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ove easte za co mombntns despite his fathers coaching two year old toby proctor displays a rather unusual delivery style at the big brothers of york bowlarama held in newmarket last saturday the event which was held to raise funds for the organization was also attended by ron ellis and whipper watson and many little and quite a few big brothers kept them buy signing autographs between games annegret lamure stouffville in a recorded vote tuesday evening council passed revisions to the proposed east end plaza site plan virtually guaranteeing that the development will be able to proceed later they passed a resolution to proceed with rezoning the property to com mercial councillors becky wedley and jim doble voted against the motion on the grounds the harding gate plaza should be built in conjunction with the dulverton subdivision both members said they were not trying to stop the plaza but were concerned with the timing the only requirement the developers have yet to obtain is a rezoning for the property located on the east side of high- way 47 just north of main st it was estimated that since there is little likelihood of objections from neighbours construction could be six months to a year away councillor bill kamps who at a special meeting with the developers planner last week advocated delaying the shop ping centre this week reversed his stand and voted for the development last week mr kamps said if you duplicate services in a town this size someone is going to go out of business but tuesday night he commented if they live up to the site plan and landscaping it will be a real help to that part of town last week mayor gordon ratcliff in a telephone in- terviewtold the tribune we are bringing in too many small stores but added they had dealt with the developer in good faith and had made a commitment to the project the mayor said council had clippers ply eagles team on saturday febuary 26 at 8 pm the ken may clipper junior c team will meet the bowmanville eagles in an ex citing semifinal match in stouffville this should be an out standing series- dealt with the company since 1972 and that negotiations bad actually begun i before talks started on the 17 unit stouffer st plaza which is now at an ad- vanced stage on construction some councillorsiargued that with the usual bureaucratic delays the harding gate plaza still might not get started before the dulverton subdivision councillor wedfey responded by suggesting that since the starting dates would be simultaneous there would be no harm in including a clause in the agreement making it a provision that plaza construction begin in conjunction with the sub division this was rejected- mr ratcliff maintained that the community wants the plaza while mrs wedley said that from talking to local people she had arrived at an entirely opv posite conclusion we all feel that way about the timing said councillor june button everybody- agreed to let them go ahead when they were ready she added x the mayor said the time to stop the plaza was in 1975 uxbridge councillors say ho to gravel advisory committee uxbridgjb uxbridge will not have an advisory committee to make recom mendations to council regarding the gravel question a motion by john paxton and seconded by alan wells that a committee be established found no favour regional councillor gary herrema said we have so many goddarned committees we wont have time for anything where are we going to stop he conceded that gravel was- a serious problem but felt-that- there were many- other problems besides gravel he also said that if there was in- v terest in forming such a group it could be done without council getting involved and they could send a delegation to council- whenever they wanted the doors are always open he said mr paxton pointed out that the gravel question was so mammoth that regular input was needed but councillor norm lyons expressed theview that no more information was needed we dont need anymore feedback we have to make some of our own decisions he declared councillor alan wells spoke in favour of establishing a committee oh the grounds that the ontario working party recommended ongoing dialogue in their report t vol 89 no 421 whitchurch stouffville february 24 1977 20 cents 16 pages council considers retaining pond up witha plan to include the pond in the park i dont think youre suggesting a rescinding of the previous motion interpreted councillor eldred king mr king seconded the motion for discussion of an alternate plan mrs button agreed to this- interpretation although it didnt appear tobevthe intent of her original- motion meeting for au seniors a general meeting will be held at latcham hall on friday- february25 at 8 pni for all interested senior citizens or retired people concerning tire organization of the whitchurch stouffville silver jubilee club stouffville council thnrveektook a tentative and possibly reversible step toward allowing lehmans pond to remain in the proposed 535 acre dulverton subdivision park since the recent an nouncement that the park would be bulldozed in for safety reasons there has been a good deal of controversysurrounding the issue j townspeople- seem tdube r lct hj frcy tt overwhelmingly in favour of- wnen vofe was called in markham lies adjacent to the kding the vond a 162- here were two dissenting votes- milne conservation area tipetiumjns j king under the signature of the organizations chairman frances sainsbury in her letter mrs sainsbury said she j received many calls from people concerned the pond would be destroyed mrs sainsbury noted the town of uxbridge has a pond unionville station carlton village and the older sectionof unionville surround arthur toogobds pond sherwood south c and- the pond was submitted to planning board last week councillor n june button introduced the subject at the regular meeting of council tuesday evening she asked council to reconsider the earlier decision to fill in the pond and introduced a motion that council consult theengirieer and come garbage contract is let ak- v- v 9 when the stewart family built a snowman they decided to make it- an abominable one here terry stewart 9 peeks but from between the legs of the monster his brother michael 1 and dad murray stewart all worked on the construction