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Pomeroy wins in landslide Pete of swept into the mayors office Monday m a landslide victory beating incumbent Tom Hill more than two to one Pomeroy racked up 7864 votes to Hills 3361 a majority of In the crushing defeat Hill lost every poll except one half of a split poll in Glen Williams his home polling station Pomeroy and his wife watching the early election returns at Acton arena reflected the excitement and jubilation of the evening for supporters here The upset of the night apart from the mayoralty race was the win by Betty Fisher of Georgetown in Ward One and Two Acton and Esquesing for Halton board of education She toppled Acton council and board veteran Bert Hinton in a see saw battle She squeaked in by votes in the close fight with Fisher polling 1638 Hinton 1608 and Esquesing resident Sheldon Both Mrs Fisher and Mrs Sheldon were making their first bid for this seat Ed Wood took the one regional seat for Ward One held previously by G W Pat McKenzie who in turn ran unsuccessfully for an area seat Ed Wood is a council newcomer and polled votes Second place went to former Acton councillor Roy Goodwin with votes and third to former Acton councillor Bill Coats with 565 votes Wood ran for area council in the 1976 elections and was defeated Veteran councillor and former Acton mayor headed the area council polls with votes keeping the seat he has held since Halton Hills was created An upset saw incumbent Pat beaten by seven votes by Ross a newcomer to the political scene Knechtel took the second area seat with 924 votes compared to Dave Whiting also a newcomer to politics was fourth with 623 votes Pat and Bert Hinton are awaiting the official figures before deciding whether to ask for recounts or not They have two weeks to make the decision Newcomer to the political scene John Donald topped the polls with the largest number of votes of any candidate in the whole of Hills In Ward Three for area councillor McDonald took incumbent Walter Biehn took second with Bill Hunter third with and Tut Harrison fourth with Incumbent Roy Booth retained his Ward Three regional seat beating Ernie Sykes by votes Booth polled and Sykes Ward Three regional councillor Mike Arm strong was acclaimed Harry Levy made a triumphant return to politics topping the Ward Four area council poll with votes Incumbent Marilyn Serjeantson who ran ahead of Levy until later the evening came a close second with 1977 Karen Morns in her first bid for office trailed with votes It was no contest in Ward Three and Four Georgetown battle for the school board seat Incumbent Barry Shepherd polled more than double the Hyde vote with 3704 for Shepherd and for Hyde In Ward Two Esquesing the two sitting members were returned to office with easy victories Pat Patterson topped the Ward Two race for area council with votes George followed closely with 1999 and Nick Hunsley came in far behind with 715 votes Regional councillor for Ward Two Russ Miller was acclaimed Election scoreboard Mayor PETE POMEROY elected Hill defeated Ward One Acton Regional ED WOOD Roy Goodwin defeated Bill Coats defeated 565 Area council elected 1098 J ROSS KNECHTEL elected 924 Pat McKenzie defeated 917 Dave Whiting defeated 623 School board Ward One and Two Acton and BETTY FISHER elected low Bert Hinton defeated Sheldon defeated Two Regional Mil elected by acclamation Area council PAT PATTERSON elected GEORGE MAI elected Nick Hunsley defeated Continued on Page HALTON HILLS VOTERS lit up Peter Pomeroys life eyes and smiles Monday night as they overwhelmingly voted him into the mayor office Monday evening beating incumbent Mayor Tom Hill voles to The new mayor and his wife Judy were in Acton much of the evening to watch the returns come in and i was here they learned of the former councillor victory Squeakers w Hundred and Fourth YearNo ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1978 Four fie Hope to sweeten up Acton water Regon Town differs with control area maps NO ITS NOT A male Mary Its John Morrison of Chimney Swifts a husband and wife team who are set up in business to clean chimneys In some cases a chimney can be cleaned from the outside in which partially explains why Mr Morrison is standing on this Acton roof top The top hat and tails are part of his working clothes keeping up the tradition of English chimney sweeps Story and more pictures on page Hydros east- west line running at half power Ontario Hydros Nan coke to Pickering line came on stream earlier this month but at about half power Ontario Hydro community relations officer David confirmed Tuesday the cast west line was fined Not ember Hut it is feeding Toronto with rather than full power he said Halton residents see the cast west line south of and parallel to Highway The original path for this line raised much controversy and public reaction during the early 1970s The Ontario government was moved to commission an independent study under Solandt Whaf s inside today Poll by poll results Page We get letters Arts festival at school Another bazaar 9 remember 10 Eramosa elections 12 Milton 14 New coordinator Bl The Royal