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ARENA MAY BE CASUALTY OF REGIONAL GOVT SHARON East Gwillimbury Townships proposed artificial ice arena may be the first casualty of York reg ional government The Arena Committee last week awarded a contract for construction of the arena to Burling Builders Ltd with strings attached The strings are that final On tario Municipal Board approval be Gwillimbury will lose 10 per cent of its population and more than per cent of its assessment under re gional consolidation Some East Gwillimbury officials reduced population and the remaining re- afford to pay the estimated fear lhat it of the And there may not be enough children left in East Gwillimbury to make economical use of the arena There is also a move for total amalgamation of East Gwillimbury with If this happens will Newmarket residents want to contribute towards what in effect will be a second arena for the town Newmarket already has an arena If lotal amalgamation takes Flare and ha arena receives Municipal Board approval present Newmarket re- dents of Fast On Ihe other hand with the in clusion of East Heights and other large subdiv plan might not be enough to creased East arena is located on 10 acres of land sixtenths of a mile east of Sharon on the Mount Albert If Municipal Board approval is could be open for east under completion date clause in the Burling present arena contract The arena will have a by 80- foot Ice surface a second floor auditor ium and four dressing rooms Future plans call for a diamond parking lot with the spa taken up by a park and recreation this October There is a 16week REGIONAL GOVERNMENT Approval relief first reactions of politicians JOHN Era Reporter NEWMARKET Approval relief ami a degree of caution were general sentiments exuded by county political loaders utter Inst weeks announcement of plans to establish the York Regional Government next fir PAGES VOL NO 19 15 CENTS THEERA Sincel852 NEWMARKETAURORAKESWICK ONTARIO WEDNESDAY MAY 13 1970 Newmarket Aurora CENTS REGION HIGHLIGHTS NEWMARKET Guidelines for new government and new growth In York County were spelled out In two major policy papers unveiled by Premier John Hobarts and Municipal Affairs Minister McKeough last week Here are major Ontario go vernment decisions spelled out In those York County will remain intact until 1912 but its 14 municipalities will be re organized into eight or nine A new twotier form of municipal go vernment with a strong regional com ponent will come Into power next Jan The new York Region will he part of a area farms and recreation areas separating two much heavier areas its north and south a rich mile area on the south ern end of the region portion of Fast must decide Towns to win in regional land stakes TERRY CARTER RICHMOND HILL Newmar ket Aurora and Richmond Hill made the major territorial gains in the consolida tion of York County municipalities to nine or maybe eight under a regional govern ment which will take over next Jan 1 The countys external boundaries will remain intact when the new regional administration is formed by legislation next October Municipal Affairs Minister Darcy McKeough told about county political leaders at a meeting here last Wednesday Hut he indicated about square miles south of the proposed High way roughly a line of High- Mr McKeough also told East Township council it must decide within two weeks if the township will remain a rural municipality all of Under the provinces overall scheme York County will remain an I openspace area of small cities and farm land part of a separating vily urbanized belts to its north and south NEW BOUNDARIES Newmarket Aurora and Rich mond Hill will expand west to SI and east to the proposed Highway and will absorb most of the population page few exceptions officials of the existing county municipalities suppor ted the plans outlined by Municipal Af fairs Minister Darcy and many were openly pleased that after more than a year of local bickering the decision on internal boundaries had fin ally been made at the provincial level The faces of politicians attend ing lost Wednesdays announcement in Richmond Hill reflected general relief when a map showing the new internal boundaries was placed on the auditorium stage The mood was epitomized by Au rora Mayor Dick who ob served that most areas have kept some semblance of unit Identity a direct re ference to previous fears that some ex isting municipal units might vanish with the onset of regional government York politicians spoke guardedly about the Implications of the regions first election scheduled for Oct With the abolition of the positions of reeve and deputy reeve and several boundary changes which shift some politicians out of their present bailiwicks about the most concrete comment on the election prospects came from King Township Reeve Gordon Cook the present and last warden of York County It will be very interesting to sec what will happen in the fall election as to who will run again and who wont he said Tills cautious reaction was REGIONAL REACTION page Amalgamation EG yes Newmarket no Housewife murdered in her Whitchurch home VANDORF was at homo one day last week waiting- for her husband lo return from work While playing with hei st monthold son Mrs was shot to death The Whitchurch Township housewife was shot twice In Ihe back and several times in the head by 22 calibre bullets police said blood spattered body was found by her husband Albert when he relumed home from his job us a physical education teacher at a Richmond Hill high Pinned underneath his mothers body smeared in blood and crying was her little son Police said the In hind picked up 1 Newmarket hydro rates to go up It looks painful but it was School track star Dave won t foot 11 inch jump despite It jump gave three firsts and annual track and field day last Thin the meet see the sports section the