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Ads That Pay You can an ad In The IIctiMn by phoning r srlling The Herald In where will find Ihf rrult Claim Mall Number GEORGETOWN HERALD The Home Newspaper for Georgetown and District ii PrintingPublishing The Georgetown Herald has served and district a and for over a century offering the best In fine printing news coverage Single Copy Cents Four members of the back woods elite their social function year are Jamie AT THE HILL WILLIAM FORMAL STOMP Steve Walters The annual at the Georgetown high school Sadie whoopup Was Friday Agree to Alternate Route Foot Hydro Towers Will March Across North Halton Ontario Hydro officials told an overflow meeting of ratepayers In Nossagaweya Tuesday they would follow an alternate route for a volt transmission line througi the township if Council fdt It would lessen he Impact on the township J M Sheldon property planner with Ontario Hydro emphasized the utility still favoured a diagonal line across the township but was prepared to follow an alternate route advanced last year by Nassagaweya Planning Board and Council The alternate route would cross between lot and and go north on the west half Ihc fourth concession MILES The power line is part of a no mile long 500 volt transmission line linking and Pickering and tleing In with a supply line from the James Bay area The line crosses municipalities The province in a document released August 1971 has indicated the line will cross Naaugaweya Township Officials of the township had earlier hoped the line could be included in the utility corridor further toward the lake Hydro officials explained the right of way sought would be feet wide with to foot high towers located approximately feet apart Plans called for single line in the right of way now a second in approximately years and a third some time later CUTTING W D Peters Hydro forester reviewed the change In policy that sees only selective cutting on the right of way rather than total We leave as many trees as possible he emphasized At rood and river crossings a screen of trees 100 feet in width is left as are Irces In the valleys of the of way he told the crowd Mr Sneddon old the meeting Hie hydro route would enter township lot and cross in diagonal line leaving at highway It would require removal of two dwellings two sets of buildings affect property owners be five and a hall miles long and affect minimum amount of bush mainly the vicinity of he Blue Springs Creek the Lee and the Ack man property He said acres of land would be involved The alternate route proximately as suggested by the township last year would affect one set of Idioms slide by a of buildings be a mile and a half longer very expensive angles affect the unly forest cross two of the highest points of land in tin township of feet the view in the Blue Springs Creek area reduce the visual impact from he road by being between the lot lines retain a Diagonal direct Ian at the northern comer of the township and cost approximately more INTLHrEHENCF Bruce MacOdrum represent in the Sierra Club a conservation the provincial government the transmission line be placed in Ihe corridor proposed in conjunction with Toronto Centred report To question regarding the impact on health and radio and television Interference M Wadge supervision project engineer said dure uvula be no effect on health If radio and television interference occurred Hydro would have to eliminate it to the Installing new It A district forester with ill trees possible would be left along the route If trees came within 10 feet tht line would be pruned Trees would reach about feet in hi ght at the lint s lowest point Hon force Kerr told the met ting the line was absolutely necessary he cautioned ratepayers about listening to of scare statements He inred by the locil of just men and would be subjected to to the Ontario Municipal Giving Beef Herd to His Employees Thirtytwo head of beef art fattening up at Paul farm at Erin and Terra Colin until Dec IS And then Mr president of MiKce Brothers lid will give the herd to his cm pi as a Chrlslims gift He made thi promise last condition they increase llitiroutput by August and they did Each at the manufacturing company should net about 150 pounds of beef for his freezer on Dec Mr Holding Clinic For Snowmobile Operators Two hours plus of just about everything a operator needs to know will be on the at a clinic in November TO Georgetown district club ire presenting the clinic v Hi the operation of police is n admission charge Thi include messages from ens lloscii sparkplug a SI J Ambulance member on imlnnTit of frost and injury Allison on extra equipment snowmobile trips Georgetown police officer in provincial and local laws regarding the snowmobile A film will be shown prior to refreshments after which there will be an open discussion Timothy the first general of Ihc Irish Free DOG PATCH FIAT TOOT Even cop turned tom up at the high vjletmon Is the Dog Patch gal school