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y saz j a yy jl councillor bill mcnalley chairman quits finance post an inland community newspaper vol 93 no 5 whitchurch stouffville may 29 1980 25 cents 18 pages stouffville coun cils finance chairman has quit the day before members i were expected to officially approve the 1980 budget councillor bill mcnalley sub mitted his resignation t choral concert stouffvilie stouff- villes second annual choral concert to include the 100voice mixed choir from orchard park public school the 30voice senior choir an advanced choir and a barbershop quartet from stouffville dist secondary school will be held in the auditorium at sdss tues june 3 at 730 pm the ninety minute program will conclude with youll never walk alone sung by the combined choirs under the direction of ron robbins of orchard park and jim rehill of the high school tickets available at the door are 2 adults 1 students and fifty cents for children under ten it happened suddenly at a committee meeting monday however only councillor bill kamps voted to accept it when mcnalley gave no indication hed reconsider mayor eldred king recommended the com mittees vicechairman take over but who no one seemed to know a hurried check of past minutes revealed councillor kamps as the alternate members quickly approved the promotion and it was back to business as usual on the surface at least it appeared to be a tempest in a teapot however down deep there had to be more the tribune decided to do a little digging a telephone call to coun cillor mcnalley produced a terse no comment however his successor councillor kamps had plenty to say he councillor mcnalley tried to embarrass the mayor but it backfired said the outspoken member from ward 4 so he quit in a huff the initial blowup as he described it came several weeks ago he told how the minutes of a particular meeting had been moved and seconded however when the clerk checked her file she couldnt find it subsequent searches revealed not a trace so a substitute resolution was drawn up signed by councillor kamps and one other member who happened to be in the office at the time nothing more was said later according to kamps councillor mcnalley produced me original before a crowded council chambers and proceeded to question the authenticity of the substitute thats when the mayor blew his stack kamps claimed mcnalley had erred in taking the resolution home in the first place and in not bringing it back as soon as he found it as for signing the substitute councillor kamps called it trivial if it had been a borrowing bylaw or approval for the purchase of some piece of equipment that would have been different he stated kamps said that following the reprimand by the mayor councillor mcnalley elected to clam up and has said very little since r agriculturalist in hall of fame sxs stouffville a former stouffville resident has been posthumously named to the canadian agricultural hall of fame robertmiller 1856-1935r- will be honored at a portrait unveiling nov 16 during the royal agricultural winter fair others to be recognized at the same time are dr malcolm bancroft davis 18901979 nominated by the agricultural institute of canada and dr walter russell shaw nominated by the 4h council of prince edward island robert miller was a resident in the home now oc cupied by ross and jean giles william street he and his wife died tragically 45 years ago when their car was struck by a train at a level crossing near langstaff f he was a wellknown im porter breeder and exporter of purebred sheep cattle and horses many of them coming from the united kingdom and europe the livestock association of mexico conferred town of markham moran seeks mayors job an honorary life membership on mr miller in 1902 as a representative of four breed associations shorthorn clydesdale hackney and sheep hewas a founding member of the canadian national livestock records and served as its first and sixth chairman of the board in 1924 he became first farmer president of the canadian national exhibition and actively supported the formation of the royal agricultural winter fair he 1 was a committee member of the royal twelve years miller was looked on as one of ontarios top livestock judges on several occasions he visited the oac at guelph to assist students in their placing of show and market animals he was an original board member of the ontario research council and an executive member of the international livestocks ex position in chicago fourteen year old john madura left of pomander road unionville and stephen schmucker 20 of main street unionville participated in a nineteen mile bikeathon saturday sponsored by the markham lions club and the markham unit of the canadian cancer society stephen a grade 13 student at markham high school is blind the two boys were first across the finish line completing the distance in sixtytwo minutes s jim thomas ft milestone stouffville on wed june 4 the stouffville womens institute will celebrate its 75th anniversary with a gathering in the legion hall at 1 pm members and former members are invited to at tend the 1980 wi president is mary davidson rr 1 stouffville mrs davidson is also a life member the 1st vicepresident is mrs bert taun and the secretary- treasurer is mrs oliver harding both of stouffville v- t jw blind boy biker sets fast pace markham ron moran says markham needs a fulltime mayor he also says hell be a candidate for the job riding the crest of record- breaking support in the 1978 election mr moran admits hes had his eye on the towns top post since 1976 when he also headed the polls news of the moran decision will come as no surprise to the incumbent tony roman the regional councillor said he in formed mayor roman of his intention long before he cir culated copies of his may news letter to more