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the HER ALP Home of Hills Page TIIF Wednesday April A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main I it Willi t Publisher I ED1TOII Z1 stored Number Heavy traffic on our highway of the future Hills councillors are currently trying to find a middle ground for the proposed of Guelph Street through Georgetown that would provide a compromise between say Brampton commercial strip east of Kennedy Road and Washington DCs Pennsylvania Avenue So great are the potential ramifications of revamping what has become an integral part of the Georgetown landscape that a special consultants study became necessary at a final cost of nearly We don t think the expenditure can be challenged but some of the study findings appear open to questions from ratepayers who negotiate Highway on a daily basis or better Of greatest concern is the consultant recommendation to keep high density housing in mind if and when the sprawling Dominion Seed House lands bet ween Maple and Mountainview become suddenly financially threatened and subsequently vacant That the huge nursery might someday be burdened by real property taxes and no longer considered farmland is a possibility that hadn t occurred to us As far as we re concerned the Seed House is easily one of Georgetown visual highlights its nursery seasonally scenic and its buildings uniquely attractive Of nearly as much importance to local motorists the holdings effectively cut traffic stops and in half and any reduction in vehicular movement during road clogged peak periods Is an asset this town would feel hard pressed to give up Thus the suggestion that high density housing possibly of the variety is the best type of development for those lands if they become available in future us greatly With the Seed House parcel turned into a residential subdivision its cars channelled onto Street via one two or even three sidestreets traffic along that stretch of our main drag would no longer be simply unbearable it would be impossible The consultants recommended the housing route over another proposal to cultivate the Seed House property as parkland We frankly don t know their reasoning at this point but clearly the idea of preserving the lustiness of the area warrants further consideration If indeed the Seed House is destined to on a questionable enough pretense the land natural beauty could be enhanced to turn the area into Georgetown s trepiece a showcase of municipal dedication to recreation and community activities Even apart from the Seed House issue the report now before council has plenty of questions to resolve Ironically moments after the report was received by the planning board last week a by Cherrytree to establish a health club at Guelph and elrex won tentative support contrary to the consultant s advice The report stresses the need for more serviced industrially zoned land in Georgetown and warns that council must strive for some zoning uniformity along the corridor Instead council appears ready to rezone industrial land for a commercial use that does not neatly fit with existing establish ments near that intersection Obviously there is much more to the corridor question than counting traffic lanes plotting the best locations for signal lights and assembling an orderly arrangement of pylon signs All ratepayers should take an interest Georgetown could change dramatically before their eyes Letter from the Editor Paul Dorsey Bring on the arts Talking with Nornic directors Will and Nicholas this past week about Ihcir upcoming production of Dear I rekindled some of the excite ment t share with arts oriented people in town concerning the new theatre x or Liar and other prescnlat ions is making the most of the Knox Church basement the situations much same with the Theatre at Sucre hall anil to a lesser extent Choral Society SI John s Church Apparently the Holy Cross sanctuary is more in demand than any other sports Hills by groups of all interests with the Holy Cross auditorium a lose second As d as some of these dings arcin their limited use way this business of putting on shows in churches and schools lias got to slop and it to be hoped it will slop soon It appears some town fathers are hoping for a 1981 start on construction of the new arts complex on the Georgetown library Speaking for all involved groups I certainly hope there arc no delays and thai the public as a whole gets behind the project financially and spiritually as quickly and effectively some groups ready have mosl notably the Rotary Enid and plans for Ihe future indication of how grand It all could be sofucellousty about Georgetown as another Niagara on with its annual Shaw Theatre Festival The key Is to think of the new complex not as simply a display case for existing local groups but a centre where Individuals and groups from out of own can demonstrate their talents and enrich local viewers further in much the some way as Brampton employs its Lester Theatre From point local groups can strive to match these more proficient perform in on their own One factor hold Georgetown back entertainment wise is few citizens here ire used to seeking out amateur anywhere but in their own Thus thi Little mid others maintain a mitcd but following while more accomplished groups from Bnmpton Misslssauo ronlo and elsewhere are never seen simply bee lust there is no proper fncil in which do their talents justice this is when Studio in particular is liading the competition in terms of bringing in outside of some stature the small beginning of Dear Liar we said last week larger productions will be mounted involving many semi professionals and professionals among them and the Hills Arts Council are negotiating to some substantial talents to George tow but must keep their plans mud almost low key as it were for lack of a proper facility Where for example do you present a major Canadian opera star or on enormously experienced odor with his one man show In facl the r names cannot be dulgcd until booking problems including the locations arc resolved Meanwhile enter Glen as George Bernard Shaw and Florence Connor is his historical foil Mrs Patrick Campbell two fine Brampton actors who wilt quietly untie Georgetown conservative anchor with Ikar Liar and let our imaginations with those of town councillors I fully float creatively out to Sec you the show litre one of those picture we t let go Staff photographer Taylor shot of Megan and Colin Duncan having some ton in the I make it lota Lift