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EXCELLENCE AWARD itris HER I i Home Newspaper of Halton Hills WEDNESDAY MARCH II 1M0 big circulation Covtring Acton A Surrounding Common Hit Predecessor resigns suddenly Miller takes over waste committee Chris a grade student at Georgetown District litre with escort Edgar Thatcher moments after being crowned School the schools newest fenow Queen Mil a Edwards Snow Queen See also page who plans to attend Sheridan College to study social work Is seen Herald photo ANNUAL WINTER PAGEANTRY The first by Village People an hilarious dance routine Gary Miller Grant worthy Mavis Neal Bob high school teachers lo a disco hit from The McKay Villa Shirley White and Mike The teachers were from right left Fred Herald wayside pits concessions reward residents negotiators By RICHARD Herald Staff Writer Negotiations involving the town a Sixth Line resident and the provincial is try transportation and communications have resulted in a number of cant ministry concessions re garding the listing and opera lion of specific wayside gravel pits in Helton Hills The three groups have had several meetings in the last few months in an attempt to resolve concerns over the me thod of listing wayside pits and the length of their operation The town general commit tee Monday passed a series of recommendations on wayside pits based on a number of concessions contained in a let from the MTC to Mayor pete While recommendations are for specific pits only Ma Indicated that further developments of a more general nature would bo announced at next Monday council meeting The has agreed to remove the pit on the Sixth Line from all future aggregate source lists for is try projects and will not process any further wayside applications on this pit without written approval from the town effective March 10 The Spitier pit Is also being removed from future source lists and any further wayside applications will a bo require written approval from the town but no lime frame is given The MTC has agreed not to pit on any project advertised after De cember 1380 without the written approval of the town In return the town has agreed not to oppose the listing of the Odonco and Vincent proper tics on aggregate source lists for projects advertised prior to December 1900 The town is requesting that the MTC confirm in writing that any permits Issued prior to December 1980 will indicate that the aggregate will be removed no later than December The MTC is also being re quested to advise in writing that the aggregate remaining within the Pat to be removed docs not exceed tons Council committee review ing aggregate resources lists will meet with MTC officials around April 1 July 1 and October I of this year to review the status of the Odori properly in order to assess the resources remaining plans and resources committed under wayside per with the objective being an earlier delisting of the property The town acknowledged the a intent to review the status of the Vincent property during January 1981 for fu turc utilization No mention was made In the recommendations of the gen committee regarding the a request for extended operating hours By Herald Writer Hilton Hills Coun Miller says he is pleased about becoming the new chairman of region solid waste management committee but admits he is disappointed with councils reluctance to implement an JIG million waste management system Council s decision two weeks ago lo reftr the proposed system back to staff for further study prompted the committee s previous Coun Terry to hand in Ins resignation in a scathing letttr council last Wednesday Coun Miller told The Herald that he was Teachers talks Wednesday morning by council members who urged him to take the post 1 told them I would be willing but not if council is going to turn it into a nothing committee he Council resignation that and immediately named Coun Miller the new chairman In his letter resignation Coun Manuel strongly den the region for its rcicnt action on the solid waste management system I refuse to be used any longer he wrote I will not be coopted by a council winch has misled the public by proclaiming policy slate- Arbitration rejected HERALD SPECIAL Representatives of the On tario Secondary Sc T Association Dls trict fl Halton rejected the Hal Ion Board of Educations offer to go to arbitration Mon day Neil Munro a provincial representative for OSSTF and spokesman for the Halton group said the teachers want a negotiated settlement and so far the board given them enough meaningful nego tiation to go to arbitration The teachers want to see an honest bargaining effort from the board he said and that would probably require three or four days of lengthy Arbitration will still bo aval able down the road and the teachers feel a strike vote will give them leverage over the board to help in negotiating a settlement Mr Munro ex plained Arbitration may force a set tlemcnt but it won eliminate the real differences which the two sides have not been able to reconcile so far Mr Munro said Thus It only postpones the trouble rather than ending It Mr Munro also stressed that the board Is misrepresenting some of the facts in a press release Monday morning from its Burlington headquarters Despite what their figures says the board is only offering a six per cent increase while the teachers are asking for nine per cent he said The mediator agrees with these figures he added Although there has been no indication ihotevena oneyear contract could be worked out Mr said it is possible that a twoyear