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board sfeeks advice on ringwood site stouffville following a lengthy discussion with a delegation representing the owner of property on the southeast corner at ringwood planning board voted to send comments to the town planner for his consideration melvin schwartz lawyer for the owner auguste mantia told board members that the 47 acres would be designated in a holding category when the new official plan is adopted conroy dowson a planning consultant said the zoning is presently highway commercial under the former township of markham op but if the proposal is approved it would cause a large loss of land for a long time to come he termed the holding category as inappropriate unfair detrimental and against the best interests of the town the parcel includes 750 frontage on hwy 48 and 164 on hwy 47 with two houses in disrepair and another occupied schwartz added that the land is selfsufficient and wouldnt have to depend on town water or sewers he said under the stouffville westerly approach study the area is designated prime industrial and commercial lands dowson pointed out that the traffic count north and south on hwy 48 is 12000 vehicles per day with about 9000 going into the village what we would be aiming for is that 3000 which wouldnt be doing business in town that way we wouldnt be interfering with the downtown core some of the potential developments for the site could be a service station bank motelhotel sports centre antique store or a restaurant dowson said schwartz added that since the area was the gateway to the town it is a natural place for development and would be a catalyst for future economic growth in the municipality- he urged the board not to freeze the lands in the present state under a holding specification councillor bill mcnalley agreed that to receive an op amendment would take two to eight years and suggested the developers draw up a plan and present n to planning jim sanders ward 6 councillor said something should definitely be done with that section at ringwood we want to improve jt but also control whatever goes in there he said mayor eldred king con curred with sanders saying the municipality needs the protection of control and that the op can always be amended easily if a suitable plan is submitted schwartz ended by saying the town and the owner could save time and money if it was dealt with before the op were approved with the municipality maintaining jurisdiction through site plan controls and development agreements seaton plan ridiculed pickering strong opposition to the planned community of seaton was ap parent as members of the public attacked the ontario land corporation olc during a recent meeting at pickering high school bob mcdonald chief executive officer of olc presented the plan for the community of 90000 people referring to the booklets published by the developers reg rose chairman of the durham planning committee asked municipal leaders to t hold their fire and allow members of the general public to present tneir concerns to the group robert mccauley counsel for whitevale residents association said the people he represents arent trying to be obstructionistic but the plan should be studied according to the impact it would have on people living in the area at present v it may be a viable and needed project but then maybe only part of it is necessary now he said other concerns were the class of land the city would be developed on which is con tained in class one and two primeagricultural zones many speakers noted that the pickering area isnt at tracting industry and were worried that the calibre of in dustry wouldnt be the best some voiced the concern that industry like the liquid spur growth pickering trustee linda carder told the tribune that the proposed seaton developmentwill dowonders for the area around claremont spurring industry commerce and employment claremont is only four miles from the site and many people will likely commute from here to seatonshe said during a public meeting at pickering high school jan 29 mrs carder spoke on behalf of the durham board of education the seaton developers have made three information presentations to the board and through the results of an impact study have found that the planned city would not sub stantially increase the mill rate she concluded that the board will continue to work with the seaton planners if andwhenj the project goes- ahead many at the meeting noted that before schools are built in the new community children will have to be bussed to claremont and valleyview causing overcrowding mrs carder responded by saying the schools could ac commodate the extra enrolment noting there are presently 100 spaces at claremont give seaton 20 to 30 years and eventually the residents living there will move into rural areas such as claremont brougham and greendwood bringing slow growth to these communities she added village is her home by jim thomas claremont annie porter is as much a part of claremont as the house in which she lives the village is her birth place and so is her home through the years mrs porter has contributed much to the welfare of the community it was fitting then that she should be honored sunday afternoon at a gathering of close friends in the lower auditorium of the claremont united church the occasion was her 80th birthday looking lovely her white hair glistening in the noonday sun annie spofford porter sat back in the comfort of her favorite black leather chair and reminisced about the days that used to be about the claremont she used to know it was her great grand father the late robert law who purchased four acres from one of the wixon brothers back in the mid1800s he later sold the property to mrs porters mother lavinia spofford for one dollar and his love and af- fection the house still mrs porters home was built by nathan forsyth and william leaner around 1890 