annual Sadie Hawkins trying lo change the expression on soDcr faced John Hospital Expansion Gets OHSC Approval The Herald has learned the Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital now appears to be on their way to an ex pension of their outpatient facilities In letter dated November 1371 signed by Mr Director of ihc Hospital Planning Division of the Ontario Hospital Services Commission advised The master plan drawings and schematics for the immediate project diagnostic and treatment facilities have been reviewed by Hie Commission Consultants We pleased to advise that these pi ins are considered are hereby approved This approval was given after traded effort dating back to 1DGG when the Hospital Board realized the need for improvement in the pacdialne facilities and the need chronic care beds Georgetown Council Briefs Mud Ihi streets where houses a hint of the past Council in committee decided to incorporate a control In to the building by law The suggest on has been made that a deposit he made when the perm is taken out and if docs not clean up the mud town will do so and deduct txptnse from deposit Ken irsh of Criterion Carpels committee for cor time asked for a nd sign his Both J il be m unted flush lo the building e slid tht on the tt no direct I Smith suggested not being used should lx light hack by town As a result of a genenl discussion council decided to ask the In dustrial Commission to report lo council on Ihe Mote of Industrial land in town Claims Strip of Land Becoming Litter Field A strip of land wide adjacent to Prlvt Is becominj a litlcr field and a playground Mrs L i old council In night J waking on behalf of dents she asked for perm to fence town owned land or failing that that it be sold to the abutting neighbours She pointed out thit the fcncliu would be temporary and understood the land would still be owned by Hie town N Em Hyde chaimnn for ihe evening pointed the is an access to privately owned land which ay mi c day It is useless and looks like it will never be used thit something hi remarked Join Smith pointed there were othtr strips of land like We have so park land lo guard any public land we mi have added Donna emphasized that maintenance of such nieces property must includcdln any future I want thnn open and some w1l closed commented Cr in Smith The whole of walkways is presently Rash of Motor Accidents Involves 5000 Damage Automobile accidents on iwn streets in the past couple of weeks have produced over damage But the only resulting injury was a minor one There were two accident Saturday both in parking lots Keith of It 1 rge- and Eaton were the drivers in a collision on the downtown parking lot and the taxi cab driven by Tanslcy A 1968 Thundcrbtrd driven by Mrs Julia Ann Georgetown received an estimated while parked unattended In a small lot beside the downtown branch of Ihc Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce The driver of the other vehicle failed to remain Five hundred dollars damage as done to a Chrysler driven by Stuart John Mytes of on Street In front of the Georgetown Market parking lot November 13 Police sold the east bound car left the road entered the ditch and swerved back the road Inn collision the same day James Gibson of had done to his Pontine and Andreas Slgmund of lo his Volkswagen in a collision on at Moun la I lew Road The In tcrsectlon was the scene of an accident November which resulted in to a Mercury driven by Dorothy Christie of 11 Road and to a Ford driven by Prank Carroll of A November collision did damage lo a Chevy 11 driven by David Lloyd Bell of and a 1970 driven by J Pont of Terra received damage Police put the damage at 0 to a OCA Chrysler driven by Larry Grace Normandy and to a Pontine driven by Michael Singleton of after collision November on opposite worth public school Later same day cars operated by Alva Hill of lingstone and Walter of 12 tteslevan Street were involved in on accident opposite Street The estimate was to Mills IBfj Meteor and 170 to November 9th also sow Iwo with expensive results A driven by James of Ewwg Street received damage and a 1971 Ford driven by William Booker of It Milton when they met at the Mount intersection Five hundred dollars and respectively were the estimates when cars driven by Vcmon of George town and Margaret Martin of ID Churchill Crescent collided on Sinclair near Guelph Street Mrs Martin suffered a minor Injury Try Try Again In an effort to settle the four month long hydro strike represent of union and management arc meeting with J McGulrc a mediation officer for Ihe Ontario Labour Relations Board on Friday Local 1766 U W will be represented by Bob Richard Warncs of probably an international representative In February a Bed Needs Survey was authorized to be earned out by the The result of tills survey and the Hospital Board Request was that Board received Approval In Principle on September 1967 to plan a bed addition together with the upgrading of the Hospital service departments