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MAILBAG Dear San I a Claus May I please hove a Barbie Push Bui ton Intercom for Christmas and a toy watch and a treasure box for Shown and some surprises please How your family Santo Love from Dear Santa My name Is Holly and I ve been a good girl I would like to have Easy Bake Oven Rub a Dub Dolly and her shower Sincerely Holly Langstone Cres Georgetown Ont Age 5 PS Would you please send my brother a baby and show er and talking big bird His Dale Dear Holly and Dale Those are nice pictures of the rabbit spider and web and cat Are they your pets Both of you are undoubtedly preparing for Christmas and anxiously awaiting my visit I wont disappoint you Sec you on Christmas Eve I might even peek Into your bedroom without waking you Be good children Santa Dear Santa Armstrong drums lar bicycle chalk board love you Santa and your elves and ralndeer be cause all there hard work tbev for all the worlds children My brothers and names are Bobby Maurice Patty and I am Lorraine Dear Santa Onus I would like to see you For Christmas I would like the doll called Kisses and a Doll Crib My baby brother would like a tram set and combine I will leave some milk and some cookies I will some thing for the raindecr I would like you to please put the dishes in the sink My oldest sister would like a typewriter and a cowl and some jeans My second sister would like a cowl and some jeans and a pair of studs and a handle camera I would just like to have some clothes and a hand camera My other brother would like some jeans and a Bring my mother and father something nice please My mother would like a dishwasher Bring my father a new suitcase From Lorraine Dear Lorraine 1 enjoyed your letter and I II remember to up after my snack Your mother has enough to do without picking up after me too It is kind of you to include all your family wishes when write I hone you will all be pleased with what I leave under your tree Merry Christmas Santa To Santa I hope you hove enough toys for all the child Can you please give me a monkey record But not a refocus record because I have It now if you cannot find It you can gel me a crawling doll from Andrea Newman Dear Andrea I am quite interested in your secret code It show you are inventive but il certainly won make spelling any easier for you Thank you Tor telling me about record 1 do my best to he right one but It is nice to haven choice in case Dear Santo How ore you I hope you are well I am six years old My auntie Laurie is helping me write this letter For Christmas I would like rescue boat with dolphin res cue carrier batman things and with car track Love David Downs 196 Churchill S Acton Ontario Dear David nice to see a boy of your age able to write such a good letter I hope you will like your presents on Christmas day Have a very Merry Christmas Your friend Santa 69365S Dear Santa I would like to have aby doll house and Mane and a game for Christ mas Mybrother Jimmy would like a helicopter and a big truck we have been pretty good for mummy and daddy Love Jennifer and Jimmy Brown Dear Jennifer and Jimmy Santa will have a sleigh full of toys to leave at many homes on Christmas so hope you will be surprised with what you find I won tell you now what sin store for you because that would lake the surprise away from Christmas mom ing Be good children Thank you for your list Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas Your friend Santa rag doll Dannie Marie dolls Superstar Fashion place and some clothes and what ever else you would like to bring me Please be good to A the other and girls in the world too Bye Move you Santa Stacey Cross man Mountainview Dear Ho Ho Ho Santa is always good to his little children no need to worry You know its such a long trip I J only wish I could at every house on Christmas morning Mrs wouldn I like that I think because she has a nice dinner waiting for me and It t be nice to miss dinner now would it Merry Christmas Your friend Santa sews Dear Santa How arc you This year would like Hobby Crafts some new clothes and a doll I will leave some milk and cookies on the for you Say to Mrs form Love Cherfe Snow Maple Ave Georgetown Dear Cherte You must bea little dear are you Did you know that your name in French means Just that Mrs Claus soys thank you for the wishes and says she thinks your name is just right for a little girl hope everyone in your family has a Merry Christmas Your friend Santa S Thank you for the cookies and milk Dear Santa My name is Stacey I am old and I in Grade I think have been pretty good all year I would like a Came Dear Santa Claus 1 would like to have Simla Tuesday Tayler and Donny and Marie Osmond Dolls and Baby My brother would like Evil Knevel and a race set and a girl or Johny West she is a Cowgirl Since rly Jenny Lynne and Michael Dear Jenny Lynne and Mich Thank you for your letter 1 see what I can find to suit both you and your brother I hope you have a very merry Christmas Your fnend Santa 36536 Acton Dear and Shawn You draw very interesting pictures My family are just fine and very busy helping me get ready for my big trip Surprises arc always the best Christmas presents to give Tamra so 1 11 do my best to find some will make you and Shawn both happy this Merry Christmas Santa Dear Santa Sanio ClaU3 are you Okay Will you be here this Christ mas I hope your reindeer are healthy How is your wife Santa Claus how ore your elves Santa Claus I hope you con get around the world to all children Santa plcssr could you bring my big sister a make up set and my lillleslster a rubadub dolly My Mom needs a new purse and my dad needs a pair of work panls Please could I hove some Tonkas My grand ma would like a new coat Thank you Santo With love Vohey Duncan Drive Georgetown Ont Dear Danny Thai is a very good of Rudolph and me at the top of your letter All of us a the North Pole elves rcindeci Mrs Santa and and will certainly be visiting your on Christmas Eve on my trip around the world I hope your family will he happy the presents I bring everyone Bui they will be secret until Christmas Day Merry Christmas to and family Your friend Santa Aurora Borcalis The boreal is the colorful fireworks known as the northern lights most of ten Ls visible within a 300- mile wide belt that rings the magnetic north pole sweeping south of Greenland and across northern Nor way Alaska and Canada Secretary of State Secretariat THE COURT OF CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP at George St Suite Brampton Ont IRS is open