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the HERALD Home of Hills Wednesday October IS 19J9 A Division of Canadian Newspaper Company Limited 103 Main South Georgetown 1 Ontario Publisher I IHOM Second Mall Halton Hills council are taking the wrong approach when they approve rental hikes for com munity service organizations using facilities at Cedarvale Park As Coun Miller declared at last week meeting the town is continuing Its steady move towards user pay rental rates at facilities This policy recently reared its head during the ice rates controversy In cold hard business terms the town is taking logical economic steps in trying to get as much money as possible for rental of the facility The problem is as a town council they have some responsibility to ensure certain services are available in the community and that these services are encouraged The town is ignoring this responsibility when they raise rental fees The rental hike to the Maple Avenue Coop Nursery is the most blatant and annoying example of this backward policy Certainly if there was no functioning nursery facility in this community offering activities and care for the three to four year olds and a welcome break for their parents the town would have an obligation to see such a service was available But the parents and staff at Cedarvale are themselves working to provide such a service By operating on a shoestring budget and in good coop fashion with the parents working volunteer basis at the nursery such a facility is available in town Tough stance needed for gravel But rather than encourage the group the town choosing to view the coop is just another tenant is making things more difficult them It is ironic that at the same meeting the co op was told rental hike was cowing they had in tended lo appeal for a rent reduction By raising the rent the town leaves the op with only one option to raise fees This could lead to reduced use of the facility and possibly force lower income users of the nursery to drop out Surely the town should not be encouraging this And it can I be argued that the nursery is asking for handout The parents prove they are willing to put out for the nursery by investing their time and money in its operation They re simply asking the town to give them a break in the rental costs of their facility Considering the thousands of dollars the town plunges into studies and other dubious ventures it seems reasonable for them to forego a little in rental fees to encourage this functioning useful organization Of course the same argument can be made for the other groups like the Red Cross and the artisans using facilities All of these organizations perform a needed function in the community If the town is short of cash we think they should be looking at other ways to put money in their coffers It seems Hills Sixth Line residents have good reason to be upset They showed up en masse at last week s council meeting to let town and provincial government officials know In no uncertain terms they are upset with the seemingly endless extraction of gravel from pits in their area and the apparent inability of the province to guarantee the operations conform to the exact letter of the law Town council responded ap propriately withdrawing approval for the mining of six pits in the area At the same time council voted to tell the government in the strongest possible terms they are concered about local gravel mining operations and that they want the government to build a road exclusively for the use of gravel trucks The residents and council s objections to the gravel pits and the provincial governments handling of the affair are valid While at one Happy 21st GLT Congratulations to the Georgetown Theatre as they head into their season of providing the local community with toprate little theatre The GLT kicks off their new season tonight at Coeur Hall on St with a benefit per formance to raise money for the very worthy Haltons Women Place The season opens with a comedy one of two to be per formed this year It s called There Goes the Bride and all Indications are it be a great show Other performances will take T place this weekend Fnday and Saturday night as well as on the same days the following weekend Its certainly quite an ac for our local theatre group to find Itself at the ripe old age of They have been distinguished years well predated by audiences and per formers alike Wed like to pass along some applause to the and wish more good years time it was thought the Ondoc pit in the area was almost exhausted residents and council were recently stunned with the news that another tones will likely be extracted from the pit Government statements that they try to police pit operations simply have not been good enough Residents are forced to endure increased truck travel along their once sleepy rural roads This could be bad enough but often these trucks speed and the heavy loads they carry make the poor rural roads even worse Of course Sixth Line residents are upset But we dont think councils suggestion that the province construct a special gravel truck road is necessarily the answer Firstly why should the people of Ontario have to pay to subsidize gravel operations which seem to have difficulty conforming to traffic laws that are clearly spelled out Money would be better spent having local gravel operations more strictly monitored by government withe gravel companies picking up the costs of the increased policing The problem of speeding overloaded gravel trucks should surprise no one The of paymment between gravel companies and the independent truckers transporting their product makes speeding and overloading almost inevitable Independent truckers are paid by the travel companies on a per load basis Obviously it is in the interests to transport as much gravel as fast as they can to make more money if they can get away with it If we listen to residents So far they have been able to Obviously the local police force cannot spend sufficient