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The candidates for Vaughan‘s two top seats on council have ridden into office without a contest. But nine candidates will be fighting for the five seats for councillor-at-large. For the second time. Garnet Williams, RR 1, Nashville, has been ac- claimed as mayor. David Fraser, a partner in 3 Richmond Hill law firm and eight-year veteran of Vaughan Town Council, has been acclaimed regional councillor. The position was left vacant when incumbent Jack Gilbert decided to retire from politics for at least two years. Seek re-election Those councillors stan- ding for re-election are Fred Armstrong, Milton Savage, Ab Hollingshead and Jim Cameron. 28 â€" THE LIBERAL. 9 seek 5 seats Chateauvert acclaimed in Ward_1 Armstrong, of 6 Park Street, Woodbridge, has served on council in Vaughan for the past 19 years. He is a retired builder. Milton Savage operates a successful dairy farm on Bathurst Street. He has been on Vaughan council since September 1973. At that time he replaced a councillor who left office in midvterm. An election contest is assured for every seat on Richmond Hill Council with the exception of Ward 1, where incumbent Andy Chateauvert has received an acclamation in his third election campaign. The largest number of candidates have opted for the two regional council seats, with five qualifying. Ward 3 has three candidates for its seat at the council table. And for all other positions there are two candidates as listed below, one to be elected in each ward: FOR MAYOR (One to be elected) William Lazenby David Schiller FOR REGIONAL COUN- CILLOR (Two to be elected) H. H. (Bill) Fuller Eric George Lois I-lancey Gordon Rowe Lou Wainwright WARD l COUNCILLOR Andy Chateauvert WARD 2 COUNCILLOR Al Duffy Seeking re-election as regional councillor for the Town of Richmond Hill for a second term, Mrs. Lois Hancey is running on her record of municipal service. In an interviewâ€" she said “I feel that in the past two years I have represented Hancey seeks second Hill region term Thornhiller seeks Vaughan schools seat One of the five candidates seeking one of the two Vaughan seats on York County Board of Education is William Truman, a resident of Vaughan since 1958. The other aspirants are incumbent Trustee Ross Jolliffe. Betty Canivet, Donald Cameron and Al FarquharsonA Mr. Truman has long been active in community affairs, especially where the young people are concerned. He was responsible for the founding of the Vaughan Interact Club, a Rotary- sponsored project, involving students at the secondary school level. He is also a Garnet Williams acclaimed mayor in Vaughan Town Lois Hancey Region canaidate Richmond Hill, Ontario, wednesday Before that he was a school trustee in Vaughan for 17 years. 7 Ab Hollingshead, owner of Mr. Ab’s Men’s Wear in Woodbridge, has been in municipal politics in Vaughan since 1949. A resident of Pine Grove, he lost in a bid for Vaughan‘s region council seat in 1971. Jim Cameron, a Geography professor at York University, is trying for his second term on Vaughan council. He lives at 23 Weller Crescent‘ Maple. Same platform Running on the same slow-growth, public par- ticipation platform as Cameron will be Lorna Jackson of Pinegrove, a housewife and part. time weekly newspaper correspondent. Other candidates Don Bailey, Terry Goodwin, John Foot, and Angelo Giancola. Bailey, of 224 Crestwood Avenue, Thornhill, is a sheet metal worker. He is currently a citizen ap- pointee to the Thornhill- Vaughan Planning Advisory Committee. Others running Goodwin, Thornbridge Drive, Thornhill, an in- dependent businessman in the insurance field, is a Dorothy Price WARD 3 COUNCILLOR John Birchall Ray Gemmill Jack Major WARD 4 COUNCILLOR Marylo Graham David Stephenson WARD 5 COUNCILLOR William Corcoran Robert Cornes WARD 6 COUNCILLOR Mike Burnie Gerry Fields of the town informed as to Richmond Hill residents’ interests faithfully, con- scientiously and with in- tegrity and commonsense, both on the Richmond Hill Council and the York Regional Council in Newmarket I believe my past record proves I can continue to provide full-time representation and give the people .of our town responsible government“. ANDY CHATEAUVERT Acclaimed in Ward 1 Mrs. Hancey said in the past two years as regional councillor she has brought to the people of Richmond Hill first hand knowledge of the decision making process in Newmarket and Rich- mond Hill as their right as the tax-paying part of these two governments. Region spending “Almost 20 percent of every one of your municipal tax dollars in 1974 was spent by this regional government in Newmarket and 74 per- cent in the Town of Rich- mond Hill." she said as she former president of Rotary. Hockey coach He is in his fifth year as a coach