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Low 0032‘ home push He referred once again to over 2,000 units (most of them are apartments or McBride described how several different printing processes are used to “But feel this," he said, touching the circular orange glow surrounding the coat of arms on the left side of the bill. It felt dry. RICHMOND HILL â€" Mayor David Schiller told the Richmond Hill Chamber of Commerce last week he is trying to encourage lower cost housing development in town. Under the program, the municipality can get grants for planning, plus a grant of about $500 for each unit built from the province. The proposed OHAP project is a condominium high-rise of 240 units on Yonge at Weldrick, Schiller said later. Schiller said at another point in the meeting he did not know of any way of guaranteeing when housing units would be built. For example, paper money printed in the 18005, and quite valuable to a collector, could be accurately reproduced by a skilled but un- scrupulous printer and sold for profit. “We‘re about 150 years ahead of the US. in the production of money," said McBride, casually passing around samples of authentic Canadian $20 bills. He rubbed a rumpled twenty across a sheet of white paper, leaving behind a smudge of green. That part of the bill was still wet. One developer, Cadillacâ€"Baif, has responded to his offer. There is a possibility of a second participating in the Ontario Housing Action Program, Schiller said. Builder advantage The developer gets the advantage of top priority on cutting through red tape and getting the houses off the ground. Print money "Atpresent," said McBride, “there is nothing in the law to prevent the reprinting of old money." Canada‘s current eopyright laws coyer printed matter for only 50 years. “There‘s legislation coming out this year to make the reprinting of some of this material illegal," said the Willowdale printer during a recent visit to Thornhill Community Centre Library. ‘ Nature is all too real at Boyd centre Cardinals, bluejays and a wide variety of bright plumaged birds are caught in a harmless box trap on which the door drops shut when the bird en- ters to feed. “We had come across a racoon caught in a trap. It had chewed off all the fingers of the trapped foot in its effort to escape." Trapping in, the conservation area is illegal, but it's done\. When traps are found they are confiépated. Print after print appeared from the seemingly bottomless bag: a North Carolina six-dollar bill. dated April 2, 1776 “by the authority of congress at Halifax", a woodcut depicting a 15th century German version of the birth of Christ. an Eskimo print, a copy of a page, printed in 1485, from Caxton‘s edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, an intricately detailed ad for a 1915 Maxwell (priced at $695, fully equipâ€" ped) and scads of beautifully etched notepaper. True to life “We were walking through the woods one day and one of the girls let out a scream,” said Gilliland, a teacher at the centre More to the students’ liking is a different kind of trappingâ€"bird trapping by Terry Carr, the centre supervisor who is also an ornithologist and a licensed bird-bander. Birdwa tchers Students examine the birds in the lab while Carr tells them all about the birds lifestyle. Then the specimen is banded and set free Those lucky enough to be at the centre last fall were able to follow the And sometimes that learning ex- perience can be horrifyineg true to life. Jack McBride‘s suitcase provides ample proof that the aim of the first printer â€" to have works of art and the written word easily and inexpensively available to all â€" has been achieved. Printer’s work pours from suitcase “We call it the mud room because in the spring and fall. when it’s real wet out, and you get 40 students tramping in and out after slogging through the woods and along the creek banks, it gets pretty goopy in here.” The floors in the rest of the stately mansion are of inlaid oak. The rooms are panelled in oak and the windows are of leaded glass. This is the Boyd Conservation Field Centre which is operated by the York County Board of Education, the six Metro Toronto school boards and the Metro Toronto Separate school board in partnership with the Metro Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. Students from schools all over Metro and York Region get to spend up to a week at the centre, learning from nature in a natural environment. by Art Robson PINE GROVE â€" “And this is the mud room,” said Jim Gilliland, in- dicating a large hall inside a main entrance to the grand old Garfield Weston stone mansion; Luckily. the floors of the foyer and the room next to it are made of flagstones and the mud doesn’t do any damage, just makes a mess. By Marilyn McDonald Liberals criticized Stong was asked by one chamber member if he could conduct an education process among the members of his own party who all seemed anti- deveIOpment. Regional Chairman Garfield Wright and York Centre MPP Alf Stong were even more emphatic in pushing for housing development. high rise condominiums) which he said have already been approved but not built in town “because the developers do not think they can make money on them.