time pa broiling isolated rural roads searching for speeding gravel trucks Thats why a special in spector is necessary but since the inspector is needed because of problems with the pit operations they should foot the bill We suspect that if the trucks are properly monitored along with the local water table area residents might be able to grudgingly endure the pits currently in operation until they exhaust their supplies And both residents and council praise for their no sense approach to the problem Its the only way to get results AH I To THIS Userpay rents wrong approach Apparent reporter cynicism distresses Tory ministers Queens Park By Derek Queen Id Bureau Of the II trait TORONTO Image Is all Oral least a good chunk of what the public believes And this is under media Two very different speeches released here recently illustrate the point very well Ontario Natural Resources Deputy Minister J Reynolds was out in peg iking to the annual conference of provincial mine ministers And General Roy was in Quebec City speaking to hat province Rotary Club Reynolds was detailing the results of a survey Ontario undertook across Ontario find people views of he mining Industry was trying to get across how Queen Park treats its In essence both were talking about images Reynolds said found people see mining as an undesirable industry to work in as undesirable in environmental terms and as a high risk Investment Re added hot most disturbingly less lhan per cent of people interviewed believed benefits from mining out weighed environmental and other costs associated wilh mining Last year mining Ontario pro duced ores worth billion and directly employed people acknowledged thai one reason he came lo the Rotary was lhat Ontario views actions are not always fairly reported or well understood in Quebec On no subject is this more true than on language rights and services VERY GOOD Last year more than students were in French language elementary schools and secondary schools plus 34 bilingual schools So why has this slate of affairs come Reynolds said the mining survey showed by far lit majority of people could recall hearing about mining except about Incos operations and then only about problems People knew noting of government programs designed control or age mining What the public gels is the negative stones all the news media report except in their financial pages he said SCHOOL after pointing how much in way of educational opportunities arc available for francophones complained that the situation is little known in Quebec because the media prefer to focus on one or two isolated incidents For instance the issue currently being debated in is w he I her Francophone students will be educated in French This is already guaranteed The issue is simply whether these will share a school building a simple question of economics Neither Reynolds nor McMurtry had any answers other than the obvious one of making the speeches they were making It is interesllng they were barely reported most places Free trips to Jasper for defecting Social Credit Ottawa Bureau Of The Herald Now that the Clark government has openly embraced the policy of majority by defection the forthcoming session of Parliament should if else be riddled wilh intrigue Just hours after the new policy was announced following a Quebec City net meeting the corridor whispers had already begun in Ottawa Who wondered would be next Nol me said Social Credit Leader Roy I am for sale and Jot Clark should get this clear once and for all That would appear to sctllc matters for Mr Roy but the future may not be quite as clear for his four remaining Social Credit followers in the wake of the defection of Richard who became first floorerosser since the May general election Mr who fought the Tones and nail in that election decided to join Ihe enemy after a recruit ing drive by Senator Martial the minister responsible for Ihe Canadian International Development Agency Its not quite clear what motivated the yearold MP like most political defectors he Is spending a few diys In hiding but the move has clearly motivated the Tories lo launch a crusade for additional converts FAST HUMORS Within hours were published reports lhat two additional Social Credit MPs were also considering the ing prospect of sitting on the government side something they will never do without defecting and another story said that a Toronto area Liberal was undergo ing intensive mind bending programming by the greedy Tories It makes one wonder whether Prime Minister Joe Clark is offering incentives to cabinet ministers for every new recruit brought Into the fold The chairmanship of Air Canada perhaps Wc will not have majority by Ihe time Parliament reconvenes next month says leader but within six months wc will And in the event any potential converts think thai requirements might be too stringent the senator said that the door is open for anyone who wants to Join Supply Minister echoed these sentiments with special emphasis on Quebec needs Wilhm the next few weeks I very much hope will be able increase our Francophone rcprescnta lion he says Even with Mr Janelles presence Tones still only have three MPs from the province compared with for the Liberals The recruiting program obviously has great potential in Quebec And if the government can pick up a majority through defection process we won have lo worry about an election for another four years or go giving the I iberals all of opportunities lo schedule think tank sessions and relaxed leadership reviews CAN TSTOP Perhaps this Is one reason why the prime minister said he t want to encourage speculation about additional defections but It really liter his recruiting team has such a momentum now it can be stopped If James Jerome Is re Speaker of the move thai highly likely It means that the Tones with seats In the mem House need only four additional recruits to form a mojority government As they say in sporting circles what a needed now by the recruiting team is a second