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877 5213 I I EXCl INCUS nun 2b1 Queen St East Brampton Speed January I TWENTYFIVE YEARS OF SERVICE Happy birthday Teams of dedicated volunteers anstcer calls each day to comfort individuals caught in emergencies When you re in the bus of saving Uvea and treating people for serious injuries it difficult to lake time sway from work during the Christmas seaton Gerard Wilcox a year veteran of the Georgetown Volunteer Ambulance Serv Ice which celebrates Its anniversary next month and his partner John spent Christmas Eve with their families but were on call as the ambulance back up unit for Georgetown Act on and surrounding areas The Wilcox crew is just one of pairs of ambulance driven and attendants who man the Am bulance Service located on Chapel St Each man works an average of 12 hours per Mr Wilcox and hut lance station Christmas Eve because they arc not the first response crew there Is ivs a first response team but had be prepared to be at the station In less than three ilnutes if the need arose The volunteer ambulance man the station during the night shift from until A am while the provin Ministry of Health em ploy crews during the day shift Generally with hi first snowstorm of the year he ambulance service is called upon often for their Mr Wilcox says because of car accidents and people slipping on the Ice Christmas Eve Is usually a quiet period be cause most people are home Mr says Boxing Day Is an entirely different story though be cause everyone is again to theslreets in their cars take advantage of post Christmas sales he says Transferring patients to different hospitals or from home to hospitals Is prevalent for the Georgetown Volunteer Amb ulance Service says their president Giberson Christmas Day usually In a number of transfers of patients from the hospitals to their homes and back says Mr Because the specialized nature of medicine and the expertise of certain hospital area George- ambulance crews now spend a greater portion of their time on patient trans fers to hospitals In Gait Kitchener and Toronto and other areas Mr Giberson What are the rewards for a volunteer crew You get satisfaction I Job If you like the Jib J doing Mr Gib- says Helping people an help themselves is certainly rewarding be say Attending the annual Christmas dinner and the ier picnic is our pay the president says Cit liens of Georgetown and outlying areas who volunteer for the ambulance service do for various reason says Mr Wilcox He and a number other residents from Georgetown offered to con- operating a volunteer service in after Georgetown funeral director Informed town council their physically fit and between the ages of lit and if you like to iota the AS The experience with the now about to celebrate Its silver anniversary on open doors In a number of other fields and the rewards as the brochure points out come simply by helping other members of he community caught in an unfortunate predicament In a drmonilralion staged for Herald reporter Dave members Peter Wolfe left and John 1 carefully pi service would be stopped because it was unprofitable to maintain One of the biggest prob lems for ambulance crews is getting around small corners and down staircases Mr Wilcox But he adds that very often the ambulance people can call on the police or available neighbors for help with stretchers laving to treat innocent youths who suffer from dents or injury Is one of the worst parts of an ambulance attendant Job says Continued an Page 3 send victim to hospital Herald photo History of change while saving lives operating George town unprofitable service for a number of local funeral homes decided In 1956 to discontinue that part of their business But by January of the year con that community was endangered without an ambulance service decided to establish a volunteer operation electing of and setting duty rosters to ensure that there were always two people on duty The town purchased an ambulance that had belong u the IIC McCluro Funeral Home and the volun teer service operated out of a garage on Cross Street over lookingthedowntowncore A year later another was j to the service the past yean Ihe ambulance service has changed its respuiise time with electron alerting devices and stepped up training pro grams In the wept first place in the Ontario Ambulance Drivers Association first aid compe tition and later competed Interna jonally in Nebraska During that same 20year period it established head quarters James Street adjacent Remembrance Park and more recently moved into the old fireball on Chapel Street Equipment has continually changed at the GVAS garage and the presentday GVAS operates in In dispatching via the town Maple Avenue flreha ceased calls are now relayed through a Brampton office Herald stories and photos by Dave Madera electronics enable ambulance attendants of the Georgetown Volunteer Ambulance Service GV AS to take calls sad alert members almost In on e step member Joint above jot down Information al the the corner of and Chapel Streets Deforc volunteer service began IS year for former town of were by local Herald newsprint bylaw threatens fines Region wants residents to bundle up by April 1 Herald Writer Hal ton region planning and public works committee has rejected Hills request defer Ihe region April 1 deadline for mandatory all on of waste newsprint from other trash While declining to act on motion ram mlttcchas instructed regional staff to work closely with local public works departments co ordinating programs aimed at encouraging the public to part In the separation erne In the commit toe iocommendation which will be discussed regional council next Wednesday res that storage bins for newsprint will be set up at landfill sites and at the Armst rang Avenue Georgetown transfer station Anticipating serious gar disposal problems for residents Hills Buss Miller chair man of the region solid waste management subcorn will meet private garbage collection companies which serve town rural area to iron out problems concern ing the April 1 deadline Although members of waste management subcorn anticipate no drastic crackdown on offenders a bylaw passed In December can technically impose fines on residents who refuse to separate newsprint from trash and haulers who take rated garbage to the Working with region local municipalities will large ly be responsible for the program Whether the region or local bylaw enforce ment officers will charge of fenders has not yet been decided Obviously no one Is going to go around opening up peop le garbage to enforce the bylaw Ann assist ant chairman of the public works committee tola The Herald Over a period of time Ihe people who arc likely to be charged are chronic offenders Miller expressed con two weeks ago at a town council meeting that prliato garbage collectors and rural residents may not be ready for the newsprint separation prog mm He persuaded council lo call for deferral of the April I