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1 2nd annual mardi gras fun for young and old stouffville plans are completed and only the weather must cooperate to make the second annual mardi gras a success the festivities begin at 2 pm in the town park with activities designed for both young and old there will be sleigh and cutter rides for the children with gord lewis bringing along his work team to pull the sleigh senior citizens will be treated to free snowmobile rides in the park stouffvilles volunteer firefighters will set up a teepee and build a bonfire to cook hot dogs they will be given away to the first 300 children who come to the park in the evening s teen dance is planned for latcham hall from 830 1130 pm as that goes on th adults will be in the arena at 8 pm there is a demonstration by members of the stouff ville figure skating club at 830 the adult skating party begins during intermission of the party the stouff ville lions club will square off against the kinsmen for a grudge broomball game costumes are optional for the skating party but prizes are offered for best costumes the lions club bus will pick up senior citizens at three locations in town the bus will pick up people at parkview home elm rd senior citizens apartments and testa villa around 130 pm vol 87 no 41 whitchurch stouffville markham feb 13 1975 20 cents 20 pages ottawa trip postponed cabinet refuses meeting i council cautious on whole complex i stouffville council is in agreement that a swim ming pool could be built at stouffville dist secondary school but is not prepared to back any other phase of the community complex proposal at r time mayor gordon rat- cliff told the tribune school board member colin barrett however finds the councils proposed locationfor a wimming pool interferes with the projected 1978 expansion of the school the board will 0 fdonate any part of the land at all for the use of the swimming pool as long as it doesnt in terfere with expansion later on he told the tribune j councils position on the complex according to the mayor is that the swimming pool could be considered as a jfirst phase we have not agreed to go any further at this time j councillor eldred king said x that council hasnt said it was jihfavorable to the complex but sees it as something that can be accomplished in the future two factors that first must be settled mr king said is the possible purchase of the stouffville arena by the town and the status of the land on the west side of edward street to be used in the proposed complex mr barretts contention however was that the 35 acres needed in the complex proposal would have to be wrestled with- by the municipality and acquired by either purchase or by swapping the 1978 school addition he said does not require any additional lands the mayors feeling on the three million dollar figure suggested in the study for the cost of the complex cannot be accepted on our present tax base the mayor also said he believed the library should be put into a shopping area and not at the school new councillor opposes subdivision ballantrae councils only new member becky wedleyrhasassertedher in- dependence i mrs wedley gave notice of lier strong opposition to the proposed second phase of the kelray subdivision and asked to bp put on record as being against the project planning board last week passed a bylaw rezoning the fclraysite for residential use with mrs wedley casting the only opposing vote and as yet unsigned sub division agreement between the clown and felray is now being negotiated for the 60 home subdivision mrs wedley based her objection on the official plans requirement that a secondary plan be drawn up if a hamlet is going to expand to over 500 people councillor cathy joice pointed out the ministry of housing has stated the development can be considered as part of the hamlet the issue is weve reached i mrs wedley following the 500 already commented meeting she accused council of ignoring both the official plan and the area services branch study of the ballantrae area the study released last year calls for a secondary plan before expansion over 500 is allowed in the hamlet and according to mrs wedley calls for infilling before any new development is allowed they council are letting the subdividers plan for us rather than the people we pay to do it she said they are ignoring all the things in the studies theyve com missioned she told the tribune women with baby buggies and toddlers mayor and council met the 300 demonstrators surged down main st monday to the municipal outside and promised to take the towns case to building to protest the pickering airportvtke ottawa john montgomery alternative dump or not expansion at stake stouffville whether stouffville finds an alternate municipal dump or not will have no bearing on the en vironmental hearing boards recommendations regarding the future of the york sanitation dump no 4 youth jailed after officer assaulted dog dies but barks for fire bethesda a pet dog lost his life sunday but his barks saved someones life when fire gutted the basement section of a house on bcthesda rd between the 5th and the 6th cone the dogs bark aroused judy jones who was sleeping in the house and she fled to call the stouffville fire department the fire started early sunday morning the other occupant larry van dyke also fled when he woke up the dog however was found by firefighters in a closet overcome by smoke the house and garage which served as snowmobile dealership is owned by harold van dyke mr and mrs van dyke were away in arizona at the time of the fire stouffville fire chief wall smith estimated damage at 15000 to the basement and 15000 to the garage the basement was fixed up and contained a large number of trophies stouffville an 18 year old stouffville youth was sentenced to seven days in jail after he pleaded guilty to common assault in newmarket provincial court last week dance money liquor taken stouffville proceeds from a dance and seven bottles of liquor were taken from stouffville legion early saturday morning police believe the thieves might have stayed behind after a dance concluded at 2 am then broke into the office and made off with 377 in cash and seven 40 oz bottles of liquor there was no evidence of a breakin and the theft was discovered at 10 am saturday morning- police are in vestigating maris robert paulens r r 4 stouffville pleaded guilty after the crown reduced the charge from assaulting a police officer he also pleaded guilty to a charge of impaired driving and was fined 120 or 12 days constable alex ryrie told the court that paulens kicked him as he was attempting to get the youth into a police cruiser following the arrest june 23 1974 the officer said that he was off work for several days following the incident and had to wear a surgical collar for several weeks he let me know there was no way i was going to take him in constable ryrie told the court judge clare morrison in handing down the jail sentence said that on the evidence before me he would have been convicted of assaulting police we completely divorce that problem from the hearing commented board chairman david calverly we are dealing with the expansion application he said that in his opinion the town would not get a site by march 31 when the towns disposal contract with york sanitation expires but added i dont want to get involved with that we would get into an in- terminable mess mr calverly told the assembled lawyers he wants to get the hearings completed in one more week of sittings so the board can get their report out by the first of april