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sOJBOP Haltons People page 28 Home IMewepaper of Halton Hills Gat Mige proposal page 22 Hit IIHtUI Long separation ends Area family reunited by Herald story lit liraldBtalfwrilfr Reporters hope it stones will accomplish somelhng one of The staff writers has a special reason to through story published in this paper era year igo two brine of a family have been reunited otter more than a generation of tepjnlion The irony of it oil is that they Km thin miles apart In March The Herald carried a story about an lad demonstrating decorating ikes in way to Acton school students name was Mrs Boris Shuns wife Barbara a former school Icichir read thi story and was struck b lie that although the were spelled different their phonetic She ns live while tin lions it took si en I a meeting is in set up between tin two families so that the delve int backgrounds Last Sundi Ores ind his sister from nui with lions mdhis brother liter from at home I invited Tit to take piiluri and tit ry s father to klvn New from Hit Uknme in went to to work in i still in 1913 1914 He sick returned lo New York Tlert le mimed irl th it he returned to math to crusaders call it a day The Neighborhood Watch program wound up with a luncheon sponsored by the Independent Insurance Agents Hills last week Project leader Ruth GemIs said she hopes tlie program w 111 continue after she and her fellow staff members arc gone through willing neighbors and friends She said the program wnsasuccess but four months was not long enough Ms said the agents would like to sec the Neighborhood Watch pro gram and the Operation cat Ion program continue but the Solicitor General who Is responsible for funding such programs may not continue to support them Operation deal ion is the program which assists people in marking their valuables with an identifies number Support for the project will be continuing after Miss and her assistants go Ms the sign company which owns the billboard on Mill Street behind the Hotel has donated the billboard to the program for several days In early September McDonald Is considering set ting up a Squawk Squad for children to encourage them to report suspicious things to their parents HO AD SIGNS The Optimists Club in Georgetown was one of Neigh Watch biggest sup porters and provided some road signs to indicate that the the idded The Regional Police Crime Prevention will also have brochures describing the program Ms it Is difficult to gauge the effect of the program She said incidents of wilful damage were down from June to July with damage estimated at in June and In July This is unusual because JuJy and August ore usually the worst months of the year for the said The members of Neigh borhood Watch knocked on doors throughout Hills and Milton telling people about the program Ms Geurts said she and her team visited between 12 and 15 homes over the summer He- spa In MUlon was the worst because they were there in August when most people are on holidays she said Acton was the most community in terms of listening to us she said They also spoke to a number of service clubs and church groups Ms expressed her appreciation and that of her staff members lo the people who supported the pro gram The program went really well and wed like to sec it turned Into a year round thing she said mil eh r yet Kit her of knew the thtr work in tilt i in lumber visited the Yukon lxfi i irb rl i She in she ind her I ii us ut or history old never learn ratldf Shi in 1 round They things s Shims irmly it r s f imi wereacompktt Throui Boris his f they hue cover id severil things well is number of rel itives s ind were brothers ivslusfamll remembered ir s who left the 1 the to find work hut l lost mill with Whither the actually last contact ilh 111 brother with his son firmly ho emit to The line wis occupied y irmus welt lefl to find work and then he hive skipped out f conscription service in program is operating in Georgetown Miss said Neighborhood welcome groups like Welcome Wagon will be handing out the program brochures when they greet I 1917 world Lords hive been Wilier ilso explained the in the spill of Slick lltnlilarHcIimil again las from left Stella from inability lo the sounds Ihe language is written in the Cyrillic which resembles ind therefore there to literally translate he letters in the pi I mi of our name into the fcnchsh he said However 1ohsh ind ire quite simihricipt tint Polish uses thi ilph as I We the used Ihe Polish spelling but tint v be ind the look of it would deft it the tongue just about as quickly is and fumil who found each other through are to eontlnuc exploring Ihe families past Show from Ores l with his the letters The yiwm mil it of Iht writer Obviously the two found writers tin version of Shein a i dShean hive been in use for many but both hive documents dalin biek Ihe th it were officially inged at thai time he first three letters of our inshli is neck Wul ler sud As I it the serfs were mines by their I m my times do you sup pise i serf wouli some ing about lis neck lo a surname cone if If we hear i vaguely resembles iurs we re gome to look into It in it out to be a Hive Tints why I cm understand our miss other in Winnipeg Shein said the family is lot into the possibility of there being another relative in United States who is equal an incident ippened about Some in ippirnlly visited Ihe r old found a school of hers while they were there mailed it to lienor Sofornooie has tracked down the visitors hut ire iru who would know enough lo Come ill the lo ilnv in to sit tin I- SMI I Jons She in visited his ers in eilit yeirsago ind met some members of the still Here His parents also nil visit to their native land before Mr Shcan died Oreit Shorn parents never returned to the nor my of four sisters or his visited there They all live in Stella Is in Boris high school in ind Walter high school in Ores isaiicnfe neenng techno with Northern Telecom Orest ind Barbara have not met Wilier ind Boris sister who lives in Bcamswlle for When the Dominion Hotel in Acton burned down a week and i half igo a number of people who were permanent residents in the hotel suddenly found themselves looking for a new place live Although the former dents of the hotel appear to have found a roof to put over heir heads others are not so fortunate Representatives from the Ontario Housing Cor porntion and from family counselling agree that there is a need both for emergency housing in Hills and for more long term low cost housing for rent or to Attempts are being mide to form i committee to look into the scarcity