as required Following receipt of this approval a long period of preparation and planning took place until the Government Imposed Financial Constraints In January 1969 At this lime the government ordered all hospital construction projects to be shelved because of the prevailing tight money situation During the following two years the hospital became more and more overcrowded and the vice areas such as the EmergoiLy Depart ment Ray Laboratory and Physiotherapy Department bulging at the scams This to lack of space and the increased volume patients at the time the town was growing In late and early 190 in keeping with the Provincial Governments policy of regional the and Peel Regional Hospitals Council was formed and at the Instigation of the Provincial Government a Regional Role Study was carried out by an Independent firm of consultants According to the recommendations contained in this Role Study the Georgetown Hospital still required the bed addition plus expanded services which had been previously approved in 1967 I MILLION AND HALF Once again at the urging of the Hospital Board and following a deputation to the Minister of Health approval in principle was once again granted in October 19T0 lo proceed to plan for a 32 bed addition with necessary upgrading and expansion of outpatient facilities As planning proceeded the architects and the the proposed addition shaped up at a cost of ap proximately 15 to 16 million dollars At this point the Commission advised that their approval In principle did not extend to actual construction and that this was really only planning for the future when funds could be made available Once again the Board sought to impress upon Comm ission the increasing urgency of our situation Willi outpatient facilities in particular now servicing twice number of patients for which it designed With the assistance of the Honourable James Snow P for East Minister without Portfolio Commission con ceded that at least part of scheme could go forward where the greatest urgency existed Approval for specific construction In the outpatient and service areas at a cost not to exceed then followed June 1971 The addition of more beds will therefore be left to a later phase The service which will be ap proved will include larger ray emergency physiotherapy and laboratory rachitics and reshuffling of other facilities to Improve them in particular Ihe area YEARS It has taken five years to overcome the hurdles to get this expansion project off ihe ground Hospital construction costs are financed by provincial grants two- thirds ana local community one- third For the local one third totalling the Hospital Board is approaching the municip alities of County Town of Georgetown and the Township of Esquesing as it is fdt the financial burden can thus be most equitably distributed among the persons who use hospital 1 Pi in si Si I ST rA Shaded areas Indicate space to be added to Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital in the fin phase of the expansion program there Diagonally scribed areas In the existing building will be converted Phase two will add space with additions to the ground floor indicated by shaded floor bed space not shown here areas plus second and third New Offer To Venture Proposes Two Step Sale Council in committee Thursday night made a counter offer to Venture if Weston offering them the acres land 000 an acre in the Industrial pork but in two parts Idea was to ensure Ihc land was used and covered by an adequate amount of building to give Ihe town a return In taxes They agreed to sell acres for an acre providcdalOOOOsq ft building is erected and taxable as an operating business within a year falling this the land and improvements would revert to tho town It OPTION Building must begin on ihe other half of the land within two years or the land will revert to the town Venture they accept the offer will have on option lustrial Commission had recommended that the land be sold at the acres since they fell It did not yield a high enough tax return to sell it at the lower price The commission also suggested the building be at least 12000 ft and be completed within months Cr JoanSmilhsaidtheprealcknt told the Commission would be em In the first 10 ft ding Sic said the company had been advertising for help locally and had received many answers from women but only two from As an employment Industry It rotes rather low she added explained that the coverage of land by buildings was about half what Commission was shooting for She said double that would be Ideal WANT INDUSTRY Cr Em Hyde then suggested the selling of the land in two parts so half would revert bock to the town If it was not used within a certain time Whether he hires 10 or we want Industry concluded Hyde Council in committee then decided to make the counter offer of selling the land in parts FEED THEM Children and adults alike may enjoy the company of Canadian wild birds this winter if feeding stations are put together right away