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Canada Day relay to j Yonge St NEWMARKET The nationwide Canada Relay will pass here July and when it does everybody is invited to do has part for the Canada Day festivities by joining in If the distance from here to City Hall seems a little far a block will do Its the thought that counts say organizers As part of the celebration the Canada Day Committee is sponsoring an ambitious program which in cludes the marathon running of two teams one from West Hawk Lake Manitoba the other from St Johns aland Hie teams will meet in Kingston and continue the run to Parliament Hill Fit tingly they will arrive on Dominion Day July It is to be a nonstop torchcarrying spectacle Committee wants to see as many participating as possible Each runner goes a fourmile distance then is replaced by three other runners until hes off and away again for another lap The western team is expected to reach Bradford June 25 at am and pass down St by Newmarket at about The basic team will run to Bloomington south of Aurora arriving at 1156 and from there continue down Yonge St to Toronto City Hall It should meet the other team in Kingston June 30 to run the final miles to Ottawa for a televised torch lit and the Canada Day ceremony Move elections up SECRET WEAPON READY FOR RACE NEWMARKET meeting that candidates According to Newmarket l0 have their property taxes paid up to before town council municipal elections should be held either during the final ft week of October or the first of November not the third week of November as Ontario Treasurer Darcy has proposed or the first Monday of December as is now the practice The councillors also agreed at last weeks Newmarkets secret weapon for the challenge July I bed race with Aurora council was fueled up for testing Monday by Mayor Bob and Regional Councillor Ray The unit is still under wraps although one wheel can be seen protruding below the blankets and a propellor juts out of the front end Conventional engines are banned in the race The mayor has stated he thinks a bed race is ideally suited to an Aurora birthday party because councillors have been sleeping down there for years being accepted as However in con sidering proposals to change the Election Act the council voted down Councillor Bob Scotts idea to change the term from two to three years Softball lights go on tonight NEWMARKET and a proposal to require nominators instead of 1- the present parlors out NEWMARKET will be no more parlors on Main Stringent regulations enacted by town council spring put Paradise Bar the pinball parlor on south Main St out of business and last week council amended the bylaw to forbid similar operations anywhere in town except Lights at the Fairgrounds Park Seoul Hall diamond have been installed and will be of ficially turned on for the first lime tonight at 630 at Upper Canada Mall Members of the Regional councillor Newmarket Ladies Ray explained Softball League raised because the mall can set to offset the towns its opening and closing share of the cost of hours control can be purchasing and installing tighter there should the the lights Balance of the mall ever wish to have estimated cost such an establishment came from and Citizens complaints Ontario government about the Main St grants operation resulted in the The ladies league new bylaw being drawn requested the lights so it could play its whole schedule on one diamond STOD monev through a canvass of local businesses a NEWMARKET A threeway stop was created at the in tersection of Millard Ave 4 and Joseph St by town council last week residents from the dance and a promotion Millard Ave area be- run in conjunction with Church St and McDonalds Restaurants The after a action came delegation of Ave complained at an earlier council meeting that Millard had become a speedway The residents requested the stop Final contributors were Hills Community Association 50 Tailors Ontario Guns and Crafts 10 Flaming Pit Sharon Heights Bar bershop 5 Beckers Huron Heights Sunoco Arrow Towing Sedgewick Haulage Co Ray Sheridan Healing Animal Control 25 and personal conributions In total according to fundraising chairman Best 2500 came from contributions was raised by the dance and the balance will come from the hamburger promotion Mayor Bob Regional Councillor Hay and Com missioner Dan Shannon will play pitcher batter and catcher to open the first game under the lights tonight Town grows by 300 NEWMARKET Sometime this year the signs at the en trances to town which of a population of became honest According to Statistics Canadas census the towns population then was However reports Mayor Hob were up about people now from last year Hydro boundary move expected this week NEWMARKET some form of regional Next step on the road to provincial legislation Mr Taylor has changing the boundaries J wi n recommendation he will of Newmarkets hydro legislation Veto junior More parking spaces kindergarten NEWMARKET Two Main St businesses and Rose funeral home and Four Seasons Chinese Foods Ltd have signed over land at the rear of their properties to the Town Mayor Bob Forhan said last week for York The land