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The fullsize paper reaching more than homes In Hills ott TALKRADIO Paul Home Newspaper of Hills WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY HFATllfrK LINDSAY COMFORTS PATIENT JhSSOP ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A NURSE 859 hours dedicated by hospital aide An IByear old Limehousc area resident enthusiastic about miring has dedicated hours to volunteer time as a at Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital In the post year Heather Lindsay always wanted to be a nurse and Intends to pursue her career by entering university upon completion of Grade 13 next year During ber four years as a Miss Lindsay feels her work been worth while since the nurses realize she Is genuinely interested In the hospital and teach her things In their spare time Shes teamed how to take blood pressure fold bandages use the cardiac machine and fill humidifiers among other duties Her responsibilities as a convinced Miss Lindsay nursing is for me Miss Lindsay who has done everything from wash and feed patients o working In physlothoray helping in the gift shop and making beds prefers medical ward duty There an to chat with some of the lonely older people and the children who are a bit afraid Marion Booth In charge of the hospital and first vice president of the hospital ladles auxiliary praised Miss Lindsay for her dedication She pointed out although some girls volunteer their services for years generally Is a very tans lent business For example there was a tremendous turnover usual with 44 In January leaving In the summer trainees and 31 eandystripers now The training program in eludes lectures by a registered nurse and staff dietician and an orientation tour of the pita I when Instruct Ions are explained In addition Mrs Booth educational trips for the Last week they visited on orthopedic hospital in Toronto Past excursions include touring an arthritic hospital In Hamilton the Hospital for Children in Toronto and a school or the deaf in Milton Guest speakers are periodically Invited to the monthly meet me of trips Is to give the girls an Idea of the specialized fields of nursing explained Mrs Booth Her experience with Brownies and Girl Guides led to an Invitation to coordinate the four years ago She arranges work schedules and acts as a llason between end the hospital Every December she organizes a pot luck supper party for the girls I like a mother to them she said pointing out that her efforts are worthwhile when a announces her acceptance into nursing school Another pride provoking experience was the presentation of the Optimists Clubs Youth Award to the two years ago Being gives a girl an opportunity to see what nursing Is like sold Mrs Booth and most girls are interested and learn a lot but work hard and deserve recognition too Miss I agrees ex posure day today hospital operation has given her In sight I t go Into ad ministration or be a super visor she said because what I really like Is dealing with people as a nurse I II always have time to give people the personal attention they need A bit nervous when she started at age Miss Lindsay is now con and at home In a hospital And she enjoys the work so much she even volunteered for duty Christmas Day Education costs 18 million below 76 budget board ONE DEATH NUMEROUS ACCIDENTS Wind snow cause havoc Blizzard like conditions fell on North Friday as a second winter storm within a month caused one death and left residents shivering In cold temperatures as police road and water service crews work around the clock on the weekend to bring life back to normal Winds up to km hour drifted an estimated cm four Inches of snow which fell on the area causing in both rural and urban areas of Hills More than 10 North Hal ton school children were dis missed about noon Friday as buses attempted some without success to return children home temperatures drop ped rapidly to In the wake or life storm Drifting along regional and town roads reached as high as 15 feet as crews battled to keep traffic arteries open Ontario Provincial Police at Milton report Chi Wah Mn of Toronto died following an on Highway when his vehicle was Involved in a chain reaction crash near the Avenue overpass cast of urban Milton An OPP spokesman said Highways 401 and were officially closed but lack of manpower resulting from In vesllgatlons into 33 accidents and rescuing stranded motor by all available police officers meant the closure could not be enforced with road blocks Several detachments Including Milton and called on motorists to report Occidents Saturday as the storm Intensified reducing vis nil In spots and prevented police officers from reaching some accident GO transit service to and Hills was curtailed for a period Friday as visibility and accidents re duced the bus service to a crawl Two trains with only halfcapacity left Toronto on time at and 5 p m but outside Toronto travelling slowed also North escaped the brunt of the storm which also struck the Niagara Peninsula and Upper New York State causing targescale