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Dollarâ€"wise total amaigamation would leave North York in exactâ€" ly the same position, based on the 1981 figmes, but would benefit the township of Scarborough, which, due to low development rate, has the highest millâ€"rate in Metro. Equalization of standards of serâ€" vices would bring about a corâ€" tages of the proposed changes.\ It was also explained that as far Neither did the Gathercole Report!u the financial arrangements are help to clarify the situation. |concerned Metro is quite happy to After tackling the financial, .nd]hand out capital funds to the varâ€" operations aspects of the suggested |ious municipalities without superâ€" changes, council called for a lur-’vilint the expenditureâ€"end of the ther report on the report before operation, "If we had the authority committing itself to any drcision.'tn interfere on local matters, that However, the two guests from!wonld‘ be the end of Metro‘, Mr. Metro helped to bring to light some|L@atelles remarked. P of the things worrying council| According to the planning comâ€" members about the present m-l‘l‘.‘?niuimr total amalgamation is Council was assured that the|not the answer to proper regional Gathercole Report was solely inâ€" planning. We would just have a tendéd as a study of the present larger area of development and reâ€" form of government and lhfllll‘id‘\’dm‘ to handle, which not be treated as a recommendation 1'0‘" increase the complexity of for changes, |our organization, and we would Dollarâ€"wise total amaigamation |have to do this without the benefit would leave North York in exactâ€"|of the independent local point pfl Iy the same position, based on the/view from. municipal planning 1981 figures, but would benefit the|directors, Mr. Jones argued. ‘ township of Scarborough, which,} Reeve Norman Goodhead adâ€" Jones and Metro finance commisâ€" sioner W. G. Lascelles, left counâ€" cil in a baffled state of mind as to the advantages and disadvanâ€" tages of the proposed changes. Neither did the Gathercole Report help to clarify the situation. A little knowledge is a dnnzer-*unponding rise in costsâ€"services observed the township could annex ous thing was the attitude of]in the city would be raised, those| Weston, it could split _ into North York council in poltponing‘in the suburbs lowered. Criticism|boroughs, or it could remain as it any decisions on amaigamationâ€"of duplication of services and staff|is, "All of these have been pointâ€" and fourâ€"city plans versus pre-funder the municipal form of govâ€"/ed out to us by Press. Metro has sent Metro setâ€"up. . ernment is unfounded. It wasshown stability in not being rushed A special meeting this Monday|pointéd out that the amalgamation|into anything. The present system dealing with the subject of futureiof the police force has increased|is working fine and there is cerâ€" government for Metro, uttendedfhz cost of operation and called for/tainly no need for all this speed. by planning commissioner Murray additional staff. However, such serâ€"|We can sit back and assess all the: Jones and Metro finance commisâ€"/vices as welfare; fire department, possibilities before making my< sioner W. G. Lascelles, left counâ€" and health departments could gradâ€"/hasty decisions", the reeve recomâ€" cil in a baffled state of mind as/ually be united under the Metro | mended. NORTH YORK DEMANDS Reports Of Report On Total Amalgamation The meeting, cheld at Roding{tion. educational and recreational Street School, was extremely well|facilities of the area. attended and traffic problems oc-l The treasurer‘s report was givenm cupied the attention of the memâ€"\by E. Austerberry, membership reâ€" bers for most of the agenda. ‘port by Mrs. E. McCart, and pubâ€" The Association h as requested|licity by R. K. Garrett. relief of the traffic congestion _ It was decided to ask Councillor problem existing on Keele Street\Service to attend the Association‘s between Wilson Avenue and Shepâ€" next meeting, February 26th, to pard Avenue. It has also uked‘mwer questions of interest to the for a traffie count and study to be| ratepayers. was pointed Out that the #ignals were still stopping traffic on Keele Street between the above hours on Saturdays, Sundays and holiâ€" days, when, of course, the Governâ€" ment Buildings are closed and there could be no traffic. The Asâ€" sociation, therefore, intends to carâ€" ry its fight further until this nuiâ€" sance is eliminated. Unnecessary interference with traffic by the Ontario Government convenience stop lights at Keele and Downsview Avenue, just north Of Highway401,â€"hasâ€"been protestâ€". ed strongly by the Keeleâ€"Wilson Ratepayers Association, claiming that this intersection handles pracâ€" tically no traffic except during morning and evening