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all the news whitchurch i uxbridge markham i pickering of all 4 townships vol 31 no 48 nm largest weekly i markham stouffville uxbridge in the district stouffvillemarkhamuxbridge ont thursday apr 30 1970 15 cents future of york decided may 6 york cty designated areas within the new region of york will be revealed to represen tatives of the 14 municipal councils at a meeting wednesday may 6 in bayview secondary school richmond hill the letter signed by darcy mckeough minis ter of municipal affairs read in part it is my intention to announce plans for regional govern ment legislation in the county of york at this meeting it is this report that all councils have been anti cipating for several months the timing of the announcement would make it appear that the minister intends to stick by his original target date of jan 1 1971 to put his regional government proposal into practice while a twotier government system is pretty well assured the location of internal boundaries a point of disagreement in many municipalities including stouffville has most villages towns and townships awaiting the outcome with apprehen sion stouffville for instance could be an area unto itself taking in a part of markham township and whitchurch it could also become part of a great er whitchurch area or be taken in by the mark ham area to the south a fourth possibility is the village remaining as a distinct neighborhood with in the satellite development of century city it is an accepted fact that some municipalities as a recognized selfgoverning body will disap pear which ones that is the question darcy mckeough will soon provide the answer seek hitrun driver stouffville police are still looking for the motorist whose car struck and injured a 5 year old girl near the intersection of baker avenue and main street darlene good daughter of mr and mrs garth good was taken to york county hospital at newmarket by her father and retained there three days for treatment and observation she returned to kin dergarten class at sum- mitview school wed nesday police said the driver stopped checked on the girls condition then drove away first horse show whitchurch twp the equestrian club of the whitchurch centennial centre will hold its first horse show of the season sunday may 3 at a site east of ballantrae on the aurora road the public is invited v for lanky to fly again the lancaster bomber respected for its heroic longrange missions during world war ii is now a prized possession one of the few still around is owned by ken short of markham it is accom modated at the oshawa airport awaiting repairs peter harris mwhim mmm boy in his own a boy a brook a fishing pole and hook what tried their luck this particular location is on a more could any lad ask except perhaps a nibble branch of the rouge river at dicksons hill brian now and then the trout season opened saturday is the son of dr and mrs r d oconnor glad and hundreds like 9 year old brian oconnor park avenue stouffville liquid waste threat immediate shutdown of bremner site demanded by public firehall erected in 1966 now ruled inadequate improvements double original cost stouffville stouffvilles firehall erected in 1966 at a cost of 30000 is now considered inadequate this is the opinion of nj atkins district services adviser ontario fire marshals office dept of justice following a survey conducted recently improvements if completed as recom mended in the report will cost an estimated 75000 reeve ken laushway told council april 23 the conclusion calls for one additional bay adequate office space for the chief deputychief and administrative staff plus provisions for training and fire prevention courses with respect to equip ment the report recom mends the purchase in 1970 of a new truck and pumper to replace the 1946 model unit the latter however would not be dismantled but maintained as a reserve vehicle the report went on mr atkins suggested a policy whereby both the chief and deputychief be enrolled in fireprotection technology courses at the ontario fire college beginning in 1971 with provision made for other officers to do the same in subsequent years other recommendations dealt with auxiliary electrical power supplies for the alarm radio and reservoir pumping station in addition to three of ficers the brigade has 13 volunteers in 1969 the department responded to 84 calls its cost of operation was 4592600 uxbridge township withdraws objection to industrial zone extend municipal building stouffville stouffville council will consider the placing of a new floor in the rear section of the municipal building to be utilized by organizations and groups for meetings and recreation the recommendation was introduced april 23 by reeve ken laushway mr laushway suggested that if the work was started this summer the project would be com pleted by early winter major park improvements stouffville a major improvement program is planned for the stouffville memorial park this summer councillor mrs ethel mole revealed at a meeting april 23 the projects to cost an estimated 9484 will in clude the replacement of floodlight wiring 3512 reaiming of floodlight fixtures 573 re surfacing of tennis courts 1800 and the floodlighting of tennis courts 3599 the work will be paid for out of park trust funds once approval is received from the dept of municipal affairs dropin centres for young