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Council meetings - best ShOW in town Hopefully, there’ll be enough energy to keep it running. Energy, fuel oil and gasoline, will probably be the main topic of discussion early in the 80s. Now that we’ve all had the time to consider the importance of the occasion and reflect upon the spiritual significance of the birth of a king and savior, the inevitable return to the cold, crass and commercial world once again is necessary as we move into another year. Nine members speaking at the same time to the tune of the mayor‘s gavel, personal msults, “I told you so" remarks, and ridiculous comments complete an editorial cartoon, setting. Regular council meetings in Richmond Hill are turning out to be the best entertainment in town. It seems the festive season leaves little in its wake but a morass of bills, over-spent charge cards and a number of those gifts received that must be returned. Not to mention cold turkey sandwiches. But the end of Christmas also means we’re less than a week away from a new year. . .and, in this case, a new rdecade. Probably the most significant change to the environment will be the opening of Canada’s Won- derland at Maple in 1981. What will it be like 10-year span? The battle of community identity will continue, with Thomhill obviously having more problems than Richmond Hill. Even today, Thornhill’s identity is split right down Yonge Street with two municipalities (Markham and Vaughan). sharing the community. Richmond Hill, meanwhile, should have an easier time Ron Wallace » Ednor F'ed Simpson - Soons Editor Slave Pearistenn - News Eduta- Subsalptiqn rales. 8y maul S300 pet year in Canada $26.00 Del yea: outsude 0! Canada. By camel $100 every flour weeks. Smgle copy saIes 25 cents. No manl delivery whave camev sew-ca exists. Second Class Mall Registration Numbev 0190. The content: both edutovial and caverns-n9 0' The Liberal, Richmond Hill are motecled by copyright and any unaumoviled useusntohibiled, - > ' Editorial, Display Classified Circulation Toronto customers The Libeval is published every Wednesday by Metrospan Community Newspapers, a leISlon ol Melvospan Printing 8 Publishan Ltd, which also publishes The Bannev un Aurova-Newmarkel, The Woodbvidge Vaughan News, and The Bollon Enlevpnse, PUBLISHER JOHN C. FERGUS The next 10 years Libéral ,METRospA~'â€" Letter VOLUME 1112. NUMBER 25 TELEPHONES Lib’éral the next 884-81 77 884~1 105 884-0981 881 3373 It will continue to be expensive to live in Richmond Hill and Thornhill, but consistent and ‘controlled industrial growth should help keep taxes in reasonable check. maintaining its image â€" and, if nothing else, the hydro towers planned to cross its southern boundary should serve to keep the city away from the doors. Sometime in the 805 we’ll probably learn where subway stations will be located in Thomhill and Richmond Hill, and we‘re betting a few people already know. Subways, however, probably won’t operate in this area in this century. Light rail transit may be the answer for immediate tran- sportation problems â€" and a pox on the group who decided to do away with the radial cars 40 years ago. Hopefully, we won’t become another Mississauga, sprawled over hundreds of square kilometers, with no central iden- tification point. A Richmond Hill .Civic Centre, such as the one proposed at the southwest corner of Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie Drive (complete with a subway station??) would certainly help retain the town’s identity. The Liberal‘s crystal ball is no clearer than anyone else’s, but the 19805 do shape up as being tough but challenging years. With luck, we’ll meet that challenge head on. Happy New Year. Wednesday, December 26, 1979 The need for a procedural bylaw is sure to be an issue in the next election campaign, and not a moment too soon. Don’t forget to take in the show before you vote next year. Council meets the first and third Monday of each month, in council chambers, beginning at 7:45 pm. Metrospan Community Newspapers publishes The Ridimond HilllThomhill Liberal, The Banner. The Oakville Journal Record. The Halton Consume. The Mississauga Tunes, The Etobicoke WIGuaru’m, The Etobiooke Consumer. The North Yak Minot. The North Yovk Cam. The Scarbovo Miror, The Samoa) Consumen The Woodbtidge B Vaughan News, The Bolton Entevor'se, and The North Sm Consume!