of boy’s hockey in the Thornhill Community Hockey League. He is also a past group committee chairman for the lst Con- cord CubScout Groupr Mr. Truman is on the board of directors for the House of Concord, and while president of Rotary, he instituted an education award for the student at Concord showing the most progress in the upgrading educational optional available at the House. He was secretary treasurer for the Inter national Shade Tree Con DAVE FRASER Region acclamation former member of the Vaughan Township School Board. Foot, 7866 Kipling Avenue, Woodbridge, a lawyer, ran unsuccessfully in the last election. And handing in his nomination papers at the last minute, was Giancoia, 2451 Teston Sideroad, a construction company owner. , Nov. 13,1974 Vaughan separate reps running again The sitting trustees for. Vaughan on York Region Roman Catholic School Board, Eugene Jacobs and Mrs. Noreen Lee have filed nomination papers at the Vaughan town office. Bath are from the Woodbridge area of the town. Also submitting nomination papers was John Open house will be held by the Town of Richmond Hill Saturday, council decided at its Monday night of last week meeting. To com- pensate the staff for the extra work day, the town hall and the works building will be closed the Friday after Christmas, giving the Hill town Open house promised to keep the people where these tax dollars are going and why.» Mrs. Hancey’s municipal political experience covers the past 11 years â€"- nine years as councillor and two as regional councillor. During that time she has been chairman, vice- chairman and a member of the following committees of the regional andâ€"or local council â€" planning, in- dustrial, personnel, welfare, procedures, works on engineering, fire, police, traffic, transportation, bylaws, finance, civic im- provement and the Cen- tennial swimming pool. Community service Besides this she has served as a director of the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Central Ontario Regional Development Council (seven years), the Central Ontario Regional Library (six years) and the York Central Association for the Mentally Retarded GARNET WILLIAMS Acclaimed mayor ference-Canada. and has held this same position for 11 years with the Ontario Shade Tree Council. as well as serving as its president in 1970-71. An associate graduate in horticulture at the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph in 1954, Mr. Truman has been employed with Toronto Trust Cemeteries since 1956. the past 10 years as manager of Beechwood Cemetery on Jane Street. He is an active member of Holy Trinity Church. Thornhill. He and his wife, the former Margaret Adams, have three children, Kimberley, David Jr., and Isobel. L York County Board of Education will have 6 new faces after December 2 There'll be at least six new faces on York County Board of Education next year. They’ll be replacing the six veteran members, who have signified that they will not be seeking another term. Heading the latter list is a former board chairman John Honsberger of Markham who also chaired the salary negotiating committee during last spring’s secondary school teachers' strike. Another longtime Markham trustee, John MacKay, has also an- nounced he won‘t seek re- election. The others are also veterans. These include Tom Johnston, vice- King trustee is re-ofiering A trustee cannot be committed to the goals of any federation or union without betraying the trust of the community which elected him or her. But such a trustee may be sym- pathetic to them, Trustee Margaret Coburn of King said this week in announcing her decision to run for another term on York County Board of Education. Mrs. Coburn, a professional librarian, has been a trustee for four years, and is married to a secondary school Faraci, barrister and solicitor, 120 Rainbow Drive, Woodbridge. Also filing at the Vaughan town offices was John Raniowski, who represents the separate school sup- porters for the Region of York, except the Towns of Markham and Richmond Hill on the York County Board of Education. staff a five-day Christmas break Council, at Monday night’s meeting, also ap- proved a staff report of the accomplishments of the term of the present council which will be available to all candidates for office, the press and the general bublic (more than two years). She has also been an active member of the parks and recreation committee, planning board, social planning council, library board and a representative of the region on Metro Conservation and has served on the Don Valley Advisory Board as well as being vice-chairman of the historical sites board. It is interesting to note Lois has the best attendance record at Richmond Hill Council or committee meetings in the past 11 years as well as a perfect attendance record at the region in the past two years. She re-affirms her promise to work actively and conscientiously full time in the interests of the people of Richmond Hill to achieve the better govern- ment they deserve as she promises full-time representation on council and regional council if re- elected Mr. Truman said he has “always believed education of our young people should be of the highest quality and special attention should be given under-privileged children, who up until now, have been a concern of the ‘inner city.