rush hours. The Department of Highways apparently complied by placing In a previous letter to North York Township, the Association reâ€" quested that these lights be inâ€" activated, except during the houts of 7 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. Keele St. Nuisance Lights Under Fire By Keeleâ€"Wilson Ratepayers ) s The Ontario nicipal â€" Board has reached the poin hich the L * vincial Government s No she is not planning to board the bus, This cow, an mr. strict some of its powers, North (one of three) was tied to the pole by her captors after she had|York‘s Reeve Norman Goodhead led them a chase around the Humber Heights area last Friday |told council Monday. afternoon,. While the second bovine was captured near| The reeve, who has on many 6¢â€" Graham‘s greenhouses the third one was found after an all night |casions disputed the board‘s superâ€" search in the Highway 401â€"Islington Ave. area. authority in the past, challenged . $ n n . (awo E the latest court ruling allowing the * O.M.B. to call upon the professionâ€" Keele sto N“lsance al opinion of municipal and metro 3 ip m T n k: w planning staff at board hearings. of answers many of which would be purely polital in outlook. He vised council that the problem could be solved by a great number vices as welfare; fire department, and health departments could gradâ€" ually be united under the Metro system. made at.the intersection of Lexâ€"[L." . " °C 7 ""* y OPG field and Wilson Avenues, where, Board, it is pointed out, considerable conâ€"| Mrâ€" Goodhead further objected gestion exists, particularly in rush |to the selfâ€"appointed powers gradâ€" ‘hours. Change of a traffic "yield|UA!lY asumed by the board. "At i â€"way".sign to a full stop|this stage the whole structure of sign was also requested for the inâ€" th* municipal government has Wg tersection of Nash Drive and Bunâ€"|into the control of the O.M.B.", }nell Crescent. This measure was |laimed. deemed necessary to slow down| He continued, "I would not obâ€" speeding drivers on Nash Drive. ~|ject to the position of the Board l President Rob Pond was in the/as an arbitrary court in planning chair and secretary Jim Speers reâ€"\matters, if it carried out its duties ported ‘on previous actions of the/in an unbiased manner". : Association, correspondence. Other councillors, / while conâ€" application for reâ€"zoning of two parcels of land at the intersection of Pleasant Home Blvd. and Wilâ€" son Avenue. An application had been made to permit the building of four highâ€"rise apartments on Halsport Ave. It was pointed out that any additional building of this type would tend to aggravate the aiready | overcrowded | transportaâ€" tion, educational and recreational facilities of the area. ; W, F. Hubert gave a report on the cost of curbs and sewers, methâ€" _ The Heart Foundations of Canâ€" ada point out that recent advanâ€" ces in scientific knowledge of the streptococcus germâ€"many of them speeded by Heart Fund contribuâ€" tionsâ€"now make it possible for medical science to prevent many cases of rheumatic fever, which sometimes lnz.u rheumatic heart disease. But coâ€"operation : of parents is urgently needed. They must see to it that their children get regular medical treatment to safecuard against ‘strep‘ ‘infecâ€" â€"In calling for furthet informaâ€" tion on the subject the council is particularly interested in the manâ€" ner the changes might affect the township and possibly solve the exâ€" isting ‘problem of representation and economic imbalance. . I‘m no amalgamationist, tounâ€" cillor Ken Gariopy informed counâ€" icil, but I would still like to hear more about it. t _ He said the new building, to cost $675,000, will house a postâ€"office, unemployment insurance office and other government agencies. The meeting named Margaret Aitken, who has represented the riding since 1953, to be the PC Candidate for Parliament in the next federal election. . . ruary for a new federal building to be built on Weston Rd. between Fern‘ Ave. and King St., Works Minister David Walker told 400 persons attending a meeting of the Yorkâ€"Humber Progressive Conserâ€" vative Association last night. CALL TENDER â€" Other councillors, / while conâ€" ‘cemd by the prospect of having to provide services of its planning ‘M whose opinions might vary Tenders will be called in Febâ€" ime Running Out â€" WESTON TIMESâ€"AD UTUREâ€" ROL LOST EEDâ€"1IMMEDIATE PLAN . 