individual honors the schools For more photos and results of White photo a yards away where he called police Whitchurch police when told of the incident asked Mr to re turn to his pleasant twostorey home and apply resusitatlon in an effort lo bring his wife back to life Leaving his only child with the neighbors Mr now distraught to the point of hysteria and covered in blood from trying to comfort Brent re turned to his once happy Side- road home When police arrived Mr was cradling his wife in his arms and moaning softly In the words of OPP Inspector Ray Williams the murder was the most callous and coldblooded well ever Heres how Williams Chief Inspector Archie Ferguson and Whit church Police Staff Sergeant Dave Fel lows reconstruct the crime The murderer arrived at the iso lated house between and pm last Wednesday Mr arrived home from work at and police scien tists estimate his wife had been dead ap proximately two hours her son Brent pinned beneath her crying all the time Council is opposed Mr Twinncy said he and at After the meeting Hie mayor and reeve favored council and they in heated the towns second regional t filled by direct election make the decision He said unless firm lo amalgamate are received from regional government No rebate on 1M bill NEWMARKET York County will not be reimbursed the one million dollars it spent on reassessment even though the province is footing the reas sessment bill in the rest of Ontario York County Council was told last week York started its reassessment program almost five years ago and be came the first municipality to be com pletely reassessed Last January Ontario took over assessment departments all over the province and provincial em ployees are completing County councillors ma ntalned Ontario pushed York County into the early reassessment then raided the for experienced aked foot the million However Provincial Treasurer Charles MacNaughton told Warden Gor don Cook in a letter last week Ontario wont pay the bill The minister said other areas were partially reassessed it expenses In making the announcement last week of the adjustment Newmar ket Hydro Chairman Fred Thompson said the increase was necessary because of Mr Thompson said a block of kwh will continue to be available at a rate of cents for customers using an approved electric water heater the present rate is cents He said this package deal is available after the cus tomer has used per month at the first two rates previously mentioned- They do not murderer was known When Mr Moorby cat whether the the dead woman id home the front let himself in with Id ha his key The knocked at the front door with Mrs Moor letting him in or he could have en tered by the unlocked back kitchen door Investigation has been unable to determine how the murderer entered but they lb the front door I have eft by be 1 1 would not have been open Police are not during the early min Vandorf fire probe goes on ii lit It- been anything Sterritt stays NEWMARKET Holland lev Authority resources manager Derek will remain at lis post he province au need his transfc to Au- Iho rity in the llano area He had n with the Holla public outcry A members issi awl received hacking from ncil resolutions need Monday iniiuitl a ii thori changed iliilr minds um in the Hoi Ian Authority he aid many of Whitchurch Townships and financial records A spokesman Tor the Ontario Fire Marshals office said that one fire was in the vault and another was nearby The spokesman said that in flammable liquid was found in the muni cipal offices and ashes are being tested at the provincial forensic laboratory in Toronto The fires were the deliberate work of an arsonist he said Meanwhile an inspector from the Criminal Investigation Bureau is trying to determine If more than is involved in a discrepancy in the town ship financial records Police have interviewed every member of council and members of the township office staff There were no signs of forcible entry into the building Asked last week if he thought there was a definite connection between the fire and the 900 error on the town ships tax books Reeve Stewart Burnett replied Well it sort of points that way doesnt It discrepancy occurred But the fire precluded lhat step The reeve said the township had just anything He said the procedure followed by the township were the steps we were told to follow by the Department of Muni cipal Affairs after former Reeve Lawrence Hennessey disclosed the error following his defeat in last Decembers election Brents legs underneath her body Then the murderer fired several shots into the back of her head Williams said that sexual assault was Intended but never took place the autopsy showed but there disarrangement of her He said the of FIREWORKS NEWMARKET There will be fireworks at the Fairgrounds next Monday real one The fireworks is being put Club a group of New mark el area auto will start al dusk Prior to the fireworks there will be a baseball game and a band concert The Tack and Dwellers Car Club have challenged he Eliminators Car Club the ball game the Newmarket Town Hand will entertain Disc jockey Hal will also be on hand play records for dancing- forced entry and no evidence of ransack ing robbery or struggle She might have known mur dered or be could have been an unknown person who got Into the house under one pretext or another said Insp Williams Police wont say whether or not they have footprints but tire tracks could not be determined because the home is set well back off the road at the end of a hard gravelled driveway The home is on the east off Don Mills Road and almost opposite the Rolling Hills Golf The said Insp Williams when she saw someone with a gun and being a mother her first concern was for her son She fled with lihn in her arms and was shot Police iai with ANY information which might lead to the apprehension of the murderer to call the Whitchurch Police at