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MAYOR SAYS TOWN UNFAIR TO DEVELOPER Focal town talks uncertain Hills council and planning board have not been one bit fair in their deal with S McLaughlin Associates Ltd the develop ment firm that Is suing the municipality for million over Its refusal to lei the firm build a residential Ion south of Georgetown according to Mayor Tom Hit Mayor Hill made the com at last Tuesday meeting after councillors balked at the Idea of town officials getting tog ether with representatives of McLaughlin and its subs Id Focal Properties Ltd to discuss their mutual prob lem The majority of council were either opposed or heslt ant to accept a written invitation from the developer to meet with company of fie Lais and debate McLaugh proposal to build some 1 homes on land the firm owns south of Silver Creek oft Mountalnvlew Road In a letter to Mayor Hill McLaughlin vice president of Ontario operations Ernest Bodnar noted that the town appeared to express some willingness with company In local media rep orts He welcomed such a meeting in any forum that you and your council would deem appropriate TherL seems to have been some breakdown In cations Coun Roy Booth commented when the letter was placed before council It appears from this letter that wo re the ones who are going cap In hand and beg Petition circulated supporting developer At least one Georgetown resident is anxious to see discussions begin between Hills council and Fo cal Properties Ltd owner of six Toronto companies began circulating petitions several weeks ago urging council to sit down with Focal and sec what could be done to settle their differences out of court and save taxpayers monev I live In Georgetown and pay my taxes in George town Mr Tcnnant soys All they are doing is wast taxpayers money on law ycrs No one has tried to sit down and talk It out They just listen to the lawyers It be in court if nothing li done Mr Tcnnant says he put out two to three dozen petit Ions before he went on Ion and has seen nothing on them nee I haven really been pushing them he says but the response is good bo far as 1 hear After reading The Herald story on Focal proposal to council that they sit down and talk over their diffcrcne Mr Tcnnant wonders if his petition may have served Council knew the petition was out because I told quite a Few of them and some of them have read It They know It s around and It is an election year after all Maybe they re Marling to think They re going to have that it going to be built on down there at least part of it I think eventually this town will be ordered to let gel going on It the 1 know In fact tint the minister of housing is In Favor of the project and ennt sec why this town Is flailing it ging for a chance to meet them There arc some Innu In it that ore just too hard to reconcile when you consider the planning board attitude opposing Focal development Coun Booth recommended that McLaughlin should be notified of council policy regarding delegations so that company officials will ress cil on a given subject at any regular ell meeting Mayor Hill informed cil that Mr letter was before the members as a result of a verbal discussion he had had with a company represent line comer nlng the possibility of the two parties meclim Mayor 11 told the that the best way to bring the meeting about was to write to council He com men ted that Ik agrees with a lot of the wording in the letter and bo lues that and planning board have not been one bit fair McLaughlin Booth contended that Mr reference to he local med a as source of his in Format ion and not Mayor Hill repre sents a si against the Mayor Hill simply that Mr Rid councils willingness to meet with McLaughlin in tlic press before got him The letter just docs not represent what been led to believe by Mayor Hill Coun Booth mnintal that we very fair with SB McLaughlin that because of the impend of contract law suit McLaughlin intends to ng against the town It would be unwise for council to meet any repre sentatives unless the town sol t r w present Is the solicitor town or ire we PHOTOGRAPH IDENTIFIED This picture which was run in our Pioneer Days issue was identified as Woollen Mill Nan Hurst of Acton has come Forward with some names of people which she and her father Harry Hate recognized Mrs Hurst says the picture would have been of Provincial Paper Coating Division staff and must have been taken in 1813 or 1914 before two of the men in It left to serve in World War I She Identified these people Back row 1 to r unknown John Jesse unknown Nelson unknown unknown Herman Nolle Henry trances unknown ddle rov Bill Merrill unknown Jim Tom Nolle Choppy Fred McNiiily Tom Snm Harrison row ill unknown except Bill right The picture was loined to The by Larrv Stroud Glen residents seek town water services The solution to the dry wells situation In Glen Williams bolts down to a matter of whether residents want muni water and are willing