“ “The big pipe (the York-Durham sewer) is coming; the province is charging us for it,“ said Wright. Stong said development was coming to Markham and Vaughan. As a businessman in Richmond Hill he wgpted Richmondmu to get its share. said the mayor He wanted his children To be able to buy homes of their own someday. It was a bad night for weather and what the five people who showed up got instead, were intriguing anecdotes about the printing business, a smat~ tering of history, an explanation of how lithography works (understood, at last, by at least one person present), and an intimate look at a man wholeheartedly in love with his trade. “If the development don’t come won’t be able to pay for it.” Upon retirement in 1971, he began playing the part of a pioneer printer at Black Creek Pioneer Village. Last Wednesday, McBride was busy with an iron pot, casting pieces of type in the kitchen off the library auditorium; He handed them out as souvenirs to those who had come to hear him lecture on the histqry _of pxjinting. McBridé séw one o? tHe first models of a multilith press in 1936 and “fell in love with it”. McBride, who got interested in printing as a teenager, “because my father wanted me to be a lawyer”, has been involved in the printing business for over 40 years. Now 69, hé spent 36 of those years as a technician with the Toronto branch of Addressrograph-Multigraph. Theré are many models of old time print shops around, but as McBride said, none of them work. Students also study forestry and botany, do scientific tests on water samples, net biology specimens from the creek (when it’s not frozen) and actually work on nearby farms to learn about agriculture. Team work “There Hasn’t been a successful counterfeiter since our new money was brought out.” The emphasis was on the word wo_r_king”. progress of a beaver felling trees and building a dam on the east branch of the Humber near its junction with Cold Creek. There‘s not much evidence of the beaver since winter came, but he’ll be back at work come springâ€"like a beaver. And work he does. One tree he tackled was almost two feet in diameter. His team mate this year is Alice Casselman of Thistletown Collegiate in Etobicoke. “Operating with limited funds," said Gilliland, “we scrounge a lot of stuff around and we find people very helpful and co-operative.” Gilliland is one of two teachers chosen each year from the eight school board areas to spend a year working at the centre. He is from Wexford Collegiate in Scarborough, but he and his wife have just finished building their house in -Stouffville. Current copy “Our Canadian bills have completely confounded the counterfeiters”, McBl‘ide explained. Best example “It’s the best example of an old working print shop before 1867,” said McBride. Orienteering, cross-country skiing, snow-shoeing and problem exercises to develop a sense of teamwork are all part of a full and active program at the Boyd centre. Last fall, a group of boys from a vocational school built a swing bridge across the creek in two days with materials scrounged from nearby building sites. The centre‘ on Islington Ave. just south of Major Mackenzie Dre, was opened three years ago when the school boards and conservation authority completed an addition to the mansion to house dormitories and a cafeteria. The centre can accommodate 40 students with two teachers (man and woman) accompanying them from their school and eight student teachers. In addition, there’s a residential assistant, Mary Lindsay, who is per-‘ manent staff and lives at the centre. Louis Conkin was hired as day caretaker. but he turned out to be such a handyman he is now more of a resource person for the school. He became so involved in the program, he and his wife moved into the centre as produce Canada’s new-style paper money. It is impossible to reproduce them photographically, the forgers usual method‘ Three years old The mayor said planners were working on the Official Plan. He could understand why they would not want to drop it to work on something else that probably would not meet approval anyway. “Once they have put down a few hundred thousand or a few million dollars, I can understand why they don’t." One man came to him last year and asked about a piece of newly purchased land. “I imagine they have a pretty good idea what areas are likely to develop by now,” said the mayor, adding he, himself, had not seen the official plan. Won‘t take no One problem with developers is they won‘t take a “two-letter (NO) answer," “With the exception 0f the switch board operator, they won’t talk to you,” said one businessman. Mayor Schiller was asked to tell the staff at the town hall he favored development. Jack McBride holds woodcuts and the tools used to make them. Woodcuts were used to make Student groups visiting the centre come for either a week from Monday to Friday, or for a weekend from Friday to Sunday. resident staff Centre time is allotted to school boards in' proportion to their total enrollment (the basis on which the centre was built and is operated). Each board has its own method of choosing In proportion Greg Pelenyi, a grade 8 student, crosses the suspension foot bridge at the Boyd Conservation Field Centre. The students in Picture from wood A less conventional method didn’t work last week in Richmond Hill, ac- cording to police. PoliEe said a youth checked into the Black Hawk Inn Jan. 16, but left the next day without stopping by the desk. RICHMOND HILL â€" "lying bedâ€" sheets together and slipping out the window, isn’t the only way to sneak out of a hotel room, it seems. However, it may