~ John C. us, Direclot of Publishing Ray Padley v Advertismg Duecml Non’nan Slunden - onducuon Managa Denis O'Meala - Circulauon Divectov Rose Reynolds - Accounts METROSPAN - NORTH DIVISION EDITOR RON WALLACE v . “u; “50“” ’CNA It was Saturday night. The light was red. The car stopped, the doors flew open, and eight teenagers ran circles around the car, leaping back in with a squeal as a bus pulled up along-side. Wé used in call it a Chinese fire-drill. It The population has jumped from 19,577 in 1969 to 35,486 in 1979, which looks pretty impressive, but that was partly because of new boundaries set when regional govern- ment came in 1971. Newsy stuff, “Richmond Hill's worst fire ever”, Allencourt Bowling lanes in Feb. of 72, the “abduction” of seven-year old Cheryl Hanson from her home on Bloomington Sideroad in 1974, and Douglas Sheldrake’s allegations against police in ’78 probably had The Liberal reporters in a flap. The Board of Education and teachers salaries were perennially in the news in this decade, with wage hikes and big headlines throughout the beginning of 1974, “York Region teachers still on strike". BAIF subdivision, the 400 acres from Weldrick Road south to Carrville Road, was being talked about in council chambers in 1970 and became a reality during this decade. Industry moving into Richmond Hill made the news in the 705 and moving out also caused a stir, at least many in town were aware the Presbyterian Manse moved to Pioneer Village in 1978. Quite a few new buildings and services came to town in the 705. Centennial Pool went indoors in 1971, Hillcrest Mall ap- peared in 1974, the new York Regional Police station and Richvale Community Centre were built in 1975 and the new firehall in ’78. There have been some pretty big changes in our world during this decade â€" mainly in prices and international relations, but health food, junk food and jogging certainly get honorable mention. The FLQ and Idi Amin got a lot of at- tention and so did Watergate, the Vietnam war, Richard Nixon and Patty Hearst in world news. In Ontario the CN Tower was erected and in Quebec Rene ‘Levesque came to power. ' But in Richmond Hill things haven’t changed that drastically. The end of a decade. It sounds rather ominous â€" like the end of a lifetime. It’s the end of a decade LIBERAL SPRINKLINGS « By SHAARON HAY Liberal Staff Writer After shuffling do we still go in same direction? We will run in circles. shuffle the cards, and end In Ottawa they call it an election. served no purpose other than shuffling the oc- cupants of the car, and we ended up going in the same direction as we had fem-w | 0Q ‘ Changes in fashions and life-style that affected us all were reported in The Liberal, including the front page story in November 1970 saying pant-suits had in- filtrated the nursing profession and showing a photo of the shapely legs of nurses at York Central Hospital, cloaked in pants. Politically things haven’t changed much this decade. 1977 was not only the year Premier Indira Gandhi was defeated in the Indian election, more important, it was the year speed limits were converted to metric right here in Richmond Hill. Many of the same names are still in the news, such as Wainwright and Rowe, and not many changes in headlines “Schiller and Hancey clash". There was an interesting column in The Liberal in July of 1970, where John Roberts, then the Member for York Simcoe, pointed out to his readers, “Inflation is still a problem” and another opinion in December of 71 said, “Welfare destroys incentive”. At least opinions haven't changed drastically over the period. A three bedroom side split with finished recreation room, built in sauna, bath, bar, walk out to patio, paved drive, and only 500 yards to Yonge Street, was going for $35,000 in July of 1970, by 1975 it was up to $71,900 and probably $86,000 in 1979. ‘ In the news throughout the decade, Dynes Jewellers softball team, the Rams, Bond Steel plant relocation, floods in German Mills Creek and the Gormley Bypass for Highway 404. A few proposals which flashed in the pan but never made it to reality, the “domed” stadium for the jail farm, a 132 acre estate development on the west side of Yonge Street opposite the Summit Golf and Country Club, a school of arts in York Region and a modular housing subdivision on 19th Avenue east of Bayview Avenue. Not a small change in the seventies, all ovef Canada, was house prices, and Rich- mond Hill was no exception. 7 I wonder if there will be any change in thé 80$? Exit the seventies â€" happiness to all in the eighties. up going in what is essentially the same direction. More letters Page A-5 With a little luck we will (Liberal Photo by Bruce Hogg) get a driver who has learned how to drive. Alec Bruyns Richmond Hill By BOB RICE I guess you have all had it up to here with page upon written page of highlights of 1979. This year the papers have even added extra sections to highlight not only the big news of the vanishing year but also of the whole decade. Well, dear and faithful readers, Rice has noted that many of the more important items have been missed by the biggies and, at the risk of further boring you, I am going to get the record straight. Without further adoo (or many does) here is my own list of MAJOR AC- COMPLISHMENTS OF THE SILLY SEVENTIES! 