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Assessors want market value ., The Institute of Municipal Assessors of Ontario comprised comprised of more than 1700 ihenibers in the various aspects, df real property assessment both in the publie and •private sectors, in expressing expressing its deep concern regarding the serious inequities inequities that presently exist and continue to multiply as a result of the obsolete assessment assessment system maintained in most municipalities in Ontario Ontario issued a Policy Statement Statement on Market Value Assessment. Assessment. This was circulated circulated to all members of the Legislative Assembly with information copies going to the municipalities throughout , Ontario. While the implementation of province-wide assessments assessments has been delayed each yeaf since 1975 a mechanism has been found and established established under Section 86 (3) of The Assessment Act by The Assessment Assessment Amendment Act of 1979 to maintain the existing distribution of the tax burden as among the various classes of real property after reassessment reassessment at market value. In the opinion of the Institute of Municipal Assessors Assessors of Ontario this effect ively removes the impediments impediments to the implementation of market, value assessment and therefore urged members of the Legislative Assembly as well as the municipalities to apply this mechanism province-wide. New Regional chairman to be chosen On December 3rd Regional Council will chose a new chairman who will replace Walter Beath who has held the position since the inception inception of the Region. Two members of council, John Aker of Oshawa and Gary Herrema of Uxbridge, are in the running for the office. Aker has been a member of Oshawa council for the past eight years and as well a member of the Regional council. Aker, 37, places his urban council experience as his main thrust to be elected chairman of the region. He claims it makes sense to have a regional chairman from one of the five lakeshore communities. communities. Gary Herrema, 41, is Mayor Mayor of Uxbridge and operates a 500 acre dairy farm, states he has the leadership abilities for chairman and intends to make the region more acceptable acceptable to the majority of its residents. . The decision between these two contenders will be made on Wednesday , December 3rd for a position that pays $38,000. on January 1. Her selection was approved recently by the university's senate. Donald F. Theall, Treant's .president, said he believes Mrs. Laurence to be the first major literary figure to become chancellor of a Canadian Canadian university. "It is most appropriate that Margaret Laurence, who is a resident of Lakefield, an internationally known writer, a dedicated Canadian and a Creative artist who has been a constant friend of Trent, continue the line of distinguished distinguished chancellors", he said. "She will be Trent's fourth chancellor, succeeding a fellow Manitoban who himself was a distinguished Canadian academic leader and first master of Champlain Champlain College, Professor William William Morton". ' Mrs. Laurence has received many awards for her writing. She has twice won the Governor General's Award for fiction for her novels "The NOTHING CONVEYS YOUR WISHES UKE >S ♦ See our samples Don't leave it till the night before Christmas Orono Weekly Times Diviners" and "A Jes.t of God" (which became the film Rachel, Rachel). She has been awarded the University of Western Ontario president's president's medal three times for the best Canadian short story. During 1974 she was writer- in-residence at Trent's Champlain Champlain College, a position she also held at both the University University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario. Ontario. In 1971 she was made a Companion of the Order of Canada and holds honorary degrees from a number of Canadian universities, including including Trent. Bom in Neepawa, Manitoba, Manitoba, she was educated at United College (now University University of Winnipeg). She has lived both in Africa, which was the setting for some of her earlier stories, and England. England. She returned to Canada in 1973 and soon afterward settled in Lakefield, near Peterborough. Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, November 26th, 1980-9 fiction) JUNIOR Aliens in Space by Steven Caldwell Mysteries of the Unknown by C. Miller (monsters, ghosts and U.F.O.'s) EASY READING AND PICTURE BOOKS The Discontented Mother by Ben Shecter My Very Own Octopus by Bernard Most Why a Donkey was Chosen by Christopher Gregorowski (Christmas story) Candy Canes by Marty Links Madeleine Hadley. Up and Down the Bookstacks ADULT Madame Prime Minister by Allan Mayer (Margaret Thatcher and her rise to power) On the Rock by Alvin Karpas (the prison story of 25 years in Alcatraz) Prisoners' of Pain by Arthur Janov (unlocking the power of the mind to end suffering) suffering) 50 New Creative Poodle Grooming Styles by Faye Meadows The Long Hard Cure by David Anthony (who-dun-it in a mental hospital) The Entwining by Richard Condon (thriller in an American political setting) The Wizard's Daughter by Barbara Michaels (romantic (romantic suspense) Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg (science WORK WANTED D. & R. Custom Fencing and custom chain-sawing 983-5005 or 983-9627 Orono, Out. 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