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VOL. 93, NO. 34. 7/ Public L1"r“.'r, 24 yr: ht at.. Rich'ni‘. Hill . 1 Jan 3â€"2-1'0“ A . ’ din Tlhrrnl “In Essentials Unity; in Nonâ€"Essentials Liberty; in all things Charity” (Photo by Stuarts Studio) Trustees Dine In Style At Don Head School Richmond Hill Trustee Robert Ross was one of 80 people who paid $2 for a roast beef dinner prepared by s tudents at Don Head Secondary School last week. The students, in the food services department directed by Bernard Hengst, presented a menu of chicken bouillon. roast beef, baked potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, rolls, cheesecake with whipped cream topping and beverage. Don Head, the first special vocational school in York County, will have its official opening on March 4. From September to December the school operated at Richmond Hill High School on a shift basis, and the food services students catered in the cafeteria for students and staff of both schools. brussel sprouts, hot They moved into their own schhool on Vaughan Road on January 5. Cbnstruction workers are still on the site, but students are fully involved in courses in a wide variety of trades and skills â€" commercial, home management, child care, auto body, auto repairs, upholstery, retail merchandising, driver training, home management, horticulture, wood- work, metal work, as well as basic courses in academic subjects. Students pictured above are (left to right) Mike Lee, Roger Woodward and John Lead- better. After lunch trustees, board officials and other guests had an opportunity to tour the school and see classes in action. M...__â€"._____._ IllllIlll1\llhllllIllllllhllllIIIIlllllllllll\llllllllllllIlllllllllll\lllllllllllll Diabetes Meeting Tonight The Richmond Hill Lions Club is inviting the public to attend a meeting tonight (Thursday) in the Lions Hall. Centre Street East. to learn more about diabet- es. Beginning at 8:15 pm there will be a filmed in- terview with Dr. Charles Best. eo-diseoverer of in- aulin. Dr. James Langstaff of the Lions Committee for Health and Welfare, and Sonnee Cohen of the Tor- onto District Branch. Can- adian Diabetic Association. will be present to answer questions. The Lions are planning a clinic in March so that any of the public who are interested may have a free check for diabetes. minim“ununnmnnmnmmuunuliiiiuumuiuiimu ' Want Highway 404 Charge Cars Ruin Area Roads York County Council thinks it Is time Highway 404 got off the drawing board and onto the map. At a meeting of York Coun- ty Council on February 5. De- puty-reeve Norman Barnard of Whitchurch Township submitted a resolution calling on council to petition the Department of Highways for construction of the highway. which would bet a continuation of the Don Vall- ey Parkway and would provide speedy transit from Metro to Lake Simcoe. The project has been delayedl since 1961. said Mr. Barnard.‘ and pressure should be brought to bear to carry on with the job.‘ Residents of six municipali- ties in York County are pay- ing for the delay. he said. as people from Metro going to and from the vacation areas to. the north create traffic conges-I tion on weekends and tear up county roads. Reeve Gladys Rolling of East‘ Gwillimbury seconded the res-j olution. pointing out that. with: the advent of the snowmobile} it is no longer just a summer} problem. There is a steady. procession of cars passing! through the townships of Mark-l ham and Whitchurch. and} through the municipalities of Markham. Richmond Hill. Stouffville and Aurora all year round. . The people from Metro are; not happy about the situationi either. Mrs. Rolling pornted out. "They complain about the. gravel road en route to the rec- reation areas." I Blue Hills Asks F3} For The Emotionally It is a fact of political life that government bodies do not act. they react, declared Reeve Evelyn Buck of Aurora when the directors of the Blue Hills Academy for Emotionally Disturbed Children ap- proached York County Council with a request for $209,400. toward capital cost of the development. “First you should prove the need by soliciting public support, then come to the municipalities,” Mrs. Buck told the deputation that appeared before the February meeting of council in Newmarket. Spokesman for the board of Mr. Johnson reported that directors was Arthur Johnson. the Academy has received $2,- secretary~treasurer