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THE HERALD WEDNESDAY OCTOBERS 1B78 a Home Newspaper of Hills TALKRADIO John MORRIS Doug Turner 12 holds home of his winnings Saturday at the fair Georgetown Fall Fair a success organizers The 130h Ccbrgclown Fall Fair was success organizers say Accurate estimates of attendance are not known but paid admissions are expected to exceed director Don said sunny skies treated the fair to a huge crowd that roamed the midway bits in the Armoury and the booths sponsored by local organizations and firms Among the booths was a displaj by the Site Britannia Tremaine group which gamed strong support officials said As well the hunter jumping and quarter were bigger and better this year Certainly it was a success air prei dent Don Nicholson said Everything went just beautiful I am very to sec an increase in the number of cattle and he number of sheep and we had a tremendous quarter horse show the best we have ever had He said the Hunter jumping was very strong especially in the junior in the morning More prize money was offered in a revamped class he said But as much as the crowd was large officials say there was competition from the International Plowing Match in which resulted In some people staying home to work instead of coming to the fair Officials have no figures however which to bane assumption Mr said that with free school pisses attendance could have peaked shortly at about John Moles general manager of the lloynl Winter Fair opened the fair Saturday What followed was a grandstand show which featured music by he Iva Davidson group of Brampton and he step dancing of George Island a yearold senior citizen who travels with the group Steamer the after noon show and by all accounts did a very good Mr said preparations for next j ear are continuing now its this years event winds down A director meeting will be held this month and plans for next year will be discussed The horse shows were such success that is being given to having a show Sunday next allow better competition and limes The lJlst of the fall fair Mill be held Sept to and Oct I and possibly on let J as well Arena rates upped council to hear brief rates were increased Monday by council despite lost minute plea from an Acton sports group to delay approval until a brief from five area sports organizations could be presented Acton Sabres in a letter tabled by Coun asked for he delay to allow council hear all objections which could not be formulated in time for Ihe council meeting The new rales which apply to Junior and intermediate hockey clubs is for proc Use exhibition and regular season games and for playoff games The move is designed to an operating deficit of caused in part council members say by use of a GO percentage split of the gale receipts Last year Morrow said he town received from 5 for some gomes Gcorc Maltby noted that the all lime low was cents Coun said he hearing of only one of the briefs Is an exercise in futility and said the groups arc concerned about heir financial positions Ifc said it was a reason able recommendation of committee Morrow added that originally staff had proposed a 435 on hour rate which the committee trimmed to The team he aid is quibbling an 70 year I would be very disappointed if we did not proceed with the recommendation he said It would nol inhibit groups from coming to council and have the rates amended If Its justified Harry Levy argued hat the principle had been set and that over the past three years several reporls on roles have been carried out However Coun Pat urged a report on why an hour was required since Sabres had they could live an hour He said the con renl the Memorial Gardens for Coun George said It disturbs me that we look at as minimum to have people the floor and open doors He said there could be a saving to the municipality by closing the arena doors They are not trying to get a free ride They know have to pay a Rood rate Does have be 30 on hour and what is creating the deficit The Sabres lost money on opera lions last year and at least one member of the executive was forced to borrow money to offset expenses OUW turned back Oakville United Way executives went home empty Monday following a motion by Georgetown past president Pour Brock to postpone until 1877 on industrial fund raising campaign In Georgetown The supports It regional Representatives of local charitable organizations offered many reasons for the deferral hough OUW campaign monager Terry OConnor insisted approximately 10 worth of services under were used by Georgetown residents in 1978 North should make its own decisions not have them made by on outside group regardless of how honorable their intentions ore said Mr adding hat the status quo for he future would be set if OUW went ahead with their pilot project now leaving Georgetown in danger of becoming an annex of Mr Brock urgid to buck out this year explaining hat the future Is wide A lot of problems should be carefully considered in careful studies by competent people Mr pointing to he of expansion into Georgetown since many local charities who scheduled their own campaign for the fall arc strapped for money None of the local organizations at the meeting opposed Mr Brocks suggestion to wait until next year to discuss the Issue when more Information on the benefits of regional services covered by OUW to Georgetown residents Is available Jo Lister of Georgetown VM asked why Georgetown was chosen for the industrial campaigning when Acton and Milton also use regional services without directly supporting them Mr Connor said when he asked the only large industry In if hey were willing o establish a pay checkoff system of donations he response was negative He was unable to answer why the Pilot Project included all of Georgetowns Industries president Browne agreed ihoi Indirectly people who live in North but work in Toronto and contribute to the Toronto United Way support the Oakville United Way which fund regional services because ol the gives annual grants Letter prepared Monday to seek public support Town councils special Wlntano grant will send letters to all service organizations within Ha I on Hills seeking financial assistance for he reconstruction of Georgetown Memorial Arena Meeting in special session Monday he stressed lhat it hopes to have comments from he groups within two weeks indicating whether the groups will support the project Council is seeking about In public subscription to offset the approximate 160 cost of the reconditioning of the facility closed earlier this year following a ministry of labor engineering Inspection building standards resulted In he building being ruled unsafe Coun Ernie Sykcs commend in a draft letter to be sent to the more than organizations that the municipality can affect a saving of approximately 80 which direct I or indirectly the taxpayers would have to pay Committee members feel that several suggestions regarding voluntary attempts at raising funds for the project rest as the of the Individual organization Em Hyde remarked that under the recently amended provisions of the Wlntarlo grants for every 5 we get 15 Including the initial Rut the certainty of financial assistance irom local groups and the public at large Is unknown remarked that local organizations all have their pet projects and his would be over and above ha Unless we can come up wih a goal he said and encourage them lo strive for it we might find ourselves short The committee agreed to also seek public participation through an open letter to the nubile While said the fun raising should be confined to Georgetown Coun