program or Country Acres contact the Newmarket and District Association for the Mentally Retarded at Good service unwanted I NEWMARKET Annabel Essery of 953 Lemar Rd has been getting very good service lately However she hasnt asked for any of it Friday evening at 9 pm a tow truck responded to a call ap parently from but the driver was told no one there had sent for a tow truck Saturday at pm three taxis from three different cab com panies arrived almost simultaneously to pick up a fare at Mrs s home Again no one from the house had called any of the companies York Regional Police who are investigating say several oc cur ranees of this nature have happened over the last month WOODWORK Paul cutta i I a Heike Kaumilnger 12 is one of many children participating in The Aurora Heights Public School program Every Thurs- afternoon for five weeks the youngsters are able to Join in the activity of their choice from cooking to skiing selected woodworking Other schools in the region offer similar programs opposed to tavern near NEWMARKET A teachers organization at Huron Heights Secondary School has condemned the awarding of a liquor licence to a proposed dining lounge in a Davis Dr plaza only a minutes walk from the school The Liquor Licensing Board of Ontario issued the license to Sam owner of the Sam the Sailor fish and chip shop in the strip plaza Mr says he plans to turn a space ad joining his fish and chip store into a steak and seafood restaurant The licence is not for the fish and chip shop Monday town officials and Mr Rabba confirmed the municipality has not yet issued a building permit for the necessary renovations however Mayor Bob said he is still waiting for a report from building and zoning department officials on whether the dining lounge use conforms to own zoning regulations Last week he said he is particularly interested in whether enough parking spaces are available The report was ordered by town council week when it learned the licence had been issued Notice of a hearing on Mr licence application was advertised in the Toronto Star in November and the hearing was held in Toronto Dec 2 No member of town council knew of the hearing until it was over said the mayor who indicated he would have lodged an objection had he known in time In a statement issued Monday Paul Lutz president of the Huron Heights Secondary School branch of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation said on Thursday members of his branch unanimously endorsed a motion condemning the awarding of a liquor licence to any enterprise in close proximity to the school on the grounds that it imposes unnecessary pressures on the students and teachers Mr Lutzs statement went on to say our business is the education of young people of a very sensitive age We do not need a tavern near our school The use of tavern premises by students who are of the age of majority and the risk of the use of the same premises by under age students will not help with either teaching or learning There exists also the possibility of offensive behaviour by a small number which will be fell by many other students either in the classrooms in the cafeteria or on the busride home The Liquor Licensing Board of has evidently not taken into consideration the proximity of a large secondary school when granting the licence and has therefore failed to protect the interests of students We urge all interested and concerned people to protest the awarding of this licence and to object to the licensing of any commercial premises for the sale of alcohol in the vicinity of our schools Mr in an interview last Wednesday claimed his intentions have been misun derstood He said his dining lounge will be a separate operation from the fish and chip store and he feels it will be too expensive for high school students He described it as a family restaurant which will also cater to businessmen during the lunch hour Im not in the business to sell liquor Im in the business of selling food he said but in sisted he could not run a quality restaurant operation without the liquor license I am not interested in the kids business he said and indicated he will bar the wearing of jeans and I will be really tough on IDs Mr Rabba who owns two Shop Bag variety stores in Newmarket and a Pop Shop as well as the fish and chip store said he will personally be at the front door of the dining lounge to screen patrons He also claimed his establishment will only have a small bar with two or three stools He accused members of town council of putting stones in my way They say it is not proper to put a liquor place behind a school I argue there is no reason why not If kids want tot drink badly enough they go elsewhere- res Police lay nine charges after rash of breakins NEWMARKET A man arrested on an outstanding break and enter warrant from North Bay Ontario Provincial Police Thursday has been charged in connection with seven breakins in Newmarket including a recent theft of from The Era York Regional Police laid the charges in connection with a series of breakins between Nov and Jan at Corner the Newmarket Com- munity Centre the Bonanza Tavern White Oak Cleaners Jono Printing Newmarket Business