of the board 000 from the York County of directors of Blue Hills Ac- Branch. mental health associa- ademy and a resident of King tion, $3,000 from District A7 of Township. lLions International which takes Mr. Johnson pointed out thallin Metro and York County area. the province is prepared to 35' $1,000 from a King City Sec- sume full cost of operation ofiondary School students' walka- the cottage type developnient,;tlion. and donations of $4.500! now in the first phase of con- from some members of the arc-1 struction. but the municipalityiademy‘s board of directors. is responsible for one-third of: The board's campaign for‘ the cost of land and building. funds has not gone beyond ser-1 Total cost for three collagesdvice clubs and members of the‘ administration centre and kit-board. said Mr. Johnson. be- chen is estimated at $546,200. 1cause they regard it as an es-l Construction is already un- seniial service. the same as wel- derway on the six-acre sitefare. hospital service. and‘ on CFRB Sideroad. and a 12-,homes for the aged. ‘ bed cottage is 40 percent com-l Once the children are in resi- pleted. dence. the province will pay Bank loans for the cost ofjlhe operating cost. which will the land have been backed by,am0unt to about $30 a day for the personal endorsement ofeach child. members of the board of direc-l‘ In a brief presented to the. tors. and money donated by;council. the board pointed outl local groups is helping to payithat an emotionally disturbed} for the first phases of construc-lchild is not a mentally retarded: tron. lchild. neither is he mentally ill.l a-nmumuuunluumumuuuIru“inuri1rIinumuuuuuunrnurumumrmunnurmimrrrrrllnrrnmurrrimunminimum“muuummrumuuuuuummummurmurmuunurrruuruunruuuruumumumiumuuw\uuununu\urIluuuuumuuuuuuunrinuuuummunumumurmruuminuiunumImumumuuuunrri1rrnrrrrrmiriurrunuuumuuuummnumummiqunuuuuunnma jHiu High School- '$209,400 I Disturbed , I .Zoning Bylaw Re He may be of any race or color and come from any level of soc- iety. The emotionally disturbed child is unable to form healthy relationships with other child- ren or a compatible relation- ship to his parents. his teachers, or with society. The result may be a total withdrawal or an ex- plosion. It is a problem that is not restricted to towns and cities â€"- with the present fast-chang- ing life style, television and the pressures of creeping ur- ban expansion. the rural com- imunity is not immune. In 1968 'alone 250 child- ren 16 or under were ad- mitted to the out-patients psychiatric services at York County Hospital in New- market. and in 1969, 245 were admitted. ' The hospital. however. has no facilities for resi- dent care for children. Its psychiatric beds are for adults only. There is no 1 public residential facility in the county 'for children. In the long run. there \vilh be a savan lo the community. if these children receive ade: quate treatmenl early. “In the past." said Mr. John-l son. “many emotionally dis- turbed children were consid-; ered either mentally retarded or delinquent. The result for these children was that our Continued on Page 3) 1fairs which must give RICHMOND HILL. ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19 A proposal that Seneca College acquire a second campus in North York has met with strong opposition in York County. Al the February meeting of county council. Aurora Reeve Evelyn Buck pre- sented a resolution urging the council to petition the college‘s board of gover- nors for establishment of a campus in York County. Many -.voung people. she said. are discouraged from attending the college be- cause of the distance they must travel ~ either to the rented campus on Shep- pard Avenue at Yonge Street. or to the permanent. campus at. Finch Avenue East and Don Mills Road which opened a year ago. The college was set up in 1967 by the. Department of Education to serve the Borough of North York and the County of York. Two of the 12-man board of governors come from York County .