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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), July 26, 1978, p. 1

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YOUR MORNING SMILE tin end the bar Wlun raduau mi tlu fr the tilt fraduau tin quid rcpl I as out is iishaHmJ Home Newspaper of Halton Hills fiend first by everyone Reaching more than homes Hills About The Hills Wins nursing award trances f Georgetown was awarded the Committee Award or phsyciatm nursing the 19Bconvoi for Concstofa College ng students Siviuty two icremon held in Show cancelled Two perform inces Rise and Fall of Plane livers Troupe were cancelled Inst week The performances scheduled for Is in Prospect Park In Acton on win Ihi ij before the performances Bunnell in for tin Hills which w is ru lleevcnt said the Hi ile had bun disbanded for reasons hi had not vet bun I Credit service grants Credit and debt scrv ices based in Guilph and in im ng icnues icross Ontario to which hi 1 as allocated more than in operating funds The Credit ind Debt Counselling Service of uilph District received a MM grant while the I Service on Lakeshore fast residents with seek mil medication services from nonprofit admins adding to statistics which during fiscal eir turned up some 12 individuil uses sen ling about persons Fire truck collision fire truck from the detachment of the Hills fire department was In collision with a pick up truck while responding to false alarm Tit fin truck struck a pick up truck owned Andrews of as it w turning at Willow and Mill streets Dimagoiscstimiied nil W Garbage fire Girbicc from a barbecue Inst Wednesday ignited In a in in on Acton Boulevard in Acton The fire resulted in to damage but no serious occurred They at it with garden hosts mil before the fin department got there says Chief Mick Holmes Permit for weapons Regional once will now be able to register firearms since new gun legislation has designated all police forces in the province as registrars Prior to the enactment of this legislation only the Ontario Provincial Police detachments were allowed to act as registrars The win now be issuing a permit to transport and a permit to convey firearms The issue of permit to transport is allowed for a of address or a rcasonsuch as the firearm A permit to is issued solely for the purpose of conveying a restricted weapon for registration Park founder honored Cliff of unveils one of two honoring Alfred it ceremony held at Community Park Sunday for more pictures and story see paei 14 takes hard line on pact out to destroy union rep asks SUMMER WHEN THE FEELING IS HOT On those diys w Inn the neat and humidity combine to make the great outdoors seem like a sauna bath most people have the dislml memory of the old swimming hole of their childhood to keep them going through the dog day afternoons But hive the real thing is can be discovered with i tour of the old swimming holes of Ihltin Hills and the ihi dren an taking idinnl if the cot 1 lit ir v iter Fairy Lake In Acton Water tails Pirk in use and Park in rdwasonl me of many who took tin into tairj week In an effort to beat the Residents fear bank erosion for Merity plan OMB told Ratepayers opposing the of cluster homes off and Streets fear a repetition of the Georgetown Metcalfe ravmo erosion problems If the projicl goes ahead as planned an Ontario Municipal Hoard hearing Monday Jim Hyatt told board members Jean and William Dyer that erosion problems along the Metcalfe rivlne will cost J 150 to repair and the development proposed by Development and Management Inc is on a similar valley rim and could create a similar problem Mr a Margaret Strict resldint and spokesman for said that two property owners Hill and Jim have been fighting irosion of their Street yards for more than years the prospect of problems arising from an dev is very real to residents The proposed by would put units in clusters alone a fool wide lrivatc road looping through the property with exits on Edward Streets sacs off the main roadwiy also offer access lo small groups of homes Millk architect for Ihcdivilapmenl tittflctl hit when he first proposed ilusler for project in 1J71 It was rilallvily In the yean since then it has been used in sever an is includinga ricintly d which he designed In ihi horn will their own front side rind rear irds and an attached garage Mr Malik said They will only share a common road and driveway with their fact that each lot will vary in size makes it possible to talk about a standard lot but one Is a home with the usual facilities There will be slightly less maintenance to suih a home Mr Malik says and they would to joung uple with children looking for less ex pensive housing and to older couples whose have left home who now smaller homes dennnding less The bouses will all lie 1 square feet in or larger Inn large kitchens and nee Mr Malik said his original intention was to build into the slope of the valley on terraces but Credit Valley on scrvilion Authority convinced him wis not a satisfactory plan Tin has diter mined the top of bank I for the project and all buildings must be at least from this line Merity owns a total of icrcs adjacent to Ccdarvnle I irk and will deed along a scpir iting their into two buttons to the town for spin said Merit lawyer Smith The west portion of the development will contain cluster houses In the to range which should innform rly tothetype homes ixlsting In Mr said while the eastern part of the development Is fo contain 18 slightly I on lots match the DRIVER VOLUNTEER NEEDED DESPERATELY Helping Hand Is In luuti it will desperate need of a immediately to Iran sport a middle aged I town resident to Toronto Hospital fur nice II irh lor fur Helping Hinds In 1 1 ell Hilts if one lersnn will drhc basis The woman must arrive at thr hospital before ID a each ttednrsiluy and Sjlur and be up than willing Ion irk derwrilers assoeiations should be called on to comment on the of street design Despite testimony from a Consultants engineer that the would engender so extra on existing roads as to no impael on thi community residents are not Mr Hyatt pointed out that while the surviy expects less than two inrs household and no in nine visitor parking spaces to be at any one ribidtnts liar that visitors overflow onto Iw ird and Margaret Streets to and walk to their ikstlualion an also con einiid that pirsons living In tin itiw will not to be juggling urn md out their and will wind up mid On Page lt union spokesman said Monday he has the distinct imprission talks between the Credit