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Tilt Motor Council gallery is packed as town dumps gravel pits ESCAPE PRACTICE Last week was bus gaiety week and schools across practised bus evacuation safely drills These students were practising Friday morning at Senior Public School The drills to give practise at gelling out of the bus In a hurry should they be Involved In an accident or If the bus were to catch tire or stall on the train tracks The drills are to show students how to evacuate the bus without panic In an emergency Herald photo by Taylor ICG continues battle against corridor Continued from page 1 It taken them three months to decide that hey t going to make a dcci he added The courts certainly haven helped the The ICG will continue to oppose the corridor Mr Minns said As well as seeking a meeting with Mr McCauley the group plans to take at least of the legal routes open them although Mr Minns specify which one The group has until October to appeal this latest decision Other avenues of appeal still open are an appeal of the OMB decision and taking Ontario Hydro to court to seek to require them to state their intentions At the meeting of iho land owners Monday Mr Minns sold the group voted to lake die mayor at his word regard the grant from the Mr Minns said in a discus with he ICG executive about the grant Mayor Pete assured him hat the money would be used to fight the corridor Mr Minns Ihe ICG t expect to get any more money from the town but he said group expects the town to stand behind Its com miltment for the The ICG has spent about during its seven year fight for an independent study of the corridor much of it out of the members pockets Mr Minns Mr Minns said it appears by the judgement of the court that you have spend to get justice He said the court talked about avenues of appeal which the ICG hod abandoned seemingly disregarding the fact that some of these on the part of ICG reflected the groups resources I don want to be defeatist but whatever happens to this hydro corridor Ontario Hydro will be in litigation ma their use the land for the next 10 to IS years Mr Minns said Liberal energy critic Julian Reed MP for Hat ton Burling ton also seeking a meeting with Hydro chairman Hugh McCauley who was appointed early in July GOODWILL I feel this Is one area where I can walk in and go lo the new chairman who must bo very politically sensitive and test his good will Mr Heed said I going to appeal to him to once again open his mind The only avenue Is the political avenue in words to change the govern he said Our party made a for an Independent study as I where the lint should go and it won I be built until then Well start with new chairman and lie new mini ster but think any change will to come from the new chairman Mr Reed said I come to the conclusion that the energy minister is a paper tiger The Minister of Energy is totally impotent when it comes to Hydro he continued The only control is through on order in council There Is nothing in Ihe Power Corpora lion Act that obliges hydro to enact government policies Mr Itced said Ontario Hydro is a state within a state and the sooner people realize it an empire the better Major Pomcroy said the council will listen to what the ICG wants to do and weigh it in the balance with fac ton and make a decision He said he t seen a copy of court decision but if the decision says what I m led to believe It says he would expect a resolution will be brought to council to direct the clerk administrator and the mayor to moke the amend ments necessary to permit the construction of the corridor NO ALTERNATIVE There appear to be any other alternative he Regional planning board chairman Roy Booth said he would be disgusted disap pointed and surprised if the town supports the ICG In a further appeal We fought the good fight he said 1 was in full support of the ICG and I really thought they should have a proper hearing The town has its bylaws there s no way a corporation should walk all over them I supported ICG to the but no further believe due process of the law but once had your day in court you take your licking and go home and forget about it Coun Booth said That process of democracy John Mr Minns said landowners continue lo be re solved to fight the corridor to get their proper day in court He said they don regard this as proper hearing because the judges refused lo make a decision We re not totally optimistic and blind to the fact that there may be a hydro lino Mr Minns said The people hie that while they re not going down with the ship they intend to go on fighting Continued from page 1 Mayor read aloud to a packed gallery Monday night also assures the town that regular vehicle Inspections will be made that loading times will be restricted to the hours between and 7 and stone crushing operations to between Noting that lot Construction Ltd which won the new con trad Involving the pit has been moat in accepting directions the letter a iso pointed out there will be severe penalties imposed upon any found to be contravening town bylaws or ministry regula Sixth Lino residents in attendance at the meeting groaned loudly when one mini official announced that between now and 1985 some million additional tons of aggregate could be mined at wayside pits In Hal tun Hills CONFLICTING REPORTS Much of twohour debate on the issue centered on con fllctlng reports of the amount of aggregate remaining in the and other wayside pits with the MTC and MNR officials maintaining that town council was made aware of the extent of resources here as early as last January King Paving and Materials Ltd the contractor which hauled gravel from the Lime- house area pits for the gar Road reconstmcllon pro ject came under indirect fire because council members recalled hearing the firm representative tell them that the Odorico pit was virtually exhausted Last week councillors reel upon learning that another tons of grave Is to be extracted from the wayside pit Some felt betrayed by the province misled by con tractors