‘ “The Town of Vaughan is rapidly becoming urbanized and no longer can our school system be content with nominal concern for these young people,” Truman said. If elected, he said he would “strive to act in the best interests of the students, parents and teaching staff.” chairman of the board, and Trustee Mariane Gillan, both of Georgina Township. Not running In King Township, another one-time chairman. Marvin Hunter, has decided not to run, as has another veteran Trustee Morley Kinnee of Vaughan. The withdrawal of the veterans doesn't leave the race wide open, however. There’s a slate of new candidates waiting to take their place in just about every area. And not all the in- cumbents are leaving. Back again for another fling are the following: Richmond Hill â€" Warren Bailie, Robert Houghton and mathematics teacher She said she believed in the “democratic right of the community to be involved in school decisions and policies governing the education of children”. The trustee made decisions for the community as just one member of the board. She also believed in “wide-open, free discussion between trustees and teachers, and the com- munity they both serve". Suits needs Mrs. Coburn said she supported the following: the right of each child to be offered an educational program suited to his or her needs, including the right to special services for special needs; monitoring classes to avoid destructive over- crowding; returning to a more traditional curriculum in the core subjects; maintaining recognition of the importance of artistic subjects; improving library services. including service to the trainable retarded children; teaching French at as early an age as possible, if parents wish it; children; teaching French at as early an age as possible, if parents wish it; encouraging student travel and exchange programs at minimum board expense and with maximum student selfâ€"help financing, unless government grants are forthcoming; development of a well-considered policy for community involvement in the schools; shared use of school facilities by the community on a co- operative basis, including a community school pilot project; a re-examination of board priorities in 1975. Past support Mrs. Coburn said that im the past she had supported such things as: the establishment of a uniform program of oral French starting at grade 6 to ex- plore the previous programs from grades 5, 6 and 7; also the recent decision to provide one-hour French programs in grade 1, where able. She has also backed: special fipappial assistance to school library reserve centres in 1972 to build their collection, and to increase The judicious ability to say no, gained after 14 years as a trustee, is offered by candidate to the York County Board of Education in Vaughan Ross Jolliffe. Jolliffe offers again for Vaughan trustee With continued tight budgets at the secondary school level, ,fhe 18-year resident of Thornhill believes proposals for new projects must be weighed carefully. “It is easy to say yes to every proposal . . . but there isn’t enough money," he said in an interview. “It is hard for a new person on the board to see the whole picture off the bat." Jolliffe feels he can provide the necessary continuity of representation from Vaughan on the board. Morlee Kinnee has an- nounced his retirement and Jolliffe feels Vaughan needs one of its two trustees returned to office. Jolliffe first served as a member on the former Vaughan Township Public School Board for eight years and has been on the York County board for the past Six years. This past term, he served on the negotiating com- mittee during the stormy period of the secondary teachers‘ strike. "i‘hflaagh the ruling of the arbitration board favored the teachers, Jolliffe Douglas Allen Markham â€" Donald Sim, Donald Cousens and Doreen Quirk; King â€" Margaret Coburn; Vaughan â€" Ross Jolliffe; Aurora â€" Norm Weller; Newmarket â€" Craig Cribar; WhitchurchStouffville â€" John McMurray; East Gwillrimbury â€" Merna Colbourne, board chairman. Newcomers Richmond Hill â€" Rev. Ernie Johns, Bill Munro, fireman; Cathy Mac- Diarmid, housewife. Markham â€" Chris McMonagle. hosewife; Gary Adamson, teacher; Doris Schwar, housewife; Frank Barrott, realtor; Eleanor