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canoeing accident jz mmjf- two drown at lazy v i i ku ooocf ococ oooof ooocc oooog ococc 290000 xcoco 30chj00 rocooo xlouoo lazy lake a canoeing accident at lazy lake early thursday afternoon took the lives of two young metro men despite the efforts of a local man determined to rescue them the two victims salim kassam 22 and munir mulji 21 cousins were out in a canoe when it tipped over al mcgregor who works at the lazy lake camp saw the two men flailing about and at tempted to rescue them i just took off out the door pulled my boots off and jumped in he said mr mcgregor saw one man swimming for shore and decided to head straight for the other one who was splashing about and hollering for help however by the time he got there the victim had disap peared beneath the surface i dove and dove recalls mr mcgregor but i couldnt find him lazy lake although small is deceptively deep 27 feet to the bottom near the centre when the exhausted mr mcgregor got back to shore he discovered the other man hadnt made it to safety either and he proceeded to swim the length of the lake looking for the victims but without success shortly after the canoe overturned the uxbridge fire department and the durham regional police were on the scene they dived and dragged the lake until dark but failed to bring up the victims early the next day two opp divers were brought in and the victims were found a short time later the two had been camping in a trailer at the lazy lake camp grounds picture page 2 wribtxm iiisisii8 vol 91 no 5 whitchurch stouffville june 8 1978 20 cents 20 pages puoooo 5v ozoz ooc ramblin man returns baby face 1 summitview principal lome boadway was given a personal rendition of baby face last week during the bobby gimby concert at the school the two girls snuggling up to lome are leanna grabish on the left anddarlene williams on the right both were part of the summitview choir the star of the show bobby made a great hit with the large audience in the new school gym for more pictures see page nine keith bolender library board request rejected by council stouffville whit- churchstouffville town council has decided in committee not to grant the library boards request for an additional 3500 in operating capital councillors jim doble bill mcnalley and beckey wedley voted to accepthejbtowns- budget without any revisions thus disallowing the requested increase in the librarys budget council previously reduced the librarys request by 10000 councillor wedley felt that the 90000 budget was a reasonable and adequate amount for the town to provide for the library she went on to say that council has managed to maintain the same tax rate as 1977 people get uptight when taxes go up said the coun cillor in response to criticism from the tribune mrs wedley pointed out that she is a library supporter and feels that the head librarian terry verity and his staff are doing a great job she also noted that this council has supported the library and that facilities have improved tremendously mayor ratcliff who voted with councillor bill kamps in v support of the increase in the library budget councillor eldred king was absent and jane button chaired the meeting felt the 3500 could have been raised from lot fees three car collision stouffville a three- car collision which caused an estimated 3200 damage saturday afternoon on highway 47 north of the stouffville sales barn was apparently caused when a driver became distracted watching a fire on the west side of the road- and swerved into oncoming traffic opp ai oak ridges said milton harvey grove 64 rr 4 stouffville was northbound about 345 pm and was wat ching the blaze at a manure pile and pigpen when he allegedly strayed into the southbound lane where he was struck by a south bound car driven by david walter bowler 65 kennedy road agincourt the grove car then rebounded and struck a parked vehicle owned by joan kee drewry ave willowdale damage to the grove and bowler cars was estimated at 1500 each with 200 to the kee car w mr bowler and his wife bertha were taken to scar- borough centenary hospital with minor injuries mr grove has been charged with careless driving damage to the pig pen wa3 estimated at 200 he said earlier he would favor a small tax increase amounting to onethirtieth of a mill or under one dollar per household to meet the boards request for additional funding however the mayor said such a small sum could easily be raised without the necessity of a tax increase the mayor also made an important distinction in the figures the 90000 includes 26000 in debenture payments leaving the library with only a 64000 operating budget for this year with library useage in creasing from 61000 people served in 1976 to 75958 in 1977 to a projected 90000 people served in 1978 the lost 3500 comes at a bad time this money would have meant the purchase of about 400 books for the library both the mayor and the head librarian feel that is is unfortunate for the library that this is a time of fiscal restraint the provincial government grants were not raised this year staying at the 1977 level of 1 80 per capita combined with the recommendations that smaller municipalities need a higher ratio of books to provide service equal to larger municipalities and with the stouffville library having been woefully forgotten over the years the municipality will of necessity face a decline in service provided for instance a town of 100000 200000 should average about 175 books per capita while a smaller community of under 10000 should ideally have an average of 3 55 0 books per capita in comparing whitchurch- stouffville with other libraries in the central ontario regional library the towrf- yanked nmvj6ufneysfrom coasl tocoast he by annegret lamure no more hitchhiking thats all history now said anton theodore neilsen after he v arrived in town early this week but sure enough he got here by bus all those that know sun shine neilsen well would find his new mode of travel unusual they are used to sunshine rambling around the country by virtue of his thumbs ive retired explained sunshine neilsen after all im getting on he will be 75 years old in september and has spent most of those years hitchhiking back and forth across canada sunshine is one of the last of an almost extinct breed one of the knights of the road that were so commonplace in the thirties i never could stay too long in one place just my nature i suppose he laughed- in all he made 11 trips to the yukon and innumerable out of 19 in