â€" Reeve Donald Plaxton of Richmond Hill. and Norn Garriock. a for- mer reeve of Woodbridge and chairman of Vaughan Township Planning Board. Mr. Plaxton told the council that the board of governors is considering acquiring land which may soon be available at the site of the Department of Thieves and vandals were hitting Vaughan Township pro- perty owners hard last week- end. although only a $2,900 home burglary near Woodbrid- ge was a very uncommon event in police experience. ber of vandalism incidents where the cost of damage was high. But onlyK some of them in the Richvale area appeared to be connected. Between Friday and Sunday, glass and property were smash- ed in a restaurant, cars. a new home. a church. a Lions Club hall and an occupied residence. Details of the $2,900 burg- lary were withheld for police Campus, York County There was an unusual num-' . 1970 National Defense Downs- view Airport. “Garriock and I have done our best to try to get them to purchase land north of Sleeles Avenue.” said Mr. Plaxton. "It was a mistake to combine North York and York County in the first place. Our only hope now is if there is a change in policy by the Department of Education." The councils of the towns of Aurora and Newmarket have both endorsed a pro’ posal that. the college‘s secâ€" ond campus be located on part or all of the 90 acre property on Yonge Street south of Davis Drive that was formerly the York Manor Home for the Aged. Since the new home was built further north on Yonge Street, the building has served as an Armouries for the Queen‘s York Rangâ€" ers. The Newmarket divis- ion recently amalgamated with the unit in Aurora. and there have been pro- posals that the property form part of a regional park. The resolution to be for- warded to the board of gov- ernors of the college does not include reference to a specific site. however. It asks simply that the col- lege's next campus be lo- cated in York County. Heavy Damage In Richvale reasons. except for the inform- ation that the money was mis- sing from a mobile trailer home near Woodbridge. A pad- lock was forced and clothing and garbage was scattered on the floor. as if the hiding place of money was being sought. “It only takes children 10 or 15 minutes to do these things“, said Vaughan Police Chief Wil- liam Shimmin. He said it’s very rare that the property owner gets compensation. even though cases of vandalism get cleared up most of the time. The children's parents very frequently cannot afford to pay. “Children don't know the val- ue of what they're breaking.I Richmond Hill’s new zoning bylaw, which will implement in detail the broad principles laid out in the new Official Plan which was passed last year af- ter receiving approval of the Municipal Board, was approved with numerous minor changes in wording at Monday night's council meeting. The bylaw had been considered in detail at a committee of council as a whole meeting on Februaiy 9. Planning Consultant Max Bacon who had drafted the bylaw was present at the meeting. When the bylaw has been re- typed with the changes. it will be given two readings by coun- rcil and lhen forwarded to the Department of Municipal Af- its ap- proval before the third final reading may be given. Councillor Lois Hancey lost an attempt to have the bylaw submitted to the town solicitor for a written opinion as to the legality and chances of judg- ment in the town‘s favor should any clause be challenged and if the town should have to prose- bylaw the chances of a success- ful presecution. proval of holding a public meet- tTo Implement New Town Plan ceives Approval ' ing to discuss the bylaw before its final passing. Mrs. Hancey claimed the planning consultant had stated that some of the clauses were “bluff”. “This is an extreme- ly important bylaw and I don’t think bluff has any place in it. The strength of a bylaw lies in the minimal number of objec- tions to it. We have not yet: had an opinion from our solic- itor on the bylaw as a whole,, although his opinion has beenl .teria and sought on isolated clauses.“ Deputy-reeve Ivan Mansbrid-g ge admitted that the consultant} had used the word “bluff” but: claimed he hadn‘t meant it. “‘He was unable to get a ruling from the department in some ing hoping the department willl approve it." Mr. advocated appl'Oval of the byâ€" law as it now stands. “We can: (always pass amendments when lnecessary". he claimed. “We lhen: been considering it now lfor two or three years." : “We will never know howl lific clause is challenged in laid Plaxton. o m'blett CHEV-OLDS m 355 YONGE STREET N. RICHMOND HILL 8896435 PHONE 727-9453 HOME PAPER OF THE DISTRICT SINCE 1878 Wants Second Seneca lVaughan CounCil Guardian Maintenance EM MARK or EXCELLENCE Where Cars Cost Less! PER COPY 10c To Meet McKeough Today Suggest Southern 6 Areas Instead Of All