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The Acton Free Press Wednesday Oct 26 1977 No proof of police brutality yet crown Sept stats District leads solving crimes Nobody has satisfied me officer with brutal conduct there Instances of police he said brutality Jim Mr Crown Attorney told this newspaper Mr is waiting for a final report from the Ontario Provincial Police investigation into one in stance of alleged police bra tality by Regional Police The investigation was called by Mr Treleaven after receiving a letter from Peter Mc Williams a Milton lawyer outlining a case of alleged police brutality Mr Tre leaven then spoke with Ken Skerrett police chief who stated he would welcome the investigation 1 expect the report will be but I cannot release any information until arrests the report has been re leased said Mr Treleaven He further said there are rare instances of police bra tality and there is certainly not a lot of It going on here in reference to Halton Mr Treleaven stated should there be proof of mis conduct or a case of brutality Treleaven said he would confer with his superiors if he felt the need for a broader investigation At the moment we are not investigating the Halton Regional Police force but rather one case involving an alleged police brutality In an interview Mr McWIlllams stated he knew of dozens of cases during the past two and a half years where cases of police brutality occurred The officers involved in police brutality are a minority but they arc not getting adequate Instruction from their superiors concern restraint when making statistics have resisted rresl but across the forehead with a SZSwSdonSere there ho cause tor billy club causing him to go SZuKettorflS arTo S3i He with takes place In District iSri the remain J Sim chore was lis according to District mS One superintendent Floyd to S figure of unsolved Slice to make the Police J df SSSS said MOOT attention according to super concern said Mr Mown in the public has to be more alert to to police in Crown Attorney Mr has written District One police officers continue to clear up crime at a rate higher than the one set throughout all Region mis ureas rural selling iwo oi mem are last month there was a per cent According to the September plus the hunting season rest of the region added three cording to Schwann There thefta the per cent counts for the three weapons other such occurrences to the were thefts under that in occurrences this month September stats picturoofpollcescrvlcetothe cording to the The normal difference in communitybecsusenotrafflc tent There were three rates between clearances of offences are shown pons occurrences here and thefts under and over This area rural setting two of them are solved The continued last month value here and police clearned up IS per cent of them Throughout all there were such occur rences with a per cent clearance rate There were ten thefts over in District One and per cent were solved Overall thefts under that The police are supposed to be a disciplined group and should be able to restrain themselves Mr McWilliams spoke of another case involved an epileptic in Georgetown He was beaten up by police off during an arrest for Earlier this year the same man was again arrested and charged with Interfering with j search according to Mr He was a passenger in a Mr McWilliams stated In the majority of the cases the arrest was for a drunk where the younger officers don t have the time of day to deal with them without using force He referred to one case In volving a man charged with by a Regional Police impaired driving who officer a further fercd two broken ribs from tlon would be carried out police force according to Mr There is no place for a police He might well More mushrooms getting to the table car driven by a friend Police letters to Julian stopped the cor ordered him need and Morrow out and told to get into the Regional Chairman police cruiser Mr said He requested several times to I know why he was being I arrested but reason was given When he was taken Georgetown Jail he pushed the officer He did not want to go to jail especially when I there was no re is on The officer struck him those persons who are intent on breaking the law he said Friday He added that the statistics do not demonstrate the whole Country Restaurant no wo NOW FULLY LICENCED BOAST I viALconooNBicu ROAST DUCK UNO A STEAK Down SOLE WHIT FISH FRESH HAM DOW TROUT MENS SPECIALS FROM I DO TO COURSE Frier 1 DANCING Every Saturday 9 pm to 1 at the Acton Legion 29 with Willi Stachel TICKETS NOW ON SALt AT WE LEGION BAR limited Tickets Mushroom production in Ontario has tripled In the past decade and is expected to take another leap forward In T J Blom Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food mushroom specialist is predicting a to per cent in crease in mushroom production next year Ontario mushroom growers produced about million pounds in valued at million making Ontario the largest single mushroom producer in Canada Ontario now produces growing area of million about GO per cent of the total square feet Several of them national production followed Acton by British Columbia with 18 5 Ontario mushroom in percent Quebec and the is primarily located in Maritimes with per cent the Golden Horseshoe area and the Provinces because of its proximity to with 7 percent of the total large fresh markets The projected Ontario heaviest concentrations of production for is million pounds up about five percent from the previous year A spurt of growth can be expected next year as many large companies which expanded facilities this year come Into full production Mushroom farms in Ontario vary considerably in size ranging from small family operations to large corporations to Dr there are approximately 50 full time mushroom growers in the province with total The Tenders over delay building that is the question for the Credit Valley Conservation Auth A two hour meeting recently saw the only kicking around the problem of the proposed new admlms tration building on Authority owned land in Trouble has arisen from construction tenders coming in way over estimated costs Bob Harrison who is by pro fession on architect said some features can be deleted Most members felt that if the building could be started within budget and completed as moneys became available farms ire found in the regions of Peel York I Wcntworth says tl historical of mushroom farms near I metropolitan areas s due to the product perishability Irish requirements for mushrooms percent between with more than W percent of present production geared to the fresh Smaller operators cater mifnly to the fresh market which offers the returns while larger operators produce most of their crops for the processing market Some of the larger farms in Ontario have ex panded their operations lo I include processing Commercial production of mushrooms requires sub stantial capital investments and according to a 1977 report by the Economics Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food the average cost of production ranges from GO cents to per square foot of area harvested The report identifies labor as the mast expensive item of input averaging percent of the cost per pound mushrooms produced Dr says proximately people work the original plans should be as full time employees on kept Hills member Gall Maltby voted against con strucllng the new building The low bid of white the other local exceeds the voted for sending the members feel they can spend on the first stage of a long term two stage building Trying to keep costs down well below the total originally thought of as necessary for the complete building and surroundings the Authority argued round in circles finally voting to request a report from the low tender contractor on how much could be completed for this year budget of plans back to contractor for possible compromise Halton Hills mayor Tom Hill wasn t present for the vote Ontario mushroom farms I During peak periods this I number increases to more than IK Marketing surveys by 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