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Larry WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER H Newspaper o Hills THIUSb SECTIONS FORTY FOUR PAGES The fullsize paper reaching more than homes In Hills RESIDENTIAL GROWTH COMING Planner optimistic about towns future PRIMED FOR ACTION They came in all sizes to Ihe Annual Steam Era at Milton over the Curt Bosch of Wnlerdown Ontario tills a model steam engine with water For holiday weekend toseeoverJl million of steam equipment as presented by the more pictures turn to page Ontario Steam and Preservers Association Above seven year old Photo by George Picked up in Passing Canadian unify Option Canada a non partisan organization dedicated to a vision of Canada thai meets the needs of all Canadians are an dialogue with Senator Eugene at the University of on Sect 13 at 30 in Room 103 of tbe University Centre Mr speech on the Constitution Crisis In Canadian Unity will examine the question of more power to the provinces and special status for Quebec An open discussion period will follow the address Contract awarded OTTAWA A federal contract worth Ml has been awarded to Vorian Associates of Georgetown to provide Transport Canada and the National departments with electron tubes the department of supply and services announced Monday Safe boating classes Brampton Power serving Hills Brampton and Caledon will hold registration for Boating Classes at the J A Turner Secondary School Kennedy Road South or Ave in Brampton on Monday and Tuesday evenings Sept 12 and Classes will begin Oct 3 and run for weeks For further information call John Brousscau Windfall tickets available Tickets arc still available for Windfall 77 a night to remember with a buffet dinner at at Georgetown Memorial arena and dancing to follow with music from Rosa Hllller and the Entertainers on Sept 10 Advance tickets are available from Union Gas office Bank of Commerce or from any Lions Club Member For further Information call Volunteers required Volunteer mothers arc always of assistance to the Honey Pot Nursery School In Acton at the GlenLea Plaza school program runs from a toll 30a Anyone Interested should call Lorraine Barton at CVCA passes 1978 passes for Credit Valley conservation areas will be sold Nov landwlU be valid from January until December 31 Previously season passes were only honored during tbe summer months The Credit Valley parks and recreation advisory beard passed the recommendation made by Information officer Joan Rollings Winter opening Terra Cotta conservation area will be open to the public for twoday weekends for winter programs Information officer Joan Rollings said persons were annoyed that the area was Dot open on Saturdays Blood donor clinic Georgetown Bad Crow will hold a blood donor clinic at Holy Cross Auditorium Monday afternoon and evening A second clinic for students at Georgetown and district high school will be held Tuesday Sept Halton crime drops Last year crime rate was down and police cleared a higher proportion of cases the 1976 regional police report shows The number of criminal of fences was down slightly in although it continued to rise according to police Traffic accidents and injuries were lower which a companies compulsory scat bell buckling and lowered speed limits In there were or 6 per cent less than in Also 15 per cent of crimes f lud 252 police officers officers there is one officer to every residents the highest in Ontario Chief Skerrctt said Police cleared more assault cases in 1976 than In 1975 iu cared although only one more assault case was reported Traffic collision were re duced seven per cent in than in Police report dated ihc largest drop was in the number of crashes result in injuries There were fatal collisions in 1976 four fewer than in 1975 were cleared In 1970 and that compared to per cent the previous year Chief Ken Skerrett said in the report I am happy to announce that the reduction In the crime rate and the In crease In our clearance rate has been achieved through the combined effort of every mem of Ihe force who together with the citizens of the com unity have shown their de termination eliminate the annual crime Increase which exists across he province Last year operating bud gel of million Ihe By Herald staff writer Economic forecasters are predicting the coming winter to be the worst since the Dirty Thirl when country was In the terrible grip of the Depression and it looks as if that will be case almost everywhere in the world Yet an optimistic economic tlon has been forecast for Georgetown The town Is heading toward tab le economic town planner Mario Vcndlttl told the Herald He hinges his Hon on ihc fact that the addi lion the sewage treatment will release an economic m that could leave twon very fiuincially well off The planner does not accept the gloomy picture painted by commentators on the In his estimations addition to the sewage treat men I plant will start a building boom if not this fall then spring Although the commercial and industrial sectors of Georgetown arc expected lo have moderate growth Mr Vcndlttl believes that in Ihc next five years there will be a tremendous amount of deniial development which will basically complete cxis AWAITING INVITATION United Way chair man tanner Browne the agency will not approach Hills this at part of Its campaign After reception re ceived year Mr Browne frets It will be pretty well up 0 Georgetown as what they wanl to do about a United way campaign won be op preaching tor town again Invited to do so of boundaries between he area and the Hamilton Burlington area has been submitted lo the committees but It carries no weight recom study recommends an eventual United way organ lution should be up cover but that Is a good down the road as sayi Mr Browne At present agencies such as Helping Hands which belong to the United Way and serve Hills as well as the or the county are being asked to present separate budgets for various areas where they operate so that they have on what support they are coll tied to from each ting neighbourhoods No new subdivisions are planned and as issue be tween McLaughlin and Associates who want to build about 1 homes south of Creek is what is now farm land and Hills is before the courts Mr deel to comment The residential development is planned to provide almost every variety of dwellings including high rise medium and low density homes senior citizen accommodation town houses and condominiums he said He noted that George town lacks a hotel which could provide good accommodation to visitors especially those to the industrial sector The town s industrial basin has only 130 out of a total acres left for development Mr Vendiitlsaid That about enough for about 15 lots each of which provide permanent employment and increase the town tan base at Ihe same time From Ihe lime a lot is purchnscd and a factory built to when employees are earning is about 18 months he said He noted that the rate of Job replacement in Georgetown is quite good With access by the GO Transit system Highway 1 manufac industries are a l tract To predict how many jobs there would be Mr Venditti declined but noted too that large new plants often were automated while a mediums sized plant could be labor intensive The complexion of the town Is changing away from the Mr Vendiltie said not entirely but new shopping mall is proposed adjacent to the Gor don Memorial Arena and across Street an expansion and conversion of the Georgetown Market into an Metric conversion A crew from the works department la busy changing speed limit signs from the Imperial form of measurement to Metric Frank Morctte supervisor of ihe changeover said over 70 speed limit signs had to be changed Hills except along Highway and although the crew worked oil day Tuesday he said he doubled the crew would get all the signs done In one day The number of miles will be changed to the number of kilometres by placing an overlay on the sign town Bob Austin said Tuesday A small sign reading km will be place on sign Indicating the changeover Association opposes clinic By MAGGlt HANNAH Herald staff writer Opposition from the County Law Association to a proposed legal clinic for Hal ton Hilts brought members of clinical funding committee to a public meeting last week to hear both sides of the question discussed again be fore the final decision is re vealed probably Sept 16 Following an application and presentation last March by members of the Halton Hills legal clinic com mi tee the Law Society of Upper Canada de cided lo establish a clinic in the town dispense free legal information and advice on a six month trial basis It was a budget of and the staff was to include two permanent duly counsellors a para legal assls tanl and a secretary for each of the two offices to be set up ope In Acton and one In Georgetown An objection by the County Law Association farced Ihc law society and Ontario legal aid plan to reconsider Its decision of legal aid plan support staff said proposed clinic would be ihe una in Ontario outside a major metropolitan centre The fact this clinic was to be a pilot project to help deter mine whether there is a need for such clinics in more rural areas is why the funds were allocated on a limited basis for a limited lime he said The clinical funding com Is composed of Ottawa lawyer Jim Chadwick Tor lawyer Lee Furrier and Attorney General s represent They hear applications for legal clinics across the province and make recommendations to Ihe Law Society of Upper Canada The society funds clinics under legal aid plan Peter Healln a Georgetown lawyer and president of the County Law Assoc la tion said group does not feel the quality of legal service would be good enough to Jus the establishment of a clinic Many of the matters to be in a clinic could really be handled by a existing social services he said He also feels cost of the would be and pointed out that in the two years thai he has been Ihe area designated legal aid lawyer he has received only a dozen calls for his service Mr said the 000 wn originally asked for by applicants for the clinic could be better spent In larger cities or Northern Ontario If the law society decides against establishing the clinic legal aid will make additional services available to Hills residents he promised He suggested that having lawyers staff an office lo offer legal aid to area residents one or two nights a week would only cost about He questions the need for a clinic to spoon feed area residents whensuchaaervlce could be established so much more cheaply Monly Hyde secretary for Halton Law Association said fie is Dot aware of one situation in Ihe town where people have been denied vice through legal aid He believes that George- towns population Is very wealthy and thus there is lllllo need for a free legal clinic in the area He also questions how the results of the clinic would be Judged at the end of trial period David tor of lie Oakvllle Legal Aid Clinic pointed out that there is a direct line from Georgetown to the clinic and be receive approximately 15 calls week from here That rcpresenls five to 10 per cent of the regional total Anne Manes a secretary the clinic said Georgetown people gel very special at the clinic because of difficully in getting down to fill out forms We let ihcm complete forms in a Georgetown law ycr office Instead of coming to Oakvllle because we know how bad the bus