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powrgrotiik j the romantic attraction of theold steam railroading days is far iirom gone as was demonstrated last saturday evening when a large jicrbwd turned out to watch as cns 6060 pulled into stouffville station to be filled with water there was considerable anticipation as children lay on the tracks to listen to the far off approach of the questioned by students candidates defensive engine and young and old surreptiously deposited coins on the track to be turned into instant souvenirs by the massive stream engine members of stouffvilles volunteer fire department were out to fill the tank johnmontgomery stouffville council tuesday night passed a resolution calling for a broadening of the judicial inquiry into disposal services ltd to include the operations of the york sanitation landfill site on highway 48 preserve our water resources powr has made the same demand last week premier william davis announced a judicial inquiry into a 35000 donation to the progressive conservative party by disposal services in 1974 when that company was seeking approval of a landfill site in maple disposal services and york t sanitation are wholly owned subsidiaries of waste management inc the us based parent firm at a press conference held saturday afternoon at the whitchurch stouffville municipal building attended by several members of council powr chairman frances sainsbury said the judicial inquiry must look into all the operations and contracts of- waste management inc if it is to answer the question whether any favours were given in return for the donation v c in 1974 york sanitation was i north liberaisbut ndpcai seeking approval to expand the ididate ian scottwas there highway 48 site and following a made a statement favouring a 40 day- hearing by theehiboadlingof toe inyesusatioiu vironmental hearing lboafii iivwtaen contacted bythi since renamed etavuwmentaktribureearlyi thisweekfmr assessment board the exvhodgson said he hadbeeti pansion was granted the expansion was opposed by council which passed a no dumping bylaw by powr and by many residents of the community powr and the town have since asked the ontario ombudsmans office to investigate the approval the ombudsmans- office has agreed to conduct a preliminary investigation into the approval but powr members felt this could be delayed if the judicial inquiry is broadened powr lawyer john swaigen told the tribune an offical request to include york sanitation in the inqjiry would be made monday of this week councillor becky wedley who was instrumental in arranging the saturday press conference made a point of mentioning that york north incumbent bill hodgson pc had been invited to attend mr hodgson was not present and there was no representation from the york l king city york north candidates were on the defen sive- monday as king city secondary school students icdtiptry ormers iptqqrriuig j stouffville stouff- wille lions are bringing some of the top canadian country and western performers to the areriafortwo shows july 9 tjcketsfortheshow which featureslxkqnriie prophet carroll f baker and maurice clearly wellprepared for the confrontation put them through their paces principally under fire was progressive conservative in cumbent bill hodgson who had to refute charges that the june 9 election is unnecessary and to defend his governments policies on job creation farmland development and education criticism of the election call was made both by the 200 senior students at the meeting and by liberal candidate jim wilson and new democratic party hopeful ian scott students charged that the estimated 1525 million spent on the election could be better spent on job creation programs the candidates argued that vol90no2 whitchurch stouffville may 19 1977 20 cents 20 pages playground program dropped stouffville despite citizens demands the recreation committee has reluctantly decided not to have a playground program in the stouffvillepark this year for the past two years playground programs have been run at vandorf and ballantrae for new programs and caused some cuts in established ones minor hockey will receive 3000 less than requested and the new minor soccer association budget was cut by 500 v the sports program slated to run in the arena during the and approached the committee about a playground program he also said that if such a group were to form in the fall and request financial assistance that stouffvillepark may well have a program next year mr dunkeld explained that it was not the function of the recreation committee vto organize programs but merely to supervise and support them- hodgson- notified too- late and thathe already had a full schedule saturday cr3gv mr hodgson added he did notfeel it proper foij himto discuss the issue as the matter has gone to a public inquiry and as a member of government i cant discuss it j tve been working on their- behalf since 1969 and went to bat toget the dumping of liquid waste stopped he said r r v 4 reading ay prepared statement mrs sainsbury saicc- that expansion of the dump from 300 tons daily to an eventual1500 tons per day was approved in spite of testimony from two expert witnesses that industrial j waste dumped at the site would eventually pollute the towns watersupply and surrounding wellsv- y v mrs sainsbury mentioned severaltfothfer alleged im properties she said the hearing board had flowed thelawyer for yohcsanitati6h and houhdwitnesses it didnt- matterlwhatiwejdid she said eachpctsonhad some sort of characterassassination j t mrssaihsbury said thv r vchairnian ofthe board had also iihade derogatory remarksabout- the witnessesand she accused- the ministrybfthelenvirorimeriv of not prosecuting the landfill company fori violations ofja control thel ministry j mrs wedley said the ministry had failed to have early warning jnqnitorihg wells uv stalled between uhe dump site and the town wells ralthoughit- had been requested by town j i j- the ministry r according to mrs- wedley jsmhree months late iriprovidingpromiseawell testing- resultsrmrswedleyj said theministfyhadpfpniised toprovideguarterly analyses o 1 watersamplesfakeri from wells f around thef perimeter of thes r idump jfisjjsty committee chairman neil patrick the tickets are available fat aikenspharmacy- cards and crest