agreement might be reached during a long term of negotiating The that a twoyear con tract should be made has been tossed about at the table but if It went to arbitration there is no way the teachers would look at a twoyear a he said At a press conference day morning board spokes man Bill said that although the board had altered Its position on several mailers including the retroactivity of the agreement when It Is reached the teachers had not moved a bit and therefore the board concluded there Is little hope far a negotiated settle ment The alternative seemed to be to ask for an arbitrator or mediator arbitrator to decide on the new contract be said How soon such a person could be In place to settle matters would depend on how quickly the Educations Relations Com mission could appoint someone to the task Mr said the teach ers had jointly asked for the services of a mediator lo look at the dispute last month and now that they have such a person they don t seem to want him We have to assume they reel a strike will be more beneficial to their position than settlement by a third party he said Mr Lawson said Martin lltsky the mediator appointed by the declared an passe In negotiations after five hours of talking Saturday and suggested the parties go to arbitration in some form as a dispute resolution device be fore there is further lion of the dispute Mr quoted him as saying serious differences of principle separate the parties on each of the major Items of dispute and as a result he felt arbitration was necessary The board would be quite willing to carry on negotiations through the March break next week if he teachers wish he said Mr accused the teachers of deliberately trying to destroy the between wages in the elementary and secondary levels which the board has traditionally main tained Hie fact that the elementary teach era settled a twoyear contract In August 197B hurt ego of members of he secondary panel he feels and they are retaliating deliberately try to destroy parity between the two sections SALT TRUCK COLLISION Regional Police are still investigating an accident which occurred at 30 Saturday afternoon on Avenue just east of the Fifth Line Involving a car and a regional works truck The driver of the car Pauline Dickson and her passengers and four children aged to were all taken to Milton District Hospital for treatment following the mishap The truck loaded with salt for spreading on the icy roads during the storm overturned but the driver regional works foreman Brent of Acton was unhurt 11 MILLER it now shows no commitment to which has found excuse to delay a meaningful commitment and now faced with a well researched considered resolu Nun that does represent meaningful decision but one in safeguards and clauses that It represented no risk at all has found a method of further delay that regional council has abrogated its commitments to the people I m disappointed with the iction of council he I region has turned its back on its responsibilities Miller he was not present when council lo refer the recommen ditions tin solid waste ttbruary 20 but expressed that other Hills representatives on regional council chose lo support the referral decision d that Mayor Pete hao moved the ill cited thai the proposed transfer station or recommended as of the solid waste management system is a villi necessity for the lown We re the ones who are suffering most from the present garbage situation lit referring to the towns new requirement to garbage to The loig haul to is costing the town a lot of ho said and is also resulting In other problems Right now weve got people dumping garbage on rural roads because they don I want to drive to he explained Miller said that frank the owns put tic works superintendent is ping track or the illegal dumping going on and has pictures of people dun ping Mr Moreltc will be turning the Information over the he added toun wilh Manncll lonlrnlion that a source s para t ion program by paper waste be reclaimed and sold thus reducing the if garbage which iiutLs burying Is feasible for 11 rigion If wt tell people the costs arc involved In garbage up and haulage II Hit necessity of separation he said bought extra packer around to help n mi the garbage to SLOW SALES PROMPT LAYOFFS Beardmore and Company Ltd of Acton will laying off to workers daring the coming weeks result of low sales Donald Rankin personnel manager for the tannery which beta In operation In the town for more than a century say the Industry I running below capacity at tab time and there Is no demand to use the plant product The layoffs will be spread throughout the plant and affect about eight per cent of Its 300 union members be said Layoffs will begin next week and take several days to complete as the lowering of productions catches up with various departments on the line He could give no estimate on how long It would be it fort the workers are recalled but was confident that It was just a matter of lime before demand rises and workers return to their jobs The tannery is Acton biggest employer FAITH AND BEGORRAH Taylor intrepid young Herald photographer his just returned from an exciting trip to line Old Sod in an attempt to commemorate Si Patrick Day next Monday by proving or disproving the existence or the fabled Leprechaun Provided with an unlimited expense croon over a day I and the opportunity to work way to Ireland on a cattle boat she returned triumphant Despite a journey through bogs and fighting off amorous Irishmen she returned with photographic proof and that no blarney Herald photo