be the surest way. About the same time another youth reported the theft of his wallet, giving the same name as that used by the youth who had checked into the hotel. As it turned out. the latter had borrowed the second youth‘s wallet and used it for identification purposes when Hotel sneak out He sold it; of course that means the buyer will come along asking the same question “I told him I didn’t think it would be developed for 20 years as least, and possibly never. which students will get to use that time and when. The centre has exclusive use of 1,250 acres of the Boyd Conservation Area‘s 2,100 acres. It‘s located well away from the public recreation areas. But snowmobilers disregard this and roar through the property scaring the wildlife away and damaging the natural forest. Their passing is still starkly evident in midsummer. illustrations in printing up to about the 19305. Crossing the bridge this picture are from Scarborough. Area school boards are allotted time at the centre Photo by Hogg) Foul fare William Ferguson, a driver for Able Atlantic Taxi Ltd., Scarborough, told police he was done out of a fare when he picked up a man in Scarborough and dropped him off at a North Taylor Mills Drive address. He said the man told him to wait while he got the money, but failed to return. Two 17-year»old youths, one from Richmond Hill and one from Thornhill, have been charged, one with ob- structing police and one with fraud accommodation. going to the Inn. The subsequent report from its owner it had been stolen, was just a ruse, police said. There will be a movie entitled ‘Time to Run’ to be held at St. Paul’s United Chqrch on Feb. 5 at 8 pm. There is no admission, although a free offering will be collected. Everyone is welcome and refreshments will be served. Hockey dance The Oak Ridges and District Minor Hockey Association will be having a dance on Feb. 19 at the Bond Lake Arena in the Lions Den. For more information, please call Tom Simpson at 773-5719 or Rick Mottershall at 773-4110 The tickets are $8 per couple. They are available at the door or by calling 773-5285. Soccer anyone? Are you six years of age or older, and Hot dogs; coffee and hot chocolate will be available to help wart off the cold. Everyone may come out to watch. There will be an admission price of 25 cents for students. $1 for adults and $2 for a family. Coffee house The music will be provided by Don Holgate. There will be 10 modified divisions trophies and purse winners. Registrations will be from 9:30 to 11 am. The races will start at noon. There will be a Valentine’s Dance at the Viking Club on Feb. 12. The tickets are $10 per couple, available at Rudy’s Fish and Chip store. The admiséion price includes a hot dinner to be served from 8:30 to 10 pm. OAK RIDGES â€" The 6th annual snowmobile races promoted by the Oak Ridges Club 99 snowmobile association will be held Feb. 20 beside Bond Lake Arena. Dance for lovers Checkered flag is out Millie Stewart Correspondent 773â€"4424 Wednesday, February 2, 1977 stock and four There will be money for the according to their relative student enrollment. The centre was formerly the Garfield Weston mansion. ‘ ¥§R§§ Confirmation classes will resume Thursday at 4:15 pm. in the choir room. St. Paul’s United The following meetings of civic interest have been Srneduled during the next two weeks: Wednesday, Feb. 2 â€"bylaw. procedures. fire 8. personnel committee meeting regularly scheduled for this evening has been cancelled. Thursday â€" Feb. 3 â€"8 am. office of the commissioner of works â€" engineering committee Thursday â€"Feb. 3 â€"7:30 pm. council chambers â€" parks and recreation committee cancelled. Monday â€" Feb. 7 â€" 7:45 pm. council chambers â€" regular councrl meeting , Tuesday â€" Feb. 8 â€" 7:30 pm. council chambers - parks and recreation committee Wednesday â€" Feb. 9 - 7:30 pm. committee room “B” bylaws, procedures, tire & personnel committee Tuesday â€" Feb. 15 â€" 4 pm. deputy treasurer's office. finance committee Tuesday â€" Feb, 15 - 7:30 pm. council chambers â€" planning committee The annual meeting of the congregation will be held Sunday following the service. Everyone who attends is asked to bring a sandwich. The UCW will hold their January general meeting on Feb. 8 at 8 pm. The theme for this meeting will be Women in the Church. St. John ’3 Anglican Coffee and tea will be' provided, as will baby sitting. I hope you noticéé, girls, thétybu' also register to play soccer. The registration is $15 per child or $25 per family of two or more children. This fee will include a jersey, pants and socks. The shoes must be provided by the family. 0n the date of registration, the child must bring a picture and his or her birth certificate. If you are interested and would like mgye information, please call 887-5627. Original songs and musical com- positions are by Al and Beth Davey of Don Mills and Larry Gates of Rich- mond Hill. On Feb. 9 at 8 pm. the study, share and prayer group will meet at the home of A] and Mike Woodall. Sunday there will be a hymn sing at 10: 15 followed by the family service at which the St. John’s Anglican parish will be treated to special music presentations. would you like to play soccer? Here’s your chance. Registration .is being taken for the Richmond Hill Minor Soccer Association on Feb. 12 and Feb. 19 at the Bond Lake Arena from 10 am. to 5 pm. oak ridges lake wilcox civic corner Photo by Hogg)