In pictures B4 Women in sports B5 B7 CUssHledadsbeghi Realestate The doctors 117 page re port entitled Closing the Generation Gap re commended a route for the corridor The 500 kV lines arc the most powerful in the province The report tabled in has significance beyond the transmission line The doctor selected a crossing at for a north south corridor the Bradley Milton line which has raised even more lengthv opposition For almost five the In teres led Citizens Group has opposed con struction of north south corridor mainly because it did not received an in dependent study like The lines are planned by On La no Hydro to join near Milton The ICC enlisted the help of Region and the sup port of Halton Hills o block construe 1 on of the north south line An Ontario Munic ipal Board hearing is slated for January to resolve the matter and province continue in their efforts to bring good taste in water to Acton We are going to do more and hopefully with the Ministry of the Environ merit help we will have a solution this month Region waterworks engineer Bill Kong said in a telephone interview Monday Mr Kong said he has no knowledge of steps to bring water on stream from the Churchill reservoir a step to thin out the taste which Hills Mayor Tom Hill mentioned during last Wednesday all candidates meeting at the high school The region Introduced sodium silicate into the water from the Prospect Pork pump house In an effort to counter act the odd taste given to the water by Ihe high iron con tent Time is needed to assess the results of the introduction of the chemical and come up with a proper dosage Mr Kong said There is per litre of iron in the water or about a third the amount recorded in York Borough Mr Kong said The steps taken there Thieves hit rural home Stereo and camera equip- ment plus a guitar together valued at about 100 were reported stolen from a rural home last week Police report states thieves forced their way through the front door Auto is damaged One of the v involved in a collision on Main Street North escaped damage but another one was not so lucky Regional Police est damage to Ihe auto driven by Peter Kroes Arthur St to be However there was no damage on the auto driven by Randy Mitchell Elizabeth SI according to police Mileage hike Employees of Halton Hills library system will receive cents per mile to bring them in line with other town em the library board de cided but Wednesday are being ripcum hen The region hopes sequester isolate in solution Iht iron so it will not discolor The region water depart concerning the taste the stains caused the iron Mr Kong Mated that mil odor subjective mailers He said he knows from people wire com pi lining about the taste of fluoride in the woler prior lo chemical being introduced Tin f Hilton Hills In t snim irounil rr out of the I Control in ind ivc si i in i presented lust islnf tin mil rtli ill the Given Road The plan reduce their an would leive Goldfan nut of the tsearpmint are while tin I pi would put the I mil for residential tin velopnii ill in Ihe MP Police station remains Chief The Regional Police office on Mill Street will re main open for two years at least according to police chief KenSkerrett The office will remain open as a storefront Chief Skerreit said in a telephone interview He said this would be the until 1981 though ihe man power in the office mi be re aligned Chief comments came in resptnsc to the reporting of rumor list week by hen for regional council Ed Wood Ihit police office would January of next year control ir the i r id tricks hut the si iff numbers favor foil Inn to tin Credit Itiur Will Booth of the told Hills pi inning this week hid indicated the town is opposed to the move w would present town proposed to bilk up Ins si itcments In the tile situilioii is reversed Hurt the stiff is a reduction in tilt control i could be recounted wii recounts could Ik lull in close in i hi where incumbent I ii v is i stviiivotesliy J Hiss for in ire scat it is Id the hoard net in Ward Acton ind incumbent lie wis Ik itcn by comer could I in mini I isher r lit votes ind law Sheldon third the rate with Pit Bert fin ton told i ihev ill consider the lilts oof Post all results Itrtle first tunc lection results were posted or the public in mm clerk J d the figures which wtre rehytd it lis from the Gordon While re is a time he pit win ible to trick f the Irtnds from hail on Thursday or siid iHtn uracil supporters lo isk for further weeks to ik the Tools stolen anil enter tint us al Wreckers It it A netted worth list or 1rid iccordint 1 illnn Iohci Imludtd in the loot wire the ittms portable welder lurches A SALUTE and remembrance Lome Scots honor guard ring the cenotaph World War I veteran Billy Middleton stands ready to lower the poppy flag when The Last Post sounds Color party flags are proudly held aloft Behind them the boys and girls in the parade are mar to the front so they may havea good view Behind many Legion Ladies Auxiliary members firefighters councillors representatives of organizations and Acton Citizens Band stand in touching silence whistle signals Ham on November and Acton people pause to remember