10 "There was a dull thad when he said this to us," said one mother. "We felt we had just been biding [onr time at Weston like loyal, trwe _ The parents told Mr. Boone they had been "shaken" at a meeting of lHumher Heights Home and School Association a month or so ago, when school board member B. B. Williams told them their children would not be attending Scarlett Heights Collegiate that will be hfltmbofnfiuthirh.u‘ next year not unless Metro said so. He said that the Etobicoke board had been made aware of their feelings on the matter by Leonard Braithwaite, trustee from their "lren, (whom 50 of them had gone to see) and that it had instructed John Parker, Etobicoke‘s repreâ€" tative to Metro, to ask that the attendance area for Weston Colleâ€" ginte be reviewed as far as Etobi coke students are concerned. "We want the best for our childâ€" ren," said Mr. Hutchens, "and we believe the best education availâ€" able locally is available in Etobiâ€" coke, â€"where we live and pay our taxes." _ Mr. Boone said he could underâ€" stand their wish to have their children go to school in the townâ€" ship they live in, but pointed out that attendance areas are estabâ€" lished by the Metropolitan Torâ€" onto School Board. ' Its principal, C. W. Christie, told the Advertiser the school has an enrollment of 1,600 pupils, and a capacity of 1,390. Parents List Complaints At that time, Weston Collegiate had empty rooms. Today, with something like 500 youngsters from Weston, 323 from Etobicoke, and over 700 from North York, the school is overcrowded. ply trying to get the best educaâ€") One parent asked Mr. Boone if'bicokg parents who have children tion possible for our children," Scarlett Heights Collegiate would going to Weston Collegiate. said Albert Hutchens, spokesman/have space to accommodate the' "Some people," one said, "seem for a group of parents from thelncndemic and commercial studentsiquite satisfied with the brand of Humber Heights area who dropped|who now go to Weston. (The new!eduafim their youngsters are getâ€" in to see Etobicoke‘s nperinten~|school will not have any technicaliting there, but we‘re not. 4 ‘dent of secondary school education,lcounu). 1 "Basically, we are looking for Thomas Boone, during the munici-a Mr. Boone said the new colleâ€" assurance from Metro that our pal open house on Sunday afterâ€" giate would have to have an addiâ€"|children can go to Scarlett Heights noon. ition in 1964, if the Metropolitan Collegiate when it in built." ’noon. Ition in 1964, if the Metropolitan Collegiate when it is built." . <â€" The group represents many of School Board decided to shift the[ A rumor that has caused .aâ€"lot the parents in their area who have Etobicoke students into its attenâ€" of upset among the parents was children attesding high school at dance area. An optional area was that Weston‘s Principal Christie Weston Collegiate and Vocational POOr, he said, because it made it had said at commencement that he Institute even though they are fiiflicult for either board to planldid not want Etobicoke students Etobicoke residents who received|its requirements, |in his school. their. public school education in| Prior to the meeting in â€"Mr.\_ Mr. Christie told the Advertising this township. \Boone‘s office, the parents told the that the only thing he might have ~ Their district is in the northeast corner of the township and was designated by the Metropolitan School Board as part of the perâ€" manent attendance area for Wesâ€" ton Collegiate seven years ago. one‘s hide to the wall, we are simâ€" To the winne? go the spoils says Carol Goss ufW-oMthmfintJn.Hflm hisâ€" she presents prizes to Garnet Banks after he}tory. > WANT KIDS HOME Etob. Parents Criticize also said that it was their belief ( As far as parents‘ complaints ‘that these conditions added up to*were concerned, Mr. Christie said au higher dropâ€"out rate than isi"nbout one complaint per teacher average for Toronto collegiates. |per year is about par for the _ "We don‘t want to approach this course. We are overcrowded. We Tn‘tiyely,” said one. ‘"‘There are do have text books. We use tables some excellent teachers, but thm.nnd chairs where we haven‘t got are others teaching subjects that\desks and, compared to some they are not qualified‘ to teuh.",,hchooll jn Metro, we can‘t hold a Some Are Satisfied leandle to their troubles." Prior to the meeting in â€"Mr.\_ Mr. Christie told the Advertising XBoone'a office, the parents told the that the only thing he might have |Advertiserâ€"Guardian that Weston ruid "subject to such interpretation \Collegiate is poorly staffed ("a im when Etobicoke opens techniâ€" tmfuge for teachers who haveâ€"noâ€" cal school facilities at Thistletown \where else to go"); short of desks Collegiate this fall, it will relieve ("40â€"some kids in rooms with 36 some of our oyercrowding". desks); short of books ("one teaâ€"! (Mr. Boone said Etobicoke will cher said he didn‘t have a uxt-‘be withdrawing its technical stuâ€" ibook covering his course") cmd‘dfiflt! from Weston gradually in about discipline: ("in one roomithe next two years). : chalk fights are the rule"). They "Can‘t Hold a Candle" also said that it was