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877 f l EXCELLENCE IN CUSTOMER RELATIONS- the HERALD muffler king Opening Soon In Georgetown At You re a Somebody Coroners verdict filed by town After a brief closeddoor session town council Monday night voted receive the coroner a jury verdict concerning the death last October or Derek Jones a our year old Acton boy who drowned In a pond near the Kingham Road subdivision The Jury verdict from the held In December recommends that the pond located on private property be fenced In or filled up also stated that municipality erred by allowing the developer to build so close to he pond and without adequate fencing between the race track near which the pond was located end the housing development Beyond receiving the report council gave no indication what further action It might take regarding the verdict Hail to the chief After 34 years of service lulls fire chief Mick Holmes will hang up his helmet July Ilia resignation was announced last week during the town s general committee by council Monday night Ina letter to the town Chief Holmes recalled that had made known hi plana as early as last November The position will be posted within the I own Ire department brigades in Acton and Georgetown and the town will also seek candidates through advertising Miller vicechairman la lion Hills Rust Miller was recently appointed the Hal I on Region Conservation Authority vicechairman Coun Milter a regional councillor and member of the region planning and public works committee has been associated with for six years served on nearly all the authority standing committees ana chaired Its personnel committee He is currently serving on thenuthority building committee which Is planning a new works yard and administrative headquarters Last year the authority had hoped to build on property It owns near the Hilton Palls conservation area in Milton but the proposal was rejected by the Niagara Escarpment Commission Headphone hazard old Toronto his home while wearing siereo headphones connected to a portable cassette deck regional councillors asked Medical officer of health for a report on the headphone devices and the dangers they present to users Last week Peter Cole presented his report to region health and social services committee and dc term hied thai while there might be temporary leas of hearing from headphones most serious hazard la the listener is the loss of awareness of one and the potential for accidents while operating near the vicinity of a vehicle There are no plans to curb the use of the headphones In cars In or near heavy traffic Insulation info region health department has published a pamphlet on urea formaldehyde Insulation for homeowners who arc concerned that the substance may be producing harmful gases The region Is now Involved with testing homes or formaldehyde gas and will provide homeowners certificates stating that the home Is Insulated with the insulation if a certificate is not already available The federal government last autumn announced a grant program for homeowners who must have the Insulation removed because of high levels of toxic gas More region grants finance and administration committee last week approved a grant to the Safety Council In other grants endorsed by the committee last week and expected to be voted on In regional council this afternoon Lome Scots regiment received But the committee rejected a request from the Sheridan Youth Orchestra or this year because It maintained the grant given to the group In 1961 was meant as seed money a onetime gran I to Help the fledgling orchestra Let province check For the first time since it waded Into a budgetary fiasco two years ago region has submitted Its financial statements to the province a housing and municipal affairs ministry before the budget has been endorsed by regional council the statements have been reviewed by the ministry after the budget his been set making it difficult take care of uncovered deficits in the budgets fiscal year Other good news in the region budget making process Mayor Pete reported Monday night Is that reserve fund showed a mark improvement over previous totals The budget is expected to come before the region finance and administration committee before the end of the month and white he declined to give details Mayor said that there Is positive low at the region things look a lot better Great da for Canadians McDermid Commons bells silent as MP hails victory The return of 1arl ament Wednesday was a great day for Canadians and for democracy Georgetown MI John Mc I think the people in tana won not the Tories Conservative MP said taking pari In a recorded vote which brought lie Commons back to work for the first time since March The Tones had presented the Commons a motion to nil jour and then refused to appear for the volt to protest the government Energy Sec Bill which they said should be dealt with as several separate pieces of legislation Vc weren doing this to force an election and we doing this to make the government look bad Mr We were to preserve Parliamentary Mr declined to predict whether the Ives would use tbe tactics of the last two weeks again NUMBER 27 AND STILL GOING STRONG With a current membership of I3J the spired church on Highway 7 and Draper Street In church of Terra Union Presbyterian Church on the plans or the Georgetown Congregational Church now the library Norvat Presbyterian 1BJ Read Episode la the Churches by appears on page One of the things the Com has lo look at now very seriously is Parliamentary re form Mr MeDcrmidsald The events seen March have pointed out the urgency of Parliamentary reform Budgetconscious trustees wont hire special ed staffers A budgetconscious board of education voted Inst a motion lo hire wo Intermediate senior special education consultants for next September at last Thursday nights meeting Trustees Margaret Bullock and Elaine brought forward the motion for consul to help special education staff develop program and curriculum continuity in Gra to 13 although last week s finance committee pre sentation of the budget showed no support for It Hills trustee Betty Fisher asked If staff could be shifted so the board would have two fewer employees elsewhere in order to have the two special education consult ants at the secondary school level The real Issue Is adding on staff I want to stress the responsibility this board has In working to reallocate and not to increase its staff trustee Jim said voting Inst the motion Although supporting the board work toward meeting the needs or special education Hills trustee Bruce felt a different approach was needed than what the motion offered I feel we have to support the finance committee she said In explaining her refusal to vote or the motion As pa rt of our approach we might look at the board use of consult and perhaps move them the finance committee decision in not supporting the I don think Its proper to present I as an Item slashed by the finance committee he objected I think trustees All EC r staff by priority lesser priority program he to look at special education should know the kind needs thought that went into not Truslee Cam Jackson supporting this as and this than other i said Mr Jackson said the two consultants will probably be hired within next three years to meet the province Bill requirements Town rejects appeal refers firm to region Hills will send a letter to Maple Lodge Farms Ltd a chicken processing plant near explaining why it could not endorse the com pony plans to dump sewage sludge on farm fields In town Town council should also encourage Maple Lodge secre tory treasurer Bob Maya to meet the region s planning and committee Miller said Monday night possibly persuading the committee to bend its policies in this case concerning accepting sludge from other municipalities Last month council agreed with Millers objection to the proposal by which Maple Lodge would dump sludge from its processing operation on a Hills farm near the plant Nearby residents had expressed concern about what effect low in metals and deemed by the province s environment ministry to be superior to municipal sludge would have on nearby waterways Regional policies supported by agricultural advisory mm It tec state that has little enough land to handle sludge coming from Hal ton- based industries let alone wastes from outside the region But Miller seemed to agree with statements mode earlier by Ward colleague Roy who noted that the Maple Lodge Farms employs many Hills residents Mr May Miller suggested should go before the planning and public works committee to seek an exempt on from the policy In a letter to council Mr May argued that the regions Continued on Page Public backed fight against arrogance ft llrnmpt lrorfe1on MP Den On Opposition House proposed that I he Commons bells I slop ring ngif the Liberals called for ir business It splitting the Energy Security measure discussed On March house leader von I inard publicly conce ded to our requests When Bill CM is split members of parliament can properly debate such things the proposal that a minis own should be able raise a lax on a gallon of gas by cents and members will be able to vote against the proposal Other parts of that may help the ohiy can bo passed quickly that Jobs can be created and uncertainty removed Com man sinsc has won the day and in turn democracy has The Canadian people Join with us in fighting an Continued on Page HERALD HELPERS There been some new faces around The Herald In recent weeks students tried out newly learned skills Freestone of Georgetown above spent several days helping operate our press one of three male Jobs she tackling as part of a Sheridan College Women Greeley below and Frank took turns helping our composing room staff to gain on- the Job training on their graphic skills course at C School for the Hearing Impaired In Milton Herald photo