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El AWARD IN CUSTOMER RELATIONS the HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills JUNE The with fiirt mom thin 13 In Hilton Hills I This Week A look at s been tough yearn for Sncre school Georgetown French language elementary school but they re still going strong First they had problems convincing the separate school board of their need to exist and ever since they have been fighting the pressures a English society puts on attempts o instruct youngsters In French Herald reporter Taylor takes a look at the school colorful past this week Tough business Georgetown Bill Mc a former enter alncr has a bit of advice for young people gelling- the bus mess don I But if you re determined to be come a star do it early and get it out of your system In this weeks People Bill tells of his tough years on the road as a Canadian musician Page II Clark wins again Ian Clark won two gold medals at the OFSAA track and field champion ships held at Etoblcoke Centennial Park last weekend Clark was the victor In both he 1 and 3 metres races coming from behind to win in each of the events Page Athlete dinner The Halton Hills Athle te of the Year Dinner will be held at St Georges Hall this coming Monday Tickets for the dinner which will sec Kris Barb er Ian Clark or Kevin Parker crowned the towns top athlete arc still available Page 79 Swedish preparations The two Georgetown teams which will against Swedish squads have been picked The senior team is being con ched by Nell Cotton and the Junior by Bob Webster Page 38 Daniell a master Bob Daniell won the and metres at the North Am Masters In Scarborough Daniell is now preparing to com pete in three gruelling events at the World Mast Championships to be held in West Germany in July Page Millions for landbanking Regions budget hike is modest IIOHSM Herald Muff writer regional council has approved a capital budget for 1D73 mil lion road work sewer con si ruction and hospital and po lice project as well as a million forecast covering projects si for re the 197a capital had already been sanctioned by Ihe region administration and public works committees in Ihc amount of three major revisions made by council last Wednesday reascd the overall total lo Council also approved the allocation of to capital expenditures related to operation of the region yh budget and forecast police force Newspaper story angers councillors 10 Am y f HEFTY HIGHLAND HEAVE Jim Patterson lets go with mighty heave In the alone feel one inch tor a photo look at the crowd pleasing pound throw at Saturday a Highland Games In see page II Complete results can be found on page IB Georgetown Despite his Impressive style Patterson lost Mike who set a games record In the event by hurling Ihe hefty t Herald photo by Michael Regional council views plans for GO station expansion regional council last week previewed plans for expansion of GO Transit throughout the in Toronto area Including a one acre extension of the Georgetown rail station park lag lot Officials of the Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority last Wednesday brought up to date on expansion plans and proposals Involving particular the south portion where lakes ho re routes will sec many changes In Georgetown where GO service was introduced in 1971 the Authority recently acquired a oneacre properly adjacent the parking lot which accommodates tcr cars at the Queen Street station GO SERVICE With use of the GO rail service up by about per cent over recent years according to Hugh the Author ty planning and construction manager the newly property is intended for ihe BELL CANADA WORKERS OUT ON STRIKE Members of the Communications Workers or Canada union who are employees of Bell Canada are on rotating strikes for higher wages Union members were out picketing the Bell office In Georgetown early yesterday morning but union representative Waller said the largest group of plcketeri would be outside the plant on Road in Brampton The union which represents about IB OOOpnpIr working In Bell offices In repair sen ice and in Is seeking wage parity with Edmonton Telephone The top wage at Bell Canada now 330 US a week while In employees 44280 a week for a work week Mr Short in Locals and were yesterday The employees have without a contract since December I expansion of the parking lot beyond its current 104car capacity The was expand last year Director of operations Jim Brown reported thai the Georgetown service which a I so involves some passengers from Rockwood and Acton currently handles about 360 bus passengers a day The GO rail service which term in in Georgetown some additional passengers a day he said The bulk of the Authority expansion plans focus on Burl and Milton Mr Clellan informed council that a new nine acre rail station in Burl should be open by October while property are underway or a second station Design work has begun on plans for a million ion Into Mlllon which will passengers through El obi coke Mlssissauga Cooks vlllc and before The only generalized question come from Milton Bill Johnson whowond aloud whether GO Transit is a godsend or a damn lung station west of Thompson Road which will accommodate about vehicles Some passengers per day are ted to use the new service through Milton Council members had ral concerning fie plans for