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Page I THE HERALD Wednmday Jamury 17 tfift ffiUftl Credit Valley Artisans Sculptors and potters will be organizing an adminis trative committee within Ihe Credit Valley Artisans Feb at a Under the chairmanship of Honey Comfool the meeting at The Collage in Cedarvale Park will attempt to organize those Artisans Interested in sculpture and pottery or equipment maintenance purposes and other activities All Interested residents and members arc welcome members in PT Georgetown Little Theatre actress Pat and her son will be appearing in the Cyclus Theatre Company production of Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest which previews Wednesday and Thursday In The comedy officially opens Friday at at the Professional Theatre on Burnhamlhorpe Road East until Feb that ie less expensive for the play two preview performances Mrs Invites local theatre fans Id phone for information Hanlcy is directing the Cycles product Ion of Wilde famous ma tcrwork which has had audiences around world rolling in the aisles since Its original late In the last century paper drive Cuba and Scouts ore holding a paper drive Saturday in and Terra Cotla Keep hydrants clear Hills Fire Chief Mick Holmes is asking area residents to keep the fire hydrants in front of their property clear of snow Chief Holmes said many hydrants arc being buried under piles of snow as the roads are plowed or as residents clear out lancways and sidewalks As a result the firefighters have to waste time digging out the hydrants when they answer a call Chief Holmes said this matter is becoming great concern and he Is asking residents to take the simple precaution of clearing he snow from any hydrant located near their property Acton ladies dance Tickets to the annua Ladies Night dance in the Acton Band Holt February sponsored by the Acton Agricultural Society arc available now from members Fairy Lake fuss Snowmobiles being operated on Acton Frozen Fairy Lake at a m some days has at least one resident of the community according to Ward C6un Ed Wood Coup Wood request to town staff at Monday night meeting will see notices published In local newspaper aimed at reminding Hal on Hills citizens that the maintains a bylaw restricting the operation of Snowmobiles to certain daylight hours ivny no lights For Interest of all the Georgetown motorists who have wondered in years why the town has yet to Install an advance green light mechanism amid the traffic lights at Highway and Mountalnview Road a request by Coun Walter at Monday night council meeting will see the mailer raised again at a forthcoming meeting Marilyn Scrjeantson reminded council that the need for an left turn light at the intersect Ion was investigated Hilton region employees Inst summer and a report uld be available by now Skateathon collection Georgetown Rotary Club members will be on hand Sunday January at the Memorial Arena to collect money pledged during their annual skate- a held two weeks ago Club members will be at the arena from 10 a m until noon Rotary Club members remind the community that money raised from the skatea will not only be used to aid crippled children but also for many programs run by the club including exchange student programs the fosterchlld program the local senior citizens aid minor hockey Georgetowns taxi union is Ontarios first Continued from one Two of five union cm dismissed in have been reinstated Dis patchcr Elisabeth Tew return ed some time ago and Wayne is working as a com pnny driver rather than an ownerdriver until the town has processed his application to renew his I which expired during the Neither Mr nor asso ciation president Jack McDo- for re very happy with contract salt a company spokesman They I oik for the world and we I It really change any thing All it does Is bind them rules thai were already In practise The only new thing is a clause prevent ar owner drivers from suddenly taking off and formtrif a company of their own in competition to us It was always possible for them to do thai before but now they can I We take the position that we ve recognized the union so our policy now will be to forgive and forget and run our business to satisfy our custom en We want to stress thai this will in no way in crease prices All it will do is improve services Asked about previously thoughts of fighting the way unions were allowed to organized management sold Hospital funding cuts anger administrator Continued from pace one hospital funding is reduced government could save millions if more out patient laboratory work was done wuhlnjiospltals rather than by private laboratories He said hospitals can do laboratory work at almost half of what the government Is private laboratories Mr Morris also questioned the necessity of the cost of district health councils The health councils arc set up across Ontario to set health policies in various regions and Mr Morris terms the mil lion spent on ihe program as questionable He also accused the govern merit of continuing studies and wasting Hospital administrators from across Ontario were brought lo Toronto for day announcement at a cost approximately ISO and Mr Morns this was an unnecessary ex ocnditurc He said that if the toveromcnl docs not rccon aider their proposal the hospital will be forced to reduce service Mr Morris said I don t where we ore go to cut back He said that In a hospital the size of It would be difficult to reduce the number of active beds because hospital small size leaves little room lor bed reductions Patients wishing ad mittance lo the hospital might be faced with longer waits if service is cut back Mr Moms will be meeting with members of the hospital board over the neat few weeks to consider the government s announcement and discuss possible service cuts He is not in favor of policy of deficit as is advocated some hospital administrators who have said they w 11 not cut services Deficit financing would be suicidal he said Mr Morris alio said that based on his experience he would prefer it if Ontario health care was in the hands of private sura nee companies rather than the government BUY NOW AND SAVE BEFORE THE PRICES INCREASE Now In Full Swing At TV Cable Converter 20 RCA Portable Color TV St Georgetown Corn I Or a of the new CORDLESS TV CONVERTER WE SERVICE WHAT WE SELL that they haven totally a ban doned the idea but they can t afford it at this time Were not prepared lo spend to just to prove a point and that was what the board indicated it might cost us a spokesman said We re a new company and we haven I a lot of capital behind us We might ha been looking at bankruptcy if we pushed It any further GOT NOTHING We were offered legal help by the Metro Toronto Taxi owners Thty promise wurldandwegot nothing Why should I jeopardize my tiny sixcar business for Metro cabs with more than One of our main concerns was the lime involved Wo cant be here operating our business If we In Toronlo all the lime at hearings With genuine employees running our local there no reason for alarm It the ideJ of a union thai bod It the way this one was started The Interesting part of it all v as that Itself dn for details of agree men we reached They wore just happy that wo reached one They I care less what was In it And the CLC people who were involved in all the running around and sorting it out think was a very good contract even though all It does it put on paper what was already happening in prae Use While Jack McDowell will remain the head of the Ontario Taxi Association on a provin cial level employees at the Georgetown company will now have to form their own local Mr McDowell was able for comments KENTNERS COMPLETE PARTY TRAY to I I PLANNING A WEDDING THE competent representative will took altar dowers trousseau less YOU GET 2 pieces Of fried Choice of Salad Grecian Bread plus your choice of beverage US STREET GEORGETOWN