week Herald but Greg Landry schedule week allowed ax a chance to make good The Duncan kid were enjoying children Ihe Maple School open house a week ago Saturday Political realities of F18 support Ottawas Quebec deal Ottawa Report By Stewart MacLeod Ottawa Bureau of Herald Having been granted my wish for an early decision on the purchase of a new fighter plane perhaps 1 should leave well enough alone But there is something decidedly unsettling about thd way pressure politics entered the picture at the last moment leading to a major rejuggl of figures We do I suppose have to face realities And one of the current realities is fact that Quebec now Is embroiled in a critical referendum debate Another reality Involves the industrial spinoff from the new fighter plane program which over the next 15 years may cost us a whopping billion these realities It is difficult to criticize the government for ensuring that Quebec at this critical moment gets a fur are of the economic fall out from the fighter program What bothers me is that this was allowed to become an over riding factor despite wholesale den lis and the dominated decision making process in the final days Seven years have passed since the government first began considering a new fighter program and three years have passed since six aircraft manufacturers were invited to submit very elaborate very expensive and very detailed proposals which would include a break down of ill spinoffs and all economic benefits that would flow to the Canadian aerospace industry And two years have passed since the submissions were reduced to two finalists General Dynamics with its singleengine 16 and McDonnell Douglas with Its twinengine F 18 From the beginning It was beyond dispute that he military people preferred the IB over ihe 1G So we can assume that the economic benefits were the major bones of contention over the last 18 months OFFERS RFFINED In that period both companies refln id and sweetened their offers at enormous costs The three governments that held office in that period have been inundated with representations full page newspaper ads were taken out by competing companies and in the view of one senior officer every last economic dollar was squeezed out of the two finalists The decision making process should never have gone on this long but with elections procrastinations and the like it extended into the Quebec referendum campaign And when General Dynamics sold that per cent of its billion industrial benefit package would be spent in Quebec and It was a widely accepted view lhat only per cent of the McDonnell Douglas indusMal spinoffs would reach that province resulting lobbying became intense Even Quebec Premier Rene seemed to develop sudden and peculiar interest in federalism and he demanded that the 16 be selected It is the absolute right of Quebec to have Its fair LOBBY The 74 member Quebec Liberal caucus also began lobbying with on unprecedented Intensity And I have me a copy of a letter written to Defence Minister Ilea by Ian Watson the Liberal MP for Chateauguay in which he mounts an emotional four page defence for the F 16 Even without the argument the on everything I have been able to check is a country mile ahead he wrote When the political ramifications are added a decision favoring the 18 now would be We can assume that was being battered with this argument from other Quebec Liberals In any event the government and McDonnell Douglas officials sat up oil negotiating the program And later that day the choice of the IB was announced along with the news that about per cent of the Industrial benefits would go to Quebec So many variobles ore involved it is difficult to know the full extent of the last minute changes but ihcy were extensive enough to bring smiles to the faces of Quebec Liberal MPs Sure some of the change will affect Ontario said MP Jacques Olivier but we never complain about Ontario share the automotive industry I disagree I heard many complaints about the auto industry from Quebec MPs but thai not an issue As mentioned earlier with the political reilities we face il easy to be critical of the action Pcrlnps most of us given the current situation would have reached the same conclusion Yet there Is something dsquieting the fact after the thousinds of min hours spent refining every conceivable detail that such massive changes could be made in apparent political panic during one late- night bargaining session If it was easy why has a final decision been postponed since 1978 Balancing production safety against zero economic growth Queens Park Queen ft Park Bureau of The Herald today there works a very sorry public relations officer who represented past tense a major asbestos firm During thi height of the controversy hire concerning asbestos he was asked to on a statement by a union employees at an eastern Metro asbestos plant had died from asbestos diseases His response indicated the number was ally acceptable the price that hi I to be paid so society would not be deprived of valuable industrial product lleiction on ill sides was indignation And while for someone in the public rclat business to utter such a state ment is incredibly stupid il highlights an unspoken aspect of much current debate about people s chances of d ing or suffer ing disab lily What ihe public relations officer was talking about con be summed up in one word Risk Not mind you knowing risk the gamble kind of risk best exemplified by or by an company employee who smokes and doesn t wear a respirator Nor are we talking about or deliberate ignoring of safety rules by either a company or its employees Death In these is not and no one could claim It to be acceptable But statistical risk with which we all live doily Any insurance actuary con calculate to a life how many airline pilots will die in accidents per million miles of air travel or how many coal miners will die by accident disease each year to dig that fuel But no one can judge which pilots and which coal miners As a society libelled these deaths socially acceptable In that know they are bound to happen and yet In response we do not ground oil aircraft or slop coal mining What is new however Is Ihe steady grow thin the last few years in the number of jobs that some people insist should be Bill For example the moat controversial section of the Occupational Health and Safety Act Bill passed last year allowed workers In mosl occupations for the first lime to refuse unsafe work And we won I even talk about other side of the risk