York County Yaughan Township Council is meeting with Municipal Affairs Minister ‘Darcy McKeough today (Thursday) to discuss regional government. To have something concrete to offer the Minister. at its meeting Monday afternoon, council passed a resolution favoring a regional government in the southern section of York County, bounded on the south by Steeles Avenue and on the north by the height of land at Oak Ridges (King and Whitchurch Town- ships) which forms the watershed. south to Lake Ontario and north to Lake Simcoe. The resolution. moved by Councillors Dalton McArthur and David Fraser. accepts and approves servicing of existing and future urban areas in the township through Metro facili- ties where feasible and practi- cal and supports establishment of a government for the south- ern portion of the County of York or such other restructur- ing that meets provincial cri- lS compatible with servicing of the Vaughan devel- opment area by Metro. providâ€" ing there is no partial inclus- ion of Vaughan or Markham Townships within Metro. Thieves, Vandals Active In Vaughan And they don’t know why they did it when caught", said Chief Shimmin. The weekend‘s vandalism was unusual in the value of damage done, but it is not unusual to have three or four complaints in a weekend, he said. There was $150 damage Feb- ruary 14 at the Lions Hall on Spruce Avenue, Richvale. Win- d0ws, glasses. a coffee urn and a refrigerator were the objects of destruction. Thermal glaSS windows and a chandelier valued at $570 were smashed February 14 in a vacant new home on Pearson Avenue, Richvale. In the Richvale Chapel Oak Avenue there was damage to windows February 13. Windows have been broken at the chapel on several occas- ions recently. **** In another part of the town- ship. again with children ap- parently on the rampage. there was an estimated $235 damage to windows in a home on Riv- erside Drive in Pine Grove. Windshields were smashed in three cars in the vicinity. Ron Davies’ Texaco Station at Pine Valley Drive and High- way 7. Woodbridge. was enter- ed by smashing a plate glass door February 15. Tools were found scattered around outside the building. February 14 there was a break-in at the Voyageur Rest- aurant on Highway 400. and an attempt had been made to re- move cigarette cartons from a storeroom. on tfifit On February 13 and Febru- and‘cases and 50 used his 0““ “‘0"d'.ar_v 14 there were two very sur- prised car owners. They left MQnSbFldgeltheir cars running in the drive-l' way to warm up. only to come back out. and find‘ the cars gone. One car was taken from Garden Avenue. Langstaff. and another from Spruce Avenue Richvale. February 13 a pair of skis cute for any infraction of the.good a bylaw it is until a spec-‘worth 5185 were reported stol- en at the Honey Pot Ski Lodge She won ap-jcourt“. contended Reeve Don- while the owner was in they restaurant. Widening 0f Don Mills, Maple‘Road, Other Projects Planned Toronto and York Roads Commission is planning on spending $1.1 million on the widening of Bayview Avenue from Sleeles Avenue to 500 feet north of Highway 7 and another 570.000 to widen and improve the intersection of Maple Sidcroad and Yonge Street in Richmond Hill. mainder divided equally be- tween County and Metro. The committee is anticipatâ€" ing increased traffic on that road if ‘GO transit comes to the area. The same division of cost will apply to design of the subway proposed where the In reporting at the Winter CN tracks cross the same - - countv road at Maple. meeting of York County ‘. Council in Newmarket the Baynew Avenue “7111 be widened from two lanes to four from 900 feet north of Steeles Avenue to 500 feet commission submitted a bud- get of more than $3 million for maintenance and im- . provement of roads this year. north of nghway 7' In most of the projects The “ork “111 mCIUde scheduled. the province is curbs. storm sewers and in- stallation of traffic lights at John Street. Paving and expected to bear 50 percent of the cost. the county 25 percent, and Metro 25 per- shoulder-ing cent. Keele Street from the north Some projects. however. limit of Maple to the south such as design for a grade limit of King City and pan separation where the CV in; of Bayview Avenue. 