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J Herald of child and to keep a Children s Aid Society in mi a very critical sanation and according down it arrets loinuut fun mini unless additional funding isgrantedbytheOniariogovernment thi jpinals local society will be unable to enact recent Hon director of the No substance Children s Aid Society to and other representatives of the society will today Wednesday with represent a of the of consumer and affairs to discuss increased funding for the local CAS to ministry of in In June of this year the provincial soeial would only i government introduced sweeping changes if ret to rani of 1 hi thinks funding tin minsiry provincial in hi h if mini ntatm of local muniui tin Pi tribunal of more investigations by Mr 111 bad liopci to establish a special turn charges of Thiliiiiici ml pill the Mr i din nil burnt I mure being placed in in if Aid Societies Protecting children we win in the business of protecting children now we in the business of them he said Mr I ind said the of child thai pnvi wiuW si to a sue child for the CAS to care for In audition tins type of child may request a review of his status before a judge six months According to Mr topi land this could lead to an endless stream of court appearances for our staff The has for nine additional staff to handle what they saw as Ihi increased workload treated as a result of the new child welfare legisia Because of the ion to cut their budget the CAS has hired AWARD IN CUSTOMER RELATIONS the PIER Home Newspaper of Hills The big paper with the circulation first everyone Reaching mon thin homes in Hilton Hills Legal battle threatened Police and guns the i of f The arms by police in Toronto has prompted Herald Taylor to investi gate the situation In Hal ton region where fire arms training program was revamped this and at the Ontario Police College where basic training is conducted Union thrives Less ihnn r after crsiol begin ing in Glen Williams the Ontario Taxi Assocnlion the province first taxi union in more than years has I QUO register membera Pago Trying for NHL Two area natives seeking berths on the I dmonton Oil team have met with varying success one re turning home miss ing the big and the other still under by team of Sports Weed Water grants The subject of years of controversy uniform se wer rates for all of region are being cons I by municipal this week and a preliminary glance seems to suggest that Hills may not benefit from the move as much as local ratepayers had been led to believe Page Soccer stalwart Herald columnist and well known soccer conve nor Alex Tough likes maintain a contingency plan for life as he ex plained his week to staff writer Maggie Hannah in People Page False forest Thanks to Ontario dro some trees of varying species may planted on a site adjacent to re gional headquarters in Oakville la a demon sir tion forest Gravel pits ministry attacked SURE SIGN OF FALL Herald photo by Taylor Spring may be apple time but fall Is apple picking time at II yearold Jennifer Hayes demonstrates Jennifer family and operate the Apple on IS west of Herald stall writer Pomcroy has threatened to take the provincial ministry of transportation and communications MTC to court unless guarantees are provided that regulations governing the extraction of aggregate from local wayside pits will be enforced An representative muted to attend Monday night general committee meeting to discuss Issued extraction permit for the wayside pit near I found himself on end of some verbal hostility from Mayor and Buss Miller which reflected continuing frustration experienced by municipal officials over bylaw con inventions Clerk Ken Informed he com that the has issued a permit to Hot Construction ltd to extract tons of aggregate from the Odonco pit for use dump the construction of a highway Interchange at Ford Drive and the Queen Elizabeth Way in Deluged since last spring bj phonecalls from angry Ward residents Mayor and Miller look the opportu to tent their own tion being to have officials enforce the conditions of agreement posed by the Before arranging a meeting in his office this with MTC officials Mayor Pomcroy ihroatcned to have the towns January li79 en of sit wayside pit locations Predict council support for the move he mayor warned that the town would take the MTC to court to defend its right to regulate aggregate extraction The Odonco pit was among six existing wayside pits ap proved for extraction opera tions by the town in January Coun Roy Booth recalled that the Niagara Escarpment Com mission of which he is a member endorsed only three of the five Hills pits submitted for its consideration by the ministry of natural resources but Queen Pork has nevertheless issued per mils for extraction at all five Claiming to have heard four times previously that the Odonco pit was nearly exhausted Coun Miller com plained he has little credibility left among his constituents in Ward whom he has repeat Now for this to come along is really disgusting he told Doug Waller of the MTC It just seem give a about Hills I sort of feel like the imyor that we re just going to have to say no for once take the ministry to court if we have OWN HANDS Coun Miller warned thai he is beginning to sympathize with residents who want to take the situation Into their own hands and try to stop the daily of town bylaws Despite dozens of con imposed on pit opera tors and contractors he said he has witnessed gravel trucks tall Continued on page Coop Red Cross fight rent hikes Despite iwo requests for by affected lri ups the town s general Ins mil mere for llie public use of Hills four com and three ire ilisiiniedatollsilting nel