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YOUR MORNING SMILE Two income lax collectors died and arrived gales heaven just behind two clergymen SI Peter gave the first green light to the tax men Why arc they gelling In as kedthe clergymen Haven t we succeeded in spreading the word or you Yes have St Peter replied But those two men scared the hell out of a lot more people than you did Home Newspaper of Halton Hills JLn 19 1B78 Read first by everyone Reaching more than homes in Hills Acton residents want park protest park sale fecial he one acre park schools is more than adeouale thi sale of h nh I h Social to Open space is precious to people said the WALTER GRA Citizen of the year Walter Gray dies Walter Georgetown citizen of died Thursday at and District Memorial Hospital Hi was Mr wis born in Amaranth Township ind to Georgetown during the World War lit wis a light enrs 1052 and deputy reeve times was on the board of for our years was road ihnrman for five years wis alio on the welfare lights police committee at Georgetown had to up lift own police force Council unanimously endorses single rate Mr ray wis number of I ions for i ailed is of committee which irnngtd distribution of Christmas hampers needy for years He gave up the Job in long aflLr hi had to hampers from milividtnl club donations to cooperative effort among a of for all four CVCA report Credit Valley Authority is expected Thursday to support in ncering fir iroslon control along the Metcalfe Ha vine in Georgetown Approvals for the project I also be received from tin town of Hills and the Ontario ministry of natural resources spokesman Joan The engineering report pi he total cost of control for the ravine from Boulevard to Silver Creek at between and Lowest of the estimates is for cor regaled steel pipe laid into the base of ravine and covered with fill Other show concrete pipe would cost about while gab Ion lining of ravine would reach difeitei by which taxpayers across would piy the same for specific The proposal con sistcntly won widespread support in north when ratepiyirs would the most from and sharing in their rviclnc expenditures Hi iffortslij Hilton Hills councillors and regional chairman Hie Morrow rkionj council his il proposals for uniform Mr King who has illmded number of millings with ighbormg municmal treisurcrs prepare I ilest proposal Monday thil councillors in Ilurlinglon and Oak villi have already Ihe proposal it the 10m mitlii levels of respective muilicipil councils verlhilcss hi He ilso served for is the liwn Howling which hi joined in He whs in fishtrmin once belonged to the Si rings ishing Club Mr wis by his wife in IJCIi Hi leaves William and nieces and I all of Toronto 1uneral services wen held from the Met Jones it It in and In termini followed URGENT BLOOD NEED Is ail urgent for ill types blood for his iss supp r for donors Grori1 donor clinic hi Id to morrow from lo 111 at he Iks Hall Mount pressed Wednesdaj at a meeting discuss Hilton Hills reionmg of In Aclon to risldenUnl from parkland and town intention sell Ihe park a bousing lots intention to sell irgreis with Hilton Hills- point developed In 1976 sell land deemed im within a idius of the park were of lally informed of the zoning June Hills schools is more than adequate for the area Vendltti said It make senie to have here and there thai council hid given final reading I be used lor anything to bylaw Sept li on director Gray has said 106 by 4W feet long is too small to develop as a park mieling al school stemmed from area residents about losing The residents expressed to w ird Councillors Mi hi nile and Marks ind Hills phnner Mario and assistant planner Ihcir desire to retain the park land as open without recreation facilities Mr enditli said the parkland is loo small to be turned a park and I needed for a park because more than 10 icres of land said Mr A park t nee have to involve a ri director people another Mrs John Mcilugb residents iskid wrong Icuvmg it as a place where piopli can sit with benches Mr Marks said no doubt in imotlonnl issue centering on the foiling I m losing something and everybody Is gunmg Mr Milks said council took i rational position sale of the We is your bunkers said what would the people of want us no wild tin land when then are ample facilities he said Mr Mirks d Ihe school resent land to give Mr said the proposal in the las sehoo said park Mrs said presirvalion of ic of would aria the meeting park if schools grounds wire ever closed off to guird vandalism and preserve Ihi use originally intended for Mr said John 111 in dona led the south half of the present land the town for in 1946 In Ihe said Mr Kropf the town irk into seven his sill nth for an ratepayers object to gravel pit on 600 acres ross from the high school Mr vendilli Mud iny rived from Hark would hate to Ix lor parkland in Aclon also said the of selling unusable of land is working well r the town Hit Mrs Mcilugb said this policy to m 1irk would only lead Ontario Municipal hi have already loreone hearings in aiiu Mrs I Park sup IMirti won If docsn reconsider the lo reione residential a third hearing is likely I think you can assume that a substantial number of i are going file to the said Mr Once Hilton Hills officially notified June about the res dents hue dijs to file support ng Kiting lo Members of 150 irea Inst week pre sen led planning board with a representing firm op position proposal for slobhshmenl of a gravel pit in their Sheldon on behalf of ratepayers cited In creased truck traffic as the residenls chief concern the proposal by St indard grtgntesLtd sand and it a site near Highway south of The board is currently ling a stiff report on the proposal before considering the company for a zoning bylaw amendment Mr Sheldon pointed out the Speyside area has become home to more than a ho If doren and as a result the former township of Is rapidly turning into big hole