the hardest part was putting on the head said terry it kept falling off annegret lamure stouffville garbage tender for the next two year period has been awarded to spademen disposal services for almost exactly the same amount as was charged for 1976 i- the winning bid by spademan was 254285 for 24 council gives itself 8 raise stouffville r town council last week voted them selves an 8 per cent increase in pay retroactive to january 1 the first raise in two years the raises were approved during a special meeting held to open garbage tenders mayor gordon ratcliffs salary- climbed from 8040 to 8700 and councillors pay goes from 4740 to 5200 onethird of the salaries are allocated as expenses and are thus tax free months compared to 125142 for 1976 the company was also allowed an additional 2000 in 1976to compensate for yari- dalismto garbage bins it really came in nice commented mayor gordon ratcliff a total- of three bids were submitted for the contract biwest contracting limited submitted a bid of 679000 and markham sand and gravel estimated 49231920 the spademan price amounts to a 50 cent increase each year bids were opened and the contract awarded ata special meeting of council last monday mrs wedley is opposed to allowing the pond to stay because she advocates using that propertyfor a soccer field other councillors suggested that the playgrounds of the public and separate elementary schools to be located adjacent to the park could be used for this type of recreation acting on a suggestion contained in a letter to council fromstewart mcelroy of blake st council also voted to seek an opinion from officials of the metropolitan toronto and region conservation authority mr mcelroy suggested x council request the authority to express their opinion on the viability of this proposed park his letter contained the accusation that the tibunes coverage of the issue had been very biased he wrote that the newspaper had roused public opinion to the point where logical reasoning has vanished at the same meeting a letter in favour of keeping the pond was received from the preserve our water resources group she said this type of property is very popular as the market value of land near such ponds is increased councillor bill kamps said he had favoured eliminating the pond because of the two thousand people coming there he expressed concern about policing the area after the subdivision is built adding i also dont like going back on bur word he said he thought this type of behaviour wishy- washy he suggested the pond be left and spoke in favour of a community centre board recommendation that an estimated fifteen thousand cubic feet of excess fill how on the site be used to erect a hill near the pond the hill would- be used for tobogganning if this would require the removal of a large number of trees he said the hill could be t moved to aproposed parkette to the north- thatwaymr said- if a delegation oi dulverton subdivision residents came in sometimesinthe future j and v demanded removal dfthe pond- the earth could be bulldozed in v councillor jim doble criticized the people supporting the pond for not taking an in terestin the development at an earlier stage he said they had nevererivisioned the subdivision in their backyards adding they should have opposed the sub- division when it was first proposed t its like takinga cookie cutter and taking a chunk out of scarborough and dropping it- behind stouffville he saidits going to completely change the town a attempt id oustjbuddy region public school board and aurora a move to remove copies of the ap- prenticeship of duddy kravitz from libraries in york region elementary schools was turned down by trustees here last week the motion by vaughan trustee donald cameron called for the board to determine if any copies of the controversial canadian novel written by mordechai richler are in libraries operated by the york if soto remove the copies im- mediately current board policy provides for no input from either trustees or senior staff during selection of books for a school library school operations- superintendent john kippen told the board books are selected by the librarian in consultation with school staff he explained eundraising to start for lynn jacks on memorial ball trophy goodwood raising will s fund- start for a memorial to the little twelve- yearold girl who died in a tragic barn accident recently the goodwood- fair com mittee and other friends of lynn jackson are trying to get the whole community together in- order to raise funds for this centennial calendar i costume ball friday t l the centennialdostume ball is scheduled to go ahead friday night at cedar beach park musselmans lake j- the dance was originally to take place january 28 but was postponed oh accountf a raging snowstorm festivities begin at 9 pm and prizes will be awarded for the best couples pioneer costume best mans outfit and best womans costume- historic garb is optional ju c c r u tickets are still available at toronto dominion bank cards hardware and crest hardware included in the 10 per couple price will be a light lunch and favours for the ladies miss stouffville michelle morley will be in attendance purpose the money raised will go towards the lynn jackson memorial trophy which will be awarded to the most improved minor baseball player- each year a meeting will be held at the goodwood community hall on thursday feb 24 at 8 pm to discuss the memorial- reverend j l carter and representatives from each service group will be at the meeting and all in terested individuals are invited to attend persons wishing to con- tribute to the trophy are asked to call brian plewes at 6402767 or contact members of the goodwood fair committee a number of angry plcketers appeared before thecooiitryclaby donnl shop in stouffville last saturday to protest the managements hiring and firing jracjices plcketers alleged that several em ployees had been fired without reason and one gbi bad been hired and fjrcd twice in two days management denied these charges and v- sam quite to thecontraryonly one girl had been fired and with good reason plcketers said they took their grievances to the labour relations board bnt were told nothing could be done since the shop bad been hi business less than three months t amt lamure i j- r- jti at