their home ill- WWII rcttnt newspaper article reporting Ih it region is at creating largely middle upper income lots h is II ilton Hills council lurs fuming In the second pari of a series f irtitles on the future of Metro Toronto Star everybody wants iht industrial assessment Peel ire interested nly in classier lint of industry lechnital si iff services As the lusinf they ire providing is f higher income people hey w in the j lo match Booth of ihe pi inning committee hew is disappointed that looking at would issume we re providing only middle and upper income helloes One of our major concerns 1 is in litis and although the prop trills lend ihtmselvts high homes we ire actively pursuing methods by which we tin provide cost housing for families hi Slid Although lie with the si that plan rung is light years be hind market realities he s iw different reasons for it from in article little rental housing is bung built the big item in development is ind visl iracib of land dcsig ire competing for i limited amount of us try new i in Mr Bomb hid the blame to the pi inner- lilt die tales of a com muni no tne is to propose development in any municipality ll at in their I Some of the planners re directors demand of dtielopers ire not will in the reach of the people who purchase the ipmcnl in which those PETE POMLHOY facilities are supposed Quotes attributed plant fed disturbed The communities all com pete with the region and it interferes with the decision making the article quotes Mr as saying I m absolutely sure that Mr Cumming remarks have been taken out of context I can I thai a planner for Regit would suggest such a ridiculous thing Mr Booth said I m sure he be appal led when he sees the state ments attributed him Mr told The Her aid that taking was in the quotes Ihe article wasn too lad The tendency in Continued on Page two Committee deletions made the week previous had seen some proposed capital pro jecis dropped from the budget 20 of them from Hills The deletions enabled regional treasurer Don Farmer to re port that the and fore cast as initially presented council were much lower in total than any presented in previous years I- Mr Farmer credited the low total to several factors Major sewer projects undertaken in previous years are now com he said leaving an extremely modest lure forecast for sewer work for the next We also hive been able to reduce the debet lures rcquir because council has return the policy of imposing contributions from deve topers and municipalities the region and we have at tempted to forecast a realistic level of contributions ing expenditures over the next five years Mr Farmer said The largest addition made lo the forecast last week was million allocation for the purchase of unspecified zoned land which the region hopes to use lo new industrial assessment Al Ihnugh conceded hit the concept of land banking has yet to be approved or even debated by the region a ma of members agreed that the allocation will enable Ihc region keep option Hills Mayor Ptle attempted to use his vote in favor of the J million illocation to persuade Burling ton councillors tint they should in I urn sup port the Tor an equal sewer surcharge when it comes before council 1 Miyor Potncroy told council that he felt a little about supporting development scheme after hearing regional Jack Itaftis a Burlington live and several other Bur aldermen express strong support for a region wide endorsement of the alio Fven though council has approved policy which will fourarei municipalities in paying equal a mounts for water services he a related policy aimed at equalizing sewer surcharges Ins met with less success Largely because the latter Continued on Page nine AMBULANCE DISPUTE WONT AFFECT TOWN Residents have no need to be concerned about the strike of llallon and Peel ambulance drivers Georgetown Volunteer Ambulance Service president Peter Marshall said the Georgetown service Is not unlonlied All the drivers are volunteers and we still be there seven days a week Mr Marshall laid The and Peel ambulance drivers who serve and areas are seeking wage parity with Brampton ambulance drivers who are paid IT 14 an hour Coun Johnson recilled that Georgetown residents who live near the train station were annoyed over GO practice of running the trains engines for lengthy periods while At times he said the engines were left running for hours whether or not the trains were to be used Authority spokesman Leach admitted Ihe practice hid been considered necessary in order to keep the engines warm He explained the trains now have a type of block heater installed in their ines which require half hour warm on colder mornings Council was told that the Authority has an annual opera ting budget of million and budget of million There are some 142 buses locomotives 123 single level rail cars and twolevel cars In the Authonty fleet this year The vehicles and other equipment used by GO Transit are valued al million Council also learned that GO transit carries about 40 000 rail passengers and bus passengers each year y HIGH new feature of this years six to sixteen took part In the show and Highland Game was a gymnastics display ere Joined by two local gymnasts Above under the auspices the University two of Ihe older gymnasts demonstrate Ihelr gymnastic department Ontario champions prowess on the mats