adults uxbridge twp uxbridge twp council has withdrawn its objection to stouffvilles plan to rezone the land along the east townline as industrial when members first received notice of the proposal they voiced concern over possible flooding of land due to its proximity to a branch of duffin creek a further study revealed that this problem could easily be remedied through the installation of one larger culvert amendments approved by stouffville planning board increases the area of openspace zoning along the route of the water course percheron team brings 2100 whitchurch twp a percheron horse team owned by j harry walker rr3 newmarket has brought the highest price in 17 years at central exhibition grounds lindsay an american buyer paid 2100 for the pair the sale of draft horses is held annually at lind say from noonhour to 7 pm 115 were sold a belgian gelding consigned by keith hobden of rr2 lindsay went to another american buyer for 840 farmer run over by tractor mt zion a mt zion district farmer is in oshawa general hospital after being knocked down and run over by his own tractor tuesday af ternoon ralph jones claremont rr2 suffered injury to his head and chest but no bones were broken the accident occurred when mr jones standing on the ground started up the machine not realizing it was in gear whitchurch councillors promise action stouffville members of whitchurch twp council have promised action next monday night to halt the further dumping of industrial liquid waste at a site north of stouffville lot 14 cone 8 this assurance came from councillors merlyn baker and gordon ratcliff at a public meeting tuesday attended by over 1000 persons in the auditorium of stouffville district secondary school their decision was later supported by councillor betty vannostrand speaking from the floor but this optimism was not shared by john heamen an official from the dept of waste management when faced with an ultimatum to halt the practice within three weeks or else he replied firmly it cannot be done- bob lewis of bloomington the meetings chairman responded by suggesting that unless some positive answers were forthcoming by that deadline the issue would be turned over to an even higher authority than the minister the people themselves reeve ken laushway of stouffville admitted that local municipal officials had run up against a brick wall in their attempts at obtaining both action and answers he said several reasons had been put forward why the dump should not be closed if the dump was closed the department would soon find a solution he said he urged the organization pow preserve our water to press on until its objective was reached while department spokesmen stated em phatically that no degree of water contamination had yet occurred from seepage at this site none could guarantee that such a thing would not occur possibly several years in the future listeners refused to accept anything less and loudly applauded when merlyn baker remarked what people in high places have done- speaks so loud i cant hear what theyre saying bill hodgson mpp york north said he was impressed by the public reaction to the prob lem im behind you 100 he said theres no use locking the door after the horse has been stolen a speaker from the floor wanted to know what would happen if ratepayers blocked the en trance to the dump site with their cars who polices that area he asked whitchurch town ship or the opp both replied councillor ratcliff wish you luck but i stouffville a program designed to stamp out drug abuse throughout york county has been launched in every municipality including stouffville an organizational seminar was held sunday in the aurora community centre it was attended by a crosssection of in terested persons including students educators doctors ministers police chiefs social workers and parents following two hours of intense discussion it was agreed that youth groups should be established taking the form of dropin centres where young people have somewhere to go and something to do teenagers present stressed that if such facilities were provided they could cope with the drug problem themselves but they asked the co operation of adults in getting the program started in stouffville a student committee will be established to meet in two weeks with members of village council for the summer period at least it is hoped that facilities at the high school can be made available recreation coordinator m wa stouffville stouffville has a new recreation coordinator hes mr harold landry 22 of toronto a first year student in recreational leadership at humber college mr landry was selected out of 28 applications and commences his duties here may 4 he attended a meeting of the stouffville minor softball association monday night councillor mrs ethel mole in making the an nouncement april 23 said the commission was highly impressed not only with his enthusiasm for organized activities but also his personality puffin billy takes thirty minute when steam train no 218 rounded the curve north of stouff ville saturday afternoon spectators anticipated only a passing glimpse of the torontobound steel monster instead it hissed quietly to a stop allowing camera bugs to shoot pictures to their breather at stouffville station hearts content personal inspection was also permitted of the engines interior the excursion trip was sponsored by the upper canada railway society jas thomas