Tree coin the attempt to reduce environmental risk to zero in certain socially unacceptable industries like nuclear power and waste disposal Yet most of us realize that nothing In life involving machinery which can fail or human beings who can err Is capable of being risk free Accidents will happen The key Is to learn what happened to avoid repetition so the risk can be put down in black and white on paper Insurance companies do It all the time measuring the risk of one occupation against another NO STEEPLEJACKS Working with asbestos Is without question more dangerous than being an and for disability although death insurance such employees pay o premium But interestingly Ihe risk is consider much less than if one were a steeple jack who can t get insurance or a painter aha because of The board of carpenter whose dcith set off latest asbestos controversy wis only one of perhaps board employees similarly exposed to ihe substance yet none of the others suffered illeffects 11 appears some arc more susceptible than others to different diseases What seems lo be happening however is a narrowing of the amount of will tolerate either in general or to viduals As one i we then run a new risk of zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job zero economic growlh the HERALD History From our files YEARS AGO Frederick Will am Appleyard a former resident of Glen Williams died at his home at Corners Aprjl in his 86th year Mr was born August Market Lincolnshire He came lo Canada on sailing ship in and secured employment as a moulder in a foundry located on the site of the present city hall in Toronto While there he attended the first Canadian National Exhibition Bob Jppson entered his beagle hound Kerry Bugle Girl in the Sportsman Show in Toronto and took rsl prize in the novice class The dog is a month old female named for Bobs Kerry See the Sin City wildest days In Ihe movie Bagdad starring Maureen tiara Christian VincentPrlccand John Sutton On Monday ght a watch from Bjrber will be wound and started Ml you have to do is guess at whit time watch will stop Barbers Kill present person with the closest with a beautiful wrist watch AGO A trio of would c burglars wearing crude masks from towels made on unsi attempt on the Meadowglen Mushroom early Thursday morning ifter a assault on the night According police John Corn si 71 of Glen Williams through doorway in tool shed adjoin the plant boiler room when he was by one of the men and thrown to the ground where he was held with his the cinders while the two other men searched grounds The only things m ore a onequarter horse power motor and a lorgL bar Georgetown Police are working with Ihe ire Marshal office around the clock in a concentrated effort to apprehend the person or persons responsible for a fire Sunday that consumed a number of coats In of Si Johns United Church Police Chief Roy Harley sold the culprit entered the room in the downstairs portion of the church where the garments were some time after the service started and ransacked the coats before em on fire with rolled up paper Willi roads a mam item on the business agendo members of Del rex Ratepayers Association attended a meeting in Wngglesworth School luditorlum on Wednesday The meeting heard a report by William Corr association president on four questions submitted by the executive to town council for answer Mr Carr explained that the ratepayers are caught in the middle of a difference of opinion between council and Delrex Developments over specifications for graded and gravelled roads as contained in a 1054 agreement when the area was annexed to the town With Acton agreeing to a similar proposal Cecil Robertson of Glen Williams will commence his duties dog controller for Georgetown on May 1 Council on Monday ordered preparation of by which will initiate the new system It replaces a former arrangement with Oakville Humane Society AGO The dispute between number of Esqueslng Township residents and developers of Golden Horseshoe between Georgetown and Acton will be aired in court Mr Justice AH of the Ontario Supreme Court lawyers representing both sides to file Ihe necessary documents so the case can be heard when the court opens a sitting at the county courthouse in Milton May 11 The proposed garbage disposal plant on Highway may be the answer to much of the garbage disposal problem now facing communities according to George Kerr minister of Energy He warned a group of last week against a too hasty rejiclio I of ihe by Esquesing Toinshp He advocated the establishing of such plants in rural area to handle the growing mountains of garbage from urban areas which cannot be processed without causing pollution Every Thursday morning the Smith and Stone strikers from Local go back to school For two hours they illend union education classes held in Ihe lion Hill Various members of lite Education Committee outline the history of unionism and the labor movement in general Labor laws political action and distribution of union funds ore only a few of the wideranging topics discussed A free skating session at the Memorial Arena Sunday night ended the skating and hockey son here which started six months igo soon as the well attended skating period was over arena staff started operation which will see the arena floor stripped of Ice some lime this week AR region slower growth rote quieter highways varied mix of relatively low priced housing are ben credited for making it Increasingly more competitive with neighboring Peel region and Metro Toronto in terms of attracting new industry Halton regional chairman Jack Rati is lost week said offers industry a balance Construction on the first three boulevard islands on Main Street planned for the bcautiflcation of downtown Georgetown won t begin until after the Pioneer Days celebrations at the end of June members of the Business Improvement Area were told last week Hilda Barrack whose dream home on Itegional Rood Five Slderoad turned into a nightmare of structural deficiencies foiled last week In her final attempt win the support of town council Council voted lost Tuesday to follow ihe advice of Its lawyer and have the 59yearold widow pick up the bill for the town to tor court coats Those costs stem from last month a lawsuit In which Mrs Borrock unsuccess fully attempted to have Ihe town pay her HZ in special genera and exemplary damages because preliminary inspection of her yearold custombuilt home by the town building Inspector Doug Sargent overlooked several serious deficiencies