part of properties which is a steep em bankment sloping down to the town parking lot will allow the AURORA There municipality to expand will be no junior parking lot dergarten program return for the land into York council has agreed to do Region public schools in some remedial and the near future works at the The proposal for the acks of the two program was defeated Plan new s NEWMARKET Arthur St College St New sidewalks for Crescent Pleasant- locations in town were view Ave Vale Ave the approved by town council corner of Ave and last week Eagle St Cawthra Blvd Park Ave Water St and The locations are Ontario St Gates for Fairy into the park with a paved area large enough to accommodate a line of three vehicles travelling each direction ApavedstripSOtolOO feet long will be installed The fence along the Water St frontage of the conservation area may also be replaced he said ft NEWMARKET A new entrance Is being designed for Wesley Brooks Conservation Area on Water St A South Lake Simcoe Conservation Authority official recently con firmed the entrance gate will be set farther back Registrations open NEWMARKET Registrations will be for most swimming program and all summer activity programs right up to starting day according to a spokesman for the municipal parks and Monday night after York County Board of Education trustees once more repeated the arguments both in favor of and against such a plan The speeches which ate up more than 90 minutes of the four-and-a- half hour marathon session appeared to be little more than repetitious outlines of positions that trustees seemed to have already decided on Leading Ihe session was Vaughan trustee Donald Cameron who argued that the program would be expensive and extensive and that other areas in the boards care needed the money more Arguing on behalf of the program was school trustee Stephens who spoke about the need to take special rare of children la recreation department year Quoting at length from session or educational treatises Mr swimming lessons for all Stephens concluded that levels starts July the money when com- Session will also pared with a recently- July and Aug Age Introduced life skills levels range from six program was not an months to senior citizens unreasonable sum Wall to cost town 16000 NEWMARKET It will cost Newmarket an estimated to rebuild the retaining wall on southwest corner of Andrew SI and Lome Ave The high cement retaining wall was erected when Lome Ave was paved and widened of Eagle St about eight years ago at a cost of approximately 10000 Now engineers say it is unsafe and must be replaced Last week town council was told it will Trustee cost an estimated 16000 Quirk who said she had to replace it with a agonized over the place wall and decision produced a it authorized the town detailed chart weighing engineer proceed with all pros and cons of the job system and compared it with the present private system of nursery schools Mrs Quirk concluded by recommending that the program be shelved for the present time and the hoards effort go into helping parents set up their own nurseries In agreement with the dissenting trustees were fellow members Dorothy Harry Bowes William John Denison Norman and Margaret Agreeing with Mr Stephens was Stephen Taylor who said that without the public Junior kindergarten system such early facilities would be open only to those who could afford them or who by accident of geography lived In an area where the service Is provided utility was expected to be completed yesterday morning according to Mayor Bob In March Energy Minister James Taylor told a Newmarket council delegation he would support enlargement of the utilitys boundaries to conform with the municipal boundaries established in if a regional utility restruc turing committee recommended the change The committee has been waiting for a technical report before making its recom mendation and ac cording to Mayor Bob the report would be before the committee Tuesday morning Mayor told council he was confident the committee would recommend to the minister that control of utilities in the region remain with local levels of government instead of being rcstructercd into in the October session of the Ontario Legislature allowing the Newmarket change Since 1971 Newmarket homeowners north of Davis Dr have to reroute Main St NEWMARKET A new Main St will be built north of Franklin St to ac commodate the increased traffic expected from the homes stated to be con structed in the north end of town over the next decade The new routing will take Main St on sweeping curves through the swampy lands between the present road and the tracks Town council last week accepted a recommendation for the new route contained in a consulting engineers report entitled A Review of the Proposed Roads System for the North West Planning Area Council also adopted a recommendation that Davis Dr be widened to provide new left turn lanes The report estimated the cost of the Main St realignment at plus the cost of land purchases and of the Davis Dr project at it recommended that the town start to acquire the Main St land immediately Construction of the new road east of the