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Boy was it cold I- Town clivers take a midwinter swim You don t have to be nuts to go swimming In a Fairy Lake In the middle of January you just have to be prepared You do t have to be nuts to go swimming In Actons Fairy In the middle of January you just have lo be prepared Three members of the Hills Scuba Trek capably proved that Sunday afternoon when they braved the elements both above and below the surface to take a plunge In the cold cold water surface temperature was a brisk 33 degrees of Fairy Lake The outing waa the first under Ice dive the trek had held since the group organized Itself early last fall but they don expect It going to be the last Preparations for the were extensive Besides carefully preparing their many pieces of equipment the three hearty divers Dave Francis of Georgetown Jim Powell of Milton and Jim Mulholland of Actonand their dive master J Hewitt of Georgetown of Sunday morning just preparing the Ice around the dive site Following very specific safety rules two holes were cut at the centre of a starshaped pattern cleared In the snow The pattern helps the divers find the opening once they re under the Ice surface With the Ice on the lake almost one foot thick the cutting took a good port of the TI1E11EIIALD Jamtaryli 1171 Pago Arson suspected in church fire well Insulated Social planning council lacks funds Lack of financial support has forced cancellation of plans for a North social planning council Area representatives of the Region Human Ser vices Council which would have sponsored the local body have decided that their con ccpt of a localized unit to co ordinate volunteer services may be more difficult to realize than anticipated Funding for the North Council has been eliminated by cutbacks In spending at the regional level The second meeting to discuss the feasibility of such a council had been scheduled for Jan At a gathering In Hornby on Dec representatives of the legal profession police and social bad pledged their support of the project A social planning council has operated In Peel Region In various forms for the past It years PLENTY OF HELPING HANDS led by dive master J Hewitt were offered when the divers had into the water of Fairy Lake Once the opening was completed the divers then doffed snowmobile suits and donned their complete onepiece wet suita Those suits have about half an inch of insulation and cover almost the entire body Only the face Is left and with a mask that too la almost totally covered The areas of the face that were not covered were coated with grease for protection against the bitterly cold water which could have proved fatal If the divers had not been ready to deal with it The record low tern peratures of Sunday presented some unique problems for the divers all of whom are qualified divers making their first under ice dive Water would freeze almost im mediately on masks left In the open A regulator on one diver air tank open before he could get it operating properly but thaks to a replacement he managed to get In minutes of diving The others spent close to a full halfhour swimming in a 20- foot radius of the opening The cold did seep through the wet suits but Powell noted that it t any worse than a summer dive into the depths of Tobermorey Besides Just the challenge of taking their first under Ice dive the three men were also get ting In some practice should an emergency ever occur requiring Immediate help from experienced divers The Halton Hills Scuba Trek Is a young organization of approximately seven qualified divers from throughout the town The aim of the group is to organize activities fr ex divers In the area The range of activities will vary from actual diva to seminars and training sessions Membership In the group Is open to any qualified divers in the area GVAS responds to record number of calls Tho Georgetown Volunteer Ambulance Service responded to the highest number of calls per month In the 19year history of the In December The volunteer crews responded to a total or calls transporting patients a total of 1 patient miles A number of those miles Involved transporting the patient from point or pickup to destination Both ambulances were out simultaneously on nine during the month With December record total number of calls reached an Increase of ill calls over 1875 Total patient miles travelled amounted to 7 for the Officials of the GVAS expect that If the present growth rate continues the Georgetown Volunteer Ambulance Service will respond to well over BOO calls during the next 12 months Arson Is suspected In a fire which totally destroyed the Presbyterian Church during the late hours of last Wednesday night The yearold building was completely gutted as a result of the blaze which CTLJCDC Formerly Roos Shoes Family Shoe Store LUGGAGE I Main St South GEORGETOWN ALL LEATHER VINYL WINTER STOCK PURSES Bonnie Stuart Buster Brown Reg to IS NOW I Regular Stock Mens Ladles Childrens 20- SUPPERS OFF SELBY PUMPS ft 3295 Now firefighters 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