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six buses daily on new go transit service stouffville six daily buses to toronto are planned as part of the go transit bus service due to start one month from today a tentative schedule has been announced by go transit fares have not been approved but will likely be less than the current grey coach tickets to the city the tribune has learned the first bus of the day will likely depart stouffville around 7 pm after coming from ux- bridge it will make a stop in markham and then terminate at bay and dundas at about 715 a jn a go bus will leave stouffville and con nect with another go bus in marirham which will terminate at the finch subway station around 730 am an express bus from uxbridge will stop in town make another stop in mahrham and then go directly downtown the next bus at 935 am also originates in uxbridge stops in stouffville and markham as well as the warden subway station before ending up at the baydundas bus terminal a 405 pan service replaces the present grey coach bus it will z stop in stouffville markham unionville agin- court castle frank subway before terminating downtown the final bus is at 715 pm and will mean a transfer in markham with connections tor downtown toronto return service will include at least three buses probably more a reliable source told the tribune tickets will likely be available in 10trip books and monthly passes oiairman praises his t ecessor vol 88 no 36 whitchurch stouville january 15 1976 20 cents 52 pages sam doner 89 of parkview home remains active despite being confined to a wheel chair besides the book ends pictured above mr doner and his helper clarence legeer make and sell stools cutting boards bird houses and snack tables at 89 hes still active in workshop stouffville sam doner is a happy man although 89 and confined to a wheel chair mr doner a parkview home resident still actively pursues a favorite ac tivity woodworking nearly every day he puts his hand to producing articles in the homes woodworking shop i enjoy it very much and my health is much better mr doner says i both mr doner and his able assistant clarence legeer usually work about five hours daily making cutting boards bird feeders book ends stools and snack tables mr legeer is a resident of the parkview apartments articles made are sold to visitors as well as employees and residents of parkview in the year 1975 the goods earned a total of 340 we get nothing out of it ourselves just the kick of doing the job mr doner points out he uses his own tools for his work but is supplied wood needed for the projects mr doner began working with wood when first coming to parkview in 1971 his career of building items for othersbegan he recalls when a nurse asked him if he would build a short stool for the nursing station mr doner began using a converted supply room at the home as a woodworking centre in april 1973 and has been working steadily there ever since he first did carpentry work many years ago when he ran a power watermill on the 5th concession of markham in the summer he began building hay racks and wagon tongs for farmers f in 1923 he acquired the store and post officein gormley and ran that establishment for the next 30 years mr doner and his wife ada also a parkview resident will both be 90 next june he on june 1 and she on june 2 they were married in 1908 school board sympathetic negative on summitview aurora the sum- mitview parent teacher association had their day in court monday at the york county board of education but received little encouragement from board trustees spokesman ron arenas of manitoba street read the groups brief which requests expansion of summitview school facilities to include an adequate library and general purpose room the groups brief recognized the provincial restrictions on spending but stated that we must insure more than ever our needs and priorities are clearly established sympathetic to the group was vaughan trustee donald cameron who recommended you keep knocking at the ministrys door trustee keith hargrave of georgina however told the delegation that we have some areas that are just as over crowded as yours and have six portables mr arends replied that weve seen other schools in better shape that have had expansion from this board markham trustee gary adamson told the group that the york board had been allocated less than 10 per cent of the 4 dream come true depot opening saturday stouffville satur- days official opening of the stouffville recycling depots new building will be a dream come true for the small group who organized the depot little more than a year ago the depot was started in t december 1974 in a rundown garage on market st and soon had a large number of families r regularly contributing presently 500 families bring recyclable material to the depot at 11 am saturday mayor gordon ratcliff will cut the ribbon or string of newspaper officially opening the new facility the new building is located just opposite the town swim ming pool on park dr south it will be open saturdays from 930 a m to 1230 p m and thursday from 10 am to 12 noon coffee will be available but one of the organizers john garbutt said- that people are asked to bring their own cups in keeping with the theme of recycling mr garbutt especially expressed appreciation