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WM ng gara ans The BIA received seven howhesai wbether We 4ngugh1iifferenceiifweatne entries There might be three first prizesgg urge the other hand ere mi primes he said we mm All seven entries were rested on the wall of DDK fill outs ballot ir do all th ecessary ry work and it doesnt said the mayor Kukurudza said the idea parking garage came on about six months ago iwumandiugmhad it Electronics on Main StWhe BIAmeinbeis could drop in and for the proposal charm Final selection ade at an executive gthlltLBlA yesterday Mr Kukurudza also said the town should concentrate more on revitalizing developed areas instead of agreeing to more and more new development its folly on the part of government to allow new development in openfields at the expense of alread developed areas he said ltueasonablmdevelo mo intoethiHninutes off new sho nucxectitivemeedngsrLrréq Hm it he said to get the project iomewliereebetween 51 more than the $20000 we raise now saidMix dza tpresent all stores in the have charge levied them which in total is to $20000 and is used of the dza the garage couldi be run by municipal the BIA vfiuld have to fortunately Newmarke ént from downtown core to plane VOL no big so liM races there one at the expenserof the downtown serendthentowmallatth expense ofihe plaza he said According to Mr Kukurudza there isnt store in town that cant handle three times the amount of business it is getting now and he said there isnt need for more shopping areas because he believes the town already has enough stores Ir Itwould also good idea to have an industrial mall authority oreby privateflwhere somebody who wanted to rise and he said the idea pup when Diana for beautification of the lawn core were being it cropped up was contest local residents to submit or the beautification or lizaiion oi M8111 St start small manufacturing business could go and rent some space with ramp work area and small office But there isntany place like that anywhere near Newmarket If somebody wanted to do that now theyd veg go to Richmond Hill he rsrArisFesiivdl let Annual arket Arts Festival this uk coordinator of the il 104 exhibitors from all Ontario will display their Val the Newmarket Com iy Centre from 12 am to isri work which in is leather work silk weaving macrame rig and stain floss Cousens ihain is Ihe new chair ul the York County it oi Education and 1th Zajac olKlng Hit Is the new vice riiral meeting Page Air Strange gifts on the shelves lk are among the toys from this Chrlso page as lons Club helps northern girl Lions phyaically ihreeyearold Norlhern Ontario The on page A10 irlsh dancers given $4285 Aurora Wondgate Incerl pm Jflrlq gran 0k geiiing it travel air the grants totalling page so Earl that Santa Claus work has been done by well known artists as PamelaVCooper Veer lie on Bird and Dorothy Clarke McClure Sinclair Stevens York Simcoe MP Bill Hodgson MPP rand Newmarket Mayor Bob Forhan will arrive at 1145 am on an antique fire truck for ribboncutting ceremony to officially open the festival Almost 125 Newmarket students participated in pre festival event when they took part in the festivals poster contest The posters are now on display at the Upper Canada Mall Mayor Forhan Dan Shannon commissionekof parks and recreation Lisa Lo chief librarian of the Newmarket Public Library and Mary Gilbert of the York Fine Arts Gallery spent over an hour Dec 11 at the mall trying to select the best poster by secondary school student the beating and crest and the best poster by an elementary school student The winners were Suzanne Hansen 17 of 2138 Towercrest St Newmarket High School student for the best poster Newmarket High School student lan Begg 17 of 113 Bayview Ave for the best crest and iogL Emiisefimhml student Richard Napust 1t oi 195 William Roe Blvd for the best elementary school poster lro hies for the students and eac school will be officially givehputthe day of the fostiva All posters will also be at the festival Mrs Humeniuk revealed llalso be at the festivalrairl gon fire truck because his elves are busy loading his sleigh for Christmas Eve Dr Bette Stephenson mlnister of colleges and nr iii first Dariso inltero een also trying to reschedule their weekend activities so they can attend thlia festival said Mrs Hume Elan are $1 for adults 50 cents olsoniorcitisens and free to children under 12 ac com ed by an adult Tickets will available at the door but bcpurchoseri in stores around Newmarkat and Aurora The money raised from the festival will be donated to the orhCoiint