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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), November 7, 1979, p. 1

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Home Newspaper of Hills lLLSKMA IS The big piper with the I I first bj Retching more I homes I Hilton Hills Levy charges sellout Angry words punctuate Focal debate i has town council to postpone inv development commitments lor loud of Georgetown despite charges lhal move is prelude fur m issue scheme f til Proper ins lid lcvy accused Mayor Monday niclil of making fellow council look like Blanch of idols by holding pnvilc without their know with developers Hi of endorsed otion requesting tin euil of housing to defer cm on the lands bounded by lOSileroad Silver reek mid Hit Eighth and Tenth I iocs when eoiisidermt or ll new re yon pi in COM- 111- Mb Hie support offered ltd liooth td Wood Tcrrv Knechltl Ituss Miller it Patterson George mil Mike A ho ireisuulli of Silver Creek The miyur not onlj denied hiving misled about j itions with the firm e lo build 1 homes thai area he angrily Conn Levy for his innuendoes and 111 il council ib a bole is too rtlutt Hit tn accept den loplnent propos anted of in tin of the Those inj the motion were councillor Levy John McDonald Wilier and Marilyn intson Also voicing opposition lo the v is Laurie president ilie Art tot stip pin Rest home hits snags he died height of follv Lew state mint to Ins followed a mute closed door which council tossed unspecified aspects of mailer with town solicitor Steele In nip mayors motion will lie opining development it which nnj of us could he warn id nut looking 1 proposal lo build two resident ilumls but fact tint ilso indicated Ihty want lioml expansion if tin current project were approved on ll lands Ihey also own south a in inn thai tin in titer tlLt lop rs who larger bud holdings lhc too ire l dun of their ih Wlitri will all that council 1 mid led the in rciinnccs to demand or growth iluiwihiiMry little sirMcid trml lo surest tint il Kiuilid out lliut is very CMON NOW ONE AT A TIME lllerutd photo by Taylor The spirits were on the prowl on All Hallow Eve last Wednesday and brave souls who ventured out to go trick or treating from door lo door were taking their The Georgetown Public Library held open house on allow en for children who wanted hide Indoors away from the spooks and goblins ready to catch the unwary or for hose who wanted a rest In the strenuous round of candy collecting The library distributed candy and provided the children with some games lo play Including Irving to bite the apple the string this group children seems determined to do Trapping Although council recently agreed to the use of leg hold traps in Hills certain members btllt had reservations and requested a Ministry of He to attend Mondoy meeting to clear up some of their Lest we forget Remembrance Day is one of Royal Canadian Legion most Important annual events Legion correspondent Roma outlines significance of the poppy and ihc uses to which the Legion puis funds raised through the sale of pop pies each year Tuts a knockout King Tut may be very ancient Egyptian history but his are cre ating very modern wide spread interest among visitors at the Royal Canadian Museum these days Columnist Gerry was among medio visitors who attended the special press viewing there Pages Town ready to withdraw from corridor dispute Although officials of the interested Citucns Group vow their own end of not yet over the town of Ha 11 on Hills appears reidy lo concede defeat lo Hydro three and a years the utility first applied for permission to build a vail transmission corridor along tilth Concession There no question my mind we have In do this Mayor Pete said Tuesday night as Ihe town planning board considered a stuff report recommending adoption pertinent bylaws There were no objections offered by is the recommendation was wemhed crowd of spectators lhal included of both the ICG and Ontario Hydro still locked in legal after nearly seven years of pi inning and debate Only twoweek reprieve prompted by the mayor request for a solicitor report on the legality certain details in the forthcoming by laws the ICG from abruptly losing its main ally last week Once town solicitor Ray Steele confirms or corrects aspects of the bylaws dealing with lands along the corridor roulc still under Niagara Commission bylaws v ill be before council in amend official plan and zoning legislation and the lower forming last link in Hydros 100 mile lung super corridor will be NO IHOIILt MS don t foresee any pro coming out of the tor report Mayor commented I don think Citizens group still opposed llylOHITWlOU Herald staff writer Hie Interested itiifiis roup 1 l pi lo mi ruling on tht Bruce to Milton hydro corridor but minis lit ruling Hi is utility iliilnt mm itl Mr Scull I Ik ird us loti the allow the corridor to proceed W liter Seal of the KG told The Her ild this position of the eroup position is that we like to see some tor putting the line in Mr said They haven justified it yd Tiicj tn the question Mr Scott said Ihe ICG will be appealing the Supreme Court ruling to the provincial Cabinet and possibly the letted by do