costs lo the own for Georgetown mil Red Cross president Tina in a letter to tin town lhal increased rental fee would the branch to reduce Ms community service limn appeared be hre the reduction in tin n ci to the Maple operjine Nursery School Both utilize office it Com and face per rem I if the Trafalgar Hood one of several groups Belling apples on roadside stands In Hills There 5 nothing like an apple fresh off the tree to the due tor away Precedent already set Field rental considered schedule reei mounded for im in January it week by livrts rintalnlesapplv to all space at ih on sing im town Hornby and in nils at the Cor Aid Hills is behind the times when it comes to ing rental rates for use of outdoor recreational according to a survey of Ihe situation in other municipal i ties but own officials can expect to absorb a loss from the practice if the survey results arc any indication director Glen Gray surveyed ten southern Ontario municipalities con the implementation and operation of rented tics recently In preparation for his forthcoming report on the proposal Tor Hills The suggestion that users of soccer fields tennis courts baseball diamonds picnic grounds and other outdoor facilities should help costs by paying rental fees follows large in creases In rental rates for the town three arenas TENtOMMUMTILS Of the ten communities sur veyed six indicated that rental rates are levied for such facilities and seventh ri ported that rental rates an coming into effect next ye ir Bates die now imposed in Brampton Burling on Cambridge Kitchener and while Oakville charges rent only lor the use of lights at adult games There are no fees levied in Misslssauga and Milton according to the survey In five of the municipalities where rates arc imposed Mr Gray found the cities absorb year send A sixth Brampton reported that rental rates are designed to cover maintenance costs but never do The situation is apparently similar in although incoming rates arc expected to see the public paying 50 per cent of costs Only Orangcville reported a positive financial picture ad vising Mr Gray that Ihc rate system breaks even on the basis of power consumption Of the six communities where rales are now in place five reported that the system has been operating for at least five years and the sixth Kitchener saw the rates plemented at least three years ago In of information which could help Hills get its own rate system under way if the move is approved by council Mr Gray also asked the other municipalities how often their respective systems ore revised who ad ministers them what guide lines are followed In register ing user groups when field use is booked each year who handles lighting controls what policies cover booking cancel and rain problems how priorities arc allocated whether any form of sports council like Hills Continued on page the Maple Nursery and ited Cross other regular custi mors of the includi Ihe Georgetown Credit Valley Commun the Hornby School the Child reus another which in town net on director Glen that the Air Cadets mini charge for the upper or at Cedarvale should remain unchanged from this tar at a month Any other rooms needed by the group he advised will be rented out according reused rates once approved Previously of additional rooms in the building will be charged for Similarly rent charged Credit Volley Artisans for the cottage adjacent to the would remiin same per month but leginning next the turnup will no longer be the town lo cover charge if Mr recommendation is Mr Gray report all affected groups with the exceptions of the Mapli and the Cross ore amenable lo the proposed increased which range from a month for the Assocnlion to a month for the Children House for a rent review committee formed by par involved in the Maple Nursery Mr Anderson con ceded that a six per cent rent hike is reasonable the school rent from a month to Nevertheless he said fi difficulties already being encountered and con among participating par the school may soon be lo lower in come families have forced the school to instead see a a reduction in its rent Calling the requesled reduc Hon a subsidy Mr Ander son outlined the cooperative school management proce dure in which parents of combine Ihelr efforts to and run nursery Now m its tenth yeir of opera dm Ihe Maple Nursery char a month for each sludi to attend halfday five days a week for nine and months While the proposed the school Mr Anderson mealed it could alter lis character in such a ihat lis would no longer represent a broad cross sec lion of the community in terms of family backgrounds A of commillee balked Mike suggestion that school request should be deferred until next spring when the towns annual budget as well as various grant applications will be con A municipal grant equal lo amount of the rent increase could be considered at that time Armstrong con I ended Councillors Roy Booth and Marilyn Serjeantson said that a deferral would leave the school in limbo and give affected parents false hope thai a municipal grant will be approved Because of the vol of grant applications Serjeantson Continued on page TOWNS ONLY SURGEON HEADING FOR STATES Georgetown Is loosing only genera to the United Bruce Duff general siirgeoa at Georgetown District Memorial Hot pita I faai not announced date when be will leave but the fact that be la leaving been confirmed by a member of staff and by Mayor Duff practised medicine in Georgetown or mare than 14 year He not In the Ontario Jjubmbco Plan administrator of the Georgetown and District would not dlicoti Dr departure until the doctor makes the official announcement from town are often brought la to operate at the Georgetown