to receive applications from those persons wishing to apply or establish their claim to Canadian Citizenship from Monday to Friday 830 am to pm To obtain an application andor information booklet please call or write to the above address Are you NEW TC TOWN or have you lust moved Inlo a new home WELCOME SERVICE Would like call on you with HOUSEWARE GIFTS and about Georgetown For this information and Hoosewarmlno call Joan Gillespie at 8774812 Now Appearing at the Blue Adriatic Restaurant MISTY NOW THE PERFECT EVENING OUT JOIN US AND ENJOY IT ALL BE ENTERTAINED BY MISTY THURSDAY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS FROM pm FOR DECEMBER MAKE PLANS FOR A VERY ENTERTAINING EVENING TODAY BLUE ADRIATIC RESTAURANT Licenced under HANSEN NORTH Seafood Specialist Continentlal Cuisine THE HERALD Wednesday December II Page AN OPEN LETTER to the CITIZENS OF HALTON HILLS Our Company has been undeavourlng to develop its landholdings south of Silver Creek for many years Now that the matter is before the Ontario Municipal Board and the Supreme Court of Ontario the time has come to acquaint the residents with the facts so that our Companys position is clearly placed before you and relying on your basic fairness we enlist your support We have been a corporate citizen of Halton Hills since January when we acquired the entire holdings of Delrex Developments Limited Since that time we have been responsible for providing homes for a substantial portion of Georgetown while at the same time encouraging industrial development as well as expanding the Georgetown Market Commercial Complex Also we donated your water tower site and made church and school lands available below our cost Before we acquired the holdings we appeared before your Council and explained our Intentions fully and the Council unanimously passed a Bylaw consenting to the transfer of Development Agreement 198 from Delrex to ourselves thereby protecting and preserving the contractual rights and obligations therein contained This then is the crux of the Issue before the Ontario Municipal Board and the Courts Namely can one contracting party receive his benefits under a contract and then deny the other side his The major benefit to the municipality was the option to acquire acres of fullyserviced Industrial lands at 100 per acre being only a fraction of their cost let alone their worth The municipality acquired acres from us in having previously quit claimed its option on the remainder on the basis of approved sales by to General Flreproofing and Economy Forms The Town had bargained for and received an outstanding opportunity to build Georgetowns Industrial assessment base with its attendant benefit to residential taxpayers The benefit to our Company was the clear contractual right to register its lands south of Silver Creek Ttie following is an excerpt from Agreement 198 Paragraph 1c of Schedule D That at such time as the vendor McLaughlin shall desire to register a plan or plans of subdivision for the said Cleave farm and the Hepburn farm and the Wright farm It shall enter into a subdivision servicing agreement or agreements with the purchaser Georgetown and the plan or plans of subdivision and the site plan or plans shall be approved by the purchaser Georgetown and such other public authorities of the Province of Ontario as at that time may be required No one will argue that the wording couldnt be improved but the intent Is crystal clear Ie our contractual right to proceed with the development of the farms as subdivisions which were acquired on the basis that they would be an nexed After having annexed the farms in question and changed their official plan designation from Agricultural to Residential the Town has consistently refused to complete the balance of Its obligation by routinely implementing the Official Plan Amendment with a Zoning By law and entering Into a standard engineering agreement While we stood waiting emptyhanded your Council permitted registration of other Plans of Subdivision within the municipality none of which had our Companys contractual right The children who were enrolled In Grade 1 In January will be entering university next year an still we wait Without coming to any conclusions on municipal morality or good faith it must be apparent to the reader that this gross Injustice can no longer by tolerated by the Company There isof course Issue here and that Is the right of all citizens to affordable accommodation and the rights of their children to live in a neigh bourhood of their choosing at prices not arbitrarily increased by artificial shortages of housing forced on the citizenry by the political process Georgetown is a beautiful town In which to live and we pride ourselves in the quality of development which we have brought to this area On the other hand no one can sensibly allege that the Town would or should stay the same size with the same amenities It had at the beginning of this century GO Train service Is now available shopping centre facilities exist the sewage treatment plant has been expanded and the school system is second to none in the Province If the socalled concept of population pollution had been enforced In over onehalf of the population of the Town would not now be living in and en joying the amenities of Georgetown today Our Company has no intention of building a high density development but we do intend to add much to the quality of living in Halton Hills The vast majority of the proposed homes would be single family and semidetached and there is only a small number of street proposed which were felt to be essential In order to provide the desired mix of housing for a residential community such as Georgetown The only alternative to development on the south side of Silver Creek is highdensity infilling within the already builtup area of the Town of Halton Hills The ramifications of such a policy are probably not understood by the majority of citizens and will probably only be comprehended after being built and the resultant problems becomeevident The Company by this letter hereby solicits your active support of its cor porate objectives in the pursuit of Its contractual entitlement resulting in the development of Its lands within the letter and framework of the law We would be pleased to respond to your queries and questions with regard to our development proposals in order that they may be better understood All os which Is respectfully submitted Focal Properties Ltd SB McLaughlin Associates Limited B Mclaughlin PreiJdern