to- pay for it Mayor Tom Hill told works Monday Nine Glen Williams resi have been hooked to a in Mullen Place at the owners expense since wells began going dry at the end of July says Stan spokesman for the group claim their wells were effected last year by operations lo con Mayor Tom Hill says the region has installed a meter on the hydrant and the fire de part put in hose Tor residents Now all the region needs is Ho for the price of the meter and a from two residents saying they II be res pons I bio for amount of water used So for getting water to the dry wells has cost residents roughly Mr Marlclnluk Police advise rabies watch region police Staff Sargcant Jason Field advises residents of the Acton area that police hove received quite a few complaints In the past few week about foxes coming up to residences Sgt Field advises rest dents to call police If a possibly rabid fox Is spotted He says signs of a rabid fox Include boldness the fox will come right up to the residence and a very shaggy look Watering of the eyes and foaming of the mouth especial ly Indicates rabies He advises residents to get dogs away as quickly as possible from foxes If a fox is seen and to phone region police Immediately estimates WO for the meter and or hose and fittings to ihe houses to hydrant The cost has been split equally between the res I dents because they all live within much same distance from the hydrant Anyone hooking In after lhh will have to pay for Ills own hose he Mr says he lands they must have a twothirds majority of Glen residents In order to get mun id pa I water brought into village The question is that means a majority on each street or a for the whole area If that just twothirds of the residents on a street hen I m sure we It get it municipal water for Karen Alexander and Park Streets anyway he says We canvass whole low end of the Glen while we re it Why leave anyone It might be a hell of a lot cheaper lo do It all in one shot while they re at It to go in pieces Mr expecting word From the rcglnn in two weeks that will give residents Hill demanded Coun George Mnllby Stat cd that council treats all individuals and groups who approach it Fairly requiring them to simply apply for an audience with council at a pre time and date Counil he added has al ways been willing to meet with McLaughlin Mayor Hill observed how ever that In several unofffi col meetings between town the discussion never got down to the nitty depItt the fact that the between the two corporation is preventing the town from acquiring and building tots of things are badly needed Coun Miller express circulating around the table over the developers request Tl tow uld instead be attempting expedite a solution to the affair he nil r approached us he said Let not delay this any longer There a lot of questions I like to ask Mike Armstrong sided wilh say ing it would be foolish to meet with McLaughlin while the two parties are In Jon and are availing the resumption of an Ontario Municipal Board OMB hearing into the matter Council members are all scared to death about the dispute because there is a municipal election in Nov ember he said He recom mended hat council First seek the advice of its solicit You re not running arc Pol Waller quipped alluding Patterson recent that he will not seek reelection Council resolved to Follow Booth advice and invite the firm s rcprescntat to attend a forthcoming gular meeting of choosing tit- It l Wednesday 1DTB Page Thank You To our Customers FOR A RECORD SALES MONTH IN JULY Heres just one factor that encouraged our customers to help us have a record month TOSHIBA 20 Blackstripe Portable TV Buy now and SAVE 3 on Provincial Sales Tax Our price of is below list 3 So save again on the tax on Automatically receive TOSHIBAS famous 50month warranty on parts labour picture tubegood through any Toshiba dealer in Canada 5 Low monthly payments and no risk of repair costs during the period of the contract RIGHT Exciting savings on a great selection of NOW TV demo units until they clear RYDERS TV LOTS OF FREE PARKING IN MOORE PARK PLAZA NO CREDIT CARDS PHONE 8779796 Herald classifieds hunt hot buyers a rough estimate of individual eosts bring municipal water to the village so that his people con begin a door cam with a petition to deter mine who wonts water However the mayor told works mm lice that regional works director Bob Moore hopes to engineering study done by eirly October will give the final costs on the project councillors were handed report recently which put a price Inge on bring ng water to the vll luge the mayor Unusual weather conditions have played havoc with residents contentions that their problem this year stem from last year situation Mr Right now were In the middle the worst draught In years he says so who say our wells have gone dry anyway Last year we had the heaviest in something like 120 year so how do we say our wells thnvccomcbuck under conditions We t prove anything under esc eo millions