Hoapital andiho is All strain Mi Preparing for the first Newmarket Arts and Craits Festival this Sunday Colleen Black left and Diane Humeniulrhold sevenfoot stocking filled with toys that will be given to children throughout York Region The festival runs from 12 noon to 5330 in at the Newmarket Community Centre chants will be distributed by the Childrens Aid Society Proceeds The toys donated byylocal mer ST NEWMAtiKEiavs2Jn zoCENTs Arts centre within two years Mayor An arts and cultural complex could be reality within two years if the Newmarket Theatre Cedtre plans are feasible according to Mayor Bob Forhan innsmmspmmwi mayor said five acres of land alongside the Cane Parkway has been set aside and will be dohated to the theatre group as site for an arts centre but added the town will retain title to the land If everything is positive Id like to see the centre off the ground in the next couple of years said the mayor Paul rjAspland and Fraser Milne are iworldngon plans fonthecentrs the moment and once we go aderihe plans Withihemqnd ever thing is feasible there sho dnt be anything to stop the project from going ahead he According to Mr Milne an architect the plans will likely be ready for presentation to council in January Also in his inaugural speech the mayor said he would like to see the old registry office and fire ball on Main St turned into museum complex and headquarters for the Wevfinarkét Historical Com mittee ffliéfiré hallTs now obsolete and is used for storage by tho Am rimu photo from thefestlval will go to theTNewmorkct Librerfbulldingiund and the york County Hospital craflsm oundation Fund More than 100 and artists will be selling crafts and giving demon striations Admission costs 31 for adults and 50 cents for senior citizeusuChlldren under 12 who are accompanied by an adult get in tree York CouninyOspiial needs mOre bredséc1aimsiRoeder NEWMARKET York County Hospital is operating at capacity but hospital ad ministration doesnt know if the Ontario health ministry will honor year old promise to approvethe opening of 22 more beds Hospital director Al Roeder said as many as 70 are idle and unopened been re the ministry raieged on promise to provide funds letter from the ministry in May 1977 stated This ministry will give active consideration to the approval of some 22 beds in New Courthouse set forfoll opening NEWMARKET The new court house should be ready for occupancy next fall according to Ray Dads superintendent of the job with EllisDon Weve had few problems with the weather and strikes which caused us to lose four months said MrfDade but the weather and the trades are ill ngs we have cuntroLn muffin trades have been informed of EllisDons decision to work right through the usual Christmas holiday periodr Most trades usually dont work during the week between Christmas and New Years but because were behind schedule erve decided to try and inake up as much timeas we can during that week said Mr Dade Were not going to lose dayswork this winter he said and were going to work harder in an effort to get the Job JinlslietlaLtbeJarliestossible time The court house was originally scheduled toAbo completed fonlate summer 1979 but because of thesetbacks Mr Dade placed the later completion date on the job Council to set up centennial committee NEWMARKET An historical section on the town in lhilibrary plaques for historical sites and buildings in town are ust couple or ideas Mayor Bob Forhan has for things to for Newmarkots centennial celebrations which will be held either in 19110 or 4981 Whichever year they archeld in it probablyhrlll 1979 as was reported in another paper last was Newmnrlret wasnt incorporated as town until Jhn will so thelogicsi time to have the celebrations would be in yihe summer of 19in The mayor said council is going to set up committee to work closely with the Newmarket Historical Committee to come up with ideas that might make good ceptennial celebrations have few ideas that might work but that willildlge the maln ideas hill mailer so of the committee iocoiheriip WI mayor said he was little confused about the actual date of Newmarkets centennial but added he tho whwkthrough Tlle Era tiles the 1980 However actual data otlncorporatlon ht it was no town was Jonahl population York County Hospital com mencing April Mr Reader said We didnt get them despite the fact that we got what we thought was promise My guess is that we wrl uc geflor 25 beds nex year Are you comet be happy if youve just taken ill arid youve got hospital in your own community with beds that arent opened that