than 24000 homes apartments and businesses across the municipality of one thing hes sure therell be no mudslingingi want a clean hardfought campaign moran says hes satisfie with markham s residential commercial and industrial balance but claims the town cant rest on past ac complishments instead he promises if successful to wage an enthusiastic bid for ad ditional industrial assessment in the years ahead as part of this program he wants a development control manager placed on staff so anyone can come into the office at any time and find out where his application for an industrial project stands accessibility will be morans strongest pitch ill be approachable in the daytime and by phone any time he stated work weekend stouffville this is the weekend members of the whitchurchstouffville con servation club roll up their collective sleeves and go to work on a section of wasteland between church and edward streets in the area of the flood control dam beginning at 9 am saturday and carrying on through sunday a general cleanup of the site will be completed in addition trees and shrubs will be planted and signs will be posted also a permanent barricade will be installed to impede motor cyclists and snowmobilers we want to increase the property potential as a wild life sanctuary kevin oxbury of the conservation club told the tribune anyone who can help in this undertaking including boy scouts and cubs girl guides and members of service organizations are asked to show up as volunteers beaten stouffville an argument over a parking space at the front of a store in stouff- villes west end friday evening resulted in a third party becoming involved and winding up in hospital police said angelo chieco of rr 2 stouffville was pulled into a van and beaten he suf fered several broken ribs and other injuries charged are clifford locke 53 and wayne locke 18 both of hillsdale drive musselmans lake by jim thomas unionville two unionville boys stephen sch mucker 20 of main street and john madura 14 of pomander road participated in a 19 mile bikeathon saturday spon sored by the markham lions club and the markham unit of the canadian cancer society but so did 119 other cyclists nothing unusual about that the two lads set the fastest pace circling the route in sixty- two minutes nothing unusual about that either with two boys riding the same bike what made this ac complishment so significant is the fact twenty year old stephen is blind marvellous was the word used by coorganizer helen shaw to describe the feat just completing the distance should have been satisfaction enough but to finish ahead of everyone else was more than anyone expected she said however stephen andjohn werent to be denied they waged a seesaw battle with a single competitor over most of the nineteen miles beating him out by a scant five seconds twice they almost gave up the ghost once when the chain came off and later when they took a wrong turn and travelled a halfmile out of their way the other guy was riding like crazy said stephen but our pace was slow and steady they estimated their average speed at 188 miles per hour while he couldnt see the road ahead stephen said he knew the route quite well from being over it before he was able to pinpoint locations by the intersections how much farther to the next one he remembers asking his partner making it to the top of the hills was really rough stephen admitted a couple of times i thought we were going back wards he joked the route was mostly gravel and pretty bumpy he said john an eleventhhour substitute handled the steering only once did they stop for water stephen is- a grade 13 student at markham high john is a student in grade 8 at john xxiii when the tribune called saturday afternoon to make a picture appointment stephen was out collecting his 64 in pledges wheels in motion for teen program brownie members at ballaritrae took part in a successful fashion show last week at the community centre an estimated sixty people attended two of the participants were heather maxwell left and alana odonnell the event was cosponsored by the country closet stouffville jim holt stouffville two weeks following her presen tation to council carolina dervaric a senior student at stouffville dist secondary school has set the wheels in motion towards establishing a teen program in town convinced that many young people are anxious to par ticipate in more passive forms of recreation carolina says they hope to interest those persons not actively engaged in other types of recreation already offered herej the program geared to those in the age bracket of 13 to 19 years is meant to include teens in the rural area as well as stouffville she explained however involvement will be through membership only we want everyone to have a good time no troublemakers she said the executive plans to establish an annual fee plus a nominal admission figure for each event carolina has agreed to head up the group with assistance from sharon dykstra secretary nigel palmer treasurer melissa paterson publicity and loriann barry studentcouncil liaison with respect to activites during the summer months carolina says she wants first to obtain a crosssection of opinion to find out if enough are in terested wed like to have a big picnic in the park she said however she admits it would be disappointing if no one showed up on the other hand she agrees that only through trial and error will the executive find out what activities are most popular as we go along well discover the things that work and the things that dont she said first off is a movie en titled fast break to be shown next month in the high school gymnasium date and time to be announced bernice armet a student at sdss is in charge announcements of future events will be carried in the tribune and on display posters carolina dervaric