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The municipality also needs to know where its going. Is it to eventually be merged with the city of Toronto? Is it to remain intact and even expand its boundary? These are two questions very closely related to Yorks future ability to rebuild its services and redevelop the comâ€" munity. York has two candidates for mayor, Philip White and Wesley Boddington, former mayor of Weston. Both have had extensive civic exâ€" perience. But each has a different way of looking at and dealing with civic issues and problems. Boddington takes the positive approach. He examines a problem and considers what is in the best interest of the municipality. The ratepayers on Dec. 1 must vote for the man best qualified to lead the municipality beyond a dayâ€"toâ€"day existence and into the future. The next mayor of York may shape the destiny of the municipality. York is showing its age. It needs redevelopment and rebuilding of worn out roads and sewers and expansion of social services including recreation, library and park facilities. â€" York has an official land use plan,designed to guide development over the next 15 years. Redevelopment is essential, including high rise redevelopment, if the increasing property tax burden is not to be dumped almost entirely on the single family home owner. Civic taxation must be spread among other elements in the comâ€" munity including industry, commercial outlets and apartments. There are occasions when this may raise the temper of one or more members of the comâ€" munity. But not always do members of the community have all the facts in an issue. Bodâ€" dington has the credentials. He should be Yorks& next mayor. The time has also come, once and for all, to end the whispering about civic bungling and inâ€" competence. No more closed doors. No more lack of communication with the people. The York Council of 1970 â€" 1972 should walk proudly into the future. . Christmas...a time for giving. But let‘s start giving earlier this year. A special appeal has come from the Prime Minister that everyone should give something extra, starting on December 1. other| words, we are all asked to support SAFE It needs no magic to reduce the total of DRIVING WEEK, December 1 to 7. continuing tragedies that stain our streets and Cars don‘t cause traffic accidents. Nor do icy highways. It just needs a little extra effort from roads, fogs, or bottles of beer. It is people who all who drive and walk on our roads. SAFE cause accidents. People who don‘t handle these DRIVING WEEK is a good time for us to pledge things the way they should, and can, be handled. that extra effort, that our country needs so Traffic accidents are caused by you, and me, desperately. For, although the immediate aim of and the man in the next lane. By individuals. And this safety campaign is the first seven days in t as the individual causes the accident, so can |December, the longâ€"range objective covers all g’ prevént it. is the days of every year. Cars don‘t cause traffic accidents. Nor do icy roads, fogs, or bottles of beer. It is people who cause accidents. People who don‘t handle these things the way they should, and can, be handled. A POSITIVE MAYOR We are asked to give a little extra care. Some extra patience. Perhaps, a little extra time. More courtesy, more good humour. In other words, we are all asked to support SAFE DRIVING WEEK, December 1 to 7. This, though, is giving with a difference. It costs nothing! Quite the reverse, in fact. We are asked for contributions that will involve no exâ€" pense, and may actually result in tremendous savings. o s _ Published at 2159 Weston Rd., Weston by Principal Publishing Ltd., every Thursday W. K. Wilson, General Manager B. J. LeMaitre, Advertising Manager Mrs. Doreen Fawcett, Edito® Classified Advertising Mrs. Edythe Mannon * _ _ Display Advertising Bernie LeMaitre â€" Leigh Siegfried TWeoton Telephone 241â€"52 11 Second Class Mail Registration Number 1588 SUBSCRIPTION RATES $7.00 per year in advance to any address in Canada Other countries $9.00 This present costs nothing Candidates for the Alderman‘s chair in North York‘s Ward one, base their election platforms more on local problems than supersize issues. Here‘s the lineup: BIRNIE FLOYD An executive with no municipal experience, Floyd says he listens â€" he understands â€" he responds. He wants protection for residential neighbourhoods from unnecessary noise and pollution; better recreational facilitiee with more parks and swimming pools; better comâ€" munications between citizens and Council, and better transportation service by the TTC. GORDON McCOWAN Recently retired from the RCMP, McCowah wants to forge a stronger link between ratepayers and council. He‘s also concerned about the bus service in the northern area and wants express buses to the subway in rush hours. He‘s pushing for junior kindergartens in all public schools also day care centres. He wants more parks and a tax program that will lift the burden of education costs from the homeowner. DR. FRED SCHINDLER Director of the Institute of Behavioural Research at York University makes his first bid for election. He hopes to restrict highâ€"rise development, control noisy truck traffic in residential area, improve street lighting and sidewalk facilities. He‘d like to see the nowâ€" polluted Humber become a major recreational area. Schindler also wants community groups of all ages to make use of our schools after hours for sports, art, music and discussion groups and afterâ€"school day care centres. JACK SWEET Claims to be "a working man that aims to promote the interests of the wageâ€"earners‘". Considered to be a Labour candidate, Sweet wants more supervised playgrounds, local control of school crossing guards, finance from senior government levels for educational, welfare, and hospital programs. .. .. WILLIAM LYNCH, JOSEPH FRASER and SAMUEL