their belief } As far as parents‘ complaints that these conditions added up to’were concerned, Mr. Christie said a . higher dropâ€"out rate than is "about one complaint per teuhcr‘ ‘lverage for Toronto collegiates. !per year is about par for the go to sthool in Etobicoke." WESTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1962 represent 100 per cent of the Etoâ€" [bicoke parents who have children |going to Weston Collegiate. ! "Some people," one said, "seem Iquite satisfied with the brand of Ieduufion their youngsters are ‘cb-‘ _ Mr, Christie told the Advertising ‘}t'h-t the only thing he might have ‘said "subject to such interpretation was: when Etobicoke opens techniâ€" eal school facilities at Thistletown Collegiate this fall, it will relieve some of our oyercrowding". ’ Trustee Robin Hazell, pinâ€"pointâ€" ed the board‘s forced position :to reâ€"open the 1961 controversy reâ€" marking, "If we have decided to at this point to hear one representaâ€" tion on the subject we cannot reâ€" fuse admittance to any group M‘ wishes to speak". Jewish Congress and the Ethical Education Association, who will submit a writteh brief to the board before presenting their case at the Feb. 5 meeting. It is uniderstood that the group which has opposed in principal any form of nfigim“ teaching at schools will confine its remarks to the administrative setâ€" up of the operation, I prepared to listen to further adâ€" ministrative proposals regarding the instruction of religion in townâ€" ship elementary schools. _ The subject which took up many long board sessions during 1961, was reopened again this year at Religion _ Returns To North York : *From a political point of view the appointment of three publicâ€" from the municipal dq:ufi-n:‘ ‘With the establishment of a planâ€" ning bou'dmd!‘fllnfigs.nj thennldod:hubuedo(thd-; vice from the experts. It should Outlining these requirements necessary to make the plan official, Mr. Jones admitted "all work can be quite well done by the council, bntunlMythni!mothn] course open at present". the council can be represented by the mayor and two councillors and He assured council that the reâ€" lated problem of money and defiâ€" nition of functions for the planning board need not concern the town. Metro planning board staff is wilâ€" ling to offer assistance on all legal and advisory matters at no cost or interference to the council, he _ _The planning board can be made up ol either five, seven, or nine The, Mof"“'ilhvehm with"all possible speed if the town wishes to J miutmm««mt,mumu-; viudll‘ldlabyh(mmm. Murray: Jones. 7 After three years of compiling its own zoning and planâ€" ning data for the town, the council is now faced with the board. According to the Municipal Act an overâ€"all plan for lnuun-tinithhtmnaphuingbmd,hm eoundLMthenMontotheOnhfioMlddflM ' Mitro Plannerâ€"Jones Tells Weston Council legislative regulation which does not permit it bu“ OfflthlPHIfll‘llh’fiollnnfi“IICMEififllm L.2 P i e I uoi l ic L ud igea T3 As long as it‘s something new? Tadt Councillor Ted Ault is definitely in favor of using experts‘ advice. in longâ€"range planning of Wesâ€" {ton‘s development, "Before putting ‘down colors on the map of Weston L want to krnow whether I‘m put« ting the right colors in the right places", he stated. Until the situaâ€" tion is resolved the council should at least pass the freezing type of byâ€"law that would offer a certain degree of protection, he recomâ€" mended. site, ‘‘We were very fortunate that }tbe applicant listened to us and did not press the case further", he pointed out", the next one might The Mayor quoted the recent situation where an application was made for retail shopping centre ‘for the unzoned 12 acre C.C. M. site. We were very fortunate that he challenged. Mayor George Bull took the practical point of view. "We‘ve come to the point that if we‘re goâ€" ing to progress we need the planâ€" ning board to carry our proposals through", he ‘stated. . "With the constant reâ€"development in the [ "I can‘t see that the planning board of Etobicoke has created im rfi"-vdtudpw,a- cillor Sainsbury observed. "I, for board commission just for the sake 'mflmthomm restrictions of the area. This type of a statusâ€"quo application is only @A m shortâ€"time basis, ‘Mr. Jones advised. Whatever the planning department is ready and willing to help and advise on all planning‘ matters ,Mr. Jones stated, }AM"‘ citors !_â€"T_IIllhduy & However, if the council does not 'ilhhognnhadwitham board, it will have to define its zoning areas by means of separate zoning applications to the O.M.B. In the meanwhile, in order to keep out premature subdivisions or any [mindodddmvlomm the development of their town, would bring the best public relaâ€" tions results to council", Mr. Jones a freezing byâ€"law, that