snow drift ing That area was continuing efforts Tuesday to dig itself out from the storm Many people were left stranded In vehicles some were missing and police were searching for looters of storesandabandonedautos as volunteer snowmobile opera tors delivered essential sup- REED SAYS plies to residents Regional Police were called to Investigate an cldent on Highway 7 near Moore Park and the Eighth Line cutoff which Involved a reported vehicles in a chain reaction collision Visibility on Main Street Georgetown nil noon day as the storm intensified and winds picked up new fallen snow and created squnls flc was reduced to a crawl as police urged motorists to re main off the roads until the storm passed Spokesmen for the Acton and Georgetown Hydro Com mis report no problems asso ciated the storm Ontario Hydro spokesmen In Guelph and Brampton report nothing more than normal isolated cases of power interruptions In Bell Canada Installers and repair crews from Kitchener and Brampton were called off the Job Friday spokes men from both cities reported There was no report of line Interruptions but slow dial tones occurred as congested telephone circuits resulted in both Georgetown Acton Temperatures dropped from Oc lo overnight day causing freezing of water service and numerous breaks throughout the region a spokesman for Re gion public works We even look tors foul of treat and put them watcrmaln bread ricr manager maintenance said Mr Marnier said 15 watcrmaln breaks were viced by crews working con throughout the week end More than frozen water services were also reported About four breaks occurred In Hills he said Over 100 men worked the elements as regional work forces tried to keep ser vice up to normal he said Ten equipped with V type blades worked as long as 48 hours clearing roads and at one point regional forces were diverted to aid the Town of Milton which was blocked Both Region and Hal ton Hills works crews were taken off the road for a few hours Friday afternoon as vis Ibllity dropped in rural areas Hills crews continued to clear roads in the rural areas early this week Monday the if th Line won cleared and work continued to clear the Third and Fourth Lines works iperintcndent Frank Morctte opera plants Kerr OKs funds for Norval water board of education which last year trimmed million from Its 1978 budget because of cutbacks from the Ministry of Education learned last night that it spent less than It had budgeted Last year the board spent 380 trustee Noel Cooper chairman of the finance committee told the board Actual revenue was more than an and actual ex less than anticipated he said However of the amount under budget Is from supplementary taxes received from the four municipalities Hills Milton and Burlington trustee Cooper sold and the net amount of to be applied to the 1077 levy Is Ratepayers were saved an inordinate Jump In taxes for he said although cut backs and delays in programs and capital expenditures are only temporary Some of the saving was made by Iran erring money from the re serve fund to the operating We re hoping to strike a budget below grant ceilings but It is getting more Domtar keeps word 30 find jobs company Domtar Fine will not renege on its word to old employees of its Georgetown coaling mill operation when the local plant closes Feb Thomas Hall general manager for manufacturing said from Montreal Monday that provisions for company industrial conversion plan has been made and will be at the best time He was replying to criticism leveled at the company by the Hills Concerned Citizens Action Committee over delays In implementing tho plan Mr Hall said the action committee may be ahead of themselves since the plan will be used He said retraining programs will bo discussed next week by a Joint company Continued on Page IS difficult all the lime Trustee Cooper sdld An analysis of enrolments expenditures and costs per pupil for elementary and students and trainable retarded shows that coat per elementary pupils with an average dally enrolment of 30 326 In 1070 was 170 II cost per secondary pupils with an average dally enrolment of 410 In was 779 49 and cost per trainable mentally retarded with on average dally enrollment of 149 was 787 Provincial grant ceilings for elementary students was ft 1 13 of which the board spent for secondary students and trainable mentally retarded the grant ceiling was 591 or which tho board spent Burlington MPP Jul Ian Heed says he has a com from Environment Minister George Kerr that funds for the construction of water services to will be available by 197S Two weeks ago regional oft icials predicted ruction on the half million dollar pro ject would start In the fall of 1977 but hopes to overcome the problem of contamination of wells and short water supply which plague the village were dashed Wednesday when it was revealed the ministry of environment might not have funds available for subsidy Works director Hob Moore speaking at a works commit tec meeting said all regional officials were dumbfounded when the revelation was made A spokesman within Mr Kerr