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The following meetings of Civic interest have been scheduled during the next two weeks: Tuesday, November 1 â€" 4 pm. Deputy Treasurer‘s Office. Finance Committee meeting. Tuesday, November 1 -â€" 7:30 pm. Council Chambers, Planning Committee meeting. Friday, September 14 â€" North-South: Ann and George Payment: Ross Jenkinson and Fred Dieken; Fred and Theresa Tierney. East-West: Ruth and Gerry Browning; Wednesday. September 12 â€" North-South: Jack and Billye Maver; Lil Thompson and Marion Fahner: Jack and Roberta Robilottes. East-West: Jim and Bob Hull; Joan Orlando and Barbara Lariviere; Florance Rintoul and Rose Morrell. Wednesday. November There are still some physical traces of the building's early use as a chapel, most of which are inside. When a second floor was installed in the upper part of the nave, the band of fretwork decorating the walls was kept. The marks of the pews can be seen in the pine floors. In 1847, Frederick Eckardt sold the church trustees the lot at 149 Main Street “for the sole and only use of a Congregational church”. Soon after the clapboard chapel was built, possibly by James Eakin who owned the nearby planing mill. When the Presbyterians moved across the street into the brick church, the chapel was converted into a house, which has been its use ever since. The church’s original members in- cluded Mark M. Braithwaite, David and Elizabeth Cash, Philip and Susan Eckardt and Margaret Stiver. When the Congregationalism moved across the street in 1879, they sold their first chapel at 149 Main Street to the Presbyterians. The Congregationalism met in the chapel until 1879. At that time Mark Braith- waite gave his church a lot across the street and a new brick church was erected. (This building, now known as the Veterans’ Hall, served the Congregationalists until 1894 when their church folded and the Presbyterians moved in.) The Congregationalists had been meeting in the village and in Markham village since 1844, usually in the Lutheran’s 10g chapel. It was a 19th century Christian fun- damentalist sect, called the Congregationalists who erected the building, probably in 1847. While the building at 149 Main Street in Unionville is now a house, it once was used as a church by two different congregations. Unionville house was once a church Civic C orner my; Lama; comnumity news Bridge winners By MERILYN McKELVEY Ninth in a series East-West: Bob Manning and Victor Cronshaw: Omar Khamissa and George Newton: Joan Orlando and Barbara Lariviere. Thursday. November 3 â€" 8 am. Commissioner of Works Office. Engineering Committee meeting. Monday, November 7 â€" 7:45 pm. Council Chambers. Regular Council Meeting. For information or partners call Ann Payment 727-3873. Richard Charlebois and Sandy Jenkinson tied with Bob and Ann Manning. Monday, September 17 â€" North-South: Ross Jenkinson and Richard Charlebois; Detlef Ladwig and Fred Tier- ney; Natalie Platner and Phyl Mountjoy. 2 â€" 7:30 pm. Committee Room “B”, By-laws. Procedures, Fire and Personnel Committee Meeting. Temperanceville United Church an- niversary. ll a.m. Former members & friends invited. York Philharmonic (hoir performing “The Prodigal Son". Richmond Hill United Church. 7.30 p.m. Craft Show at Thornhill Community Centre. Sponsored by 8th Thornhill Parents Comm. Brownies. Beavers. Cubs & Scouts. 889-9702. Beta Sigma Phi Eta Psi chapter. Annual craft fair. Thornhill Community Centre. 11 a.m. â€" 4 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Jacobs, the present owners, have lived in the house since 1966 and they have done much to retain the 130 year old house in excellent condition. The house was owned first by the Eakin Family until 1908 when it passed to RA. Stiver. In 1912 Ethel and Frank Frisby bought the property; Frank, who lived to be 83, worked on restoring tombstones in the Lutheran cemetery, the earliest of which dates back to 1803. Mr. and Mr. E.H. Featherstonhough purchased the house in 1954 and spent many hours renovating it. Outside, the original belfry has been removed, the windows shortened, and the main entrance has been moved around. HEL PMA TE INFORMA T/ON COMMUNITY CALENDAR 883-2234 October-November 883-2234 Sunday 3O Euchre at the Wheel House. Oak Ridges. 7:30 p.m. Monday Euchre sponsored by Concord Golden Era Club. Concord Community Centre. 8 1 st L a n g s ta f f Beavers. Cubs. Scouts. Ladies Auxiliary bake and plant sale. Charles Howitt School library. 1-4 p.ml Brass rubbing. 'l'hornhill Community Centre library. 8 p.m. -Then he' went to De Havilland Air- craft of Canada Ltd After 26 years he's still» there in, production engineering. He tried the retail business. His first job after Grade 13 lasted three years with Kresge’s. Mr. McDermott attended elementary and high schools in Toronto. BETTER PITCHER At St. Michael's College School, then on Bay Street, he played hockey with some success. But he was a better hardball pitcher. She happens to be an active citizen too. She sits on the Stouffville library board_ that recently built a new library. Chairman McDermott movea from his native Toronto to this region, to ‘Stouffville to be exact, in 1956. And she was one-of the founders of the local recycling depot. That was the year after he married his wife Carol, a nurse from Bancroft. The York Region Roman Catholic separate school board chairman has been involved in school affairs for 13 years. He denies being a politician. “I got into it for my kids. I‘ve really seen accomplished what I wanted to accomplish, now we have our own (separate) high school,” he says. Answer: John McDermott, 51, whose main leisure activities involve all children, but especially his three sons and daughter. By HAL BLAINE What local school board chairman builds aircraft, is an extraordinary minister, Lions Club past president and former hardball pitcher? Tuesday Oldest son John, 21, is studying to be'a Wednesday, October 26, 1977 John McDermott loves to be busy Adult Education seminar “Marriage Enrichment". St. Gabriel‘s Church. 