and other spokesmen Nevertheless enough ell members balked at a motion by Coun George Maltby aimed at withdrawing approval for the application that one of the residents spokesmen urged them to consider a more resolution which ail could support Even if lis rejectlonof the pit licence is eventually over ruled by the MNR Tony of Lim chouse told members council firm opposition to the proposed extraction would force the MNRondMTCto the open define their Mr and neighbor Ron Johnson bearing a lion signed by all adult residents of the Sixth Line between the pit and Sideroad outlined concerns ranging from the operations effects upon groundwater tables to the noise of crushing hauling activities PEACE QUIET Mr Johnson told council he moved to the Sixth Line more six years ago in search of peace and quiet and a close ness with nature alt features of the rural countryside that have disappeared since tl opening of ways I do pits along the road Displaying enlarged color photos depicting the visual contrast between untouched areas of Sixth Line and the pit areas Mr John son quoted from the June edition of The Herald in which council members were report as assuring rural residents their troubles would limited amount of aggregate in the pits had removed With estimates of the amount of available gravel being continually revised hi said those reasons for endorsing Ihc operations are no longer Informed by that the MTC expects another tons of aggregate lo be removed from the p and one other wayside pit nearby during coming months Mr Johnson commented it going leave my house look Sudbury The petition circulated by Mr Johnson and sought council support for a per cent tax reduction for effected homeowners an effective noise control bylaw and another bylaw to allocate general revenue funds for the extension of municipal water services to the area Pit operations will continue to lower area water table reducing or completely stop ping flow of existing wells the petition staled The residents also asked council to have damaged street signs and guard posts replaced a geologist appraise Ihc amount of avail able aggregate in to use an audio recording device to gather legal proof of levels and duration for use in bylaws We have done our share for the community in putting up with the noise inconvenience and exploitation from the pit operations the petition continued We strongly urge you Mr Mayor to take immediate positive action to close the pit operations forthwith and take a stand granting permission for further pit operations on the Sixth line Councils failure to openly oppose the use of local pits for regardless of any reluctance which might be shown will be con as consent by Mr out Without endorsement to back them will never be able to fight such In the courts or elsewhere he said There Is no reason Hills shouldn I follow the example of other Ontario in forcing the MJR or the ministry of lo provide a special inspector Mr said Such an official could do w hat mun enforcement and local police might be unable to do he said by imposing fines for first lime offenders and fines applicable to repeaters RFAI ITY There is a very real lily mining operations will area water table Mr an accident for which only the contractor and not the province is liable Water Rows should be monitored ho advo cated and If affected the MTC should bo held respon along the road and an Sideroad where gravel trucks ha reportedly been observed speeding passing on upgrades and hauling uncov loads I Asked what the province reaction would be if the town withdrew Us support for ihe of the pils Dale Scott of the conceded that such confrontation has never before occurred His would appraise all pert aspects of the mat he said including the reasons behind the town opposition and then decide whetler to accept the town or over rule Its dcci Mr Scott admitted that the itself if sappointcd with the way we used to handle things Licensing lions were processed and approved wlihout any consul with the affected muni he recalled largely because It was felt the Niagara Escarpment Commission con trolled the aggregate areas We always do contact the now and always will he said So will the hope there wont be problems like this In the Much of the problems disturbing Sixth Line residents stemmed from the fact that two different ministries were approving operations al the same wayside pll Mr explained Some of the opera lions were subject to no time limitations he added BOOKS 1MI ItD CHRISTIAN BOOKS RECORDS GIFTS George SI Brampton Once the realizes that it will save no money by mining on the Sixth Line because odd policing Is needed reserve and time limits must be adhered to and any damages must be recovered it will quickly deem the opera lion uneconomical and look elsewhere for aggregate Mr contended Despite the stated belief of official Don Thrasher thai loco mining operations have yet to strike the water table Mr Johnsons photos showed clear spring water at the of drilled holes on the Sixth Line where no roin had fallen In weeks Mr Thrasher assured the residents that any water supplies deleted by the opera tions would be restored by the ministry Mr Thrasher also told Coun Miller lint it is within regio nal council s authority to Impose lower speed limits Thieves roh local homes Neighboring houses were ken lost week and two motorcycles Both houses arc located on R 2 Georgetown motor assisted bicycle known a moped stolen from one of Ihe houses Value of the vehicle wo estimated a t valued at was stolen from the other Two men have been arrestee in with a break ir at the Silver Creek Shell lion A tool box various tools valued at were stolen as well as in cash A tool box valued at was from the Texaco station in Norvat in what police believe was a related in An estimated worth of tools and equipment was taken during a break in in a drive shed on a form on Avenue A quantity of drugs was stolen during a break in at Young Pharmacy on the weekend The kind of drugs token is not 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