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Koffman is herself the author of a book, the Big Rip Off, which was critical of federal Opportunities for Youth and Local Initiatives programs. Wayne Given is listed on the Vanguard’s editorial page as the publisher and editor and Erna Koffman as the associate editor. Berton’s claim is “against the defendants for libel contained in ar- ticles respectively headed “The New Mafia” and “Eldorado Canadian Style” published on page 4 of the issues of Vaughan Vanguard dated the 22nd and 15th days of December, 1976 respec- tively and for libel published by the defendants in issues of Vaughan Vanguard in the three month period immediately preceding the foregoing libels." TORONTO â€" Pierre Berton has launched a libel suit against a Vaughan To_wnship weekly newspaper. Berton, the leading author and broadcaster and a Kleinburg resident, had a writ issued Jan. 13 in the Supreme Court of Ontario against Vaughan Vanguard Publishing Ltd., R. Wayne Given and Erna Koffman. J0 urna/ist sues / newspaper Wh’en Beggs was parks board chairman, he found that beautiful Mill Pond park was used by folks in the Shaun, who started the Carnival idea nine years ago and has been a prime organizer of it ever since, was presented with a plaque at a Lions dinner. Inscription on the plaque reads: “In appreciation for an outstanding effort and faithful service to a suc- cessful Winter Carnival for the past nine years.” last week honored Mr. Winter Cafnrigliéil â€" Shaun Beggs â€" with its man-ofâ€"the- year award. Our Christmas tree is almost an object of worship, which we trim with tender care. And we sing an old Ger- man hymn to it. Just like a tree, standing by the water, Tree planting The Lions made a fine choice in singling out Shaun Beggs, founder of Winter Carnival which has become an annual highlight of community life in Richmond Hill. Nine years of organizing the event has been a major effort. Lions name Beggs ’outs tan ding effort'y The Lions, Rotary and Shriners are in. Richmond Hill Hydro, police, town works, parks and recreation depart- ment, Progress Club, CB (Citizen’s Band Radio) club, Black and Stewart Realty, McDonald’s Restaurants and Pick Otto and Sons Seeds Ltd. are all entered. Firefighters have two entries, one from the regular force and one from the volunteer firemen. Even Richmond Hill Library has entered a bed with a five-person team to compete in the event. And Word is the beds might have to be placed in categories and run in separate heats to determine a winner. They now have 15 entries and they’re still coming in. Tom Car'bin, 884-9577, has been apâ€" pointed to handle the event and deal with any further entries. Organizers had hoped to get four entries into the race from police, firemen and town works and parks department. ’ RICHMOND HILLâ€"What had been planned as the last event to put Winter Carnival to bed Sunday, Feb. 6â€"the bed raceâ€"is now shaping up into a real grand finale. Adarh and Eve gave the world guilt Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough RICHMOND HILL-e The Lions Club Poems are made by fools like me‘ But only God can make a tree. Bed race to be Carnival ’3 grand finale McDonald’s clowns will be an hand on We shall not be moved Igwn has problems By Art Robson Man of the Year The taxpayer knows that once it goes in, he’s going to have to live with it forever, so he doesn‘t want it in the first place. The town plailts a Vregiment of soldiers in a geometric row. God, and taxpailers doing 7 their own landscaping, plant at random. The ovgr allr effect i_s pleasing. 'h'ees on the public road allowance (even if it does look like part of your front lawn) must be planted in a straight line, at equal intervals, one per taxpayer. That‘s just democratic. Unwritten rules Trouble is the town has to follow certain unwritten rules. It's just that the choice of tree and the place to put it is a highly subjective thing. And sometimes the town and the taxpayer just don't agree. And that’s a noble efideavor, no one will deny. Meet objections And that’s the kind of objection the town works department runs into every year with its tree planting program to beautify the comrrrunity. It can block the view, ruin your landscaping, bust the sewers with its roots, make an awful mess of leaves and create a nuisance when mowing the lawn. And if it’s the wrong kihdhf the wrong place, you’re stuck with it forever. But once planted, a tree tends to enduIZeufqrever. It will not be moved. Johnny Appleseed earned a per- manent niche in American folklore by planting trees wherever he went and spreading good cheer. All love trees But even Johnny might have become a crapper if he had tried to plant a tree on someone’s front lawn in Richmond Hill and they didn’t want it. It’s riot that folks here don’t like trees. We all love trees. George Washngton never got 3%} his foul deed in cutting down that cherry tree. Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity for us wher_1_ §n_§pp1e fell on his noggin. Later, they decided they couldn’t let the Carnival die and started the committee up again with Ruttle and Beggs switching the top jobs. It's been that way ever since. by eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of life. Things stayed that way for five years, then they decided they’d had enough and all quit. vicinity, but not by residents in Either parts of town. ’ To attract more attention to the park, he came up with the idea of Winter Carnival. Bill Ruttle, Warren Davey, Dalt Hicks and Paul Binkley agreed to help and they promptly made Shaun chairman and Bill Ruttle vice- chairman of the Carnival committee. If they didn’t, _the symmetry would Word is that tickets for the two main dances are starting to move quickly and orders should be placed soon. Organizers are still looking for local musical talent for the Carnival Queen dance at Legion Hall Thursday night, Feb. 3, the grand opening for Winter Carnival. the Saturday morning when the children’s races start at Mill Pond at 9:30 am. They will also help liven up the action on the Sunday afternoon. (Photo by Hoggl He didn’t object to having a town tree out front, but he’s disappointed he didn‘t get the flowering Japanese variety he had been promised. Untidy jungle Mr. J. Howard, at 342 Gells Rd., cut down 14 trees at the front of his home when he first moved in because they formed an “untidy jungle.” A neighbor said another tree in front of his house would be “completely out of scale” with his present'shrubs and landscaping. “The town said they would give us a tree that produces clumps of red berries. We had one like that once and the school children used to pull the berries off and throw them at our windows.” “In a house we lived in before,” she said, “there was a large old tree in front. A storm broke off a big branch and pushed it through the living room window. Some drawbacks Mrs. W. D. Barker, 325 Gells Road, sajg she_ already has gnough trees. The town ran into some opposition to its tree treatment on Gells Road last year. be rumea when the trees mature 20 or 30 years hence. You can save 15 cents by taking the G0 bus to Finch Ave. for 35 cents and the subway for 50 cents. Current fares The current GO bus fare for direct service to downtown Toronto from Richmond Hill is $1. Fares would be based on distance travelled and the carriers ~ TATOA AND TTC â€" would share the revenue proportionately. This could lead to some sort of single ticket system which would permit transfers from G0 trains and buses to TTC subways, buses and streetcars. No fares or service schedules have been determined as yet. They probably won’t be until the Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority (TATOA) which runs the G0 system. has completed its current {are and ticketing study. RICHMOND HILL â€" More changes in GO bus service â€" and possibly fares â€"- will go into effect by this time next year when G0 trains start operating from Richmond Hill via Thomhill to Union Station. On the last day of Winter Carnival, the Langstaff high school band will play at Mill Pond at 12:30 p.m., the Roselawn steel band at 1 p.m., and Bayview high school’s windjammers at 1:30 pm. Bus schedule will change when GO train in serVice There’s enough snow around this year to give free rein to artistic talent as long as temperatures remain below freezing. Beds ready soon enough will be displayed at Hillcrest Mall this Saturday. Mall merchants have organized a best-dressed-bed contest and donated the prize. The Foxglove will provide music at the Mall. For the Snow Queen dance on the Thursday, John Cook, 884-4923, is handling the tickets. The snow princesses were dined by the Lions last week and legionnaires will give them a feast at Legion Hall tomorrow night. ' Gail Skinner, 884-5694, has the tickets for the sleigh ride and dance at the Richmond Hill Golf and Country Club on the Saturday night. Unseasonal weather has rained out some events in previous years and snow had to be trucked in for snow sculp- tures. At press time, the bed count had risen to 20â€"almost enough for a small hospital or a} dormitory of some sort. Established 1878 Thornlea Secondary School battles Bayview high school in basketball action, Thornlea taking 2 out of 3. See Page Bl. Church directory C3 Classified 88-10 Editorials A4 Entertainment C5 In the Hill C2 Wolves, deer roam the woodland on Observatory property in Richmond Hill. Richmond Hill Edition Late bulletin "Wolves" in town Inside The Liberal Letters C4 King-Oak Ridges Cl Real Estate 86-7 Scheduled events C3 Service directory BS “I’love cats, dogs, and horses, but trees are special. Once planted, I couldn’t hurt them.” Mrs. Boardman probably Summed it all up when she said: 10 per cent object Town policy is to advise taxpayers on the street when tree planting is to take place. On average, about 10 per cent object. These are personally interviewed and, if they insist they don’t want a tree, it‘s not thrust on them. “I phoned Mr. (Merv) Perkins (works maintenance manager) and he was very nice. He said if we didn’t want the tree the dead one would not be replaced.” But by fall, said Mrs. Boardrfiéfiit'he tree had died. “I talked to the wrong person at town hall and they told me the program was approved agd tho gree had to go in.” “The thin edge is at the front and there’s just no place there for a tree. We have all the trees we want at the back where there’s lots of room. “Our property is shaped like a wedge of pie,” she said. Around the corner, at 298 Skopit Rd., Mrs. Moyra Boardman got a tree she didn’t want. Tom Henry, a TATOA informatidh officer, said nothing has been decided yet about reâ€"routing or re-scheduling buses. But the service will have to be modified. And it’s hardly likely that GO buses would compete with G0 trains through direct downtown service at rush hour. Bus changes It’s more likely GO bus service from the north would feed passengers to the trains at the Richmond Hill terminus. “WW”- T- “I”. .5. ; ’Running Vume ns'expected to be 48 minutes. TATOA has announced the service will provide three southbound trains in the morning rush hour and three nor- thbound iifithe evening. 