annie received her elementary education in claremont and later continued on through the continuation school two of her principals were the late me ward and the late milton j wilker i just missed dr tomlinson she said with a look of regret following graduation from toronto normal school she accepted a teaching position at claremont and remained there from 1925 to 1933 she also taught- for a short time at cberrywood then cupid intervened annie spofford and harry porter were married in 1933 prompting her to vacate the classroom at least tem porarily in favor of becoming a fulltime housewife during the war years members of her chosen profession were scarce so on the advice of an inspector she returned to the same room from 1942 to 1957 it was quite a challenge she says thinking back for it was during her retirement that the course of study was changed she had to acquaint herself with it then teach it all in a very short time some of her pupils were children of students she had assisted the first time around for 3 years she taught at stouffville the high school principal was archie stouffer and the public school principal paul boadway pupils she i- annie porter former public school teacher and claremont village librarian was honored sunday on the occasion of her 90th birthday jim thomas remembers were john button janet button harold lewis reg stouffer jack bill and ethel sanders edith swift and charles nolan skating was always a favorite recreation in fact she says now the church and the rink were my life an indoor arena was located just north of the claremont park in stouff ville one of similar size was located on mill street following a second retirement from teaching mrs porter accepted a position at the claremont library and remained there from 1958 through to 1971 prior to her husbands death in 1971 they travelled ex tensively including trips to alaska coasttocoast across canada and to florida i always enjoyed driving she said shes looking forward to regaining her licence following eye surgery in york- finch hospital and a period of convalescence in parkview home at stouffville until recent years annie never considered herself a joiner however in her own words it was either do things or become a hermit she at tends services regularly at the claremont united church and is secretary of the ucw while she honestly admits i dont know a quarter of the people who live here now it was annie porter who helped shape the lives of hundreds of students through two generations happy birthday waste plant planned for ajax would find the site appealing the problem of inadequate school facilities in the pickering ajax oshawa area at present prompted many listeners to wonder whether building more schools was the answer many citizens felt it was hard enough to get services for children now and creating more schools would only comphcate the problem until schools are built if the plangoes ahead children living in the new 71 community would have to be bused to neighboring schools timing of construction of the facilities is up to the individual boards isobel thompson a resident of whitevale called the plan garbage and in the wrong place at the wrong time the plan was forced on the public and most of us didnt agree with the original concept at all she said s v an area developer summed up the views of the people in attendance by saying century city didnt work why should this a collision between a gravel truck and an 18car cpr freight train last week at a brock road level crossing in pickering killed one man and resulted in thousands of dollars property damage box cars were torn apart by the derailment that followed the initial impact a pile of scrap is all that remains of a tractortrailer that slammed into the second locomotive thirtyfive year old frank hanlon of west hill driver of the truck died instantly a conductor on the train suffered back injuries jim holt parkview public school damaged unionville two fire extinguishers stolen from crosby arena unionville jan 28 were used to cause an estimated 700 damage to the interior of parkview public school police said the units were taken about 11 pm a halfhour later several windows were broken at the school and the extinguishers discharged inside a classroom phoney doctor several markham area women have complained to police concerning calls from a man identifying himself as a dr morsley of the womens college hospital toronto authorities are certain hes an imposter the incidents are likened to similar contacts made last year at that time the socalled physician was found to be a phony although no arrest was reported worker injured an accident at the ci p plant on heritage road markham injured a worker police said robert adams of agincourt was feeding card board boxes into a pressing machine when he slipped his one hand was caught up in the mechanism crushing fingers and forearm his woman threatened a unionville woman living on krieghoff blvd told police she had received eleven threatening phone calls jan 29 all within one hour at one point the caller stated he was holding the ladys daughter this was later proved false trees damaged a total of thirty trees have been damaged in recent weeks at unionvilles crosby park the loss has been estimated at 1800 fifteen agencies benefit funds increased pickering fifteen organizations served by the ajaxpickering united way will each receive 140000 the result of the 1979 campaign this compares to 118550 allocated an increase of eighteen per cent benefitting agencies include the ajaxpickeringwhitby association for retarded children big brothers association the cnib the red cross community care distress centre handicapped childrens swim program hostel services- multiple sclerosis society oshawa and dist credit counselling ser vice pickeringajax family y st john ambulance social planning council victorian order of nurses and simcoe hall crippled childrens centre j