win is for the people Mr said I if with MB ruling they tin to til jcllon or If can do wlul think is best tor Hills lb it more or less pi them in the position of being i rubber for the province m opposed to rcHiom government but I line lo wonder when that The If villi be meeting Ibis week to decide how lo respond lo tht towns proposed drnvil from th case No doubl eyebrows ICG lb pi inning s advice to lei Hydro submit a simple wfitltn under iking rilhtr linn 1 rmj I Plan Agree men in will promise Ihe town in good lo municipal provinci slandirdsngarding Town council has stopped Just short of scrapping plans for the conversion of Chapel Street school inlo a rest home following a hard hilling attack from the developer Involved Magnus Paulson consultant and spokesman for Chateau Developments Lid and Held Cooper I Id questioned Iht democracy of a retom Booth which would have seen the conversion scheme abandoned marly yenr after It was first unveiled town Last June the town granted conditional approval lo the proposed rtnovilion of Ihc historic school building as a rest home for up A major concern raised at that lime however was Hit possibility the rest home pi in ham per off oris by the Georgetown and Motional lal Board lo find support for a proposed nursing list Tuesday s planning melting Mr pres tilled councillors a letter from deputy minister of Tom Campbell indicating there be no conflict between it proposals IliBlltHFMAND though long united comments om ihe District Health Council have been received parlially contradict nig the ministry official word Council director William Leonard contended in his comments thai the propos res home would no accommodate a portion of the public demand for such an care facility in Hal ton Hills thus possibly under mining the board bid lo build a major nursing home ho p I I til I galls fences culling and replanting to dr linage courses and grading While i Site Plan Agree mint ha obvious advantages neccsiily of enacting a special bylaw and the time delay associated il would nol be justified in our opinion especially if Hydro prepared lo make such an undertaking deputy planning director Brian said A commitment of that nature would assure the town that any reasonable requests for casements road widening across the corridor would be willingly granted by Hydro as future needs arise and also Hydro construction program would proceed utter lion with appropriate environ Continued on page I bet Ik Th ppe Ih I be type d I Id be I It town of the region Health Council and lllunkthls proposal is not In Ihe best of neighborhood of ihe town as a whole two tempts by Booth to have Ihe pro ject rejected outright council voted lo follow through on the planning board request tor a staff report examining concerns and possible solu lions Those responding to Mr Paulson terse reaction to the lors Ed Wood Ross Kncchtel Pat Patlcrson George Mallby Russ Miller John McDonald Mike Armstrong and Hurry Those siding with Booth were Mayor Pete Pomeroy and councillors Manly Terry and Waller Biehn MONTHS s been four since wt sought clarification or Ihc basic differences between a private rest home and a pubh licensed and operated nursing home Mr Paulson told Ihe planning board last week Tins lelUr from the minister should satisfy von that Hie ministry docsn regard us as potential compel lion if ind when Ihc hospital tries lo build nursing Mr Paulson predicted Ihere would be no problems standards to be out lined in a forthcoming report from region and questioned alleged of neighborhood land ovv ners in acquiring all or pari of Hie adjacent road allow once si to be closed and sold by the lown In lion will schools Continued on page alleged breach of Is eould ever be sslul There is now even if the liihiKilogvwcrt Tillable Hut our sew capacity could from to ilenl without dints he lev refilled it the muting of Mayor public illy deny he id wilb developers statement prompted by erroneous re of anliciplted ii between and Ihe Councillors lhal meeting thai oca chief Bruce McLaughlin had told Toronto investors in speech that he expected approval soon for his Hills proposal As a possible rcsull of Mr Continued on page RUNNING A HIT Maclean given the movie Running a less than enthusiastic reiven and the Toronto Star a Clyde was a little more hut Councillor Waller ha seen the movie and he s recommending Georgetown resident sec It told his colleagues Monday night that while the movie wont win an Academy Award It Is an excellent movie well produced and worth seeing Area residents who want lo see Ihc scenes filmed In Georgetown will have to keep their eyes open because these scene filmed on Main Street lake up slightly more than two minutes on screen There Is another brief scene near the paper mill dam hill he sold It nice to nave a resident critic on council Coun Mike Armstrong Joked QUITE A SHOW Jean Wakefield was on band Saturday at the Georgetown branch the Hills Public Library to talk to people about the display of llgurlnes and china much it Royal which the bad provided for viewing The pieces came from Wakefield Antiques a business run by Wakefield and ber husband Ed

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