homes on the present Main St north where the road winds around the two cemeteries would leave the present road for local traffic The engineers report points out the homes expected to be built in the three subdivisions in the area which have been allotted part of the towns limited sewage treatment capacity will generate 8300 vehicle trips a day The three sub divisions are the 301076 Ontario Ltd proposal for homes on land run ning east from St immediately north of the Maple Leaf community Schickendanz De velopments homes on the former Proctor farm north of that and proposed by Construction Co on its north Main St holding east of The three subdividers musl build a new- collector road through their lands from Yonge St to North Main St Travel patterns arc anticipated to be NEWMARKET primarily south with Two hearings here last emphasis to the south- week into east particularly in the proposals for the north future with completion of St sector of town Highway said the indicated no neigh- report of Main St opposition to the It said the section of changes thepresent Main St north Property owners of Franklin through the of area around the cemetery Schickedanz will be inadequate to subdivision on the former accommodate the in- Broken line on map shows new route No objections to rezoning creased traffic Chapter formed NEWMARKET A chapter of the Canadian Arthritic Society is for- ming in Newmarket and been paying higher hydro for members rates than those south of oul more highway because the municipal uli has not am l0 offcr been allowed to serve con the president them Their hydro is supplied by Ontario Hydros rural retail service Ross at or the Public Information Director Mrs Hope St and of the 51lot plan proposed by developer William Ryan for the end of George St were notified of the meetings Only one man Robert Ballard of Yonge St came the Wednesday evening hearing and he did not object to the About people attended the Ryan hearing the following evening but after their questions had been answered by chairman Ray none objected to that rezoning However a number of Walter Ave residents did object to their street being continued into the new Ryan subdivision and Mr promised the town planning committee will consider deadending Walter He said George St will be widened and paved to take most of the traffic from the new area Mr Ryan told the meeting he plans to build singlefamily homes which will sell for about The town planning committee will probably make its recom mendation to council on the in August Mr said Construction could start next spring at 8954230 j Sad sign sows Sharon traffic Reininger plant to open in fa NEWMARKET and Son Ltd the Torontobased metal stamping firm which has been planning move to Newmarket since is now scheduled to put its plant here into production in October according to a company spokesman The firm began advertising for metal workers in The Era last week for jobs opening next fall The firm built a million factory in Newmarkets eastside industrial park in 1973 then was unable to sell its Toronto plants and couldnt move Several times it set moving dates and then pulled back Company owner Richard has two metalstamping plants one in East York and one In Don Mills Plans arc to sell both and move the operations to Newmarket King taxes to rise 36 on average home KING TOWNSHIP If the budget which Introduction of the received a preview on junior system has been Monday is passed by King under debate by the Township Council next board for more than three week the average years homeowner will be Rejection by the paying an extra In board Monday night was taxes this year accompanied by an ex Dr David Harper of Interest from the Townships finance many trustees in seeing chairman presented the the plan implemented at figures to a committee a later date meeting and said that the full budget will likely be approved at a meeting of council An average home assessed at this year will be paying In taxes Ac cording to Dr Harpers figures residential and farm properties will be set at a mil rate of over last years mil rate of an Increase of 29 percent SHARON week Sherry Soules of Sharon took action on a problem that killed her cat Motorists on Leslie St whiz through the village despite traffic signs which clearly state the speed limit of she said On June 18 one careless driver ran over and killed her cat Happy We found her early Monday mor ning Whoever ran over her didnt even bother to remove her from road or take her I know its hard for a motorist to stop and animals run out on road but at least people should have the consideration to knock on a door and find out whose cat it was and take It off the roud Usually someone in the neigh borhood will know who owns the pet That day Sherry erected a homemade sign which read Slow down You killed our cat Neighbors told her they noticed several cars slowing down to read the sign That was a good start But since then a rabbit has been run oyer and was left there To add to the sad story Happys kittens had been given away the week before leaving the Soules without any feline reminders and with a bitter taste In their mouths for in considerate motorists