service Is to she said Rev Peter Barrow told the clinical funding committee thai generally speaking file are scared of lawyers the Ihey speak and their plush flees He wonders why the lawyers had never questioned the lack of calls for legal aid and suggested thai Ihey are aware of it now because of the law associations sudden offer of extra service In Hills Burlington MPP Jul ian Reed said thai matcly half of his office work load Is divided between para legal work and legal advice When he tries to send hem to lawyers Mr Reed said they often renege If here is another system that could be set up lo make access 0 legal advice And information more readily a lo people Mr Reed said he is convinced that such system should be tried enclosed mall is also likely Infilling of inter prises will occur along the Street strip which pre viously were residences built on land zoned commercial he In downtown Georgetown there is a lot of activity a good sign of life he said The businessmen there are cur rcntly in the early stages of Improving Ihc core while others arc developing own proper I now A high density building is scheduled be erected at corner of Mill Street Park Avenue Georgetown still hard pressed for commercial enter telament such as a house or theatre he said is only mailer of time he said When the population above the figure needed to support commercial entertain it will be developed he The development on all three sectors will also give George town more parkland A master park plan and recreation study is already underway he said All the scheduled develop ment is an integral part of Hills official plan which he said is expected sometime this fall The draft or the plan has been delayed because of staff turn over Theofflciol plan controls the growth for 10 with fairly specific goals for the first five years The draft plan will first be presented to Ihe politicians then followed by a period when the public has input After a lime when any problems are resolved it is for approval to the ministry of housing which will circulate it all affected government agencies before returning to council for final approval He expects final approval to be to ID months alter pre sentation of Ihe draft Sewage plant project finishes by Christmas Come Christmas Eve Georgetown should have the addition to the Wafer Pollution Control Plant n lucked within its municipal stocking Dec is the date Tor total completion Jack Waller site engineer said Thursday How ever he warned that strikes in Ihe electrician and the painter trades could slightly alter he calls the ultimate date when the plant is opera ting as designed Off ground breaking ceremonies were held 19 months ago to mark construe of the addition lo the water pollution control plant an ad dition which double the city The plan will average three million gallons per day When the official opening ceremonies takes place may be with a Santa Claus in the scene the keys will be passed down the chain until they land in the hands of Vln Smith chief operator who has worked at the plant for 15 Along the just paved that day roadways and through the all but finished structures on the site Mr Smith explained the flow of the sewage through the old section the almost finished addition and haw it all joins up lo discharge clear and as clean as possible inla Silver Creek social worker Carol Lyons said that contrary to Mr suggestion that social services personnel could handle many of the problems facing people in need of legal advice she docs not feel quail Tied to advise people on their legal rights Acton lawyer Gord Chap man suggested that the legal clinic could deal with sum advice which legal aid system does not Include II would supplement lawyers in private practice he said be cause people are afraid of lawyers and wary of their fees It is amazing how people know about their rights he said then added that Acton Is isolated In a way from government department where could gel advise on mailers like consumer and workmen Ward 3 Coun Pete said he feels the legal clinic would be of to Ihc young people In the area who are very reluctant to seek legal and no money lo pay for It if they see a lawyer Mr Heslln assured the clln leal fund ng committee that are lawyers would staff the clinic It up ACTIVITY GUIDE Today issue of The Herald contains exciting information on Tall Recreation programs offered by the Acton Hills Libraries Board of Education the Credit Valley Artisans and of course the Hills Recreation and Parks Depart The Recreation and Parks Department has planned a variety of programs for all age groups and two new programs which may be of Interest to you are a Nature Bound program and the Fall Road Races Nature Bound Is a program designed to educate those between the ages of Band 12 years In wise use of the outside environment and lo promote an avid interest in nature and outdoor leisure activities One way of placing nature into the field trips of the program will be to introduce those aspects or nature which can readily be related to what the youngsters happen to be doing at the lime projects hikes or games Arcst stop on a hike will provide an opportunity to listen to the sound of nature while nature stories and records or even a knot tying session can fit nicely into a rainy day program If nature docs permeate whole program the participants will fell and tightly so that their own lives are closely woven to natural world The Road Races can be considered a family affair male and female participate In any or he races ranging from one six mile lengths October 2nd Is Race Day Get physically 1 Do yourself a favor Please drop In at Ihe Recreation office Gordon Alcolt Memorial Arena If you have any or future programs