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Community : Bradford
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Description : In a recorded vote, Councillors voted 6 to 2 in favor of purchasing the portion of the Mary Street parking lot owned by Ontario 1091795 Inc., putting an end to months of debate. The issue began over a year ago. Rather than continue to pay property taxes and carry liability on a 60' by 120' portion of the parking lot, which had for years been used by the Town as municipal parking, the owners of the numbered company put the land, located behind The Trophy Case restaurant, up for sale. After a closed door session of Council failed to come up with an acceptable purchase offer, the company put the property on the market, and finally, decided to build a 2 or 3 storey 3,200 sq. ft, office building on the land. Construction would have eliminated about 29 parking spaces. It was Councillor Ron Simpson who brought the issue back before Council, two weeks ago proposing a motion to reconsider the company's latest asking price behind closed doors, and reopen negotiations. When the motion was defeated, Simpson instead gave notice of a straightforward motion to simply accept the final offer of Ontario 1091795, "yes or no." Both Councillors Sharon Villani and Marty Toombs opposed entertaining the motion, arguing that is was the same motion in a different guise. "Your worship, I would ask you at some point to take control of the issue," Toombs said, noting that the only thing that had changed over the intervening months was that the price had gone up, and that there were new conditions - including a demand that the Town assume all legal costs. After Councillors had voted to waive the Procedural By-law to permit the motion to proceed, Toombs accused Council, "We're braking the rules - you're doing everything possible you can to keep this on the table." "And you and Councillor Sharon Villani are doing everything you can to keep this off the table," retorted Councillor Simpson. Councillor Sharon Villani said that she had not received a single phone call from any of her constituents on the potential loss of the parking lot. "They don't really shop downtown, because there's not much there...They shop in Newmarket." But Councillor Simpson argued, " The loss of 20-plus parking spots will be devastating to our downtown businesses. We've got to support our downtown businesses - they're great taxpayers." He noted that the original offer (about $30,000) was based on the 1996 actual value assessment, while property prices have climbed in the last 3 years. The owners have paid the taxes on the property, and had other out-of-pocket expenses, including consulting fees - explaining the increase in the asking price, he said. He called the purchase a "once in a lifetime opportunity", and urged Council to act on the offer, which had been extended to June 22nd, the date of the Council meeting. Councillor Marty Toombs reiterated that "100% of people on Council want to see this property purchased" - but not at the asking price. But Simpson noted that the owners have set the price. "Yes, it's more than we should be paying...but two or three years down the road it won't look as bad." He pointed out that a vacant lot on John Street about half the size of the Mary Street lot had recently sold for $50,000 in one day. "The parking spaces are important to the downtown," said Deputy Mayor Bud Brown. He called the asking price "probably reasonable..When those parking spaces are lost, they're lost for good. The lot is improved, there's paving on it... We have to bite the bullet, I think, and purchase this property." In the recorded vote, Mayor Frank Jonkman, Deputy Mayor Bud Brown, and Councillors Brian Bonany, Ron Simpson, Gary Lamb and Peter Dykie voted in favor. Councillors Sharon Villani and Marty Toombs voted against. The Town currently has $46,000 in reserve for new parking spaces.

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Community : Bradford
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Description : Between four hundred and fifty and five hundred persons filled the Bradford District Memorial
Community Centre auditorium with a capacity crowd on Monda evening to witness and participate in the ceremonies announcing town status for Bradford. Of the crowd in attendance it is estimated that about one hundred and fifty were guests from outside the municipality, these including municipal officials and their wives from throughout Simcoe and York counties.

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Community : Bradford
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Description : Bradford has been accepted by the C.A.U.S.E. program, a program which sends in "SWAT" team of architects and architecture students to carry out a study of a town, and recommend changes and improvements. Although the Ontario Association of Architects will be holding a preliminary meeting with the municipality and the Town planner in October, the actual study will not beg in until April 1995.