the ministry wont fund Are you going to be packed into an ambulance and taken to filohmond Hill It doesnt make sense Bill Cowan senior ad ministrativerccnsultant for the central east area of the Ministry of Health said he knows Newmarket is underbedded Across the province there are pockets where hospitals are underbedded Newmarket appears that way Theproblein is get down infichmond er surplus offiads Mr gowan said the surplus in Richmond Hill would not etiéctlhe ministrys evaluation of Newmarkets needs but suggested way around the problem The number of patterns that go to Newmarket is determined by the number of doctors who hav privileges at the hospital Mr Cowan said the ministry has been pushing to get more dogturs toapplyivipr Bulimia an at rig can or Centrgerospilgl iffliohmond Hill because Richrrwiid Hill in ct gettin the referral fit it should be getting dlld Newmarkcts getting more than its share Our particularposltlonis that in col in urser armhould not suffer because of that said Mr Reader if Iheyve got an imbalance thats the problem Theres no way patients from the Sutton an Geurginafareas to his Ei mond Hill and oi sag sothsreiagpn consideration when the ministry starts doling out money for the new budget year beginning April 71 He said the hospital could get an above average amount of money as raimbursanent for openingdironlccare beds and outpatient facilities Both Mr Roeder and hospital assistant director Frank Vetrano suspect this could be promise Mr Roeder said the hospital has taken major stridesfito improve the quality of out pa ent daycare treatment He pal aboutzjoopatients are now ed in daycarewho would have formerly been inpatiaits Mr Vetrano said when the rninistry says thst out patient facilitiesvare one way that hospitals can increase their revenu thats nice but we havent seen that yet This is one as been another hollow Health minister Dennis Timbell said the ministry is joiniuLdrdw unproposam recognize increased on patient activitios tithospitals York County administration said it has not been told any more about the proposal since it was first mentioned at the Ontario Hos ital Associatiomconvaition in ovember 14 more beds in its continuing chronic care areas Mr Cowari said the has ltalisunder the provincial aridard for number of bedsin this section but Mr Vetrano was unaware the mince even had sta den yeti dwith ya go ea geinstiiliatlgt of sheds westwng many as could ready for use egrly in the new ear Halfcfthosebsds may used even if the7 nu uliilis its original and flWAIRM anthe old fire department and the registry office will become vacant when the new court house at the comer of Yonge and Eagle is completed sometime next fall Bie registry office is regional building and three years ago council asked the region to turn it over to the town when becomes vacang said Mayo rban We didnt mske an actual offer other than to say wed take it off their hands he added Elman Campbell chairman of the historical committee said he would like to use the fire hall for meetings of the society and for storage of archives material and historical artifacts while using iheregistry office for museum or disple site Cant vote Wright says its not fair NEWMAHKET There is one distinct disadvantage in being chairman of York Region council As chairman you cannot vote for your reelection to the $40000ayear job unless theres tie But yoiu opponentcan vote for himself at any time it he holds seat on council Asked about thesituaiion on Monday regional chairman Garfield Wright said the law should be changed to prevail all nominees from voting He is being challenged for the chairmanship by Newmarket Mayor Bob Forhan ldfeel the same way if was on the other side said Mr Wright in all fairness it should work both ways change in the procedure rwould requim archangejn either the Region of York Act or The Municipal Act Last week Durham Region Jhfllflllan Walter Beth broke 1515 tie to have himself re elected over his challaiger Oshawa councillor Allan Plllrey Another Durham regional councillor called that move miscarriage oi jimiice Edward Oakes solicitor for York Region council said iiYGllrcotlldvalso operHabout Monday thateaclrofYorlrrtt regional councillors will Jequlred to vote at lhursda inaugural meeting tie co ii occur only if some councillors not attend no abstentions ir voting are permitted had just losT his seat as regional councillor Markha JhaLwaatthlrsL time Mr Wright faced chalien ei stncahe was ap joints PIT provinjc governments the regions first chairman in Ml Atiecouldoccuriltharoare three iiominceaxaex