5, This suggests some adjustment will have to be made in Richmond Hill rates when the Q0 trains start hex} January. For comparison with existing GO train fares, Oakville is the same distance from Union Station and the fare on that run is $1.20. Winter Carnival snow princesses are being dined around the townâ€"by the Lions Club last week and Legionnaires this weekâ€"as the big Carnival Queen contest rapidly approaches. These three When the authority re-organized its t funeral "/n Essentials Unity, in Non-Essentials Liberty, in all things Charity ” 511! Wednesday, January 26, 1977 Sports Blâ€"4 Viewpoint A4 Yesterdays A4 K-Mart K-Ml-8 Cashway Lbr. Cll-4 David Dunlap Bl-4 A4 K-Ml-8 arnival cuties The soldiers then went on manoeuvres in northern winter weather for two weeks, with rations including lots of fresh fruit and The 11 soldiers first submitted their middle left index fingers to the test for 30 minutes. The fingers came out of it with an average temperature of 37.4 degrees. Dr. Sidney Livingstone conducted an experiment which involved sticking soldiers‘ fingers in ice water and measuring the effect. THORNHILL â€" A Thornhil] physiologist has discovered that Vigamin 7C helps keep you warm. When asked by Trustee William Laird of Georgina, what happened when there wasn’t any available space, Mrs. Lofsky said they could use the available space in existing schools. She said that kindergartens also offered other benefits, such as aiding a child‘s self-confidence, plus detecting learning disabilities, or the needs of a gifted child. No home could provide all the op- portunities necessary to develop a child in that rapid period of growth between four and six. Soldiers keep digits hot with high vitath C diet Speaking for the group, Mrs. Lofsky told the meeting that they would like to see junior kindergartens where there was both a demand and available space; Wide variety “Existing junior kindergartens in- dicate that exposure to\a wide variety of activities greatly enhances a child’s ability to learn,” she said. However, her main complaint and that of others in her group, was that the board had been generally rude. Mrs.DianaLofsky, spokesman for the group, said she felt that the board had made light of the group’s presentation, even suggesting it might be “anti- feminist” at one time, until reminded that a man had assisted her in her presentation. $200,000 saving Henry said that for the -small in- convenience of the transfer (and the advantage of a special low fare of 35 cents) the over all service has been improved and the authority is saving 3200,0004 AURORA â€" A group of Thornhill parents, who appeared before York County Board of Education Monday night to request the implementation of junior kindergartens in York, criticized the board for its “rude” treatment after it was all over. Some bus stops for the direct service were eliminated or moved. Commuters complained they had to walk or drive an extra half-mile to catch their bus. The alternative is to take the bus to Finch and transfer tp the subway. Parents claim trustees ’rude’ service recently to short-turn some buses at the Finch subway, many Rich- mond Hill residents who commute regularly to downtown Toronto were highly annoyed. contestants from Don Head high school. from left to right, are: Gwen Hood. Kleinburg, second year; Laurie Knight, Nashville, third year, and Bonnie Towle, Woodbridge, first year. 36 pages This was not the only experiment conducted at the Defense and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine in Downsview. Dr. Livingstone said he wished he knew why the Vitamin C worked as it did, but he will be recommending lots of vitamin C in the diets of military personnel when they have to work outside in cold weather, particularly with their hands bared to the elements. The soldiers were given the same test at the end of the manoeuvres and this time the average finger temperature wa_s_ _5.4 degrees higher. Chairman Craig Cribar told the group that the board would look into the matter and let them know. vegetables rich in vitamin C A notice of motion by Trustee Donald Cousens of Markham to have staff prepare a cost analysis for junior kindergarten, was turned down. Georgina's Keith Hargrave said that it cost $1,200 a year to educate each child; wasn’t individual attention the best teacher? Money and space Where were they going to get the accommodation and money from? asked Harry Bowes of Whitchurch - Stouffville. “My taxes have doubled. Where are they going?” Lofsky replied. Houghton went on to say that he found it difficult to contain himself where the suggestion about the school was con- cerned. “As soon as possible,” was the an- swer. ' “How old do yod feel children should be when they start school?” asked Trustee Robert Houghton of Richmond Hill. In answer to a question from Dorothy Zajac of King, as to why she felt junior kindergartens “fill the order better than nursery schools,” Lofsky said that children gained at nursery school, but that not everybody could afford it. They could also use space in high schools and church halls. The four station‘s‘are toibe' completed by the end of the year, in time for GO train service to start next January. Children in grade six, who didn’t need bathroom facilities, could be moved into a mobile and the junior kin- dergarten students into their class, she said. Langstaff station . Another will be built at Langstaff at Highway 7 and two in North York, one at Leslie and the Finch hydro right-of- way, and one at Leslie and Highway 401 just south of Sheppard Ave. Thé Hill station will be at the same location as the G0 bus station on Newkirk Ave. The spokesman said most of the track for the Richmond Hill GO train ter- minal has been laid. Construction of the four stations on the line will begin this spring. Price 20 cents Photo by Hogg)