effort And that is bound to lead intrigues Every time Quebec Liberal Is seen talking with a Tory there will bean outburst of speculation about his political future particularly now the bearded is off in Tibet where Here is a singular shortage of potential Llberol recruits It has already been established lhat three Social Credit MPs have been wooed by the majority hungry Tories and subsequently hauled on the carpet by a worried Mr Hoy They assured me there are no problems said leader he could say el He lo named If Tory membership drive main tains its present tempo it won be long before Liberal brass begins lo look too When you sec some of your best young prospects drinking coffee with known enemy such as the dapper Senator It time to start worry bit Could he be luring them with a free rip to Jispcr Phone Haltons History From our files iocai iuconis THIRTY YEARS AGO Utile Diane Golden daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Golden is Rood progress toward recovery according Litest purls The baby stricken lost with a disease which at first had the symptoms of poliomyelitis and was rushed Toronto for treatment It is now that it is a form of meningitis or which she has contracted She is be Sick Children s Hospital A spec meeting was held last Thursday morning by council to discuss with Mr Roberts the waterworks the serious situation which has arisen In town due to the depletion or the present water supply Acting mayor Jack said that there were two of paramount importance the maintenance of adequate supplies to keep Industry going and for fire protection and coupled with that was the fact lhat Ihe Board of Parks Management had planned to flood the arena last week I rom a Herald advertisement Ann presenls your new fall dress of taffeta at Another new high in rustling laffeta a full pleated skirt with Ihe new plunging neckline complete with a front waist length zipper In six exciting shades of black grey Royal blue wine brown and green INDl IIS TVFNTY YEARS AGO A new Georgetown Industry leetcrs on the brink of decision to Harold Manager Ad dressing eouncil Monday Mr said there is urgency in knowing a on on a request for release of the remaining A3 building lots in he subdivision A lea wos ready for week with an industry which wiU require IB square feet of space plant he said but not present in a pos lion accept The catch firm cannot presently obtain mortage money lo a plant for lease The answer according to Mr is the sile of lots in the area requested for release Willi a crowd estimated over Georgetown fall fair was huge year An extra attraction was a country music show on evening when hall exhibits were also open and midway in operation Georgetown is only away from the population mark It was disclosed Tuesday by Assessment Commissioner Joseph Gibbons The population figures as of the end of shows a 1 131 climb since last year and now stands at The Business and Professional Women Club resumed for Ihe fall and winter lerm with their regular dinner meeting in Knox Church Hall on The club decided to award the Business and Professional Women scho larship of JlOO to Betty Avery After negotiations since early January when they were Grand Union Carrolls Steinbergs Supermarkets have turned thumbs down on plans to build a new perm ark el here The announcement lhat the deal had fallen through came week at a meeting the Georgetown businessmen in a report by the parking committee Initial action to form the Georgetown High School district board was taken by council Monday when a bylaw was order prepared The new board will take the first of Ihe year when the old Halloa district disbands lo be rcplaeed by three districts centering in Georclown and Milton All MIR TI- YEARS AGO A perfect fall day a generally excellent entry made Georgeiowns fall lair a particularly event Saturday The largest crowd In Ihe fair century history thronged the pork to view exhibits watch patronizo the midway and eat thousands of hot dogs pancakes and pics while enjoying them solves in the atmophere of a country fair Den rides again Friday afternoon in park when Ihe high school stages a chariot race help Ihe Ontario lationFund formerly known the March of Dimes The design of the is limited only by the imagination but it must be drawn by two people have one driver and any number of wheels Every youngsters dream has come true or a Georgetown boy Michael Teeters 13 has just one a Canada wide contest in which the first prize was in toys The Mallei company sponsors of the conlcst will deliver the toys to the Peelers homejiver a five year period Robert was in a lasl Thursday night but the bears were more tabby lhan ligcrs The Halton Young Progressive Conservatives who brought lo Oakville last week had said the opposition leader would take part In style session and they had the up but the strong debating and questioning expected in session failed to develop RIVER RUN INVESTIGATION ONE YEAH AGO one of the two in behind George town s proposed River Run housing deve lopment off River Drive is being gated by the Metropolitan Toronto Fraud Squad and construction on ihe project has ceased according to a member of the force Staff Sgt Tom Maguire told The Herald Mr operates about 150 companies with various partner and all ihe companies arc under Investigation including Abode I the company behind River Run project Threats of legal action and an appeal to the provincat Cabinet and a prediction that a floodgate of spending will be opened accompanied Ho it on regional council decision to last Wednesday to abandon its five yearold policy of billing member municipalities for the water and sewer services they receive on an indivl dual assessment basis A recommendation from Hills council that the government policy on and Quarries Restrictive Zone for the Niagara Escarpment Area be modified to let J C Duff Ltd get a licence was tabled by the NJagara Escarpment Commission Thursday pending staff report on tots aspect be restricted pits and quarries question