14th tracks cross Markham Road in Richmond Hill. “ill get an 80 percent subsidy from the province. with the re- Avenue to Elgin Mills Road. are also on the TYRC schedâ€" ule of work to be done in 1970. The commission has set asrde 5401000 to buy prop- erty needed for the widening of Don Mills Road from Steeles Avenue to Highway 1. also for land needed for the grade separation on the King Sideroad at King City and for the widening of Bloomington Road. The money will not all have to be raised this year. however. as there is a carry-over of funds amounting to 5298.000 from the 1969 budget for pur- chase of property. Work on Keele Street and Bayyiew Avenue had to be postponed when bad weather set in early in NOvember. Retrimming and sodding or seeding of side slopes will be done in the spring. A contract was awarded in November for construction of the L'nionville Bridge Piled footing 15 in place. and the commission expects the bridge to be completed by May. A contract “as also award- ed for installation of a large metal culvert under Don Mills Road north of Sleeles Avenue. and this should be completed in lime to handle the flow from the spring rurroff. The commissron's properly department completed 172 property settlements. purch- asing land at a cost of just $12 under the half million mark. This included land for widening Egypt Sideroad north of Sutton in addition to the projects mentioned above. In 1969 about 150 trees died and the commission will be tendering for their removal from the roadside. Kennedy Road is to be widened from two to four lanes with curbs and storm sewers from Steeles Avenue to Highway 7 Money was set as1de in 1968 for pur~ chase of the rightâ€"Mara}; and in 1969 for the construc- 11011 of a new bridge. An additional $984,000 has been budgeted this year to com- plete the job. Reeve Sam Nasello of Sui- lon. chairman of the county council finance committee asked what will happen if there are boundary changes in the south as proposed by Metro. He pomted out that most of the major projects are in the southerly part of the county. “but we may lose jurisdiction over it before the end of the year." County Engineer John Rettie replied. “The work has to be done. I cannot answer this question," Roads Commissron Chair- man W. J, "Tom" Taylor added. ‘We are at sea on this. We have had no word on regional go\'e!'nmen? so there is no u ay but to carry 011. Richmond Hill Reeve Don- ‘ ald Plaxton pointed out that the bulk of the assessment in the county. and the bulk of the appropriation for county projects is in the south. The program is in build roads over the entire county. "We are now receiving a subsidy from Metro.“ he added. He asked if there would be ‘ a charge to Richmond Hill 1 for acquisition of the prop- erty needed for the widen- ing of Maple Sideroad and was assured that this would come from the roads com- mission budget. York County's share of the budget for 1970 is 51.517200 but 5242.550 of this has already been set aside for completion of projects now under way. and there is an estimated surplus of $142.- 250 from 1969. leaving a county levy of 51.132.400 for 1970. $50- Reeve Garnet Williams re- ported that he and Councillors Fraser and McArthur had met with Metro Chairman Albert Campbell and other representa- tives of Metro Monday morn- ing to discuss exchange of ser- vices and what Vaughan could expect from entry into Metro. "1 came away with the thought that we hadn‘t been offered anything except a trade of a land-fill site for some servicing in the Wood- bridge area. We are going to meet with Mr. McKeough Thursday and I think this res- olution is premature by three days," he stated. Councillor Fraser did not agree. “At our last meeting with Mr. McKeough we agreed that this council would come forth with a clear proposal," he said. “To go to another meet- ing without a clear enunciation of our thinking would be a waste of time." he contended. “We must indicate to the Min- ister the opinion of the major- ity of this council. I’m becom- ing more and more convinced these is no possibility of put- ting together a viable regional government for the whole coun- try. The actual economics of this region is necessarily bounded by the watershed. The, area to the north is drained in- to Lake Simcoe and has a com- munity of interest with other areas which also drain into that lake. It clearly belongs in the 'Lake Simcoe region. Communâ€" ity of interest is where water; !comes from and where sewer- age goes. I “Our community of interest‘ belongs to Metro} I‘m not pre- pared