Baker, housewife. their complement in several elementary King schools this year; equalizing the charge for operational costs for community use of school facilities; recommendations of the liaison committee to improve “dialogue” bet- ween the board and teachers; increasing teacher complement at primary level when class size became a factor in the learning process; providing shop and home economics in grade 8. lllilllllllllllllllllllIlllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllll A resident of King Township for 10 years, Mrs: Coburn has twd teen-aged sons attending King City Secondary School‘ Richmond Hill’s three representatives on the York Region Roman Catholic Separate School Board have been returned to office by acclamation. They are Rev‘ Father Francis Robinson, Malcolm Peake and John Taylor. 3 acclaimed to RC board in Hill Town In King Township, which has two seats on the board, Frank Bescoe, Gus Clarke and Elio Bellon had qualified by press time. lllllllllllllllllIIIIIIII|IlllllIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllll maintains the board acted responsibly and reasonably during negotiations. I “The past year has been a difficult one for the board and with some of the forces at work in the region, the next two years are not going to be easy ones,” he said in a press release this week. “With the limitations imposed by the provincial government on spending, we need trustees with sincere interest and good judgement. “Spending priorities are the most important decisions made by the board. When there is not enough money to go around, MARGARET COBURN School board candidate bgcomes' iimpbssible to ROSS JOLLIFFE Offers experience Vaughan â€" Donald Cameron, business manager; William Truman, manager; Betty Canivet, housewife; Al Farquharson, teacher. King â€"â€" Robert Phillips, self-employed; Dorothy Zajac. housewife; Jack Garbutt, property ad- Mother of 4 seeking Vaughan schools seat A mother of four has joined the race for one of the two Vaughan seats on York County Board of Education. She is Betty Canivet, RR 3, 'Woodbridge, who is making her first try at public life, although she has been active in community activities and is a member of the board’s com- munications committee. She has also worked with the Girl Guides and Brownies for nine years, has served as a volunteer worker in the library at Pine Grove Public School, and on field trips and field days. Former OSSTF president Vaughan trustee hOpeful Mrs. Canivet, who worked with her husband Wally to start their own business 16 years ago, is secretary of Leaving school an early age‘ such as 14, isn‘t necessarily “the kiss of death", Al Farquharson, former president of District 11 of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation, said this week in announcing his candidacy for a seat on the York County Board of Education. Mr. Farquharson, who resigned his teaching post at Thornhill Secondary School in order to stand as a can- didate, will run in the Town of Vaughan In commenting on some of the issues faced by the school system, Farquharson said he was disturbed by the attitude of many young people. Having become disenchanted with school for various reasons and having made up their minds to get out at all costs, they cause condiserable destruction in the schools in an effort to get thrown out, he said. However, because of the laws holding a student until the age of 16, the schools had to keep the delinquent regardless. Farquharson said he didn’t feel this was right and hoped legislation would eventually alter this. The main thing was the younger people should be accepted into the work force if the change eventually came about. So many times, anyway, people who left school at 16, were quick to return after a bout with the outside world. satisfy the demands of all the interest groups seeking financial support. “My major concern is in getting full value for the millions we spend on education in York Region. My other concern is in seeing that all of our students receive a good sound basic education. “In my view, we are of- fering too many options in our schools. These cost more and tend to dilute the quality of basic fun- damentals that our children need. “We are going to get some relief from the government next year for the elemen- tary level, but we are going to have a very difficult time at the secondary level to continue all programs we now offer,” he said in his press release. Jolliffe, who is now 50. was born in Hamilton and educated in Toronto. On completion of five years in the Canadian Army in World War II, he studied com- merce and finance at the University of Toronto. He owns a firm which manufactures highway construction products. It is located in York Region but operates throughout the provinc_e. - r r L- I.