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Georgetown Acton Tuesday Dec 21 Hurricane interrupts holiday As Acton man bond himself in the middle of a m it battered the Hawaiian bland last month Pete Scfanpp escaped unbanned but was forced to spend more than a week of big two week with no hot water or air a holiday started like any other vacation He had never been to the Islands before and was looking forward to two weeks in sua He fan November ana Immediately met up with four other people from Toronto Including a honeymoon couple He landed In Oahu and stared at on Beach overlooking Diamond Heed Pec tbe Out few dan Pete was busy with tbe usual tourist attractions He went to a wan where they roasted a 0 pound pig He also went to Polynesian Village which showed how tbe natives Peter two week in HwU was Jived longagaltoeven met Herington from the fi television program Hawaii For roost of the first weather was beautiful However he ditto enjoy it that much because be was on tours Five days after bis arrival on Thursday the slues started to cloud up It stayed that way until the following Tuesday when the hurricane hit In tbe hours leading up to the ever one on island was preparing for There had been wind and hurricane warnings but no one seemed to know Just bow close It would come so they all prepared for the worst People started taping windows so when they did break the glass stayed in place Stores closed ear high winds started at about Pete re calls The hurricane lasted until four or five next morning building itself up Just like a regular storm During the hurricane Pete took some pic turasuntUaboutZajn and then went to bed For tbe remainder of his vacation three days there was no electricity The hotel managed to put on cold buffets and sandwiches Pete was staying on the floor but there was no water and he was relocated to tbe second floor Pete says next day there was a huge surf and many trees had blown down and cars were underwater The motels receiving the most dam age were the ones on the beach with underground garages They were all flooded be said But It dtdn t take long for the sun to come back out There wasn a cloud in the sky and the beach was soon crowded It was very hot Pete says and he was in and out of the water all day Newspaper reports in Canada described how a nuclear American submarine was providing energy to the islands until everything got back to normal And now that life is resuming according to the Hawaiian hotel owners people are avoiding the islands like the plague thinking the hotels are too badly damaged to stay in Pele has approached his own travel agent to see if Wardair can give him any type of compensation It was a different kind of vacation Pete notes but he came back with good photographs and a good tan Town hall is saved at last Whiting and Knechtel supported this notion noted the recent Conservation Review Board hear- After the votes chairman Ted Tyler tag recommended tbe historical designation not be said to say hall supporters were overjoyed with lifted for the ball not be demolish acquiring the building was an understatement He allowed they were disappointed won be available and suggested It would have been bet for council to delay its decision on making a grant of the remaining demolition funds until next fall as Serjeantaon suggested Several years ago council voted to give the money set for demolition to the restoration cause if citizens could come up with funding Tyler suggested possibly the motion can be rein traduced later by Serjeantson or Acton only representative Bonnet who dido support dollars would eventually come back to tbe Town since be can I believe council I exercise its option someday to buy the hall back for He predicted the Town will want hall back because it will be worth four or five times more than it is now In his lengthy presentation to council Tyler At tbe hearing the supporters announced they bad received a federal Job creation grant of for hall restoration and all they needed now was to be Darned legal agents for the Town for saving the building or buying building from tbe municipality In addition the groups will kick in about raised so far through donations and Actario and expect to be able to raise about more next year for a total of over put together so far fortbeproject Tyler councillors they will the groups the money He said those tax also be seeking a Heritgage grant and other u ding They aim to start work on the hall by February For more details on the project as well as cil debate of the issue see the Boxing Day sales edition of the Free PressGeorgetown dent Error means big hike on water bill Australian Rotary exchange student Jodie Met presented Hat ton Hills Chief Librarian Betsy Cornwelt with a book on her homeland as her gift to Acton FRESH PORK Regular Loin Chops Centre Cut Chops is ib Brown n Serve Chops 29 ib medium ground beef ram 483 Canada Grade A Frozen Turkeys BIOIb Also available FRESH TURKEYS and other sizes frozen Bum Whole or Marl Count Style Heady Serve boneles ham Buns 1 Ready to Serve I Stylo hams Maple Leal s p cottage rolls Canada Picket Devon breakfast bacon 229 Bom frozen 375 sausage meat Store Sliced cooked ham ml Sorts Tab Cola or Coke bag regular Iter or extra Brie Nabob coffee- IMPERIAL lb tubs cranberry sauce chips We will be CLOSED BOXING DAY Monday December KENT orange juice CMMTKM MM Mel hot chocolate oft n cnaty 249 Kj jbb 118 1J8 148 MUM 79 INZStoMmaMbcMd 148 119 79 7g fruHcocktali 169 i ghafklnpkfclM JBJ flfl WHOM 79 rah 79 FRESH PRODUCE anwes at the lowest possible