hardware stores bank of nova scotia bank of commerce neil patrick motors and at a booth to be set upat the sales barn excuse for calling- the election they added that he was cashing in on recent opinion polls that showed the conservatives well ahead of both the liberals and ndp mr hodgson answered the see candidates page 9 caused this plan to be dropped recreation committee chairman cliff dunkeld said that council had cut the recreation budget down to an 8 per cent increase over last year this left no money in the budget playground program in town while retaining the ones r vandorf and ballantrae because there were more facilities in stouffville- he cited the swimming pool and parks and also remarked that no organized group had ever come forward hard to make day care centre go stouffville when sylvia loftiis started herchick- adee day care centre a little more than a year ago she had high hopes of a thriving modestly profitable operation a york region survey showed that there was a demand for day care services for stouffville although riot enough to warrant a municipal operation and many people signed a petition demanding day care in stouffville however- mrs loftus has found it very difficult to get a viable operation going enrolment of children has been disappointingly slow and mrs- lbftuss profit has been nonexistent it is onlylhe love of children and her conviction that she is providing a valuable service that has kept her going she says were all devoted to it otherwise we wouldnt be doing it said mrs loftus she ex- plained that her staff works for a minimum salary and that she herself has never received a penny in renumeration all fees are used to buy equipment and supplies forthe children and pay rent and maintenance expenses chickadee charges 37 a week per child and mrs loftus doesnt feel that a bigger enrolment will help too much since that merely means hiring more staff to keep the child- teacher ratio low m everybody i wan ti to lt on sylvia loftuv lap tlesceandscaseyjphtchard t left jnlle oconnor xanneliese ltuterbak and jennifer kennedy manage to secure a ffy r care directors lap mrs loftns is finding it hard to keep her head above water but says that love of the children prevents her from- closing her operation f annegretlamnre mrs loftus feels that raising the fees would mean that some children would probably drop out she says that some parents already find it hard to meet the fees day care costs in toronto are much higher between 50 per child p and operators there say it costs them between 45 and 70 to provide care but mrs loftus is very reluctant to go ahead with even a 2 increase because of the added burden on the parents it worries me that we now charge 37 a week she said mrs loftus says that a lot of working parents leave their child with a neighbour in order to save on day care costs this she feels is a mistake the child is not properly stimulated i dont think the child gets as f much out of being in a neigh bours house watching tv all day mrs loftus explained that her centre is much more than a baby sitting service the children learn to get along with others and they learn to do a lot of new things we do arts and crafts and go on outings in the community she said mrs loftus gets a lot of satisfaction out of seeing the children blossoming under her care it means more to me than a salary she says but doesnt know how much longer she can keep operatingin view of mounting costs and dwindling 1 numbers of children to be honest i dont know how long i can keep up she sighed at christmas we said wed go till march and in march we said wed go till june to see if things jriprovev i guess its just wishful thinking she shrugged with a smile vbut inside im fighting i dont want to close the school mrs loftus thinks that if she had children on a steady basis that she might just be able to keep her head above water but mounted rake brigade 5 p over 300 volunteers turned out saturday morning to help clean up refusearid litter from the stream streets and parks of stouffville these three guides from left debbie heard wendy creasey and jill dobsori were among 93 brownies arid guides who turned out for more pictures and story see page i i p i johnmontgomery fair to aiidiion cielejiiiitmefnjh from premier davis romhie mayor david crombie has donated his pen for the celebrity auction at the centennial country fair may 28 this pen is the one that crombie used when signing into office to the highest bidder for the pen will also go a framed letter from crombie premier william davis has contributed a leather bound book that has been in his family for a number of years the auctioneers are awaiting con- tributions from mayor ratcliff gordon sinclair arid pierre berton among many others there will also be a baseball game from 7 to 9 pm with the chum super stars disc jockeys there will be 42 craft booths which will display many dif- silver jubilee club now open to seniors ferent- hand made items q so far thereare nine entries v for the bed race which starts at 1130 am there is a 2 registration fee for the race and there are rules arid regulations for the size of bed for the kiddies there will be a mooriwalkmqvies and games a permit has been issued for the beer garden but it must be held indoors it will be held in latchamhall with a dance to follow r all donations and con tributions towards the fair are intended for the newc whit- churchstouffville library- v for further information call 640-3716- w uii 24 stouffville the senior citizens suver jubilee club opened for business yesterday afternoon- f although the official opening wont beheld until june 1 at 2 pm the senior citizens drop in centre is nowopen every day tuesday to saturdayfrom930toll30amandl30to430pm zi membership applications tare available attheclub located in theold post office building on main street and membership is open- ot prospects are not too bright to all seniors whether they are whitchurchstouffville residentsor- centre pkvthis saturday tat its really depressing- she r not- j i ik gmnmadmlssionisfnr said last monday we only had one member of the club executive expressed some concern that adrfte and m forlldrihs seven children- local seniors wouldnt make use of the fadlitjrw usedght vearesnfe baseball is back again this year at the goodwood community v i x- t5km3r