of lowcost in north but so fir the committee only has two members Barb Stephens of Helping Hands and Betty Hill who is a family counsellor with the region department of social services are the only two members of the commit tee which wis formed out of a concern expressed at meetings of the different social agencies in north Mrs Hilt said the social services department the pub lic health unit the Children Aid Society and other social meet rcgulorlj once i month except during the ind pool Informal on was dec ded iterested In the kinds of housing available and the people ncedhouhing that they form a committee to look into the matter Stephen GEMS CRY FOWL It lot of chicken to Teed a hungry crowd like one felt turned out for the Georgetown barbecue at the Norvil Community School Saturday afternoon and It to handle M when you have wo tela of hands to be cooking Maple Lodge Farm the chicken and John and Jim supplied the hands the food from gelling burned Judging by founds of appreciation from the people dining there Ihey succeeded Herald photo Mrs Hill said that in her role as a family counsellor fmdi the people who need housing both for short term emergency situations and for more extended periods of time usually fall into one of categories They re people who lose their home through separation i divorce or through an extended illness or injur pirtculorly when Workmen Compensation is involved they can afford to stay where Ih are she said It hap pens to people who arc in f 1 need through bank or unemployment And t happens to young people wl don the support of family Those are the people 1 see in the course of my ho need housing The kinds of rental modation cover the complete range from room and board to small apartments to apartments with light house keeping Mrs Hill said Women in particular have difficulty in finding rental accommodation particularly if they hive children and no man Mrs Hill said I guess the ire afraid the woman won have enough money to pay the rent or that someone will come iround and disturb her privacy and that of the other tenants Thechnice is also limited for older couples whose children hive grown and who would like an apartment or a londominium Mrs Hill said There is definite a need for both and housing in Hills she said Once Wo men Plice is open it will provide shelter for women in distress but it can offer a long term solution to the problem of finding afford able accommodation Mrs Hill Usually when women with children are looking for a place to live the children don want to leave the community be cause their are here and they go to here Mrs Hill said id at a time when you re upset you t leave the because you need all the props you can get When the regional social services department has to put someone up over night for an emergency when the person has no place to go and no moniy Ihey usually put them up In a hotel Mrs Hill said but that not for a woman with children The Salvation Army in is working setting up a hostel but they arc still in the early stages and If they re still struggling then were a long way even from that There is a placement centre in which handles teen agers with family problems who can no longer live at home Mrs Hill said but it always possible for Ihem to place the teenager in their own community If the teenagers ore under age needs the parents but by the lime it reaches the stage where the teenager is sure that hi or she can t continue lo live at home the parents on usually willing to go along with Idea Mrs Hill said Mrs Hill said she has talked many times with the Ontario Housing Corporation about the housing needs of the people in this area They say if people don I make their housing needs known the won I get any action from the government Mm Hill said I tell people who come to me to let the Ontario Housing Corpora know it they re looking for in the wayof housing even if they know it there way wegel a record of the needs that do I think we re a nice residen Hal town ind I think there a concern about putting up ing that might become ments all run down and not cared for and s a valid concern But that doesn mean we shouldn look at that option Mrs Hill said MS Mrs Hill said there are any number of resources available to handle the housing pro blems She said it cm be handled by profit such as churches and private foundations She de scribed the project of a church in Hamilton where the congre gation bought several houses and renovated them renting them out at cost or at a small I talking both about housing which pays its own way and housing which would have to be supported by out side funds she said I think if we can prove a need exists the private funds would be forthcoming The people in Hills have been gene rous in the past It going to be very lo hove the politicians involved in the process of getting lowcost housing in the Mrs Hill said it used to be that people were concern Willi a new development about how much parkland there would be and where the school would be built Now It seems to bo tlie mix of housing the developer Is proposing I look at some of the houses in Georgetown and Acton and I wonder who can afford them she added They re lovely homes but they re and I imagine only about ten per cent of the population can afford them We have good family living for people who have a good steady income but the rest of it Just t there she said Local hotels motels have fulltime guests With a shortage of rental ion in Hill tie town hotels and mole I hut ended up with dm st is many permanent reside as transient guests The Cedar Springs Motel on Highway between Acton and Georgetown his permanent residents from time time although they have none at the moment i spokesman for the motel said The motel has kitchenettes which make the units suitable for small apart The motel is sometimes used for emergency housing some of the groups in town such as Red Cross If someone needs a place stay and has no place to CO A number f permanent res idcnls had find other com after the ion Hotel hi Acton burned down a week and a half ago but only one of the guests ended up at The Station Hotel which is the only other hotel in Acton A for the Mid that meat of the IS rooms in the building are occupied by permanent guests and are rented by Ihc week or the month Some of the guys have been here for years he laid The McGibbon Hotel In Georgetown has seven apart all of which are rented out at the moment owner George Markous said Of the rooms about one- third arc rented to permanent residents about onethird lo guests who Stay for a week or two and about a transient guest who for a night or two