to local council for enthusiastically supporting us the recycling depot has been built by the town with part of the building to be used by the municipality for storage million it had asked for from the province so that nine of 10 projects in municipalities have fallen through board chairman doug allen thanked the delegation for an excellent presentation a motion by newmarket trustee craig cribar was passed to keep summitview under con sideration by the boards planning and development committee resignation follows town library offer stouffville one member of the whitchurch stouffville library board has resigned over the attitude of council in its dealings on the proposed new library for the town jdl harris tendered his resignation at the library boards jan 5 meeting he said the offer from the town of only 250000 was the last straw actually ive been disenchanted with council for two years mr harris said he completed a threeyear term on the board at the end of december in a letter to the tribune featured on page 5 mr harris states the case for a larger library of 10000 sq ft they council have frustrated so many people who have worked with the library board and with the library development committee mr harris said its not worth my while working with them any longer he claimed that council has created delaying tactics since 1962 when a new library was first proposed library board accepts town offer stouffville library board has accepted the towns offer of 250000 to build a new library board chairman jim sanders appeared before council to inform them of the boards decision and to request permission to build a 7000 square foot building we should be able to erect a building he said and come out with a very worthwhile project for the centennial year that the community can be proud of for years to come councillor june button asked mr sanders if the plans were pretty well finalized arid he answered that they cannot start having them drawn up until the debentures have been approved by the ontario municipal board x councillor art starr was curious as to whether any specific areas would have to be deleted mr sanders replied that the proposed multipurpose room would temporarily contain bookshelves and that whenever an addition was added the shelves could just be moved out without any major renovations the building according to mayor gordon ratcliff will be of brick except for the north wall he said this wall will be made of block to allow for expansion the target date for opening the library is tentatively set at late spring or early summer of 1977 mr sanders told the tribune the building will be designed so it carfbe enlarged to 10000 square feet when funds are available because of the reduced size of the building mr sanders said we wont be able to develop new programs as quickly as wed like but he added we can come up with a pretty good program and meet most of our needs the resolutiontequestingapprovaltofdebentureswill be dealt with at next weeks planning board meeting york cty richmond hill trustee doug allen was f elected chairman of the york county board of education jan 17 he defeated 1975 vice- chairman craig cribar for the position markham trustee donald cousens was named vice- chairman over separate school trustee john stephens mr allen in his acceptance speech praised the work of his predecessor don sim who he said could bring order out of chaos mr allen is in his second twoyear term on the board he stressed the need for co operation between board members to provide students with best education possible he suggested strict controls on spending to operate the system within the budget we have set for ourselves he asked for a pledge of support for all members of the staff from administration to the teachers and urged maximum use of all facilities we must provide the best form of education we can af ford the new chairman con cluded school use fees change by board york cty community use of schools received a major shot in the arm monday night as the york county boards of education approved a new policy eliminating fees to community groups for some of the ramifications of the new policy see an earlier story on page 3 rthe new community use of schools coordinator bob crosby is interviewed on page 2 dump brief prepared couple injured stouffville town solicitor paul mingay has now completed the brief to v presented to the minister of the environment in a last ditch attempt to have the york- sanitation dump closed council this week voted to present mr mingays brief personally to the minister of the environment the south lake simcoe conservation authority will also be asked to submit their report on the area to the ministry if our concerns are as genuine as conveyed to the hearing board then we should go further than to put an eight cent stamp on it the brief com mented councillor eldred king before making a motion that a meeting be set up we must act as it is our only hope commented mr king as council has voted not to proceed with charges against york sanitation the meeting with the minister is the last option open to the town an environmental hearing decision favored the highway 48 dump operation stouffville a stouffville couple were injured tuesday evening as their small pickup truck was struck by a heavy truck 1 the truck was northbound on highway 