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Community : Bradford
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Description : A history of Bradford's Masonic lodge, Simcoe Lodge #79, is in the works. Anyone with old newspaper articles, documents and photographs, dating back to the last century, which bear on the history of the Lodge and its members.

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Community : Bond Head
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Description : It's taken only two years for the Bond Head & District Horticultural Society to transform a barren piece of ground, into the Scotch Settlement Arboretum. The plot of land, adjacent to Highway 400 at the 5th Line of Bradford West Gwillimbury, was a stony, weed-covered plot when the first tree was planted in 1994. On June 22nd, as a piper played in the background, Bradford West Gwillimbury Mayor Frank Jonkman cut the ribbon, officially opening the Arboretum - which now contains 145 trees, as well as flower bed, and groomed pathways. There are ash trees, maples, oaks, black walnut, hawthorn and elm, pines, fir and spruce, taking root in the re-worked and fertilized soil. The Horticultural Society hopes to plant examples of every native Canadian species of tree. The idea is to create not only an attractive park, but provide a living memorial to the early settlers, who colonized the Scotch Settlement circa 1820. Members of the Tree Planting Committee had praise for the "generosity and community spirit" of those who have contributed to the Arboretum, from Bill Patton, Parks & Recreation Department employee who hand-crafted a wooden sign in his spare time, to all of those who have donated and dedicated a tree.

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Community : Barrie
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Description : This year the three Barrie high schools have graduated 31 Ontario Scholars -- students in grade 13 with an average of 80 per cent or better.
There were 16 Ontario scholars at North, 12 at Central and three at Eastview.
The top grade 13 student in the city is a young man who shoots through course the way he shoots golf.
Ian Postnikoff, a student at North Collegiate, shoots golf in the low 90s and this year he earned an average of 91.4 per cent in Grade 13. Ian is 18 and will be entering the University of Toronto to take honors science in the fall and he plans to become a medical doctor.
Ranks Second
Valerie Thompson, 17, also a Barrie North student ranked second in the city with an average age of 89.6 per cent. Valerie has been active in the high school drama club. This summer she plans to stay at home to enable her mother to take a summer course.
Valerie is entering York University on a scholarship and she plans to take an honors BA.
Marsha Goodhead, 19, stood third with an average of 89.4 per cent. Martha has been on the student council at Barrie North and she has spent much of her spare time working as a candy striper and Sunday school teacher. She will be entering the pre-medicine course at Queen's University in the fall.
Top Student
Dianne Beelen, 17, was the top student in grade 13 at Barrie Central Collegiate with an average of 88.3 per cent. Dianne has been active in both the glee club and the classics culb at Central. She plans to take French and Latina at the University of Toronto.
Judy Mason, 19, ranked second at Central with an average of 87.8 per cent. She's been active in a number of school organizations. Judy was president of the classic club, make-up director for the drama club, an executive in the biology club and a trombone player in the band.
Stanley Isbrandt, 18, also a student at Central obtained an average of 86 per cent. Stanley played the tuba in the school band for five years. This summer he is working for his father in construction In the fall he will go to the University of Waterloo to take honors math.
Ken Collum, 18, was the top student in grade 13 at Eastview Secondary School. He is an avid chess player and was president of the chess club at Eastview.
He is working on the farm for the summer and will attend the University of Waterloo next year where he will take math and computer science.
Alan Kneeshaw stood second at Eastview students will be receiving the $150 Ontario Scholarships as will the following 16 students from North: Wayne Campbell, Nancy Daym Glenn Godfrey, Marsha Goodhead, Terry Henry, Greg Kneeshaw, Murray Maw, Wendall McArthur, Ian Postnikoff, Lesley Reid, Julia Smith, Valerie Thompson, Chris Thorpe, Donna Tuck, Grace Veenema, John Wilson.