per capita ex penditures in 1976 but with the addition of the new facility may have moved up in the standings larger towns such as oshawa brampton richmond hill and markham have higher ex penditures than stouffville the towns expenditure of 10 17 per capita on the library is slightly less than the provincial average of 11 26 per capita and the regional average of 11 24 the full time staff of the library is the equivalent of 58 persons in a town of 13000 people while in markham a town slightly under four times stouffvilles size about 40 full- time staff are employed recalls hitchhiking from montreal to the yukon in less than 10 days at one time sunshines love affair with canada began shortly after he arrived from england in 1921 at the age of 17 i took the train to halifax and worked on a farm for one year and eight months thats about the most i ever stayed in one place he con fessed after his stint at the farm he set out to explore the country and incidentally make friends all oyer canada you meet a lot of won derful people cried sunshine enthusiastically doctors lawyers ambassadors all kinds one of his most cherished acquaintances was the ambassador to mexico i acton now waits stouffville keith acton the fourth highest scorer in the ontario junior a hockey association last season is now back in stouffville trying to decide his future keith who has ended his career with the peterborough petes is looking towards the upcoming nhl draft however if things dont work out for keith in that department he may just find himself playing for the stouffville clippers this fall for the full story see page 13 washed his cream coloured ford for 150 that was big money for a car wash in those days he explained during the course of his career sunshine has turned his hand to almost any odd job including santa claus for many years he played st nick for a montrealbased company i had eleven hundred children come to see me in one and half hours he recounted with a mixture of horror and pride i was pretty tired let me tell you but not only the children in montreal enjoyed his visits he was eagerly awaited in many other parts of the country as well sunshine who was quite a poet had a habit of calling regularly at the concord public school where charlie ratcliff taught for many years and both the children and charlie greatly looked forward to his annual visits his poetry such as this rhyme- part of a longer poem had them in stiches j evelyn sweetheart will you be mine vainly ive tried your case to define eager and anxious to hear your decision little you know my present condition sunshine is staying with mr ratcliff for a few days while he renews old acquaintances sunshines cheerful manner and pleasant disposition made it easy for him to get rides and he recalls being very picky at times i remember one day getting out of three model t fords in a row they werent going fast enough he chuckled of course he also ran into the opposite sort there was one man going 120 miles per hour after a while he said maybe were going a little fast and he slowed down to 85 laughed sunshine sunshine who has resided in victoria bc for the last eight years of his retirement claims his feet have stopped itching now he professes to be quite content wiii the bus although he concedes that once in a while he hitchhikes around the jsland just for old times sake however the wanderlust is still just below the surface if i had two bags instead of four i would hitchhike back said sunshine suddenly but i cant manage four bags anymore and i couldnt leave them behind sunshine back in town anton theodore neilsen known to all and sundry as sunshine is stopping by in stouffville this week the popular sunshine has been travelling all across canada most of his life but never fails to stop in stouffville to visit old friends celebration planned for canada day stouffville those who liked last years centennial celebrations will get the chance to enjoy something similar this year although on a much smaller scale on saturday july 1st stouffville will celebrate canada day with a plethora of activities many of them old favourites brought back from last year a committee of various club leaders has been formed under the cochairmanship of tom wood and charles warden the committee has been meeting for the past month planning for the day most of the events have already been scheduled and they include a squirt soccer tour nament in the morning and a teen dance at the arena at night featuring liverpool one of last years favourites the beer garden at latcham hall will be back opening at noon a rematch between the chum allstars and the stouff ville pickups takes place in the ball park in the afternoon throughout the day there will be rides bake sales con tests a dunk tank and numerous craft demonstrations to ensure noone gels bored contract is awarded stouffville a con tract for 333439 has been awarded to weldon mceachean construction limited of milliken to relocate the intersection of the bloomington sideroad and highway 47 work on this project is scheduled to begin this month and is due for completion in the fall of this year when completed this in tersection is expected to allow through traffic to bypass downtown stouffville and lessen traffic congestion on main st union progress slow and he walked away it seems incredible that anyone could have survived this ac cident on the gormley rd just east of braces mill but driver joseph a randolph of rr4 stouffville climbed out of his wrecked v ehicle with only minor injnries he hit the blade of a grader driven by russell somerville after being momentarily blinded by the son both drivers were taken to hospital for xrays stouffville cer tification of the international brotherhood of electrical workers ibew as the bargaining agent for workers at the cable tech plant in stouff ville is progressing slowly according to morley fisher business manager for local i590 a hearing before the labour relations board scheduled for last monday was postponed until next monday june 12 due to a death in the family of one of the solicitors involved the labour relations boaro is the government body which determines if a union can be certified as the bargaining agent for a group of workers mr fisher said we are quite confident that we will be certified without the necessity of having a vote s the board is allowed to certify a union as the bargaining agent without a vote being held if over 55 per cent of the eligible workers sign union cards before the union meets with the labour relations board