-- râ€"Aiiréiher of four, he has taken an active part in community affairs. ministrator Aurora â€"â€" Ronald Dickie, general manager. Newmarket â€" George Vins, technical director. East Gwillimbury Township â€" Joy Horton, housewife and founder of W E B ( W a t c h e r s the parent, student, staff advisory committee of Woodbridge High School. Stresses basics She said she would like more emphasis put on the three ‘R’s in primary grades. She also wants “better equalization of facilities and equipment for all schools in the region.” They have four children, Doug, 24; Debbie, 22; Brad, , 20; and Cindy. 15. “I would like to see more participation in an exchange of information and ideas among parents, students, teachers and trustees," Mrs. Canivet said. Her husband is president of Lawson Taylor and Company Limited, and owner and operator of Green Door Storage Company, Woodbridge. Remedial reading Farquharson said one of the things he would try to do, if elected, would be to restore remedial reading in the schools. He said it was hard to believe that, with all the money being spent on education, something as important as remedial reading had been dropped, He said there was need for trustees to talk more with teachers and students. He was very aware of the “great gap" in that area. Many teachers were unaware of just what they could do within the system, and also of the trustees’ own powers. He said one person could do so much. If his campaign promise, for example, was to provide blue plush seats for the trustees, he’d have to convince the other trustees of its value, if elected. An outspoken critic of the school board during the teachers’ strike earlier this year, Mr. Farquharson said he was not “anti-trustee”. “A trustee is a rubber stamp in many ways“, Farquharson said. “He has certain latitudes . . .he has Ray Gemmill, who ran a close second to Charles Stewart in the 1972 election for Ward 3 Richmond Hill councillor will be contesting the seat again in the election December 2. Gemmill seeks Hill Ward 3 seat again A resident of the Hill for the past quarter of a cen- tury, Gemmil] lives at 227 Ruggles Avenue. He and his wife, Lorie, have a family of four. His community activmes include school church, service and fraternal organizations’ besides several years on the town’s recreation committee and as its chairman. He is active in the Presbyterian Church and has gone through the chairs of Richmond Masonic Lodge. Life Kinsman He is a life member of Richmond Hill Kinsmen and past zone district deputy governor, a member Qf Victoria Chapter RAM, a charter member of the Richmond Hill Public School (McConaghy) Home and School Association and chairman of the board of AL FARQUHARSON Runs for trustee community acpivities Educational Bureaucracv) Georgina Township â€" Bill Laird, insurance agent; Keith Hargraves, Mona Barnum. Sandra McMurran. housewife Whitchurch-Stouffville â€" Colin Barrett, trust com- pany manager. to work within certain restraints.” Restore harmony Farquharson said it was important to restore “harmonious relationships" among various bodies in the school system, and that would be one of his goals. He said he believed in full disclosure of all board work, with open sessions to the public, except in discussions of personnel and property matters. He said he was 7 also concerned with the neglect of some of the older schools in the south end of the county, and would like 'to see they were “brought up to the equivalent stahdarg’:: A resident of Aurora, Farquharson is at present teaching electronics at Grimsby District High School. He says that gives him a 70-minute trip to York. via the Queen Elizabeth Way, “about the same as someone starting up tr Toronto" All of his children, two boys and two girls, have gone through the York education system, and have all completed their grade 13. He says he has a great deal of interest in the Thornhill area, and feels he has an advantage over others running for the board for the first time. That is because he has worked through the system and knows the problems faced by both administrators and teachers. “One of the problems of .the new trustee is in getting to know the ins and outs of the system,” he said. Farquharson is a member of the Richmond Hill Legion, and early in his career was active in Boy Scout work, the YMCA and other young people’s groups directors of Helpmate Information. A veteran of World War II, he served for 51/2 years with the Irish Regiment of Toronto in the European theatre. “no... He isv in favor of controlled growth and development for Richmond Hill and promises to be readily accessible to the people of his ward, so that he may be their voice at the council table. BETTY CANIVET Trustee candidate from downtown Runs in Ward 3 m¢1‘_' ." RAY GEMMILL of Helpmate