Municipality : Quebec
Community : Other - Bradford
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Description : A top-notch secretary whose favorite hobby is photography -- especially with children as subjects -- Jean Lloyd has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Club and is also Quebec Provincial Emblem Chairman. Jean was one of the Montreal delegates who attended the B.P.W. National Convention at St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, N.B. last July. Like so many Club members, Jean loves to travel and besides visiting both the East and West coasts of the Canada, she realized a dream trip not too long ago when she travelled extensively abroad. Despite her rather busy schedule, Jean finds the time for volunteer work -- you may have seen her in the Hospitality Corner of the Montreal General Hospital. The Aluminum Company of Canada, Limited is the place where Jean puts her secretarial skills to work as Secretary to the Product Manager in the Sales Marketing Division.

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Community : Holland Marsh
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Description : At a well attended meeting of the Holland Marsh Vegetable Growers, held in the Council Chamber of the Bradford town hall. Friday, Feb 7, it was decided to appoint a committee of three marsh owners, who could be called in consultation at any time by the regular Marsh Commission.
The new committee, which has been appoined for the year 1935, consists of Geo. M Edwards, representing the marsh owners to King Township, L. E. Faris, representing the mars owners in West Gwillimbury Township, and Prof. W.H. Day, representing the marsh owners in the Village of Bradford.
With Prof. W.H. Day in the chair many interesting features of the Marsh Drainage Scheme were discussed. Reeve E. J Evans of West Gwillimbury, and Reeve J. E. Coombs of Bradford addressed the meeting in appropriate manner.
Representatives present from West Gwillimbury Township were Reeve Evans, J. E. Harvey and V. Turner, councillors, and Reeve Coombs on behalf of the Village of Bradford.

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Community : Bradford
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Description : The town's new industry, the Bradford Wood Products Co., which will manufacture hockey stickes and skiis at the outset, begins to look like a real asset to the town in the very near future. Although all the machinery has not yet been installed in the factory, production of sample hockey sticks has begun, and when the balance of the machinery is in place, work will start on a larger scale. By the early part of March it is expected to have about fifteen hands employed.
On Tuesday the writer was shown through the factory by Mr. Love and witnessed the different operations required before the original piece of elm, (seasoned three years) is finally turned out the finished product -- a perfectly balanced A1 hockey stick of the highest grade the kind used by professionals and most of the high-class amateur teams playing the game.
The original long, thick elm plank is the first cut into lengths somewhat longer than a hockey stick and approximately 3 1-2 by 3 inches in width and thickness. The wood is then steamed and bent by a heavy machine into the shape of a hockey stick. Then it is put into a dry kiln for seven days, following which period each block is sawed length-wise into four pieces, each piece being one rough, unfinished hockey stick. The final shaping and finishing touches are put on by a disc sander, after which each stick is shellacked and labelled according to grade. Reginald ("Red") Horner, of the Toronto Maple Leafs, who, by the way, is to be head salesman for the local firm, was lending his expert advice in the final shaping of the blades which means so much to the proper balance of the sticks.
Messrs. Love and Bierge, the heads of the new company have orders for a considerable quantity of sticks in advance, and, with the ever increasing popularity of Canada's national winter game in other countries, particularly in the United States and all northern European countries the prospects for success of Bradford's new industry appear rather bright.

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Community : Holland Marsh
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Description : The Holland Marsh Drainage Committee has approached the Drainage Referee, asking for permission to assess at least a portion of the cost of marsh drainage works to upland property owners. The argument is that, in a 50 or 100 year storm, it is runoff from the uplands that contributes to flood conditions in the low-lying Holland Marsh. The wider assessment base would permit the Committee to undertake the costly dredging of the canals, without placing financial burden on local growers. If permitted by the Referee, the Committee would assess upstream landowners in Bradford West Gwillimbury, York Region, Peel, Caledon, New Tecumseth, Newmarket, the Township of King, and the County of Simcoe (roads). A preliminary discussion was held on September 9th, in York Region Administrative offices. To date, there has been no response from the municipalities, and the Drainage Committee is now applying for a Hearing before the Drainage Referee, which could take place in January.