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I EXCELLENCE AWARD IN CUSTOMER RELATIONS Lt Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Since SPEEDY 251 Queen St East Brampton 4597822 Spccth you re a somebody WEDNESDAY JANUARY Larg area blacked out Saturda High winds and cold left us us in the dark By CHRIS AAGAARD Herald Staff the second weekend In row high winds and unstable weather conditions throughout Ontario slowed or shut down commerce forced school buses oil the rods and remain Indoors The weekend snap coupled with winds reaching at limes up to kilometers per hour contributed to a power oil Saturday night which left half or Georgetown and southern Esqucslng without light and many homes without heat Police and Ire department officials In town reported no major Incidents along road ways or In homes during the blackout which began just after and continued until to Saturday winds whisked the limited snowfall Into blinding gusts jnd hazardous drills and temperatures to degrees below zero police men wire forced to direct traffic at the Street Intersection In Georgetown because street lamps and traffic lights had blinked out with the power ton Hills Hydro genera superintendent Hugh Camp bell told The Herald Monday that a guy wire supporting a wooden hydro pole near Pine- School on Trafalgar Road snapped and fell across power The short circuit immediate ly out homes as far west as Highway and as far cast as Brampton Homes In Acton and the northern part of town were unaffected When the power went out Mr Campbell explained hydro employees begun a systematic check of the circuits feeding electricity into town to pinpon where the break Crews were shortly dispatched to correct the problem Zeller s department store In the Georgetown Market Place was Open to Saturday but had to close suddenly when the power foiled Store manager Gordon Finney said that customers were very understanding about the Inconvenience which shut down the stores elect cash re sisters Under the eerie glow of the emergency lights in the customer were able to purchases as clerks wrote up imoiccs and d into or bags to ink change reman in the store until the power returned Although he winds and which left about five eentimeters throughout most of southern Ontario continued until Monday morning schools opened as usual In Hills However school bus service ground to halt and institutions reported that of their leaching staff were having problems Retting to work GO Transit trains ran Monday but bus service to Georgetown and Acton was interrupted because of bad weather Seven I minor calls for aid were received by the George town Volunteer Ambulance Service during the blackout and throughout the weekend crews were also patched to help accidents In neighbor Brampton spokesman wilh the wolher office at Toronto airport sale more seasonal today Wed and for the rest of the week hovering between minus five and zero degrees Celsius Partly cloudy conditions and the poss of snow flurries complete the week weather forecast ENOUGH POPCORN FOR 101 MOVIES Older moviegoers will probably lookenvlouily at his photo ami wonder why they Invited to participate In Georgetown Little Theatre a recent coloring contest for kldi held In conjunction with the Once Upon a Time Bracketed by children librarian Mar key Hell and reside John Roe Angle Gambles picked up her of popcorn almost half big a she is for winning In the contest eight to year old category Campbell won for hit poller submitted In the up to seven years category Runners up in the competition were Kevin Michelle and Colin The photo waa taken at the John Theatre box office Saturday Herald photo by Chris denounces FIRA over firms closure God help real Canadians- mayor ITS BALLINAFADS TURN toe centennial celebration of the Balllitafad United Church congregation In Included the of a booklet recording the history of the congregation Thli sketch by Robert Plnkertoti the cover the booklet written by long lime member of the congregation See page At lor an Indepth look at Balllnsfsd United part our series on churches By CHRIS Herald Stall Writer With the fate of Irwin Dor Ltd finally sealed Mayor Pole dropped Ihe glomes Monday night unleash Romas annual thankyous for towns Good Neighbors Another successful Good Neighbor Service campaign Is drawing to a and all that remains Is send out thank you cards to all who helped and donated either their time money and food Actually Just about the whole town was in oneway or another when you consider the fact that so many of the donor were the students from all of our schools would be the many people who gave through their church We begin by thanking old tor the warm comfortable place he gave us to work In Officers Raj Swamlnalhan and Bill regional Milton detachment Rob Homing his fourth year helping and Greg Georgetown District High School Wan da and Robin Thomson Sheridan College law enforcement course who picked up all the food from the schools Grace of the Legion Ladies Auxiliary who helped us by contacting the schools Bubble Walln Nellie Bell Mid Alice Elliott and Elsie Montgomery Leg ion Auxiliary who sort helped pack the baskets Also helping lo aon pack were Joyce Gosling President the Lioness Club Ed and Siena Van Cross Church and Cathy Johnson Helping with dell vents were Joe and Gib Telford Legion and Ron Breen can always be counted on lo gel a team Lion Club members out to do the Thla year they were besides Ron Porter Howard Murphy Carl Han son Bob Gordon and Frank Another fellow woo Rives us a hand Is Doug Woods I must moke special mention of Nell Bell Legion Auxil who took on man Job of delivering out to the country when she knew we were stuck Dec 24 And I can forget my good husb- who helps in many ways Thanks to all of you The bills are paid there be more money going into the bank and happily we have a balance for next year Although the work Is mainly done in three to five days begins in November with a phone call Preston to order turkeys and ends sometime In January when the last card Is mailed Deserving a large part of credit or assuring this year ran smooth ly wot the help from Betty Sandifcr Everyone needs right hand Thanks Betty Also a large which look en families off our lists those who were out In thecountry The Georgetown Club who again helped us by taking six names off our list leaving our Lions nd other helpers to deliver the remaining baskets I been working with Preston for many years now and as before when says he 11 Thanks so very much left We thank you for your thought fulness Others sent us cheques and asked to remain anonymous Our grateful Ihanks to you