1970 June 13th . . . In Grandpebbles, Alberta, 76-year-old Altman Flumtipper set a new world record as the fastest man on a tractor. Although not originally planned as such, Mr. Flumtipper drove his 1952 Allis-Chalmers at a record speed of 126 miles per hour while covering a distance of only 943 feet! Altman expressed great surprise following his record-shattering feat as did his neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kremple, on whose house the tractor landed after the historiq ride over Cooper’s Cliff on the south face of Clyde Mountain. 1971 February let . . . Movie history was made today when 8,000 residents of Oak Ridges showed up at the Grand Theatre for the world premiere of the flick . . . “The Monster That Drank Lake Wilcox”. Lineups formed as early as 7 pm. for the 7.15 pm. opening and many carried placards that read . . . “Monster for an Oscar" and “Lake Wilcox or bust!” From his hospital bed Mr. Flumtipper told reporters he would repair the roof following his return from a speaking tour in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. Extra showings of the blockbuster were hastily arranged by manager Peter Dwill and the cards that patrons turned in following each show confirmed earlier predictions by Parrotmound Films executives that they had a hit on their hands. Clarence Swank, the first person through the turnster gave his own impression of the movie . . . “It was really good. especially the scene when the monster drinks every drop from the lake and then wipes out Aurora with one big 1972 Nothing interesting this year. 1973 ' August 4th . . . The tiny hamlet of Klep, Manitoba, is gearing itself for an onslaught of tourists following the announcement yesterday of a major archeologjpal qislcovexlyn‘“ ‘Lsi .' V-" burp v: u IAAMJVA u. \aA-wvlv . vv - v- ‘ N A local sewage contraétor, while' digging a new septic bed for the Klep Arms Hotel, reports that his backhoe hit a large metal object at the five foot level. Barnaby Glass immediately contacted the police chief who immediately contacted the RCMP who immediately con- tacted Ottawa who immediately contacted The Royal Ontario Museum who immediately contacted Mr. Glass. Representatives from the ROM flew mm Klep early this morning and have already set up equipmentat the site. At noon today a large crowd gathered as the scientists unearthed part of what appeared to be a tin plated sarcophogos and rumors are spreading that it is possible that Glass stumbled across the burial tomb of King Tut. ' November 6th .. . Ottawa announced today that the Federal Import Tax on Malaysian Tree Frogs was being dropped. 1978 April 22nd . . . The President of the Bun- dledrop, Nova Scotia, Chamber of Commerce has resigned amid controversy about the design of the ner town crest. run" I 1974 May 25th . . . The Cunerd liner H.M.S. Queen Bertha paid a goodwill visit to Richmond Hill today. During her stay at the Millpond, residents were allowed on board for a tour of the 22,000 ton cruise ship. 1975 , September7th. . . Richmond Hill Director of Trade and Tourism, Fred Gurp, met the press today to fill them in on the latest plans to refloat the liner H.M.S. Queen Bertha that got stuck in the mud of the Millpond last year. March 11th . . . Services were held yesterday in Port Beer, B.C., for the late Brenda Scrappe. The 52-year-old widow set a new world record March 9 by consuming 34 ten- pound Cohoe Salmon in four minutes and ten seconds! Sixteen fellow workers from the Port Beer Cannery acted as pallbearers. 1977 “There sure was a lot of immediate con- tact,” stated the 40-year-old businessman. 78 press conference has been called for tdmorrow morning. 77”“We hope to have her-on her way back to England soon.” stated Gurp. “The ship is in excellent condition but the crew are getting quite restless and homesick.” 1976 Wallace Childerquip stated . . . “I’ll be darned if I’ll let my friends make fun of me just because of that idiotic thing!” On Monday evening the Bundledrop Council voted in favor of adopting the design submitted by Helmot Commerbund which incorporates two squid on a background of rotting kelp. The 01’ Millpond “Here we go again!” Rice re views the seventies Maggie did what? Pierre did what? ' The Opposition did what? Pierre will what? ", AND FINALLY Millpond Philosopher said 1979