Two of Ontario largest Indusmm ind firm in in Hilton Hills We goi gravel trucks coming our can Mr Sheldon the board cxplai nine that truck iruffic in the are mm v irics bet ween one every seconds and one ruck per minult Use of trims In haul ivel is fir idually out I wiled in of l JO 000pound slider lr Mr Sheldon contended was never built to h indlc the resent volume of truck Iridic widlh of mosl graiel trucks forces Iruck drivers to avoid each other in approaching by leimng onto soft he said which has rcsulicl in shoulders being worn to a depth on nearly a foot below the road surface Mr Sheldon estimated that the proposal in question would idd another V truck move a day traffic Residents of the area are experiencing difficulties fur all the time because of gravel trucks Mr Sheldon reported The mini of trucks we set If this posal is veil would I just lie snl II Ihi mind thai old be pul up this r Tien In in awful lot ippv h in mid if of all gravel pits such noise from opera ions blasting truck traffic and dust and harmful effects on wells Mr Sheldon residenls in aware that tin pit proposed by St md Aggregates will pro tributaries if Six teen Mile Creek He predicted fie problems Ther if the i Mr the s ilm tint it had sutcessfullj mined HO tons of irrigate from site ojk Mr drew Id i McKuiiic whoi pn unci wide need mi and I and tin of and pi to roads an used gravel Coun on that SI in I ird J posil ill- forthetwmpilsoflisiiuirry turned inli ited he made and denied the liatu claim Let finish mining out sec what happens then he in I ibiiiiid said Tins is 111 price we hue to pay In hire If it few prop in Spejs so to lis Hie final its shin in ltt fur objections is July rpiris ml The ounell then his the option is directed considering the bylaw or hi si I the si ndng the comments and I tie tricks will bylaw the for a Mr ind Mr Kropf said living ill within del of the ilso I served who his not vet been in officially informed will be is informed id mining Mr Marks If the own board did sell and v Booth pointed land across from miiirdpitstc is uiior citizens project it ore ens pi s it don t the of si mors tn d Mr ihClcishmml irk id the i Region official plan ready in six weeks Hilton regions firsl officii pi in should be id for pres to the gov Willi nsix weeks rig in planning dimming Id Hilton mug committee last week Hie draft official plnn near ly throe yt irsiiilhe miking is w in the bunds of regional solicit Mr ported nee final revis a bylaw author tin pi ins will be presented Id riionil Mill tut Don Gordon siifcsted that council should isidc full diy discuss del ills comprehensive il plan which will govern ill life in Ha lion or Mr poinied out 111 it the plan Is all a leg il doeumenl which will lave to be defended in urts of Mr added that topics of II elm lined pi in will be in planning irtnienls each if iltoii s dj Ihe I ye i Roy Hi explained lhat a full diy lo held it a lot it ion i ther in the council chambers is being considered councillors express id disdain for idminisl officer lniesl Holds recoinmindititn soli lis wtrdint will he more adip lubli to procedures Cable TV rate OKd OTTAWA Systems ltd his won to In helping to finani provements its service The Itadic stall charge from and lis mi subscriber fee by Willie others pie wit si lleltors to ivoid using leg It si in rewriting the plat thai the arc justified because of the high In by Hilton able in rebuilding Us Georgetown system wiring Acton and Milton and loping i Is community channel No hookup protests made By DORS V Herald Half writer Not all residents arc happy about region a on going efforts icipal water servicing into their reg tonal public works committee discovered last week RonHawn It Bailey and John Thomas whose horn occupy a private road allo wance some feet from Highway in had appealed to region for special consideration in con with the plans lo In crease taxes for residents who will benefit from the newly In stalled water system In a letter to regional chair man Hie Morrow the three homeowners explained thil will be subject to an increase of each per year in taxes plus third portion or valve charge of Their houses however are from to wo feet from the being Ins tilled through and a connecting mam to bring water to their homes would cost an additional This cost iffeclively means that we arc not to water Ihe con tended request lint cr the supply is table roll of persons to Ihe mat I The public works committee last denied rcquesl after hearing works director Hob Moon attempt to jUBlily the decision thai no should be made values an intrea close proximity of water supply re explained nnd the litrt nod for use In of well failure He fire prolectlou is liable by the water indicating a possible redutlinn in future msurince Upon of Ihe commit tecs decision Mr ex pressed l ind ins neighbors who nut had to endure Ihc problems with higher taxes This is not fair Mr Idon it when the water is 700 feet down road My well has been perfect but then they voted Ibis thing Ihc niw rrnaini in just before I came here I should five us something What ire taxes supposed In be for A lv year resident of Nor v il Mr said he is annoyed at hem confronted by Ihe inconvenience of water mi in install ition in work which is of no v ilue In him and his neighbors but by a proposil lo build high way bypass near his home Such developments now have him considering a move else where he said Mr added hat Thomas who initiated Ihi homeowners In rig council wis w In idvance that he would have success fightine city hall There is now a possibll My legal nclion will he imdt taken to bring what three home a fair deal with the wnler supply Is on vacation and unavailable for common COOLING OFF comes to long hot summer then nothing nicer than dipping your In running water 1 isn lane months shows her lor a wade In Cedar vale with a nice grin while she clings firmly to mother Helen hand Photo by MAGGIE HAN N Alt