also Our local papers have been a tremendous help In their coverage of the Good Neigh Service oral it is much appreciated by all to had pictorial coverage of different Instances by The Hills Herald and the Independent page A3 rats good as his ward He makes our Job that much caller Thanks to Porter who cosigns the cheques and all the help you given with deliveries Ah yes Last but not least where would Ihe Good Neighbor Service be without those fsbulous Klnettes Their ranks are few but they do Ihe Job of many Under crowded circumstance with limited lime and only a handful of members Iheydld a truly fine Job of making up toys for over SO children from the very small into the teen residents Roma right and Belly been bowing their townsfolk for years bow a Utile and same volunteer effort can make Christmas a lot merrier far of local families whose incomes don allow the comforts the season we all lake for panted Stocking boxes and baskets with food children a toys and a few other Ingredient all donated by area and Is Jnit one of the talks Mrs coordinates December for the Good Neighbor Service with Mrs kelp The Oiler Jobs from pickup to try are undertaken by from every walk life saying more than any Christmas card the spirit of the Herald We photo Ing scathing condemnation the federal government and its re Investment Review Agency IRA involved in discuss ions and Georgetown plant parent company Dow Jones Comp any of Delaware which closed Irwin Dec and lirminaled local Jobs May on the matter With MP John McDermid met officials In Ottawa last month to discuss the agency decision ordering Dow Jones to divest itself of its Canadian publishing holdings or least major share of them Rather than lose control of the Street plant the American parent chose to close It Describing his conclusions on the Irwin Dorecy closing as personal he charged that is having a negative Impact on Canadian Industry and warned that Canadians had better brace themselves or a lot more Irwin and further secret and plained decisions Mayor maintained that the government believes Is popular protecting Canadian business from being excessively controlled by or Interests But ho said appears I pose on the Industrial growth of our 11 in poses these Ions without any clearly defin ed set of guidelines for a company lo become Canadian and therefore avoid the process Mayor Pom wrote In a letter lo council He added that the decision based on a ions about whether a comp any is attempting to is reached by the federal in secret After the closure was an nounced during a press con called by Irwin Dorsey president Dick Willis Nov 13 Mayor and Mr met At the time Mayor said ho hoped the meeting would reveal more about how operates and how II arrived the decision to close Irwin forcing peo ple out work The seven sales reps for the firm have joined Richard Irwin a sales force and will continue lo sell books In Canada I found this whole issue including the meeting wilh off one of the most frustrating exercises In my very political career he slates In lie letter If I his Is the kind of mandate our leaders think Ihey have been sent lo to exercise God help the real Canadians otherwise Iter Ive about policies May or saved his highest praise for Mr thanking him for his efforts In the Irwin Issue bint MP s dedication as an elected official as tux Town school board face off on sharing Herald SlarfVtrittr Town recreation officials and representatives of the separate school board week to try and resolve a dispute over the board ice on d rector Tom Shepard told councillors at Monday ght s meeting that town s separate schools Georgetown Holy Cross St Francis of Assist and Sacre and Actons St Josephs have been making use of the arenas during school hours racking up ice time the town WOOD to lasl year Mr explained that the town has a written tile public school board which allows students to use recreation facil free of charge during school hours in return for letting the department book school gym and classroom space for other organizations Costs are compared annually and arrangements are made in the following year to Iron out major inequities However Mr said the own has no such agree ment with the separate schools and until the town has been compensated in some way only publ school stud ents will be allowed to use the year the rec depart menldiscoierrdthat the use of the arenas by separate schools was monitored along with the public schools Mr Shepard said he ordered the Ice time broken down between the pub lic and separate schools and ducov that about one third of the ice time accumulated during weekdays Is used by the separate schools Separate school trustee Irene McCauley told that her board has written agreement only with Burlington and argued that Hills has full use of the separate schools playing f elds A local ladies basket ball league also used Holy Cross gym last year The league now ploys Wednesday nights at Centennial public School Mr Shepard acknowledged that the separate school board has offered the town the use of Its schools after hours but he added Hills has no urgent need for them at pros There are no activities book through the department currently being run at any of separate schools he said The separate school a use of the arenas la something that has to be paid for Mr maintained and It Is not going to come out of my budget Left unresolved while the town formulates a new budget the Ice time dispute could show up as a ON deficit in the red department budget allocated yearly to wist community organizations Where theres smoke Town council a long running amateur musical When Smoke Gets In tour Eyes began a second season of semi regular performances last Monday night As port of her campaign to clear council chambers of Ihe often noxious clouds which build up especially during long meetings Marilyn Joined by Mayor Pete attempted to pass a resolution prohibiting smoking In the chambers Council however voted lo table the motion until councillors Roy Booth and Mike Armstrong both smoker are present at a future meeting recently suggested that the town look into getting air purifiers for the chambers PIPEN HOT Holme of Georgetown age II recently passed Intermediate piping Level One Presenting dim with certificate to BIN MacPball coordinator of piping and drumming classes si Sheridan College In attended the twoweek summer school harridan In where he tested for this level and also tied for second place In Ike sotaplptng competition held the last day of Ike school the younger son of Francis and Virginia of Georgetown has been taking bagpipe lesions since he was eight riold Photo sab tiled