puces CALIFORNIA Navel 99 FANCY to bag Mcintosh apples 99 ONTARIO No I gr cabbage 31JM ONTARIO No I waxed rod grapes nib damage in basement fire A fire In the basement of a home at Chur chill Rd South caused an estimated damage Hills Deputy Chief Bob Hyde said Firefighters respo nded to the call at 1 am on December when one of the residents woke up with a medical problem and noticed the fire They I have any smoke detectors said Hyde and they were very lucky to get out There was heavy fire and smoke damage to the basement but no injuries v ere sustained in the fire Two possible causes 1 been listed for the lire but the invest I continues It could have been an electrical short circuit in the heating pad or careless smoking he A two year oversight in the billing operation has some townhousc owners lacing a 100 per cent hike in their sewer and water bill Andy Keep and Jack DeGraaf spokesman for Condominium Cor attended a special council dropin Thursday evening to discuss their billing with the re gion Michael Skora They noted their live has already set their 1963 budget and will now have to ask for more money Keep told Skora and Ha I ton Hills councillors Dave Whiting Ross and Rick that In 1980 his corporation had a sewer rate of around to in 1980 The homes were hooked into twometcrs At the time they felt this was very low so they telephoned the water office in Georgetown who told them they were on a flat rate because their water consumption was so high In 1981 Keep con this group had trouble with their meter but after It was checked the bills did not change- His budgetted ac However in their bills Jumped about three times what they had been paying with no notice and no ex nation according to Keep Three phone calls were made by three different people to he water office with three different answers Keep contends when he asked Skora office for a letter on what was going on he was re fused Skora told Keep in and there was an oversight the billing pirn I ion which 1 been rec titled in 1982 A mum cubic meter maximum per unit charge is policy lie said The error was on going for over two lie not but his felt they deal with the questions concerning the mistake as they came up so attention was not drawn to the error Now Skora pointed out the corporation would not have a bill more than the mumofC3unitstimes46 cubic meters of water per bill out the unfairness of this method He said if an apartment building has 100 units they are paying 100 times when there is only one line going into the building Whiting noted that a political decision told the men Ihey were facing a water and sewer bill for 19B3 Keep pointed out their had just passed a budget for next year which did not include this kind of money He said it puts him In a terrible position of having to explain to homeowners why they have to for still more money A lot of people are going lo be angry something that is out of the execu tive hands he said DeGraaf pointed out thot for many years the townhouses had their own sewer systems but they were paying the same as everyone else Whiting pointed out the government has been trying to be pound poor and penny wise and we arc paying for it now He noted the region start has forecasted a 8 per cent increase In budget for next year and that before the politicians get their hands on it Whiting said and they never add to it only cut More money for information centre Home Video Disc Rental J a and The Acton Infor mation Centre will be receiving an additional 106 from the region next year as a rental fee for the use of the it was decided at the social service committee meeting Tuesday The region uses the centre facilities per cent outlined in Director of Social Services Debbie Oakley report to committee The recommendation to pay a rental fee goes before the next council meeting for approval Councillor Dave Whiting explained that the centre had financial problems incurred In moving to another of flee and this is our way of getting around it July the Centre had asked the region for an additional to supplement their 500 grant We are really just giving them what they asked for originally even though fee objected rookie Oak vllle councillor Rob Forbes But Whiting told committee if the centre docs not get the fee it will be more expensive far the region It should be pointed out that if this centre closes the region will have to pay a helluva lot more than he commented The cost of the tele phones and offices has been estimated at for 1983 As we use the services part time then we II pay part of the costs said Income maintenance manager for social services David Si ware Police beat More vandalism at cemetery More vandalism has been caused at Cemetery Ha I ton police report At p m on Saturday two male youths were seen pushing over the head of Damage Is estimated at Police are looking for a male wearing an olive green coat and blue jeans and another male about wearing a dark blue coat blue hot and blue jeans earold youth charged with trespassing at Acton High School Thursday at noon hour Police charged a 17 yearold male with consuming liquor under 19 years of age at a Saturday on Queen St A 46yearold Acton man aajmurested for impaired driving Church St Thursday at l a A yearold male was detained In a domestic dispute Friday at midnight on Church SI There were no Injuries and no damages Police responded to a domestic complaint Thursday evening on Mill St there were no injuries and no charges laid A youth at Acton High School was charged with consuming liquor under 19 ears of age on Thursday during noon hour