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Ifcho Home Newspaper of Halton Hills 24 Pages Efco and union resume contract talks Negotiations reopened this week bet ween striking workers of United Local and Economy Forms Corp of Georgetown The workers out March 12 to back their demands for a dollar an hour across the board increase in the and second years of a contract plus fringe benefits the walkout the bast wage was per hour Forms Corp had offered a and half percent increase in the basic wage with a cost of living clause and productivity increases in the second and third year of a contract as well as some other fringe benefits At Monday meeting In Brampton which went from a to the union put forth Its new proposals local president Reg in on telephone interview yesterday at press time We gave them the proposal told them to sleep on it he said In an earlier Tom manager at the strikebound plant said he was hopeful the talks would produce a contract the workers would ratify But then I ve been hopeful for some lime he added Meanwhile on the picket line last week linking members of Local who put In a full tour of picket line duly received in pay Many workers who also have part lime jobs said hey were prepared to man the lino ill summer May help Haltons cause MPs take boundary commission to court Two federal Members of Parliament both Liberals arc applying to the Federal court In set aside the final report of the federal Electoral Commission for On Although their complaints centre on a decision by the cam miss ion to eliminate one riding in northwestern Ontario their actions may have some affect upon the commissions ability to change the Ha I ton That proposed Ha Hon riding change would place Georgetown and northeast in a new riding with Brampton The two MPs who have applied or the court ruling Keith of Thunder Bay and Norman Caflk of Ontario riding stale that they feel the commission has failed to give adequate reasons or its proposed changes A report in the Ottawa Citizen notes that both MPs charge that the commission report does not adequately explain the alterations as required by law Without exception they say the report may be leaving possibility the seals of future members could be in jeopardy They eel that they cannot adequately debate the report In Parliament without knowing the reasons The MP whose Ontario riding will disappear as result of the new setup James for Port Arthur has already labelled the decision to the northwestern riding as stupid outrageous illogical and unjustified The claim by the chairman of the commission that strict population figures and the Electoral Boundaries Bead Act forced the commission Into the decision is simply not borne out by the facts he said The chairman of the com mission had ruled giving similar reasons that Hut on must be split to meet population criteria Under the commission guidelines no can have fewer than residents or more than 101 MP Frank Phllbrook already registered his protest against ihere alignment of his boundaries in Parliament KING AND OF at Ihe Georgetown and District High School For the most important dance of Ihe year are Blake iborthill and Colleen Howard The couple were democratically voted King and Queen by their fellow students Report on Mary wood coming to council A written report on the probli Ma rywood Meadows will be delivered to town council next Monday May 17 by the town engineer Robert Austin it was decided at the works committee meeting Monday evening At first he works committee requested that the engineer prepare a written report for the next works committee meeting May but upon hearing from the engineer that by that lime the report would be outdated decided Instead to have him prepare a report for the Some remedial measures in the afflicted area have already been token Mr Austin said Homeowners from Marywodd Meadows met with council last week to voice concerns over a number of problems in he housing subdivision Those problems ranged from inadequate grading to one which had a large utility pole planted centre of it Reed wants Bradley line included in report The report from the provincial legislature select committee on Hydro will contain a recommendation for on in dependent study into the Bradley Georgetown Hydro corridor if Burlington MPP Heed has anything lay about it Reed a member of that special com has made strong representation lo his fellow committee members include the study in their report is some members of the Inlerosted Citizens Group have been requesting Mr Reed stated if an independent study w is not conducted immediately legal delay involving Hydros need expropriate land casements could coal the tax payers of Ontario much more The select committee report of course Is to the legislature and adopted by Ihe house and therefore the recommendation contained indicates to the minister of energy Ihe wishes of the majority of he Legislature Reed noted This could be he meaningful decision regarding the Bradley corridor due the fact that it will have profound effects upon our lives and the lives of our children iped lhat the minister of energy 11I hear dependent study in this request for In Police Week display headquarters of Ihe Regional Police will be open to the public Wednesday and Thursday as part of National Week Al he fetation the public will sec an display where they can get a fingerprint taken and take he card home as a souvenir a safety display a display by enminat I ranch should lhat branch have line lo prepare one On Friday and the I Week display moves to the Milton Mall WINNERS Melanle the Baby Photo Contest too Morris knee Third top money earner John Shoe Bridge lop money earner In sitting on hospital administrator Fred extends a consoling hand Peel against combined The region of Peel has decided hat a combined garbage dump or and Peel regions is out of the question due to serious problems that it could create for wells in the area of the considered site The Peel site was a major block land south of Highway running from the Hornby through to Winston Churchill Boulevard in Peel A ground water of the landfill on he Peel side of he regional border indicated that the presence of an ground water table constituted en and operational restraints against landfill operations There is a potential risk of con laminating the burled which is found under the site affecting the water quality in surrounding wells note Peels consulting engineers in their report Although It will have little affect upon future directions in finding a now site which still is focussing on three major sites including the Hornby slle the new information on the combined site leaves Peel in very much of a predicament Peel works committee voted