MANDEL have also declared themâ€" selves up for election, but to date have found no information at all on any of them. None spoke at any of the six Candidate‘s Meetings attended while gathering this material. Both candidates for the one trustee seat for the ward have been actively campaigning. Here is a summary of their platforms: VAL SCOTT Incumbent Val Scott is seeking reâ€"election on a platform of past accomplishments. He does, however, want to return control over education to the community (ratepayers, tenants and Residents hear the issues by Ivy Davis Candidates for election in North York‘s ward two had an opportunity to present their platforms Tuesday evening at a meeting in The Ontario Safety League emphasizes that the best way to avoid accidents, is to avoid the possibility of accidents. One of the aims of SAFE DRIVING WEEK is to persuade the individual to give extra thought and skill in avoiding the acâ€" cident that never gets started. The book of averages says that over 100 Canadians die every 7 days on the roads at this time of year, while thousands are injured. Yet avoidance of this impending national disaster lies within the control of individuals...individual drivers and pedestrians. 1+ Ward one progress report Cornelius Parkway School. Each was convincing and it now remains for ratepayers to decide, on December 1, who will represent us on the North York Council and the B Y ROSEMARY BREW parents). His reports on the Minkler affair and a Policy on Education are available to interested parties through his office. SALLYâ€"ANN KERMAN Former President of University Village Ratepayers Association Mrs. Kerman is well known in the Jane and Finch area‘s community activities. She‘s concerned about getting educational value for tax dollars, drug education programs, and the rather unequal education equipment distribution across the ward ) open plan teaching facilities etc.,). She also advocates a lunch hour monitor system. _ > It is a polite, but determined battle for Board of Education Trustee between incumbent Val Scott and his opponent, Mrs. Sally Ann Kerman. At the Humber Summitt meeting on Tuesday, Scott claimed that a trustee must work with education administrators who are sophisticated, intelligent and ridgidly oriented towards their tasks. "Board members must have knowledge, know how and experience to deal effectively with them,‘"‘ he said. Mrs. Kerman feels that an open mind, a straightforward approach and a willingness to learn are often more effective means of obâ€" taining information and transmitting ideas. Scott wants the schools to be made centres of the community, available for use by community groups without charge. Mrs. Kerman announced that this has been in effect for almost three years. And so the exchanges continue. HYDRO COMMISSION We elect two men, to sit on this board and receive $3,000.00 yearly (for attending two meetings a month) to decide residential hydro rates, it‘s a pity they don‘t mount an informative campaign. Those running are; Leon Donsky an Electrical Engineering Technologist; Irving Chapley an Insurance Executive; Shelley Jackson a Chartered Accountant; John Dunn A Professional Electrical Engineer, and D‘arcy McConvey a Professional Engineer. After attending umpteen candidates meetings etc., umpteen people are asking me what I‘ve decided. , Here‘s my choice: Ron Barbaro for Mayor. Alex MacGivern, Mel Lastman, John Booth and Paul Hunt for Councillors McGowan or Schindler for Alderman. And it‘s anybody‘s picnic for School Board. At the meetings these men impressed me as enthusiastic, open for debate and injected with fresh ideas. I‘m voting outside of any party guidelines, because I think these men have what it takes to make my community a progressive, exciting place to live and raise my family. Board of Education. Trustee Candidates Margaret (Peg) Grant, candidate for school trustee, pointed out that a new issue had arisen in Ward two over the past week, regarding the Ontario Housing Units to be built at Falstaff and Jane St. Maple Leaf school has three portables now, and three classes in Elverston Park Church. _ Queensborough Junior High School and Nelson A. Boylen S$.S. are at capacity. Where are the students from these new units to go? Mrs. Grant said that she will do everything in her powér, as an elected trustee to oppose the planâ€" ning of Housing Units for this location. She also said "As the only Trustee candidate who lives in Ward 2, I will accept a double responâ€" sibilityâ€"to look after the needs of the residents, and to be accountable to them.‘" Mrs. Grant has lived in the area for eighteen years, and works with the. Rd Cross Blood _ (Donor _ Clinics. However, if elected, she is prepared to accept the post on a fullâ€"time basis. ‘"‘There should be a more businessâ€"like approach to the board , concerning , the THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1969 spending ofâ€" money for education, and it takes a businessman to do this," said Edward Huala, Real Estate Broker. _ ‘"We definitely need more efâ€" fective communication between trustees and ratepayers if parents are to be properly represented. The ‘‘Minkler‘‘ misunâ€" derstanding points to poor communication or lack of it and this should be correcâ€" ted.‘‘ He noticed that many of the most enquiring questions directed at home came from women, and feels that they should participate in all facets of education, since they are vitally conâ€" cerned about the education of their children. DRUGS The drug question is a very strong issue. There are films available on drugs. The use of these, along with lectures, should be mandatory in the education program, since it is at the schools that many of the serious drug problems arise. Jack Newton called on residents to review his past record as School Trustee, and consider him for reâ€" election, pointing out that our children lead Ontario in Continued on Page 27,