to say we belong in Met: ro but we do not belong in a region with the northern part1 of the county. I “Recently we have learned that the Metro boundary is not as sacred as has been suggested. [believe an economic and via- ble municipality could be es- tablished in mid-York in the Don and Humber drainage areas. I also believe it should go down to Highway 401 to give it the economic basis es- sential for success. I feel we are jumping into regional gov- ernment without study to sup- From that height of land streams drain slated Councillor Louis Wain- wright. “We have to tell the Minister where we stand." “if we go to him again without a clearcut stand. we'll look like a bunch of fools," Councillor John Gil- bert contended. “We‘ll look as if we.don't know what we want. I have been talking to people in the area where I live and none of them want to become a part of Metro." he added. Mr. Gilbert comes from the Woodbridge area. “Our suggestion to the Min- ister will be to form a south- ern region with the view to (Continued on Page 15) lllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllfllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllll Nominate MacKay Learning A ward York County Board of Education agreed February 9 to nominate its chairman. John MacKay. trustee for Markham Township. for the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federat- ion annual Lamp of Learn- ing Award. The award is made to a person who is not a mem- ber of the teaching pro- fession. but who has made an outstanding contribution to secondary school educa- tion in Ontario. either at the provincial or local lev- el. I Mr. MacKay was nomin- ated by Richmond Hill Trustee Robert Ross. and the nomination was unani- mously endorsed by the board. Mr. MacKay was not pre- sent at the meeting. which was chaired by Vice-Chair- man Arthur Starr of Whit- church Township. In 1967 the award went to Trustee John Honsberg- er. also of Markham Town~ ship. who was then a mem- ber of York Central Dist- rict High School Board. He was cited on the basis of “his initiative and en- thusiastic leadership in ed- ucational innovations with- in his district." port the changes at this time." “We have to take a stand." 3February 25 At RHHS llllllllllllllllllllllIIllIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIll] Dr. Hugh Little To Head Panel Experts On Treatment Of Arthritis Those who suffer the pains of; arthritis. ‘as well as those who! ‘wish to avoid such pains. will; lliave an opportunity on Februw :ary 25, to hear the views and “obtain the advice of a singularly ‘well-qualified expert. On that date the York Cen- Itral Branch, Canadian Arthritis land Rheumatism Society, will] hold a public forum at 8 pm in: lthe auditorium of the RichmondI Headingl the panel of experts will bet ’Dr. Hugh Little of Toronto. the1 .society's director of profession-I {a1 education. ‘ ' Dr. Little was born in Tai- wan lFormosar. the son of med-‘ ical missionary parents. He‘ attended the University of To- ronto where he graduated as a doctor of medicme in 1959.The next, few years were spent in post graduate studies in Tor- onto and in Halifax. which he spent a year in New-I foundland practising general medicine. 1 He then went to Great Brit.‘ ain on a CARS Fellowship to. pursue further studies in low of the society. in Toronto.1 He became senior resident in} matology at Sunnybrook Hospi.‘ tal. Toronto. and is now the same hospital‘s senior consult- ant in rheumatology. as well as directing CARS‘ professional educational program. On the same panel will be Ross Morrison of Toronto. ex- ecutive director. Ontario div- [51011. CARS. who “'lll discuss “the aims and functions of the after. ' ‘struction business. I. DR. HUGH LITTLE Toronto Specialist its of re- search. patient care. profession- society, program al education, public informa- jrheumatology. followed by arr-.mmv and the “Flops, “(35’s. in rather two years. also as a fel_.whlcl’l it helps arthritis Victims. 'Mr. Morrison has been a_mem- ber of the permanent staff of lmedicine. specializing in rheu-ithe CARS Since 1967- PI‘CViOUS to that he had been in the con- and served at sea in the Royal Canadian Naw during World War 2. Two members of the staff of York Central Hospital. Rich- mond Hill. will complete the panel. Dr. Victhr Zuck. chief of medical staff and Miss Eliza- beth Flood. in charge of the (Continued on Page 131