lost week lo consider a site south of Britannia Road and west of McLaughlin Road a site located beneath the airport nose cone and which will likely not see development in the Immediate future Finance committee wants to talk with board reps The personnel and finance will be asking for a meeting with Ihe town two representatives on the Board of Education soon in hopes of finding oil where Ihe towns lo the board are going Although repeating frequently hat they were not being critical of the boards spen dng the personnel and finance committee members Drought up some questions surrounding the board current budget about time someone asked them how much can the people be expected to pay commented Councillor Pat McKenzfe as he pointed out thai after initial drops In the board mill rate demands upon Ihe four area municipalities in has been sharply increfiing I like to know if that decrease has yel offset by the increases Councillor Miller voiced the strongest objection o he boards current budget winch will add over HO to he average ii 1 1 ton Hills homeowner s 1976 tax bill We can keep with holding services in order lo pay for their increases he com minted Sooner or we ve got lo in the budgets for our services pointed out to his fellow councillor that us unlikely Hills would be able lo afford the new high school in Acton if It for the regional system of education Because of it town must only pay 13 percent of the costs of construction of the building We might find out commented Sykes lhat we re getting more from our percent of the budget than we are actually pulling into It All I want is to be made aware of what ihe board Is planning for Hills The two local trustees Ernie for Wards and and Tom Watson for Wards and will be asked lo one of the coming committee meetings Councillors recalled that the town board representatives used to meet on a regular twice a basis wiih council to provide between the lown public bodies Too much noise in Hungry Hollow I disgusted with the police depart Councillor flic Morrow who hlnks the boys In blue should do a of enforcing the bylaw prohibiting motorized vehicles from distrublng hikers and plcnlcers Hungry Hollow on Mountainview Road It like motorcycle races on a p described Morrow not conducive to he of area Morrow proposal send a resolution to the works re posllng signs prohibiting vehicles was passed Other suggestions from Morrow included Issuing a public request for witnesses of unauthorized vehicles to report licence numbers to the police and advising parents their kids of the TOWN SICAlNG A new GFSC crest The Georgetown Figure Skating Club last wick at meeting accepted the design for he club s new The was designed by Ross chard whose daughter is a member of Ihe dub shows stylized g symbolizing the figure eight thai is he bails for all com figures Its a threecolour design with a bine background blue lettering and black outline Two insured in crash The intersection of Guelph St and Maple Ave was the scene of an May fllh in which two women were in Treated and released by outpatients department of the Georgetown District Memorial Hospital were driver Tilna Enn Georgetown and her passenger Ida Mori amy Maple Ave James Edgar Browne Henry Si driver of the other car sustained in damages to his vehicle in he accident which occurcd at 12 15 Damage to the Enn vehicle was Unknown drivers accounted for hrec he past A car owned by Brian Lee Hill Charles St Georgetown sustained in damages when it was struck by an unknown driver sometimes between the hours of p m May and Sam May 7 Elizabeth Carney Gower Crt in Georgetown sustained In damages her car which was struck by an unknown driver in the Georgetown Market Place parking lot on May between the hours of and A 30 p An unknown driver struck a Contd page 16 Two routes still possible Hospital workers consider Guide cookie joining provincial walkout sa can carry on Distrl Memorial Hospital workers hove yet to decide whether or not to join With other Ontario Hospital staffs to strike against the Issue of a 1 per hour pay raise because the strike would be an Illegal one could be fined I each and the union could face charge If they walk off he job It a fair say that there are restrictions to the economy from all aspects what makes heir hospital workers situation different asked Georgetown hospital ad Fred Morris who added But It my and the responsibility of the board to provide vices for the public If he emergency cases will be at he local hospitals he said Joyce Cox president of he local hospital workers union had no comment Girl Guides need not worry They won I be arrested for selling heir cookies without having a Hawkers and Pedlars License At Monday night meeting of he town personnel and finance a change was made he bylaw covering door door selling in Hills now permit organizations and service clubs lo sell heir cookies daffodils or fertilizer having pay any more hnn for heir license that bylaw was not to hinder such charitable fund raising towns clerk Doug commented It a there lo protect citizens from those who are up to no good If you can arrest or stop lhat sort of thing with his bylaw then will benefit the whole municipality Before rouie for a to he municipal on Trafalgar Is finally decided on there will be another meeting between he region engineers the town engineers and the consulting engineers of the developer Al appeared before Ihe works committee Monday evening to request the meeting with the region There arc two possible routes said reviewing once again scheme which has been before the works committee for at least a year One route Is from the comer of Maple Ave and Seventh tine straight up o the town office distance of about feel If the decision is to go that route town has no option but to use a six Inch main as well as contend with hydro lines fencing and roads Piluttl said The alternate route from Princess Anne Drive and the hospital to the own offices is approximately the same said adding that along this route the town had a choice of an eight Inch or 12 a In This alternate route with its large watermain would permit development of the lands alongside and In other areas Piluttl sold On a map of the area which he brought to th meeting showed the committee that he owned or controlled nil the land laong the second People on the Seventh Line could receive water from the second route by means of a four Inch main looped to service heir homes he said There are about homes affected he said none of which were prepared to pay the cost of a large We re happy to give the own an easement at no coat of course said The works committee asked town engineer Robert Austin to set up a meeting between the interested parties as soon as possible