Machines and The Era Robert Anthony Bell 30 who gave his address as the King George Hotel 234 Main St faces nine counts of break enter and theft ST JOHNS TO UNVEIL ARCHITECTS PLANS NEWMARKET Preliminary architects plans for the new St Johns Church will be presented here tonight Scheduled lo be presented to the churchs building committee the plans are expected to undergo a number of changes before being finalized by the Toronto Archdiocese The new church will be built on the south side of Ontario St on the current site of the St Johns rectory Two houses adjacent to the rectory and owned by the church will be demolished as will the existing church building The old church will be used as long as necessary a St Johns spokesman said Monday He noted however that once the new church is complete upkeep of the old facility is expected to become too costly and the building will likely be torn down Stained glass windows from the original building artifacts of value and as much as possible of the old structure will be retained in the new church he stressed The fate of St Johns Parish Hall a former school isnt yet known An engineer has been asked to study the structure to determine if it is worth renovating and refurbishing Current schedule for the entire building project which has been budgeted at still calls for the new church to be completed by the end of the year save NEWMARKET Second St residents may have saved the use of their driveways by an appearance at the York Region engineering committee meeting last week Although residents did not actually own the full length of the driveways which they have been using over the years the committee agreed to alter plans see SECOND ST page School may be available to town within a few weeks NEWMARKET Newmarket officials could have the opportunity to purchase Alexander Mulr school within a matter of weeks according to the York Region public school board Monday night trustees accepted a staff recom mendation to set a reserve bid for the school With the figure set the board can circulate availability of the Prospect Ave school property to government bodies and community groups in compliance with provincial guidelines Under those guidelines the town is second on the list and will be contacted as soon as York Region separate school board Indicates no need for the school Mac Wilson of the public school planning and building department explained I think were talking a matter of weeks Mr Wilson said Monday While the board recognized the Muir school as a surplus building last summer an ap praisal on the property has just been finalized he noted rf men cons monitor This article by Era staff reporter Rod McDonald is one of a series examining the fight to keep Lake from further deterioration Much of the data quoted in the articles and used to formulate the new fishing regulations tor 1977 has come from the Ministry of Natural Resources fish assessment unit at Point This week The Era finds out about the work of monitoring the ecology of the lake from fish unit biologist Ron Pat Sellers left and Mary are off to a pretty fair day of fishing In their hat off Jacksons Point They have a three treat and herring between then The bag Unli on was cut to two per person per day by the Ministry of the Environment after low catch figures were released by Natural Resources Biologists of the Ministry of Natural Resources fish assessment at Point currently studying angling pressure By ROD MCDONALD Era staff reporter SIBBALDS POINT The six people involved in the operation of the fish assessment unit here have a big job The small office by the lake in Sibbald Point Provincial Park Is responsible for keeping an eye on approximately per cent of the square mile water shed Its an area stretching from 4 Brechin in the north and from Beaverton on the east shore to Big Bay Point on the west The Maple office looks after Cooks Bay while the Huronia office takes care of the waters off the North West shore from Barrie into Lake Couchlching The area which is divided into segments is completely covered by the staff every seven days- According to biologist Ron Desjardine most of the units research is long term It was a long term study by the unit between 1968 and which showed the catch had fallen off by roughly in eight years and became a determining factor in the new fishing regulations Contrary to what one might believe winter Is one of the on the various fc i 1- i angling fish species and give the unit a rough idea of the harvest for this season In the long term such a study will help establish more figures like the ones on the which Mr calls trend through time Mr Desjardine said that to huts were out on the lake in early January He anticipated that fly over by resources people in February would reveal ap proximately huts which is an average number During the late 60s and Into the 70 there has been in the number of fishermen but according to Mr the pressure on the fish population if his hot changed drastically The problem being eh- units busiest seasons as the ice huts tte laie and i travel across the ice ia possible the lake Currently creel Wand Grove in the south to underway to help determine LAKE page