Conservation CVLAl and Its 10 outside employees may become i confrontation similar to the four monthold Heck Manufacturing Plant stnki near t Whitehead bargaining agent for Local Canadian Union of Public said he believes authority mnv be out lu destroy the union because it so small are seeking one year contract to which expired March There has been no movement on the single issue of wages negotiations began March WhlMicad The union Is sicking cents an hour to bring the starting rate for workers to ft and thru month rate to MRS an hour has offered cents an Whitehead said A no board report was recei Tuesday alcr a conciliator who reviewed the labor dispute in June The union his lli das following of the report before can legally strike Whitehiad said wages or the workers are tied to wages paid Hills Outside workers also represented Local He does not sec affect on town services the dispute WhtcheadsaldCViA work ers an li w paid for the type of rk they do Authority chairman Grant uld maki no comment when reaihcd Monday dispute the I- leek plant been marred ilions Willi and mi it n tit relati board has inform onto the seek legal had I and of the legislature Management of Heck has teen taking a uncompromising said have been difficult and the management position has been posit on denkd Itobert Harrison a member of the authority bargaining Thursdi full el It as the union ire quite He told that it nigol at prqar The comment fall suggestions that ihe union was moving to move denied by Whitehead Monday member of expressed disma that mu members the status of negotiations and the possibility of a strike Mr comments forced authority chairman Grant tlarkson to comment that this disiusBion has weakened the conservation authority position II there no confidence in the management committee on discussions then give a resolution that vou do not confidence in us he told the No resolution was Mr said he was sappointed adding that there is i brought out in the open meeting to prejudice the position I have no criticism of the committee he said but as a member of the authority would like to know what go on Coyote warning out for most of Halton In Hong pkntv there wild places for hide out and there arc inough of the inimals to be i threat to domestic animals this lime of year Henry Stanley agricultural representative with the Milton of Ontario ministry of agriculture and food has a to remind owners that tan collect eompmsition or in livestock due to ind Mr Slinlc I people arc under the imprission hit is too urbanized to have inv si nous posed but this is a stake le in Burlington have recently lost sheep and it is there art dens of is far south as Milton ire capable of killing a full sheep but the usually lambs Packs of dogs also pose a to livestock and a pack will kill more than one animal at once Mr Stanley said Hunters In the area have shot coyotes along the Niagara scarpment In Mr Stanley Ihe Ontario also operates a predator control proi r in When a or district office of the ministry receives a complaint an independent trapper is hired to catch problem animals homes on Ttrry OMB numbers were told that risidinls fear a real disaster if fire occurs in one of 111 two bouses to be situated the mouth of the where the I shaped road opens onto Margaret and Strict A fire in either of these houses could block both ends of the road mid trap residents In Mr Hyatt Mid since slopes behind the an too steep for disemt by older people situ could to use Mith possible loss of life and Mi Hyatt suggested that Marshal Pool empties with gush flows down King Street Harry Nancy Lay ton and their children were injoj i oi swim in the ibovi ground poo behind apart building on King Street when the side collapsed Mrs said wen all in the phi it the time for I son who ran ariutid the witir drained drivewiy King Street an I iround corner toward lie lot It look only one or two minutes for the to Mrs lid but I The i the da i giro us The pool 1 about of water but damage i the incident was minimal with the wutcr or the most part ending up in thi street and nit private properly Mrs the pool after the water had runway and the side appear to have rusted and given way under the weight f the The owners of building and pool located at King Street arc Grant and Jean Speed who lived In the house at one time hut since 24 hours of steady rain needed for parched crops Special It would lake hours of a steady rain to do a lot of good said ministry of agriculture and food associate representative for Mark Leahy rainfall approximated millimetres is a relief for the crop but that about Mr Leahy said a good rain would definitely assist crops in the Ac to area has caused some d image The of grain imps such as wheat oats and barley and even lorn are short sold Mr leahy Normally laid Hon an Alton farmer gr starts to held when it is feet high I seen grain this yeilr coming into head just over one fool high he said One of the things for sure and Mr is Ihit there will 1 a shortage of t ennujh b end drought I without that ri it would have looked I id said It Ontario lion of Agriculture reprcscnta from Georgetown Mr slid he usually sells approxlmitely 160 acres of corn for and fills his silos with silage from his 10m I rid ram Mr Invlranus istimited hi 10 acres fill the silos wilhhlhgehccnusi of the small sire of torn If hi has to lid uniform i said of for I In some cor sal Mr Mrs Ho Sw their corn a not that bid It s just slowidduwn she said tain would tin Mr 1 1 ih ihi June Inly drought a crop fnlluri hi slid another loupk weeks withoul rnin and il on the verge of it soon hi with the Ont weather in Toronto and neither llesnidtherciord rainfall in this ana for June is 1 in and isiord low fir isti Mr Smith tin rainfall for June luasurid 1 millimetre millimitrcs normal r ill and the rainfall for the first ID days of July Is millimetre millimetres he low normal Hut Mr said the low rulufill for the two of June and Jul was 111 lridiy sing a record sit In in ilifj The line mil Inly in iHft for into fcltyl is Up until this morning we were about lo belt hit record he said though the area dcspcnlel relief from thi June July drought rainfall must lie gentle and for it least hours rime pa re hid crops hard said Mr Mi would just knock everything down And is inked so The rainfall on the weekend didn have much affect On am ministry of agriculture and food spokesman Mark Down here In Milton wo only got half an inch he said I don I think It will make a significant difference to the corn crop

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