Era Hyde remarked that the ultimate savings would be passed onto all taxpayers The committee agreed to seek response in Acton and I would like to aec this said because these sort of projects draw the community together Attendance down at meetings planning board policy changes Li an effort to encourage attendance by oil members at future meetings planning board last week decided the board should follow each of its meetings with a special session of council to resolve board recom mendations Noting the most Important standing committee of council often suffers from the worst attendance Dick proposed those who fail to attend board meetings should be denied the right to discuss Kerns a week Inter at regular council In future he suggested nil Items dealt with at length by the board should be resolved the some evening in a special council session Although the board remained unsure of the legality of such a move the recom mendation was approved by all seven councillors present at last nights meeting us well as chairman Pat Town planner Mario Vcndltti was requested to verify the recommendations legality Present at last nights meeting were Councillors McKenile George Maltby Horry Levy Em Hyde Joe Hurst Duby and Miller Six Councillors were absent Coun Rick Morrow at tending a regional official plan meeting Mayor Hill was In hospital and Coun Ernie was at works convention recalled lhat board meeting had originally taken the committee of the whole format with oil town councillors present because everyone wonted in on planning Everyone is missing these meetings knowing that they con go to the next council meeting and still have their say he stated Hurst agreed wilh the assertion but suggested lhat next terms planning board revert to the planning committee format to include lay people as well as councillors Were losing something here he sold When we hod the old planning boards the men de long hours lo their work and took the brunt away from council Council didnt always agree with the committee but they always sent an Item bock for further study Coun Hyde suggested the town planner be requested to make the recommendation to the next council Instead of the existing board The former Georgetown council he noted hod comprised five lay people and three councillors Although agreeing with the principle of the recommendation Coun Levy said that bill which amalgamated Acton Georgetown and Esqucsing Into one town stales lhat council shall act as Its own planning board Hurst however con tended that he bill allows council to appoint a planning advisory committee Coun Miller offered no objections to the provided he said that councillors expressing desire to Join the committee are given first priority for membership Coun stoted that the municipal election is too near to allow the board to make decision on whether a special committee should be set up In the next term Objecting to the present system by which matters already discussed at board meetings are rehashed a week later at council he tabled the recommendation as an Incentive to councillors to attend the board meetings If youre going to be a councillor In Hills you must promise the people that youll support planning Coun agreed However Coun Roy Booth Monday opposed the ratification of move saying that our or five of the people absent from planning meeting Tuesday hod valid reasons for being absent He said anyone has a right to change his mind especially If the decision Is made In emotion or the heat of debate Mike Armstrong denying that he was making an election speech charged the committee was too large at 13 members suffered from complacency brought on by lis being the most political of all standing committees and urged that laymenl be placed on committee lo advise council He that actions by town council acting as planning board arc a duplication since the decisions ore then sent to the region for approval who had been absent sup ported the recommendation except as It related to minority vote decisions A classic example of that type of situation Is the municipal complex decision he said Coun Joe Hurst said the count meetings may be shortened by the ratification of planning recommendations following a planning meeting There is under Bill 151 to hove council meet as council to hear and on planning mat ters Also North Halton employees of the Ford Motor Company In participate In the checkoff system there More people from Georgetown work In Toronto than ville though believes Mr OConnor Mr OConnor said the provincial government gives grants to charities on a percentage basis of what they con raise on their own This means tax dollars from people all over the province including Georgetown indirectly ends up in the hands of some regional services Lets discuss together ways and means of raising money said Mr OConnor The least practical suggestion is to stop Is It fair hat citizens of another community to pay for jour services A Contact Centre volunteer who asked to remain unnamed pointed out lhat even her organization had never heard of some of the services which Mr OConnor said ore used by Georgetown people and must be financially aided by them Georgetown wonts to pay Its own way Mary Simpson of the Local Council of Women adding that she still wondered how got straddled with the Job of money for regional services Homes next to fireball fire hydrant site OK Hills fire department has proved the location of a townowned and a private Ire hydrant serving development because of the proximity of the fire hail The Ire hall Is located adjacent to a development on Maple Avenue Council approved the recommendation of the administration committee after it was disclosed the fire chief Is satisfied thai the location of the private hydrant inside the development recently completed by builder is more desirable than the original suggestion Seventy feet of additional hose Is required to service the rear of the project council learned Fire Chief Ken committee chairman Les said is prepared to waive the need to move the hydrant because of the short response time lo the development because the original position would place the hydrant in on congested parking area Meanwhile the situation arising from the location of the hydrant will be discussed today the council meeting Two wteks ago public works committee tempted to remove services the site for alleged Illegal connection Included in committees recom mendation Is a requirement to conform to standards set by Hills fire department for the placement of hydrants The committee also is concerned over the connection of a water moln which It says has not been approved This has been disputed by builder Pllultl who soys he signed an agreement with Hills in during a period when the regional engineering department was being formed Mr said Monday he Is prepared lo lake the Issue to court for a decision He also said the provision of a bond for installation of services at the project is not required in a municipal servicing agreement because the project comes under Ihe Condominium Act and the internal vicing is not being turned back to the municipality Normally he said the builder provides a bond for the construction of public roadways and services under a agreement OCTOBER IS FIRE PREVENTION MONTH Sherry tries out month and householders ore urged to the drivers seat of a fire pumper at the fair inspect their homes for hazards Saturday Sherry daughter of Mr Mrs Hills firefighters will hold on open of King Street was one of house each Thursday evening to p hundreds of children who stopped by fire during October department display October Is firo proven Sunday