office however to confirm the commitment Mr Reed says the minister gave him saying that no bud Whats Inside Today Page Settlement takes years Page 3 Hard work ahead for Ac Ion Fair Page IlltC Ideals explained Page Correspond honored said Mr said the extra workload for regional work crews resulted in fantastic cooperation by road water and sewer employees as they work to restore services board remain a day today decision until the conditions on regional roads Improve He said two coses of school busses either stalled or stuck in snowdrifts were reported in the Milton area and children were boused and then taken home by residents I was on Tremalne and Deny Road at Friday and I haven t experienced any thing like It before the csmansaid Visibility was nil and Its probably one of the wont storms we have had in some time as far as transport atlon Is concerned MAIN STREET GEORGETOWN AT NOON ON FRIDAY Town office inadequate inspection panel finds Hills municipal off Ices are totally Inadequate for the duties that are perform under regional govern ment a public Inspection panel found during an Inspec Hon last fall The six member panel which Inspected nine public facilities in Including the health unit courthouse Maplchurst provincial and Milton Jail illties the Children Aid Soc and Milton did not make any recommendations following Its Nov 4 inspection of the town offices on the Seventh Line The panel a successor to the Grand Jury abolished last year found the present facilities were made for one municipal prior to regions Illation and now must function for three communities Georgetown Esquesing Township and The engineering and build departments were located at the far end of a new addition to the Works Garage which not only hampered their duties but reduced the space In the garage the public panel re port stales The report also stressed that a future Inspection panel In to ensure the proposed terms in has been ed as present water supply system is contaminated and employees have to bring their own drinking water The contamination of water at the town offices has been a recurring problem since the regional health unit began testing more than three years ago Last year regional council approved a ex tension of water services from Maple Avenue Georgetown to the building Construction has not started Tho panel also noted an ever growing need for more foster homes additional efforts are needed to increase the numbers of immediately as there are ISO to children in homes at present There fore some extra money and people power must be applied to this area The panel also suggested a per year public relations budget for the Children Aid Society to inform the public of the programs and functions of the CAS It also noted that there appears to be a need for a holding centre for 1617 and 16yearolds who have com milled minor offences to avoid them being placed in Jail with hardened criminals or returned home The summary report also suggests a pressing need for Nellies or short term housing for women and families thrown out of the home get has been set for Ministry funds would be available to reduce the annual coal of construction to con sum ere to about to per year The subsidy de pendent on the end cost of the project could run as high as per cent or as low as per Mr Reed said the project has only been setback by a few months Construction could commence as scheduled wllh Hal ion taking a debenture to provide capital for the project until provincial funds become available Jan 1 Region Chairman Ric Morrow has sought a tee from the province of the subsidy funds and the level at which they will be provided No reply to his letter has been received when this story was written Provincial constraint pro grams have reduced priority for projects not required lo overcame health or environ mental pollution problems a ministry spokesman said The situation In Nor vat has been a concern since 1973 when the regional health unit reacting to a petition from residents tested wells find 68 per cent unsatisfactory A spokesman for the health unit said that of 49 wells with a colohrm result It had a fatal con lamination and roughly per cent in in If do not have sufficient supply Testing continues on request he said adding that If a major survey was conducted again today we would no doubt get the some results Dr Joseph Chamberlain officer of Health said Friday that one lest in Decern ber showed a questionable quality of water GEEI IS THIS WHAT FLORIDA LOOKS LIKE the groundhog may have a smile on his face but the odds are that today when he raises his head through his burrow he see his shadow become frightened and we all suffer for six more weeks of what is proving to be a cold winter Forecasters are predicting diminishing winds for Wednesday following the onslaught of cold air and snow which blanketed the area last weekend But no one at Environment offices at Malton would venture whether the sun would be shining when Gofer sticks his head through the snow It one of those things a forecaster commented someplace might have sun and others may be overcast