deadline suggesting later there should be at least a six month delay before bylaw comes into force Meanwhile the reRlon ant Continued on Page BRUSHING UP ON STYLE The weather might bave been lousy Saturday for driving bat it was great for skiing at the Terra Cotla Conservation Area according to left to right Ted Richardson from Toronto and Wood and Karen Wallers both from This was Mr Richardson a first time skiing In Terra but Mr Wood sad Ms Wallers said they come out the conservation area often Herald photo Tories to continue Gun charges budget battle MP hearing to resume Feb 8 A preliminary hearing Into charges of extortion possessl on of a weapon dangerous lo the public peace and use of a firearm during Ihe commissi on of an offence laid against two Franciscan priests from the Croatian Centre near began Thursday In Milton Provincial Court and will continue Feb B for year old Mladen Chuvalo and year old Dragicevlc defendants in Ihe The two were charged June by regional police after a complaint was received from several employees of Amusements The firm had been operating carnival rides on the Croatian premises near June during Feast of St Anthony celebrations By BOB THOMPSON Special The Progressive Conservat Ives will fight for a new government budget as dillgen as they wrangled with Ottawa over constitution John McDcrmid says The BramptonGeorgetown MP said Monday as prepared for Its winter session that the Opposition is prepared put tremendous pressure on he Liberal Gov lo scrap its Novemb er budget and start again Business community repre sentatives have already dem thai the federal govern merit amend its budget to provide more Incentives for the Canadian businesses hit with inflation high Interest rates and a worsening recta that Is grinding the country economy a halt There will be tremendous pressure from us Mr Me Derm id maintains but there will also be the same pressure from their own side Mr McDermld as part of a government task force on emp loyment opportunities toured Canada the past three weeks He said resldenls greeted federal budget with cynic ism because it people with retirement plans and workers paid health and dental benefits as well as eliminating investment Ives for business and manufacturing leaders Mr McDcrmid said the gov budget and Its waffling on economic mea haven t done much for the morale or spirit of Inns Wo go after them hot and heavy to withdraw the budget and start again he said I would hope they would listen lo But business associate c ross Canada have complained about the crippling interest rates and homeowner ring for another series of borne defaults In spring have begun organize yet another round of demonstrations aim at high mortgage rates partially caused by the govern ment monetary policy Courtesy of Brampton Trustees want uniform approach to industries in coop education By AM PEDFR1AN Herald Stair Writer The board or tion I want Its schools to be a nuisance to local com pan In an effort to promote cooperation across the region and save Industries from being the board passed a motion Jan to unformalize local high schools appeals for industry support of their co operative education programs The programs offered here since the early 1970s place students in an actual work environment within their to develop skills and selfconfidence as well as benefit from resources and equipment not available in schools Students get to apply knowledge and skills they re acquiring in school to a practi work environment while earning one or more credits toward their graduation diploma The move bring the program out from under wings of individual teachers and schools and place it under the guidance or the board of education is expected to Improve publicity for the program among students and the business community and make more widespread We re trying to organize It regionally so it handled the same way at alt the schools and so that not all schools are bothering the same the same lime technical education coordlnator told The Herald We want to work In cooperation with industry not it Calling it a worthwhile program Mr hopes centra I nation will expand II with greater numbers of students parti pa tiny It been a very heavy burden on teachers who have been selling up cooperative education programs for their pupils he said After couple of years It becomes very demanding on the teachers who put in untold number of hour to keep running smoothly and they don want to do It anymore With aid from the board teachers involved will get some relief Mr Cahw aid The board administration plans to form three education area commit tee in north Burling ton and takville to monitor local student placements and provide communication with businesses Trustees also deiided to appoint a current employee the board for a twoyear beginning Sept to develop and coordinate the program which requires students lo put la at least ISO hours of time to a diploma Currently there are about ISO high school students taking part in such programs in Halton nost of Ihem in Grade II or Although enthusiastic about the board participation in the program trustees Betty Fisher and Betty Walker arc concerned about transports problems student In Hills may be facing when enrolling in cooperative education It different in the north trustee Fisher said ftedont have public transportation other than for going to or Toronto She fear that with trans porta lion to jab placements being the responsibility of students themselves the program will die In Hills Mrs fisher pointed out during the board meeting that the comparative lack of in north may end up placing many Ha I ion Hills students In work positions in south where industries ore more concentrated This programming what is today even cat can gel tired sod do hopping This feline decided among his favorite shows are old Sylvester cartoon and film an birds However hows are simply for dogs and a cat time better spent ruining the parte possibility makes the issue of transportation worthy consideration Not many high school students have car Thus without considering the problem of transportation the program may be doomed In the north warned Mr Fisher However business the man responsible for developing the cooperative education report trustees were discussing I see trans port lion pro blems In the north as a serious obstacle menls can be arranged close to the school eliminating thai problem If placements are arranged that transportation expects car pool can be arranged and a solution found locally I don t think transportation is main barrier tenner said But convincing think that taking on a placement student good for them in the long run Is It a selling thing we have lo do Convincing businesses that cooperative education It viable program frill be the Job of the region now as ha been of individual teacher promoting community link for their student The program just look for support from big busin ess Oneman firm can excellent placement for Halloo student Mr Retner said