8 Adult Education Seminar “Marriage Enrichment" at St. Gabriel's Church. 8 Widows & widowers monthly meeting. Consumers’ Gas bldg. 8 pm. Hospital auxiliary buffet luncheon & bazaar at Victoria Square Community Centre. 12.30 p.m. 887- 5806 or 887-5333. (‘arrville United Church annual turkey supper. 4.30-8 p.m. Jazz Festival. llillcrest Mall. 5.30-8 VVednesday At that time there was no government funding for land, but they got an education grant for the building. When St: Mark’s was built: there were 11 small separate boards in what is now York Region. In 1968 McDermott was chairman of the Stouffville board at the time when a committee was named to study regionalization. They started by forming three local circles with a minimum of five heads of families in each. Each circle con- stituted a board. They voted to amalgamate into one board. They had 150 possible pupils whose parents had signified suppport for a new school. First they had to get five acres of land Then they could borrow construction money. The building of St. Mark’s school was what started Chairman McDermott in the realm of school affairs. N0 SCHOOL When the children began reaching school age, there was no Roman Catholic school nearby for them to attend. So a group of parents, including the McDermotts, decided to form the necessary local board. 26 Yodngest child is Mary Catherine, 13, in Grade 8 at St. Mark's school, Stouffville. veterinarian. He’s at Guelph Univer- sity. Next son Chris, 19, is in Grade 13 at high school. Michael, 17, is in Grade 12 at Brebeuf College School, Steeles Avenue. He was on that committee and then Coffee House. York Central Assoc. for the Mentally Retarded. 8- 10 p.m. St. Mary Immaculate Church. Richvale Writers Club. Richvale Community Centre. 8 p.m. 884-0855. Health and Social Planning in York Region. Meeting at Richvale Community Centre. 8-11 p.m. York Potters Guild sale. Hillcrest Mall. 9.30 a.m.-9.30 p.m. through Saturday. Coffee house at St. Mary Immaculate Church. 8-10 p.m. Sponsored by York Central Assn. for the Mentally Retarded. 884-9110. Tag day for sea cadets and navy league. Through Saturday. Thornhill Co-op Nursery School. Open House. 8.30 p.m. Thursday 1O Richmond Hill midget hockey dance at St. Mary Im- maculate Church Hall. 8.30 to I am. Dress is optional. F a I I F a c e - 0 f f Dance. Maple Minor Hockey Assn. 8.30-1 a.m. Maple Com- munity Hall. 832-1057. St. Matthews Church annual bazaar. 7-9 p.m. Dessert court. baking. knitting. aprons. toys. etc. T o p s 0 N -â€" 8 0 sponsoring a bazaar. Consumers’ Gas bldg. 7â€"9 pm. Halloween Howl at Lions Hall. Sponsored by Richvale Lions Majorette Corps. Dress optional. A l d r e d A r t Exhibition at library. To the end of the month. Octoberfest Dance. St. Mary Immaculate. 8:30 p.m. Alpine Show Band. Ffiday If you asked hini, “What’s next?” he could probably tell you that, too. “We‘re looking forward to a church at Stouffville. We have property near St. Mark’s on Edward Street for a future church," says Chairman McDermott, with a gleam of an- ticipation in his eyes. Now he's extraordinary minister at St. Patrick's. That means he does some of the readings and distributes com- munion at mass. He also leads in singing. “Although we’re still a small com- munity, we pack the St. Mark’s school auditorium with 250 to 300 people for Mass." ‘ McDermott was always busy in local church activities from the time he went to Stouffville. St. Patrick's is a combined parish with the Markham area east of Woodbine Avenue. As in other things, at church, too, he is a builder. He was chairman last year of the committee that operates the town pool. This year he’s chairman of the Lions‘ bike-a-thon which is raising money for children‘s projects. Now past president, he’s still con- centrating on club activities that are for children. was elected to the regional board in 1969. On the regional board ever since, he started his term as chairman four years ago. Apparently his volunteer work with schools didn’t keep him busy enough. So 10 years ago he joined the Stouffville Lions, a club that is 40 years old this year. Section C JOINED LIONS Happy Holidays bazaar and tea. 2 p.m. Maple United Church. St. Mary's Anglican (hurch Christmas bazaar. Noon to 3 p.m. Lunch at 12.30 p.m. R.H. Presbyterian Church Christmas Carousel. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thornhill United craft. flea market. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. 889â€"4353. Lady of the Annunciation ladies guild Halloween dance. Bond Cres. Oak Ridges. Richmond Hill Kinettes rummage sale. St. Gabriel's Anglican. 10 a.m.- noon. Connor Library Rossini the Magician. 3 p.m. Disco Night & coffee house. St. Mary Immaculate 8 p.m. Sr. Citizens club bazaar. l0145 Yonge. ll a.m.-3 p.m. St. Stephen's Anglican Church bazaar. Maple. R 0 s sin i t h e Magician. Maple Library. 2 p.m. Oak Ridges Lions Halloween Dance. Bond Lake Arena. 8 Saturday 12