because that is when the bylaw passed by the town and prohibiting dumping at the landfill site comes into effect the recommendation will be based on the technical evidence as well as public acceptability of the dump according to mr calverly the board will prepare a report on the site and submit it with recommendations to the director of the ministry of the environment who will make the final decision the report will not be made public until it is released by the ministry mayor not worried over dump deadline stouffville mayor gordon ratcliff this week told the tribune that preliminary results of testing for the proposed new municipal dump are favorable the mayor said the tests of the still undisclosed site are not yet fully in he indicated he is not overly worried about the termination of the towns garbage disposal contract with york sanitation on march 31 mr ratcliff said there have been several tenders submitted by firms interested in contracting to pickup and dispose of the towns garbage for a one year period the tenders must be in by feb 20 town solicitor paul mingay has asked the ministry of the environment to rule on whether a provisional certificate to operate a municipal dump can be granted on an emergency basis to date there has been no reply from the ministry mayor ratcliff disputed the statement by senior en vironmental officer paul isles that no certificate can be granted until an environmental hearing has been held stouffville a planned motorcade to ottawa to meet the federal cabinet may be postponed after whitchurch- stouffville council learned this week that the cabinet will not meet with members of the public to discuss the proposed pickering airport at a special council meeting called after 300 demonstrators paraded to the town square monday afternoon it was decided to go to ottawa arid meet with urban affairs minister barney danson to urge the cabinet not to approve the pickering airport the march the first of its kind in stouffville in recent memory was made up of men women and children all op posing the airport the op position was aroused by a recommendation in the inquiry commission report that the government buy up properties in stouffville and claremont the marchers carried placards and signs and a group of hockey players were shown carrying a coffin symbolic of the death of stouffville if the airport is built organizer gord ness made an impassioned plea that the council go to ottawa to try and convince the government to stop the airport mayor gorton ratcliff told the crowd that members of the council would go to ottawa and urged local residents to go also lets have 300 cars go to ottawa and lets stop the air port he said council a short time later approved a motion to request mr danson to set up a meeting with transport minister jean marchand and if possible the prime minister trudeau him self tuesday mayor ratcliff told the tribune that he had talked to one of mr dansons assistants and with the inquiry report in the hands of the cabinet they will not discuss it publicly a cabinet decision on the airport is expected later next week meanwhile members of the local group opposed to the airport are urging people to send letters of protest to members of the cabinet and ontario premier william davis mpp don deacon mpp bill newman and mpp william hodgson fined 250 or 60 days hit three cars youth cant drive for year markham a stouffville youth was fined 250 or 60 days in jail and has been prohibited strom driving in canada for a year after he appeared in rich mond hill court last week on a charge of impaired driving john patrick lindsay 17 main st stouffville was ap prehended by a citizen on saturday sept 28 1974 he was observed on abercorn rd as he veered off the road and struck a parked car on that street then drove on and struck another car on the street he continued on to highway 7 and collided with another vehicle southbound on laidlaw he was apprehended a short time later by robert keenan of abercorn rd who held him until york regional police arrived a breathalyzer test showed barrett finance chairman stouffville the stouffville trustee colin barrett has been named chairman of the york county board of educations finance com mittee one of four standing committees under the boards new system finance is one of the key functions you have to have money to carry out the wishes of the people mr barrett told the tribune if youve got no money youve got no programs mr barrett was pleased that he was chosen to head this important committee and feels that his background in financial matters will allow him to make a real contribution he admits it will mean extra work for him but is looking forward to the challenge stouffvilles representative feels that the new system of standing committees will upgrade the boards operation a reading of 240 milligrams of alcohol in 100 mm of blood the vehicle lindsay was driving was registered to his mother and that car received extensive damage k trustee to meet with parents stouffville colin barrett stouffvilles new representative on the york county board of education is determined to listen to the concerns of people in this area as a step in this process mr barrett has called a meeting for feb 21 to be held in the auditorium of orchard park public school parents off children attending the school and parents of those at sum- mitview are invited to attend the topics to be discussed will be the future of sum- merview and the whole question of putting grade 8 students into a high school mr barrett is seeking the opinions of those directly concerned so that he may report to the board the meeting gets underway at 730 free rabies clinic to protect household pets by don bernard stouffville a free rabies clinic will be held today feb 13 in stouffville as part of a series throughout york region due to a large number of comfirmed cases of the disease in the area dr c h hyatt district veterinarian of york region told the tribune that the department of agriculture holds the clinics when rabies outbreaks become serious in an area he said foxes and skunks are the most frequent carriers of the disease and household pets that come in contact with a rabid animal could give it to humans the clinics are established to get pets in- noculated which is the first line of defense dr hyatt said two local incidents demonstrate the problem the whole family of maurice macfarlane of r r 4 stouffvillej received a series of rabies shots when their family cat went beserk and bit the youngest daughter and scrat ched other members of the family mr macfarlane his wife anne son stephen and daughters diane and lorraine all have received the shots not far from the mac- farlanes at the 5th cone and bloomington rd bruce ad dison had a similar experience one of his daughters went to pet their cat and it went wild and scratched members of the family mr addison and his daughters lisa 11 and lori 13 also received the shots an incident in claremont saw the death of one of four cows owned by bill evans they were pastured east of claremont when one took sick and died he and his sons blair and glen also had the series of shots local vet terry oconnor said that the disease was reaching its peak this time of year the clinic in stouffville is at the works department garage behind the swimming pool from 3730 pm today there is another free clinic in markham monday from 930 am to l pm at the fairgrounds t the villainous oscar the organ grinder is turned back into a wooden doll during a performance of a dance troup at orchard park public school friday for more pictures see page 9 v t