48 and was executing a left turn at steeles ave when it struck a datsun pickup driven by m c fogal of 10th line mr fogal received cuts to his face while mrs fogal under went plastic surgery to her throat at scarboro centennary i hospital his pride and joy- took off an ear unlicensed sales barn businesses drawfirp ballantrae mario vidovic who for a short time maintained a private zoo at olympia park has come to grief with the pride of his collection mr vidovic was especially proud of his young bengal tiger and he previously told the tribune he played and wrestled with the animal in its cage he must have done this once too often because the cat bit his ear off v mr vidovic was pulled unconscious from the wreckage of his car near ballantrae by ontario provincial police who discovered he was missing an ear he was driving south on i highway 48 attempting to reach a hospital when his car skidded 150 feet jumped a 15 foot ditch adjacent to a private driveway and slammed into a fence the incident occurred in queensville where mr vidovic now resides and he told police he wrapped a towel around his head before attempting to drive to a toronto hospital mr vidovic is at scarboro centenary hospital and police are awaiting his release to question him further mr vidovic is reported to now own as well as the tiger and lioness he had when he lived at olympia park cougars a timber wolf and lion cubs by john montgomery stouffville concern oyer the growth of permanent type businesses at the stouffville sales barn has resulted in ob jections being brought to the town from local businessmen following last weeks planning board meeting gino alberti owner of the hamilton automotive supply and another local merchant registered complaints to mayor gordon ratcliff and some members of council mr alberti complained that the individual operations many of them located there per manently are not paying business taxes and he felt the town should be taking in some revenue from this he argued that it provides unfair competition as the local merchants have higher overhead costs and are also subjected to business tax taxes fair barn owner says stouffville norm faulkner- part owner of the sales barn told the tribune he disagrees with the- argument that vendors at the sales barn should be taxed or charged a fee v r i he said he feels the business is paying its fair share of taxes it i feel we pay a lot of taxes he said for v what we get i cant get help directing traffic unless i payf for it myself v f x i yi chants are complaining about as many of them occasionally rent booths at the barn and he called the complaints ridiculous he termed the operation a hell of a good form of democracy but added if they want to tax the hell but of it the stouffville sales bam is located on 12- acres and is assessed at about 27000 less than the iga the business tax is 30 per cent of the assessed value of the property for all retail outlets and close it up then its up to the building on the themt v1f i u property are assessed fairlyjow the differencein price is as the main building is just a quite great he said its really good that people can come up bam with aluminum siding and would be valued much lower than a regular commercial structure vcritsof the operation contend he said the taxes paid by the owners of the sales barn dont come close to compensating for the volume of business carried out there he said if a small charge was levied against everybody that sells there then this would somewhat alleviate the tax burden on the rest of the town councillor cathy joice agreed with mr alberti and she added she has heard many of the same complaints from other businessmen mrs joice is looking into the matter and she is obtaining information from the city of kitchener to see how they licence the farmers market there the mayor later told the tribune he has sent away to ajax to see how they govern the operation of the flea market in that municipality mrs joice told the tribune she feels the sales barn itself is paying its fair share of taxes but she felt the sellers there should be subjected to some kind of a licencing fee or vendors permit v the municipality shouldnt be losing that kind of tax money she said in her opinion the matter will require careful consideration and that a bylaw will have to be drawn up j the tax she said wo d not be as high as what ft mer- chants in town pay but it would have to be fairer nine years ago it was all transient she said and now vthe majority of vendors have it as a permanent location and its kabout time the town got in on it she said she is glad some merchants have finally voiced their objections and she added that we are not going to let it die now the problem she feels is that although the barn started as a flea market type operation it has been allowed to grow without controls into an entirely different category of business and now carpeting furs and automotive supplies can be purchased there if anything she said the sales barn causes a loss of business to the downtown merchants as people wont come downtown saturdays becauseof the traffic generated by the sales barn j fft local businessmen and some- members council havebecome upset over the growth recent years stouffvule picture sells wigs hot formanyjhnndrwlsgof dollars councibfinow faatogtatbhcencingfeesfwhfc